The pilot for “Rex Is Not Your Lawyer” with David Tennant has finished shooting, and Bromstad says that “theoretically” it could be something that fills part of the 10 p.m. hole [the cancellation of the Jay Leno show]come spring.

And Heroes:

“Heroes”? Bromstad says NBC still likes the show but won’t make a decision until it sees the pilots.

And sadly, Alex O’Loughlin is out of work again. A quote from Nina Tassler of CBS:

She was, however, much more to the point about the Alex O’Loughlin-starring organ donation medical drama “Three Rivers.” When asked if it was officially canceled, she replied, “You know what … yes.”

A few more notes, this time on Caprica:

“Caprica, like Battlestar Galactica, doesn’t treat the [sci-fi] genre like a toy department,”

HEROES — “Close To You” Episode 415 — Pictured: (l-r) Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohinder Suresh, James Kyson Lee as Ando Masahashi — NBC Photo: Chris Haston

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Which Superpower Would You Want? – Comic-Con goers reveal which superpower they’d most like to have.

Fan Predictions – Fans at Comic-Con have their own predictions!

Which Hero Do You Want to Meet Most? – Comic-Con fans explain which Heroes character they’d most like to meet.

Heroes Fans at Comic-Con – Heroes fans share their love and devotion at Comic-Con!

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After the jump, a look at the Heroes Carnival from Comic Con.

Stay tuned for more video from Comic Con. . .

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Heroes:

Full panel at NBC

Some great photos: Starbright31 on Flickr.

Chuck

Full panel at NBC

MajorTripps69 has some nice photos from the panel and the signing.

Lost

Toastie14 has the Lost panel in several parts on YouTube.

Downbeat has photos of the Lost prop display.

Chuck cast at Comic Con photo: Newscom

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The biggest item is a new Battlestar Galactica Cylon Toaster. It bakes a Cylon face into one side of the toast and Frak Off in the other. Perfect for breakfast with your significant other! This year’s model has an LED light “eye” on the front, too. A steal at 90.00.

This odd duck of a thing is a Caprica Serge USB Keychain. I can’t figure it but it’s limited to 1,000, so buy now!

They’re also offering a Buy More shirt from Chuck and a sword letter opener and double helix necklace from Heroes.

If you are attending Comic Con, Syfy will be giving away many of these items to lucky panel attendees and they’ll also be handing out thousands of scratch off discount cards for the NBC store.

You can find it all at the special Comic Con Shop at the NBC online store.

Photos: NBC / Universal

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Hollywood Reporter

Worthy comes from a long line of scifi projects. He was Jannar on Enterprise, and he guested on Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Fallen, and he had a pivitol role in the series finale of Dark Angel. Without checking IMDB — can you name the character he played?

Photo: Mar 16, 2009 – New York, New York, USA – Actor RICK WORTHY at the New York premiere of ‘Duplicity’ held at the Ziegfeld Theater

Newscom

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– Jesse Alexander via Twitter

Day One is NBC’s new apocalyptal aftermath series helmed by Heroes and Lost producer Jesse Alexander.

The story follows a band of eclectic neighbors from the same apartment building in Los Angeles who are forced to ban together in order to survive. Now they’ve got some hefty talent backing them up in the form of Javier Grillo-Marxuach (seen here with his friends from Lost) the creative genius behind the underrated Middleman series along with Erik Oleson from E-Ring and The Agency. Sounds like this show’s survival chances just went up a notch.

And speaking of The Middleman, Grillo-Marxuach announced on his blog that the DVD would be ready for release sometime this summer. If you’re a fan, and you really should be, check out the Shout! Factory website for the evolution of the DVD cover art. It’s all good stuff.

Photo: William Mapother, Mira Furlan, Jorge Garcia and Javier Grillo-Marxuach attend the Official “Lost” Fan Convention held at the Burbank Airport Hilton and Towers in Burbank, California on June 11, 2005 (Pictured:William Mapother, Mira Furlan, Jorge Garcia, Javier Grillo-Marxuach). Photo By Baxter/ABACA.

Source: Newscom

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It’s these kinds of questions that keep Heroes’ star Milo Ventimiglia (seen here with a furry friend at the Fanboys premire) up at night and now he’s found an outlet! Milo and his team at DiVide Pictures are teaming up with Agility Studios to produce Ultradome, a tongue-in-cheek, short-format digital video series that taps into the comic book, video game, action-adventure, fantasy and science-fiction culture.

Each episode begins with two characters involved in a heated pop-culture debate (shades of The Big Bang Theory) when suddenly they’re transported to the Ultradome to battle it out with weapons and magics taken from the worlds they’ve been arguing about.

Lightsabers against Harry Potter’s wand? A phaser up against Wonder Woman’s golden lasso? Nothing is off limits inside the Ultradome – and creative and casting possibilities are endless, as Ventimiglia and Agility plan to use connections to sci-fi enthusiast actors, writers and directors to build a bevy of high-profile cameos and cinematic visual effects.

“My whole life has been spent engaged with friends in intellectual debate . like whether Kirk is tougher than Spock or if Middle Earth is a more difficult place to live than Tatooine. With Ultradome, we can bring these debates to the public and settle them in the most logical way possible: through armed combat,” said Ventimiglia. “We’re very excited to be working with Agility on this series and to tap into their expertise in digital programming.”

The Ultradome pilot episode, “Star Wars vs. Lord of the Rings,” is currently in post-production, and additional episodes are slated to follow.

Photo: PRPhotos

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NBC will wait two weeks to announce the scheduling for its shows, so we’ll be waiting to see if Heroes remains on Monday nights. And if so, what shows will share that night with it. The Christian Slater spy vehicle My Own Worst Enemy was NBC’s big plan for Monday nights last season but it quickly vanished. Combined with Heroes’ well-documented problems and Mondays haven’t exactly been sunshine and lollipops.

Jay Leno will take care of the 10 p.m. hour on Mondays and the rest of the primetime week. That will leave potential pilots with precious few primetime hours to scrap over.  The drama behind the scenes at NBC is even better than the stuff in front of the camera.

NBC Photo: Chris Haston

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This week he looks at the shows that got illegally file shared the most and NBC’s embattled drama Heroes tops the list with an estimated with 1.6 million downloads. The top 10 also includes SFUniverse faves Supernatural, Smallville and Fringe. Second on the list is now canceled Prison Break, which was also suffering from low ratings. That is to say, at least the way we’re calculating ratings these days.

I’ve said for years that I don’t think we really know what the majority of people are watching out there. For all we know, the highest rated show on TV could be Samantha Who. 

NBC Photo: Adam Taylor

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