Castle isn’t a scifi show but it does star scifi fave Nathan Fillion and since tonight’s episode is all about ghosts and ghoulies and things that bump and grind in the night, I thought I’d talk it up.
It’s called “Vampire Weekend” and it airs tonight at 10:00 on ABC.

As Halloween approaches, Castle and Beckett are called to a graveyard where the body of a young man sporting vampire fangs has been discovered with a wooden stake driven through his heart. Their investigation takes them deep into the heart of New York’s underground vampire fetish community, where they learn that the …read more

Let’s start the week with a beautiful new promo shot of Morena Baccarin from the ABC series V. Morena, who many of you know from her role on Firefly (and Still Life for you Jensen Ackles fans), is playing the head “visitor” Anna.
V premieres on November 3 on ABC. It will have a limited run then return with new episodes in the spring, after the Olympics.

V – ABC’s “V” stars Morena Baccarin as Anna. (ABC/BOB D’AMICO)

Dragon*Con is winding down today after a full weekend celebrating the best in science fiction, fantasy and gaming. Here’s a look at some of the lovely ladies that were in attendance.
Let’s start with scifi royalty – Star Trek’s William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.

Next it’s two of my fave’s Murdock and Face from A-Team, Dwight Schultz and Dirk Benedict who also starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the original Battlestar Galactica respectively.

The one nice thing about genre actors is they fit so nicely into multiple projects. Once a Whedonite – always a Whedonite – and this time it’s Firefly’s Summer Glau who’s heading into the Dollhouse.
Summer always seemed like a natural for this series since she does that “blank slate” look so well but obviously her role on Sarah Connor Chronicles kept that from happening. Now, with that series behind her, she is taking on the roll of Bennett a “Dollhouse employee who shares a past with Echo.”
As this story hit the airwaves yesterday, I was surprised to see a lot …read more

I’m sure you’ve already heard about James Marsters joining the cast of Caprica but today I got the official press release and I adore the description of his character.
Marsters will play dangerous terrorist leader Barnabus Greeley. Driven by moralistic and yet carnal desires, this unpredictable villain is constantly torn by his conflicting motivations.
Sounds like a role he was born to play!
It’s funny, years ago, I interviewed James when he was just starting out on Buffy. I asked him what he loved most about playing the role of Spike and he said he loved that he could fight all …read more

Here’s a look at some interesting scifi stories from around the web:
Davies says Torchwood’s season four is ready to go
Torchwood creator and executive producer Russell T. Davies told the British press Friday that the fourth season of the sci-fi show is ready and waiting, depending on how the show’s third mini-season (”Children of Earth”) performs.
Read the full story at TVSquad.com
Joss Whedon on Dollhouse
Whedon says. “Really, just every meeting is like, ‘What’s the most fun we can have with this actor?’ about the whole cast. All I can say — ’cause I’m gonna be Mr. Un-Spoiler — is that we’re having …read more

With the rare exceptions such as Star Trek and The Day the Earth Stood Still, scifi TV shows and movies have taught us that all aliens have one purpose – to take over the Earth. But now The Visitors have arrived and they want to be our friends. They want to share their advanced technology with us. They want to give us the cure for cancer and all they want in return is a little water.
Yeah, right.
Stock the bomb shelters and get those bullshit detectors out of storage because come January 2010, The Visitors will have landed. It’s …read more

  We’ve been saying the same thing since Dollhouse began – it doesn’t have the wit, the spark, the pacing that we’ve come to expect from a Joss Whedon production. All of that changed last week when Alan Tudyk arrived on the scene. His introductory episode, “Briar Rose”, was clever, fast-paced and it had that pop culture wit and wisdom that was the hallmark of the best Buffy episodes.
Tudyk, known to scifi fans as Wash from Firefly, is the face behind the mysterious Alpha that we’ve heard so many scary tales about. Which is funny, because on the surface, …read more

Joss: I don’t get twitter, I think it might be dirty.
Jed: You’re going to twitter tonight.
Joss: Buy me a drink first.
Let’s hear it for the Whedon Brothers! They’re here every night and don’t forget to tip your waitress.
Joss Whedon, brothers Zack and Jed and stars Felicia Day and Nathan Fillion were all on hand for the Paley Festival salute to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog. It all went down on April 14th at the Arclight in Hollywood and I’ve got the pictures to prove it.
Here we have the brothers Grimm followed by the lovely and talent – talented and lovely Felicia …read more

Another Firefly alum is on TV tonight. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles star Summer Glau will be guesting as herself on tonight’s episode of CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory.
The episode is titled, “The Terminator Decoupling” and it takes places on a train trip to San Francisco. The trip takes a hard right turn though, when Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) discover that Summer Glau.  If that’s not enough for you, the episode also features a cameo by Nobel Laureate Dr. George Smoot, father of the big bang theory of creation. Click through for …read more