Last night, luminaries from the world of sci fi and horror were honored at the 35th Annual Saturn Awards. The awards are given out by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for work in film, TV and on DVD. This years winners will join an illustrious list of former honorees including Vincent Price, Rod Serling, Dan Curtis, Ray Bradbury, Gene Roddenberry, Robert Wise and Lon Chaney Jr. just to name a few.

The Dark Knight was the evening’s biggest winner, taking home five awards including Best Action Film, Best Writing, Music, Special Effects and Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger.

On the television side, it was Battlestar Galactica that took home the most awards winning Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series, Best Actor on Television: Edward James Olmos, and Best Actress on Television: Mary McDonnell. Lost received the Saturn Award for Best Network Series, beating out Supernatural, Fringe, Heroes, Life on Mars, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Battlestar was up against an odd mix of shows for Best Syndicated / Cable including The Closer, Dexter, Leverage and more predictable, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and True Blood.

Moonlight took the award for the best modern DVD with Invaders winning for retro DVD.

Several special awards were presented throughout the evening, Lance Henriksen took the Life Career Award, Jeffrey Katzenberg received the Visionary Award and Leonard Nimoy was handed the Lifetime Achievement Award.

You’ll find a full list of winners after the jump. You can find the list of nominees here at the Saturn Awards Website.

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CBS doesn’t have much in the way of genre shows this year, but they did pick up Medium when NBC let it go. In what seems like a strange bit of scheduling, they lined Medium up with Ghost Whisperer on Friday nights. Aren’t those two a bit similar to run back to back like that?

The new Friday lineup begins on September 25.

For you Alex O’Loughlin fans, you’ll have to wait until October 4 before seeing him in his new series Three Rivers. That will make it one of the last new shows to debut in the fall which I suppose, could work in its favor.  It’s up against Desperate Housewives, Family Guy and Football. What do you make of that?

“The Book of Changes” — Surrounded by her loved ones (background, left to right: Jamie Kennedy, David Conrad, Camryn Manheim), Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt, foreground) worries for her unborn child when she experiences a visit from a ghost. Photo: Eric McCandless/ABC Studios ©2009 ABC Studios. All Rights Reserved.

CBS has picked up a medical drama starring our favorite Moonlight man Alex O’Loughlin. Three Rivers deals with a transplant hospital and with that the emotionally complex issues of organ donation.

Here’s how CBS describes it:

Alex O’Loughlin stars as Dr. Andy Yablonski, a highly-skilled workaholic lead organ transplant surgeon whose affable personality and sarcastic wit makes him popular with his patients and colleagues, and Katherine Moennig portrays Miranda Foster, a surgical fellow with a rebellious streak and fiery temper who strives to live up to her deceased father’s excellent surgical reputation.

I’m not a big fan of medical dramas but for Alex, I’ll be tuning in.

Three Rivers will premiere this Fall, Sundays (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

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Here’s a quick look at some of your sci fi faves who will be guest starring on the various CSI incarnations in the coming weeks.

On April 27, Moonlight’s Jordan Belfi (also of Ten Inch Hero for you Jensen Ackles fans) will guest on CSI Miami in “Dead on Arrival.” The episode also includes Adrianne Palicki, aka Jess from Supernatural.

(Pictured (L-R) David Caruso as Horatio Caine and Jordan Belfi as Neil Palmer Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS ©2009 CBS BROADCASTING INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

Smallville and Stargate Universe’s Alaina Huffman will co-star with Friday the 13th’s Derek Mears in a rerun of “Raging Cannibal” on CSI Miami on April 20.

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Check out these photos of Moonlight’s Alex O’Loughlin from his up-coming guest appearance on Criminal Minds. I hardly recognized him!

Alex guests as a serial killer who sends a videotape of one of his crimes to the BAU team in an effort to stop his own crime spree. The episode is scheduled for Wednesday, April 29 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.

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Zap2it is reporting that Brian Austin Green has joined the cast of the CW pilot, Body Politic playing a character named Lucky.

The series is Gossip Girl in Washington DC with young government staffers taking the place of bored, rich high-schoolers.

The cast also includes former Moonlight star Jason Dohring, Minka Kelly of Friday Night Lights, Tim Matheson and Gabrielle Union.

Nice cast but it begs the question — does this mean there are no more Terminators in Green’s future?

Word is Body Politic is simply a fallback should Sarah Connor be given the old heave ho. If Connor is picked up for a new season, Politic will likely have to look for a new Lucky.

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Starting tonight, SCI FI Channel will be running both Invasion and Moonlight as part of their Friday night line-up.

Moonlight, the cult favorite vampire series, was recently released on a stripped down DVD, but that shouldn’t stop folks from tuning in. The fans of this show are still as restless as Thriller’s undead, as they continue to take swipes at CBS for canceling the series. I wish it was new episodes, too, but it’s clear that this fight is over.

Invasion doesn’t have the same vocal fanbase as Moonlight, but it’s a solid series that’s worth a look if you’ve never seen it. It’s a Shaun Cassidy produced series, which should tell you a lot, about mysterious happenings in a small Florida town after a wicked hurricane. Eddie Cibrian stars as the park ranger who has more than his hands full as the people of his town start changing into something not completely human.

Invasion airs at 8:00, followed by Moonlight and then it’s a new episode of Battlestar Galactica. Not a bad line-up for a Friday night.

Photos: Eric McCandless/CBS ©2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Wow, that was fast. Fans of vampire drama Moonlight are firing up the “I Told You So’s” after CBS announced the cancellation of The Ex List. Buddy TV says CBS may air some of the unused episodes but this Friday in the 9 p.m.CT timeslot, it will air an NCIS rerun.

Its last episode drew a measly 5.65 million viewers. In the interest of keeping stats for genre fans, it’s worth keeping count of the number of failed shows in this slot.  We will even do so in the style of a famous TV vampire. That’s one! Ah ha ha!

Photos: Eric McCandless/CBS ©2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

“On Friday, CBS debuted “The Ex List” (2.0/6) to moderate ratings. “List” declined 20% from the premiere of “Moonlight,” which previously held the time period.”

Enough said.

Source: TVWeek

A number of sources are reporting that Moonlight’s Alex O’Loughlin has signed a talent holding deal with CBS.  What this means is that the network will attempt to develop a new series for Alex and /or cast him in another project.  Obviously, the first of the two would be the better option, but fans are saying why not just bring back Moonlight?  Since Alex was the show, why bother creating something new when something old will do?

As much as I love Moonlight, I’m happy to see Alex sticking around for another shot at anything on TV. Too often actors get one go of it and that’s the end of that. I could totally handle him as a PI in a 40’s Noir drama, or maybe as a lifeguard in a Baywatch remake (I’m going for the ’shirt off’ aspect.)  What ever it is, I hope it’s action packed and I hope its soon.