ABC has hired three people to replace the departing showrunner on FlashForward. Jessika Borsiczky, Lisa Zwerling and Tim Lea will take over and they’ll be one episode shy of a full season. ABC cut the order from 23 to 22 because of a premiere date pushback designed to escape the monster feet of American Idol.
Borsiczky and Zwerling are already producers on the series and Zwerling wrote several episodes where as Lea comes in new from CSI:NY.

The guys behind Fringe and the new Star Trek movie, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, have made a deal with CBS to bring back classic cop show Hawaii Five-O. What makes this move even more interesting for scifi fans is the fact that Moonlight star Alex O’Loughlin is seriously being considered for the lead.
O’Loughlin hasn’t had much luck on TV, weathering first the cancellation of his cult favorite vampire drama and then the dismal hospital drama Three Rivers. CBS execs say they’re determined to find a successful vehicle for the charming Aussie actor and this could be the one.
Hawaii Five-O …read more

NBC is up today and here’s a quote that should please:
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 …read more

Not in my house, but in the CBS TV.com house! He’s typing away, answering questions from the fans. Moonlight may be gone but the Alex fandom lives on!
Follow the CBS Twitter for more on Alex and his new show Three Rivers.

Scifi fans know Carol Barbee as the executive producer and a writer on the cult favorite series Jericho. But these days, she’s making the Moonlight fans happy because she cast Alex O’Loughlin to star in her new medical drama, Three Rivers.
I met up with Carol at a recent press screening of her new show and here’s what she had to say about casting everyone’s favorite vampire as a top transplant surgeon.
“Alex had a holding deal for CBS and I was under contract to CBS. He met with lots of people, we met with lots of people. He want to …read more

Alex O’Loughlin and his fellow cast members chat with the members of the Television Critics Association about their new CBS series Three Rivers at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA on Friday, July 31, 2009.

Check out this terrific new photo of Moonlight’s Alex O’Loughlin. This one and the cast shot after the cut are from his new series Three Rivers which debuts on CBS this fall. (Photo: GEORGE HOLZ/CBS)

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 …read more

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, …read more

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, …read more