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 a crazy amount of fun, and usually, that tends to translate onto the screen.”

Read the full story at EW and careful, there ARE spoilers.

Would FOX or NBC Be Willing To Bring It Back?

Yes. I think from my talks with the people running FOX that they would bring it back under the right circumstances. However, you must understand that right now Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, and Alan Tudyk (plus he was killed in SERENITY) all have gigs for the foreseeable future. However don’t underestimate the power of a movie.

Read the full story at TVbytheNumbers.com

DOLLHOUSE: Alpha (Alan Tudyk, L) imprints Echo (Eliza Dushku, R) as a natural born killer. ©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Carin Baer/FOX

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 “V”, the reimagining of the 1980’s scifi series about pretty alien people with a very dark secret.

I got to watch a little bit of the series and now I’m even more excited to see this new show.

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  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, Alan Tudyk isn’t a scary person, but he sure made us believe when he switched from the nutty and neurotic engineer Kepler, to a man you wouldn’t want to meet up with in the dark.

“I had so much fun playing Kepler, all this stupid physical stuff was great. And then turning into a bad ass was also fun,” said Tudyk, when he spoke to reporters on the phone after last week’s episode.  “Mentally speaking, and in this next episode, I’m only Alpha. I’m even more crazy, like he’s insane, insane.”

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According to Variety one of our favorite actors, Firefly/Serenity’s Nathan Fillion will be lighting up ABC’s airwaves soon. The Castle, which stars Fillion as a novelist who helps the police solve crimes, is one of five shows ABC placed orders for Monday.

Here’s hoping this one connects with audiences. Fillion has had two Fox shows that got the axe, Firefly and Drive, the story of a mysterious cross-country race. Since being on ABC’s radar, he had a couple of appearance on Lost as a former boyfriend of Kate. He was a lawman unfortunately unaware of his lady’s criminal past. Looks like ABC’s enamored of casting Fillion as a crimefighter.

Fantasy-themed show Captain Cook’s Extraordinary Atlas was not screened because of a late shooting schedule.

Warner Bros. video-on-demand service The WB.com will be offering some of our favorite genre shows when it launches later this month. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the list of shows that will be available day one include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spinoff Angel, Firefly, Babylon 5, Smallville and Roswell.

WB.com will be supported by premium and is scheduled to launch Aug. 27. B5 and Buffy on demand? Sign me up twice, please! What shows are you looking forward to checking out again online, readers?

I first read Jessica Rae’s work when she put together a list of TV characters who were likely to procrastinate on their Christmas shopping and I’ve been reading her blog, Sofa Chip ever since. This week, Jessica got off the sofa long enough to come over and play in our playground for a bit and we’re happy to have her as a guest poster here on SFUniverse.com with her Top ten reasons why she’d love to see the Firefly crew on the Lost island.

Top Ten Reasons I’d Love to see the Firefly Crew on the Lost Island

Lost season four deals with time travel, or at least they’re hinting at it enough to make fans wonder about the possibility (I will neither deny or confirm having mapped out this entire conspiracy on the inside of my closet door). So, it could be quite plausible for the crew of Serenity to end up on the mysterious Lost island.

So - boom! (Sorry, I have no budget for sound effects.) The ship lands. It wasn’t a scheduled stop so Mal is especially annoyed. River would make a coy!face, and say something both poignantly relevant but also uber confusing about why they ended up there. And that’s when things would start to get interesting.

10.) If Charlie’s band, Drive Shaft was mentioned in passing by Claire, it would be just plain neat if someone from Serenity actually recognized that band. Talk about loving the oldies, huh? P.S. I miss Charlie.

9.) Someone cracking a joke about the four-toed left foot statue on the island being yet another statue dedicated to Jayne, and then jokingly asking to see his left foot. Even better- what if Jayne refuses and gets defensive because he only does have four toes on his left feet? Suddenly we’d have to wonder - was Jayne predestined to land on the island?

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