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.

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Tracy Strauss or Niki Saunders, this girl is not to be messed with. She will go searching for her true identity to find out whether she’s an identical twin, a clone, or with this being Heroes, something even crazier than that.

Adrian Pasdar dropped a hint about answering to – President Petrelli? With the writers’ strike thankfully long behind us, the third season will be a full 25 episodes. Thank you, TV gods. Heroes’ third season begins Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. ET with a three-hour episode. NBC’s promos say the villains will now be taking center stage and the rumor is that some of them make Sylar look tame by comparison. Readers, are you still jazzed for Heroes after the incredibly long wait? Do you feel they can recapture the magic after the lengthy layoff?

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Crave Online has posted an interesting interview with Milo Ventimiglia about the greatly anticipated third season of Heroes. I don’t know if he’s foreshadowing, and if so if he’s doing it on purpose, but Milo mentions that Heroes creator Tim Kring told him: “If you die this season you’re dead.”

Season Three will begin with an intense focus on the villains and their motivations, and it looks like they’re amping up the action. NBC is offering up a lot of sci-fi and fantasy this year including the re-imagining of Knight Rider, a modern version of Robinson Crusoe and My Own Worst Enemy, which stars Christian Slater. In this one Slater plays a spy who is also a suburban husband and there’s some sort of psychological “wall” separating the two. When it breaks down, things get dicey.

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