Kristen Bell, who plays Elle Bishop on NBC’s ‘Heroes’, told SCI FI Wire that her character will be undergoing plenty of development during the show’s third season–and that she may have previously unknown connections to the others.

It’s impossible to talk about The Strip without mentioning, well, ‘the strip’. The Gold Coast setting has such a strong presence in Nine’s new crime drama that it should almost get a character credit.

HBO’s “John Adams” led the winners list Saturday at the Creative Arts ceremony with eight nods, including the trophies for longform cinematography, for Director of Photography Tak Fujimoto, and longform casting. The period mini-series led this year’s Emmy nomination brigade with 23 bids.

One of the stumbling blocks that seemingly is keeping star David Tennant from committing more long-term to “Doctor Who” is the fact that he wants to not just to stage work, but some films as well. To help accommodate that, BBC is geared up to make Tennant’s wishes come true as they are now negotiating with the 10th Doctor for what is being said is a film version of the hit British series.

For the show’s final send-off, ‘Scrubs’ creator Bill Lawrence got all of the major guest stars from the last eight years to return for one epic scene farewelling the series. Unfortunately, two actors currently working on NBC shows were prevented from taking part - ‘Chuck’s Sarah Lancaster and Masi Oka from ‘Heroes’.

The series premiere of the Fox series struggled to get past NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” earning just a 5.9 rating/9 share according to Fast National Ratings from Nielsen Media Research. However, Fox once again dominated the key advertising demographic of adults 18 to 49 pulling in a 2.9 rating, followed closely by ABC with a 2.7, meaning that while total viewers may not have been out there for “Fringe,” the ones that matter to advertisers were.

Apple has lured NBC Universal back into the iTunes fold after a yearlong pricing dispute that flared last summer, when Apple declined to sell new ‘Peacock’ episodes because its deal with NBC was set to expire in a few months.

I’m not always a fan of two-hour pilots as opening episodes tend to be more expository than anything else. And yes, the premiere of J.J. Abram’s “Fringe” definitely can stay away from such exposition.

Anyone who watched the Sept. 8 season-two premiere of the cult-hit ‘Sarah Connor Chronicles’ learned the well-kept secret that Manson’s corporate chief character, Catherine Weaver, is actually a liquid-metal T-1001 Terminator cyborg from the future.

The first, 9-episode season of ‘The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ was good — not great, but certainly on the right track with its characterizations, and serialized story. Tonight kicks off Terminator’s second season, and the premiere episode “Samson and Delilah” pays off those nine episodes in spades.