
If you like science fiction, and
Battlestar Galactica,
Doctor Who,
Stargate, and other shows aren't enough, get ready for
Beyond.
According to Aint It Cool News, FOX has ordered 13 episodes of the series. It's about a big meteor coming to Earth, carrying a deadly virus, and the efforts to stop it. Jeez, as if a meteor wasn't enough to worry about, the damn thing has to be carrying a virus too? The show will star Seth Gable, Rachel Perry, and Merrin Dungey from
Alias.
The best part of the story is the various comments from Ain't It Cool readers. Some of the entertaining subject lines of the comments include "Why FOX Why" and "
Armageddon meets
Outbreak" and "For Christ's Spellcheck. Is it that hard?" Ha!

Now that pilot season is wrapping up,
it's casting season in L.A., where mega-stars or yet-to-be-discovered actors sign on to all sorts of new shows in hopes
that the networks will pick them up for the fall line-up. There are a lot of big names this time around. Check it
out:
- Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal) and Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under)
will star in the ABC drama pilot Brothers & Sisters, a soap-style drama about adult siblings.
- Heather Locklear is in negotiations for a leading role in the ABC comedy pilot, Women of a Certain Age.
Locklear would play a recently widowed woman who starts a new life with her two best friends.
- Ron
Livingston (Sex and the City, Office Space) is one of two leads in a FOX drama called
Primary, which is about a male and a female hostage negotiator who balance their love lives with their
jobs.
- Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos) has agreed to star in CBS' Waterfront, as the
charismatic and "ethically-challenged" mayor of Providence, R.I.
- Steven Culp, previously known
as Rex Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives, will appear in the ABC drama, Traveler, about three Yale
graduate students who become a national security risk when one of them frames the other two for an art museum
bombing.
- Swoosie Kurtz will take on a supporting role in the CBS comedy, Play Nice, which stars
Timm Sharp and Sara Rue (Less Than Perfect) as a brother and sister who run a toy company.
- Jonah
Lotan, who has been playing Spenser Wolff this season on 24, will take on a role on the FOX thriller,
Beyond, which is about the space race.
[Via
The
Hollywood Reporter]