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The Vampire Diaries producer Kevin Williamson wants to have a gay character on his show. It probably won't be Jeremy, Bonnie, Caroline, Matt or Jenna. It couldn't be Stefan, Elena or Damon. That would be a really big twist, but it would kind of end that whole love triangle thing. Williamson thinks he'll have to bring in a new character to make a gay storyline work.

Ordinary citizens, extraordinary skills. That's what the pilot for Syfy's Alphas promises to deliver. But with today's announcements of two new cast members, it's clear that the acting skills will be extraordinary, too.

Now we know the real reason J.J. Abrams named his production company Bad Robot. It's so that when he eventually reached out to pick up the rights to Boilerplate, the story of a Victorian Age mechanical man who fought alongside Pancho Villa and Teddy Roosevelt before vanishing at the end of WWI, we could all make endless GOOD robot jokes. But don't worry. We'll try not to make too many.

That Americanized version of the BBC's Being Human just took one step closer to being real. The series, about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost who end up as roommates, started production today in Montreal.

Luke Skywalker may have had the Force on his side, but if you ask us, he had no imagination. He only used that lightsaber of his as a ... well ... as a lightsaber. If he'd had a lightsaber pool cue, for example, maybe he'd have been able to settle his differences with Dad over a game of nine-ball rather than lose that right hand of his in a duel.

We love Total Recall. We already told you the 10 reasons why, remember? But what we're wondering is—will we love the coming Total Recall reboot as well?

It wasn't Mark Ruffalo's fault, but the road to his getting cast as the new Bruce Banner was a bumpy one, with lots of bad blood between Marvel and Ed Norton, the last actor to portray the Hulk's alter ego. But now that he's a part of Joss Whedon's Avengers movie, what does Ruffalo make of the messy PR war that came before?

What happens next in the Caprica universe that will hook us up to the beginning of Battlestar Galactica? The season 1.5 trailer, which debuted at Comic-Con, gives us plenty of new footage to pore through in search of clues.

John Crichton on Farscape. Col. Cameron Mitchell in Stargate SG-1. That makes two iconic roles for Ben Browder. Now we hear we're soon going to see him as a noir detective in the year 2030 in the series Naught for Hire. Can the sci-fi lightning strike three times?

Comic-Con 2010 was packed with moments that were incredibly awesome ... and sometimes downright weird. Here's what we thought were the most mind-blowing or strangest things we saw there.

23-year-old Alessandra Torresani, who portrays Zoe Graystone on Caprica, walks the red carpet at the Syfy/EW Comic Con party in San Diego.

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We couldn't wait to see Marvel's trailer for Thor at Comic-Con, because we needed to know—would the hammer-wielding Chris Hemsworth look silly in his Asgardian garb? Or would the filmmakers be able to pull off all that Jack Kirby magic we feared could only work in comics? On Saturday in San Diego, we were given our answer.

When Guillermo del Toro announced at Comic-Con that he'd be developing a "scary" version of The Haunted Mansion and a "very strange" adaptation of Pinocchio, he also hinted at a third project—an all-new horror film he'd start directing in May. But what he never hinted was that in order to pull that project off, he'd be bringing in—James Cameron!

Toy Story 3, easy to understand. Inception ... not so easy. One made us cry, the other made our heads hurt. But what if someone took the summer's two best movies and mashed them together? Someone did.

Looks like Damon Lindelof's first major solo screenwriting gig, now that he's wrapped up the mysteries of Lost, will be to go back before one of sci-fi's greatest movie franchises even began—because he just closed a deal to work on the long-in-development Alien prequel, which 20th Century Fox hopes (and WE hope) Ridley Scott will direct.

As if Steven Moffat didn't already have enough to do as writer and executive producer for Doctor Who, it looks like the BBC is about to renew his Sherlock series for a second season, now that the first episode of the modern-day Sherlock Holmes adaptation debuted to huge ratings. But which of those two brainy characters does Moffat like best? Hint—it isn't the one who owns a TARDIS.

One of the best reasons to head to Comic-Con is to see the premieres of movie and TV trailers brought by the studios to start building buzz. But even if you didn't make it to San Diego this year, there's no reason you shouldn't get to see the eye candy—which is why we've collected 15 awesome clips so you can enjoy Comic-Con in the comfort of your own home!

How much does Michael Bay love aliens? This much—even while he's been blowing up Chicago, which we've learned about through a flood of Transformers 3 set photos and videos, the director has been negotiating to unleash even MORE aliens on Hollywood.

Still arguing with your friends about that glimpse we got of Green Lantern's uniform on the cover of Entertainment Weekly? Good! Ryan Reynolds is happy we're so worked up over it. Here's why—and what HE thought was "lame" about the costume!

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