"Arena."

"Five Million Miles to Earth" (aka "Quatermass and the Pit") is probably the best scifi you'll see on TV this week. I love that movie.

Then again, Christopher Reeve didn't show up until well into the 1978 film, after the Krypton and Smallville and Arctic sequences. (I remember my younger siblings getting a bit squirmy wondering when Superman was going to appear . . . .)

Fans tend to overestimate the importance of name-recognition when gauging the commercial prospects of any upcoming comics adaptation. BLADE, THE MASK, HELLBOY, MEN IN BLACK, and HELLBOY were all pretty obscure, but their movies were hits. And IRON MAN and GHOST RIDER were hardly household names. If name-recognition…

I wonder how many people will expect "Les Miserables" to be all happy and smiley?

An odd choice, but consider me intrigued. Now if they'd just get around to the Spectre.

I'll second that one. The original novel is good, too.

And this the part where I mention that's based on a World Fantasy Award-winning novel by Richard Matheson, and that a Broadway musical version is currently in the works.

While I'm always glad to see "Somewhere in Time" get some love, I have to point out that it's not remotely a romantic COMEDY. It's a classic time-travel romance, but it's sad and melancholy and tragic, not funny.

Thanks for the plug for my 4400 novels, although I should point out that Dave Mack, Dayton Ward, and Kevin Dilmore all wrote 4400 books as well .

In Seattle we watched "Nightmare Theater" with The Count.

If you want Mummies, just remake "The Jewel of Seven Stars" by Bram Stoker again, or maybe "Lot 44" by Arthur Conan Doyle. Those are surely public domain. And, of course, most mummy movies were indirectly inspired by the discovery of King Tut's tomb (and its fabled "Curse") which is matter of historical record and…

My money is still on some brand-new character. Still not sure why everyone is so convinced that he HAS to be playing some iconic character from the original series.

But why would they WANT to return to the old timeline after having gone to the trouble of rebooting the franchise? Especially since the old timeline would be, well, even older by then. Honestly, I can't think of a single franchise that ever went back to the old continuity after being remade or rebooted. That would…

Nice explication of the difference between "copyright" and "trademark," which often seems to confuse people—and not without reason!

Mars Needs Women . . . or Moms . . . or Santa Claus . . . .

I seriously doubt that any new TV shows would go back to the old continuity, though. Any new TV series will take placed in the new, rebooted universe—or else start over again from scratch. Franchises, once rebooted, never return to the continuity of a previous generation. That's not how it works.

As I understand it, the Trek episode did not start out as adaptation of the Brown story. It started out as an original script but, at some point, somebody remembered the story and realized that their upcoming ep was uncomfortably similar in concept. So, just to play fair and avoid trouble, they threw some money at…

Thanks! (Says the guy who stayed up too late watching "The Viking Queen" last night.)

Honestly, I think the idea that "old" trash was of higher quality than "new" trash is just nostalgia speaking. Just because somethng is old does not mean it's classic. Seriously, not every old cult movie was "The Creature from Black Lagoon" or "The Fly." Go back and watch "Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman" or "The…