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This week, the Watch brings you news on George Takei’s singing lessons, James Cromwell getting presidential, Visitor’s role on Battlestar, Wheatong geeking out on gaming, Eric Bana’s concerns regarding his image, TV appearances for Scott Bakula and Ethan Phillips, a birthday wish for Marina Sirtis, and more!

Considered one of the most prestigious awards science-fiction writers can be nominated for, the World Science Fiction Society has released its nominees for the 2008 Hugo Awards, which includes entries from the world of cinema, television and even the Internet. The entire first season of “Heroes” is up for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, from NBC Universal Television and Tailwind Productions. The long list of writers and directors included in the nomination list include Tim Kring, Jeff Loeb, Bryan Fuller, Michael Green, Natalie Chaidez, Jesse Alexander, Adam Armus, Aron Eli Coletie, Joe Pokaski, Christopher Zatta, Chuck Kim, David Semel, Allan Arkush, Greg Beeman, Ernest R. Dickerson, Paul Shapiro, Donna Deitch, Paul A. Edwards, John Badham, Terrence O’Hara, Jeannot Szwarc, Roxann …

Actor Cliff Simon (“Baal”) hints about some unexpected romance fans might see in Stargate: Continuum.

Erica Cerra, who plays Deputy Jo Lupo on SCI FI Channel’s original series Eureka, told SCI FI Wire that she’ll co-star in the upcoming SF film Dark Swarm.

Edward James Olmos, who plays Adm. William Adama on SCI FI Channel’s series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that it’s not inconceivable that all of the characters could die by the end of the upcoming fourth and final season–and that would be OK with him.

Jodie Foster, who co-stars in the upcoming family fantasy movie Nim’s Island, told reporters that she knew she had to be in the movie when her oldest son read the children’s book on which it based.

Erica Cerra, who plays Deputy Jo Lupo on SCI FI Channel’s original series Eureka, told SCI FI Wire that she’ll co-star in the upcoming SF film Dark Swarm.

Tyrese Gibson, Dennis Quaid, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand and Willa Holland will join Paul Bettany in Legion, Screen Gems’ apocalyptic thriller film, Variety reported.

ACT I Recently Brian K. Vaughan’s acclaimed comic book series “Y: The Last Man” came to an end with Issue 60. No, it wasn’t canceled. It just ended. Vaughan decided it was time to finish the story. Now New Line Cinema is developing a film with screenwriter Carl Ellsworth (“Disturbia”), director D. J. Caruso (“Disturbia”) and producer David S. Goyer. Now, I’m puzzled. How strange, an ongoing comic book series ending? It seems so logical, but if you look at all the ongoing comic book titles out there (I’m not counting miniseries) I can think of only a few that had real endings. Not just some half-ass attempt to wrap up some storylines and try to leave things so open that the characters could get picked up elsewhere for another title or the book could later be brought back. And you know what? …

141 days after he declared ‘action’ for the first time, JJ Abrams has wrapped principal photography for his Star Trek movie. This comes in pretty much on the original schedule (although a couple of weeks earlier than the revised schedule). The 20-week shoot is long, but actually comes in 2nd place for the franchise [...]

In January we ran early excerpts from an unpublished interview with Leonard Nimoy, and now the full interview is available. In the interesting discussion, the original Spock talks about aging, photography, his long career and politics. He also talked a bit about the character of Spock and how it has influenced his life, excerpts below. [...]

Show: New Amsterdam Airs: Mondays at 9 p.m. (E/P) on FOX Episode: “Keep the Change” (Season 1, Episode 5) John and Eva investigate the death of a homeless man whose best friend believes that his overdose was actually a homicide.