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Last week, “Smallville” matched a season high with a 2.9 rating/5 share on The CW, something practically considered a blockbuster on that netlet. Now, however, Clark Kent has some competition in the genre, and believe it or not, it’s coming from a network that’s not The CW, but instead is run by Rupert Murdoch. “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” ended November sweeps with its worst rating by far ever, earning a 2.9/5, according to Fast National ratings from Nielsen Media Research. That blew away the previous low of “Sarah Connor,” a 3.1/5 picked up during the seventh week of the television season. “Sarah Connor” fell nearly 15 percent from the previous week, and is off 29 percent from its season high during its opening week premiere. It might be easy to blame the first part …

This review contains MAJOR SPOILERS for “The Eclipse, Part 1,” the tenth episode from the third season of “Heroes.” Last week it was coming. This week, it’s here. “The Eclipse” arrived with some sobering developments for our “Heroes” and villains, stripping their powers and making them just like the rest of us. Arthur Petrelli’s (Robert Forster) pre-cog drawing spree has yielded a series of sketches predicting possible doom for Claire (Hayden Panettiere); Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) trapped in his own sticky web; Elle (Kristen Bell) and Sylar (Zachary Quinto) in lip-lock; Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) and Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) in freefall; and Hiro (Masi Oka), Ando (James Kyson lee) and Matt (Greg Grunberg) in a cornfield. All of these provide a framework for events as the episodes …

The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for “Strange Things Happen At The One Two Point,” an episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Is it a bad sign when a fan falls asleep while watching what is supposed to be an action series? I’d say so. This episode of “Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles” was high on verbosity and short on action. Sadly, that is becoming somewhat of a pattern lately. I have absolutely loved a few episodes of this series, particularly the ones that feature terminators (what a novel concept). Sadly, this show at times devolves into talk-fest, overly obsessed with relationships, with little action and only negligible glimpses of the future. This was not a terrible episode, but I am starting to wonder if it bears enough resemblance to the original film …

Is it time for the Trekkies to come out of the closet? The Links explores. We also have Trek showing up in a sitcom (again), in a car commercial (again) and on a game show (again). All that plus Kirk and Picard fused into some sort of supercaptain, some great fan made video mashups, how [...]

Viewership held steady for the thirteenth and fourteenth episodes of Atlantis.

Carla Gugino told SCI FI Wire that she plays a small but pivotal role in the upcoming supernatural horror movie The Unborn and also updated us on her many other upcoming projects.

A new teaser promo has gone live for SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica season four. The teaser is called "The Epic Journey."

IDW will publish Star Trek: Countdown, a four-issue comic-book series and prequel to J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie, starting in January.

Oscar-winning special-effects master Howard Berger told SCI FI Wire that he turned down doing the film version of Where the Wild Things Are--which he called his favorite book as a child--and that he anticipated the problems that director Spike Jonze is reportedly having adapting the classic book to film.

Researchers have begun documenting what they dub the "Truman syndrome," a delusion afflicting people who are convinced that their lives are secretly playing out on a reality TV show, a la the 1988 SF movie The Truman Show, the Associated Press reported.

Former Battlestar Galactica alpha Cylon Tricia Helfer will guest-star on NBC's spy spoof Chuck, TVGuide.com reported.

Focus Features has just released the official trailer for its upcoming 3-D stop-motion-animated film Coraline, from director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and based on Neil Gaiman's story.