REMINDER: Sarah Connor's insomnia to bare fruit in a creepy sleep clinic in 'Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep'

Even though she avoids exposing herself to hospitals, Lena Headey's Sarah Connor checks herself into a sleep clinic in the "Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep," tonight's episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."

Sarah must really be on the brink of desperation to do something so risky considering that she is a fugitive and generally does not like being kept in clinics as demonstrated in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day."  

Overviews of the episode on the series' official Web site and TV.com indicate that Sarah goes to the sleep clinic after not napping for two weeks and begins to experience nightmares there that the video promo shows involves being abducted and severely choked by the security guard she seemingly kills at the end of "Earthlings Welcome Here."

It is implied in the video that John (Thomas Dekker) suspects that his mother is making up the nightmares given her vision of the three dots, her obsession with which lead to the discovery of a similar-looking aircraft. This should provide Sarah with enough credibility for her son to go along with what she is saying.

While being studied like a lab rat, Sarah thinks about how her nightmares might be tied to whatever SkyNet is cooking up next, but suspect events conveniently start to take place there, the video promo and the overviews show. 

Clips from the video promo and a photo still imply that the attendants at the sleep clinic are up to something tied to a new red scar on Sarah's body. 

A sneak peek of "Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep" shows that the presumed dead security guard is alive and true to the nightmares ends up kidnapping her.

Also included in the episode is John possibly discovering some kind of massive supercomputer, as shown in one photo still, and explaining to Cameron (Summer Glau) how humans perceive dreams, as shown in the sneak peek below. WATCH THE PROMO!

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REMINDER: Starbuck drinks redrum, Boomer lassos a moon in 'Someone to Watch Over Me'?

Ghostly visions and alternate realities in space appear to be the focus of the 17th, season four "Battlestar Galactica" episode, "Someone to Watch Over Me," promotional multimedia indicates.

No was watching over Captain Samuel Anders (Michael Trucco) when he appears to be waking up from a coma at the end of "Deadlock," and he is not featured in any of the promos for the next episode that airs tonight. But there is enough to explore even if the character is left with no one to attend to his medical care other than Doc Cottle.

Overviews for "Deadlock" from The Sci Fi Channel, TV Guide and TV.com Web sites indicate that Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (Katie Sackhoff) will see ghostly visions while at the same time talking to a "charismatic" man playing on the new piano she took note of in "Deadlock" in a premise very reminiscent to the famed bar from hell scene from "The Shining." 

By the episode's end, Starbuck "may" come to terms with something "shattering" as to why she found a skull wearing her military tags on the nuked remains of Earth, one of the overviews shows.

Rebel Cylons meanwhile want to get revenge on Sharon "Boomer" Valerii (Grace Park) by charging her with treason even though she established her loyalty by helping to rescue Ellen Tigh (Kate Vernon), who is one of the elder Final Five Cylons, from being dissected by John Cavil (Dean Stockwell), the overviews show. 

Promotional photo stills allude to the possibility that this causes either Boomer or Galen Tyrol (Aaron Douglas), who were once lovers, to experience having lived a domestic life together somewhere that is not space. 

Adding to the drama are Tyrol's efforts to ask for intervention in the matter from President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnel), who might be understandably beholden to The Cylons' desire for vengeance in exchange for their assistance in helping the fleet to move forward to gods know where. Boomer's only saving grace, Ellen, might not be so willing to help The Cylon that helped liberate her from Cavil out of some sense of toaster justice. Both points are established in the sneak peek below or watch the official promo.

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REMINDER: Is 'Smallville' set to reveal Clark Kent's identity to the world in 'Infamous,' or is this a story hoax?

Republished from Feb. 19, 2009 to reflect update below original post.

"Smallville" is either gearing up to go out with a bang or has a route-better-left-untraveled story in mind that will leave everything as it usually is toward the end of the 17th, season eight "Infamous" episode.

The CW's new "Infamous" promo and TV.com's overview of the March 12 episode confirm that Clark Kent (Tom Welling) will as a preemptive measure reveal his identity as Metropolis' Red Blue Blur to Lois Lane (Erica Durance), who he will ask to write the Daily Planet news story that reveals it to the world.

Usually promotional media for a "Smallville" episode is no big deal, but it is considering that the 18th episode of season eight utilizes a "body-switch" theme that would be necessary for Clark to survive "Infamous" with his secret identity in tact. Two "road-best-left-untraveled" episodes in a row seems unlikely unless the writers simply do not care about the series anymore.

"Hex," the episode in question, has Chloe wish on her birthday to be normal just like Lois, which is a questionable assertion given her affinity for seeking out trouble. 

Zatanna (Serinda Swann), an all-too-real magician from the pages of DC Comics, grants Chole's wish, as well as one for Clark. 

Could the wish Zatanna grants Clark be that she reverse everything that occurred in "Infamous"? 

Having Clark reveal his identity to the world and kill Linda Lake (Tori Spelling), especially when it can all be erased, would certainly take the character to a level of exploration he has never before reached. It would certainly allow him to experience how easy it is to suddenly become a man like Lex Luthor.

Another possibility is that Clark ends up being infamous for being the hack who tried to claim credit for The Red Blue Blur's exploits, but is shown to have no extraordinary powers. A piece of green kryptonite in Clark's pocket would do the trick to assure than no one ever suspects he is anything more than a Kansas farm boy.

Any of these story prospects would be preferable to the beginning of the series' cancellation, which can only be confirmed or put off until May by The CW.

Anything can happen on "Smallville" at this point. That at least is worth tuning in to figure out what it ends up being.

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Update: TV Guide Magazine drops major 'Infamous' spoiler

"Infamous," the 17th, season eight episode of "Smallville," has Clark Kent (Tom Welling) reveal his identity as The Red Blue Blur to the world, but everything goes back to normal before it is over.

TV Guide Magazine's recent edition features an exclusive first look at Serinda Swan's Zatanna, who will appear in the series 18th, season eight episode "Hex," which premieres on March 26.

How this relates to "Infamous" is that the magazine mentions that Zatanna in "Hex" will use her magic to "allow Clark to experience a life less encumbered with hiding his identity as the Red Blue Blur." In other words, Clark's secret identity will not be so infamous by the time this episode hits The CW.

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REMINDER: Sarah Connor and the gang set to play detectives while visiting Creepsville in 'Desert Cantos'

Anyone who has seen the promo for the 15th, season two "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" knows that the main cast acts like shameless creeps and hits people up for information at a funeral.

The official "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" Web site and TV.com provide overviews for "Desert Cantos," elaborating that Sarah (Lena Headey) and John Connor (Thomas Dekker), Cameron Phillips (Summer Glau) and Derek Reese (Brian Austin Green) go to a "company town" nearby the warehouse that Catherine Weaver (Shirley Manson) blew to pieces in "The Good Wound." The funeral is for the workers she killed T-1000-style before lighting the fuse.

Weaver decides to leave behind no loose ends, sending a minion to make sure no one survived, one of the overviews for the Feb. 20 episode shows.

Although it might sound like a run-of-the-mill story, "Desert Cantos" is worth watching to find out what is going in what is shown in the promo to be a creepy town of people who cannot say anything about the warehouse because they are under surveillance by secret cameras. 

What the workers were building in that warehouse when they were alive, as well as the spacecraft-like object Sarah saw at the end of "Earthlings Welcome Here," likely plays a role in the answer. 

Whoever is watching the townspeople might very well have been also keeping tabs on Eileen (Dinah Lenney), the transvestite UFO aficionado who was suddenly killed by an unknown person who knew exactly where to find her two episodes ago.

Remember that time travel can be a factor in the episode's premise, so that does not rule out SkyNet or its metallic lackeys as the culprits. 

Or it might just end up being Weaver who is watching from the other end of the surveillance cameras. No sense in sending too many Terminators back in time, after all.

A time traveler herself, Leven Ramblin's Riley character is listed as being in the episode maybe to explain to John why she took off from the hospital or possibly to expose herself as complicit in everything that is going on. Her mission to keep John away from "her" is still not entirely clear.

Not clear either is what TV.com's overview and official promotional photos stills for the next episode say about what happens in "Desert Cantos." If anything, they indicate that SkyNet might be behind whatever was being built at the warehouse or that Sarah's vision of the three dots is something for which she seeks out psychiatric treatment.

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REMINDER: 'Monk' season seven finale might finally address concrete details about Trudy's murder

Tony Shalhoub's Adrian Monk's strange nostalgia for the parking garage where his wife Trudy was killed might lead him to details about her murder.

Overviews from the official "Monk" Web site and TV.com for "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall," the Feb. 20 season seven finale, indicate that in the episode Monk chains himself up to stop its scheduled demolition.

But a case develops for Monk to solve that disrupts everything when a city official sympathetic to his cause goes missing, and finding out what happened might very well lead him to a clue with which to deduce who ordered Trudy's murder, the overviews hint at as well.

One sneak peek shows that Harold Krenshaw (Tim Bagley), who is apparently on the city council, votes to prevent postponing the site's demolition seemingly out of his long-standing hatred for Monk, and that he might only vote in favor of it if the defective detective reveals the name of his therapist, Dr. Neven Bell (Hector Elizondo). 

Maybe Harold just misses their verbal sparing in Dr. Kroger's waiting room.

A compelling reason to watch the episode is that it will likely not lead viewers down another dead-end concerning Trudy's homicide in that the series will conclude next season, and sparing information has thus far been revealed about her bombing. 

If anything, this episode might very well serve as a sort of story launching point for some episodes, if not all, in season eight.

Longtime fans might get a piece of what they have been very patient to see for the last seven seasons of few great murder cases for Monk to solve intertwined with many frivolous themes. 

Monk confronting his fear of confinement means "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall" is more than just a run-of-the-mill episode. Another sneak peek that can be watched below indicates it is enough to get Monk to care about something other than what he does best, that is, solving murders.

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REMINDER: Ellen Tigh rocks the vote, Caprica Six gets feisty, Baltar returns to his stooges in 'Deadlock'

Ellen Tigh (Kate Vernon) is alive. She escaped from John Cavil (Dean Stockwell). And she has a plan.

Her plan is not to leave with The Final Five Cylons to start a new life, but the Sci Fi Channel trailer for "Deadlock" indicates her vote would clinch the decision. TV.com's overview for the Feb. 19 episode further confirms that Ellen will have to make a "momentous choice" regarding her four fellow skin job toasters aboard The Galactica.

Could Cavil and his forces show up and rush Ellen's decision, or limit her options?   

Teasers from the promo indicate that viewers will know "the truth" once "Deadlock" concludes, though it is not as though the episode has to live up to this claim. If anything is revealed, it will presumably be about The 13th Tribe. 

Or will any of The Fine Five Cylons kick their amnesia and remember something key from their pasts? Will the 13th Cylon Daniel surface in any capacity?

Sure to be included in the episode is Ellen dealing with Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan), who will apologize for killing her on New Caprica, though this is should not be anything new given that she forgave him in "No Exit." 

Saul might also have to explain why he knocked up Caprica Six (Tricia Helfer), maybe even having to choose between the two cyborg female fatales.

Speaking of relationships with women, the former lothario Gauis Baltar (James Callis) will return to his loyal flock of followers who believe he speaks for the one true god and Galen Tyrol (Aaron Douglas) will continue his repairs of Adama's old girl, the decrepit Galactica battleship.

What is certain is that Caprica Six is going to use her trademark long legs to kick some bigot colonial tail, the following sneak peek shows. Or WATCH THE PROMO!

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REMINDER: Clark Kent, Lana Lang to join super forces against 'Smallville' psychotic ... who plays with toys?

Who could possibly challenge the combined forces of Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and his newly super-powered inamorata Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk)?

Uh ... Toyman? For real?

TV.com's episode overview of the Feb. 5 episode "Requiem" shows that Winslow Schott (Christopher Gauthier), the crazy toy aficionado himself, tries to blow up Justin Hartley's Oliver Queen and a room full of LuthorCorp executives.

Wikipedia indicates that this Toyman was at some point in the past unfairly fired by Queen Industries, and that he is a close interpretation of the comic book character.

"Smallville" writers might try to tie Toyman's origin to the past actions of a stuck-up, licentious Oliver before he was shipwrecked on a desert island and then turned a new moral leaf. 

Maybe Oliver had Schott fired for something as simple as bumping into him in a Queen Industries hallway. 

Whatever drives this revenge story, "Requiem" promises to be another "Smallville" episode that raids Superman's comic book gallery of rogues in order to give its main characters something to do together. 

Perhaps the threat of Toyman will make for great chemistry between Clark and Lana not before seen when only one of them was invulnerable or maybe he will employ a few creative, yet deadly toys that will make the episode bearable to watch.

One hopes the creative minds behind "Smallville" will leave a few DC Comics foes for Clark to fight when he finally suits up as Superman.

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REMINDER RELOAD: First 'Sarah Connor Chronicles' of '09 to reunite lead Terminator heroine with an old love

Kyle Reese (Jonathan Jackson) will return to "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" during the Feb. 13 season two episode "The Good Wound," newly released photo stills reveal.

TV.com's episode overview shows that Kyle will return as a hallucination during Lena Headey's Sarah Connor's recovery from a gun shot wound sustained at the end of the Dec. 15 episode "Earthlings Welcome Here."

Though this is not Kyle's first appearance on the TV series, it is the first time the two characters have been on screen together in more than 20 years since 1984's "The Terminator" at least in terms of official canon. 

"The Good Wound," which might end up having a tragic love story motif, was likely postponed until it could be aired close to Valentine's Day. 

Indicated from the episode overview is that Sarah will use the hallucination to gain emotional strength the way Linda Hamilton's interpretation of the character would have done in 1991's "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" if the scene in question had not been deleted.

Nothing new in terms of story plot should be revealed by this Kyle given that he is just a hallucination, so he will probably simply remind her of something she has long since forgotten.

Perhaps he will represent a more level-headed approach to fighting SkyNet than the progressively more militant approach she has adopted in the TV series.

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REMINDER RELOAD: HBO orders second season of new show that breathes life into the stagnant vampire genre

What would happen if vampires "came out of the coffin" to expose their existence to the world is the unique premise of an already very successful new cable drama series.

"True Blood," which HBO recently renewed for a second season after the airing of its first two episodes, is set in a world in which a Japanese company develops a synthetic drink that provides vampires with the dietary requirements they attain from sucking the blood of humans to survive, so it allows them to live openly among prejudice humans.

A promising spin on the longtime vampire genre, the new show is like "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" in that it is about a seemingly normal, yet ditzy young woman, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), but who has a not-so-secret extraordinary ability that makes it possible for her to become infatuated with a tall, dark and brooding newcomer in town with unusually long canines, Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer). 

Sookie likes the more than 100-year-old creature enough to invite him into her home. Like in "Angel," he cannot come in otherwise.

The show is also like the continuation of New Line Cinema's "Blade" movie series in that these silver-fearing vampires find a final solution to their need to hunt humans for sustenance. Not only that, lobbyists argue in support of equal treatment for these former neck biting creatures, an accusation they confidently deny because of a lack of evidence.

Though she does not set out to slay all of his kind, Sookie connects with Bill in that she is unable to do to him what she unintentionally does to others, that is, read the thoughts running through his mind. If anything, her open-mindedness allows her to defend Bill, and vice versa, from people looking to hurt or exploit him in Bon Temps, a fictional town no doubt placed in Louisiana because of how writer Anne Rice made the region a vampire haven in her novels.

Suffice it to mention that the vampire in question is suspected when the police find a woman's dead body in her home.

Add to the aforementioned premise that humans secretly find the prospect of having sex with vampires very alluring, and because it is an HBO series undead prostitutes provide them with their unique services. 

Sookie's brother, Jason (Ryan Kwanten), in particular, is so fascinated with the act that he watches a vampire porno tape while he has rough sex with a woman of the breathing variety, which makes him another prime murder suspect when police find her body.

Not yet halfway through its first season, "True Blood" is an auspicious cable series that exploits the campy Hollywood vampire stereotype to explore the touchy subject of confronting bigotry in the South. That and more than sexually suggestive interaction between Sookie and Bill should make for at least two seasons of riveting television. Bill himself and the long life he has lead as a vampire should prove to be interesting.

What threatens to drive a stake through the heart of the new HBO drama is a reason to exist beyond having an original spin of a hackneyed premise and the potential loss of the romanticism associated with vampires in a world in which they have nothing or no one from which to hide. 

Viewers might tune out if if becomes a vampire version of "Days of Our Lives."

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REMINDER: Hogwarts teens to get close, intimate as darkness looms in Harry Potter 6

Teenage hormones will tempt Harry Potter and his Hogwarts pals to hook up with one another on July 17, 2009 while the sinister forces of He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named increasingly threaten both the magical and muggle worlds.

This is what Warner Bros. Pictures' official movie synopsis of "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" and the novel of the same name indicate will happen when the sixth installment of the series is released in theaters. The boy wizard (Daniel Radcliffe) will reveal his attraction to someone close, witness betrayal and endure another casualty in preparing to fight against Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his army of Death Eaters.

What is new at Hogwarts during the sixth year is the arrival of a new professor to the school, Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), a "well-connected and unsuspecting" man Dumbeldore believes knows the key to defeating Voldemort, the movie's official synopsis shows.

One of Warner Bros. Pictures' stills of the movie shows that he will specialize in teaching students about potions. Maybe this means Alan Rickman's Severus Snape will teach something else. It is the dark arts that he fancies anyways.

A sneak peek of the movie on YouTube indicates that the key to defeating Voldemort could be "Horcruxes."

Rowling's "Half-Blood Prince" novel shows Horcruxes are seven splintered items containing The Dark Lord's soul, one of which was his diary when he attended the school under the anagram, Tom Marvolo Riddle. Harry destroyed the novel in 2002's "Chamber of Secrets." 

The Internet Movie Database's synopsis for the movie shows that Harry will take "private lessons with Professor Dumbledore, during which Harry learns the dark secrets of Voldemort's past, hoping that they could use these secrets to find a way to defeat him," so maybe the Horcruxes will be introduced during a flashback sequence.    

Including the Horcruxes MacGuffin in the movie would explain why Voldemort kept conveniently coming back from the dead to try to kill Harry in three of the last five movies.

Another plot device from the novel that will definitely be in the movie is a potions textbook Slughorn gives Harry. In the novel on which the movie is based, the textbook's back cover reveals it used to belong to the half-blood prince, hence the title. 

As mentioned earlier, Snape could move on to teach students something new. One possibility is that he may finally be appointed to teach them how to deflect dark magic. Though Snape has been passed over for the teaching post many times because he used to be a Death Eater, Dumbeldore had no choice but to allow the longtime potions professor to teach Harry how to block invasions of his mind by Voldermort in the last movie. 

The official "Half-Blood Prince" synopsis alludes to Harry's suspicion that "dangers may even lie within the castle," so the headmaster's desperation to teach his students to combat dark forces may be Snape's ticket to an overdue promotion. After all, the boy wizard's seemingly bat-shit crazy theories tend to be true.

"One student remains aloof. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one," the official movie synopsis shows.

Fans who have read "Half-Blood Prince" know this part of the synopsis refers to Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), who Harry obsessively suspects is up to something sinister in the novel.  But the circumstances of Draco's curious activities are not what they seem.

Could The Death Eaters be attacking students? Or could Draco be a Death Eater like his father?

Guaranteed to attack Harry and his pals are their more than friendly feelings for one another, the official movie synopsis shows. 

Harry reveals he likes Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright), but he has to compete for her attention with another boy. Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) also has a crush, but she will not come to terms with the object of her desire, Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), or the competition, Lavender Brown (Jesse Cave). These love triangles the official movie synopsis highlights should provide a few humorous, lighthearted moments before the movie series becomes progressively darker.

Of great interest is how Ron will respond to Harry's crush on his sister and whether Radcliffe and Wright can concoct a convincing attraction to one another that has never been alluded to in previous movies.

Radcliffe, who had his first on-screen kiss in "Goblet of Fire," confirmed in the aforementioned sneak peek of the movie that Ron will kiss Lavender in the new movie.

More entertaining should be what director David Yates said in the sneak peek is Ron's "slapsticky" tryout to be keeper for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Maybe he will somehow bumble his way toward success.

Movie footage from the sneak peek reveals a headline from The Daily Prophet newspaper, "Death Eater Attack Targets Muggles," which means Voldermort is either seeking to conquer both the magical and non-magical worlds or push his enemies to act drastically to stop his hostile advances.

Because the Hogwarts teens got their hands dirty and the bad guys strengthened their resolve in the last movie, "The Half-Blood Prince" could turn out to have less exposition and action, especially since two more movies in the series remain in which to resolve the main conflict.

 

If the novel and other sources are an indication of what is to come, this next installment will allow Harry and his pals to go through some normal, yet humorous teenage angst with the threat of Voldemort and his minions represented as attacks on students, another tragic loss and flashbacks from The Dark Lord's past.

Could the movie include a flashback to Voldemort's youth as an orphan?

The movie will likely be like a darker "Chamber of Secrets" with a slightly older cast of characters.

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