[Televisionary]

Just a day before network upfront presentations are scheduled to kick off, there has been a flurry of casting activity here in Hollywood. Boston Legal 's Saffron Burrows has joined the cast of NBC's drama series My Own Worst Enemy , starring Christian Slater and Mike O'Malley about a well-mannered family man Henry, whose alter ego Edward is a spy and all-around international man of mystery. Burrows will play Norah, Edward's girlfriend and Henry's psychiatrist. Production on the first episode is slated to get under way soon. My Own Worst Enemy , from Universal Media Studios and writer/executive producer Jason Smilovic ( Kidnapped ), was ordered to series in April off of the pilot script; no pilot was shot. Frances Fisher ( In the Valley of Elah ) has come aboard an eight-episode arc on the next season of Sci Fi's drama Eureka , where she will play Samantha Thorne, a corporate fixer assigned to clean up the mess at Global. In a major casting coup, indie actor extr

Fans of Sci Fi's quirky drama Eureka , you are in luck. I've got some excellent news for you. Multiple sources have informed me that the NBC Universal-produced series has been given a third season order by cabler Sci Fi. New episodes of Eureka --most likely thirteen in number--are slated to return next summer. Eureka , which stars Colin Ferguson, Ed Quinn, Joe Morton, Jordan Hinson, and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, wraps its second season next Tuesday night at 9 pm, with the second part of a two-part installment entitled "A Night in Global Dynamics."

People really seem to love Eureka . And I mean REALLY love it. There's a lot of love emanating from the several thousand people who lined up to see the cast of Eureka --including Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Ed Quinn, Joe Morton, and Jordan Hinson--and showrunner Jamie Paglia deliver on update on just what exactly the audience can expect to find in Season Two of the grounded sci fi series. Salli Richardson was immediately pelted with a key question: will her character end up with Carter or Stark? Richardson hedged her bets (much to the crowd's chagrin) by saying, "This is Eureka and we're progressive... so I'm doing them both." As for what else we can expect for Season Two, showrunner and executive producer Jamie Paglia said it will be based more about the characters and their interactions, while still maintaining a standalone quality (i.e., mystery of the week). There will be ongoing storylines for all of the characters and Paglia promises that Eureka &#

Sci Fi has renewed Eureka for a second season of wacky scientists, misbehaving machines, and general oddball behavior in the fictional Pacific Northwest berg of Eureka, a top secret home for the nation's most brilliant scientists to conduct covert experiments. Series stars Colin Ferguson as the a former US Marshall turned local sheriff of Eureka. While the move to renew the show is a rather expected one, given the series' solid ratings for the cabler (it averages 2.76 million viewers), it's still good news for fans of Sci Fi's quirky drama Eureka , which wraps its first season tonight. Thanks to high-performing series like Eureka , Battlestar Galactica (which returns to the airwaves on Friday), Stargate Atlantis , and Stargate SG-1 (now in its final season), Sci Fi has emerged as the 10th highest-rated network in viewers. Additionally, it finished 9th overall in the key A25-54 demo. Those numbers have led Bonnie Hammer, president of both USA and Sci Fi networks, to

A bucolic Pacific Northwest town, hidden away from the world. Scientists tampering with the space-time continuum. And a gleefully dysfunctional father/daughter relationship. Mix those disparate plots together, add a dash of madcap science fiction and you've sort of got a handle on Eureka , which premieres tonight. If you were to imagine more Northern Exposure than Stargate Atlantis , you might approximate the feel of this new sci-fi drama series, on, well Sci-Fi. I was very pleasantly surprised by Eureka , and the fact that this series is a departure for the cable network, given that the sci-fi elements are much more toned down here than in their other series. Eureka is first and foremost a drama and a rather wacky one at that. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Eureka is both that scientist's beloved cry of discovery as well as the name of a small town hidden in the Pacific Northwest. A town created by the United States government to house the most brilliant brains of the