• Gossip Girl: Don't want to wait until Monday to see Lady Gaga's guest gig on Gossip Girl's "Last Days of Disco Stick"? Press play above for a sneak peek of the showy pop star's big musical number.

• Curb Your Enthusiasm: As it turns out, super-Jew Larry David is 37 percent Native American, or so say the geneticists employed by the Lopez Tonight show.

• Private Practice: Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice boss Shonda Rhimes announced that Kate Walsh has joined Twitter, if you're into that kind of thing. You can follow her at @k8_walsh.

• Charlie's New Angels: This sounds strangely fun. Sarah Connor Chronicles boss Josh Friedman and multihyphenate cutie Drew Barrymore are collaborating on a possible new Charlie's Angels series for ABC. Got any sexy casting ideas?

• Caprica: The Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica has been cut back by one hour to save money. The series, which stars Eric Stoltz and Esai Morales, premieres Jan. 22 on Syfy.

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Battlestar Galactica and Caprica series masterminds Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson, and BSGverse stars Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales (plus, surprise guest Grace Park!), gathered at Comic-Con this morning to share some great news with fans about the prospects for more of the critically acclaimed sci-fi saga.

Want to hear Edward James Olmos' pitch for the next Battlestar Galactica movie?

Wanna know when Caprica is finally premiering on your TV after a years-long gestation?

Or would you care to hear how Caprica is catnip for the Buffy fans of the world? Read on...

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Caprica, which launches today, is rich with killer robots, theological twists and psychological wilds, but in the tradition of Battlestar Galactica before it, it's also stocked with some serious babes.

If you're caught up on the Caprica movie (grab it on DVD and iTunes if you haven't seen it yet), come on in, because we just caught up with the two of the show's young stars, Alessandra Torresani and Magda Apanowicz, as well as their fabulous boss, Caprica show runner Jane Espenson, to find out what's in store for these Colonial beauties...

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Caprica is coming. Yay!

The pilot of the Battlestar Galactica prequel premieres on DVD and digital download April 21, and you can check out the trailer above for a sneak peek of the heartbreaking drama of families destroyed by terrorism. (It's bad juju, but darn good-looking TV!)

Want more? Of course you do. Luckily, then, we have scoop from stars Esai Morales, Paula Malcolmson and Polly Walker about who they're playing and what they're up to...

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"Well, if there's anything I can do to lower your expectations, that would probably be for the best." That's Eric Stoltz deftly managing fan excitement over the coming Battlestar Galactica spinoff, Caprica.

But expectations for Caprica—an atmospheric epic about cyborgs and broken hearts—can hardly be diminished when the cast includes such lights as Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcolmson and Polly Walker. For that matter, fans are atwitter at the news that Caprica will be executive produced by noted Buffy and BSG alum Jane Espenson.

Good thing then for the fans that Universal Media muckety-mucks have just released the news of where and when you can get your Galactica on after the current series ends on March 20. We've got the dish...

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As Battlestar Galactica begins the countdown to its series finale, there is new life in the franchise!

Sci Fi Channel announced today that it's picking up Caprica, the spinoff series set 50 years before the Cylon attack that sent the ragtag fleet on its mission to Earth. The series is a family drama about the Adamas (as in Admiral Bill and Major Lee Adama) and the Graystones, during the era when computer engineers were brainstorming the first Cylon technology.

The series stars Esai Morales as Bill Adama's father Joseph; Eric Stoltz and Paula Malcolmson as wealthy capitalists Daniel and Amanda Graystone, parents to Zoe Graystone (Alessandra Torresani); and Polly Walker as the imperious headmistress at Zoe Graystone's school.

But how many episodes of life in the pre-apocalypse Twelve Colonies will we get?

And when does the show premiere?

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My job doesn't suck.

On Wednesday evening, the Sci Fi Channel and the Los Angeles Times hosted a Battlestar Galactica midseason finale screening and panel discussion with BSG boss Ronald D. Moore and stars Tricia Helfer (Number Six), Mary McDonnell (President Laura Roslin) and Katee Sackhoff (Kara "Starbuck" Thrace).

Now, I can't tell you anything about the midseason finale, "Revelation," which airs tonight at 10 on Sci Fi because Ronald D. Moore literally made us raise our right hands and swear to keep the show's secrets safe, and because I really wouldn't want to take away your enjoyment of the shocking revelations that come at you like asteroids.

However, I'd like to try to make it up to you with some exclusive quotes you can't read anywhere else.

Click in for the dish about Roslin's ultimate fate, Starbuck's frakked-up relationship with Apollo and whether or not the Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica will go to series:

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Reading is fun! As part of this week's script read-through festivities, I bring you some new deets on Caprica, the spinoff of Battlestar Galactica from Ronald D. Moore and Remi Aubuchon!

Now, the script draft I have is as old as the gods themselves (OK, 2006, but still), so it may be somewhat out of date, but all the characters and storyline match up with the original Caprica storyline information we got when the pilot episode was first casting, so hopefully the essentials haven't changed too much.

What does the 110-page script say that can't be gleaned from character descriptions alone? Read on to get the dish...

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Frak yeah! Not only is Battlestar Galactica back this Friday, but I've just wrangled up some juicy scoop about the Caprica spinoff.

In case you haven't heard, Sci Fi has ordered a pilot called Caprica from BSG creator Ronald D. Moore. It goes back in time to before the creation of the Cylons for a look at life in the Colonies before, well, everything blew up.

Caprica is the story of two families, the Graystones and the Adams (better known to us now as the Adamas), and we'll be meeting the man who fathered and grandfathered the goodness that is Bill and Lee Adama (Edward James Olmos and Jamie Bamber). Interestingly, when I interviewed Ronald D. Moore last year, Caprica's plotlines were not directly tied to the characters we know from the current series. I asked RDM if there might be any Thrace-Adama-Agathon-Roslin ancestors in Caprica, and he told me, "Right now, there are no ancestors of anybody in the pilot." Well, looks like that changed in the intervening time, and thank goodness!

Read on to find out how the Graystones and the Adamas may have inadvertently started the First Cylon War...

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