Ever wonder what's up with that live-action Star Wars TV series that's been talked about for so long? We heard some good news about it almost one full year ago, when Lucasfilm's Steve Sansweet confirmed not only that the live-action show is going to be made but that pre-production would be beginning before 2010 and that the series will premiere in 2012. After that announcement, silence. Now George Lucas himself has broken that silence, and the news is not good ... or is it?

Any fans of Steven Spielberg, of dinosaurs, and/or of Steven Spielberg works involving dinosaurs were disappointed when it was announced that Fox was canceling their San Diego Comic Con panel for Terra Nova, the upcoming Spielberg-produced TV series based on people traveling back in time to the dinosaur age. Now those same potential fans will be again disappointed to learn that Fox is pushing back the show's launch a few months, from spring of 2011 to fall 2011.

Battlestar Galactica is one of the greatest science fiction shows of all time. Since it also takes place in such a vast world, it makes sense that the studio would want to make spin-off series based on the show. They are currently doing that with Caprica, but that series is vastly different from BSG and has experienced uneven quality. What fans seem to want is another series that engages you both intellectually and emotionally (only the former half of which Caprica seems to have accomplished) and that is more military-oriented, like BSG. We heard a few months ago that Syfy was considering the possibility of another spin-off. Now it looks like we'll be getting that.

Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer didn’t have the stage to themselves during the Adult Swim panel at Comic Con (though they did have a purely Venture Bros. slot the next day, which I wasn't able to attend), so they had to make it short and sweet. They divulged a few general strokes for the delayed remainder of The Venture Bros.’ fourth season, teased us with some footage, and chimed in from the side during other panelists’ presentations. That, plus talk of a potential crossover with Robot Chicken, all looked and sounded great, and the writers seem to be responding to what the fans liked and disliked in the first half of season 4 and the end of season 3.