• Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, the executive producers of Lost, have sold a fantasy pilot to ABC, Once Upon a Time, that is “a modern-day take on fairy tales.” It’s set in contemporary Maine and has an ensemble cast.

• By now, everyone’s surely heard that Caprica has been canceled. Meanwhile, the five remaining eps won’t air until 2011. (Oddly, SyFy just greenlit a second Battlestar Galactica spin-off. Go figure.)

• The first look at Chris Evans as Captain America on the cover of this week’s EW, right.

• Glee did their homage to The Rocky Horror Picture Show this week, it was the show’s usual muddled mess (with some good musical numbers), and the world didn’t end, as many purists seemed to claim it would.
  

• The next sexy, Legolas-like break-out Tolkien-inspired character will be … Thorin Oakinshield (to be played by Richard Armitage in The Hobbit), at least according to Peter Jackson. Hey, why can’t dwarves be sexy too?

• The thirteen scariest books (not written by Stephen King). I’d add: Unwind by Neil Schusterman, in which rejected teenagers are dismantled alive for their body parts. Creepy!
• Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (the show’s “prequel” season) has an official air-date: Friday, January 21st at 10 PM.

• Apparently, the remake of The Thing (coming in 2011) has a lot of nods to the 1982 John Carpenter version. What people seem to be forgetting is that that movie was a remake.

• Funny: Boba Fett’s invoice to Jabba.
  

• Amusing: one hundred horror movie spoilers in five minutes:

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