NEWSCHUNKS: Comic-Con roundup

Comic-Con news... just... won't... stop!

HEROES SPOILERS APLENTY: Apparently the Heroes panel featured a whole pile of spoilers for the coming season. I say "apparently" because I'm hoping to remain unspoiled, and thus I didn't finish reading this story... Although I did get as far as the part about Claire-bear kissing her female college roommate.

LOST SPOILERS, TOO: I'm also trying to remain un-spoiled for Lost, but I couldn't resist reading this article. It seems the upcoming season will feature the return of many long-dead characters and will be set in an alternate reality where Hurley has his own friend chicken chain and Kate's attempt to kill her step-father accidentally led to the death of somebody else. The Lost panel also featured a lot of playful hijinks, with various cast members from the show making surprise appearances and taking part in little skits. (At one point Josh Holloway apparently showed up and tasered one of the producers... Something a lot of fans would probably like to do after some of the sadistic cliff-hangers those guys have put us through.)

DR. HORRIBLE SEQUEL SOUNDS INCREASINGLY INEVITABLE: As I've said many times here, I loved the original Dr. Horrible but really don't see a lot of potential in a sequel. Unfortunately it sounds like Joss Whedon is very close to moving ahead with the idea: ""I can't give you a date or any information at all because I'm me, but it's very much on our minds. We love it far too much to let it go."

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE: According to Topless Robot the new season will show us more of the post-apocalyptic, 2019 wasteland from the straight-to-DVD episode Epitaph One, and regular Joss Whedon players Alexis Denisof, Summer Glau and Felicia Day will all have recurring roles.

NO DOCTOR WHO MOVIE... BUT SPOILERS GALORE: The folks at I09 spoke to David Tennant, who confirmed once again that a Doctor Who movie is absolutely not in development. He also confirmed that his final episodes will featured Timothy Dalton as a Time Lord, Donna Noble's grandfather Wilf, and John Simms as the Master. (They'll have to get tricky to explain that last one. Simms' version of the Master died, and while we've seen Time Lords regenerate into new incarnations many times, I don't think they've ever come back from the dead in the same body.)

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