More news from the Buffyverse! TVGuide.com has exclusively learned that James Marsters (Spike!) will be appearing on CBS' Numbers. See who James will play after the jump...
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Buffy alum James Marsters is dotting I's and crossing T's on a deal to play astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the British TV movie Moonshot.The movie's July 2009 airing will coincide with the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's moon landing — piloted by astronauts Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins. THR.com says the telepic's budget is in the $5 million neighborhood and is being co-produced by, among others, Britain's ITV, The History Channel and NTV Japan. — J.R. Whalen
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On Thursdays episode of Smallville 8 pmET The CW Clark Kent Tom Welling gets a look at what life would have been like if his rocket ship never arrived on Earth Brainiac James Marsters last seen zooming away with Clarks Krypto-cousin Kara Laura Vandervoort is trying to set such a Kal-El-free scenario in motion Clark having a bit of a pity party over Lanas continued zombieness isnt so sure thats such a bad idea Since the day I arrived all Ive brought is suffering and death he says Meteor freaks phantoms Brainiac If Id never reached Earth none of them wouldve ever been hereRight on cue his own version of Its a Wonderful Life plays out thanks to his Kryptonian dad Jor-El who enables him to see what a non-Clark world would be like And lets just say its not a pretty picture Lex Luthor Michael Rosenbaum is president of the United States with Milton Fine aka Brainiac as his chief of staff And their plan to consolidate power won
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Joss Whedon couldn’t contain himself. So jazzed that his landmark musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was being screened at the legendary Cinerama Dome theater (site of this year’s awesome Paley Fest), he sneaked into the audience to watch one of the numbers before rejoining that old gang of his for group photos before taking the stage for a retrospective Q&A (moderated by yours truly). Like me, I think he would have rather just sat in the theater to drink it in. But there was catching up to do.I’ve finally met someone whose passion for musicals outstrips mine (if only because he’s genius enough to be able to write one). The reason Joss arrived too late to set up the screening (following my own opening remarks) was because he came straight from wrapping production of his next musical project: Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, an entirely independent made-for-Internet (but no word yet on where you’ll find it) musical-comedy, conceived during...
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In the first installment of our interview with James Marsters, he talked about his love life and his sizzling new turn on Torchwood. Here, he chats about his return to Smallville (Thursday at 8 pm/ET, the CW), his starring role in the live-action Dragonball movie, and why he plays bad and doesn't want to be famous.
TV Guide: You're returning to Smallville for a couple of episodes. What's fun about playing Brainiac? He's certainly smart, but not quite as sexy as Torchwood's Captain John.James Marsters: [Laughs] I really like working with the cast, and I loved it in Season 5 when the audience didn't know what I was there for. That was pretty delicious.
TV Guide: When Brainiac was posing as the history
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