Who's doing what this pilot season? Says Variety and the Reporter:• Erika Christensen (Six Degrees) and David Cross (Arrested Development) have joined CBS' I'm in Hell, playing Jason Biggs' love interest and the devil, respectively.• American Idol alum Lisa Tucker is Born in the USA, on Idol producer 19 Entertainment's half-hour sudser for Fox.• Billy Brown (Dirt) has been cast on Fox's Company Man.• John Heard (Prison Break) has joined ABC's Cavemen.• Janina Gavankar (The L Word) is on board the CW's Dash 4 Cash.
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Battlestar Galactica One thing I've learned doing this job is that I develop biases to the point of blindness. Take this show. After one subpar episode, a return to form and then another so-so installment (the hostage crisis), I was beginning to worry. Still, I didn't give the Galactica folks too hard a time when I would've blasted lesser shows for committing the same sins, because I wanted to believe it was just a couple of hiccups. And right I was. This was one of the good ones, with the "barely competent and paranoid" Garner creating strife as commander of "the beast" (Pegasus), Roslin tackling her reelection and the abortion question, and then Garner leading his ship directly into a Cylon trap. If Apollo and Starbuck hadn't been onboard, I would've assumed this was the writers' chance to take Pegasus out of the picture and restore Galactica to its lone-wolf status. But I was p
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