Owen Wilson returned to the public eye for the first time since his recent troubles by appearing at the Los Angeles premiere of The Darjeeling Limited.... Top Chef 3: Miami's Wednesday finale served up 3.1 million viewers, a 25 percent increase from the Season 2 closer and the time slot's most-watched basic-cable program.... Sam J. Jones of the 1980 cheesefest Flash Gordon guests on TV's Flash Gordon tonight. Sci Fi Channel also is debuting the Battlestar Galactica: Razor two-minute flashbacks during the episode.... George Clooney's Leatherheads, also starring The Office's John Krasinski, has had its theatrical release pushed from Dec. 7 to April 4.... Speed will launch an HD channel in February, while Spike TV will do the same sometime in the first quarter of '08, says TV Week.
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Space aliens have invaded Maryland. Innocent citizens are being liquefied into goo. Space-time rifts are opening up everywhere and could trigger the destruction of the universe. Yes, a whole lotta hell breaks loose on the new Sci Fi Channel series Flash Gordon (premiering this Friday, Aug. 10, at 8 pm/ET), but the titular hero — played by Smallville vet Eric Johnson — is fiercely determined to save mankind from doom. Just not right now.
On the show's Vancouver set, Flash, who is wearing a dog collar, is friskily engaged in a boudoir wrestle with Princess Aura (Anna Van Hooft). She's the spoiled-brat daughter of Ming (John Ralston), evil ruler of the planet Mongo, and she only has eyes for Flash. But
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