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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Family Guy has been cleared in 90 percent of the country for its fall launch into syndication.... Flash Gordon: Saviour of the Universe Edition arrives on DVD August 7, boasting an all-new digitally remastered picture and several "out of this world"/camptastic extras.... In a new Trivial Matt'rs blog, I revisit my original 2006-07 TV season predictions.... "Monster Mash" singer Bobby Picket died on Wednesday of leukemia. He was 69.
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Eric Johnson, best known to Smallville fans as Clark's onetime nemesis, Whitney Fordman, has landed the lead in Flash Gordon, Sci Fi Channel's upcoming 22-hour series offering a contemporary take (sorry, Queen) on the comic strip-inspired adventures of the titular hero and fellow space travelers Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov. Production starts May 1, with Smallville's Rick Rosenthal directing.
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