The eighth season of Stargate SG-1 , just ordered by the Sci Fi Channel, will serve as a launch pad for the spin-off series Stargate: Atlantis .

New York State Supreme Court Justice Walter Tolub has granted a petition by filmmaker Spike Lee which will keep Viacom from rebranding its TNN cable network as SPIKE TV.

Decipher is tying up loose ends from its Star Trek CCG First Edition with an upcoming collector's box set.

Today CrossGen announced that it would be publishing MV Creations' comic book version of the 1980s arcade game Dragon's Lair .

Warner Home Video will be releasing the complete first season DVD collection for the popular Smallville TV series this September. The multi-disk set will be released to coincide with the start of Smallville's third season on the WB network.

The Sci Fi Channel is about to begin production on a four-hour Battlestar Galactica miniseries, which will air late this year. It will be directed by Michael Rymer and star Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, and Katee Sackhoff.

Sideshow Collectibles continues to target hardcore collectors with a bevy of superbly sculpted polystone figures.

Art Asylum began as a design studio creating sculpts for other companies, but has emerged as one of the up-and-coming forces in both the creation and production of action figures.

Decipher Inc., well known as a manufacturer of CCGs, has signed its first trading card license to create trading cards for this year's Matrix films, Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions .

Bill Paxton ( Frailty, Twister ) is in negotiations to star in the $50 million dollar live-action remake of the Gerry Anderson's stop-motion animated classic TV series, Thunderbird s.