TV News Round-Up: The Office, Doctor Who, Lost and more!

After a significant slowdown during the holidays there is plenty to report in TVland.

On the Doctor Who front is it old news that Steven Moffat will be taking over the show moving forward. Here is a video of former Doctor David Tennant interviewing Moffat about his new gig.


Speaking of ex-Doctors, Christopher Eccelson will be portraying John Lennon in a BBC movie Lennon Naked. Someone must have had their head in the Who-verse on casting day because Naoko Mori (Torchwood) will be playing Yoko Ono.


The Office may have a long awaited guest appearance by the one and only Ricky Gervais, hot off his gig hosting the Golden Globes, and promoting his new HBO series, recently hinted that David Brent (his character from The Office UK) may make an appearance on the American series.


Now that NBC has come to its senses and kicked Leno's late-night-butt out of prime-time, NBC has announced its post-Olympic prime time schedule, one that makes room for more scripted television. Yay!

The new season of 24 starts tonight airing two hours of its two day, 4 hour event. In honour of Starbuck finding her place in the work of Jack Bauer she sits down for an interview with BuzzSugar about her new role...and more importantly, about what it's like to have been a part of something as fantastic as BSG, and her love of sci-fi.

The LOST premiere is fast approaching and there seems to be a steady stream of information that really doesn't reveal a whole lot. Here's the latest. LOST's TCA panel revealed some returning cast members, and that Emilie DeRavine was very, very confused by the script for the first episode. hmm...

In other news, LOST producers claim that for LOST the end will really be the end. No sequels, spin offs or the like. Do you believe them?

January Mid-Season Return Dates

I relish in the yearly tradition of Christmas specials and TV marathons over the winter holidays, after a few weeks of indulging in some fluff (I'm talking marathons of Top Chef, House Hunters, Real Housewives and the like) and some more nerd indulgent marathons like the one's offered by SPACE like all 5 hours of Torchwood's Children of the Earth special all in one go, and the next day a consecutive run of the final 5 Doctor Who specials that featured David Tennant as our Doctor. I'm about ready to toss all that aside andget back to our regularly scheduled programming!

Here's a list of some shows premiering mid-season, and ones simply returning after the holiday break in January:

Friday, January 8th
Dollhouse (FOX, 9pm) - Kicking off the final three episodes of Dollhouse's run.

Sunday, January 10th
Chuck (NBC 9 - 11pm) Kicking off season three with a two hour block, then beginning January 11 will air on Mondays at 8

Monday, January 11th
How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8pm) is back with it's 100th episode "Girls versus Suits" in full musical form!
Big Bang Theory (CBS, 9:30pm)
Castle (ABC, 10pm) Alyssa Milano guest stars in this week's episode

Sunday, January 17th
24 (FOX 8 pm)- Part 1 of a two part season premiere, part two airs January 18, 8pm. I might actually check this out to see Katee Sackoff and Freddie Prinze Jr. in their new roles.

Friday, January 22nd
Caprica (Space, 9pm) Season premiere of the highly anticipated sequel to sci-fi hit Battlestar Galactica

Katee Sackhoff is back in Action

Katee Sackhoff's appearance last night on The Big Bang Theory was disappointingly short, although seeing Starbuck in a bubble bath dispensing dating advice was a treat.

The good news is that Sackhoff has found herself a new home on the eighth season FOX's action hit 24 as Dana Walsh. My knowledge of Jack Bauer is limited to having only caught an episode here and there during the shows first few seasons which my boyfriend was watching religiously. Despite that I just may tune in to check out Katee's new digs.

Also joining the cast, teen heartthrob of the '90s, Freddie Prinze Jr. My eleven year old self would ecstatic!

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CHUCK: Premiere Date & Preview

It's official! NBC announced that Chuck will return Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 9pm. Chuck will premiere with back to back episodes the day after NBC airs an NFL playoff double header allowing for heavy promotion during the event to expand Chuck's already fervent cult-like audience base. The early return will allow the show to air a week before the return of 24 on FOX in the competing time slot.

Following the premiere, Chuck will return to it's Monday night time slot on January 11 at 8pm.

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Chuck Season 3 Preview here: