A new version of the cult television show The Prisoner is being produced as a miniseries with Jim Caviezel as Number Six and Ian McKellen as Number Two. It's a co-production by America's AMC network and the UK's ITV network, set to air in 2009. The showrunner is Bill Gallagher, creator of the BBC's 2004 miniseries Conviction.

Actor Don S. Davis passed away yesterday. He was best known as Major Briggs on Twin Peaks, Scully's father on The X-Files, and General Hammond on Stargate SG-1. R.I.P.

I was watching the new episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent last night and I thought guest star Indira Varma looked familiar before the credits listed her name, then I realized she was Suzie from Torchwood.