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NBC’s Heroes is renewed, opening up story possibilities for a second year. “In network TV you never take these things for granted,” creator Tim Kring said in an interview at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 17.

The new trailer for Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, an SF action movie, has gone live on SCI FI Pulse. Set 50 years in the future, Sunshine centers on a team of astronauts sent on a mission to study and revive Earth’s dying sun.

Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer said that her character goes through changes as the show returns with new episodes on Jan. 21.

Star Trek veteran George Takei, who will play the father of Masi Oka’s Hiro Nakamura on NBC’s Heroes later this season, told SCI FI Wire that even he doesn’t know what his character’s true motives are.

Lost’s Sawyer, Josh Holloway, says any character could die at any moment, and that no one’s secure. “Oh, of course not,” Holloway said in an interview at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif.

Stargate Atlantis will see visits by members of Stargate SG-1 when it ends its run later this year. Both Atlantis and SG-1 will return with new episodes in April.

The Dresden Files’ star, Paul Blackthorne, sees himself as a reluctant hero. Dresden is a Chicago-based private investigator and sometime police consultant with extraordinary abilities, which enable him to solve seemingly impossible cases.

Ghost Rider star Nicolas Cage changed how he transforms into a flaming demon. Director Mark Steven Johnson discussed the making of Ghost Rider over the weekend at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, which he visited during a break from post-production on the movie.

Freddie Highmore (Arthur and the Invisibles) has already finished the future fantasy films August Rush and The Spiderwick Chronicles and is open to starring in a sequel to his hit Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Topher Grace will star in Source Code, an SF thriller that he will also executive-produce. Ben Ripley wrote the script on spec; Mark Gordon is producing.

Meebo, a site where users can access all of their instant messaging applications in a single browser window, is announcing a $9 million Series B round of financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson this evening, adding to the $3.5 million they raised from Sequoia in December 2005. As part of the round, Tim Draper is joining […]