Our brothers and sisters over at TV Squad have busted through the boob tube and brought with them the following juicy bits of must-see eye candy:

• The Sarah Connor Chronicles is close to being terminated?
  
• Would you watch a show about Robin and his family, pre-Batman? It'd be like Smallville ... only not interesting.
• What's going on with Meet the Press? Will Tom Brokaw literally fall asleep while on air ... or are we talking about the wrong office pool?
• Stephen Colbert is joining Spider-Man in an upcoming story-arc of the Amazing Spider-Man. Nation ... now that's something we'd be interested in reading, but only if Colbert writes his own dialogue.
• In his new book, Bill O'Reilly claims Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David "tanked the final episode [of Seinfeld] on purpose." Well happy new year to you too, Bill!
• BONUS: Newspapers around the world confusing SNL version of Sarah Palin (played by Tin Fey) with the real Sarah Palin. HA!

Unfortunately, lots of posters these days don't amount to much. Either they're too run-of-the-mill, or they use so much damn airbrushing that it looks like Robert Zemeckis took over production and live captured the whole movie, instead of it being a plain-jane live-action film. Everyone once in a while, a simple one surfaces that just seems to get it -- often with Steve Carrell. (The 40-Year-Old Virgin poster was brilliant, and the Get Smart poster, which we premiered yesterday, isn't too shabby either.) And then sometimes, just sometimes, the posters just plain rock.

If the four pics that Entertainment Weekly just released of The Sarah Connor Chronicles are any indication of the show's content, this sucker should be great. Making a show based on Terminator is all sorts of tricky, but man, they knew how to cast. The first poster has Summer Glau, probably one of the coolest fighters ever, in all of her robot glory. Then there's Lena Headey channeling Linda Hamilton with that tough tank and bulging veins. And then, delightfully, more Glau. There's one with her naked torso, boobage covered by her hair (see pic to the right), and another where her skin is burned away to show the machine below.

I think the lesson is simple. For the most part, the simpler, the better. Sometimes studios try so hard to make it look cool, that any appealing potential gets stripped away. There's a reason why posters like these work -- they take the best of what the movie has to offer, or in this case a show, and lets it speak for itself. That being said, I wonder why Thomas Dekker doesn't appear in any of them?

Entertainment Weekly has published the first photo of Owain Yeoman as one of the new evil Terminator's in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a new show hitting Fox this January (click on the image for a larger version courtesy of Coming Soon). The series picks up, time-wise, after Terminator 2: Judgment Day, while Sarah Connor (played by the very lovely Lena Headey, 300) and her son John (Thomas Dekker) are on the run from the authorities and, well, evil robots. Eventually, they decide to stop running and confront their problems head-on. To make things interesting, John meets a girl at school (Summer Glau) who turns out to be the new Terminator sent to protect him and Sarah. In addition to the television show, we'll also be getting three more Terminator films, all of which (we believe) will take place in the future and not in present day. Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (aka Terminator 4) may or may not be directed by McG and is scheduled to hit theaters in 2009.

What do you think about this new Terminator TV series? Does it have any promise, or do you not see it making it past the first season?

To be honest, the last time I truly enjoyed the Terminator franchise, acid wash was still a viable fashion choice. So I've watched the The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV project with only a mild curiosity as to how the story would translate on the small screen. But an interview on IGN with Serenity's Summer Glau is a tasty piece of gossip for any Terminator fan. Glau spoke guardedly about finishing up work on an unnamed Fox pilot, saying, "Well, I'm not supposed to say yet. It's supposed to be a surprise. But it's killing me, because they've announced some of the other characters." Immediately, the rumor mill went into overdrive and the word spread that the "unnamed pilot" was Chronicles.

Variety has since confirmed that Glau will be joining the cast of Chronicles this fall. The only mystery left is what her role is going to be. The producers have already announced that Lena Headey will be playing Sarah Connor. So the question is, whom does Glau play? So far, the money is on her playing a Terminator in the story, but at this point it's all just speculation. Fans of Glau's work in Serenity and Firefly are already offering up her experience in the action story as proof that she is suited to the role. Until Fox makes their official announcement though, speculation is all we've got.

While it may be a while before we see a fourth Terminator film, fans of the franchise will be happy to hear that a television show is now on the fast-track to production. Warner Bros. TV has tapped David Nutter to direct the pilot for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, with filming to begin early next year in New Mexico.

Story will take place immediately after Terminator 2: Judgment Day, following Sarah Connor as she lives a life on the run, and casting for the show will begin immediately. For those of you itching to know, Linda Hamilton (who played Connor in the first two Terminator installments) and Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be reprising their roles.

Personally, I think the project has some solid talent behind it, what with Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds, The Black Dahlia) penning the script and Nutter (who also directed pilots for Smallville, Without a Trace and Supernatural) behind the camera. Nutter also has a connection to Terminator helmer James Cameron, as he directed the pilot for Cameron's Dark Angel. All promising, but the quality of this show will rest heavily upon whoever is cast as Sarah Connor. Oh, and those robots better look cool.