With Battlestar Galactica dormant until that prequel movie Blood & Chrome arrives sometime next year and Stargate in deep freeze for the foreseeable future, Eureka is now the veteran franchise of SyFy's scripted series line-up. Heading into the second half of Season 4 (the first 10 episodes aired last summer), the show has steadily morphed into the channel's version of comfort food, offering light-hearted episodic misadventures in science (fiction), which generally involve some technical doodad malfunctioning, thus forcing the cast to spend the rest of the hour trying to fix it. (It's like a version of House starring Bill Nye, the Science Guy.) And despite the world-ending nature of some of these calamities, the stakes never feel all that high. That's because we've become trained to expect one our intrepid heroes -- usually Jack Carter (the always-charming Colin Ferguson), the sheriff of the titular small Pacific Northwest town where science is the sole industry -- to jerryrig some solution before everything goes kablooey. It's a routine, but engaging formula that's kept the show going for over 50 episodes now, so the writers have little reason to change it.

Tags: Eureka, SyFy

Who better to act as the study group's new rival than Walter Sobchak himself?

Tags: Bag of Bones, Chris Parnell, Community, Edward James Olmos, Eureka, House, Jim Parsons, John Goodman, Melissa George, Odette Annable, Rex Lee, Rise Up, Suburgatory, What Not to Wear

The citizens of Eureka head back to the future while The Cape has his crimefighting career tragically cut short.

Tags: DVD, Eureka, Southland, The Cape

Today -- a SyFy cancellation, a Law & Order return, and a TV vet's guest-starring role.

Tags: Candy Queen, Eureka, Game of Thrones, Hannah Murray, House, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Linus Roache, Lisa Edelstein, NCIS, Roy Dotrice, Scott Wolf, Weird Al

It's going to be an action movie-esque Oscars...

Tags: 90210, Best Video With a Message, Brandy, Brett Ratner, Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, Eureka, NCIS, Oscars 2012, Pauley Perrette, Q Ratings, Seth MacFarlane, The X Factor, VMAs 2011

I'm attributing all of today's exciting stories to the horrible rainstorms we just had in New York City over the weekend... Seriously, the water washed in more news than ever. You hear that, Gleeks? Time to start thanking the precipitation gods!

Tags: American Idol, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Eureka, Glee, Good Wife, Millionaire Matchmaker, Parks and Recreation, SNL, Tiny Fey, True Blood

It is a Syfy-apalooza at DVD stores today, with two big shows releasing their latest seasons. Also, a '50s TV classic, a '90s TV hit and an '00s Internet sensation.

Tags: Eureka, Leave it to Beaver, Mad About You, Red vs. Blue, Syfy, The Closer, Warehouse 13

It's a slow yet mildly entertaining day for TV news.

Tags: brothers and sisters, donald Trump, Eureka, hung, Outlaw County, Panic Attack, Royal Pains, the amazing race