With Fringe planning a musical-themed scene in an upcoming episode (we're mostly excited because Michael Cerveris is an awesome Broadway performer), the recent addition of musical numbers to shows like How I Met Your Mother, the cover tunes performed by Jeffster! on Chuck and, naturally, all things Glee, we started thinking about how other scripted series could get their characters singing. While there are some shows that could never pull characters breaking into song (24, for instance), here's who we think could carry a tune.

Tags: 30 rock, big bang theory, caprica, castle, community, flashforward, private practice, true blood

The existence of U2 vs. new Futurama? Even Walternate would know which to pick.

Tags: Billy the Exterminator, Blu-ray, Caprica, DVD, Family Guy, Futurama, It's a Trap, The Guild

Fair warning, I'm kind of in a grouchy mood about Caprica's cancellation still.

Tags: caprica, dancing with the stars, hunger games, texas rancher wives

James Marsters knows what he likes, and he knows what people like to see him in. From Buffy to Angel to Smallville to Torchwood, he's made legendary appearances on some of the greatest science-fiction and fantasy shows of the past decade, and he's about to start yet another. Marsters will tackle the role of religious fanatic Barnabas, the man behind the Caprica bombings for a multi-episode run on Syfy's new series Caprica. Never ones to turn down talking to Spike, we sat in on a conference call to ask him about his character, whether he'll return to Torchwood or the Buffyverse, and what he thinks of all these new vampires running around.

Tags: Angel, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Caprica, interview, James Marsters, Smallville, Spike, Torchwood

Although the end of this TV season is still over three months away, there's already plenty of speculation about which programs might get cancelled and which will get renewed, causing us to worry that some of our favorites won't be around this time next year. After we had expressed concern for the shows on the bubble last spring, most of them ended up getting yanked (Life), put out to pasture (Better Off Ted, which hasn't officially been killed yet, but looks like a hopeless case), shuffled off to bad timeslots (Fringe) or screwed over in unexpected fashion (Southland). This time around, we're hoping the TV gods (and executives) will be kinder to our pleas of clemency for these series:

Tags: 24, caprica, damages, greek, heroes, life unexpected, melrose place, soutland, twop 10

Except for the cancer, this week is full of win.

Tags: Boardwalk Empire, Caprica, Fringe, Mark Burnett, Oprah, Spartacus, Survivor, The Big C, The Real Housewives of DC, V, Weeds

I bless the rains down on Caprica. It's gonna take some time to build the things we never have -- especially the robots. (They're complicated.)

Tags: Baseball, Blue Mountain State, Bones, Caprica, DVD, Ken Burns, Survivor, The Queen

It's all about the casting news this week, as three of our favorite actors joined shows this week, a couple of scary dudes were give their own shows, and a couple of very high-profile celebrities signed on to appear on two of our favorite reality shows. You want names? We got names after the jump.

Tags: American Idol, Big Brother, Caprica, CHima, Clive Barker, eviction, Gina Torres, Gossip Girl, James Marsters, Joe Jonas, Jonas Bros., Oliver Stone, Paula Abdul, Southland