Alessandra Torresani may play a teen fembot in Syfy's Caprica, but as you can plainly see from these new images from Maxim magazine, she's really a full-grown woman.

If you are a fan of the original 1941 werewolf movie The Wolf Man, then you should be very pleased with the upcoming remake from Universal Pictures, slightly renamed The Wolfman.

That's because star/producer Benicio Del Toro, a longtime Universal monster fan who helped develop the remake, wanted to honor the original in a way that appealed to modern audiences. (Spoilers ahead!)

After a series of mishandled remakes of classic Universal monster movies—Van Helsing anyone?—we think the studio may have finally got it right with this one. Here's six reasons why. (Click on the images for larger versions.)

It looks like Stargate SG-1 may finally be dead, at least according to star Michael Shanks, who played Dr. Daniel Jackson on the series, which ran for 10 seasons and spurred two DVD movies in 2008 and two Syfy spinoff series.

"Given the amount of time lag that's gone on between us doing the movies, I suspect that we might be very far away from, if ever, doing another DVD movie. This might be the closing of the book on that particular [chapter of the] franchise," said Shanks, whom we caught up with while he was promoting his guest-starring role as Hawkman in The CW's two-hour film Smallville: Absolute Justice.

We've got great casting news for that upcoming prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing: Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Grindhouse, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) and Joel Edgerton (Uncle Owen in Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith) will star.

This will be the last normalish week for a while, considering that many shows will head into reruns as the Winter Olympics takes over the schedule. So you may want to dig into the premieres of BBC America's Survivors and Fox's Past Life, plus the end of NBC's Heroes season, which promises a "Brave New World."

Elsewhere on the schedule, Chuck's going on a mission with Smallville's Kristin Kreuk, Leonard has to decide between Penny and Sheldon on the ultimate Big Bang Theory trip, CSI: Miami heads into space, Lost tries to figure out Kate, The Vampire Diaries opens Katherine's tomb, Cupid stops by for a little Supernatural valentine, Smallville goes all "Warrior" on us, and big events transpire on Legend of the Seeker (and we mean really big!).

Here's what we have to look forward to on sci-fi, action and paranormal TV this week.

Good news for those worried that Scottish-born John Barrowman or Australian Sam Worthington might be the guy to put on Captain America's red-white-and-blue tights: Director Joe Johnston said categorically that he will cast an American in the title role of The First Avenger: Captain America.

Here's a list of our hottest stories and best comments this week, in case you missed anything. (And the debate over Lost's final season premiere got quite heated!) Think of this week-ending roundup as a DVR for SCI FI Wire.

Enjoy!

Maybe we're jaded, but we want football players to wear jetpacks and rocket shoes. Seriously, would it be so hard to re-create the knuckle-whitening thrill of Cyberball, where a team had to make a first down before the ball exploded?

Something about combining sports with futuristic technology and the thrill of violent death makes them much more ... sporty. With that in mind, here are classic sci-fi sports that totally deserve their own Super Bowl.

There's no denying that actor Michael Shanks is more than a little channeling his inner Watchman when it comes to his role as Hawkman on the CW's two-hour film Smallville: Absolute Justice, which premieres tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

New York's got a rep as a tough town, but who knew stars need stormtroopers to walk through Times Square?