Slice of SciFi News Briefs

The Cawley Entertainment Company announces the world premiere of “To Serve All My Days: A Night in 1969.” The public premiere of the special upgraded and enhanced episode will be at a gala red carpet evening event at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA on March 29, 2008.

Fox will post the pilot episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” exclusively on tv.Yahoo! for 24 hours beginning January 4 at 9PM PT/12AM ET. The commercial-free premiere will also feature an exclusive introduction by star Lena Headey (Sarah Connor).

Looks like Cage will rule the box office for the third weekend in a row with his film “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” likely to stay on top this coming weekend.

A married couple who sailed to America from England around 1630 are the reason why thousands of people in the United States are at higher risk of a hereditary form of colon cancer, researchers said on Wednesday. Using a genetic fingerprint, a U.S. team traced back a so-called founder genetic mutation to the couple found among two large families currently living in Utah and New York.

There could be no televised Golden Globes this year as a last minute deal to be struck between Dick Clark Productions and the WGA failed to come off when anything substantial. The WGA leadership says they will not budge or concede for the sake of the awards show.

Letterman returned to the small screen this week with full beard and a bevy of dancing beauties all carrying WGA Strike signs. The King of Late Night began growing the beard on November 5 as one sign of show of support for the writer’s efforts to get want they want from the network and studios. His Worldwide Pants production company has been the only company thus far to have worked out a deal which allows his writers to return to work. Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and and bearded Conan O’Brien also returned but without the aid of their writers and it showed. Craig Ferguson’s late, late night show, also owned by Letterman’s company returned with all writers in tow.

Some DVD’s to keep an eye out for are the sci-fi film “Sunshine” which takes place 50 years from now with the sun is dying out. A group of astronauts set out on a last-ditch effort to try and re-ignite our fading star. The other film is the thriller surrounding the 1970’s serial killer simply known as the Zodiac killer. “Zodiac: The Director’s Cut” edition stars Jake Gyllenhall as a newspaper cartoonist who becomes obsessed with revealing the identity of this mysterious murderer.

A DVD TV series release that looks very promising is “MI-5: Volume 5″ — The spy series centered on operatives of Britain’s super intelligence agency.

In our final brief, Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe has donated the first pair of glasses he ever wore as a small child to an exhibition marking the horrors of the Holocaust. The young British actor joins Yoko Ono, talk show host Jerry Springer, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other celebrities and members of the public whose spectacles will be linked together in the shape of a railway track — recalling the trains that carried many of the Nazis’ victims to concentration camps throughout Europe. An estimated 6 million Jews died as well as countless millions of non-Jews throughout Germany and Eastern Europe. The exhibition in Liverpool will open January 21. The port city in northwest England will host Britain’s Holocaust Day commemorative service on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.