Every week there are some news bits here and there that don’t always warrant a whole news post.  So to that end, we’ve got the TV Jab Roundup, a recap of the news that came in over the week.  While there’s nothing major revealed, since I know that many want to remain spoiler-free, we’ll continue this after the jump.

The 4400

(Kristin @ eOnline) Did you watch The 4400 season premiere?! I can’t believe Alana is stuck in the 1800s!  Will she ever come back?
Actually, no. Not this season, at least. We’re told that the painting Alana in Repose is the last we’ll see of her this year, and that  was intended to wrap up her storyline. P.S.: The pretty new head of NTAC eventually becomes a love interest for Tom… 

Battlestar Galactica

(Kristin @ eOnline) Ronald D. Moore dished at the recent Battlestar Galactica event that there’s a gay relationship in the film about the Battlestar Pegasus. We can now report/confirm that (as some have speculated) Admiral Cain (played by Michelle Forbes) is one-half of that gay relationship. We’re also told that the movie features some “old-school Cylons.”

Bones

(Kristin @ eOnline) ‘Bones’ will return with a 28 episode season, rather than the usual 22.  Expect to see the “Player Under Pressure” episode, which was dropped since it was due to air the week of the Virginia Tech shooting, to show sometime in September.

Desperate Housewives

(Kristin @ eOnline) “There’s a new family moving to Wisteria Lane for season four…but the missus is no stranger to Fairview, having lived there more than a decade ago. We’re hearing she gives Bree a run for her money in the uptight homemaker of the year contest. Too bad her 17-year-old daughter, Dylan, is an undercover hussy just like Danielle Van De Kamp, and her hubby is a sexy young doctor whom she may have trouble keeping up with.”

ER

(Kristin @ eOnline) ER, however, is still very much alive, and it is currently adding new characters for the upcoming 14th season. One of them is a Doogie Howser of sorts. And we also get acquainted with Neela’s young cousin, who has a bit of a wild streak that Neela must monitor.   

Heroes

We discussed here that ‘Heroes’ got a big casting update this week, with Japanese pop star and actress Eriko Tamura being cast as a Japanese princess, and possible love interest for Hiro.  Also cast were the characters of NYPD cop Detective Fuller, played by Barry Shabaka Henley and Ricky, a ringleader of an Irish group of thugs, played by Holt McCallany.  As for the parts of Southern California cheerleaders, Lyndsy Fonseca and Dianna Agron have been cast.  The big shakeup was David Anders being cast as Kensei, the center of the ancient stories that Hiro’s father told him when he was young.

Next season is set to run through April, with the ‘Heroes Origins’ episodes to follow up during May sweeps.

Lost

(Ausiello @ TVGuide) At the Promax convention last week, Team Darlton announced that they will be breaking radio silence about the Season 4 finale at the annual geekfest. “At Comic-Con we will for the first time discuss the events of the finale,” Carlton Cuse said. To tide us over until then, Cuse offered this ambiguous tease: “Lost is like a mosaic, and there are 48 tiles left to go in the mosaic. And up until this season, you saw the present island, and you saw the past. And now you’ve seen the future. So when all the tiles are in place, the picture of Lost will be complete.” (I warned ya it was ambiguous.) Damon Lindelof chimed in, “The fact that people are saying, ‘What is the show going to be next year?’ is really exciting for us. People are going, ‘Are there going to be flashbacks? Flash forwards? Is it going to be [set] off the island? On the island? Where in time will it be?’” Answers are (hopefully) coming at Comic-Con!  

Not much on the ‘Lost’ front, other than a couple of fan creations on YouTube.  First, a video cut together showing the crash of Oceanic 815.  Second, a mock report of the discovery of the remains of the crashed plane.