Hosive

as we hurtle toward the new year, new albums, new episodes and new tours of our favorites are coming….new bsg and lost preview videos were released…let’s start with a bsg video and news:

Battlestar Galactica duo coming out of space closet

A pair of male characters will be revealed not as Cylons, but as homosexual; online webisodes will tell (and show) all.

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Battlestar Galactica houses one of television’s biggest secrets: Who is the final Cylon? That answer will be revealed when the series continues next year. But now it has another hot secret–which will be revealed sooner. Two of the show’s characters will be outed as homosexual before the final portion of season four airs (not-very-significant-to-the-overall-mythology spoilers inside).

The always reliable BSG blog Galactica Sitrep says that the two male characters will come clean in an upcoming series of webisodes due out soon. In fact, fans won’t have to wait long; the reveal allegedly comes in the first webisode by way of a make-out session.

One of the gay characters shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise: It’s Lt. Felix Gaeta (pictured), played by Alessandro Juliani. His lip-locking partner is Lt. Hoshi, played by Brad Dryborough, the communications officer on the Pegasus.

Sci-Fi Channel has yet to announce the premiere dates for the webisodes, but word is they’ll hit the Net sometime next month. As previously announced, Battlestar Galactica returns for the second half of its final season on January 16.

So, anyone surprised at the two gay characters? Who else did you think they could be?

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as for lost…..

The first half-dozen hours of ABC’s Lost now have titles; Jeremy Bentham returns in episode six?

File this under “For hardcore Lost psychos only!!” which certainly applies to us here at TV.com. Any Lost news sets off an alarm around the offices as though someone forgot to punch in 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 into our main server, and details on the mysterious season five are always met with spirited chit-chat.

The latest nugget of info to hit the Internet are the titles of the first six episodes of Lost’s fifth season, according to the very reliable Dark UFO spoilers Web site. They are:

Episode 5.01 “Because You Left”
Episode 5.02 “The Lie”
Episode 5.03 “Jughead”
Episode 5.04 “The Little Prince”
Episode 5.05 “This Place is Death”
Episode 5.06 “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham”

We shouldn’t try to guess what each episode is about, but we’re going to do it anyway. Our guesses (which are probably very wrong):

“Because You Left”–Typical eye-popping Lost season opener. Gives us an idea of what this season will be about, which is about the Oceanic Six returning to the island. It’s more about Ben explaining why they have to return.

“The Lie”–The Oceanic Six had to lie their butts off about what really happened on Flight 815, and it’s ripping people apart. But the truth has to come out eventually, and it may just do so in this episode.

“Jughead”–errr…a possible reference to the Archie comic books? And the most Jughead-ish of them all is Hurley, so we’ll just say this one is about Hurley.

“The Little Prince”–Obviously a shout-out to little Aaron. (Or maybe Walt?) We’ll see how the little guy fits into this puzzle here. Also, another classic entry for the Lost book club.

“This Place is Death”–Finally, an island-centric episode. Who is left on the island!? What’s going on on the island!? A lot of dying, apparently.

“The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham”–This is the episode we’ve all been waiting for. How the heck did John Locke (or his alter ego Jeremy Bentham) end up in the coffin? We find out here, and it’s awesome.

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and we end with this clip from the first episode of the year: