He was killed by a robotic assassin in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles last spring, and now Brian Austin Green is coming back to TV as a different kind of cyborg. In a two-episode arc on Smallville (beginning with the September 25 season premiere), Green plays John Corben, a new Daily Planet reporter who becomes the comic-book villain Metallo. In the aftermath of an accident, Corben is mysteriously outfitted with a heart made of kryptonite. Executive producer Kelly Souders won’t reveal the identity of his Frankenstein-esque savoir, but says Corben is turned into “a rough version of Metallo, a first attempt at the technology, and eventually he’ll get sleeker.” So might we see him again? “Well of course—it’s Smallville,” she says with a laugh. “We’re actually throwing some ideas around right now in the hopes that we might be able to bring him back for another episode.”

You might think that Metallo looks a lot like Iron Man, particularly because of the chest battery pack but it should be made clear that Metallo was created as a Superman villain by DC Comics in 1959 and Marvel Comics/Stan Lee created Iron Man in 1963. But, I digress … it’s great that Brian Austin Green will be back on TV this coming season even if he is appearing on Smallville for only a 2 episode story arc. See, every time I check in with Smallville to see what they’re up to I get inspired to watch the show. Mebbe the appearance of BAG will be the trick to get me to tune in more faithfully.

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Megan Fox and fiance Brian Austin Green have split, Usmagazine.com has learned. “The relationship had run its course,” an insider tells Us exclusively. “It’s completely amicable, and they are remaining friends.” Fox, 22 (who’ll reprise her role as Mikaela in this June’s sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), and Green, 35 (a regular on Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), now “are both focusing on their careers,” the source adds … The couple — who have tattoos of each other’s names — met in 2004 and, as Us first reported, got engaged in November 2006. Last November, Fox told Us that the wedding plans were still on. “It’s not going to be a big wedding,” she told Us at a GQ bash. “I’m not one of those girls. If it happens, it will be very low-key and quick and unplanned.” She said she and Green — who has a 6-year-old son, Kassius, from a previous relationship — haven’t talked about wanting more kids. “I feel like I need to set my career and do a movie other than Transformers,” she said. “Then I’ll explore family.” Green laughed off split rumors last year. “The last thing we do is get upset,” he told Us. “We usually go have dinner and have a glass of wine and laugh about it.” Asked last July what he loves most about Fox, he told Us, “Everything is my favorite thing about her.”

Boo … well that sucks. I remember when these two got together, Brian Austin Green was the “big name” in the relationship. In the years since, Megan has made a name for herself and is now prolly the more famous of the two. Truth be told, I really liked these two together. My friends and I even ran into the couple together at the mall in Century City a few weeks ago … they looked happy — then. But, alas, all good things must … well, you know. Sad news about these two. Here’s hoping they’ll be able to find love again sometime soon.

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OMG … looks like so much fun, I really wish I could’ve been there to show my support in person for this series but I know that Darion did that for me. After the jump, check out Darion’s report from yesterday’s in-store report …

Here is the full text of what Darion sent to me about yesterday’s event:

Kirsten and I headed to the Golden Apple on Melrose in LA to see the cast of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. We had such a fantastic time! As we arrived, there was a HUGE line of fans wrapping around the block waiting to see the stars of the show. I understand the line was cut off over an hour before the signing even started due to the sheer number of people.

The cast couldn’t have been nicer to all the fans and we had an amazing evening!
Check out the new episode of Terminator: The Sarah Chronicles on Monday 9pm on Fox, having seen the ep I can tell you it has some fantastic and surprising scenes! Not to mention some kick ass fight sequences. And more Shirley… ;)

Gahhhh! Sounds so fun … and I think Darion did a great job reporting, yes?

UPDATE: Kirsten was able to attend this in-store appearance with Darion and managed to get a couple of great photos with both Shirley Manson and Thomas Dekker:

I’m dying! Love it, love it, love it!!!

[thanks Darion]

OMG, seriously, I cannot believe that Shirley Manson is making the move to TV. I love her in Garbage but I think I can love her on this show as well. Shirley will be playing Catherine Weaver who is described as “the high-powered CEO of a major technology company Zeira Corp” which makes it sound like she might be a bad guy … or possibly a good guy somewhere down the line. OMG … I don’t even care, I just can’t wait to see her on the show. I love her Scottish brogue … I hope she keeps it for the show. If I have to hear her speak with an American accent, I’ll poke out my ear drums. She rules and I’m so happy that she’s gonna be on my TV on a weekly basis :)

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The “It” Girls were in attendance as were the new kids on the block — members of the cast of 90210 made last night’s Teen Choice Awards their unofficial coming out party to hang with the cool kids. There are a whole slew of pics to check out from last night’s fête. After the jump, check out some pics from the show itself, some pics of the couplely couples who were in the audience, some of the winners with their surfboards and, of course, a lot of Beckhamness …

Here are some pics from the actual show itself … you can see some folks presenting awards, accepting awards and Mariah Carey dressed inappropriately for a children’s show:

Oh, Mariah … you are so cute thinkin’ you can dress like a teen at your age ;) I’m not at all surprised that Mimi deigned to not only attend this year’s Teen Choice Awards but to perform as well … especially when you consider that she met her child-husband, Nick Cannon, at the Teen Choice Awards back in 2005. But the night was really about this year’s winners so here are a few pics of some of the folks who took home Teen Choice Surfboards last night:

The Jonas Brothers and the CW hit Gossip Girl were the big winners at Sunday’s Teen Choice Awards. Both took home six awards each. Gossip Girl was honored for choice TV drama, breakout show, breakout male actor (Chace Crawford), breakout female and TV drama actress (Blake Lively) and TV villain (Ed Westwick). The Jonas Brothers won for choice breakout group, love song, music single, song of the summer, male red carpet fashion icons and male hotties. “Last year we were here presenting, and to be back a year later and to be up for seven awards, that’s really, really crazy!” Nick Jonas told Usmagazine.com. “We are so blessed, and our fans are incredible, and we love it.” Miley Cyrus — who scored three awards — hosted the show, which airs tonight at 8 p.m. (ET) on Fox. Lauren Conrad won choice TV female reality star. “It’s really cool,” she told Us. “It came from people who watch you every week and relate to you.” She told Us she’ll keep her award “with my mom in Laguna. She has a room for them.” Heroes star Hayden Panettiere was honored as choice TV action-adventure actress and David Beckham as choice male athlete. His son Cruz stole the show, however, when he started break dancing on stage after his dad accepted his award. David said he didn’t teach his son those moves. “He went on tour for six months with his mom,” he told Us, “so maybe he learned from her!”

And speaking of the little ham, here are a couple pics of Becks on stage accepting his award and his sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz who he brought on stage with him … natch, Cruz had to upstage his older brothers by throwin’ down some bitchin’ dance moves:

I dunno … those elder Beckham boys better learn tricks or something cuz the little one is really lookin’ to usurp and take over the Beckham empire.

Here are a few pics of some of the coupley couples were were canoodling and nuzzling all up on one another in the audience:

Don’t they all look so precious? Who knew that the Teen Choice Awards could be such a romantic place? I suppose much congrats are in order for all the winners this year. The show airs tonight on FOX at 8pm but you can click HERE to see a full list of this year’s winners.

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