SVT and Matador Films will premiere creator Lars Lundström’s new Swedish sci-fi drama “Real Humans (Äkta människor)” on Jan. 22. The one-hour, 10-episode series centers on robots so human-like that some party-poopers decide they should not be used for dirty sex and servitude, but instead granted equal rights.

And, suddenly, “Small Wonder” doesn’t seem quite as innocent a family show as we once thought. I never trusted Ted Lawson and United Robotronics.

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Couldn’t get past the the robot boobs? This is the official synopsis:

“Real Humans” takes place in a parallel world to our own, in which people’s lives have been completely transformed by the new generation of robots, the Hubots. They’re used as servants, heavy laborers, company for the lonely and even sex partners.

But Hubots also create conflicts – within families, in places of work and among those concerned about public safety. Their intelligence exceeds our own. Are there any jobs left that are not best carried out by a robot? Can they develop feelings of their own? Can a Hubot harm a human being?

Leo and Niska lead a group of rogue Hubots who are fighting for their freedom. But Leo and Niska don’t agree on methods. During an escape, Leo’s beloved Mimi disappears and Leo leaves the group to find her.

At the same time, the Engman family decides to buy a used Hubot, against the mother Inger’s wishes – at first. But the Hubot addition to the family, Anita, soon wins her over. A lawyer, Inger soon begins to represent clients who support equal rights for Hubots.

Warehouse foreman Roger’s life has begun coming apart at the seams. His wife has left him for her Hubot and all of his human coworkers have been replaced by Hubots as well. Roger joins a resistance movement. Behind the everyday facade, a whole new world is coming to life.

“Real Humans” is directed by Harald Hamrell och Levan Akin and stars Andreas Wilson (Kill Your Darlings) as Leo, Eva Röse (Storm) as Niska, and Lisette Pagler as topless Asian Hubot Mimi.

The show will premiere on Swedish network SVT1, but don’t panic; you’ll still get a chance to see the series as format and international distribution rights have been sold to U.K. distro-house Shine Group.

“Smallville’s” Cassidy Freeman is heading to Mystic Falls, the fictional small Virginia town that vampire brothers Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan Salvatore (the guy who isn’t Ian Somerhalder) call home on The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries.”

TV Line reports that Freeman will play a “sexy and fearless” woman named Sage in the 16th episode of the show’s current season. The character will be introduced in a flashback sequence dating back to 1912, and may return in later episodes.

Freeman, who starred as lesbian Frances Dunhill on NBC’s short-lived 2011 drama “The Playboy Club,” is best known for her portrayal of LuthorCorp CEO Tess Mercer on The CW’s recently ended Superman series “Smallville.”

Actress Briana Evigan tweeted news last night that will serve as music to horror fans’ ears. The Los Angeles-born stunner is joining director Darren Bousman’s (Repo! The Genetic Opera) new musical horror show The Devil’s Carnival.

Evigan tweets:

Filming this weekend w @darren_bousman in “the devils carnival” im singing such a fun song! Cant wait to start filming 😉

Evigan, who teamed up with Bousman on last year’s Mother’s Day remake, has starred in a number of notable frighteners, including Summit’s Sorority Row redo, the 2009 Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko, and the oh-shit-there’s-a-tiger-in-my-living-room thriller Burning Bright.

The Devil’s Carnival is now shooting and costars genre babe Taryn Manning (Manson Girls) and career villain Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects).

Briana Evigan is part of Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-fi Today!

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After watching newcomer Ashlynn Yennie eat shit and die in madcap director Tom Six’s demented cult 2009 hit The Human Centipede, I was certain the Wyoming-born starlet would quit Hollywood and head back home to work the mines.

But, when she resurfaced in its sequel last year, it became apparent that Yennie is here to stay. I am now convinced that the pretty 26-year-old has got scream queen midi-chlorians pumping in her blood.

This, of course, bodes well for writer/director Adam Gierasch’s (Night of the Demons – 2010) new Seven Arts frightener Schism, which stars Yennie as a woman in a committed relationship with a Baton Rouge cook with a dark past.

Schism costars Callum Blue (“Smallville”) as Yennie’s boyfriend and Vinnie Jones (Midnight Meat Train) in what will surely be some kind of pissed off character role. The film—said to be in the vein of Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder—will shoot in New Orleans.

Posted above is the first still from writer/director Josh Stolberg’s new indie frightener Crawlspace. Budgeted at $500,000, the film—formerly entitled Hideaway—follows a homicidal psychopath as he torments the family living in his foreclosed home.

“Full House” and “90210” star Lori Loughlin costars with “Wings” actor Steven Weber as the family heads in the Vuguru production. Weekend at Bernie’s Jonathan Silverman, “LOST’s” Sterling Beaumon (he played young Benjamin Linus), and Sorority Row hottie Nicole Moore fill out the cast.

Crawlspace will be made available through VOD, Netflix, HULU, and various other digital platforms.

Looks like “Vampire Diaries” and “Secret Circle” alumna Bianca Lawson is barking up a new supernatural tree. The 29-year-old starlet has scored the recurring role of guidance counselor Ms. Morrell on season two of MTV’s hit high school-set werewolf series “Teen Wolf.”

Joining Lawson in the new season are Stephen Lunsford as a student with a crush on Alison, Daniel Sharman as a troubled lacrosse player, Sinqua Walls as a shy loner, Gage Golightly as a tomboy-turned-beauty-queen and Michael Hogan as Alison’s werewolf-hunting grandfather.

Developed by “Criminal Minds” creator Jeff Davis, “Teen Wolf” premiered to over two million viewers last June. The series, which stars Tyler Posey as teen werewolf Scott McCall, Crystal Reed as love interest Alison Argent and Tyler Hoechlin as Alpha-wolf Derek Hale, returns for a second season this summer.

Lebanese actress Razane Jammal makes her feature film debut in Tobe Hooper’s Abu Dhabi-set supernatural thriller Djinn. The 24-year-old stunner plays an Emirati woman forced to return from America to her country by her husband, who is unaware that the new home that awaits them is built on cursed land.

She tells Rolling Stone:

You know, werewolves and vampires work really well in the West. In the East, it’s more about the djinn – everybody kind of fears them. So I really think that the movie is going to be a success, because it’s a topic that hasn’t really been talked about.

There’s a lot of local talent – it’s a real East meets West – it’s very interesting and it’s a very beautiful mix, and I think it’s going to work everywhere.

Djinn costars the gorgeous Aiysha Hart (in her movie debut), Malik McCall (Dreamcatcher) and Khalid Laith (The Devil’s Double) as Jammal’s husband. The ImageNation-produced film is Hooper’s first directorial effort since 2005’s Mortuary.

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Burgeoning scream queen Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”) is set to star in the supernatural romance I Will Follow You Into the Dark. The pretty 25-year-old Brit will play a woman willing to die to be with the lover who helped her get over the trauma of losing both her parents suddenly.

The Castlight Pictures and Zero Gravity release is written and directed by some guy named Mark Robinson. Costars include the very sexy Leah Pipes (Sorority Row), Ryan Eggold (“90210”) and Jaz Martin (The Shattering).

Barton, who made her horror acting debut as a tween in the 1999 M. Night Shyamalan mind-blower The Sixth Sense, returned to the genre in 2009 with roles in the buried-alive frightener Walled In and the psycho-bitch thriller Homecoming.

She will next be seen in the cave-set survival indie Into the Darkness and Apartment 1303, a 3-D remake of Japanese filmmaker Ataru Oikawa’s creepy J-Horror of the same name.

“Battlestar Galactica” starlet Katee Sackhoff has scored the female lead in Vin Diesel’s Riddick, the third entry in the David Twohy directed sci-fi franchise that includes 2000’s Pitch Black and 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick.

Riddick’s terribly written synopsis reads:

Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before.

Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge.

With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

Deadline reports that Sackhoff will play Dahl, a Nordic mercenary out to cash in on Riddick’s hide. Also on board for the sequel are greasy-looking, but awesome, career-villain Jordi Molla (Colombiana) as bad guy Santana and Karl Urban (Dredd), reprising his role as Lord Vakko.

Sackhoff’s genre creds include Halloween: Resurrection (her horror movie debut), White Noise 2: The Light, Fox Family’s “The Fearing Mind,” and NBC’s short-lived series “The Bionic Woman.” She is best known, however, for her portrayal of cocky fighter pilot Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on Syfy’s “Battlestar Galactica.”

The 31-year-old starlet will next be seen in TV producer/director Shawn Pillar’s feature debut Sexy Evil Genius and Lionsgate’s The Haunting in Georgia, a sequel to their 2009 sleeper-hit The Haunting in Connecticut. Sackhoff can also be heard as the voice of Mandalorian Bo-Katan on Cartoon Network’s “The Clone Wars.”

The Asylum has set a March 27 home-video release date for director Liz Adams’ feature debut Air Collision. The film stars genre babe Jordan Ladd (pictured above) as a flight attendant helping passengers keep their shit in while their plane attempts to avert a collision with Air Force One.

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Costarring in the airline disaster flick are Reginald VelJohnson (“Family Matters”) as an air traffic controller dealing with “the worst case scenario,” Dave Vescio (Human Factor) as a hysterical passenger and Andy Clemence (Black Forrest) as the President of the U.S.A.

Ladd, who made her feature acting debut at the age of 19 in the Alyssa Milano cult-fav Embrace of the Vampire, has starred in a number of noteworthy frighteners, including Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever and Hostel 2, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, and Paul Solet’s must-see demon-spawn mind-fuck Grace.