"Terminator Salvation" -- with its mysterious trailer and Christian Bale star-factor -- may have sci-fi fans buzzing for a big-screen return to the franchise, but until then the House that James Cameron Built is still front and center on the television airwaves with "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," churning out week after week of explosive action.

Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson joins the cast this season, and we caught up with her and co-stars Brian Austin Green and Thomas Dekker to find out what's in store for the metal-clad series. Check it out in the video below, and then click here to read more from our visit to the set.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. Robert Patrick as the T-1000. Pretty iconic roles, right? But it was almost a robot from another android movie and a rock star as those unstoppable killing machines.

“They were thinking of Lance Henriksen for the Terminator, and they wanted Arnold for the Michael Biehn part of Kyle Reese,” revealed “Terminator” stunt coordinator Joel Kramer. “And Robert Patrick wasn’t James Cameron’s first pick – Billy Idol was.”

It’s more well known that Henricksen, who was the android Bishop in Cameron’s “Aliens” movies, was first choice for the Terminator – but Billy Idol? “That’s something most people don’t know,” said Kramer, who now works on the television spin-off, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” “I don’t think I even told them that here, to be honest with you.” Read more...