Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is set to premiere on Fox January 14, 2008, at 8p.

“We came around thinking this is a golden opportunity to make ‘The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ part of the huge surge of excitement in January,” said Fox scheduling chief Preston Beckman, referring to the network’s January rating surge from the return of “American Idol” and “24.” “Fortunately, Sunday night is doing fine with our animated comedies, so we could do that.”

“Terminator: Sarah Connor” stars Lena Headey (”300″) as Sarah Connor, who, along with her son John (Thomas Dekker), battle attackers from the future. Linda Hamilton played the role in the first two features.

Huh. Pretty smart programming move, actually.

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