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The Hollywood Reporter’s Cynthia Littleton has a nifty Thursday-morning roundup of all the sci-fi pilots that may or may not become series for the 2005-2006 season.

Her list includes:

* "Briar & Graves" (Fox), from screenwriter Paul Scheuring (“A Man Apart”), about a hard-living priest and a female doctor who “investigate unexplained spiritual phenomena,” according to the story.

* "Fathom" (NBC), from writer-directors Josh and Jonas Pate (“GvsE,” “L.A. Dragnet”), about humans dealing with deep-sea lifeforms.

* "Kolchak: The Night Stalker” (ABC), from writer-producer Frank Spotnitz (“The X-Files,” “The Lone Gunmen,” “Robbery Homicide Division”), a remake of the Darrin McGavin one-season wonder about a journalist who liked to track down werewolves, demons, robots and the like. (Herc worshipped this show like no other when he was a tot in Texas.) Spotnitz’s involvement is especially interesting because “Kolchak” was said to have been a key inspiration for “The X-Files.”

* "Threshold" (CBS), from screenwriter David Goyer (“Blade: Trinity”), about a female government contingency analyst who finds herself recruited to deal with a a mysterious extraterrestrial threat.

* "Supernatural" (The WB), from writer-producer Erik Kripke (the WB’s “Tarzan”), about estranged brothers who encounter ghosts and other agents of the uncanny during a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

* “Untitled” (ABC), from writer-producer Shaun Cassidy (“American Gothic,” “The Mountain”), about weirdness in a post-hurricane Florida town.

* “Untitled” (CBS), from somebody named John Gray, was inspired by psychic James Van Praagh.

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