This week’s Shotgun includes news about Arnold’s first movie back, our first look at the Total Recall remake/reboot and some screenwriters hired for a couple of upcoming projects.

The Sliders tackle a staple of alternate dimension/reality fiction this week as they arrive on an Earth where Ancient Egypt remained in power until the present day.

This week the gang tries to snap Arturo out of his fantasy of being detective Reginald Doyle in a role playing park based on Victorian England that is to help people recover from stress breakdowns on an Earth that is completely focused on business and work.

The Sliders celebrate Christmas by bringing down a corrupt mall president on an Earth where malls are more than just shopping but are homes for the workers and feature houses, schools and hospitals.

The gang arrives on an Earth where robots created by James Aldohn (special guest Robert Englund) have gone haywire and destroyed humanity.

Quinn is put on trial for a crime is double committed on this week’s Sliders but, unlike Earth Prime, judgement is handled on a game show called “The Judgement Game” where the studio audience will decide Quinn’s fate.

This week in the Shotgun we have some casting news, a director short list for The Wolverine, The Lion King getting a 3D conversion and the Scott brothers making a Pirates mini series for Fox.

Rembrandt finds himself in a serious predicament this week when he’s mistaken for his double, the Duke of Hemmingshire, and has to take over the pregnancy from the Duchess on an Earth where America is a monarchy and there’s “shared pregnancy”.

Sliders is back this week and this time the gang is on a world where Southern California is the main source of petroleum and the gang bring a hitchhiker with them in the form of an intelligent flame.

This week, the Sliders pay homage to the fantasy genre, most notably Dragonslayer, as the slide onto an Earth where Druids and magic reign supreme.