So here's the question: what in Andrew Ridgeley's name is George Michael doing on The Sci-Fi Channel this autumn. No, you read that correctly and I don't have to wake you up before you go-go - Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou is going to be on the The Sci-Fi Channel.

The deal is this: he's guest starring in a new US series called Eli Stone, which stars fellow Britisher Johnny Lee Miller.

Eli is a lawyer whose life goes a bit squiffy when he starts to experience hallcinations. He can see the future, and each one seems to hang on the lyrics and, sometimes, physical presence of George Michael. George pops up from time to time, appearing as himself, to take Eli on a voyage of slef-discovery.

When he goes to the doctors, Eli is told he has an incruable brain aneurysm and all this talk of George Michael is nothing more than a careless whisper, whle his acupunctutist thinks he's a prophet.

Sounds weird, but interesting. It'll be on The Sci-Fi Channel in the UK later in the autumn,