Summer Glau shoots new scenes for the second season of the hit FOX show, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, in Los Angeles on Monday. (The series launched midseason earlier this year and was the highest-rated new scripted series of the 2007-08 season).

Costars Lena Headey and Thomas Dekker were also seen on set joking around.

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Terminator cutie Summer Glau and her hot boyfriend Daniel Wisler attend Hollywood Life magazine’s 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards at Avalon on Sunday in Hollywood. Costar Thomas Dekker (pictured below) was not far behind.

On the red carpet, both Summer and Thomas have a lot to share with EW about The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Glau said: “I hope they make sure to keep the action level high. I really enjoy it and I feel very comfortable jumping around and kicking butt. I don’t want to see it become — and I think the fans would agree — some sappy, depressing drama. I think we are safe, but I figured I’d put that out there. I feel like our storylines were just starting to really come together when the strike happened, and it is going to be hard to get fans back [on board] and to attract new fans. We were really building toward something, and then Bam, we had to stop. At least we had an episode filmed that was meant to be a middle episode, but it worked as a finale. So we didn’t leave people hanging in a bad spot, but you lose momentum and a level of comfort and it will be like starting all over again.”

Dekker said: “We are going back to shoot in June. It is a very complicated show with lots of effects and stunts, so it takes a while to do each episode. And, of course, we are hoping that once we do those 13 they will keep us on to finish out a whole season. [My character John Connor] undergoes a lot of changes in the coming episodes and season. It was intentional. Anyone who was afraid that my John was a little too weak will be pleasantly surprised in the second season. It was always the plan that I would go through a transformation and become a bad ass. I have to prove I am not a wimp and it’s going to be fun. We wanted it to start small and then make audiences go, ‘Oh s—.’”

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Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles has been renewed for a second season, reports TV Guide.

Lots of fanboys and girls are hoping Brian Austin Green will become a regular on the sci-fi series. Cross your fingers!

Random favorite quote:

John Connor: “I got shotgun”
Cameron Phillips (female Terminator): “I got 9 mm!”

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles helped FOX score the best opening night demo ratings of any new show in three years Sunday night. At least 18.3 million viewers tuned in to watch Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) and her son John (Thomas Dekker) run for their lives with the help of their fearless protector Cameron (Summer Glau).

And how hot was Glau????? Sizzling. The series should definitely keep Owain Yeoman around–he was fantastic in Kitchen Confidential and The Nine. It’s too bad those series were so short-lived. Hopefully Terminator can turn that around for him and give him steady work!

Tonight is the second half of the two-part premiere of Termintor. Tune in TONIGHT, Jan. 14 @ 9PM ET/PT on FOX. Don’t miss it! 20+ promo pictures inside of the cast of Terminator…

WHAT DID YOU THINK of last night’s premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles?