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Cameron's DARK ANGEL

Co-creator and executive producer James Cameron has signed on to direct the season finale of Fox's DARK ANGEL.

This is the first time that the Oscar-winning director has chosen to direct an episode of ANGEL, or any television series for that matter.

"I believe in our show," says Cameron. "I think it is one of the coolest things on network television. I have wanted to direct an episode for some time, so when our director for the season finale dropped out just as I was completing photography on another project, I seized the moment."

One challenge the blockbuster director had to over come was filming on a budget. DARK ANGEL's season finale has a budget just shy of $3 million, but that's the same amount of money it costs to shoot any episode of the sci-fi hit. One other challenge Cameron will run into is time. The finale will be shot in eight days.

That has to be a TITANIC change for James Cameron.

But Cameron seems to be taking it all in stride. "It will be good discipline for me to direct one hour on a TV-size budget when my last project was three hours for $200 million," says Cameron. "This should be interesting."

DARK ANGEL's season finale is expected to air Friday, May 3 at 9 p.m. on FOX.