Glub, glub, glub.

It could be the sound made by so many things:

		'The Poseidon Adventure' When: 8 tonight on NBC. Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Peter Weller.

The majority of the characters in NBC's remake of "The Poseidon Adventure" (8 tonight, WPXI), who perish when their luxury cruise ship goes belly up following a terrorist attack.

The TV movie/mini series genre sinking deeper into unwatchable dreck.

TV viewers drowning in too many disasters, both real-life (Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the war in Iraq, etc.) and imagined ("Vampire Bats," "Category 7," etc.).

So ready or not, here comes another disaster flick, the fourth Sunday in a row as NBC remakes the 1972 disaster staple, "The Poseidon Adventure."

Nevermind that acclaimed action movie director Wolfgang Petersen ("Air Force One," "The Perfect Storm") is remaking the same story, based on the Paul Gallico novel, for the big screen next summer (Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss and Andre Braugher star in Petersen's singularly-titled "Poseidon"). NBC gets there first with a remake starring a haven't-seen-him-in-a-long-time cast that would be as at home as "Love Boat" guest stars as in a TV movie.

Many of these characters share the names of the ones in the 1972 movie, most notably the matronly Belle Rosen, played memorably in the film by Shelley Winters. An actress named Sylvia Syms plays the part here.

Bigger names in the cast include Alex Kingston ("ER") as a British intelligence agent who helps coordinate rescue efforts; Adam Baldwin ("Firefly") as an undercover sea marshal; Rutger Hauer as a bishop; Peter Weller as the captain and Bryan Brown and Steve Guttenberg as passengers.

They all get assorted opportunities to swim, scream, run from rushing water, fall from the floor onto the ceiling (once the boat tips over), etc. Some even get big death scenes after the terrorist attack dooms the oceanliner, replacing the tidal wave that did in the ship in the original film.

But despite advances in digital special effects since "Titanic," "Poseidon Adventure" doesn't come close to creating the tension-filled atmosphere of that disaster movie, which also benefited from a lot more heart even in the face of some terrible dialogue for Billy Zane's bad guy.

When evaluating TV's quickie, things-get-destroyed-real-good productions, the questions are not "Is it bad? Is it cheesy?" They are "How bad? How cheesy?"

NBC's "Poseidon Adventure" is notably less terrible than CBS's recent crop of disaster flicks, but as written by Bryce Zabel ("Dark Skies"), it's still nothing to brag about, particularly when the ship's sea marshal makes this entry in his audio journal: "Like flying in an airplane, the long odds are the ship is safe, but they pay me to be paranoid. I'm good at my job."

Glub, glub, glub, indeed.