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Question: Can you tell me anything about Supernatural‘s new season? —Bryan
Ausiello: I can’t be certain, but I think I just uncovered a significant clue about the overriding plot of season 6: Sources confirm to me exclusively that X-Files vet Mitch Pileggi is in talks to reprise his role as Sam and Dean’s presumed-dead grandpa on a potentially recurring basis.
Question: Any scoop on the new season of Torchwood? —Craig
Ausiello: Starz wasn’t kidding when it said the new season would be more global in scope. I’m hearing the show will shoot a chunk of the season on location in Los Angeles. Captain Jack’s going Hollywood!
Question: Word on the street is that House started filming its seventh season on June 14. Other word on the street is you want to be voted Sexiest Celeb Vegetarian of 2010. If you can give me some scoop about the former, I might just help you out with the latter. —Janine
Ausiello: You’ve got yourself a deal. Unconfirmed buzz suggests that Huddy fans will be in a state of continuous orgasm throughout House‘s season premiere this fall.
Question: Please give me a scoop on the new season of Chuck! —Joy
Ausiello: And the title of the season 4 premiere is…”Chuck vs. the Anniversary”! What does it mean? Hit the comments with your theories!
Question: I’m so excited that Life Unexpected got renewed for a second season! Can you give us any good scoop? —CC
Ausiello: The show is casting Baze’s rebound girl. Actually, make that girls. Potential Love Interest No. 1, Kelly, is a perky and uptight conservative author who joins Ryan’s radio show. Potential Love Interest No. 2, Emma, is a high-powered exec in her early 40s who works with Baze’s dad, Jack.
Question: I love Life Unexpected. Any hints or news you can give me? —Ann
Ausiello: More season 2 casting intel: The show is adding the recurring roles of Eric, a slightly rugged new young teacher at Westmonte High, and Paige, Ryan’s sassy, flirty, and free-spirited younger sister recently back from an Eat, Pray, Love-type tour. Hey, there’s a movie about that opening soon!
Question: What’s in store on 90210 in season 3? —Ken
Ausiello: Johnny Depp’s making a zip stop! Kind of but not really. The show is adding a major new recurring character who’s “one part Talented Mr. Ripley, one part young Johnny Depp, and all parts sexy.” The 18-year-old Brit is a childhood chum of Ivy’s, which raises the question: Where did Ivy grow up, Cambridge?
Question: Please give us something about the upcoming fifth season of the perennially Emmy-snubbed Friday Night Lights. —Lindsay
Ausiello: It wasn’t enough that I told you that Taylor Kitsch, Adrianne Palicki, and Zach Gilford were returning? Hmm…what other scoops do I have up my sleeve…oh, here’s something: A shocking spoiler about the final two episodes of season 5 appears in the pages of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly (on sale now). Hint: It’s romance-related and I’m fairly certain Jaws. Will. Drop.
Question: I know that the creators of Spartacus are working on a prequel to give Andy Whitfield time to recover. Is there any other news about him or the show? —Kat
Ausiello: Good news: Reports that Whitfield is cancer-free were all but confirmed yesterday when Starz announced that the actor would be attending Comic-Con next month. As far as the show itself, the untitled prequel — which will focus on John Hannah’s Batiatus and Lucy Lawless’ Lucretia — is slated to go into production this fall ahead of a January ’11 premiere. Season 2, meanwhile, will likely debut in fall ’11.
Question: I’m totally brokenhearted that A.J. Cook’s contract with Criminal Minds is not being renewed. Please tell me that they’re going to have her come back long enough to explain JJ’s departure and give her a proper send-off! –Hazel
Ausiello: Per a Minds insider, “Details about the character’s exit are still being worked out.” In related news, if signing petitions is your thing, here’s one aimed at getting Cook her job back.
Question: This is my first time writing to you, and from what I understand, I’m supposed to offer to name my firstborn child after you or at least send you a case of Snapple in order to get my question answered. Greeting rituals aside, what ever happened to the Kurt’s-boyfriend story line on Glee? I was exceptionally psyched about them ruling the school. —Jessica
Ausiello: You forgot the most important rule of Ask Ausiello: Send me $50 per question-via PayPal. Double-check your facts before asking a question. The Glee-boyfriend story line kicks off next season.
Question: Parenthood scoop for next season…please? —Jennifer
Ausiello: Exec producer Jason Katims is cooking up another juicy mother-daughter story line for Lauren Graham and Mae Whitman. “Amber’s going to make a new friend and she comes from an upper-crust kind of background,” Katims explains. “It becomes complicated for Sarah because Amber’s suddenly being taken into this world that’s out of her grasp.”
Question: The True Blood premiere was awesome. What’s coming up, ahem, necks? —Tyler
Ausiello: Tee-hee. You swapped next for necks in a question about True Blood. Tee-hee. Here’s some prattle for you, straight from series creator Alan Ball: In the second half of the season, “all hell breaks loose,” he tells my colleague Tim Stack. “Certainly, everybody finds themselves in danger. Loyalties are tested. There’s a lot of deceit.” And though the lies will be spread around, the dots will connect in the end. The stories “do converge,” Ball confirms, culminating in a season finale that he calls “very big. [But] it doesn’t center around one particular event the way the first one did. The first one was all about Rene chasing Sookie. The second one was all about Maryann’s ritual. This [time], there are a lot of big events” leading up to “definitely more than one cliff-hanger.” I’m on the edge of my seat already!
Question: I saw pictures of Allan Hyde at the True Blood premiere. Any chance Godric’s going to return this season (yeah, he died, but you know what I mean)? —Maiyer
Ausiello: I think there’s a very good chance of him returning. And soon. Know what I mean?
Question: I don’t care what you have to do, just give me some sort of Fringe scoop to chew on so I don’t kill myself this summer! —Duncan
Ausiello: The suicide-hotline operator in me wants to get at the real reason you’re feeling so withdrawn and irritable. However, the TV newshound in me wants to bypass that crap and cut straight to the scoop: Fringe is getting ready to introduce a powerful female agent aged 35-55 who becomes an adversary for the Fringe team.
Question: Psych news. Please. (Brief and to the point.) —M Horton
Ausiello: I’m head over heels in love with this scoop: The show has tapped Curt Smith of Tears for Fears fame to rerecord the theme song, “I Know, You Know,” for an upcoming season 5 episode. I’m told Smith will also make a guest appearance in the ep as himself.
That’s a wrap! Please send questions, comments, and anonymous tips to ausielloscoop@ew.com. Also, you can follow me on Twitter via @michaelausiello. Thanks for playing! (Additional reporting by Andy Patrick)
The Anniversary of His Mom Leaving
Anniversary of his becoming a spy.
Anniversary of him having the fun time with Sarah
Ellie and Awesome’s wedding of course. It is time for it after all
the anniversary of him and morgan meeting. how bout that? or him and sarah meeting
Nice Michelle, and we know the fourth season will be about Mom B as well as ‘Family’ so well done girl.
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there is a “web//site” named “black // white / Cupid” for dating or relationship, black or white singles can go there to find something sexy or beauty online !!!!
Ohh On Chuch Duh LOL
Remember when House wasn’t Grey’s Anatomy?
Aww. Best days ever.
I love Hugh Laurie, and will forever; but really? House needs a major u-turn, or it needs to free up Laurie so he can get back to having AWESOME roles.
Like ones that also feature Stephen Fry. Or Emma Thompson. Or both.
Remember when House was learning to cook? I thought that would be a perfect tie in with Fry’s Dr. Gordon Gordon on Bones. Same network and everything!
Actually, Bones and House aren’t produced on the same network. House is produced by NBC Universal (But aired on Fox), and Bones is produced by Fox, so a crossover isn’t possible for that reason.
Not necessarily, Jeremy – if they can work out a contract to everyone’s liking.
The best example of that is Richard Belzer’s character of John Munch. Munch has been on Homocide, L&O:SVU, the X-Files, The Wire, The Beat and Arrested Development. EACH of those shows is made by a different production company and for the most part, aired on different networks. Additionally, SVU, like House, is made by NBC Universal, and X-Files, like House, is made by Fox Television, so there’s even a precedent for the two companies to allow a character from one to appear on the show of another.
Is it likely that they’d go along with that? Probably not. Personally, I’d be pretty surprised if they did. But it’s not impossible.
House is nothing like GA where everybody’s slept with everyone else. House and Cuddy have never been in a relationship together, and each have had only one onscreen BF/GF (Stacy and Lucas). Likewise, there have been no cross hookups/overlaps between the other characters’ relationships. Taub is married. Chase and Cameron were married. Foreman and 13 dated. That’s the end of it. Thanks for playing.
House & Cuddy sort of did have a realationship in college. She stalked him & he screwed her.
You can’t get more Grey’s than that
@Tigger Maybe you should stop watching House then & start watching some medical documentary
exactly!! I’m so sick of everyone bashing House just coz of Huddy. The time spent on couples on HOUSE is MINIMAL compared to Grey’s.
THANK YOU!
Anyone who compares House to GA commits blasphemy, period! They’re just bitter because House got his girl. Man, people like these sooo need to get laid themselves!
I think they are actually exploring this relationship for 2 reasons: First of all no one can deny the chemistry these 2 caracters have,and the attraction, since the beggining of the series.Ignoring it would be throuwing away a very valid storyline. And second, I think that if they keep them dancing arround without going anyway would actually look more like a soap opera than if they do go for a relationship. Obviously the writers on House know the risk they’re taking, and I think they did the right choice.Season 7 will finally bring back some humor, tension and I am sure new classical moments of interaction bewteen all the different caracters thanks to this new dynamic.It’s fresh and this is what the writers knew how to do since the beggining. They were bold by changing House’s team and they are bold by putting those 2 together.I support their decision and I am certainly waiting to see how this is going to turn out.
Maybe Chase and 13 should be together
That were the best days ever! Ugh, even Hugh is not enough anymore to get me to tune into the Huddy crapfest. Not surprising that House already lost its status as most popular show in the world, now the world know “Huddy MD” (YUCK!) too. I’ll stick with watching the good old seasons and other stuff Hugh did.
Enjoy your Huddy crap while it lasts, Huddy fangirls, it won’t last long anyway
Oh don’t worry, we will and you, bitter girls will be forever bitter. hahaha!
Here in France, House is the most popular show on tv (8 millions of viewers), I think in Spain and another countries too, House with a girlfriend is more realistic than House with hookers during 7 seasons! I was tired about House being addicted to vicodin.
Here in Italy House went from 5/6 millions during the 1-3 seasons to 2 millions now that we’re in season 6.
Yeah… too much kissy kissy and not enough medicine. I was hoping that last scene of the season was another one of House’s drug illusions. Show’s are always ruined by sex (did I say that???)
I would say that Curt Smith-Psych episode would be 80s themed, but the whole show is 80s themed. Either way, I’M EXCITED.
I love it when they do alternate themes songs on Psych. The Tears for Fears version should be interesting.
I love the alternate theme songs on Psych, too. I’m looking forward to a Tears for Fears-flavored theme song.
can’t wait for another altered theme song and for this show to start in general. the 80′s and pop culture references on that show are THE BEST.
I’m ready for my orgasm xD Sometimes I really LOVE you Ausiello xxx
Yay for Chuck scoop! Hopefully no traumatic Chuck/Sarah event occurs in between seasons….. as for the “Anniversary” I’m a sucker for that couple so I want it to be theirs, but it’ll probably be something relating to the Mama Bartowski storyline. Maybe a double meaning and we’ll get the best of both worlds? Truthfully I’m just happy for another season.
im thinking two things
1) Mama Bartowski leaving Chuck & Ellie
2) Ellie & Awesomes 1 Year Wedding Anniversary
I second that, I hope it refers to both…or more!
Awesome Chuck scoop! Thanks! XOXO
I totally agree with the Chuck/Sarah thing =D I absolutly love them and I may have to kill myself if they break up during season breaks again =(
Yay for Chuck scoop! Hopefully no traumatic Chuck/Sarah event occurs in between seasons….. as for the “Anniversary” I’m a sucker for that couple so I want it to be theirs, but it’ll probably be something relating to the Mama Bartowski storyline. Maybe a double meaning and we’ll get the best of both worlds? Truthfully I’m just happy for another season.
im thinking two things
1) Mama Bartowski leaving Chuck & Ellie
2) Ellie & Awesomes 1 Year Wedding Anniversary
I totally agree with the Chuck/Sarah thing =D I absolutly love them and I may have to kill myself if they break up during season breaks again =(
I miss Fringe. i need the 3rd season now!!!
Must. Have. More.
Fringe has won hands down this year for show I’m going to anticipate like a dog watching someone cook bacon. I NEEEED it!
I miss Fringe. i need the 3rd season now!!!
Must. Have. More.
Fringe has won hands down this year for show I’m going to anticipate like a dog watching someone cook bacon. I NEEEED it!
I feel the same. Love LOVE this show!
is the anniversary on chuck a 4 year anniversary about chuck and sarah meeting/ chuck entering the spy world?
is the anniversary on chuck a 4 year anniversary about chuck and sarah meeting/ chuck entering the spy world?
Can’t wait for my Huddy orgasm!
Can’t wait for my Huddy orgasm!
I’M A HUDDY FAN SO HAPPY !!!!
I’ M IN THE HUDDY HEAVEN !!!!
BRING ON SEPTEMBER ! I CAN’T WAIT
FOR MY HUDDY CONTINUOUS ORGASM !!!
just sick sick sick. these two are so wrong for each other and boring to watch. orgasms for the pairing of these two is just plain weird!!
The SPN spoiler has made me deliriously happy. YAY FOR GRANDAD WINCHESTER! *spins in circles* Even if he was, you know, creepy and demon-possessed and engaging in incest the last time we saw him. *pats* I hope we get to see the rest of the family, especially Mary.
Since he’s Mary’s dad, he’s actually Grandad Campbell, but I get behind your point. Mitch Pileggi is awesome and yay to more Grandaddy Samuel!
Why are you spinning in circles? How in the HELL can the dead grandfather who is rightfully about 90 years old now going to come back to life? No good storytelling can possibly swing that one. Supernatural has had some super stupid writing over the past season and a half; season 6 sounds no different.
I disagree wholeheartedly – the addition of Castiel and the Apocalypse arc have been interesting and led to some great insight on the characters of Sam and Dean. “Dark Side of the Moon,” for example, in which Sam and Dean visit Heaven, revealed some resentment that had been bubbling under the surface since season 1. I won’t, of course, say that every episode has been awesome, but the characters have continued to develop and the story lines have been entertaining.
Plus, in this show, no one need stay dead. Sam, Dean, Castiel, Adam, and Bobby are all proof of that. And some characters even make it back without coming back to life – case in point, Ash, Jessica, and John Winchester. Perhaps they’ll bring back Grandpa Campbell as a ghost or other supernatural entity. The point is this: Don’t judge it until we’ve seen it.
The SPN spoiler has made me deliriously happy. YAY FOR GRANDAD WINCHESTER! *spins in circles* Even if he was, you know, creepy and demon-possessed and engaging in incest the last time we saw him. *pats* I hope we get to see the rest of the family, especially Mary.
Since he’s Mary’s dad, he’s actually Grandad Campbell, but I get behind your point. Mitch Pileggi is awesome and yay to more Grandaddy Samuel!
LOL! Your comment is made of win, Jo!
I have no idea how it’s going to work, but all I can think is YAY!
Why are you spinning in circles? How in the HELL can the dead grandfather who is rightfully about 90 years old now going to come back to life? No good storytelling can possibly swing that one. Supernatural has had some super stupid writing over the past season and a half; season 6 sounds no different.
I disagree wholeheartedly – the addition of Castiel and the Apocalypse arc have been interesting and led to some great insight on the characters of Sam and Dean. “Dark Side of the Moon,” for example, in which Sam and Dean visit Heaven, revealed some resentment that had been bubbling under the surface since season 1. I won’t, of course, say that every episode has been awesome, but the characters have continued to develop and the story lines have been entertaining.
Plus, in this show, no one need stay dead. Sam, Dean, Castiel, Adam, and Bobby are all proof of that. And some characters even make it back without coming back to life – case in point, Ash, Jessica, and John Winchester. Perhaps they’ll bring back Grandpa Campbell as a ghost or other supernatural entity. The point is this: Don’t judge it until we’ve seen it.