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Question: This House fan thanks you for posting that awesome Huddy picture! This House fan is also going to be greedy and ask you what else you know about the season premiere? —Julia
Ausiello: A fellow Trojan tipped me off that Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein were on the USC campus Tuesday night shooting “some Huddy-ness.” Added the anonymous bystander: “They were kissing, hugging, and hand-holding. It was a fangirl’s dream come true. She had on the same outfit as in the beach pictures.” Speaking of those cutesy beach photos, series creator David Shore tells me that all may not be as it seems. “What the image depicts is rather different from what you’re going to experience when you watch the episode,” he reveals. “They’re [at the beach], but it’s not Beach Blanket Bingo.”
Question: I heard a rumor that David Anders will be a regular next season on The Vampire Diaries. Please tell me that it’s true! —Addison
Ausiello: I would if I could, but I can’t. But here’s something I can confirm: Anders will definitely be in the season premiere.
Question: There’s a rumor that Weeds‘ sixth season [premiering Aug. 16] could be its last. True? —Jeff
Ausiello: If it is, no one bothered to tell Mary-Louise Parker, although the actress concedes, “That’s not really up to me. That’s up to [Showtime]. I love doing the show. The only thing that’s tough for me is I live in New York and it gets harder to pick up and move when your kids get a little bit older. But I love doing the show.” In other words, she’s game for a seventh season…provided “they don’t fire me,” she says with a laugh. “You never know what’s going to happen on this show.”
Question: I may be the only person in TV land who actually watches it, but can you give me any My Boys scoop? Is it still on? Has TBS canceled it? —Kim
Ausiello: TBS has not canceled it — at least not yet. A fourth season is already in the can and set to premiere on July 25. A fifth season, meanwhile, remains a question mark. Equally uncertain: what the heck star Jordana Spiro will do if it does come back, seeing as she already hitched herself to NBC’s Love Bites. My guess? Boys will return to mediocre ratings and TBS will announce in early August that season 4 will be the show’s last. And for the record, Kim, you are not the only person in TV land who watches the show. Check out the next question…
Question: Any scoop about the fourth season of My Boys? —Kim
Ausiello: Um… On second thought, Kim, maybe you are the only person in TV land who watches the show. (Anyone else besides Kim watch My Boys? Shoot me an e-mail at ausielloscoop@ew.com.) On the scoop front, Jim Gaffigan’s departure will be addressed within the first few minutes of the season 4 opener. Of course, the big question is who will fill in for Andy at the poker table. And here’s the big answer: *t*p*a*i*!
Question: Love reading your column! You are witty, I follow your tweets, etc. Now could you please share any scoops on The Closer? —Linda
Ausiello: The second most important rule of Ask Ausiello: When showering me with compliments, don’t end with an etcetera. It’s critical that you list each and every reason you worship me. The more specific you are the better. Capisce? Now here’s your scoop: A resignation will rock the department at the end of the season 6 premiere on July 12.
Question: Anything on the new season of Hung? —Lauren
Ausiello: Feeling insecure about her role in their “operation,” Tanya seeks out help from a higher power: a more experienced pimp, played by Jericho alum Lennie James. Bonus scoop: Crossing Jordan‘s Kathryn Hahn will also appear in the first few episodes as a (very pregnant!) client of Ray’s.
Question: Any scoop on Make It or Break It? —Susan
Ausiello: Lauren’s long-lost mother is about to be found. The show is searching for an actress in her 40s to play Lauren’s recovering-drug-addict mom, who shows up hoping to rebuild a relationship with her daughter.
Question: Throw your international readers a bone and tell us what the big Friday Night Lights spoiler was in last week’s Entertainment Weekly. Not everyone can go out and buy the issue on the newsstand. —Matt
Ausiello: Fair enough, Matt. The spoiler concerned the final episodes of season 5 and a possible reunion between (wait for it) Riggins and Tyra! “Riggins is getting out of prison and Tyra is on break from school,” explains exec producer Jason Katims. “We’re looking at [them] reconnecting.”
Question: I’m desperate for some scoop regarding the new seasons of Friday Night Lights and Dexter. —Sean
Ausiello: Coincidentally, I’m desperate to unload some scoop on both those shows. FNL is casting the role of a “winning and charismatic” president of a non-Texas college (to meet with Riggins, perhaps?), while Dexter is looking for an actor in his late 40s to play an internal affairs agent at Miami Metro (to investigate Dex, perhaps?). Oh, here’s another FNL scoop-bit: Kyle Chandler will be playing coach on screen and off. Sources confirm that Chandler will direct his first FNL episode next season.
Question: Is there anything that you can tell us about my new favorite show Community? — Seth
Ausiello: Only that I think it’s NBC’s new favorite show, too. How else to explain the network’s decision to devote an entire night of programming to Joel McHale’s super-silly comedy? On Thursday, July 8, the Peacock will air a six-episode Community marathon from 8 to 11 p.m. And we’re not talking about just any six episodes. We’re talking about the best six episodes of the show to date: “Intro to Statistics,” “Romantic Expressionism,” “Modern Warfare,” “Physical Education,” “Contemporary American Poultry,” and “Debate.”
Question: Some friends and I are making an impromptu road trip to New York City this weekend. I realize you are probably too busy to meet with some lowly fans, so can I at least get some 30 Rock season 5 details? —Collin
Ausiello: Yeah, um, sorry, I’m actually even too busy to get together with uppity fans, never mind the lowly ones. But here’s your 30 Rock scoop: We’ve probably seen the last of Julianne Moore — and heard the last of her Boston accent. “It seems like she has bowed out of the Jack race because of [Avery's] pregnancy,” she notes with a sigh. “But I hope in some way she gets to come back. If they asked me, I’d be there in a second” — Beantown patois and all. “I went to school in Boston and worked with a lot of guys from Dorchester, so that’s where [the accent] came from,” she explains. “We made it thick…for humor’s sake, but then again, not really. There are folks with seriously heavy accents there, and they are proud of it.” And if you didn’t like it, Collin? “That’s what TiVo is for,” she laughs. “You can just rewind if you miss something!”
Question: Any spoilers on season 6 of Supernatural? —Shira
Ausiello: I hear the show’s fourth episode back — the one directed by Jensen Ackles — will be Bobby-centric and feature a character named Marcy Ward. Described as attractive in a down-to-earth/woman-next-door way, Marcy is a capable homemaker with a crush on her neighbor.
Question: I know you’re a huge fan of Parenthood. Care to share some scoop on it? —Callie
Ausiello: We’ll meet Adam’s boss in season 2. The recurring role is being cast as we speak.
Question: Season 3 has barely started, but I am dying for some True Blood news. Got any to share? —Kelly
Ausiello: Exec producer Alan Ball teases that a big secret Bill’s “been carrying with him gets revealed at the end of the season.” That noise you hear is the sound of me dipping into the Ausiello Files archives and going Hmm…
Question: Have you received confirmation from Alan Ball that Talbot and Eric will get, ahem, down to business on True Blood this season? —Rob
Ausiello: No, but I haven’t received a denial from him, either. “I think one of the things about being a vampire and living for 100 years is you pretty much try everything,” Ball says. “Whether or not [Talbot and Eric] end up getting together I can’t reveal. I’ll definitely tell you that this season is pretty pansexual.” Yeah, got that bit from the first two episodes.
Question: Do you have something on Bones? I don’t care what, just something? —Margo
Ausiello: Series creator Hart Hanson announced yesterday via Twitter that the “tentative, penciled-in, maybe, unlocked title for [episode] 1, season 6, is ‘The Gorilla in the Room.’” But that’s not the big news. This is the big news: Sources confirm to me exclusively that the title of episode 2 is “Their Arms Around Each Other.” What does it all mean?! Hit the comments with your theories!
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 Sandra Gonzalez, Tim Stack, and Carrie Bell)
gee, the poster asked for OTHER news and all you can get is MORE huddy. ugh.
Now, it never ends >.<
i so agree. so tired of huddy.
And…? Considering the poster is thanking Ausiello for the Huddy picture, they could very well be asking for MORE Huddy news. Just saying.
(sigh) Another day at General Housepital, I see. There is no bigger turn-off for me than knowing House and Cuddy will be kissing and holding hands. Disclaimer: I am not a “bitter fangirl,” a “hater,” or a fan of any other ships, but I’ll sure be glad when they stop using scenes straight from “Huddy” fanfiction.
What kind of loser watches House?
I bet they’re the kind of losers that watches that they want to watch whatever they want.
In a related topic though, What kind of loser takes their ranting in the web? I bet those that doesn’t have a life…
Dear Iori,
You got me. You are correct, I am a loser. And I do not have friends. I am lonely and sad. I am currently sitting in a cave by myself, sustaining myself on beetles, powering my laptop by an ingenious array of pulleys and flywheels constructed from small lizards and tree sap from the local flora. I came here to escape my family, friends, industry associates, acquaintances and the lady next door who was spying on me, in the hope of completing my novel titled “why are there so many morons posting on the Ausiello Files?” I have made the dedication out to you Iori and will endeavor to send you a copy once it goes to print.
Regards, David
losers watch house
What do you watch?
“What the image depicts is rather different from what you’re going to experience when you watch the episode,”
They better NOT BE f’in with us with this Huddy stuff! It better be real!
Thank you for all the huddy scoops! Looking forward to the next season
Fine with me! Everytime House takes time away from Princeton-Plainsboro, it makes for an interesting episode. What, you think they’ll have an all-Huddy hour? Okay, they might, but it’s more likely they’ll run into a medical mystery wherever they are!
Sorry, but “what else” implies a want for more information on the same topic. If the person asking the question wanted something besides more House/Cuddy stuff, they would have used words like “besides” or “other”, like you just did. No need to be a jerk just because other people like something that you apparently don’t.
gee, the poster asked for OTHER news and all you can get is MORE huddy. ugh.
Yeah seriously.
Thanks for the Huddy scoopage as always, love them
Now, it never ends >.<
FRINGE!
I wanted some scoop too. Poor us, Quincy…
Did you write to him with a question?
FRINGE!
I wanted some scoop too. Poor us, Quincy…
Did you write to him with a question?
How about some non Huddy related news?
How about some non Huddy related news?
What about Tim and LYLA?
Seriously (I knew that was the spoiler, I just hoped I wasn’t right). If this series ends with Tim/Tyra together I will be beyond outraged. Tim/Lyla and Tyra/Landry are each extremely significant romances in this series. Tim and Tyra were never a relationship, they were always better off as friends. If they throw Tim and Tyra together for the heck of it cause they can’t get Minka Kelly back, they will have written FNL’s biggest cop out, period.
Since when were Tim/Tyra never a couple? They dated on-off throughout S1, more than Tyla anyways, and he went to her when he needed a place to stay in S2 – Tim and Lyla were only really coupled off in S3.
It’s not that they couldn’t get Minka Kelly back, it’s that she left to pursue her film career.
Stop hating on the show for doing this, stop hating on Tim/Tyra. Sure, I love Tim/Tyra, but I wouldn’t have complained or hated had it been Lyla – because I adore Tim Riggins and just want him to be happy.
Shoo, now. Go read some fanfiction.
Riggins bros just started the chop shop & now I now they’re gonna get busted! I thought Riggins might get w/Becki eventually, that age difference is only big at a young age. No biggie later on. Riggins & Lyra just seemed to get together for old times sake, they still cared but knew it wouldn’t work. Lyla wanted him to have ambitions.
I just want to see more Eric and Godric.
Another weak round of scoop…guess it’s the off season though, so what can you really expect?
I wish you had something on White Collar, since the season premiere is in a couple of weeks….
how about something about the rest of the cast of house? anything.
This.
I wish “Their Arms Around Each Other” was about B&B but I think I saw on Facebook that it’s a case. Which will hopefully transfer to B&B for real. As far as My Boys goes, I watch and so do my friends, and I hope that if season 4 is the end it won’t be a cliffhanger!! What’s this about Jim Gaffigan leaving!?
I’ve given up on B&B getting together. The producers just like to tease the viewers.
I wish “Their Arms Around Each Other” was about B&B but I think I saw on Facebook that it’s a case. Which will hopefully transfer to B&B for real. As far as My Boys goes, I watch and so do my friends, and I hope that if season 4 is the end it won’t be a cliffhanger!! What’s this about Jim Gaffigan leaving!?
That was, unfortunately, announced in January. Rachel Harris from “The Hangover” is taking his place.
And, I’m going out on a limb here and saying Stephanie is the one taking his place at the poker table.
Stephanie at the poker table will be hilarious. Especially with her romance with Kenny. Sad about Jim leaving. I love him.
Jim Gaffigan IS the show!
Concerning Bones, of course the title’s about a case, it almost always is. But that would be a weird title for Bones-shouldn’t it be (more spoiler) ‘The couple in the cave with their arms around each other.’ At least that’s what I think Hart Hansen tweeted-on of their first cases back will be about a dead couple!
So more like “The Embrace in the Cave” or something? Because it really ought to fit the pattern of episode titles: The ________ (preposition) the ________.
I totally agree. Their Arms Around Each Other makes no sense as an episode title.
Actually, “around” is a preposition. But, yea, it doesn’t fit the pattern of using “in the” in the middle of the title. It’s kind of uncomfortable, but I don’t think it’s the first time Hart’s done it.
maybe since the season finale was called the beginning in the end, they are starting to change the way they have the titles, kinda a new beginning type thing? idontknow
I literally fell on the remote and it turned to TBS and My Boys. Did my dog secretly watch the show and tripped me on purpose??? Probably not, but I’m glad he did. But how can Jim G leave?!? He’s her brother on the show. I love their dynamic.
I agree, I bet that ‘arms around each other’ refers to two skeletons found in an embrace…on the upside, it should allow for some reflection on the need for human connection by bones and booth.
I’m thrilled My Boys is finally coming back, with or without Gaffigan.
This actually fits just fine. Many of the titles have had other prepositions as well as other lead nouns as well. Harbingers under the fountain…Titan on the tracks…Boy in a Bush… Two Bodies in the Lab… The parts in the sum of the whole… Death of the Queen Bee. It’s not always one noun.. the preposition “in” and another noun. So just go with it.
Of course it refers to the couple, but maybe it will have interesting reprocussions for Bones and Booth. Perhaps it’s Brennan telling Booth more about her couple of interspecies homonids in Maluku, and drawing similarities betweeen them. After all, in many ways, they are almost different species…the way they look at life! lol. interesting.
it will be about a couple who died with their arms around each other, and when bones finds them, booth will say something about the love of that couple, and brennan won’t be on agree with him, AGAIN. and in the end of the episode she will realise that booth was right about something.
I’ve given up on B&B getting together. The producers just like to tease the viewers.
Awesome news about House! while Robert doesn’t like huddy, it just doesn’t seem necessary to go on and on about how it’s terrible. I just don’t see how blasting that on ausiello’s site will change anything.
Awesome news about House! while Robert doesn’t like huddy, it just doesn’t seem necessary to go on and on about how it’s terrible. I just don’t see how blasting that on ausiello’s site will change anything.
and it doesn’t seem necessary to go on about how “awesome” it is either.
It doesn’t seem necessary to be a douche either.
I was already so excited for the Jensen Ackles’ directed episode of Supernatural, and hearing that it will be about Bobby (and that he maybe gets a love interest) makes me even more excited. I just hope that they don’t make too many filler episodes this season and instead spend more time on Sam and Dean’s relationship.