Image Credit: Andrew Eccles/ABC Family Aria & Ezra scoop please! Do they tell her parents the first episode back, or will that happen further into the season? – @goodr_a 
They’ll learn the truth — and they’re anything but pleased. But I promise you that the scene is pure gold — and not just for the heaps of awkward silences and looks (it’s really fun watching Ezra squirm!). Someone ends up getting punched! As for dish on the rest of the season, you’ll have to wait just a bit. I’m going to a little ABC Family holiday party this Sunday, and will be hard at work searching for answers to all your burning questions. So send them to me, PLL fans! spoilerroom@ew.com and follow me on Twitter for fun pics and updates: @EWSandraG.
Sandra, I’m not sure what’s wrong with my friends. None of them watch Homeland! I’m really reconsidering our relationship. But I know you watch, so what can you tell me about Brody’s plan. — Michael
This week’s episode, titled “Representative Brody,” doesn’t particularly give us too many more clues about any secret plot he might have going because everything about his future is seemingly out on the table — as you might have surmised from the title of the episode. The problem is Jessica has to be on board before Brody makes any leap, and let’s just say she’s less than thrilled about the idea. Bonus dish: The end of the hour will find one of the main characters in a hospital bed after a horrible and incredibly terrifying incident.
Hi Sandra. It’s been a while since I’ve seen any good Blue Bloods scoops. Anything will be great, but I’m wondering are we going to revisit Jamie’s undercover with the mob storyline soon? Thanks! — Traci
Not sure about Jamie, but since you said “anything”: an episode in the second half of the season will find Frank somewhere he’s never been before — on a therapist’s couch!
Harry’s Law is fantastic. Thanks for showing it some love every now and then. Would love some more scoop if you have it! Is that greedy? Oh, well. You’ll forgive me, right? 
— Alison
Sure. What’s some scoop between friends? Plus, there’s no way I wasn’t going to pass along this little bit courtesy of Christopher McDonald, who told us about an upcoming episode of the NBC drama that was inspired by that tragic animal massacre that took place in Ohio a few weeks ago. (Fair warning: The full story will pretty much leave you devastated.) “[Harry and Tommy] are out shooting birds when what walks by but a Bengal tiger, and Tommy goes after [it] with birdshot. Seriously, I’m not making this up. It is good fun. We report the animal that they missed. What they find in the process is a woman who is living with a great ape,” he says. “It could rip her face off, but is actually tame. She knows sign language, and it knows sign language. She’s been having a great time with this ape for about a month but that is just not cool for the rest of the neighbors. Is not a great storyline? I loved it.”
Suburgatory scoop plllleaaaassseeeeeeeeee!!! — Kelly
Next week features a breakup and a very important kiss under the mistletoe that just filled me with holiday cheer… and filled someone else with rage. Also, keep an eye out at the end of the episode, where Jeremy Sisto fans will get a cute reminder of his Elton days!
Do you have any scoop on the Bernadette/Howard wedding? I am so excited for this. Blessings and regards from Cologne, Germany. Have a nice day Sandra. — Svenja
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The pair has a little bit to go before making it down the aisle, and there are some important conversations to be had, particularly one about the possibility of mini-Wolowitzes. (Wolowitzi?) Anyway, I hear that will happen in early January and it’s a hoot of an ep!
Thanks for the Leverage scoop, but you gotta tell me, are we going to see any Nate/Sophie action?! — Becky
Then I’m fairly certain you’ll be pleased with the sweet Nate/Sophie smooch in the episode airing on Christmas Day. Sincerely, Sandra Clause.
It’s been weeks since you’ve had Hawaii Five-0 scoop. Anything for me this week? Don’t make me beg!! — Becca
Part of me likes this whole begging idea, but ’tis the season to be not-a-jerk, so here ya go: the show is currently casting a boy to play 16-year-old McGarrett for a few short flashback scenes in an upcoming episode that will take us back to a very painful part of his past.
Sandra, I don’t know why everyone keeps saying last week’s Gellar reveal on Dexter was predictable. Am I the only one who didn’t see it coming?! Anyway, I will say that I’ve been a little down on this season. Is it going to get better in the last episodes? –Kim
I can say that next week’s episode is better than many this season — thanks in no small part to the debut of My Boys‘s Jordana Spiro, who plays one half of a crazy-ass couple who follows Professor Gellar’s teachings. If it sounds like a dark role, it’s because it is. And she totally kills it. (I’m so pun-ny!) Meanwhile, I feel like the stakes are raised in this episode, giving it a sense of urgency that’s been missing this season. This may or may not involve one or more officers being put in great danger by the end of the hour… (Also, did you read this?)
Image Credit: Chris Haston/NBC Chuck
Breaks are never fun, but at least when the show returns you’ll be treated to an awesome guest spot from Rebecca Romjin, who plays Robyn Cummings, an operative at the CIA who is tied into the plot to destroy Charles Carmichael and his young fledgling company. “And she also has a special skill,” adds executive producer Chris Fedak. “She calls it an art-form — but other people might call it torture.” And even though she’ll only appear in one episode, Fedak says she’ll have an “incredibly important effect on the rest of the season, especially considering the plot we have in motion.” “It’s going to lead into our midseason episode — which is our Christmas episode the week after,” he says. “It’s a very big story and a lot of very exciting things happen. And Agent Cummings is tied into that.”
Burn Notice, please! – Taylor
First, a notice: Next week, Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar will be coming into EW to chat with me, and I’m always looking for questions! Hint, hint. Actually, that wasn’t a hint at all. I’m telling you to send your questions. Anyway, I’ll leave the major teases for the stars, but all I can say is that after watching the finale, I’m not sure how the team is going to get themselves out of the major predicament we see them in at the end of the season. Cliffhanger? Oh, you bet.
(Mandi Bierly, Lynette Rice, Carrie Bell, Lanford Beard, and Ben Wood contributed to this column)
