I leave in a mere 5 hours for sunny San Diego where I’ll probably see no sun or feel no summer loving as I’ll be spending all of my time inside the San Diego Convention Center with 200,000 of my closest geek friends.

COMIC-CON 2007 begins tomorrow and I’m there all weekend with GMMR and some other TV Bloggers for the biggest group of television panels a fan could dream of.

Want LOST scoop? Heroes Spoilers? Supernatural Hotties? Battlestar’s Final Season Spoiler? The dish on new shows like Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Bionic Woman, Reaper, Moonlight, Journeyman, and many more? Want a podcast chock full of these goodies? Well, keep checking back all weekend as I’ll try and post some updates each night.

Want to follow me all day, Thursday through Sunday while I try and get Lee Pace naked? Follow me on TWITTER! There’s also a Twitter panel on the right hand sidebar. Check back for updates throughout the day, all day, all weekend!

While I’m gone, please head on over to my new site… DUCKY DOES TV! I’m in the midst of moving all posts there so that will be Ducky’s new home very very very soon! Let me know what you think. I love the new layout and I’m still working on all the content so bear with me.

May the force be with you or something dorky like that!

SPIKE JOINS TORCHWOOD and I go GAGA!

Wow, the hour difference between landing in San Diego and the Torchwood Comic-Con panel I was already freaking out about getting to just got increasingly smaller after this announcement.

Buffy alum James Marsters is guest starring in the premiere of BBC’s Doctor Who spin-off TORCHWOOD! Don’t jump yet. He’s not in the series premiere (this fall on Sci-Fi) as over in England, they’re well ahead of us, series wise. James Marsters won’t be on until Season 2 (currently in production across the pond), its something huge for fans to look forward to!

Does this mean he gets to use that cheeky british accent again?

According to UnitNews:

Marsters, who will appear in the opening episode of the series, says his character is “naughty and a bit of a psychopath.”

Sweet, just how I like my blondie-bear!

We’re back… Podcast #11: Big Brother 8, Burn Notice, Psych, So You Think You Can Dance, Transformers, Rescue Me, Kathy Griffin, Porn, Prison, Ugly Betty, Comic-Con and more.

TV Podcast 11: Ducky and GMMR take a dip in the technical difficulties pool and come out swinging.

BIG BROTHER 8 has arrived and we’re obsessed. We talk spoilers, live feeds, and our favorites. What do we think about BURN NOTICE? PSYCH’s back on USA. KATHY GRIFFIN does gay porn and RESCUE ME forgets to rescue one of their own.

Do we need two karaoke shows? We dissect SPELLING BEE and DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE continues to dominate the summer and we talk about our new favorites.

A little TRANSFORMERS talk? Sure, just a bit. COMIC-CON? Yes, we’re now Comic-Con geeks and we preview our trip at the end of July. PUSHING DAISIES, MOONLIGHT, BIONIC WOMAN and other Fall Shows.

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As you’ve maybe heard me mention in one or two posts, I’m taking my first trip to San Diego’s COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL in two weeks.

Comic-Con has moved beyond the manga lovin’, furry wearing, swoard bearing, trekkies you’re thinking about right now. It’s more than a comic book convention. It’s a sci-fi convention as well. That doesn’t make it sound any less geek central does it? It’s turning into a Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy Film and TV Convention as well. Sound better? I thought so.

As you know, I’m one of the people that runs The Independent Film Festival of Boston (shout out Nancy, Brian, and Christine who regularly read the blog and are my cohorts) and obviously you know I’m a big TV geek. The chance to see panel discussions, meet creators of film and tv shows I love, see sneak previews of films and tv shows I love is just too big. I must go!

GMMR and I are shacking up in San Diego for the week and we’ll be meeting up with Rae, The TV Addict, Seat42f and many other tv bloggers (as well as 250,000 of our closest and scariest friends) to cover all things fall tv! We’re also hoping to do a huge TV Bloggers Podcast or two!

What shows are gonna be there? The list is big and here are the ones I plan on attending in some capacity.

TORCHWOOD (BBC America’s spin-off of Doctor Who)
LOST
REAPER
MOONLIGHT
24
CHUCK
PUSHING DAISIES
BIONIC WOMAN
TVGuide’s Hot List and Super Women
HEROES
KYLE XY
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
SUPERNATURAL
SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES
SARAH SILVERMAN PROJECT
BUFFY’s 10th Anniversary
TIN MAN
The 4400
JERICHO

Granted some of these panels overlap so there will be a few that get missed but TV wise, this is my dream list. There are also a number of film events that I want to attend.

Paramount Studios Presentation, Lionsgate Presentation, FANBOYS (with Kristin Bell), Warner Bros Films, 20th Century Fox, Shoot Em Up, Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN!!!!!, Rogue/Focus films, The Incredible Hulk with Ed Norton and many more.

Kinda crazy, huh?

Are any of you guys going? What do you want me to find out or meet or see while I’m there? Let me know.

Who doesn’t want to have dinner with Buffy/Angel/Firefly creator Joss Whedon while they’re at Comic-Con this month? I do! I’ll be at Comic-Con (yes, I’m officially now a geek) and you bet your fangs I wanna hang with the most influential cult creator of my generation.

Aint It Cool News’ own Herc has the scoop on how to dine with Joss and how to help a charity in doing so.

Joss Whedon, the mastermind behind “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Firefly,” and many of their attendant spinoffs and sequels, is auctioning off a three-hour dinner with himself to benefit “Equality Now,” which works to prevent – among other things – the stoning of young women. I think this is a cause most of us can get behind.

To bid on Dinner with Joss Whedon at Comic-Con click here. 5 Lucky winners will be chosen and wined and dined by the master himself.

Bidding begins today, July 2nd!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSS WHEDON!

Saturday, June 23rd is Buffy/Angel/Firefly creator Joss Whedon’s birthday. Just as he did last year, he’s using the birth of Christ his birthday for good not evil.

It’s the second annual SERENITY screening benefiting Equality Now. In honor of his birthday, theatres around the country are screening the film about Capt. Mal and Co. with proceeds going to Equality Now (Whedon’s charity of choice) - for more information on attending a “Serenity/Equality Now Happy Birthday Jesus Joss” event head on over to CAN’T STOP THE SERENITY.

From the Browncoats themselves:

You need to be there because you’ll have an excellent opportunity to walk away with great Verse merchandise, like the Serenity: Special Edition DVD* from Universal Home Entertainment, an autographed copy of Finding Serenity from BenBella Books, an autographed CD from the Bedlam Bards, and so much more. (Check with your local organizer for the rundown of giveaways in your area.)

You need to be there because the proceeds go to a great cause. Equality Now is doing amazing work around the globe, bringing the vision of gender equality closer to reality every day through campaigns against issues such as rape, female genital mutilation, spousal abuse.

You need to be there because this will be the event Browncoats worldwide will be talking about this event for a long time to come, and regret doesn’t sit well with your complexion.

Last year I won a Firefly bracelet and it’s pretty rad. See, you actually do win stuff. And Joss is behind this and it’s for a great cause so please go see Serenity!

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 #1 hits the stands on March 7th.  The first story arc will be a 4 issue arc so I’m totally psyched and out of control looking for information on this.

Here is the cover art for Issue #1.

Here’s the cover art for Issue #2

Look at badass Xander! Issue #2 hits stores on April 9th!

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: Season 8 Comic Book
Premieres March 2007!

So as all you Buffy-philes know by now, Joss Whedon has created a new comic book which follows our favorite slayer and her gang of Scoobies. It’s being called the 8th season of Buffy and its supposed to pick up sometime after the Hellmouth is destroyed.

MTV.com has an interview with Buffy creator and the man behind the continuation of our beloved show, Joss Whedon. To learn when the comic book picks up, what was with that damn Italian Immortal dude that sent Angel and Spike into a tizzy, the whereabouts of Xander, Dawn, and possibly even some scoop on the cut in half bunny hater.

Click more to read major spoilers!

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