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.

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

The second female regular being added to SUPERNATURAL this season is Bela, a supernatural arms dealer of sorts. Bela is being played by actress Lauren Cohen.

Here are a few pictures of SUPERNATURAL’s Lauren Cohen from The CW TCA’s:

Don’t forget to meet Katie Cassidy as well.

SUPERNATURAL adds two females this season and one of them is Katie Cassidy who plays fellow demon hunter, Ruby.

Here are some pictures of Katie Cassidy from The CW TCA’s.

Photos Courtesy of Starpulse

This weekend, TVGuide’s Pooper Scooper Michael Ausiello got to sit down with SUPERNATURAL Creator and Exec. Producer Eric Kripke to hash out some of the online rumors that are spreading.

It all began when casting of two female “regulars” was announced. Fans freaked the frak out! How could Kripke introduce two “love interests”? How can they mess up the dynamics of the show? How could they, how could they, how could they? I didn’t think anything because I wanted to know more about these girls. Who are these two women coming to possibly temp our beloved Winchester boys?

Ruby (played by Katie Cassidy) is a demon hunter who’s a bit of a loose cannon. Bela (love the name btw - played by Lauren Cohen) is a sort of demon arms dealer. She works in amulets and other magical trinkets on the black market.

So, what does Eric Kripke have to say about these girls and what does he have to say to all of us rabid fans?

Eric Kripke: First of all, I love our fans. I love them to death. I love how passionate they are. But they tend to worry unnecessarily. They tend to get stressed before they have a chance to judge the finished product. We are so conscious and aware of our fans. We’re making the show for the fans; we’re not making the show for the network. We would never do anything to betray them. I’m not saying we’re perfect. I’m not saying we don’t make mistakes. But we’re very conscious and aware. And when we do make mistakes, we course-correct. So if I can get any message to them, it’s, ‘Don’t worry. We’re making choices based on what’s best creatively for the show.

Kripke: …The trick, we feel, is to introduce them as fleshed-out characters with their own inner lives, and then see what develops. And the other thing is, the girls are very separate and very different. And very rarely are they in the same episode, because they’re each serving very different story lines. Ruby (Katie Cassidy) is this demon hunter, who is ruthless and a little crazy and rough around the edges, and doesn’t share the same moral conscience that either of the boys share. A little unhinged in that way. There’s going to be a big twist about Ruby very early on. As early as Episode 2 you’re going to learn something very fascinating about Ruby.

And what about Bela?
Kripke: Bela (Lauren Cohan) is actually something we never presented on Supernatural before, which is someone who lives in this world who actually isn’t a hunter. She’s a thief and a mercenary. And all of these amulets and magical objects that the boys are always stealing and using to fight creatures are actually worth a lot of money. And there’s someone to buy and sell them. And she’s really not interested in the altruistic or obsessed or revenge-minded motives of hunting. She’s interested in a free-market economy and making a buck. She’s in it for herself. That’s someone they’ve really never come across before. ‘I don’t really care if you stop that ghost, I want that amulet,’ which if she disappears with it, the boys are screwed.

Read Ausiello’s entire interview with Eric Kripke about SUPERNATURAL SEASON 3.

Don’t forget to read about my SUPERNATURAL SET VISIT.

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.

Supernatural “All Hell Breaks Loose”

The Winchester boys had one hell of a sophomore finale. One died, the other sold his soul to the devil to resurrect the other, their dead Father crawled from the depths of hell to wrassle with the Yellow Eyed Demon, Sam may or may not have come back from the dead a little different (hey it happened to Buffy) because he was more than willing to pop a cap in another human’s ass (granted that bitch - Dean’s words not mine - deserved it), the Roadhouse burned to the ground killing a bunch of hunters and our beloved and mulleted Ash, and finally Dean was able to kill YED with the famous COLT, putting an end to that chapter of their lives of torment. YED killed their Mother and Jessica and forced these two into the lives they lead now and it was incredible to see Dean waste this demon.

Oh, did I mention that they opened the gates of hell for a few minutes which released a couple hundred evil spirits back onto Earth?

Yeah, I guess this is where we’ll be going for Season 3. Well, there and on Sam’s quest to get Dean out of his one year life contract with the Devil. Should be a season of fun, sun, and puppies…

Speaking of puppy…dog eyes… could Jensen have been better in his crying scenes? He was really impressive, as we’ve not really had many moments where Dean’s lost it over the last two seasons. I love his dedication to his brother and his promise to always protect Sammy, even if it means giving back the borrowed time he’s already living on. He’s the real deal. He’s not afraid to sacrifice his life for his family. His Father made a deal with the devil to save Dean and in return he did the same for Sam. Hi, who’s winning the unselfish Brother of the Year Award?

More after the jump…
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Supernatural Season 2 Finale Tonight

All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2 concludes a spectacular Season 2 in which those Winchester boys and the show really found their comfort zone and created incredibly scary and witty television.

This is also the episode I got to see film when I went out to Vancouver for the Supernatural Set Visit!

Here is the picture that breaks my frakkin’ heart!

Seriously it almost brings tears to my eyes to look at! Don’t you just want to hug Dean/Jensen and rub his strong back and caress his sweet pretty fa… wait, hello!

Tune in tonight to see how this kick ass show ends a kick ass year. The CW tonight at 9pm.

*UPDATE: My thoughts on the finale have been posted here.

Supernatural gets better and better with each passing episode. Last week’s DVR snafu caused the Winchesters to be pushed out of the recording slot and into dvr limbo which caused some cursing and some throwing but thanks to my friends at iTunes, we’re golden.

“What Is and Should Never Be” was one hell of an emotional roller coaster of sadness and thrills. Jensen Ackles did the acting of a lifetime as he lived out the nightmare world that would be his perfect wish… having his Mother alive and seeing Sam with Jess. Too bad it came with a price. Papa Winchester was still dead, though this time of a stroke and oh yeah, did I mention the part where a semi-sexy tattooed evil Genie was killing him softly?

Dean is still that little boy that watched his family be ripped apart by a demon, who couldn’t become his own person because he was thrown into “hunting” with his Father while his brother was allowed to traipse off to College leaving him with the burdens of the family and the brunt of the baggage that comes along with being a Winchester.

Dean got the harsh reality of what could have been and by eps end, what should never be. Scripted by the shows creator Eric Kripke, it was an emotional episode that not only opened up the character of Dean, but opened the mythology wrapped around this series.

I broke Dean’s heart (and mine) to see that he has no relationship with Sam. It broke my heart to catch a glimpse of hope and happiness on all the Winchester’s faces knowing the reality of the situation. Simply superb storytelling.

Now lets get to the fun stuff!

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Okay so I’m a bad fan (or maybe just busy) and just watched this past week’s episode of SUPERNATURAL. There are so many things about it that I just have to dive right in…

The Gilmore Girls reference and Sam’s facial expression - Priceless

Sam (on the LA weather): “It’s practically Canadian!”

Gary Cole is always great and sure is dead!

Dean: “What’s a P.A.?”
Sam: “I think they’re kinda like slaves.”

Could Dean have been more into Craft Services? Hysterical.

I loved the idea of the studio creating fake deaths and accidents on set to create a buzz while acting as a motivator for the cast.

Dean’s movie trivia/knowledge is quite extensive, who knew?

The 3 Men & a Baby reference - Loved it

Sam: “Maybe the spirits are trying to shut down the movie because it sucks?”

Did Walter remind you of Jonathan from Buffy? Just not as cute or funny.

The Die Hard line… I almost died when Dean said it: “Come out to the Coast, get together, have a few laughs…”

“You’re One Hell of a P.A.”

And I was so excited because there were all these references and visuals from my set visit! Within minutes I saw some folks from production roaming around the fake Hollywood set. The one I was most excited about was Fan Coordinator Lesley DeHaan whom Sam bumped into on set. Shout out to my girl Lesley, love her!

Next was the fake movie poster for the slasher flick Carnivore Carnival which I got a picture of.

One of the Visual FX shots we saw them creating in the second VX trailer was used in “Hollywood Babylon.” We got to see one of the main FX guys working on adding the Verizon logo to Sam’s phone. Its the phone that they wield around to see the spirits and that Verizon logo was not originally on there. They had to digitally add it to every frame of the shots. *Interesting tidbit, the fingers seen holding the phone do not belong to JPad, but rather to the actual VFX artist involved in creating the visual. How fun.

It wasn’t the best episode of Supernatural but it was great to see a different (and more fun) side to Dean while Sam had to play the straight man. I cannot wait until next week when we get the return of some Winchesters and their spouses…

The first new SUPERNATURAL episode since my visit to the set is tonight and its called “Hollywood Babylon.”

I’m psyched to see the boys, see the various sets and to see if I recognize anything we saw lying around any of the sound stages while we were there. I’m hoping that something random in the props area or a left over set might trigger a memory which will make me love the show even more.

Entertainment Weekly this past week named Supernatural their Must Watch of the Week so hopefully more people will tune in and see JPad and my newest TV Boyfriend Jensen Ackles kick some ass.

The always incredible Gary Cole guest stars tonight as Brad Redding (channelling his Office Space character - you’ll see) when the boys pay a visit to a Hollywood Horror set that sounds a little on the Poltergeist set incident myth side. Them Winchester’sm even on vacation they can’t not fight the dark forces… of the Studio System!

Supernatural Set Visit - Part 3
Read Part 1 | Part 2

I know that you’ve all been very patient in coming back to read my reports from the SUPERNATURAL set visit. It’s been quite a while and that’s because I’ve had a lot of person stuff going on that hasn’t allowed me time to be online and/or writing. So let’s get right to the final parts of my set visits, shall we?

I think my favorite part of the day had to be when we were able to pop in on the Visual FX guys. It’s truly amazing that these guys create all of the FX in house and that they really only have the same 8 day schedule that production follows.

I knew I would instantly love these FX guys the second I walked into their trailers. The horror films of my childhood filled their walls, Friday The 13th, Dawn of the Dead, and the original Nightmare on Elm Street. The films, along with the original Halloween, that made me a huge horror film (and made me wet my pants in terror through middle school) as a child and probably warped my mind forever. I guess this led me in some ways to cult-like shows and films.

We were treated to the Supernatural Season 2 FX reel which was about a 5 minutes compilation of their favorite effects from this season’s first 10 episodes. I called it their Emmy Reel, some people laughed, but why the hell not? Some of the green screen work they do is incredible and nothing worse than anything else on television. In fact, some of the ghost shots, some gun shot wounds, some explosions (maybe featuring an arm hitting a door jam and splattering against the camera, maybe not!) and then the infamous black smoke are on par with a good amount of movies out there today.

These guys are pros, through and through. We found out that the exterior helicopter/Bank scenes in Nightshifter were 100% CGI. They used a still photograph of the exterior of the bank and then made composite upon composite and after 18 different layering/motion/effects composites came up with what we saw on television - a seamless computer generated shot and you honestly cannot tell has no real elements in it. Incredible work.

The funniest part of the Nightshifter helicopter scene is that in the background, atop one of the buildings is a billboard. A billboard of Sam and Dean. It’s the green promo shot from the fall’s CW launch campaign. Hysterical. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d never see it. I love that a shot of the boys got in and on the air without the audience noticing. At least, I didn’t see anything online saying anyone noticed.

*Fun Sidebar: While Rae and I were roaming around Vancouver over the weekend we found the bank that is used in the Nightshifter episode! We were so damn proud of ourselves because we just walked around all day and found a part of town that looked the oldest - then WHAMMO! There it was! We would do so well on the Amazing Race with our abilities.

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Supernatural Set Visit - Part 2
Part 1 is here

So where did we leave off? I’d threatened to kill Rae, I’d confessed to sending nudes of myself to Jensen and Jared, we learned that Teamsters will always beat someone from T.O. any day, and we learned that 1000 paper cranes conveniently fit into a shoebox - who knew?

Can I just tell you that these sound stages are huge folks. There were probably a hundred or so tombstones scattered throughout one of them and that only took up a smidgen of the space; For kicks an Impala or two floating around the bushes or behind a graveyard for safe keeping can easily fit with a whole house, a doll house, and some heavy machinery without a problem.

See there are numerous Impalas, all used for different functions. Some have roofs that are easily removed, or doors, trunks, etc. that can come off depending on what is needed for any given shot in any given episode. It’s creepy how many Impala’s there were. I had flashes of Christine.

We were lucky enough to play around with the cars for a while. We got to see them light the picture in the middle, the long shot of the car. They were going to be filming in the car later in the day. After getting clearance from some folks, we were given the green light to get into the car! Oh yeah baby, my ass would be sitting right where Dean’s ass sits. It’s intimacy by proxy and leather. That’s hot!

That was me doing my best badass. I realize I may have possibly only intimidated Rainbow Brite but what can ya do?

Speaking of Rainbow Brite and dolls… see, nice transition right? Remember those creepy ass dolls that were lurking around in the haunting hotel episode, Playthings, starring Maia from The 4400?

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I barely know where to begin talking about my weekend in Vancouver and my visit to the set of The CW’s kickass show SUPERNATURAL.

I know I need to send a huge thanks and shout out to Holly and Winson at Warner Bros. for once again hooking a brother up! Veronica Mars was an incredible experience last year and I’m so fortunate to have been invited back for another Blogger day, this time with my boys, Jensen and Jared.

To get the obvious fan stuff out of the way first, I will state for the record that JPad is a large man. He is a beautiful man, we all know this. He stands like 6′ 4″ and has shoulders as wide as I am tall. Who knew? Jensen has always been considered the small one but ladies and gents, he’s gotta be 6′ 1″ and that my friends, is nothing to shake a stick at (or throw out of bed).

What I need to confess though is that for all the time I’ve been a Jared fan, I’ve been missing out… I may have crossed over to the other side. The other Winchester.

I’m switching brothers… maybe. Jensen when he holds your hand and gazes into your eyes is WOW folks… WOW! It’s swoon worthy dream boat time. Birds chirped, our eyes met, and a record scratched when he diverted his attention to Rae standing next to me and said her name twice.

I’ve got a shovel and a .45 Rae, I doubt you’ll be missed!

Alright, now that I’ve just lost all credibility, I threatened to kill a friend, and lost any chance at convincing someone I might be straight so what the hell…

THE BOYS ARE HOT. You know it, I know it and they have to know it.

Now, can I move on?

Geeze, all this gushing…

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