Read all about the MOONLIGHT Comic-Con panel over at Ducky Does TV!

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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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!

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.

Wow, CBS is really retooling their new fall Vampire show MOONLIGHT - and for the better! Last week it was announced that Veronica Mars alum Jason Dohring is joining the cast and today we have further developments.

Ex-Supermodel and just okay actress Amber Valetta is OUT and Shannyn Sossamon is IN! I love Shannyn Sossamon and I am so excited to see her back in the fold! If you don’t know who Shannyn Sossamon is, then I beg of you to check out RULES OF ATTRACTION on DVD. You may have recently seen her on the FX show DIRT with Courtney Cox Arquette but sadly I think many may remember her from A Knights Tale.

Sossamon will play Coraline, the vampire who sired main character Mick. Mick’s got quite the list of hot vamp friends, just how I like em!!! We have to thank Angel co-creator David Greenwalt for all the extra Vamp goodies because since he came aboard last month, the show is shaping up to be MUST SEE TV!

Moonlight is getting brighter and brighter each week!

Here we go gang, the shows are gearing up to begin filming and the networks are beginning to tinker with their new fall pilots. So far this week we’ve learned of three recasts and while some of it is old news, I thought I’d bring you the latest.

PRIVATE PRACTICE:
Remember how excited everyone was to see the new Grey’s Anatomy spin-off? Remember how excited everyone was to see an Alias alum finding yet another show? Remember watching the quasi-pilot and finding zero chemistry between said Alias alum and the shows uber star Kate Walsh? Yeah, no need to worry any more because ABC has recast the role of Naomi Bennett. While I love me some Evil Francie, Merrin Dungey just didn’t seem to work in that Grey’s episode. She was angry and stilted and a little too cute to be backup for Addison. For all the scoop and to see who’s replacing Francie, head on over to GiveMeMyRemote.com

MOONLIGHT:
This is great news for all the fans of Veronica Mars and the shirtless Jason Dohring! The old geezer role of Josef, who was originally played by a man in his 60s I believe. To go for the girls and gays, they obviously went for JDoh. Dohring will play Josef, an ancient vampire who is confidante to Mick (the main character). Unlike Mick, the eternally young, wealthy and mischievous Josef relishes his immortality. So basically its Logan Echolls with fangs!

BIONIC WOMAN:
NBC’s super strong fall pilot BIONIC WOMAN is in the midst of a mini-retooling. Jamie Sommers has a deaf sister Becca played by Arrested Development’s Anne, who? Anne, who? Oh her… Anyhoo, they’ve decided to go in a different direction with the sister and current actress Mae Whitman is out. No word on who’s next or if the sister will even be deaf any longer. Stay tuned.

CBS finally announced the Fall Lineup today and amen, How I Met Your Mother is still on the hunt for a Mother!!!

I realize there is really NOTHING on CBS I watch. I thought ABC was my least watched network, but looking below at the lineup for the fall, I realized it’s the Eye.

What am I interested in NEW shows wise you ask? Let’s see…

VIVA LAUGHLIN
It’s about a businessman wanting to open a Casino in Laughlin, NV. Too bad Hugh Jackman runs a rival Casino. Wait, Hugh Jackman? Hells yeah, he’s also Exec. Producer.

I like it. I love it! The singing to music that actually moves the plot forward but is still just music in an episode. It’s like watching Moulin Rouge but where the actors just sing along. What you ask? Oh yes, there is singing!

Did I mention Melanie Griffith shows up, President Palmer the 2nd chimes in also. Well that and the fact that Madchen Amick co-stars and she’ll forever be Shelly from Twin Peaks! “New Shoes *raspberry noise*” I’m soooooo there!

MOONLIGHT
Vampires, enough said!

And the coolest show since Freaks & Geeks… SWINGTOWN! Swingtown doesn’t start until mid-season but it is hands down the best new show besides Pushing Daisies on a rival network. Granted, have I seen the pilots? Not yet but I will and I’m making assumptions based on my keen sense of picking what’s awesome.

Yeah, that’s about it… Well, besides those pesky 40 kids without parents for 40 days trying to make a town successful again. Yes folks, reality TV took kids and left them to their own wits in KID NATION.

The Amazing Race was renewed but not until the Spring 2008 season and the other good thing is that Without a Trace is going back to Thursdays!

Monday
8 p.m. How I Met Your Mother
8:30 p.m. The Big Bang Theory*
9 p.m. Two and a Half Men
9:30 Rules of Engagement
10 p.m. CSI Miami

Tuesday
8 p.m. NCIS
9 p.m. The Unit
10 p.m. Cane*

Wednesday
8 p.m. Kid Nation*
9 p.m. Criminal Minds
10 p.m. CSI: NY

Thursday
8 p.m. Survivor
9 p.m. CSI
10 p.m. Without a Trace

Friday
8 p.m. Ghost Whisperer
9 p.m. Moonlight*
10 p.m. Numbers

Saturday
8 p.m. Crimetime Saturday
9 p.m. Crimetime Saturday
10 p.m. 48 Hours Mystery

Sunday
7 p.m. 60 Minutes
8 p.m. Viva Laughlin*
9 p.m. Cold Case
10 p.m. Shark

*=new show

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