January 8, 2008 the People’s Choice Awards will be held and for the first time in like, forever (possibly) the “people” are getting things right. Favorite New Comedy nominees are Samantha Who, Chuck, Pushing Daisies. Favorite New Drama’s are Private Practice, Moonlight, Gossip Girl.

This one’s tough but I think I have to vote for Pushing Daisies and Gossip Girl! Who will you vote for?

VOTE FOR PUSHING DAISIES AS BEST COMEDY

This is really random but I have to post about it because I’m seriously obsessed with washing my hands at my bathroom sink. no I don’t have a real OCD problem but I’ve developed Seasonal OCD thanks to my friends at METHOD. Method (available at Target) created a few holiday scents and last weekend I purchased the red Hollyberry scented hand soap.

It’s Christmas in your hand. It’s sensory overload of glorious pine tree and holly. I can barely stand it. I’ve washed my hands 3x already and I’ve only been home for 80 minutes. I wash them right before bed so the scent lingers and I think I’ve got my cat hooked as well because she loves me scratching her cheeks even more now that the Hollyberry’s working it’s Christmas magic. I’ve turned into a Hollyberry Pusher and I’m proud.

Get your self some now!

DECEMBER 14th 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.

BOSTON TV FANS AND WGA WRITERS dust off your picket signs, your sandwich boards, your megaphones, and walking sneaks because it’s time for us to throw down Boston style! The Browncoats, the Sci-Fi geeks and the intellectual humorists will descend upon Cambridge to support the striking writers.

From Jamie Paglia (Sci-Fi’s Eureka):

We are planning the event for Friday, December 14th from 12 noon – 3 pm. There will be an assembly of writers, fans (and potentially celebrity guests!) at the distinguished public affairs program Cambridge Forum in the Meeting House of the historic First Parish (Unitarian Universalist) Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge, MA 02138. There, guest speakers (which so far include Joss Whedon, Rob Kutner with a few of his Daily Show crew, and myself) will say a few words of thanks to our fans and talk about the cause they’re supporting. Once we are sufficiently pumped up, everyone will march with picket signs and pamphlets through Harvard Square to a rally outside of the famed Harvard Lampoon building, where so many great television comedy writers cut their teeth. It will offer a chance for Boston fans and writers to walk side by side, show the media and AMPTP that we’re galvanized in our cause, and we’re growing. We know our position is just, and we’ll keep adding similar demonstrations in cities across the country until we get a fair deal. (In the event that an agreement between the Guild and the AMPTP is reached prior to the rally, we’ll simply change the focus to a celebration of the resolution.)

Your job is to show up and bring your friends! We want fans of all shows and films in attendance. We wouldn’t be here without you and we want to show the studios and networks that our fans are a force to be reckoned with. So get on the fan boards and spread the word.

Ducky will be there and I’m hoping my girl GMMR will be as well. Will you join us?

I was so excited to see an article today in the Boston Globe about Project Runway Season 3 fave Laura Bennett. I worship and adore the crazy ass Mother of 1000 who lives in a killer loft in Manhattan and is married to a 600 year old fertile fossil of a husband so this was very fun for me to read.

In the article, not only does Bennett talk about her home away from home which is somewhere in Massachusetts (I’m so stalking her this weekend), she also discusses her new show with the Producers of Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. It’s a GAME SHOW folks. She’s plum crazy!

During the week, Bennett lives in Manhattan with her husband, five boys (her daughter is away at college), and a pair of nannies. But on the weekends, she escapes to this rural corner of Massachusetts. Her home is set on 14 acres with both a pond and a swimming pool in the backyard.

Before inviting a reporter to the house, she warns that the retreat isn’t a fussy country home – and she’s right. It’s a former barn that was converted into a residence sometime in the 1960s. It is an ideal place for a family with five rambunctious boys and a male nanny (“Mannies are very stylish,” Bennett enthuses). The front lawn is covered with signs – a trampoline, dirt bikes, and lots of no longer functioning cars – that the house is occupied by boys of all ages, and not a woman who loves feathers and sequins.

“Does it smell strange in here?” Bennett asks as she gives a tour. “We haven’t been here for a month, and the house smelled like dead mice when we arrived today. We baked cookies, and I think that got rid of the smell of dead mice.”

Bennett, who was working as an architect before trying out for “Project Runway,” is now devoting herself to fashion full time. Her first line of clothes will be sold on QVC in February. She opted to go directly to the shopping channel after realizing the intense work involved in launching a fashion line and selling to boutiques and department stores would not allow her time with her family. She describes the QVC clothes as glamorous, but not “over the top glamour.”

“The pieces have little beaded details, rhinestone buttons, and Lurex woven into the fabric to give a little bit of glamour to everyday life,” Bennett says. “Women want to look great and sophisticated. These are simple, classic pieces. Women don’t need $1,200 hoodies from Jeffrey [Sebelia] with skulls and bones on them.”

Bennett is also plotting a return to television. She has passed on multiple reality show offers to follow her large, chaotic family, and instead is with working with the producer of “Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style” to develop a game show based around fashion. Several cable channels are now considering the show, although Bennett confesses that she hopes it will be produced by Bravo.

Read the entire Boston Globe article with Laura Bennett.

WGA Strike: Day 32
Updates and Links

I’ve not linked much lately because to be honest, I can’t keep it all straight right now. They are knee deep in talks with the AMPTP but has any progress been made? I’m not sure. There’s offers and Part 2 of offers and then counter offers and my mind’s bleeding.

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SUPERNATURAL creator Eric Kripke sat down with TVGuide to talk about next week’s “A Very Supernatural Christmas” as well as how many episodes are left in the can (4 after Christmas) and more about Season 3. Wondering how the WGA Strike tinkers with the storyline for Season 3 and Season 4? Want to know what he thinks about Katie Cassidy’s underage drinking scenario and how it impacts the show? Want ot know what revelations are hiding in Sam and Dean’s upcoming flashbacks? Continue reading.

TV Guide: So what is the Supernatural take on Christmas?
Eric Kripke: I grew up loving Christmas specials; Rudolph, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town. I got it into my head that I wanted to do Supernatural’s version of a Christmas special. We wanted to be the first — and I’d imagine only — Christmas special complete with impalements, cannibalism and torture scenes. [Laughs] What I really rub my hands together in glee about is that we are far and away the most violent Christmas special in the history of television. That’s really fun. As we researched legends for the show, we came across this worldwide one about an anti-Claus — if God has the Devil, then Santa Claus has this creature. He stuffs his victims in sacks and takes them off to eat them.

TV Guide: Oh no, a really, really bad Santa!
Kripke:One of the things I’m really proud of in this episode is that the legend is one of our most accurate, not just in discussion of the anti-Claus, but also when you research Christmas you discover that the vast majority of Christmas traditions are actually pagan. So is Easter.

TV Guide: Isn’t that a little gutsy of you to point out on American TV?
Kripke: [Laughs] We just report the news.

TV Guide: Where do the pagans fit into the story?
Kripke: The implication of there being an anti-Claus means that there actually is a Santa Claus and the writers and I couldn’t quite bring ourselves to say that there was such a thing as Santa Claus. So we moved on to the Pagan god, which is called Hold Nickar. Generally thought to be the precedent to Santa Claus.

TV Guide: You have the violent cynical pagan holiday story but then you have moving flashbacks to the young Winchesters, don’t you?
Kripke: Yeah, it felt like such a natural to tie it into the Christmas episode. Those kids — Ridge Canipe plays Dean and Colin Ford, Sam — are-terrific. We love exploring the childhood of the boys and to be able to tell the story of the day that Sam lost his innocence not just that there was no such thing as Santa Claus but that there was such a thing as everything else, was too good an opportunity to pass up.

TV Guide: What kind of revelations are there in the boys past?
Kripke: It explains where Dean got his necklace that he wears in every single episode. It explains the beginning of Sam’s estrangement from his father and his indoctrination into the supernatural world. It’s quite a big moment.

TV Guide: How many episodes do you have left?
Kripke: Christmas will be Episode 8 and we will have four more before we go into repeats. If it ends in December, I think we’ll be able to pick back up in January without missing too many episodes, only one or two. If the strike heads off into January or God forbid, February, then we really need to have a conversation about how scaled back the season is going to be.

TV Guide: Will Sam’s quest to keep Dean alive be ongoing in those four episodes?
Kripke: Yeah. We actually spend a little more time with how Dean himself feels about going to Hell because right now he’s accepting that he’s going to Hell and he’s unwilling to do anything to stop it. That changes 180 percent in Episode 10. Something big happens to him that makes him realize he desperately wants to live and he desperately doesn’t want to go to Hell. We also have a great Groundhog day episode coming up.

TV Guide: Where a day keeps repeating itself?
Kripke: Sam basically wakes up every day and it’s the same day and Dean dies at the end of every single day. It’s actually quite funny. Dean dies maybe 10 different ways on camera, and off camera, maybe he dies 200 different ways. Sam doesn’t go through just three or four Tuesdays, he goes through something like 150 Tuesdays. We have a great witch episode and we have a big mythology episode where we pay off the Agent Hendrickson storyline in a very climactic way.

TV Guide: What’s happening with Ruby and Bella?
Kripke: Ruby is appearing in that episode with Hendrickson; she’s also appearing in the witch episode. We reveal something pretty surprising about her backstory. She’s a demon, and we learn a lot about demons and how they came to be demons. Bella makes an appearance in a dream episode, where Sam and Dean take this medicine man drug where they go dream walking, which is going into other peoples’ dreams. So we spend the majority inside Bobby’s dreams, inside Dean’s dreams,

TV Guide: Your fans seem to hate any woman who comes on the show. Are they coming around?
Kripke: My fans are a protective bunch. I hope we’re winning them over. Last season, they had such issues with the character Jo. And privately, I thought the character as we wrote her wasn’t working out. This season, I love both these girls and both these characters. They’re really interesting and bring something different to the table.

TV Guide: I have to ask you about Katie Cassidy’s (Ruby) arrest-underage drinking, lying to a cop. How has that affected the show?
Kripke: I don’t have anything to say about that. It hasn’t affected the show at all.

TV Guide: Are you planning for Dean’s future to be resolved this season? If the strike allows it, of course.
Kripke: We have this storyline that we’re building towards — whether Dean goes to Hell and what’s really happening to Sam, dovetails together in a really surprising and satisfying way. If we have a full season, Dean’s time will come up and we’ll definitely answer what team Sam is going to be fighting for. If we have a half a season, stay tuned for Season 4. So we’re excited by that story and we hope to tell it this year.

TV Guide: What can we look forward to with post-strike eps?
Kripke: There’s a fun one where we bring back the Hellhounds, the bumbling ghost hunters back from Season 1. The whole show is an episode of their reality show. So we’re shooting an entire show on hand-held video Blair Witch-style. Like when X-Files did their episode of Cops. It’s our loving tribute to Ghosthunters on Sci Fi.

Don’t forget, “A Very Supernatural Christmas” airs Thursday, December 13th at 9 p.m. on The CW

Don’t forget that tonight on Bravo, it’s the TOP CHEF Holiday Special where contestants from all 3 Seasons go head to head on a holiday feast.

The contestants going at it in the name of Santa, Hannukah Harry, Padma, Chef Tom, Gail and Ted are:

Season 1’s Stephen (Seriously?), Tiffani (I’m not your bitch, bitch!)
Season 2’s Marcel (Love to hate him), Betty (Loves to hate Marcel), Josie (Hair’s worse than ever)
Season 3’s CJ (Yum, I heart you), Tre (eh), Sandee (really?)

I’m heart broken that Sam is not there this time. I wouldn’t mind some naked Sam in a apron under some mistletoe. Or… a Sam/CJ sandwhich? That might be more than I could handle this Christmas.

I cannot wait to see these 8 characters go at it. Plus, how excited am I to see Padma work some Holiday outfits? Love her.

Top Chef Holiday Special airs tonight on Bravo at 9 p.m.

*Also don’t forget the newest gossip on Season 3’s Dale.

Thanks to TMZ I discovered that OutZoneTV.com is reporting a new Reality TV Gay love connection. It appears that Season 4 Project Runway contestant JACK MACKENROTH (Nude) and TOP CHEF 3’s DALE LEVITSKI are dating.

We love it when there’s love in the family! And across shows, no less! So we are thrilled to share the news that our very own Dale Levitski from “Top Chef” is dating “Project Runway’s” Jack Mackenroth. How did we uncover this news? We picked up the phone and called Jack, who had this to say:

“It’s very baby steps. I really like him a lot. And geography is a bit of an issue, but we’ll see where it goes. I like him a lot. I assume he likes me a lot. Unless he’s lying…(laughter)… He’s adorable. I like keeping it incestual, keep it in the Bravo family.”

SO we immediately had to call Dale, who told us,

“Yeah, we randomly met over Myspace. And then we bumped into each other at the OUT100 party and clicked. He’s hilarious. We’re just gonna roll with it and see what happens. And he’s cute as %&#@. We have the same sense of humor. We giggle a lot, and you know, anytime you end up going through the Bravo-reality-show…we just looked at each other and said, ‘yeah…’”

Am I the only one thinking that looks wise Dale’s getting an upgrade? While I don’t think Jack is attractive, I have seen him naked and know that body wise Dale and Jack are in different leagues. It does make me happy to know that Jack could care less about image though. Don’t ruin my Dale… I loved me some Dale on Top Chef and I just hope this isn’t some reality ploy because he’s a fragile soul… We don’t need plastic face Mackenroth ruining our innocent gay chef. I’m just sayin’. Overall though, how fun!