TV Talk with GMMR and Ducky is back! After 7 weeks, we were finally able to see each other and dish all the dirt on our favorite shows.

Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, House, Gossip Girl, American Idol, The Office, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, Brothers & Sisters, So You Think You Can Dance, Ugly Betty, Greek and so much more.

We take some last minute listener questions on which finale’s we’re most looking forward to and also which hot summer movies our fave TV stars are popping up in. Not to mention Kath gets to wax The Office finale after one Canadian listener begs for finale information.

Also, be on the lookout for the return of TWO IDIOTS TALK LOST! We watch the show but we’re not experts, sue us.

It’s TV Talk with GMMR & Ducky #21!

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I was lucky enough to score a sneak peek at tomorrow night’s return of SUPERNATURAL and I think the fans will be pleased with how the show comes back. Without giving anything away, as I mentioned previously, “Ghostfacers” is a show within a show in that Sam and Dean find themselves part of “Hell House” returnees Harry and Ed new television pilot. Wackiness ensues… literally.

Here’s some things to look forward to:
- Comedy, lots of it. Not only do Harry and Ed open the show ala Andrew in Buffy’s “Storyteller” episode they now have a rag-tag team of lacky’s assisting them. The interplay between Sam/Dean and the “Ghostfacers” is pure comedy gold.

- Swearing and Bleeps. Supernatural goes Arrested Development on us. I’ve always assumed that Dean swore like a trucker and I now know I was right. The boy gets bleeped and bleeped and bleeped and it’s hysterical! Dean loves to say f*ck and flip the bird.

- The best Writer’s Strike shout out to date.

- One of the scariest horror movie-esque visuals and big bads.

- About 22 minutes in there’s one of the hottest Jensen shots I’ve ever seen in my life.

- Birthday hats will never be the same again. Happy Birthday To Me much?

- Daggett is Dagnasty

- A gay love story (no, not some Wincest)

- “Menudo left their dance bag behind.”

- 2 months gang, you know who only has 2 months…

I truly enjoyed the episode and I loved seeing a good hearty mix of horror and comedy. I’m beyond pleased that Sam and Dean swear and that Dean is the Curse King. There’s some gay interest stuff that I was worried about at first but that I think in the end works and is very sweet.

Don’t forget to check out http://www.cwtv.com/ghostfacers for exclusive content.

This is one of my last posts until after the Independent Film Festival of Boston is over late next week so enjoy the return of Supernatural and give the boys some love. Oh yeah, don’t forget to Enter to Win Issues 1-3 of the Official Supernatural Magazine.

Joss Whedon’s upcoming DOLLHOUSE just got a little more enticing for me! If the reteaming of Joss and Faith wasn’t enough to get the geek blood flowing, throw in a little Battlestar Galactica hotness and I’m hard already!

Helo Tahmoh Penikett will join the cast as an FBI Agent hot on Echo’s trail. Better than frakkin’ a toaster, oh wait… Echo’s not much more than a toaster though is she? Guess we’ll find out this fall!

From E!’s KDS (Kristin Dos Santos), here’s some more casting news:

Tahmoh Penikett as Paul Smith: 30s, good looks hardened by a cynical distaste for most of humanity. An FBI field agent, he’s been chasing the urban myth of the Dollhouse long enough to have lost any shot at promotion. Becomes obsessed with and a twisted romantic foil for Echo (Eliza Dushku).

Fran Kranz as Topher Brink: 20s, genius programmer who’s articulate, nerdily attractive and blithely amoral. He’s responsible for imprinting the Dolls—and making sure they stay unaware of anything. Is fascinated by the science and kind of digging the illegality. Fun to be around but might not be remotely trustworthy.

Dichen Lachman as Sierra: 20s, Asian (or certainly not Caucasian). Strikingly beautiful. A Doll like Echo, she has every personality in the world but her own. Is not as self-aware as Echo but is instinctively drawn to her as a friend.

Enver Gjokaj as Victor: 20s, handsome and fit. A Doll, and the other closest thing to a friend Echo has. Childlike when he’s inactive, and everything from Errol Flynn to a young DeNiro when he’s active.

I hope that some of the other Whedonverse kids make it into the cast as well. I’d love to see Amber Benson, Charisma Carpenter, Tom Lenk, Alan Tudyk or Sean Maher back on my tube week to week.

Well, the crazy week at Paley ended last night with my most anticipated event, the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Reunion.

Knowing that the event was going to be the biggest night of the week, Kath and I had to strategize a game plan in hopes of scoring the best seats possible. Luckily we didn’t have to camp out the night before as some folks did because we had the Premium Package seats which guarantees you the first 4 rows
(suckas). Honestly, I would have been fine with any of those but deep down I knew that the fan in me wanted as close to the front as possible.

We had an early lunch with our pal Holly then Kath drove me over to the Arclight to line up at 2pm. The event wasn’t until 7 but when I got there the Stand By (wishful fans) and General Admission lines were OOC! We went around to the front where the Premium folks line up and thankfully we were the 10th & 11th people in line.

The group up there was hysterical. They’d started to create a seating chart which each of us picked our seats on so that it was a nice/friendly/orderly way of getting into the front rows without it turning into a scene our of Pamplona. I called it the Tooth Chart because no matter how brilliant and drop dead funny it was to create a chart, the damn thing looked like the chart at your dentist where they point out your issues teeth. Whatever, I’m rambling. The whole thing was called Operation Streisand and it was so not as gay as it sounds. Think cock-blocking a Babs serenading Pushy McPusher that the night before had elbowed someone at the front of the line.

You may ask… where was Kath in all of this? Well, she was down the street at a Borders so that she could finish watching the end of the series (so sad, Project Buffy is over) before the damn reunion! Why Borders you ask? Well, she was afraid the people in line would lynch her for having not being a long-time die hard fan. Don’t be haters.

She came back around 4:30, we got our package passes at 5 and were told that at 5:30 we’re going in. Thank God the Paley Center and the Arclight came up with a plan of action for the night because up until this point (ie. every other night of Paley), it was one of the most poorly organized crowd control situations I’ve ever seen. For Buffy they had security up the wazoo and routinely checked in to tell us how entrance to the theatre would work in order to avoid a stampede. The Tooth Chart was adhered to and we all filed in 2×2 (not 5×5 b/c Eliza didn’t show - boooooo). And we’re in…

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In an hour I’ll be heading to the airport and leaving Los Angeles. It was a crazy amazing week for this TV fan/blogger with Pushing Daisies (and after party, holla), Chuck, Friday Night Lights, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I’ve posted tons of pictures and podcasts from the week but sadly I don’t think that my Buffy recap will be up before my flight. I promise to get it written on the plane and posted late tonight so please check back. Kath and I were so dead tired that we didn’t have time to podcast but hopefully my way too long recap of the night will shed some light on the event.

Enjoy your weekend gang!

One of my favorite characters from the Buffyverse is sexually ambiguous Andrew. Tom Lenk’s portrayal of Andrew was nothing short of genius and it saddened me to see he wasn’t going to be on the panel tonight. To me, Andrew was a huge part of the final seasons and he really brought so much levity to the show that I thought he deserved his due.

During the post-panel signing I spotted Tom in the crowd just milling about. I went over and introduced myself and asked why he wasn’t on the panel. He said that he wasn’t a series regular and more importantly, he wasn’t asked. So he attended the panel as a fan and to see all of his writer friends from the show.

That pissed me off in a way. It’s not like he was one of the nameless/faceless Potentials. He was Andrew, part of the trio, a man not afraid to admit his love for Patrcick Swayze…

I don’t have anything else to say about it other than it annoyed the shit out of me because I thought Andrew was a perfect addition to the show and one that actually survived the finale so he deserved his due.

Regardless, I was overjoyed to get the chance to meet Tom Lenk and to let him know that he kicks frakkin’ ass!

gang, as you know I’m in LA for the week and I’ll be attending the Paley Festival with my girl GMMR and I’ll also be having a couple other things in the works (fingers crossed) that you’ll want to know about. Aside from Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Friday Night Lights and Buffy, I’ll be visiting my favorite people in Los Angeles whom I haven’t seen since I left here in 2000 and roaming around town. Visiting with my favorite Casting Agent Jenny and meeting up with someone that will hopefully be giving me (& you) some inside scoop on the return of Supernatural. Not to mention we’ll be podcasting our asses off.

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While everyone’s known that Kathie would be attending Paley next week, I’m happy to report that I will now be joining her… officially! We’ll be hanging with our friends from PUSHING DAISIES, geeking out with CHUCK, molesting Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton and the rest of the Panthers from FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and vamping out with my girl BUFFY and her gang of Scoobies!

We’ll be doing nightly podcasts from Paley so now’s the time to subscribe to our TV Podcast so you don’t miss a single minute of our trip.

I’m freaking out big time y’all! I just got word that I will be attending the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion at Paley Fest on March 20th!

I might pass out…

If anyone has an extra ticket they want to give away, Kath from GMMR still needs a ticket. Give us a holler.

While the strike may be over, we are still weeks away from most of our favorite shows returning to the air in limited new episodes. In the meantime we are saddled with a ton of reality shows like American Idol, Big Brother 9, Survivor, and Project Runway. Don’t worry though, we still have plenty of time to talk about Lost and newbies like Eli Stone and Unhitched. Plus, Kath gives you an update on where she is in the process of watching all 7 seasons of Buffy before the end of March. Good times.

It’s TV Podcast #20!

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The WGA Strike continues well into the Day 90s so the television landscape is like no winter we’ve seen before. Kath and I are back to talk about Lost’s return as well as the return of American Idol.

It’s TV Podcast #19!

Also on the agenda are Friday Night Lights, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Prison Break, American Gladiators, Paradise Hotel, Project Runway, Torchwood, Pushing Daisies, Comic-Con 2008 and much more.

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It’s super easy and free to leave us a message:

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TORCHWOOD Season 2 premieres January 26th on BBC America and the anticipation is killing me. Not only do I obsess over this show and the genius that is Capt. Jack Harkness but knowing that Buffy’s James Marsters is in the premiere makes the wait that much worse.

Here are the first 4 minutes from the Torchwood Season 2 Premiere entitled “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”

Here’s a bonus clip featuring James Marsters and what appears to be his time travelling character that used to be “partners in everyway and then some”. Good god!

Just wait until you see the full on gay kiss between Capt. Jack and Capt. Spike John Hart. Damn that’s hot!

This years PALEY FEST will not only play host to Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Chuck and Mad Men it apparently will be cozeying up to the scoobies in a BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER REUNION! Whedonesque just released this information! I need a minute to clean up my shorts…

Sadly the schedule of dates for events at the Paley Fest (March 14-27) will not be announced until February 4th. Tickets go on sale February 7th!

TVGuide Reports:

The BUFFY Season 8 comics have been so successful that ANGEL is finally getting the comic treatment as well. I can’t wait to see what Angel, Spike, Gunn, Lorne, and Ilyria are up to. Does everyone escape that damn alley? Is the dragon friend or foe? I cannot wait!

There’s life after the apocalypse. Angel fans will finally find out what transpired after the cult show’s 2004 finale, as the sexy vampire (played on TV by David Boreanaz) and his team faced down the armies of Hell. Buffyverse creator Joss Whedon has approved a monthly comic-book series that’s basically Angel: Season 6, says Chris Ryall, publisher and editor in chief of IDW Publishing, which launches the first issue Wednesday. “We published a miniseries, Spike Asylum, written by Brian Lynch,” Ryall says. “Joss loved it and said he finally saw a writer he thought could do this.”

Angel: After the Fall, which Whedon will oversee, picks up a few months after the TV finale in a Los Angeles that is literally in hell and ruled over by demon lords. “We’ll catch up on which characters survived, how they survived, and the considerable changes Angel and others have gone through,” Ryall reveals. Look for such familiar faces as Spike (who’s taken over the Playboy mansion), Gunn, and a (sort of) revived Wesley, plus a big role for Angel’s generally despised son Connor, who we’re promised will be more appealing this time around. Then there’s a telepathic giant fish as well as Angel’s new sidekick, a 40-foot dragon. And never fear, because überevil law firm Wolfram & Hart has lots of power in these netherregions. In a special treat for fans, the main arc will be interrupted by a two-parter called “First Night,” which follows the fate of everyone the night of the very big fight, including lounge lizard Lorne. “This is the story that I’ve wanted to tell since we got the Angel license two and a half years ago,” says Ryall. “It’s great to finally do a storyline that everybody’s been dying to see.”

Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Dollhouse mastermind and all around badass JOSS WHEDON has penned an open letter which Variety has posted.

Sick as a dog but proud as a noble and much healthier dog, I made my way to the picket lines outside of Fox studios today. I’m really glad I did. In addition to carrying the banner, it was a chance to talk with other writers, get more perspectives and more information about what’s happening, and to see a surprising number of old friends. David Fury and Mere Smith were there, as well as many non-mutant enemies that I know. We were all caught in that giddy first burst of solidarity and fear. Nobody thinks this is going to be easy. But everybody there knows that, as things stand, it has to be.

A particularly gratifying and unexpected sight was that of Aly and Alexis, along with Cobie Smulders, marching shoulder to shoulder with the HIMYM scribes. Aly and Alexis even brought boxes of candy bars to hand out to the flagging marchers (actually, I was the only one who appeared to be flagging - even the pregnant writer outlasted me). Mere told me young Boreanaz had also been there earlier that day. I was really touched, but my actor-friends were very matter-of-fact about the whole thing. They understand that the issues at hand affect the future of the entire creative community here, and that the writers, by virtue of being first, will set a precedent that affects all the guilds. That is why we writers have to be firm, intractable and absolute in our dedication to getting a fair deal. And that’s all we’re talking about: a fair deal. For us, and for generations of artists to come.

Sounds pretty damn pompous, no? “Generations to come”? Yeesh. But it’s true. Our culture, our government, our corporate structures have all gotten pretty used to taking care of ourselves at the expense of our children and their children. Part of this is simple greed, part is immediate practicality trumping long-view perspective, and part is perfectly understandable fear. It’s easier to take what you’re given, not protest, not make a fuss. A lot of people will suffer grievously if this strike isn’t quickly resolved, and the men and women who voted for it know that. But like so many things - our eco-system being the most obvious - if we don’t make it work now, what’s to come will be much worse.
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