• Spotlight: Kristen Wiig.
• Not so super storytelling, IGN examines SMALLVILLE’s worst stories!
• From the department of “Duh,” Fox renews BONES for a seventh season.
• Hot and Not! Deadline takes a second look at how the 2011/12 TV season is shaping up.
• Interesting: The 8 best pilot scripts of 2011.
• Q&A: The Roastmaster General reveals the surprising secrets behind Charlie Sheen’s “Torpedo of Truth” tour.
• Killler Scoop! Producers casting for a potential love interest for DEXTER in season six.
• Say it ain’t so, Ownership of TV sets falls in the U.S.
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Live From Toronto’s Comic Con 2011: Julie Benz Talks BUFFY, ANGEL, DEXTER and NO ORDINARY FAMILY
12:00PM: “We haven’t heard anything official,” said Julie Benz on the fate of her freshman ABC series NO ORDINARY FAMILY. “New episodes on the 22nd [of April] in our regular timeslot, then another new episode on Saturday the 26th at 10pm, then our season finale will be on April 5th at 8PM, so yeah it’s not a good sign when the network is moving you around.”
12:02PM: “Dana!” Was Benz’s answer to who’s the best kisser when it comes to ANGEL’s David Boreneaz, DEXTER’s Michael C. Hall and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES’ Dana Delany!
12:04PM: What was the only downside to what the actress characterizes as her wonderful experience playing Darla on both BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL? “Taking that makeup off, it was like having six layers of skin ripped off your face every time. It was miserable and the contact lenses were terrible. I don’t wear contacts and I don’t know how people do it, sticking things in their eyeballs all the time.”
12:05PM: From the department of things we didn’t know comes the fact that the part of Darla in the original BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER pilot presentation was originally written as ‘Vampire Girl #1’ “I was supposed to die in the pilot, but about halfway through the pilot Joss [Whedon] was like, ‘We’re giving you a name and we’re not going to kill you.’ And he did that for a while until it finally came time to kill me, and kill me, and kill me and killed me,” explained Benz when asked about the origins of the character that would quickly become a fan favorite. “For me, I was a new actor to LA, didn’t know the TV business very well so I was just excited to work and play a vampire. I had no clue what I was going to do or how I was going to be scary. Until that is, they put the vampire makeup on me and I went into the trailer and smiled, which I thought was creepy. Joss always said he was intrigued that someone who looked like me and talked like me was like the scariest vampire ever. That’s what he wanted, my sweet voice and demeanour until all of a sudden I’m just this vicious vampire.”
Laugh Break: DEXTER in 60 Seconds
This Just In: A Reason to Hold Off on Cancelling Your Showtime Subscription Now that DEXTER is Done for the Season!
Random Musings: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Marathon, THE SIMPSONS & DEXTER’s Not-So-Killer Ending
This week, in lieu of your regularly scheduled CW favorites, the perennial fifth place network has opted to re-air the entirety of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES second season to date. And while that means 10 fang-tastic and thrilling episodes for fans and potential newcomers to sink their teeth into, our inexplicable need to root for the underdog has us asking, “Why?” After-all, one might argue that THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, having already cemented its status as the network’s highest rated and most buzzed about show, is in the least need of a promotional push. And that another show, say NIKITA, which has more than made up for its somewhat slow start with a fantastic string of episodes would serve to benefit that much more from the extra airings. We’re just sayin’
Morning Static: LOVE BITES, LAW & ORDER: SVU, DEXTER & More!
• This Bites, NBC cuts back on LOVE BITES.
• Criminally dumped star A.J. Cook resurfaces… on LAW & ORDER: SVU.
• Oops of the Week! TV Guide Canada apologizes for misquoting Ed O’Neill about Jane Lynch.
• Making Gap’s recent rebrand look like a good idea… comes Comedy Central’s new logo.
• Why good shows fail? CNN has a theory!
• Good Morning TNT, with Ashely Williams replacing Eliza Dushku in TNT’s BIRD DOG.
• Killer Tease! DEXTER boss dishes on Sunday’s big finale.
Morning Static: AMERICAN IDOL, THE GOOD WIFE, DEXTER & More!
• Miss HEROES? Syfy has picked up ALPHAS.
• The Truth Hurts: LIE TO ME may not be returning next season.
• The Bad Wife! Julianna Marguilies gets down and dirty for Harpers Bazaar.
• Sneak Peak: DEXTER’s killer season finale.
• Are these the Top 10 Comedies of 2010? Discuss.
• IDOL Chatter: Producers mulling changes for the upcoming tenth season.
• From the network that eschews original ideas comes… the CW’s attempt to replicate the success of GLEE.
Blogger Beat Down: HITFIX Wants to Kill DEXTER? Say it Ain’t So!
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall, one of the country’s most prolific and popular TV critics whose reaction to today’s fantastic news that Showtime has officially renewed DEXTER for a sixth season was a little along the lines of… Why?
Must Read TV: GLEE, CAPRICA, DEXTER & More!
• ACE OF CAKES, gets iced by the Food Network
• Get WUPHF’d, at WUPHF.com
• Killer Scoop, about DEXTER’s final four episodes.
• Syfy to reveal the final five… episodes of CAPRICA on January 4th from 6-11PM.
• He has to go back… to television! As LOSTermind Carlton Cuse teams up with Randall Wallace for a Civil War-set project for ABC.
• High Flying Adored! GLEE Tour going global with stops in London, Dublin and Manchester.
Must Read TV: THE EVENT, DEXTER, GLEE & More!
• THE EVENT… may-or-may-not hinge on whether or not Connie Britton wants to join the series in a major recurring capacity.
• An NBC supersize we can get behind, Network mulling over a three-hour Thursday night comedy block.
• Killer Scoop, direct from the brains behind DEXTER.
• Holy Criss! “Teenage Dream” is on track to be GLEE’s most popular download ever.
• Worried you’re running out of time to be a guest on the Oprah Show? You’re not the only one.