In time for the Season Four DVD and the premiere of Season 5, Warner Bros. has launched the Supernatural Prop Sweepstakes where you can win a Hex Bag from the show, a trip to Hollywood or one of a bunch of other great prizes.

The Grand Prize winner will get:

- Authentic Hex Bag Prop from Supernatural

- Sony Playstation®3 with built-in Blu-ray™ Player

- Blu-ray Discs of Supernatural Seasons 3 & 4*

- 4 VIP Tickets for the Warner Bros. Studio Tour

The hex bag prop was designed by the Supernatural Prop Master and is one of the three created for the Season 5 premiere, Sympathy for the Devil, which airs on September 10th. Winchester brothers’ epic journey continues as Sam (Jared Padelecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) carry on their life’s mission to protect mankind from dark spirits and to guard their own immortal souls.

Last season, Sam and Dean used hex bags to hide from witches, demons, evil spirits and even angels. To learn more about the power of hex bags, get Supernatural: The Complete Fourth Season, available for purchase on Blu-ray™ and DVD on September 1st.

To enter the Supernatural Sweepstakes, you must join the WB Insiders Rewards program. Members earn credits by watching clips and playing online games and then spend those rewards on free digital downloads like MP3s, mobile wallpapers, video clips and more. Members also can get exclusive sneak peeks, discounts on select merchandise at www.wbshop.com, free movie tickets, and the latest news about their favorite WB shows.

Additional prizes for winners of the WB Insider Rewards Supernatural Prop Sweepstakes are:

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Tomorrow, Supernatural: The Complete Fourth Season comes out on DVD and Blu-ray. I already have my copy and it’s great to see the show without all those CW crawls all over the bottom but I’m not so happy about the packaging and the special features. You can read my full review at DVD Verdict tomorrow, along with the Blu-ray review by one of my cohorts, David Johnson. David jokes that he may be the only male fan that follows the show but I heard there were three others at the convention in Vancouver this past weekend.

If you have a Target in your area, you might want to buy your copy of the DVD there. They’re offering a 45 minute bonus DVD of the Supernatural panel at Comic Con. That’s the only bonus I’ve seen on this edition, so if you know of one please do post it in the comments.

If you have iTunes, visit the Supernatural page to download a free clip from the season premiere. You’ll find it in the listings at the bottom of the page. You might also find it other places around the net. . . . SPOILER HERE. . . the clip deals with a Supernatural fangirl playing off the book idea from “Monster at the End of this Book.” I’m not all that happy about their interpretation of the fanbase but having spent the whole weekend following #vancon Twitters, I’m hardly in a position to complain.

If you want to know what happened at the Vancouver con, check out the Supernatural Wiki con page, it’s a fabulous listing of all the pics, reports and even those vids that aren’t supposed to exist. If you don’t mind mild visual spoilers, several fans stumbled on a very public filming location late last week and you’ll find pics from that around the web. There are some great ones right here.

So that’s it. You are now up to date on all things Supernatural.

Photo: Amazon

Twitter has really hit the big time! For the first time in broadcast history, Fox is arranging a Twitter party for two of their top shows — Fringe and Glee.

During this week’s repeat episodes, cast and crew members from both shows will sign on to Twitter for a Tweet-Peat Party that will then scroll on the special Twitter website and on air.

The Fringe event happens Thursday, Sept. 3 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) with Glee on Friday, Sept. 4 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT).

You can sign up now at twitter.com to follow the cast/producers (individual Twitter Usernames are noted below). Then on Thursday, Sept. 3  follow the Fringe event at twitter.com/FRINGEonFOX.

Remember to use #FRINGE  in your tweets so they can be easily found.

Fringe cast and producers tweeting during the east and west coast broadcasts include:

Jeff Pinkner, Executive Producer (ET/PT) @jpfringe
J.H. Wyman, Executive Producer (ET/PT) @jwfringe
Josh Jackson, “Peter Bishop” (ET) @peterbishop2
John Noble, “Walter Bishop” (ET) @labdad1

FRINGE: Unexplained phenomena and terrifying occurrences continue in the second thrilling season of FRINGE premiering Thursday, Sept. 17 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Pictured L-R: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and John Noble. ©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: Justin Stephens/FOX

Last week’s episode didn’t do anything for me but this one looks like it’s going to be grabber. Are you still watching?

Defying Gravity: Bacon

Air Date: Sunday, August 30 on ABC

Drawing closer to the orbit of Venus, some members of the Antares crew struggle with guilt and experience vivid repercussions of past actions, while a serious accident puts the life of a teammate in danger, uniting everyone in the desperate endeavor to save her.

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We now have the official synopsis for both 5.1 and 5.2 — obviously spoilers abound!

Supernatural 5.1: “Sympathy for the Devil”

Air Date: September 10, at 9:00 on The CW

See the promo photos here.

APOCALYPSE NOW — Picking up where the finale left off, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) watch as the Devil (guest star Mark Pellegrino, “Lost”) emerges from Hell. The brothers and Bobby (Jim Beaver) deal with the aftermath of Lucifer rising and the stunning news from Chuck the Prophet (guest star Rob Benedict) that Castiel (Misha Collins) was blown to bits by the archangels. Robert Singer directed the episode written by Eric Kripke (#501).

Supernatural 5.2: “Good God, Y’All”

Air Date: September 17, at 9:00 on The CW

See the promo photos here.

IS THIS THE END? — Castiel (Misha Collins) tells Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) that he is going to search for God, who will be able to defeat Lucifer. Bobby’s (Jim Beaver) old hunter friend, Rufus (guest star Steven Williams), is panicked about demons attacking his town, and begs Bobby for help. Sam and Dean arrive at the town and realize there is a spell over the townspeople, making them hallucinate that they are demons and causing them to kill one another. Phil Sgriccia directed the episode written by Sera Gamble (#502)

Photo: David Gray/The CW©2009 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Though it’s listed as episode 1.1, Night of the Comet is the second episode of Vampire Diaries, airing a week after the pilot (1.0). And I haven’t forgotten about your questions for Katerina Graham. She answered them and I’ll have them for you soon.

Now, here’s the official synopsis and it’s pretty detailed, so don’t keep reading if you’re not into spoilers.

Vampire Diaries: Night of the Comet

Air Date: September 17, at 8:00 on The CW

ELENA MEETS DAMON AND LEARNS ABOUT STEFAN’S PAST LOVE — As Mystic Falls prepares for a festival to celebrate the passing of a comet, Vicki (Kayla Ewell) is in the hospital recovering from Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) attack. Stefan (Paul Wesley) goes to the hospital and tries to use his abilities to make Vicki forget who attacked her, but his attempt is cut short when Matt (Zach Roerig) arrives. Jeremy Steve R. McQueen) continues to struggle with his drug use and his feelings for Vicki. At a parent/teacher conference, Mr. Tanner (guest star Benjamin Ayres) warns a worried Aunt Jenna (Sara Canning) that Jeremy is in trouble and needs intervention.

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Last week I was at a press event for CBS where they showed us a trailer for Medium that gave us all a good laugh. It was a terribly serious film clip that ended with a tag line about how Allison went into a coma on NBC and woke up on CBS. Kind of like that whole run on that other network was just a bad dream. . .

Well, in honor of the switch in networks, MediumDreams ( one of our sister blogs here on the B5 network ) has made a switch, too. As of this week, Kona Gallagher is taking over as the webmistress for the site and she’ll be keeping you up to date on all things Medium. Be sure to pay her a visit for photos, videos and episode reviews and tell her Cynthia sent you.

Medium returns to TV on September 25 at 9:00 on CBS.

Labor Day weekend marks the official end of summer and Syfy is celebrating with all-day programming marathons.

It begins on Friday, September 4 with a 22-episode, viewer’s choice, Eureka marathon.

Saturday and Sunday nights are dedicated to Syfy original movies and includes the premiere of Merlin and the War of the Dragons at 9:00 pm, and Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus starring Debra Gibson.

From 9:00 am to 7:00 pm on Sunday it’s Josh Gates and Destination Truth and on Monday from 8:00 am to 7:00 PM it’s Ghost Hunters.

Finally, Ghost Whisperer makes its Syfy debut with a mini-marathon from 7:00 to 11:00.

So there you go, lots of ghosts, several mythical beasts, a handful of scientific experiments gone awry and one giant octopus. What more could you ask for on a holiday weekend?

Photo: Syfy

Eureka: You Don’t Know Jack

Air Date: August 28, 2009 @ 9 PM on Syfy

Global undergoes a Sonic Cleaning while Tess (Jaime Ray Newman) records a databank of Eurekan’s memories when, oddly, the town experiences a communal form of memory loss. When the growing dilemma traps them inside GD during the cleaning, Allison (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) goes into labor and Carter (Colin Ferguson) must help her remember who she is in order to escape.

Pictured: (l-r) Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Allison Blake, Colin Ferguson as Sheriff Jack Carter — Syfy Photo: Marcel Williams

A lone gunman stands at the end of a dusty, barren, western street. Across from him . . . a giant bug.

“This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

Actually, this town isn’t big enough for even one of them, if the one is a giant bug creature from outer space.

It’s High Plains Invader and it’s a Syfy original movie starring James Marsters and Cindy Sampson.

It’s the early 20th century, and this small western mining town is invaded by giant insectoid alien creatures whose only mission is to mine uranium to fuel their spaceship – but they’ll kill anyone or anything that gets in their way. Who can save them? Only a ” retired outlaw” who was about to be hanged, so he’s got nothing left to lose.

Wait. . .retired outlaw? Is there a pension plan for that?

I haven’t seen it, but boy, I want to. Watch High Plains Invader, Sunday, August 30th at 9:00 on Syfy.

Photos: Syfy