There’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is we have a first look video for this week’s episode of Supernatural called “Abandon All Hope. ” There’s more good news in that it stars Mark Sheppard as the deliciously evil Crowley. That’s not Mark in the photo there. He wasn’t in any of the promo photos for this episode but Dean’s looking right at him, so that’s something. . . huh?
You may know Mark from his recurring role as Sterling, Nate’s biggest foil on Leverage, which is already a six-degrees-of-Supernatural because of Aldis Hodge and Chris Kane. Mark …read more

Here’s a quick note from our friends at BBC America.

On November 14, Graham Norton welcomes the star of Doctor Who, David Tennant to the program along with comedian Johnny Vegas and singer Alison Moyet. David talks about his final days shooting as the tenth Doctor, if he has any scenes with the new Doctor, Matt Smith and reveals if he’ll be tuning in to the new season.
He also discusses the experience of auditioning for the first time in years and takes questions from the audience – revealing who he thinks is more talented, Shakespeare or Russell T Davies…
If you’ve never …read more

Those serious ladies of Battlestar Galactica are playing it for laughs in November when both Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackoff guest star on two CBS sitcoms.
First up it’s Tricia Helfer on the November 16th episode of Two and a Half Men.

In “The Moustache Attachment,”  Chelsea (Jennifer Taylor) invites her beautiful college roommate, Gail (Tricia Helfer) to stay at the house while she gets over a bad breakup and Charlie (Charlie Sheen) dreams of threesomes. (Photo: Greg Gayne/WB ©2009 Warner Bros. Television. All Rights Reserved.)
Next, on November 23, Katee Sackoff plays herself on The Big Bang Theory’s “The Vengeance Formulation.”

Tonight, on the The Big Bang Theory, it’s a geek on geek smackdown as Sheldon (Jim Parsons, left) tries to settle a score with his nemesis, Wil Wheaton (right) in “The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary.”
It happens tonight, October 19, at 9:30 on CBS.

Photo: Robert Voets//CBS
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The boys take a spin through TV land where they’ll be popping up inside some of the shows that they’ve been competing against for years! Want to see a little Grey’s action with Sam and Dean? And click through the cut for a look at a returning favorite.

Star Trek: Enterprise star Jolene Blalock has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming second season of the series Legend of the Seeker.
The series is an adaptation of  best-selling author Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth book series.  Blalock, who begins filming in New Zealand this week, will portray a mysterious Sister of the Dark who possesses very powerful magic — she not only threatens Richard’s (Craig Horner) quest to defeat evil forces, but her ultimate goal is to destroy Kahlan (Bridget Regan).
The second season of the series will premiere the weekend of November 7th.  Check your local …read more

The one nice thing about genre actors is they fit so nicely into multiple projects. Once a Whedonite – always a Whedonite – and this time it’s Firefly’s Summer Glau who’s heading into the Dollhouse.
Summer always seemed like a natural for this series since she does that “blank slate” look so well but obviously her role on Sarah Connor Chronicles kept that from happening. Now, with that series behind her, she is taking on the roll of Bennett a “Dollhouse employee who shares a past with Echo.”
As this story hit the airwaves yesterday, I was surprised to see a lot …read more

Echo (Eliza Dushku) and her new husband (guest star Jamie Bamber from Battlestar Galactica) have a dangerous honeymoon in the Dollhouse season premiere episode “Vows” airing Friday, Sept. 25 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Bamber is just one of a half dozen interesting guest stars already on tap for this season. We’ll also see Buffy’s Alexis Denisoff , Keith Carradine and Battlestar’s Michael Hogan. There’s even a rumor that Jonathan Frakes is directing an episode. Want the full scoop, check out Maureen Ryan’s look at Dollhouse over at The Chicago Tribune.
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If anyone in this world can out geek our favorite Leverage geek, it’s gotta be Wil Wheaton. Wil sat down with reporters last week to talk about his role on tonight’s episode of Leverage and he gave us his thoughts on this being, as Hardison says, “the age of the geek, baby.”
CHAOS THEORY
In Leverage, you play a computer hacker called Chaos, this seems like the perfect role for you.
Wil Wheaton: I love my computer. I love the Internet. I would consider myself an early adopter of a lot of the Internet technologies that a lot of people take …read more

The day is fast approaching – the return of Supernatural! To whet your appetite we have several shots from the season opener. They’ve got some major spoilers in them to my eyes, one of which is the name of the girl in the photos, so I’ve left that for the bottom of the page just in case you prefer to be surprised.
Supernatural returns on September 10th on The CW.
 

  
Jensen Ackles as Dean and Jim Beaver as Bobby, Jared Padalecki as Sam and Rachel Miner as Meg in SUPERNATURAL on The CW.
Photo: Michael Courtney/The …read more