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 also played Romo Lampkin on Battlestar Galactica and we love, love, love seeing him on TV.

Now for the bad news: this will be the last new episode of Supernatural until January 14 2010. It’s true. Got it straight from The CW and I’m not happy about it either. We usually get one or two new episodes between now and the holiday break but I guess since they premiered the show so early this year, they have no choice but to break early.

Forget the bad news for now and enjoy this clip from Supernatural: Abandon All Hope which comes to you from The CW.

Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW ©2009 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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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 seen Graham Norton, you’re in for a treat. I’m sure he and David will have a rousing good time, so don’t miss it.

The Graham Norton Show airs Saturdays, 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on BBC America.

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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.”

After he’s humiliated on National Public Radio, Sheldon vows to destroy Kripke (? LOL), while Wolowitz tries not to destroy his new relationship with Bernadette. Katee Sackhoff appears as herself, offering Wolowitz some relationship advice.
(Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Two lovely ladies and two very funny comedies. You can’t beat that.

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It happens tonight, October 19, at 9:30 on CBS.

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“Changing Channels” – Jared Padalecki as Sam, Jensen Ackles as Dean, Richard Speight Jr. as Trickster in SUPERNATURAL on The CW. Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW ©2009 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

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 listings for exact time and dates.

Photo: Newscom

Click through the cut to watch a scene from Legend of the Seeker: The Complete First Season, which is now available on DVD.

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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 of love and hate on both sides. Some people feel that Summer would have been a better choice to play Echo in the first place. Others are less complementary about her acting ability while many (like my husband) rejoice in the pairing of these two sexy sci fi chicks. (Yes, that’s my husband talking, not me.) I think it’s a smart move and I’m excited to see how it all plays out.

We also have a little more information on the other guest stars that I mentioned yesterday, Alexis Denisof will be playing Daniel Perrin, a U.S. senator leading a witch hunt to track down the underground organization. Mysterious, charismatic businessman Martin Klar (Jamie Bamber) is Echo’s new husband. Bradley Karrens (Michael Hogan) comes to the Dollhouse hoping to stop a psychotic family member’s killing spree, while Matthew Harding (Keith Carradine), a nemesis of Dollhouse leader Adelle Dewitt (Olivia Williams), stirs up trouble. Additionally, Dr. Saunders (Amy Acker) and Madeline /November (Miracle Laurie) return this season in multiple-episode arcs.

Wow, that’s one heck of a sci-fi, power packed cast.

What do you think abut the addition of Summer Glau or any of the newly announced guest stars? Let us know in the comments below.

DOLLHOUSE: Paul (Tahmoh Penikett, R) challenges Echo (Eliza Dushku, L) to remember her past to save his life in the DOLLHOUSE season premiere episode “Vows” airing Friday, Sept. 25 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Also pictured: Jamie Bamber (back R) and Zoran Radanovich (back L)©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Isabella Vosmikova/FOX

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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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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 for granted these days. I was heavily involved in bulletin board culture before the Internet existed. I’ve been a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Free Software Foundation and I’m a vocal advocate for network neutrality and you know users rights and I’m one of the loud voices in the Anti-DRM movement. I absolutely love technology and, and it’s still a very, very big part of my life.

[However,] the extent of my illicit hacking activity probably starts and ends with the Activision video game Hacker on my old Macintosh in like 1984 or 1985. I was never a contributor but I read Frak religiously in the late 80s and right until the early 90s and it was not an especially long distance that I had to cover to get from myself to becoming Chaos. But I’ve never really engaged in anything that would, that would bring you down on the wrong side of the law.

On Leverage, we’ve seen Hardison do some pretty amazing things with just a computer and a wireless connection. How realistic is that?

Wil Wheaton: The technical aspects of Leverage, whether it’s the computer controlled mechanisms or it’s the slight of hand and pick pocketing or the standard grifting, is all backed up by a team of real life experts that really know that stuff inside and out because they’ve actually done it. You know Kevin Mitnick was on the set when we were doing a lot of our hacking stuff and I was like, wow, that’s like pretending to be a hockey player in front of Wayne Gretzky. I better make sure that I have all of my beats down, you know? But these guys, they’re not very different from the computer enthusiasts that I’ve known throughout my life. If you spend any time online and you are part of that, this culture that we’re part of, of course you know a guy like Hardison. He may not be turning on and off motion sensors remotely and moving the funds from a number of bank accounts around, but he is certainly sitting there quoting the crap out of obscure sci-fi movies and then being like physically wounded when nobody gets it.

How do Chaos’ skills compare to those of Hardison?

Wil Wheaton: Well, if you ask Chaos he would tell you that Hardison dreams of one day being half as competent and skilled and accomplished as he is. If you asked Hardison he would tell you that he thinks it’s just adorable that Chaos holds this opinion of himself and that’s part of what makes their relationship so much fun to create. It was really important to me when I was putting this character together and Aldis and I were rehearsing our scenes, that the audience get the sense that these guys are both at the absolute top of their game. And there’s a ton of really funny Fark-style trash talking that he and I engaged in that we just improvised that didn’t make it into the final cut of the show but I really hope finds its way to a DVD or something like that, because it’s all really, really silly stuff.

If you could be any character on the Leverage crew, who would you be?

Wil Wheaton: In real life, I’d like to be a guy like Eliot because he’s unstoppable. I’ve been a skinny nerd my whole life and I would love to finally be the guy that nobody can push around. As an actor, I would love to play a character like Nate Ford because he is so complex and so layered and so haunted and you know there are not a lot of actors who could do what Tim Hutton does with that character.

THE WRITER WITHIN

In addition to acting, you’re also an author.

Wil Wheaton: Yes I just recently published a book called Sunken Treasure that is a collection, of all the different things that I’ve done and it’s the first time that I published a book on demand online. I wanted to see if it was possible to do that and have it be financially viable and it’s been a runaway success that has totally exceeded what I thought it could ever possibly do. It’s been really fun to see that happen.

I have a couple of books coming out in the next very, very, very near future. One book is a collection of episode recaps and behind the scenes memories. It’s a humor book about my time on Star Trek The Next Generation that actually started out when I was a blogger for TV Squad. And that’s called Memories of the Future and that should be out really soon. And then I am putting together a short collection of short fiction that I’ve written.

Fiction is a new venture for you, isn’t it?

Wil Wheaton: I have wanted to write and release fiction for a really long time, but I’ve had to struggle overcoming the voices of self-doubt and uncertainty, taking the plunge out of the narrative nonfiction world where I feel very comfortable and I’ve found some measure of success. I’m sure that a lot of you who are writers know what I’m talking about where there’s that fear that like you know you’re going to be Carrie at the prom and they’re all going to laugh at you. So I am hoping that when this little collection of short fiction is published in the near future it doesn’t end with me covered in pig’s blood burning down a high school gym.

Have you ever considered writing for television?

Wil Wheaton: You know not really. I don’t know if that’s really right for me. I have spent a lot of time with TV writers and they have a stamina and a skill level that is just intimidating and blows me away. I don’t know if that’s something that I would be successful at if I tried to do it. And since I kind of don’t want to mess up a good thing, do you know what I mean? It’s just like, I feel like I’m playing the longest, tallest game of Jenga ever and every time I manage to stack a new block on top of the tower and it doesn’t fall down I’m like, oh thank God. You know so I don’t want to risk bumping the table.

Come back tomorrow when Wil talks about life as a geek, his love of scifi conventions and about a strange incident that happened while shooting Leverage.

Wil’s episode of Leverage, “The Two Live Crew Job” airs tonight at 9:00 on TNT.

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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 CW ©2009 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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