Happy birthday to you takes on all new meaning when you’ve had more than 162 of them. Stefan’s got a surprise coming his way in the form of Arielle Kebbel who played Jared Padalecki’s young wife Lindsay on Gilmore Girls.
The Vampire Diaries: 162 Candles
Air Date: November 5 at 8:00 on The CW
STEFAN GETS A SURPRISE BIRTHDAY VISIT FROM AN OLD FRIEND

On his birthday, Stefan (Paul Wesley) is surprised by a visit from Lexi, (guest star Arielle Kebble, “Gilmore Girls”), one of his oldest friends. Still upset by the events at the Halloween haunted house, Elena (Nina Dobrev) does her …read more

You’re either going to love it or hate it — it’s the newest Supernatural spoof episode and I think it’s brilliant. You can read my full review right here. Or just skim the episode synopsis from The CW.
Supernatural: Changing Channels
Air Date: November 5 at 9:00 on The CW
SAM AND DEAN GET STUCK IN TV HELL
(more photos here)

The Trickster (guest star Richard Speight Jr.) throws Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) into an alternate universe where they are characters in different television series, including a sexy medical show, a Japanese game show, a forensics show and a sitcom. The …read more

If you have a female TV fan on your holiday shopping list, you might want to think about picking up this gorgeous new photography book called About Face.
The publishers say the “160-pages of black and white photographs shot with the soon-to-be-extinct Type 55 Polaroid film captures the intensity of the male subjects.”
And boy, what subjects. . .   Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), Ian Somerhalder (Lost,Vampire Diaries), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood),  Jerry O’Connell (Crossing Jordan), Justin Chon (Twilight, New Moon), Justin Hartley (Smallville), Mark Wystrach (Passions), Gilles Marini (Sex and the City),  Victor Webster (Mutant X),  Will …read more

Look who’s tagging along on tonight’s ghost hunt!
Ghost Hunters: Ghost of Buffalo Bill
Air Date: November 4 on Syfy
The West is about to get a whole lot wilder.
Warehouse 13’s Eddie McClintock dons Ghost Hunters gear for a special TAPS investigation. Today, the team tackles the haunted gravesite of the legendary Buffalo Bill.
Violent, invisible forces are believed to haunt the area. The mysterious specter of a cowboy has been spotted in the neighboring museum. Spooky whispers echo through the building’s empty halls.
Could TAPS have a close encounter with our nation’s greatest showman? Or will they run into more hostile spirits?
“Oakland Hall” – …read more

Starting on December 15, A&E will return to spooky Tuesdays with new seasons of  Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal and Paranormal State.
Psychic Kids follows psychic/mediums Chip Coffey, Chris Fleming and Kim Russo — who themselves grew up with the ability to see dead people– and licensed therapist Edy Nathan as they attempt to help kids with psychic abilities.
Once those kids grow up and become teens, they can go to Paranormal State! This is the fourth season of this series that follows Ryan Buell and the Paranormal Research Society of Penn State University.
On the books for ABC is a pilot …read more

The burly guys of Ghost Lab, Discovery Channel’s newest reality ghost hunting series, have no problem facing off against an angry spirit, but when it comes to a probing reporter, they go running the other way.
When I first made mention of the show here on SFUniverse, I thought it would be a quick blip and gone, but now, nearly a month later, I’m still getting comments on that post and they’re not all that nice.
Not long after, I was offered an interview with the guys behind Ghost Lab and I said great. I told them that my readers here wanted …read more

Big night for Supernatural fans, a new episode,  my review of “Changing Channels,” and now here are pics from the next episode up after that – can I rescind my “In Kripke We Trust?”
Supernatural: “The Real Ghostbusters”
Air Date: November 12 on The CW

IT’S A SUPERNATURAL CONVENTION! — Super fan Becky (guest star Emily Perkins) uses Chuck’s (guest star Chuck Benedict) phone to trick Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) into attending a Supernatural fan convention, complete with fans dressed up as Sam and Dean. One of the activities is a live action role playing game, but things quickly …read more

While you were watching “The Curious Case of Dean Winchester,” I was watching next week’s episode courtesy of a tricky-little demi-God with a wicked sense of humor. Need I say it?
SPOILERS AHEAD
Over the years, Supernatural has done an amazing job with their parody episodes. They recreated the world of the Universal monsters in Monster Movie, complete with black and white photography and fake-looking sets. One year they pulled out the hand-held cameras and took out the crew for a perfect recreation of a ghost hunting reality show.
This season it’s personal, as Supernatural pokes fun at some classic TV shows in …read more

This past summer, we here in the US were treated to a run of the BBC series Being Human which follows the “lives” of a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost who are roommates.
Though it sounds like the plot of a bad sitcom, Being Human is actually a startlingly real and emotional TV series that shows the very best and the very worst of our species.
Now, the company that produced the series is preparing a 13 episode American reboot to premiere on Syfy in Summer 2010.
“Being Human is a smart, contemporary, young and imaginative series that reflects Syfy’s new brand …read more

The Vampire Diaries:  Haunted
Air Date: October 29 at 8:00 on The CW
HALLOWEEN IN MYSTIC FALLS

As Vicki’s (Kayla Ewell) behavior becomes more dangerous, Stefan (Paul Wesley) tries to help her. Elena (Nina Dobrev) tries to convince Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) to stay away from Vicki. Caroline (Candice Accola) gives Bonnie (Katerina Graham) a necklace she took from Damon (Ian Somerhalder) to wear with her Halloween costume, and when Damon tries to take it back, he is surprised by Bonnie’s abilities.