Way cool, huh? Definitely one of my favorite bits of swag to date!

Ghost Hunters returns with all new episodes on March 3 and they’ve got a live blow out planned for their 100th episode that you won’t want to miss.

Jason and Grant will team up with Barry and Dustin from Ghost Hunters International for their biggest hunt yet – a trip to Alcatraz. Forget the DVR. For this one, you have to tune in LIVE for this two-hour, interactive fan event on March 3.

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“You could call Survivors sci-fi,” says series star Freema Agyeman (Dr. Who), “but first and foremost it’s a very powerful human drama. It’s very raw and it feels real. People will watch it and imagine how they might react in the same situation. Do we know ourselves well enough to know how we would handle it?”

In the first episode, panic sets in and hoarding begins as the virus runs rampant through the city.

“Survivors is about what it means to be human,” says writer and executive producer Adrian Hodges (co-creator and writer of Primeval). “It asks questions about our nature and confronts us with our deepest fears. When everything else is stripped away, would we band together and find the best in ourselves, or would we fall apart and retreat into barbarism and savagery?”

Speaking of Being Human, BBC America has picked up a second season of the series. It will go to air this summer, but you can watch a sneak peek right now at their website.

Watch Survivors, Saturdays at 9:00 on BBC America.

Survivors – Najid (Chahak Patel), Al (Phillip Rhys), Samantha (Nikki Amuka- Bird), Greg (Paterson Joseph), Abby (Julie Graham), Tom (Max Beesley), Jenny (Freema Agyeman), David (Shaun Dingwall) and Anya (Zoe Tapper)

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An interview with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles

For nine months of the year, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles are possessed by supernatural entities. It’s like demons – or angels – have taken over their bodies and they are powerless to do anything but watch their days unfold through someone else’s eyes while they speak someone else’s thoughts and live someone else’s lives. Of course, those entities are just the fictional characters they play for their TV show, but when they’re Sam and Dean Winchester for “sixteen hours a day, five days a week – it’s like being in a different world,” Padalecki related. “I’m Sam Winchester more often than I’m Jared Padalecki!”

When Jared and Jensen are working those kinds of hours in the mindset of brothers who are trying to stop the apocalypse while dealing with their dysfunctional relationship and coping with the fact that the blood of all humankind could be on their hands due to the roles they played in freeing Lucifer, the enormity of it all can be rather “exhausting,” Ackles confirmed. “It’s been an exhausting season so far.”

What’s surprisingly not difficult for Ackles is having to pretend like he wants to kick Padalecki’s Sam’s ass to Hell and back. “I love it when they fight each other!” he insisted with a laugh. “In the past, Dean could never stay mad at his little brother, but this time he could because he has all the reasons in the world to be mad: his little brother caused the Apocalypse! I mean, come on!”

Padalecki agrees. “I love the conflict. Before it was like, ‘Oh, you made a deal with a demon, didn’t you?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Uh, okay. So, how long?’ ‘A year.’ ‘You suck. I’ll find a way to get you out. Hug me.’ But then the situations obviously changed, so even though the brothers still cared about each other, what Sam and Dean went through changed them both and separated them more into individuals, so their relationship got much darker. I like the dynamic of brother versus brother when they both think they’re doing the right thing for the right reasons. And I would like to see how dark Sam could get.”

Both actors don’t actually expect that things will go darker; they expect that Sam and Dean will change the destinies laid out for them in The End. “They still have their own inner demons and skeletons and secrets and all that to deal with,” Padalecki pointed out, “but I’m sure they’ll get back together and join forces somehow.” Ackles agreed, adding, “Yeah, I kinda think they’ll spend most of the rest of the season trying to fix things up and forgiving their mistakes, especially Sam, because he’s feeling guilty for Lucifer’s rising on Earth. He’s admitting his faults and trying to find redemption.”

Read the full interview in issue 14 of The Official Supernatural Magazine on newsstands now.

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Borsiczky and Zwerling are already producers on the series and Zwerling wrote several episodes where as Lea comes in new from CSI:NY.

In other news, Frank Grillo of Prison Break got the lead role in the new ABC paranormal crime drama The Gates. The summer series is about a city cop who takes a job as the police chief in a small, happy community — which, of course, is full of dark secrets!

Finally, it’s a done deal. Moonlight’s Alex O’Loughlin has agreed to take on the lead role in the Hawaii Five-O remake. I’m very much looking forward to it.

Photo: FlashForward: (ABC/CRAIG SJODIN) JOHN CHO, JOSEPH FIENNES

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Air Date: February 11, 2010 at 9:00 on The CW

Castiel (Misha Collins) helps Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) hunt down Cupid (guest star Lex Medlin) on Valentine’s Day after townspeople start to kill each other for love. However, after Cupid tells them he’s innocent, they discover Famine (guest star James Otis), one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, has arrived in town. Mike Rohl directed the episode written by Ben Edlund.

“My Bloody Valentine” – Misha Collins as Castiel, Jared Padalecki as Sam, Jensen Ackles as Dean, Lex Medlin as Cupid in SUPERNATURAL on The CW.

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Air Date: Februrary 11, 2010 at 8:00 on The CW

Stefan (Paul Wesley) helps Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Bonnie (Katerina Graham) out of a dangerous situation. Jeremy (Steve R. McQueen) asks Anna (guest star Malese Jow) to a party in the woods, unaware that she has her own reasons for wanting to meet him there.

When Stefan, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena work with Bonnie and Grams (guest star Jasmine Guy) to open the tomb, everyone is shocked by what they discover.

Photo: Quantrell Colbert/The CW
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Now, Jensen Ackles, the man behind Dean Winchester, is moving one step closer as he lends his voice to a new animated Batman DVD release.

According to the LA Times, Jensen will voice The Red Hood, an anti-hero, superhero in Batman: Under the Red Hood. Bruce Greenwood will voice Batman and even Neil Patrick Harris will be along for the ride.

No word on the release date yet, but a preview of the film will be included on the next Justice League DVD “Crisis on Two Earths.”

Photo: Jensen Ackles poses with his Ten Inch Hero castmates Danneel Harris and Elisabeth Harnois. Credit: Cynthia Boris

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Ghost Hunters International: San Lucas Prison

Air Date: Wednesday, February 10 @ 9:00 pm on Syfy

The GHI team venture to Costa Rica and investigate the San Lucas Penitentiary, an abandoned 19th century prison known as ‘The Alcatraz’ of Central America. This one time penitentiary was synonymous with cruelty and isolation and was used for over 100 years as a labor camp for young prisoners. The Costa Rican government will make the island accessible to tourists for the first time, but with wild monkeys, boa constrictors, spiders and even crocodiles inhabiting the island, they want to know if there is something supernatural that also lurks on the grounds as well.

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Lea is best known for his role as Krycek in The X-Files. He’ll be playing Erica’s ex-husband.

Lexa Doig played Dr. Lam on Stargate SG-1 and she’ll be a doctor on V. She has also guested on The 4400 and Eureka and she was Risa in Supernatural “The End.”

Also joining the cast is Charles Mesure who played the Archangel Michael on Xena, and has had a recurring role on Crossing Jordan. He also appeared in Boogeyman, which was written by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke.

Photo: David Gray/The CW
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Finally, there’s the comedy. Given what they can and can’t show on TV, a lot of this is being sold in the facial expressions of Sam, Dean and Castiel. Enjoy this clip from this week’s episode of Supernatural: My Bloody Valentine.

First, “a cupid has gone rogue and we need to stop him before he kills again.”

Next, it’s all about the greeting!

Also, “It’s when a dog doesn’t eat, that’s when you know something’s wrong.”

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