Warner Brothers Television has more than their share of genre shows this year, so they’ll be hitting Comic Con with eleven panels! They’re offering up some great previews, great guests — but so far there are two VERY noticeable names missing from this list — Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. According to the press release, Misha Collins and Jim Beaver will be representing Supernatural. Not that we don’t love those guys, but seeing as this might be their final year at the con, I can’t believe we won’t be seeing the two leads.

Now, before anyone gets violent, schedules do change and it’s possible that the boys might end up as last minute additions. That certainly was the case the past few years where the panel roster changed up to minutes before it was scheduled to begin. So keep your fingers crossed for Winchesters at Comic Con this year.

To keep up with the changes, subcribe to the Warner Brothers Twitter @TheWBdotcom and look for their Con-related website at TheWB.com/ComicCon, coming in July.

With that out of the way, here’s a rundown on all of the Warner Brothers panels and guests.

The Guests:

“The Big Bang Theory”: Johnny Galecki (”Roseanne”), Jim Parsons (”Garden State”), Kaley Cuoco (”Charmed”), executive producer Chuck Lorre (”Two and a Half Men”) and more

“Chuck”: Zachary Levi (upcoming “Alvin and the Chipmunks”), Yvonne Strahovski (upcoming “I Love You Too”), executive producer Josh Schwartz (”Gossip Girl”) and more

“Eastwick”: Rebecca Romijn (”X-Men”), Lindsay Price (”Lipstick Jungle”), Jaime Ray Newman (”Veronica Mars”) and more

“Fringe”: Anna Torv (”The Pacific”), Josh Jackson (”Shutter”), John Noble (”The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”) and more

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Fox has announced the premiere dates for their fall shows including Fringe and Dollhouse. Fringe is looking good on Thursdays after Bones — even though it puts them in direct competition with Supernatural.

Dollhouse, however, keeps the Friday at 9:00 slot (which I believe will put it up against Medium on CBS) but running after an hour comedy block. Very strange programming choice but I guess its the best Fox could do given the limited amount of genre shows on the network this coming year.

Thursday, Sept. 17
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT BONES (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT FRINGE (Season Premiere)

Friday, Sept. 18
8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT BROTHERS (Series Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT ‘TIL DEATH (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT DOLLHOUSE (Season Premiere)

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Yesterday, Fox had an Upfront Pre-Reception at Seppis in New York City and the stars of Fringe stopped by to chat up the advertisers and pose for pics. Mark Valley looks like he’s being guarded by the Secret Service and how cute is Jasika Nicole in that polka dot dress? And keep your eyes open for one non-Fringe special guest.

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It’s upfront day and Fox has quite a few sci fi related doings on their 2009-2010 schedule. I’ll have more on the new shows Past Life and Human Target in just a bit, but first there’s this:

Fringe moved to Thursdays at 9:00!!

Supernatural just can’t get a break. First CSI, then Grey’s and now Fringe? I’d venture a guess that Fringe and Supernatural share a lot of the same audience, too. Luckily its a smart audience so we know how to record one and watch the other, but seriously, Thursday nights are way too tight.

Dollhouse is staying on Friday night but now it has two comedy shows as a lead-in. That’s poor planning. But what I find even funnier are the ratings notes Fox handed out to the press. After months of threatening to cancel the series due to poor ratings, they now say this:

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For once, I got it right. For the first time since I began watching Fringe, I figured out the twist before it happened. I owe myself a cookie — a really big one with lots of chocolate chips — because normally I walk away from Fringe more confused than not. But not this time. Let’s talk about Peter and Walter.

For weeks now, the writers have been leaving us clues about Peter’s past. We had Walter referencing Peter’s serious illness and allusions to experiments that were conducted on the boy. But more telling were all the times that Peter insisted Walter was the one with the faulty memory when ever they talked about his childhood. We were supposed to put this off to selective memory enduced by the trauma of his illness, but I didn’t buy that for a minute. The one that got me was when Peter was looking through a box of toys that Walter claimed were his but he said they weren’t his toys. I said, hmm…it feels like maybe Peter isn’t really Walter’s son. Well, I was close, right?

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I can hardly stand it! Yet another one of my favorite shows is coming to an end. At least for Fringe, we know this won’t be the last we’ll see of Olivia, Walter, Peter and the gang. Tonight, we’ll get our first up close and personal with the mysterious William Bell and that’s just one of several big surprises this series has in store.

Buckle your seat belts and get out that scorecard, it’s time for the Fringe season finale.

“There’s More Than One of Everything”

Air Date: May 12

The sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist David Robert Jones (guest star Jared Harris) and the inexplicable disappearance of Walter set the stage for a non-stop, nail-biting season finale of FRINGE. Questions will be answered, observations made, loyalties tested and truths and identities revealed.

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Fringe: The Road Not Taken

Air Date: May 5 on Fox

First her bad dreams became reality, and now Olivia is “dreaming” while awake, seeing elaborate bleak visions of things not really there. While investigating the disturbing case of a woman who apparently spontaneously combusted, Olivia throws caution to the wind and mines her unexplained visions for clues. Meanwhile, Walter comes clean about his prior knowledge of the Z.F.T. manifesto, and Peter’s secret project is revealed and yields surprising help in unraveling the mystery.

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As expected, Fox has officially picked up Fringe for a second season.

“Fring proved to be a notable addition to our schedule all season and it really has fans buzzing as it builds to a fantastic season finale,” said Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. “J.J. and the whole Bad Robot team have been phenomenal partners, and we look forward to years of making great television with them.”

Fringe has done very well this season, often winning its time slot in the key Adults 18-49 bracket. It’s also created a nice buzz online and fans worked on decoding the secret messages in the commercial bumpers and attempted to untangle the mystery in Olivia’s childhood. And with the Leonard Nimoy joining the cast for the season finale, it’s only going to get bigger. (Psst. . .I have it on good authority that we’ll be seeing more of Leonard when Fringe returns in the fall.)

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I’ve been waiting for this. . . the first picture of Leonard Nimoy as William Bell on Fringe. Here’s the scoop:

Setting the stage for the dramatic and revealing first season finale are a sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist David Robert Jones (guest star Jared Harris) and the inexplicable disappearance of Walter. Find out more about the mysterious events surrounding our trio when questions are answered, observations made, loyalties are tested and the elusive William Bell (guest star Nimoy) is finally introduced in the “There’s More Than One of Everything” season finale episode of Fringe.

It all happens on May 12 at 9:01. Not 9:00, mind you, but 9:01.

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“Midnight”

Air Date: April 28

Fringe Division is on the case when severely mutilated bodies drained of spinal cord fluid begin to pile up. After their investigation leads them to a scientist (guest star Jefferson Mays) with possible ties to the Z.F.T. bioterrorist cell, they are shocked to discover the identity and motive of the killer. When the kills occur with increasing

frequency, Olivia (Anna Torv), Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Walter (John Noble) go to desperate lengths to stop them.

More pics after the cut.

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