TVGuide.com interviews Smallville Executive producer Kelly Souders about season 9, here’s the shipper stuff from the interview:
TVGuide.com: Could there be a new love interest in her future?
Souders: Oh, just maybe yes. I think there’s going to be a hint of some feelings under the surface. If you pay attention, I think there’s somebody she maybe has a little bit of a fire for. I’m not saying [who], I’ll give you this much: It’s somebody who is very charming and it would be hard for anybody not to have a fire for.
TVGuide.com: How are you approaching Clark and Lois (Erica Durance) finally being a couple this season?
Souders: They have their ups and downs just like every other couple. What comes out in the first half of this season is exactly what their issues are as far as their relationship goes. You get a little more insight, particularly into Lois. In the past, Clark was always hesitant to get into a relationship. He’s finally met his match in Lois and I think she’s even more hesitant in some ways than he is. The issues that she’s grappling with romantically will start to emerge more clearly over this first half of the season.
TVGuide.com: Will she find out Clark’s secret now that they’re dating?
Souders: Well… there’s a really great episode called “Idol” that’s coming up that if you’re curious about Lois and Clark and the secret, you should definitely watch that one. As we know we have to line up with the mythos, in which case she doesn’t know his secret, but watch “Idol,” it’s very, very fun.
TVGuide.com: I take “Pandora” to be the episode when Clark discovers the content of Lois’ visions. How does he come to discover it and how does it affect the future story lines in learning this?
Souders: It greatly affects Clark’s storyline and shines a big light on Zod [Callum Blue] and the other Kandorians who have come. It informs what Clark does from that point forward. He discovers it through Lois’ point of view, through her visions of the future. It’s Smallville, so we have to do something more visual than her just telling him. It’s not another power, there’s nothing unreal about it, but he gets to see the world through her eyes in a sense.
Last week TheCW premiered The Vampire Diaries and Melrose Place and the clear winner in the rating war was The Vampire Diaries, it got the highest series premiere rating in the history of TheCW, with a grand total of 4.84 million viewers! Melrose Place on the other hand sadly didn’t make a big impression at all, with just 2.3 million viewers. Which where I’m standing, isn’t all that surprising, the promos for Melrose Place 2.0 didn’t make the series look all that interesting… unlike The Vampire Diaries which managed to won my heart with some of its first promos!
Entertainment Weekly has reported that Kristin Kreuk, known for her role as Lana Lang on Smallville and Brandon Routh known for his role as Clark Kent in Superman Returns, will both be joining NBC’s Chuck in its 3rd season as guest stars! Both will be playing love interests, but not to each other, Kristin’s character will play love interest to Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Brandon’s character to Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski).
It’s going to be SUPER! …Will not so much for the Chuck/Sarah shippers…
ABC is teaming with “Friends” creator Marta Kauffman and Warner Bros. Television to adapt The Time Traveler’s Wife as a weekly series.
The news follows this weekend’s successful opening of the motion-picture version of “Time Traveler’s.” Starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, the New Line movie grossed nearly $20 million in its first three days and served as successful counterprogramming to more male-dominated fare.
ABC’s interest in the adaptation substantially pre-dates the movie, however. The network has been talking to Kauffman “for years” about bringing the project to the small screen, industry insiders said.
Kauffman will write and executive produce.
ABC executives believe the complex plot of the original novel will work well in series form, since Kauffman will be able to explore the romantic relationship at the core of the story over the course of several seasons.
Individual episodes will likely feature self-contained storylines as well.
ABC has given Warner’s TV a pilot commitment for “Time Traveler’s.” It’s not yet clear whether Brad Pitt’s Plan B banner, which produced the movie version with New Line, will be involved.
First published as a novel in 2003, “Time Traveler’s” revolves around a man named Henry (played by Bana in the movie) with a genetic disorder that results in spontaneous time travel. He ends up falling in love and marrying Clare (McAdams), an artist who patiently endures his frequent disappearances.
The novel was the debut for author Audrey Niffenegger.
Kauffman’s most recent effort for ABC was two years ago, when she teamed with Goldie Hawn to develop the nonfiction book “Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?”
The sixth season of NBC’s beloved comedy The Office might be more accurately titled “Office Romance,” as love will be in the air for the employees of Dunder Mifflin despite an economic downturn – including the much-anticipated wedding of expectant parents Jim and Pam.
Last season ended with the engaged Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) appearing to discover that they were pregnant, and the couple will indeed have a baby – and accelerated nuptials – on the way, as TV Guide Magazine first reported. “The wedding will be the fourth and fifth episode – It’ll be an hour long,” confirms co-executive producer Paul Lieberstein, who also plays HR director Toby Flenderson.
“We will be seeing the wedding, we’ll meet their family,” Lieberstein said, though otherwise their relationship will continue to be primarily viewed at the couple’s workplace. “We’re going to try to see it in the office, how that affects people who work together.
“I loved when they said we were going to have a baby before got married, that we would find out that we got pregnant before we got married,” said Krasinski. “I think that’s real and it’s gutsy.”
“It was fun to do something out of order with them,” added Lieberstein. “They’re obviously a good couple, but just to throw real, little, very simple obstacles in front of them and then they’re the kind of people who deal with small things in an amusing way. Jim has a good sense of humor and Pam can get worked up over things. So we thought that it was an interesting way to do it.”
“Trying on the wedding dresses for Pam was emotional,” admitted Fischer, who’d just come from a fitting session and is engaged in real life. “It really felt significant. It feels like she’s a person I’ve been routing for, for so long, and to see her finally getting her dream come true is neat.”
Fischer thinks there’s a reason the Jim/Pam romance has thrived over the years when other TV romances fizzles. “When the relationship was still an unrequited love relationship I would get a lot of fan mail from people who were also pining away for someone else in their office,” she said. “Now I’m getting a bunch of mail saying ‘I can’t wait to see you guys have a baby because we’re expecting!” And so I feel we’re kind of growing up with our fans, and we’re going though those same life stages as the people who’ve been watching us from the beginning.”
The more I see from the TheVampire Diaries or its cast, the more I’m falling in love with this series! It’s CRAZY, since I haven’t see the pilot yet! Hope I don’t hype myself TOO much! Anyway, two yummy photos from Entertainment Weekly and a new promo trailer:
TheCW released a new promo trailer for The Vampire Diaries titled “Love Sucks”. Same theme campaign as those HAWT banners that were released in June. Enjoy:
The CW will kick off its fall campaign on Sept. 8 with the sophomore year of “90210″ and the bow of “Melrose Place.”
Net has also decided to flop the time slots of its Monday dramas, which will send “Gossip Girl” to the 9 p.m. hour.
It’s the second year in a row that “90210″ is the centerpiece of the net’s fall launch campaign, and CW is hoping that anticipation will be high for the remodeled “Melrose.” CW is getting a jumpstart on its competish by launching the week of Sept. 8, but it won’t be quite as quick out of the gate as last year, when the net’s fall sked launched on Labor Day.
The rollout continues Sept. 9 with the two-hour preem of “America’s Next Top Model,” followed Sept. 10 by the preem of “Vampire Diaries” and return of “Supernatural.”
The Monday slate returns on Sept. 14, though the “Gossip Girl”-”One Tree Hill” slot swap will take effect July 6 with repeat segs.
The regular Wednesday slate of “Top Model” and newbie drama “A Beautiful Life” arrives on Sept. 16. CW also confirmed to its affiliate stations this month that it will give back one hour of its two-hour Monday-Friday daytime block as of the 2010-11 season. At present it programs the 3-5 p.m. block with yakker “The Tyra Banks Show,” one original and one repeat seg. As of 2010-11, it will return the 4-5 p.m. hour to affiliates.
Gaywired.com posted reviews of both Melrose Place and The Vampire Diaries.
I hated the remake at first. However, now that I’ve stewed it over, I see potential. From the beginning, the pilot didn’t find its tone. The acting was in general mediocre - some stood out and some was atrocious (I’m talking about you Ashlee Simpson-Wentz)…
…If nothing else, Melrose Place 2.0 might spawn a fun drinking game centered around Ashlee Simpson-Wentz attempting to utter catty lines. What can I say? I’m a sucker for a mystery.
…Moving on…my expectations for The Vampire Diaries were admittedly lower. Vampires have always been my thing, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to that season of daytime soap Port Charles. However, Twilight disappointed me and since this latest book series adaptation looked like a blatant ripoff of that Hollywood blockbuster, I expected it to disappoint me as well. Boy, was I wrong!
This show was fantastic. Literally, I cannot think of enough superlatives to describe the pilot. Immediately, I was sucked in by Kevin Williamson’s script and direction. Granted, he’s one of my favorite writers with his Scream series, but I was shocked to see him bring his A-game to his latest TV offering considering that it’s been so long since we’ve seen anything from him…
…Basically, I’m ordering you to watch Vampire Diaries. Even though it’s in the ridiculously competitive timeslot of Thursdays at 8pm, find anyway to catch it, even if it means ordering another Tivo. Rating: 11 out of 10 couches.
For anyone wondering about a possible Vampire Diaries panel at Comic Con International in San Diego this July, here’s some clarification straight from executive producer Julie Plec:
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