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Devastating news that David Ogden Stiers has passed away.  He was only 75.   Probably best known for playing Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester on MASH he had a long distinguished career in films, TV, the theater, and voice work.

I first met David in 1976 when he guest-starred in an episode of THE TONY RANDALL SHOW that my partner, David Isaacs and I wrote.   He played a radio talk show host named Robert W. Cleaver.  He was naturally hilarious.  That same year he also guested on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW and MASH Executive Producer, Burt Metcalfe had seen him and was impressed.

We joined MASH after that season and the first task we all encountered was replacing Frank Burns since Larry Linville decided to leave the show.   We wanted the new character to be much smarter than Frank, a worthy adversary for Hawkeye and BJ.   There were no casting sessions, no lists compiled.  Burt suggested David Ogden Stiers, we were wildly enthusiastic over the idea, and that was that.

Stop me if I've told these stories before, but the week before production David came up to our office and we heard him read the character.  He chose to do it in a thick Boston accent.  We told him we were concerned that it was hard to decipher some of the words.  He said, "Well, what if I backed off just a little bit?"  He re-read it with that slight adjustment and we said, "Perfect!"  That's the way he played it from then on.

David Isaacs and I actually wrote the first episode featuring Charles although it didn't air until late in the season.  The episode is called "The Merchant of Korea" and dealt primarily with a poker game.  Since there was no need to film at the Malibu ranch it was held back to the latter part of the year when going to the ranch was unfeasible due to lack of daylight.   That script served as the template.  Jim Fritzell & Everett Greenbaum then wrote the terrific hour episode that introduced him.

The night of the premier we had a big party.  I was sitting next to David on the couch and just before the show aired I said, "In one hour your life will change forever."  He thought I was being a tad over-dramatic.  Three days later he said to me, "My God.  You're right. I can't go anywhere without being recognized."

There's always the worry when you introduce a new character that fans will not take to him.  In David's case it was instantaneous acceptance. 

David was a wonderful gentle soul.  And quirky.  He didn't drive -- not easy in Southern California.  He rode a scooter (way ahead of his time).  He engineered sly practical jokes. He was truly loved by the cast and crew.  

David rarely gave interviews about his time on MASH.  He didn't want to just be remembered for that show.  In documentaries and articles he always declined to participate.  But I know he was intensely proud of his contribution to MASH.   And through MASH his brilliance will be seen and appreciated for years and years to come.

RIP David Ogden Stiers.  I salute you... with tears in my eyes. 

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Sorry for the headline, but that was the honest, verbatim T Lo reaction when this landed in our inbox. We have no doubt that we heard about this project somewhere along the line, but we must have purged our memory files, because this came as a total surprise to us.

And, as it turns out, a pleasant one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Press Release, would you like to say a few words before we get to the opinionating?

“Lost in Space is a Netflix Original drama–“

We thought so. Please proceed.

“Lost in Space is a Netflix Original dramatic and modern reimagining of the classic 1960’s science fiction series. Set 30 years in the future, colonization in space is now a reality, and the Robinson family is among those tested and selected to make a new life for themselves in a better world. But when the new colonists find themselves abruptly torn off course en route to their new home they must forge new alliances and work together to survive in a dangerous alien environment, light-years from their original destination. Stranded along with the Robinsons are two outsiders who find themselves thrown together by circumstance and a mutual knack for deception. The unsettlingly charismatic Dr. Smith (Parker Posey) is a master manipulator with an inscrutable end game. And the roguish, but inadvertently charming Don West (Ignacio Serricchio) is a highly-skilled, blue collar contractor, who had no intention of joining the colony, let alone crash landing on a lost planet.

Okay, Parker Posey as Dr. Smith is kind of genius, the more we think about it. We’re on board, pun very much intended.

In truth, we might have been onboard no matter what, since the basic Lost in Space backstory is ripe with storytelling possibilities in this Golden Age of sci-fi television. And unlike a lot of revisited and rebooted shows, Lost in Space doesn’t suffer from too many poor attempts to revive the brand, thereby weakening it. There was a mostly forgettable feature film twenty years ago, but that’s about it. This looks like it could be a lot of fun.

As an aside: Toby Stephens gets hotter as he gets older, but he also resembles his mother Maggie Smith more and more, which poses something of a paradox for us.

Lost in Space premieres April 13, 2018.

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Outside casting, we’ve barely heard a thing about Netflix’s reboot of the cult scifi classic Lost in Space. Now, we finally have a cryptic teaser as our first look... and it seems like this show is going to be a lot more serious than you might have expected out of a new Lost in Space.

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The series finale of Quantum Leap was bleak (to put it mildly), with the final title card confirming that Scott Bakula’s character, Sam Beckett, remained lost in time. However, one video claims a long-rumored alternate ending was actually real, one which would’ve made it possible for Sam to make that final leap home.

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To the uninitiated: Puppy chow is an irresistible, dessert-leaning snack mix with chocolate-coated Chex cereal at its base. It really has everything going for it, with its mix of M&Ms, cinnamon hearts, and white-chocolate coated Chex. This guaranteed crowd-pleaser is made for sharing and comes together without needing to turn on the oven.

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What does it take to build a successful, decade-spanning marriage? At Sundance, after the premiere of their film Clara’s Ghost, we spoke with Chris Elliott and Paula Neidert, who have been married for over 30 years, about the secret to their success.

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Too bad, hourglass fans: That timely shape is about to depart from your favorite breakfast cereal. ABC News reports that for the first time in 10 years, Lucky Charms is adding a new permanent marshmallow to its lineup: a surprisingly detailed unicorn head. “Magical” may be overstating it, but it certainly looks…

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Lots of people are shy about their dancing skills, so if you're hesitant to break out your patented brand of footloose fun in front of strangers then you're not alone. In fact, the only reason so many people go out on the dance floor at nightclubs, parties and weddings is because they've been drinking.

As you can see in this Poorly Drawn Lines comic alcohol is the key to unlocking your body's natural boogie potential, but beware of the dehydration caused by drunken dancing- or else you'll be stuck doing the Robot.

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Can Team USA find room for him on the skeleton or curling teams? Maybe? Yes? Newfound national treasure Adam Rippon ended his sparkly, witchcraft-inspired Olympics this weekend, placing a respectable tenth place in the individual men’s figure skating competition. But before Rippon makes his inevitable late-night debut in the coming days, the athlete took a few moments, post-skate, to reflect on his Olympic experience.

“I came here as an athlete to show why I’m at these Olympic Games, why I was chosen for the team, why I needed to be on that team event and that’s been so important to me and that I’ve gotten to show the world who I am,” he told reporters after his final event on Saturday morning. “I think I’m leaving showing the world that you can also have a big personality and be who you are in the process … I think I’ve shown the world that I’m a fierce competitor, but I think I’ve shown them that I’m also a fierce human being.”

“I can’t explain witchcraft.” -

Amanda Price (@amandaruthprice) February 16, 2018

With everything going on in the media about me this Valentine’s Day I don’t want people to get distracted and forget how beautiful I am (on the outside)

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A VALENTINE TO PERSONAL STYLE…THE ECLECTIC MIX…WARDROBE ICONS…BOLD TARTANS AND STRIPES…ROMANTIC FLORALS AND DOTS…FAIR ISLES, ARGYLES AND FOULARDS PLAY OFF OF GRAPHIC LEOPARD AND ZEBRA…RUGGED CAMO MEETS COUTURE FLORAL CHINÉ…MENSWEAR TAILORING JUXTAPOSED WITH FEMININE LINGERIE…SOFT RUFFLES AND CRISP SPORTSWEAR…MIXED MEDIA…THE MODERNIST COCKTAIL DRESS, THE EFFORTLESS TRAIN, THE STREAMLINED PANNIER…THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION IN THE FIRST MICHAEL KORS COLLABORATION…BRITISH ILLUSTRATOR DAVID DOWNTON AND HIS INIMITABLE TAKES ON INDIVIDUAL STYLE…SHOES WITH PERSONALITY…THE POINTY KITTEN HEEL, THE STOMPER BOOT, THE OPULENT SHOWER SLIDE, THE CHUNKY ’70S PLATFORM…BAGS WITH ATTITUDE AND CHARM…THE LUXE SHOPPING BAG, THE TAILORED JELLYROLL, THE SLEEK TOP-HANDLE FRAME BAG, THE UTILITY SHOULDER BAG…GLAMOROUS PEARL AND DIAMANTÉ JEWELS, JAUNTY FEDORAS AND OVERSIZED MUFFLERS…ICONIC/ECLECTIC…

 

 

 

 

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Bradley Whitford joins Season 2 of the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale

Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Get Out) has joined the cast of the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, according to Deadline. In Season 2, Whitford will play Commander Joseph Lawrence, “the architect of Gilead’s economy, who is gruff and intimidating, with a disheveled mad genius vibe. His sly humor and flashes of kindness make him a confusing, mysterious presence for his newest Handmaid.”

RELATED: The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 Premiere Date and Trailer!

The award-winning and hit drama series will return for season two on April 25th with two new episodes, and subsequent episodes released every Wednesday only on Hulu.

The 13-episode second season will be shaped by Offred’s pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. “Gilead is within you” is a favorite saying of Aunt Lydia. In Season 2, Offred and all characters will fight against – or succumb to – this dark truth.

The series stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel, Ann Dowd, Max Minghella, Madeline Brewer, O-T Fagbenle and Amanda Brugel.

The Handmaid’s Tale comes to Hulu from MGM Television and is created, executive produced and written by Bruce Miller. The show is executive produced by Warren Littlefield, Elisabeth Moss, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, and Ilene Chaiken. MGM serves as the international distributor for the series.

Bradley Whitford is known for his work in The West Wing and has been seen recently in The Post and Get Out.

What do you guys think of Bradley Whitford joining the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2? Let us know in the comments.

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Whether you’re stuck on what to get your partner for Valentine’s Day, or the thought of the holiday makes your head hurt, you probably need a break. If you want to basically buy yourself a great gift, while giving it to someone else, you’re gonna want to check out an anxiety-relieving weighted blanket. This one is…

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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the award-winning creators of HBO’s Game Of Thrones, have just landed their very own Star Wars spin-off series. That’s according to the official Star Wars website, which says that their project will be separate from both the main Skywalker saga and Last Jedi director Rian Johnson’s own …

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The new Starz drama Counterpart, which debuts Sunday, features a crazy high-concept executed in a fashion that’s at once buttoned-down and wild in its own right. The best way I can describe it is if The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Fringe had a threesome with The Parent Trap.

JK Simmons stars as Howard Silk — two Howard Silks, actually, since the core idea involves a parallel reality that split off from our own a few decades ago. As one of them explains, “There was one reality, and then it duplicated,” leading to changes both global and personal. The Howard from the world we know is a polite and friendly office drone in the agency that manages the border between the two Earths, so low-level he doesn’t even understand what he or the agency does; the Howard from this slightly off-kilter, depopulated alternate Earth is a ruthless spy who can’t believe how soft and meek the man wearing his face has become.

“He looks exactly like me, but he is nothing like me,” complains our Howard after meeting his doppelganger.

Spy Howard has come to our earth to stop an assassin called Baldwin (Sara Serraiocco) and figure out why she was sent here from his reality. Bureaucrat Howard just wants to stay out of trouble and visit his comatose wife Emily (Olivia Williams) in the hospital as she recovers (or doesn’t) from a hit-and-run. But the spy has good reason to mistrust his handlers on both earths (played by, among others, Ulrich Thomsen, Harry Lloyd, and Stephen Rea), forcing him to lean on the nebbishy Howard more than either man would like.

Created by Justin Marks (The Jungle Book), Counterpart takes the chilly form and careful pacing of a Cold War thriller — another spy’s widow, unaware of the parallel realities, asks if her husband was working for America or the Russians — leaning on European locations (both Howards work in Berlin) and a soundtrack heavy on classical music. Even most of the technology is from the ‘80s or earlier, despite it not being a period piece, for reasons that make sense the more we learn about the other reality. But it’s less John Le Carré in sci-fi drag than a character study, digging deep into each Howard — particularly after, as is mandatory for tales of dead ringers, they have to switch places for a while — to figure out how the same start could produce two men with so little in common.

“Difference between you and me could be a single moment,” spy Howard suggests. “One little thing gone wrong.”

Though Simmons’ build has fluctuated over the years(*), and he occasionally wears wigs, he’s not exactly a physical chameleon. But he’s been able to use that open, hangdog face incredibly varied effect over the years, from cruel monsters in Oz and Whiplash (for which he won an Oscar) to the warmest of people in Juno and The Meddler, to all manner of tones in between. That versatility serves him perfectly here, since the story requires the Howards to look alike but seem clearly different, even when one is impersonating the other.

(*) When interviewing him at the end of his time on Oz, I asked for the most important thing he’d learned from his breakthrough role. He told me it was seeing how heavy he was while watching the first season and committing to getting in shape. As anyone who saw his biceps in Whiplash (or this Instagram post from a couple of years ago) can attest, he more than met his goal.

No matter how convoluted the story gets — and it gets plenty, as you might expect from its influences — it works at its core because it can always turn to one Howard or the other, and the process of each man learning more about the roads not taken by his double are even more compelling than whether Baldwin can be stopped, or what the larger conspiracy is. The best scene in the six episodes sent to critics just involves our Howard looking around a room in the other Howard’s apartment and absorbing the biggest difference between them. Simmons’ delivery also can wring laughs out of the driest of lines, which proves an invaluable relief from an approach that’s otherwise intensely sober-minded.

The supporting cast — which also includes Richard Schiff as a diplomat, Nazanin Boniadi as Baldwin’s handler, and Kenneth Choi as Emily’s boss — is strong and deep enough that Counterpart doesn’t become entirely Simmons-dependent. Williams is predictably excellent, and Italian actress Serraiocco is an English language find as Baldwin, whose mission goes pear-shaped in a hurry and has to figure out what to do next.

Without seeing the full season, it’s hard to say whether there’s too much story or not quite enough to fill a 10-episode season. As is often the case with actual Le Carré, I reached a point where I largely lost interest in whatever the plot was about. But just as there are two Howard Silks, there are essentially two Counterparts: the spy drama with science fiction trappings, and the character study with same. Spy Howard often has to carry bureaucrat Howard through the latest crisis, and the character version of Counterpart can more than carry the spy story when it starts to feel too pokey.

Alan Sepinwall may be reached at sepinwall@uproxx.com. He discusses television weekly on the TV Avalanche podcast. His new book, Breaking Bad 101, is on sale now.

Hulu’s Castle Rock Super Bowl spot is here

Hulu has unveiled the Castle Rock Super Bowl spot, which you can watch below! The Stephen King-inspired series premieres on the streaming service this summer.

A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The series stars André Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Sissy Spacek, Bill Skarsgård, Jane Levy and Scott Glenn.

Sam Shaw & Dustin Thomason developed the project for television and serve as executive producers along with J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson and Liz Glotzer. Castle Rock is from Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Castle Rock is coming to Hulu in Summer 2018. Are you looking forward to the series? Let us know in the comments below!

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Holy forkin’ shirtballs! With The Good Place gearing up for its season finale on Thursday, Michael’s eclectic neighborhood has been abandoned as Team Cockroach pleads their case for salvation to the Eternal Judge. (An Eternal Judge who is a delightful law priestess with a penchant for burritos and Friday Night Lights.) Now that Michael and Janet have arrived to help sway the judge in the quartet’s favor, it’s up in the air as to how the finale will ensue. But if you want to indulge some guesses, why not take a few fan theories for a spin?

“It’s bloody brilliant and so exciting, and nobody has guessed it so far,” Good Place actress Jameela Jamil recently teased to Vulture about season three. “I do some internet digging every now and then to see what people are guessing, but nobody has thought of what’s to come yet.” With that cryptic quote, we’ve dug through various internet threads to find some of the most interesting theories out there — in addition to other widely popular theories that have been circulating for awhile. Have another theory not included here? Drop it in the comments.

One Reddit user posits an interesting question: What if the Judge ends up being so moved by the quartet’s progress, but still can’t will herself to put them either in a “Good” or “Bad” place? As a result, she concocts an ultimate test and the gang is put in an entirely new Place, completely separate from the system we know, to help rehabilitate people just like themselves — not inherently good, not inherently bad, but capable of significant moral change. They’re then required to teach and change a certain amount of people to get into the Good Place once and for all. Michael and Janet are in this new Place helping out, of course. Bonus: The fact that the finale is titled “Somewhere Else” fits this theory nicely.

We’ve already seen cracks in the way the Bad Place operates, as evidenced by Michael’s failed neighborhood reboots and Shawn breaking celestial protocol to retrieve Team Cockroach from the Medium Place. (Only to discover Mindy and Derek getting it on. Maximum Derek!) As another Reddit user reckons, this could be beneficial to the gang, as Michael can prove the Bad Place is getting increasingly corrupt and plead that case to the Eternal Judge. The Judge could then forcibly remove all of the Bad Place’s executives — or even send them to their own “eternal shriek” — and Michael will be forced to take over, owing to the fact there’s nobody else left to do the job. Perhaps he’ll bring along the quartet and Janet to help implement his new, more ethical vision for the Bad Place, and shenanigans ensue.

Another interesting take from a Reddit user, who theorizes that the Good Place isn’t as idyllic and blissful and full of wonders as we’d expect it to be. Instead, what if it’s a place where intellectual stimulus and growth never fully stops, and the lucky people who ascend there are privy to constant challenges to become even better people? Eleanor and her pals, in turn, are improving on their respective flaws by thinking they were meant to be in the Bad Place.

Good Place creator Mike Schur has been vocal about his admiration of Lost and its showrunner Damon Lindelof for years. (Did you catch that subtle Lost nod in the very first episode?) It’s not unreasonable to think the Good and Bad places do indeed exist, and Team Cockroach is on the brink of entry into either place but is continuously being tested to determine their destiny.

This theory has been growing in popularity since the big reveal at the end of season one, so it’s not the most timely, per se. But think about it: Michael has already led a somewhat tortuous life as a desk jockey pushing pencils in the Bad Place for thousands of years, and when he finally gets the opportunity to be an architect and create his own neighborhood, he fails spectacularly. If you thought Chidi was always on the verge of an ethics-driven panic attack, think how Michael felt in the 800-plus times he was forced to reboot the neighborhood. Talk about a slow burn!

She’s omnipresent. She’s unbelievably helpful. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of everything that’s ever happened. What if, as one Reddit user guessed, Janet is God and in charge of an extended group of Janets to bring order to the universe? If nothing else, that would mean Bad Janet is the devil. Yes, please.

This week on Supernatural, Briana Buckmaster as Sheriff Donna Hanscum was featured for the second consecutive episode, straight off of “Wayward Sisters,” in a story that put her family ties front and center. Could niece Wendy add another layer to the Wayward world?

“Breakdown” was an unusual Supernatural episode in a variety of ways — for one, the guys show up to support Donna as friends with a knack for solving mysteries, not as actual hunters, on what initially appears to be a non-paranormal kidnapping. Despite still coming in with an FBI cover, they take a back seat as civilians so the real feds can do their work and act alongside Donna as “relatives” of the victim, basically taking on the role of the people they usually roll into town to help.

Then, there’s the fact that the big bad wasn’t a monster, although monsters were involved as the buyers of what this human killer was selling, and both Dean and Donna are forced to take human lives. The notion that the hunts Sam and Dean undertake on a weekly basis are just the tip of an impossible iceberg is thrown into stark relief, as our villain taunts the boys — and the audience — with a reminder that there are hundreds of thousands more monsters out there than they could ever know about, that they only ever tackle the ones that don’t know how to cover their tracks.

Whether this tidbit was merely an incidental reality check or a further hint at the bigger work that Billie tasked Dean with in “Advanced Thanatology” is yet to be seen, but it’s certainly a repeat of season 12’s British Men of Letters party line — that despite how heroic they may seem to us, Sam and Dean, when they’re not averting apocalypses, are still very much saving people via the starfish methodology — you know, “it made a difference to that one” — rather than thinking big picture.

There’s Sam, who’s fulfilling my prophecy about his terrifying breaking point all too well — his repression is deeper and darker than Dean’s, and while Dean may lie to those around him about how he feels, Sam has perfected the art of lying to himself, and the fact that he’s now prising the lid off his inner truth is sure to lead to some strong and scary stuff, ranging anywhere from facing up to his own mental health to a full loss of self control and a resurgence of his raw psychic power, which has been alluded to more frequently in the last couple of seasons than it has in many, many, many years.

“It’s our lives. And I tried to pretend it didn’t have to be.” With Sam’s utterance, we’re also now looking at a role reversal, where Dean will have to be determined to show him that they can have something good and keep it — new territory for him to consciously take the lead on, but innately the most natural and correct course for him, and honestly, this close to the show’s surely nearby end, the more often a Winchester swears that their end is going to come bad and bloody, the more I rejoice, because it’s all the more reason to believe those comments are a narrative set-up to prove them wrong in an arc for final closure.

But maybe most importantly, as it comes straight off the back of the Wayward Sisters backdoor pilot, is Donna, who finally gets her “origin story” even though she’s known about the supernatural for several years. Unlike Jody and the girls, Donna had not, until now, personally suffered losses in the line of hunting, but when her niece is kidnapped and her boyfriend is temporarily turned into a vampire, she’s a changed woman. Although both niece Wendy and boyfriend New Doug survive the episode, Doug is unable to cope with the truth about Donna’s world and breaks off their relationship, choosing normalcy and simplicity in a way you can barely even hold against him.

Donna’s sense of isolation is exacerbated by Sam, who delivers some brutal honesty about getting close to people, colored by his own emotional struggles. Dean said much the same thing to Patience earlier in the season, but since his own change of heart, he clearly no longer feels the same way, as he calls Sam out on his handling of Donna, but as this is still the boys’ point of view, we won’t know how Donna has processed all of this trauma until we return to her perspective in Wayward Sisters.

The one character we didn’t hear enough from was Wendy herself. Supernatural has really improved its empowerment and survival rate for female victims in recent years, but we don’t see any aftermath with this one, as the story is more about Donna than anything else. Wendy, in the scenes leading up to her kidnapping, clearly has spunk and a sense of adventure, and other shades of her personality — a gun control sticker on her car and a lesbian pride t-shirt — can be observed and extrapolated, but after she’s put in danger, she becomes the damsel and we don’t get too much more.

However, her mere existence also shows us more about Donna’s life, giving her ties to be followed up on in Wayward Sisters, as that show is intended to be a lot less transient than Supernatural and will focus on the home lives of the lead characters and the people who populate their world, and if Donna is to have her own emotional perspective, then her relationship with Wendy, particularly juxtaposed against her relationship with Jody’s found family of young women, is one of the biggest aspects to explore.

It’s for these reasons and more that I’d love to see actress Sarah Dugdale reappear as Wendy Hanscum on Wayward Sisters, but she’s not the only survivor who might make for an interesting guest star as the Supernatural universe continues to expand. Over the years, Sam and Dean have touched the lives of hundreds, shaking up their lives and leaving them with a new perspective on the world around them, and in particular, the show’s controversial female survival rate has increased exponentially, especially in recent years. There are any number of untold stories about what happened next for all those survivors, and here are just a few who, if followed up on, might make interesting fodder for future episodes of the Supernatural universe.

Detective Diana Ballard

The Exorcist’s Linda Blair spews her horror cred like pea soup all over Supernatural’s season 2 episode “The Usual Suspects,” in which she plays a police detective who arrests Dean for murder and, during the case, discovers both the existence of ghosts and the fact that the real culprit is her detective partner and boyfriend Pete Sheridan. After saving the boys and taking down Pete herself, she lets Sam and Dean escape police custody.

As the Winchesters moved on, Diana is left alone to deal with the weight of killing her own lover and her knowledge of the supernatural, but she seems like someone who would have made a very resourceful ally. Did she attempt to get back to a normal life, or did her new awareness lead her into more paranormal investigations since that day? One thing’s for sure — more policewomen in the know can only be a good thing in order for our wayward sisters to do their work, so I’d like to see this detective roll into town and team up with a couple of sheriffs.

Ranch Manager Ellie

If Danay García wants some time out from killing zombies, she should come teach our girls a thing or two about demon deals. Unfortunately surnameless, Ellie met Sam and Dean when they showed up at the property she managed in Idaho to seek out a hellhound for the demon trials. The entire family she worked for, the Cassitys, all seemed to be candidates for an existing demon deal — and indeed several of them were, as the boys discover as they sign on as ranch hands under Ellie’s supervision and she tells them the family gossip.

However, it turns out that Ellie herself also made a demon deal with Crowley, in order to save her mother from Parkinson’s disease, but she wasn’t made fully aware of the ten year term. It’s her hellhound that Sam kills to complete the necessary trial, and the guys give her a hex bag to hide her from Crowley, but as Sam points out, her soul is still destined for hell when she eventually dies — and given that the boys didn’t seal up hell, plus Crowley’s death, what does that mean for her — and other existing deal-holders — today?

Krissy Chambers and Josephine Barnes

This is either the world’s greatest no-brainer or too close a circumstance to work, but I’m going to go with the former. We first met Krissy Chambers in season 7, when she was about 14, and to date, she’s the only teenager we’ve met who was raised by a hunter, much like Sam and Dean were. Despite her father’s promise to leave hunting and give her a normal life, he’s been killed by the time we meet up with her again in season 8, and Krissy, along with other teens Josephine and Aiden, have been taken in by a man who’s teaching them to hunt as a unit.

When foster daddy Victor turns out to be exploiting the hell out of the teens in his charge — he orchestrated the killings of the families to drive them into revenge-killing under his control — the kids decide to stay together in Victor’s house with Josephine, who’ll soon be 18, as their guardian. Krissy would now be around Claire’s age, and they both come full of attitude and ferocity with similar, yet very different, life experience — not to mention unique, peer-like friendships with Dean Winchester. I’d love to see these two butt heads as their respective squads clash on a case — and I’d love to see Jody’s reaction to the fact that they’ve been raising themselves.

Tracy Bell

Tracy Bell was a character that immediately felt like she was going to show up again but never did. In an episode written by now-showrunner Andrew Dabb, we meet her as a young hunter using herself as a honeytrap to kill a vampire she’s been after, who then falls into Abaddon’s clutches as bait for Sam and Dean. She has an interesting emotional arc, in that she holds a vendetta against Sam — her family was killed years ago by demons celebrating the release of Lucifer, when Sam allowed himself to be possessed, and this forces Sam to remember the past damage he’s inflicted on the universe.

Tracy survives the shoot-out, and by the end of the episode, has had a change of heart about Sam. She’s also one of the only characters, besides Sam and Dean, to ever drive the Imapala on screen, and after she brings the car back to Dean, she’s seen getting in the back seat to go celebrate with the boys — and then we never hear from her again. Actress Olivia Ryan Stern still has strong ties to the CW, appearing as a recurring character on Riverdale, so it’d surely be no trouble to pop next door for an episode of Wayward Sisters or Supernatural. Bonus feature: get Abaddon actress and aspiring director Alaina Huffman to direct it.

Linda Tran

There are no words to truly describe how incredible Lauren Tom’s performance as Kevin Tran’s mom Linda was to me during season 8. If you asked me to rank my favorite characters in the entire history of Supernatural, it would look something like this: Sam, Dean, Cas, Jody, Jack, Linda Tran, and then the rest. Yes, she’s that good — her humor, her intelligence, her shock value, her attitude toward Sam and Dean, her ability to eviscerate someone with a look — she’s someone you want on your side, and she’s someone I’d hope the boys feel a bit of responsibility toward, so I’d love to see what’s become of her.

Sadly, we haven’t seen Linda since she was freed from Crowley’s clutches and took Kevin’s ghost home during season 9. Since Kevin himself was finally freed from the Veil and sent to heaven by Chuck in season 11, not only do we have this fantastic, unique character out there all alone, she also has the off-screen experience of casually co-habiting with a non-vengeful ghost for over two years — there have got to be some stories there. It’d be especially timely to see her again sometime soon, as we just met a new version of Kevin from the apocalypse universe. That story doesn’t seem quite done, so I’d be very keen to see either an alternate Linda, or the real one, interact with this version of Kevin. I’d also shoehorn her into Wayward in literally any way possible — just make something up and get her there.

Marie the Fangirl

Okay, listen up. Marie of “Fan Fiction” fame encounters the supernatural once more, and having lost contact with Sam and Dean — if they even exchanged numbers, the boys have probably changed phones a dozen times by now — she attempts to track them down via all the information she knows about their lives, thanks to her study of the Supernatural book series. Jody finds her digging through the remains of the Singer Salvage Yard, arrests her for trespassing, and the rest is history.

Or, get this. In a episode dedicated to the fandom that founded it, we get a Supernatural convention episode, redux: an updated version in which the Wayward girls discover just how many people out there know the truth about their world but believe it to be fiction. At this con, they encounter Marie, who’s trying to healthily balance what the Supernatural books have given her as a fan with the fact that she knows the real truth, and it’s all a wonderful commentary about getting personally close to the source of your fandom — as many Wayward fans have.

Alicia (and Max) Banes

There’s so much going on with these two that I don’t know where to start! Obviously, Alicia and Max met Jody in “Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox” — the eponymous Asa was Jody’s ex-lover and also secretly the twins’ father, whom they’d never met. There’s a bond there, on top of the demonic attack they all survived together, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find that they’re regular drop-ins at Jody’s place already, if they happen to be passing through the area. There’s a Jody-centric story worth addressing about how she feels about her own romantic history, and they could certainly be a part of it.

Plus, you’ve got the magical aspect — Max Banes is a natural witch who uses magic in his hunting, and some guidance in spellcraft could be a skill that some of the girls might find useful, whether they possess the innate power or not, and who else is gonna take Claire to gay bars? Plus, oh yeah, just casually, there’s the fact that Alicia is now a freakin’ twig puppet person and doesn’t even know it. We left Alicia and Max at the end of season 12 in a very unusual circumstance, the start of a whole other chapter, and more than any other characters we’ve met in the Andrew Dabb era of Supernatural, these ones demand a follow-up, be it on Wayward or the O.G.

Patience’s BFF Ronson

Patience Turner is probably the wayward sister with the most unfinished business in terms of her personal life — unlike Claire, Alex and Kaia, she wasn’t a homeless orphan. Unlike Donna and Jody, she’s not an adult in full control of her life. She’s the baby of the group, a high school student with a normal life — friends and family — back in Georgia. She walked out on her dad in order to listen to her visions and come help Jody, but even during the Wayward Sisters pilot, she very much expected to go back home. She’s certainly been adopted, but it doesn’t change the fact that the life she left behind will have to be addressed in order for her to fully transition to a life of hunting in Sioux Falls.

It’s very likely that we’ll see more from her father James, and probably from her dead grandmother Missouri, via their spiritual link, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we also get to see her best friend Ronson once more. This tiny role was scene-stealing in our introduction to Patience — in mere moments, a funnier, more natural and realistic depiction of a dorky teenage girl than I’ve seen on TV in years — and I would watch her own spinoff, but at the very least, I’d love to see Patience either explaining or hiding the truth from her.

Mia Vallens

Season 13’s really been knocking it out of the park with well-rounded female characters and their survival rate. Another unique new addition was Mia Vallens, the grief counselor who also turns out to be a shapeshifter — albeit a benevolent one — who Sam, Dean, and Jack work a case with in “The Big Empty.” For starters, she’s a great example of the whole choice about personhood for non-evil supernatural creatures that the girls will surely need to address at some point, as well as one of the many hidden millions, mentioned in this episode, who “pass,” but there’s more to it than that.

Wayward Sisters is sure to be a very socially conscious and progressive show, and it’s also aiming to show the stability of a healthy home environment. I rather like the idea of mental health and therapy being addressed at some point — say, one of the girls not coping with what they’ve been through, and attending counseling, but no progress being made as they can’t explain the actual facts of their circumstances to a civilian therapist. Cue Jody calling Sam for advice, he’s reminded of Mia, and presto — a legitimate counseler who can hear the whole truth. You can have that one for free, Berens.

Alice, AKA Smash

Another super-cute newbie, Alice — who we first meet under the code name Smash in “The Scorpion and the Frog” — is an expert safecracker, a Baby-Driver-esque indentured servant to a crossroads demon. While thrown together on a heist, Dean discovers that, some undetermined time ago, Alice sold her soul, but as long as she keeps working jobs, the demon never collected on the deal. When this episode aired, there were a lot of people comparing Alice, in all her kookiness and ’90s revival fashion, to Charlie, which, no. For starters, Alice’s dialogue and mannerisms sat more truthfully to me as a representation of alternative culture than Charlie’s clunky caricature ever did, but regardless of personal preference, it’s apples and oranges — there are dynamic differences between them and I can only assume that these people lump all offbeat women into one “weird TV girl” archetype.

One thing that Alice and Charlie do have in common, though, is an instant connection to Dean — his rapport with young women and the way he relates to them not even quite as a big brother, but as peers, is something really unique to watch. He obviously also has this kind of relationship with Claire, he has it with Krissy, and Marie brought it out as well, and there have been others. I’d really like to see an episode — it’d probably work better on Supernatural Prime — that’s centered around Dean’s relationships with young women, and take a look under the hood at exactly why these friendships click so well for him.

Mary Winchester

The mother of badasses — in more ways than one — Mary is a must-have for Wayward Sisters. Mary’s transition over the years from the stuff of Dean’s daydreams into a very real, flawed, multi-faceted human being is one of Supernatural’s greatest successes. As the production has grown and changed over the past 13 seasons, it’s shifted from a show that started out playing by the rules of a very different era of television to one that holds its own in 2018 with one of the most subversively and naturalistically liberal worldviews around despite its straight male starring roles.

The choice to unfridge Mary Winchester — the helpless female figure who died to kick off a man’s story — and grant her a journey of autonomy and power represents Supernatural learning from its mistakes. It shows a drive to do better, and the same drive lies at the heart and soul of Wayward Sisters. Aside from being a plain awesome female hunter character, a link to Sam and Dean, and an already established friend of Jody’s, Mary stands for something more — she’s the ultimate example of surviving Supernatural, literally and metaphorically rising from the ashes of a burnt-down world that didn’t make space for her, and building a better one in its place.

‘Supernatural’ airs Thursdays at 9/8c on The CW

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***Spoiler Alert:  If you have not read Drums of Autumn or you just don’t want to be spoiled about this period of the show, it is best to skip this post!***

The preparation for filming finished yesterday, and the filming commenced today for Outlander season four.  According to my contact, it was a scene featuring Roger (Richard Rankin) after Brianna  (Sophie Skelton) had gone through the stones.  Skelton was not seen today.  My contact also said that he did not think they would be filming on Friday, but we will post photos again if they do.

https://twitter.com/OutlandishTour/status/956595671167045638

Richard Rankin giving us a smile at the end of #outlander filming in #Falkland today pic.twitter.com/8HnuH6OGlA

— EdinburghTourGuides (@EdinburghGuides) January 25, 2018

If you look VERY closely you can see @RikRankin filming #Outlander in #Falkland today @OutlanderLocs #outlanderfans pic.twitter.com/nJHoK6GFsG

— Thistle House, Falkland (@FalklandThistle) January 25, 2018

More from today's filming at falkland pic.twitter.com/WiYbriANm0

— stewart (@stewart9395) January 25, 2018

Day one on #Outlander watch, very fitting that I’m an art project in the making on #rabbieburns day pic.twitter.com/Ctry3U4kKf

— Kris Cunningham (@sticky1986) January 25, 2018

Source: Brian Milne, Daily Mail, respective Twitter accounts

Somewhere in America, we have to assume that Dan Quayle just felt a tiny shiver in his personal potatoes, as CBS announced today that it was finally Murphy Brown’s turn to get the inevitable TV revival treatment. The series—which ran for 247 episodes on the network throughout the 1990s, scoring 18 Emmy wins across its…

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CBS orders Murphy Brown revival, Candice Bergen to return

CBS has given a 13-episode, series production commitment to a current-day revival of the Network’s classic comedy Murphy Brown for the 2018-2019 broadcast season. Candice Bergen, who starred in the title role from 1988-1998, will reprise her role.

Hailing from Warner Bros. Television, the series will mark the 30th anniversary as Murphy Brown returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.

WBTV, producers of the original series, will produce the new multi-camera comedy with original creator Diane English serving as writer/executive producer through her Bend in the Road Productions banner. Bergen will also be an executive producer.

During the show’s original 10-year run on CBS, Murphy Brown received 62 Emmy nominations (with 18 wins), 15 Golden Globe nominations (with three wins), three Screen Actors Guild awards, five Directors Guild nominations (with two wins) and four Writers Guild nominations (with two wins). Bergen won five Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. The original series also starred Pat Corley, Faith Ford, Charles Kimbrough, Robert Pastorelli, Joe Regalbuto, Grant Shaud, with John Hostetter, and Lily Tomlin.

In 2010, TV Guide named Murphy Brown one of the “25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time.”

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Shoulder pads better come back soon, because Murphy Brown is. CBS announced today that it’s reviving the classic Candice Bergen comedy about journalist and news anchor Murphy Brown with a 13-episode season set to air in the 2018–2019 season. Bergen will still star as Murphy and creator Diane English will serve as a writer-executive producer, as the show “returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.” To commemorate the occasion, Mike Pence will be rebooted as Dan Quayle.

Clue reboot to star Ryan Reynolds with Deadpool writers as part of a first look deal at Fox

Twentieth Century Fox has made a three-year, first-look deal with Ryan Reynolds’ (Deadpool) Maximum Effort that includes a reboot of the film Clue, according to Deadline. Reynolds’ company will produce the film, based on the Hasbro board game, with Allspark Pictures, which is the film division of Hasbro. In talks to write the script are Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote Deadpool, which Reynolds starred in.

Clue was a 1985 comedy based on the board game, which involves players figuring which of the guests at a mansion murdered someone, with which murder weapon and in which room. The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn. Lynn worked on the script with John Landis. Clue starred Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin), Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Madeline Kahn (Young Frankenstein), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Michael McKean (This Is Spinal Tap), Martin Mull (Roseanne) and Lesley Ann Warren (Desperate Housewives). The film had one of three possible endings, and different theaters received different ones. All were included on the home video release. Though the film didn’t do well in its run a the box office, only making $14,643,997 in domestic sales, it has become a cult classic.

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As far as versatile premises for sci-fi shows go, it’s pretty hard to beat Quantum Leap. Each episode found Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) “leaping” into the body of a different person (or animal) that needed his help in a completely random place and time. Over the course of the show’s five seasons, Sam found himself…

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Link out to job announcement Closes 1/28

Outlander is already greenlit for season 4, and now it’s looking ahead to seasons 5 and 6.

Starz CEO, Chris Albrecht, is looking forward to more of the acclaimed series. Season 3 broke the previous broadcast records of the series, so extending its deal to further seasons is a logical progression.

According to EW, Albrecht said that he’s having “productive discussions about the future of the show” with Sony TV.

On January 14, 2018 Starz will be airing an Outlander marathon of season 3, immediately followed by an exclusive scene from season 4 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. As book fans know, the series from the fourth book/season onwards is predominately centered on the lives of Jamie (Sam Heughan), Claire (Caitriona Balfe), and their family in America.

New cast members joining season 4 include Moira Kennedy Doyle of Orphan Black fame, who will be playing Jamie’s wealthy, ex-pat Aunt Jocasta, and Colin McFarlane of Batman Begins and Dark Knight, who will play her right-hand-man and slave, Ulysses.

Outlander author Diana Gabaldon has eight Outlander novels in her trove and counting. She is currently working on the next book entitled Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. She’s posted excerpts from the book, which she refers to as Daily Lines, fairly regularly on her blog and social media platforms. The most recent tidbit came out this week.

Although there is no official release date for Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, it’s likely it will be out sooner rather than later. As a generality, Gabaldon has published the most recent Outlander novels that focus on Jamie and Claire every four to five years. Gabaldon has been posting Daily Lines from Bees since 2014.

The book series will have at least another volume after Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone is published. Gabaladon has indicated several times that that there is more to Jamie and Claire’s story that can’t be wrapped up in Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.

That being said, Outlander book 9 may be the last in the Outlander series.

Unless Gabaldon changes her mind, the books are only going to span Jamie and Claire’s lifetimes. When we last left them in Outlander book 8, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, they are in their late 50s and early 60s at a time where life expectancy in their era was considerably younger. Claire may be a doctor, but she’s not a miracle worker in a time without the luxuries of modern medicine.

If the Starz series keeps up with its current pace of production, they will catch up with the currently published material in 2022. It will be cutting it close for the series not to incur a Game of Thrones situation where the show jumps ahead of the novels.

Will you stick with ‘Outlander’ for 9 seasons?

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