Watching Supernatural

At the time of writing yesterday’s entry, I hadn’t checked my sources in a while. Imagine my surprise and absolute delight when I found out-

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Supernatural has been renewed for a fourth season!

Instead of dragging out this decision (like they did last year) and incurring the wrath of the very devoted fans of the show (as they’ve been doing and will probably always do), the CW released a press statement on March 3rd with the news.

Even better news came the very next day, when the CW revealed that Supernatural will return with repeats on April 3rd before the new episodes start airing from April 24th. For those of you worrying how the show will keep up with its competition on other networks - you have one less thing to worry about. Lost is moving to Thursdays at 10pm, which should help out fans of both shows.

If you remember, I mentioned that Jensen had been in Australia while promoting the show. He had an interview with the Australian magazine TV Week where he discusses how the Winchester brothers would smell in real life, what he’d like in his future as an actor, and the craziest rumor he’s ever heard about himself. You can read it all here - it doesn’t mention any plot points, but it’s definitely funny.

Interestingly enough, there are also two new updates on the Jared Padalecki front. On March 2nd, Jared attended a Lakers basketball game with his longtime girlfriend Sandy McCoy (you might know her better as the Crossroads Demon that Sam killed in Season 3). You can find those images below:

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On March 4th, Jared also attended the premiere of the new movie Never Back Down, also with Sandy.

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He’s really been hitting the celebrity circuit, hasn’t he? Can’t say I blame him for taking a break from work. I would love to see his hair return to it’s natural length, though!

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Now that March has arrived and the WGA strike is long over, life in TV Land has (relatively) returned to normal.

Immediately after the strike concluded, according to Sera Gamble, Supernatural writers had a grand total of three weeks to work on scripts before production began. As recent reports have indicated, shooting has already begun on the four new episodes that will be arriving on April 24th, so all four scripts are probably mostly finished.

While we fans impatiently await the end of the current hiatus, we can distract ourselves a bit with news on what the actors did, where the mythology of the show stands right now, and what we can expect for the end of the season.

During the strike, Jensen Ackles was in Austalia for two weeks in February, promoting the show there on various talk shows and interviews. Jared Padalecki, on the other hand, had his last public appearance at the Fangoria Convention in Austin, TX on February 19th. Since production has already begun, it’s a safe bet that they’re back in Vancouver. More recently, Jensen turned 30 on March 1st.

Meanwhile, Katie Cassidy (who plays Ruby) has been ordered to take a diversion class as punishment for being cited for underage drinking last year. The class is for first-time offenders and she will have the opportunity to take it in California, where she lives. All in all, a breath of relief for Cassidy.

Finally, the biggest news-maker of the roster of current and former stars on the show has definitely been Jeffrey Dean Morgan. On February 13th, Us Magazine leaked the news that Morgan was engaged to his girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker of Weeds fame. Congratulations to them both!

TAGS: supernatural, jensen ackles, jared padalecki, katie cassidy, jeffrey dean morgan

Most of you probably know about Ten Inch Hero, but for those of you who don’t, it’s Jensen Ackles’s most recent film. To view the movie’s trailer, visit the Youtube station here.

Today, WinchesterBros.com’s podcast WinchesterRadio is interviewing Betsy Morris, David Mackay and Mark Witsken from the film.

For live on-air questions, call (646) 716-9119. And yes, they’re still on!

The podcast will also be available through iTunes and other feeds. Please check out the site for more information.

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Recently, the CW Source had an interview with Kim Mathers, executive producer of Supernatural. If his name seems familiar to you, you might remember him from the X-Files and Charlie’s Angels.

In the interview, Manners gives a detailed and fun interview about how he started working at Supernatural. I love how he describes the show as a ‘mini-movie’ every week, and the ‘inner sanctum’ that is the Supernatural writer’s room. He ends the interview by looking into the screen and saying ‘Keep watching, everybody.’ No worries there, Kim. If you keep directing episodes like “Fresh Blood,” we’ll be riveted.

To further our pleasure, we also have Part 1 of an interview with Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, thanks to Ducky TV.

The interview itself is new, but the information in it isn’t very new to the truly hardcore fans. Jensen mentions that they run lines on the ride to work every morning, since they don’t have much time with their scripts and the rides are at least half an hour to an hour long. We also have some new information on their favorite episodes. Aside from Season 1’s “Pilot” and “Devil’s Trap,” Jared also mentions “In My Time of Dying” and “Simon Said” from Season 2. From the shots on set, I’d say that they were filming “Roadkill” during this interview. Again, not new information but still worth a watch.

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Recently, the CW Source interviewed Aaron Ashmore, who plays Jimmy Olsen on Smallville (you can find out more by checking the tags on WatchingCW).

In the interview, Ashmore (who also plays Kinkade’s brother in the movie Home for Christmas) reveals that he’s know Jared for quite a while now. In fact, it was Jared who recommended that he get the part for brother! Ashmore also says that the movie was filmed in Vancouver, which must have been nice, considering that both SPN and Smallville are filmed there and Ashmore is a Canadian. There is still no word on when the film will be released.

TAGS: supernatural, thomas kinkade’s home for christmas, aaron ashmore, jared padalecki

I apologize for the late news - due to personal reasons and the holidays, I was unable to update until today. That, of course, means that you’ll be getting a lot of news your way today!

First item of business: Jensen Ackles’s film Ten Inch Hero is still looking for a distributor. In the meantime, fans were alerted on the movie’s blog on the 26th that a Youtube clip of Priestly was up. 50,744+ views, 1027 ratings, and 691 comments later, the video has won 10 honors on the site (including #1 Top-Rated This Week and #1 Top Favorites This Week). You can view it in all of it’s glory (and I do mean glory, since I was in stitches afterwards) here. Once again, Jensen’s comedic timing, delivery, and commanding presence are awe-inspiring.

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(This press release was sent by the fans of Supernatural. For more information on Creation Entertainment’s “Salute to Supernatural, Smallville and Buffy/Angel”, please contact Monica Gillen at monica@creationent.com)

Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki received a very special honor on Sunday, November 11, 2007. Ackles and Padalecki, stars of the CW’s television program, Supernatural, were special guests at Creation Entertainment’s “Salute to Supernatural, Smallville and Buffy/Angel” in Schaumburg, IL.

Master Sergeant Kevin Wise, a Special Forces soldier, was in attendance at the convention. Wise joined Ackles and Padalecki on stage to announce that Supernatural Season One and Season Two are the most requested DVDs among armed forces personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wise also reported that Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc. and Kripke Entertainment, Inc. are going to send 3,000 copies of the DVDs to soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wise next presented Ackles and Padalecki each with a thank you letter from General David H. Petraeus, Commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, as well as an honorary Special Forces coin from his unit.

Wise explained that five active Special Forces Groups are in existence. Each group has its own unique coin. Wise is a part of the 12-member Special Forces Unit ODA 045 or “Team Texas.” To receive a coin, recipients must either become a Green Beret or be given one by a Green Beret. Civilians are rarely given a coin.

Ackles and Padalecki were very touched by the gesture, and presented Wise with a shooting script, signed by the Supernatural cast and crew.

This wonderful honor received by Jared and Jensen has been helped, in part, by the workings of Operation: Winchester, a website dedicated to sending care packages, along with a Supernatural DVD, to the troops.

You can help by logging onto Operation: Winchester and signing up to send a package to one of the troops stationed overseas. Any information you may need about assisting with this venerable project can be found at the Operation: Winchester website: http://opwinchester.supernaturalunderground.com/.

For other details about the Creation Convention, you can find descriptions here.

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E!Online.com recently interviewed both Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohan about the rest of Season 3.

Both women expressed some relief over the fact that fannish outcries have diminished somewhat as the season continues, which means they haven’t read this blog and probably the majority of fan blogs out there.

However, we do discover some very interesting spoilers about the upcoming episodes. Cassidy spilled that

“Most of Ruby’s scenes have been with Sam up to this point, but Dean and Ruby end up working together in an upcoming episode. There’s going to be something the two of [them] basically have to overcome.” (Source)

TAGS: supernatural, katie cassidy, lauren cohan, bela, ruby

Well, this was certainly a surprise.

Katie Cassidy, better known as ‘Ruby’ from Season 3, has been arrested for underage drinking (she’s only 20 years old) by Tucson, Arizona cops two weeks ago, as reported by the Smoking Gun.

To make matters worse, Cassidy reportedly pretended that she was Taylor Cole, a 23-year-old actress from Texas. Interestingly enough, Cole was in a Season 1 episode entitled “Provenance,” playing the role of Sarah.

The only reason Cassidy gave for the lie was that “she is a Hollywood actress and that this would not look good for her.” That’s funny - if she was so aware that it wouldn’t look good for her, why do it in the first place?

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan, better known as John Winchester to you fans, has just been named one of the Sexiest Men Alive in 2007 by People Magazine. People.com has video of the actor here, where he discusses his ‘puppy love.’ Congratulations, JDM!

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