Supernatural’s supervising producer and writer, Sera Gamble spoke, recently, with Karen Rollins of BBC News. Rollins brought a unique perspective to the interview, and brought out a few details that we don’t usually hear about in Sera Gamble, or other writer, discussions.

There’s a reason she’s one of my favorite interviewees. As an example, to differentiate Supernatural from other television paranormal fare, Gamble notes, “when our characters find a ghost, they don’t talk to it – they shoot it in the face.”

She touches on one of the reasons that Supernatural is shot in Vancouver. The damp, rainy darkness gives the show a “late 70s/early 80s ‘B’ horror movie” feeling. That is one of the shows selling points.

Of Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, she points out that they’re as “sweet [as] handsome.” The best point, though, is that, “The show really started when they were cast.” Indeed it was.

Of course, she hits upon the point of the show, “The boys jump in the car which has a trunk full of weapons and fight evil.” Yes, they do. It doesn’t hurt that they’re really cute; or is it one is cute and one is really cute?

Source: BBC.

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Supernatural, and erstwhile Angel and Firefly, producer/writer, Ben Edlund, was one of Joss’ friends who came to stand up for the WGA writers’ strike, recently. Mr. Edlund and many others spoke to iF Magazine’s T.K. Dehn, that day, about the strike, and about the important issues at stake for television, movies, and all new media.

From the article, Joss Whedon’s friends had this to say about the current state of entertainment:

• Eliza Dushku: “I’m concerned about them as I would be any friend of mine, so I’ve been concerned when they’ve in situations where they aren’t being protected.”
• Supernatural’s Ben Edlund:
  • Broadcast television is not the technology of the future.
  • We’re in a gold rush period with all the new technologies.
  • A corporation are “consensus creature that has no interest in human life.”

” BEN EDLUND (writer/producer on ANGEL and FIREFLY, now on SUPERNATURAL): We’re at a point now where the paradigm for media is shifting. We’re going to a new media template – downloads, streaming – I don’t really understand the technology, but what I understand is this, that broadcast television isn’t going to be the medium of the future, it’s just not the way it’s going to work. People will still go to movies, but it won’t be necessary in the way that it was.”

Read the article and find out what Ben Edlund and the others had to say.

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