Gamble also spills some spoilers for the rest of the season, as well as her thoughts on the potential for Season Four. That nagging question about Ruby and Bela, and the fans’ strong feelings about them. There’s even talk about an old semi-hunter friend showing up again, as well as a brand new hunter who shows up toward the end of this season. [I'll spoil a bit more after the break, if you're not squeamish about that.]

Girls, I’ve had loads of questions and comments about those “delicious tattoos”. Well, Ms. Gamble spills about those, too.

Episode 3.14

In the next episode, they steer clear –more or less- of the mythology introduced in Jus in Bello. It’s a bit of emotional relief –comic maybe- involving the Hellhound’s Lair boys from Season One episode Hell House. They show up doing a pilot for a cable show called Ghostfacers, so you can imagine the pseudo-documentary mayhem that will ensue. Sera Gamble says it will be “an entertaining episode.” Plus, it gives us –and them- a little emotional break before it gets too close to the big day for Dean, as his year comes to a close.

Miss Gamble also explains the crazy writing credits for Dream A Little Dream of Me, in that Cathryn Humphris completed the story that Sera Gamble began. Eric Kripke pulled her in to the writing of Jus in Bello.

Also appearing in Sera Gamble’s spoilage:

• Lilith
• Agent Henriksen
• The Tattoos! I know, already mentioned, but everyone keeps asking.
• Ellen Harvells returns in the season finale!
• New hunter, who, at this point, is a “paranoid survivalist type”.

So, check out exactly what she says at Interview: Sera Gamble.

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• Supernatural: 4 episodes begin April 24. (1 more pre-strike episode airs February 21.)
• Reaper: 5 episodes begin April 22. (3 more pre-strike episodes begin February 28.)
• The Game: 9 episodes begin March 23.
• Smallville: 6 episodes begin April 17.
• Gossip Girl: 5 episodes begin April 21.
• Everybody Hates Chris: Already had 22 completed episodes. Remaining 12 completed episodes begin March 2.
• Aliens in America: 18 already completed. Remaining episodes will air March 2 to March 23, then April 27 to May 18.
• One Tree Hill: 6 episodes begin April 14. 8 pre-strike episodes are currently airing.
• Girlfriends: Won’t produce any post-strike episodes. A retrospective is rumored as a possibility.

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While everyone is going back to work, today, there is still one last piece to fall into place. The union must still ratify the contract. This should happen any day now. Currently, though, most industry members and watchers are just happy the strike is over. I’m certain writers, and the many other entertainment workers, and all their families, are elated. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers estimated that writers had lost around $285 million dollars (US) worth of pay, during the strike. Other workers had lost over $500 million dollars in wages.

Notable in the agreement reached, last week, is that the increase in the writers’ cut of digital distribution beyond that made in the recent Director’s Guild agreement. These agreements certainly pave the way for smoother talks between producers and the Actors’ Guilds, whose contracts end June 30, 2008.

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Eric Kripke, as late as last week, said that they were considering whether to air new episodes in April/May, or to hold them for the summer, or even until next Autumn. We fans, though, are dying to see what happens next!

As for other CW shows:

Everybody Hates Chris: Can finish out the season but its future – and the futures of most of the CW’s comedies – are still being determined.

Gossip Girl: Will film five or six episodes to air in the spring.

Life Is Wild: No more new episodes will air.

One Tree Hill: Six new episodes already completed. They will make five or six more new episodes for April and May.

Reaper: Three new completed episodes will air, beginning the last week of February. Five or six new episodes will be filmed.

Smallville: Still has four episodes in the can and plans to make five or six more.

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Until now, the sticking points included insistence by the studios to limit writers’ residuals for online content to a flat $1,200 fee. The WGA wants a percentage of the distributor’s revenue.

Initial reports of agreements on important issues is certainly good news. I hope that we hear some credible verification from the parties involved, in the next few days.

Read more at Yahoo! News.

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La-La Land generally practices “pattern bargaining”, meaning that, once one class of creative types signs a contract with moguls, it sets a precedent to aid in negotiations between other creative guilds. This leads to similar rate patterns for subsequent agreements.

That said, let’s hope this will be over soon. Movie and TV lovers, we, may have suffered a bit mentally. Imagine the issues faced by those whose tables were a bit harder to fill, as studios went dark. This includes various lesser known writers all the way to all manner of crew personnel.

Read more in the LA Times.

What do you think? Is it close to over now?

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Supernatural fans want NONE of that! While Erik Kripke and his team of daredevil promoters may be doing what they can to keep Supernatural on the air, the show’s fans, like Team Winchester.com, have taken it up a notch with online petitions to air Supernatural reruns.

Team Winchester holds the same concern that many of us do, that, The CW’s actions may prevent the show from gaining new viewers. As Supernatural is easily the network’s most under-promoted, under-appreciated, creative work, it would be difficult to argue otherwise.

At the end of February, Supernatural goes on hiatus, and Reaper –for which I also blog- takes its place on Thursdays, following Smallville. I know what they’re thinking. It’s the same thing they thought, when they moved Supernatural to the spot on Thursdays: following fellow genre-leader Smallville will introduce the show to the appropriate demographic, and increase viewership. Unfortunately, many former viewers lost track of the show, and don’t even realize it’s still on, and the numbers haven’t gone up in the way they’d hoped. That’s taking into account that Supernatural and Smallville are far more similar than either is to Reaper. So, my guess is that the gains for Reaper will not outdo those for Supernatural. Neither show, then will win.

Please take a look at the campaign, and consider adding your “signature”.

The Team Winchester campaign is at Repeat SUPERNATURAL at YouChoose.net.

You can also write, in your best professional tone, directly to:

Dawn Ostroff
President of Entertainment
CW Network
3300 West Olive Ave, 3rd Flr
Burbank, CA 91505

Can we change the CW’s course? Will the current plan hurt the show? What are your thoughts?

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In the end, however, those of us who have mourned the loss of some of the best shows –at the whims of the CW and Fox’s strange notions of profitability over substance- may have reason to rejoice.

This morning, our cohorts at BuddyTV published an article discussing the benefits the writers’ strike may bestow upon Supernatural, since there probably won’t be a stream of new, cheap shows to put in its place, next Autumn. Our beloved Supernatural has been in line for the chopping block, narrowly escaping peril, despite The CW’s unwillingness to promote its most overlooked gem. Fortunately, there are fans who appreciate the quality of the show enough to do their own promotion. This may have paved the way for Season Three.

Take a look at the BuddyTV article at Why the Writers’ Strike Could Be Good for ‘Supernatural’.

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She makes some interesting points, definitely worth discussing, as can be seen by those who commented about the piece.

• How does a Hollywood Writers’ Strike stand up against a Prison Officers’ Strike?
• Do the writers lack the sympathy factor of under-paid public servants?
• Do the writers lose out a bit, since their $500 million impact on the entertainment industry pales in contrast to a prison full of under-supervised felons?
• Is the perception of writers’ wealth take away the appearance of a class struggle that helps the strikers’ cause in the public view?

Read the whole piece at The Guardian website.

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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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