The Spoiler Roundup 08.06.09

Welcome to the Spoiler Roundup, the most comprehensive weekly spoiler wrapup on the internet. We scour the web for all the best spoilers on some of the most popular shows on the air.

This Week: 24, Big Love, Brothers and Sisters, Castle, Chuck, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dexter, Dollhouse, Hung, Lost, Mad Men, Medium, Monk, Nurse Jackie, Rescue Me, Smallville, Sons of Anarchy, Southland, Supernatural, The Good Wife, True Blood and Warehouse 13.

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Day 8 starts at 4:00 PM. (SpoilerTV)

Big Love

With Roman Grant (Harry Dean Stanton) dead, his family will be branching out in Season 4 of HBO’s Big Love, premiering January 2010. His imprisoned sister Selma (Sandy Martin) will be sprung from jail and wind up in Mexico. Later in the season, viewers will learn she has a pair of strapping, handsome, grown sons. (TV Guide Magazine)

Roman’s widow Adaleen (Mary Kay Place) has lost all her power in the clan but will begin entertaining suitors around the fifth episode. “The widow wives of a deceased prophet are like jewels in a crown that many want to obtain” executive producer Mark V. Olsen said at L.A.’s Outfest. And the latest on Roman’s closeted son, Alby (Matt Ross): He’s got a new lover, Dale, who has been struggling with his homosexuality in the gay-reparative therapy group Evergreen. Happy for Alby? His family won’t be. “We want them to be a sexy couple you’ll root for,” says Olsen, “but it will not end well.” (TV Guide Magazine)

Brothers and Sisters

Come September on Brothers & Sisters, it’ll be Nora versus Holly (Sally Field and Patricia Wettig, Round 88, as the dueling mothers-in-law-to-be plan a season-premiere engagement party for their betrothed kids, Justin and Rebecca. Expect Happy Days mom Marion Ross to pop back in as Nora’s mom, Ida. This headache will pale in comparison to the sworn enemies’ disagreement over their kids’ November-sweeps wedding – a fairy-tale event that will likely see the return of former series regulars Balthazar Getty (Tommy), Sarah Jane Morris (Julia), Ken Olin (back as David, to walk his daughter down the aisle) and possibly the debut of Holly’s mama. (TV Guide Magazine)

Castle

As Season 2 begins, Beckett will be stewing over something entirely different because while she’s off doing the gritty police work, Castle will get them both in trouble yet again. (TV Guide)

Chuck

As we already know, our favorite super sleuth is not back until March and for now it’s only scheduled for 13 episodes. But President of Primetime Entertainment for NBC Angela Bromstad said they have already seen three or four scripts and loves where the show is going creatively. So, if a back nine is picked up, they are considering an even longer season, which could run into their summer programming. (Watch With Kristin)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Larry David says, “You will [see Loretta this season]. I don’t want to say how many shows she’s going to be in, but you will be seeing her.” (Watch With Kristin)

Larry David is diving back into the dating pool this season. As seen in the trailer they showed at the Television Critics Association, Larry was attempting to make love to a woman in a wheelchair, but that won’t be the only action he gets. Says David, “There’s a little dating, yes. I think there are two dating shows, and they were fun.” Does that mean we won’t see Cheryl Hines this season? “Cheryl is back in it, yes, she’s in it,” he adds. (Watch With Kristin)

Besides Vivica A. Fox returning, here are just a few of the others making an appearance: Ted Danson, Bob Einstein, Sharon Lawrence, Richard Lewis, Rosie O’Donnell, Catherine O’Hara, Meg Ryan, Elisabeth Shue, Christian Slater, J.B. Smoove, Mary Steenburgen and Sherry Stringfield. (Watch With Kristin)

Dexter

Dexter is open to talking to his boy Harrison about his little secret, but as far as little Harry being a future serial killer, Michael C. Hall says, “He’s yet to show any demonstrable signs to show that he wants to kill.” (Watch With Kristin)

Rita’s kids are definitely growing up this season, but Astor (Christina Robinson) is headed into tween territory, and it’s not pretty. “Astor has a little bit more attitude, and she isn’t quite as happy just to be a kid. She’s flexing her young-woman muscles, and it perplexes Dexter,” show runner Sara Colleton says. Dexter is finally going to get to play dad, too, when little A falls for the local heartthrob. “There’s a very hip, cool, older kid in the neighborhood whom she develops a very big crush on.” And Cody (Preston Bailey) is still blissfully innocent, with “a swimming pool next door and all the food that he can eat. He literally says, ‘I want to be just like Dexter.’” (Watch With Kristin)

While Harry (James Remar) will be back for Season 4, everything appears to be business as usual. “He remains the visual embodiment of Dexter’s code,” a Showtime rep said, adding, “We don’t assume Harry was aware of Trinity.” (TV Guide)

Dollhouse

Creator Joss Whedon talking about the new season: “Echo starts really realizing that as a person, she not only exists, but that she has a mission—that she has something she wants. This year we are going to see the results of everything she went through last year, particularly the event with Alpha where she was downloaded with all of her personalities. We are going to see what effect that’s had on her, and we are going to find her to be a great deal less passive and a great deal more directed in what she wants, and that is, of course, going to make her life a lot harder. And the more she finds out about what is going on around her and the more we find out, the creepier it is going to get, because creepy is what it makes it fun.” (Watch With Kristin)

Joss Whedon says despite her commitments to Happy Town, Amy Acker will be back for Season 2, though not nearly as much as he would like her to be. But, he hinted, in her few episodes, they’re really going to make the most of her. (TV Guide)

In episode three of the new season, we’ll meet a new recurring character: Cindy, a smart, attractive politician’s wife, who’s like a young Hillary Clinton. (SpoilerTV)

This year, we’re going to visit the Attic and seeing what’s inside, and we’ll meet some “old friends.” And we’ll find out first hand why people don’t want to go there. We’ll also learn more about the origins of the Dollhouse. And there’s a new Big Bad — someone Echo has a history with, but is unaware of. (Wired)

Hung

The producers of Hung believe the show is about much more than just hiding a secret. “We’re not so interested in that,” says executive producer Colette Burson. “We’re not interested in who finds out and in him trying to hide it—that feels false to us. We’re much more interested in him alone in a room with a woman, or his relationship with his ex-wife, or his relationship with his pimp. It’s really about those interconnections to us.” (Watch With Kristin)

Lost

Dominic Monaghan returns as Charlie Pace for three episodes in Lost season six. (Watch With Kristin)

Mad Men

In the season-three premiere, we’ll learn a secret about Dick Whitman’s early years, one that explains a lot about why Don Draper feels so disconnected from his roots. (Watch With Kristin)

The British invasion of Sterling Cooper isn’t so groovy after all, in that it brings with it a bunch of firings, but for at least two main characters, the upheaval will be sorta-good news. (TV Guide)

Joan’s got a new man in her life who wastes no time creating headaches for her at the office. That’s because he works there, too. (TV Guide)

Medium

“I guess I can let the cat out of the bag: [Allison] comes out of the coma,” says Medium executive producer Glenn Gordon Caron. He explained that he half-seriously wrote the medical cliff-hanger to stave off cancellation. This season will deal with the aftermath of Allison’s health problems, and how it alters her gift. (TV Guide)

Monk

The eighth and final season of Monk premieres this Friday with a hilarious Brady Bunch parody episode. Apparently Monk is obsessed with The Cooper Clan, which served as his surrogate TV family in childhood. When he meets a now-grown-up Cooper, played by Weeds’ Elizabeth Perkins, he’s initially delighted, but then he reads her autobiography and learns that she’s actually a strung-out whore. Watching that reality smack Monk in the face is hilarious, as is a blackout dream sequence where we see Monk in bell bottoms and an Afro as “Adrian Cooper,” the most beloved member of the Cooper clan. (Watch With Kristin)

Nurse Jackie

Two main characters on Nurse Jackie kiss for the first time in the August 10 episode. (Watch With Kristin)

Zoey (Merritt Wever) walks in on Jackie (Edie Falco) having sex with Eddie (Paul Schulze), and there is a fun altercation between Jackie and Dr. Cooper (Peter Facinelli). (Watch With Kristin)

Rescue Me

In the August 11 Rescue Me episode, we find out that Maura Tierney’s character, Kelly, is a rocker chick who once dated Mick Jagger, smokes weed and thinks Tommy (Denis Leary) kind of looks like David Bowie. The two of them share a bottle of tequila, but no between-the-sheets action just yet. (Watch With Kristin)

Smallville

Tess Mercer (Cassidy Freeman) is going to be in some big trouble when the new season of Smallville kicks off. In the season-nine promo shown at Comic-Con, Tess is fighting with Major Zod (Callum Blue) himself. Cassidy says, “We start out heavy. In the first episode, we start out really going at it, and it’s really fun.” So is Tess biting off more than she can chew this season on Smallville? “She has to figure out whether she’s screwed the pooch or whether she’s doing a good thing. She hasn’t figured it out yet, but she absolutely will,” says Cassidy. (Watch With Kristin)

Sons of Anarchy

In the month or so since the season-one finale, Jax has gotten himself a new tattoo that includes the name of another character on the show. (Watch With Kristin)

Southland

President of Primetime Entertainment for NBC Angela Bromstad also told us to expect some “creative adjustments” to the L.A. cop show: “I think they tried to do too much in those six episodes. It’s really going to focus on Regina King and Ben McKenzie, the two sets of officers and detectives and sort of focus on crimes and how they come together.” (Watch With Kristin)

Supernatural

Jim Beaver said to expect a huge Bobby-related twist early in Supernatural’s fifth season. He says, “There’s something pretty big that happens with Bobby in the first episodes. Really big. It’s going to have a huge impact on his relationship with the boys—but I don’t know what that impact is, because I’ve only seen the first three scripts.” (Watch With Kristin)

The Good Wife

The show’s ripped-from-the-headlines premise has Julianna Margulies returning to the workforce after her state-attorney husband (Chris Noth) is embroiled in a sex scandal and sent to prison. Look for a startlingly powerful scene between Margulies and Noth within the show’s first five minutes. And Noth’s character, who is seen sucking the toes of a prostitute, won’t always be a jailbird. (TV Guide)

True Blood

Next week on True Blood, when poor dead zombie Daphne’s (Ashley Jones) body is discovered, people start to suspect that Sam (Sam Trammell) killed her. (Watch With Kristin)

Sookie and Eric grow closer over the next few episodes, after he is injured and needs her help. (Watch With Kristin)

Alexander Skarsgård talking about his character: “Eric was kind of misunderstood. A lot of people would come up to me and say, ‘Oh, you’re the evil…the bad guy.’ I always had to defend him because there’s more to him than that,” says Alexander. “I actually got a chance to show that [this season]. I mean, he is a badass, of course, but I’m just happy because as an actor, you shouldn’t play the same note for two years. You have to show different layers and go deeper and show that there’s more to the character than that. And I’ve had fun this season because I have been able to show that he does have a sensitive side, a loyal side. He doesn’t care for a lot of people, and not for a lot of vampires either, but the ones he cares about he’s very, very, very loyal and devoted to.” (Watch With Kristin)

Warehouse 13

Executive producers David Simkins and Jack Kenny shared some secrets about what’s in store for the storage-facility caretaker and his cohorts: “Later in the season, we meet a group called the Regents (nine average people, kind of like the Supreme Court, who make decisions about the warehouse) and see the dynamic between them and Artie and Mrs. Frederic. And we have a big surprise coming up with Leena at the very end of the season—a lot of things get turned on their heads. There are several surprises.” Also, Leena’s permanent houseguests, agents Pete and Myka, “go on a difficult hunt” for something that’s long eluded Artie. “And unfortunately,” Kenny says, “they find it.” (Watch With Kristin)