The Spoiler Roundup 10.01.08
October 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Email | Share | TweetWelcome 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. Catch it here every Wednesday at The TV Remote.
This Week: 24, 30 Rock, Brothers and Sisters, Burn Notice, Californication, Chuck, Cold Case, CSI: New York, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, ER, Ghost Whisperer, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, House, How I Met Your Mother, Lipstick Jungle, Lost, Mad Men, NCIS, One Tree Hill, Pushing Daisies, Reaper, Smallville, Sons of Anarchy, Supernatural, The Office The Unit, True Blood and Ugly Betty.
24
Elisha Cuthbert’s comeback and the production time-out are unrelated; the powers that be simply wanted a stronger finish to the season. Apparently, they also needed some new characters, as a bunch more are being cast as I type this. One, Clea Bowden, is a thirtysomething Mata Hari who’s as hot as she is cold; she’s an attorney for the day’s public enemy No. 1, Jonas Hodges (Jon Voight). Another recurring newbie is Alan Wilson, a forty-to-fiftysomething Trump who is as powerful as Jonas. [Michael Ausiello]
30 Rock
Don Geiss comes out of his coma before too many episodes pass and again crushes Jack’s CEO dream. [Kristin@E!Online]
Tracy freaks out when Kenneth the Page starts being funnier than him. [Kristin@E!Online]
Brothers and Sisters
Jason Ritter came in to meet with casting folks regarding the role of Ryan, but they are considering other names as well. Regardless, Nora will be put in charge of whether to find Ryan, and she and Holly will end up doing the deed. Also, Rebecca’s gonna give Nora a crapload of cash, and Kitty’s new book, which trashes the family, is not going to go over well. [Kristin@E!Online]
Nora prepares for her new charity venture by making a clean sweep of all of William’s belongings; a time capsule brings together two estranged siblings; Robert interviews candidates to fill Kitty’s very big shoes, and Holly begins her own investigation into the whereabouts of William’s lost son. [ABC]
Burn Notice
According to Tricia Helfer, “Carla’s going to get a little rattled—it’s unlike how we’ve seen her before, a little bit off her game. But she responds quickly and gets back to her regular self.” [Kristin@E!Online]
Californication
Music mogul Lew Ashby (Battlestar Galatica’s Keith Callum Rennie) offers Hank a gig ghostwriting his autobiography, and in the course of doing that business, Hank is regularly offered up free sex on a platter—including another shot with tricksy trick-turner Trixie (Judy Greer)—but he turns everything down because he wants to be faithful to Karen (Natscha McEhlone). [Kristin@E!Online]
Chuck
Chuck and Sarah are in for a roller-coaster ride this season: They get together because they think Chuck is going to be free, they flirt with third parties (Bryce Larkin, and Melinda Clarke as foreign operative Sasha Banacheck), and then they realize there’s no getting out of it: Sarah has to be Chuck’s protector and not girlfriend. [Kristin@E!Online]
Lester (Vik Sahay) operates like a crack-addled Dwight Schrute when he becomes assistant manager of Buy More, and it’s pretty funny. [Kristin@E!Online]
There is a flashback to when Chuck got kicked out of Standford and goes to talk to his girlfriend. She breaks up with him and he learns she is now dating Bryce Larkin. In present day, we see Jill coming into the Buy More to get her computer fixed. With her is her boss. Chuck flashes on a bio-weapon when he shakes the man’s hand. [SpoilerFix.com]
Cold Case
Kat Miller (Tracie Thoms) will finally be getting a love life this season. Also, producers will be focusing on the consequences of sloppy detective work. [Kristin@E!Online]
CSI: New York
Jacqueline Pinol is returning and at what could be an . . . awkward time. [TV Guide]
Desperate Housewives
Dave is hunting someone down on Wisteria Lane, but someone will be hunting him as well. Mrs. McCluskey teams up with her sister (Lily Tomlin) to find out why Dave Williams is so devilishly nice and mysterious. Dave gets so crazy that Mrs. McCluskey actually goes into hiding for part of the season. [Kristin@E!Online]
Julie (still played by Andrea Bowen) will be back, and wait until you meet her boyfriend/professor. [TV Guide]
Dexter
Dexter is going to do a bad, bad thing in the next episode, and Jimmy Smits is going to love him for it. [Kristin@E!Online]
ER
Brenner and the interns treat a woman who has blunt trauma to the belly and a leg and minor burns. Henry, the woman’s husband, is on trial for abusing a young girl and he believes that the people who thinks he is guilty set the house on fire. As the case evolves, Brenner opens up to Morris and makes some revelations about his childhood. Staff working at a storage facility in Indiana track down Morris so he pays what he owes them; otherwise, they will sell the content of the storage room Morris was renting: his father’s belongings. [SpoilerFix.com]
There is a scene this season where Ray and Neela are racing each other along the coast of Lake Michigan. [Michael Ausiello]
Ghost Whisperer
Tom Pelphrey will be in the episode “Ghosts in the Machine, airing October 17. The bullet: Melinda tracks a ghost who is targeting young girls on a social networking site. [TV Guide]
Grey’s Anatomy
Callie and Erica’s secret affair won’t be a secret much longer. Next week, word of their sapphic romance makes its way to two of their colleagues. [Michael Ausiello]
One of last season’s most significant relationships comes to an end. [Michael Ausiello]
Alex and Izzie contemplate moving in together next week. Well, one of them contemplates it. The other one just says mean and hurtful things. [Michael Ausiello]
The October 16 episode will feature Patrick Dempsey completely naked save for one strategically placed pillow. [Michael Ausiello]
Heroes
Hiro and Ando (James Kyson Lee) look up an old frenemy. Actually, they dig him up, right out of his 400-year-old grave. [Kristin@E!Online]
Hiro and Ando are headed to the lockup known as Level Five (where Angela and her cronies keep the likes of Sylar and other villains), but they are not going of their own accord. [Kristin@E!Online]
Dr. Zimmerman has answers to Tracy Strauss’ questions about her mysterious origins, and we’ll learn of a fifth version of the woman who looks just like Ali Larter. [Kristin@E!Online]
In the future Sylar is not only living with his son Noah in the Bennet house, but he has Mr. Muggles. Actually, we’ll see that Sylar has become a new man. [Kristin@E!Online]
Kristen Bell will be definitely back, and when she returns, we see that Elle has quite literally been on the fritz—her power keeps overloading and blowing out of control—and she’ll turn to Claire for help. [Kristin@E!Online]
House
Executive producer Katie Jacobs says that a major, potentially romantic story line involving Foreman and Thirteen will kick off in November when Olivia Wilde’s ailing alter ego agrees to participate in a clinical trial overseen by Omar Epps’ Foreman. As a result, the pair “are going to be spending a serious amount of time together,” reveals Jacobs. Thirteen’s leap of faith will follow a tumultuous few episodes in which she has a random hookup with an unidentified lovergirl and witnesses firsthand the horrors of Huntington’s via a patient played by Lori Petty. “I don’t want to see Thirteen come down with Huntington’s,” confesses Jacobs, “but I think it’s important for the audience to see what she’s up against in dealing with [the disease].” [Michael Ausiello]
How I Met Your Mother
Tired of spending most of his time on the train commuting to Stella’s in New Jersey, Ted convinces the group, to hang out at Stella’s place one night. [Kristin@E!Online]
Lipstick Jungle
Rosanna Arquette is coming on the show this season and Rob Buckley (Kirby Atwood) isn’t going anywhere. Looks like Nico (Kim Raver) found herself a permanent boy-toy. [Kristin@E!Online]
Lost
We won’t see Jin at all for the first three episodes, and it’s not until episodes four and five that we’ll really understand what happened to him when the freighter exploded. [Kristin@E!Online]
Jin will be found Leo DiCaprio-in-Titanic style, floating on a door. Alive or dead? We shall see! [Kristin@E!Online]
Michael Emerson talking about Ben in the new season, “Ben’s mission has changed, time has passed, he has different resources… and he moves around a lot.” He also hinted that he might have a scene with Desmond coming up. [TV Guide]
Mad Men
Jon Hamm himself said that Don’s behavior is a means to the end of telling Betty’s story. “She’s stuck at home, losing her mind, and doesn’t know if her husband loves her — that’s a big part of what’s happening,” he says. Before the season ends, Betty will also have to deal with the serious illness of someone very close to her. [TV Guide]
NCIS
Executive producer Shane Brennan: “There’s no doubt that Tony is intrigued by what Ziva was up to while in Israel, but is he motivated by curiosity or jealousy? The slow dance between Ziva and Tony will continue, but maybe Ziva has another name on her dance card. Could it end badly? Yes. The question is, for whom . . .” [Michael Ausiello]
One Tree Hill
Owen returns and tries to win Brooke back. And Gigi, Mouth’s former intern, returns and tries to get between Mouth and Millicent. [Kristin@E!Online]
Pushing Daisies
Orlando Jones (Drumline), Michael Weaver (Notes From the Underbelly), and Ivana Milicevic (Casino Royale) have been cast as a band of Norwegian detectives who bear striking similarities to Emerson, Ned and Chuck. The trio flee their home country looking for bigger, better crimes to solve, which makes things mighty difficult for Emerson and his untouchy-feely sidekicks. [Michael Ausiello]
Trouble is afoot at Olive’s nunnery, so the gang will be going undercover in an upcoming episode. [Kristin@E!Online]
Ned’s dad is going to pop up in the premiere, though Ned just doesn’t know it yet. Speaking of fathers, watch for Emerson to try and track down his missing daughter this season. [Kristin@E!Online]
Reaper
The CW has confirmed Armie Hammer’s casting, saying, “His character is named Morgan, and he is exactly what you think the devil’s son would be like. [Kristin@E!Online]
Smallville
Very bad things happen at Chloe’s wedding. Imagine a cross between The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield. Now imagine it at Jimmy and Chloe’s reception. [Michael Ausiello]
In an Episode 8 flashback we will see a Young Chloe kissing a Young Clark in the farmhouse hayloft. [TV Guide]
Sons of Anarchy
According to Charlie Hunnam, “Kohn was definitely part of Tara’s life in the past, and he is a guy that she is finished with, but he’s not really taking no for an answer. Over the course of a couple of episodes, it becomes more and more evident that she has this secret, and once the secret unravels, I decide that maybe I should intervene a little bit. It gets pretty spicy between us.” [Kristin@E!Online]
Supernatural
After seeing Thursday’s episode, “In the Beginning,” I think it’s fair to say that this season Sam has a problem, and it will be the major arc of the year, much in the way Dean’s damnation arc played out through most of last season. It’s a bit of a heartbreaker. [Kristin@E!Online]
Dean and Sam investigate several murders at Oktoberfest. The first victim was found with bite marks on her neck, much like a vampire would leave, while the second victim has wounds that look like a werewolf attack. After a mummy rises from his crypt, Dean determines that a shape-shifter demon is terrorizing the town as iconic monsters from the old Hollywood movies. [The CW]
The show is currently casting another Big Bad, a middle-aged demon whose air of gentility does little to mask the stink of his cruelty. The recurring character is one of the top dogs down under. [Michael Ausiello]
Series creator Eric Kripke talking about Ruby being a nicer demon this seaoson, “One reason she’s nicer is because she spent a few weeks in a particularly nasty corner of Hell, being punished by Lilith’s minions. That would humble just about anyone. As to whether Ruby is hiding some ulterior motive . . . tune in to find out.” [TV Guide]
The Office
Expect big un-PC shenanigans when a little person becomes a Dunder Mifflin sales rep. [Michael Ausiello]
There are plans to bring back David Denman, aka Roy, aka Pam’s ex-fiancé, in one of the next five episodes of the new season. Roy has not returned to court Pam. somewhere around the fifth episode of the season, Jim and Darryl will meet up with Roy at a bar (as usual, to avoid some hijinks cooked up by Michael), and the meeting is fairly benign (no punching this time). However, it could still spell trouble for Jim and Pam. I’m told Roy throws out a zinger that makes Jim worry about Pam being away at art school and whether any of her new guy friends could steal her away (just as he did to Roy). [Kristin@E!Online]
Jim wants Pam to have his babies! That said, the separation is not doing them any good. As Jenna Fischer puts it, “We have to deal with real relationship problems.” Well, now, those don’t sound any fun. Nor does the news I’m hearing that Ryan will continue to be a thorn in Jim’s side for quite some time up at that receptionist desk . . . and that Holly won’t be around the whole season. [Kristin@E!Online]
The Unit
As the season continues, tensions run high between Mack and Tiffy as they are forced to live their farce of a marriage in order to protect their new identities — especially when their daughter is needed to keep up the front at school. And, now that Mack has discovered the naked photo of Tiffy and Col. Ryan, it’s just a matter of time until the situation reaches an explosive climax. [Michael Ausiello]
True Blood
Nelsan Ellis, who plays Lafayette, told me a “big name” is going to be introduced as Lafayette’s vampire-blood supplier and boyfriend. [Kristin@E!Online]
Ugly Betty
There’s a really good chance Daniel officially reclaim his perch atop Mode’s masthead by episode 3. [Michael Ausiello]
