Dan Harmon

Mega Buzz: Grey's Baby Blues, Danson's CSI Gig and Fringe's Peter Problem

• Sep 27, 2011 10:03 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams

Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.

Got any scoop on Meredith and Derek on Grey's Anatomy? — Amanda
NATALIE: Losing Zola will have serious ramifications on their marriage. "The partnership they've created after all these years is in jeopardy," executive producer Shonda Rhimes tells us. "When you lose a child, that could be possibly more devastating than almost anything else. The two of them are deeply in love with Zola and want that to work. They're also going to be trying to salvage and sustain their marriage."

I really liked Ted Danson on CSI. When will learn more about his character's background? — Randy
ADAM: Every episode is a discovery! In the next episode, we'll learn that... read more

Cheers & Jeers: The Two Faces of Michael K. Williams

• Sep 23, 2011 07:00 AM ET
• by Bruce Fretts

Cheers to Michael K. Williams for a double shot of high-caliber roles.

Is Community Really Going to Be "Less Weird" This Year?

• Sep 22, 2011 03:21 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant

"We're gonna have more fun and be less weird than the first two years combined!"

So sings — yes, sings — the Greendale Community College study group as NBC's Community kicks off its third season.

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The flashy opening number speaks to creator Dan Harmon's plan for the third season, which he says won't be as stunt-episode heavy as the self-referential comedy has been in the past.

"I don't want to disappoint any more of the more hyperactive savvy fans that love nothing more than the fact that the show is completely unpredictable," Harmon first told TVGuide.com at the end of Season 2. "I have to continue a promise to the audience to always engage them in every part of their brain that love television. But at the same time I've got to get my mom more comfortable with the show."

But doesn't an elaborate song-and-dance routine fly in the face of that? read more

Mega Buzz: Tiva Time on NCIS? Plus: Fringe's Future and Stabler's SVU Exit

• Aug 30, 2011 09:46 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams

Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.

Please tell me E.J. Barrett's NCIS return will be short-lived. I need Tiva! — Hanna
ADAM: Let's let Michael Weatherly offer his take. "There's a new wrinkle in [Tony and E.J.'s] relationship, and I would say it is somewhat troubling," he says. "I think Tony questions a lot of things about her, and I don't think there's any going back to their initial blinky-blinky, lovey-dovey plot." But before your little 'shipper heart explodes, that doesn't necessarily guarantee loads of Tony-Ziva goodness. "Tony ultimately has to lean on himself. He has to figure some of his own stuff out," Weatherly says. "That might make him more able down the road to approach a relationship with Ziva."

Will Fringe go back to the future this season? —Barry
NATALIE: Yes, but it won't be the same future we saw in the finale. "The future that we saw in 2026... read more

John Goodman Signs On as Community's New Dean

• Jul 25, 2011 06:45 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

John Goodman will join the cast of Community for a multi-episode arc in Season 3, TVGuide.com has learned.

Goodman, who's currently appearing as the villain on Damages, will play Vice Dean Laybourne, the head of Greendale's air conditioning repair school. He will appear in six episodes... read more