Every week, editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant answer your burning questions. Want some TV scoop? Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
Any Lost scoop? — Ari
MICKEY: You can add Katey Sagal's name to the list of Lost alums who have jetted off to Hawaii to shoot scenes for the final season. Call me a romantic, but I never believed that Locke's beloved Helen was actually dead; that whole cemetery scene reeked of fakery. Plus, we've all heard the rumors about Season 6 employing an alternate timeline (or, more intriguing, a "do-over" of Oceanic Flight 815), which means that even if Matthew Abaddon was telling the truth, Helen is still just as likely to be alive as, say, Charlie, Boone, Shannon, Eko or Juliet.
Sylar crawled out of the ground on Monday's Heroes. Does that mean no more Nathan? — Justin
ADAM: That remains to be seen. But I will tell you this...
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Nearly every show on TV has to deal with will-they-won't-they sexual tension between its series leads. CBS' The Mentalist is no different.
"You always want to keep the audience wanting and guessing," Robin Tunney tells TVGuide.com. "Once it happens it's very difficult to know where to go from there."
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As California Bureau of Investigation Agent Teresa Lisbon, Tunney finds herself fighting that battle with co-star Simon Baker's Patrick Jane. Lisbon's disdain for Jane slowly gave way to flirty camaraderie, and in the Season 1 finale, Jane fatally shot a man to protect her. But that doesn't mean 'shippers should expect a wild love affair in Season 2...
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All is right in the perfect world of The Mentalist.
On the show's set, on a crisp, sunny day in Los Angeles, everyone is smiling. The stars are smiling, the public relations people are smiling, and the reporters shuttled in from their hotel to eat donuts and talk to the cast are smiling. But no one smiles brighter than Simon Baker.
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ER's John Stamos will star in Killing Mr. Kissel, a Lifetime original movie based on the true story of multimillionaire brothers (good...) who each wed the woman of their dreams (good...) only to wind up dead (unfortunate). Anson Mount (Conviction) plays Stamos' bro, and Robin Tunney (Prison Break) is one of the brides.Per the Reporter, Stamos is also developing Baby Love, a TNT pic about the founder of Project Cuddle, a national organization that works to save babies from being abandoned or harmed. — Matt Mitovich
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Having seen her Prison Break run cut short when she was abruptly offed in the first episode of Season 2, this time Robin Tunney aims to be on the sending end of a bullet. Tunney has been cast in the CBS pilot The Mentalist, playing a no-nonsense police detective who gets the occasional assist from the super-observational Simon Baker.Related:• Simon Baker Goes Mental for CBS
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