Lost, The Vampire Diaries, Heroes
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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Robin Tunney, The Mentalist
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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Simon Baker, The Mentalist
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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Robin Tunney by Jamie McCarthy/ WireImage.com
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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Question: Am I the only one who is concerned with the morality of Prison Break? I understand that Lincoln was about to die for a crime he didn't commit, and I'm sure Michael didn't intend to loose T-Bag on an unsuspecting world. However, T-Bag and mob boss Abruzzi are out there. Is Lincoln's life worth that of any innocent who may be hurt or killed? I really don't mind if Sucre and C-Note get away; they're basically nonviolent criminals and probably deserved shorter sentences. But Michael has certainly ruined his own life. Is it worth it?
Answer: Those are the big questions that make Prison Break more interesting than a conventional chase thriller. Scofield is a hero with some major baggage. To get justice for his brother, he has put some seriously nasty characters on the street, and that should be haunting him as well as us. Problem is, I don't care about enough of these characters (Tweener? Really?) to compel me to sit through their subplots each week.
On another Prison Break note,
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Question: Is it for sure that Prison Break will be returning in March? I am dying to see what happens next!
Answer: That's what Fox is saying. Of course, they also said Arrested Development would air 22 episodes this season, and that turned out to be a big fat lie. Here's a little Prison poo… scoop to tide you over: Producers are currently casting a "Young Veronica" for a series of flashbacks that will reveal how Robin Tunney's lawyer came to know Lincoln and Michael.
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After several weeks off I really needed the handy little "last time on Prison Break" reminder to get me caught up, especially with the lame conspiracy-Robin Tunney subplot. Honestly, if it doesn't happen inside the guarded prison walls, I'm really not that interested. Sure, Veronica nearly exploded, and her poor maintenance man bit the dust, but I was much more upset by the death of Charles' cat Marilyn. That poor kitty did nothing to anyone. She was just minding her own business in the steam pipes, and then wham. But was it T-Bag or Bellick who put the cat down? And while LJ is being framed for a double homicide — truly, like father, like son — on the inside T-Bag was scheming and truly behaving in a reprehensible manner. Will the guys really take him along for their wild escape ride? Also, I get that Lincoln would want to save his kid, but dude, your brother gave up his straight-laced, perfectly fine life and really nice apartment to come bust your
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