Question: Any news on whether Probie's ambiguous sexuality will be addressed on Rescue Me? Answer: Yes, it will be. I hear he'll realize he's more bisexual than flat-out gay. It actually looks like a rough season is ahead for Probie. He'll suffer a death in the family, get injured on the job and spiral into a deep depression. Good times!
Question: Two weeks ago I suggested a poll where readers could vote for new shows getting more coverage in your column (now that the popular Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars are gone). Of course, my vote was for The Office. However, others are requesting shows, too! C'mon, Michael, let your loyal fans pick at least two new shows for you!Answer: The poll is up at Ausiello Central. You can thank me later. Actually, thank me now. I worked my ass off on that thing. (Actually, Angel Cohn and Cathy Suhocki did all the work, but they agreed that I could take the lion's share of credit. They're co
Question: Please, Michael, I am dying for some scoop on National Bingo Night. Will the B and the N finally hook up? Are the rumors about one of the vowels dying true?Answer: That wouldn't even get a laugh in the Catskills, George. A tomato in your face maybe, but not a laugh.
Question: What happens to Ask Ausiello during the summer reruns?Answer: Readers start testing out their new stand-up material on me. Case in point….
Question: Do you have any scoop on the upcoming fourth season of Entourage?Answer: The June 17 season premiere is unlike any Entourage episode you've ever seen — but the jury's still out on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. The entire episode features highlights of the month-long "Medellin" shoot from the POV of a documentary film crew, complete with behind-the-scenes footage and confessional-type interviews with Vince, E and Ari. Overall, not my favorite episode of Entourage ever. Clever concept, but the execution fell a little flat, IMHO. Speaking of Entourage scoop, this week's international-themed Ausiello Report vodcast doesn't skimp on it.
Question: Please tell me there's been a positive development regarding those two Deadwood TV-movies that HBO promised us.Answer: You know what they say: No news is bad news.
Question: I'm gonna be asking you all summer for scoop on 24. Hope you don't tire of me!Answer: Me, tire of you? Yeah, I suppose you have a point. Anyway, it's looking very good that Mary Lynn Rajskub will be back next season, although she'll find herself in very different surroundings.
OK, this is nuts!Multiple sources are telling me that CBS is thisclose to sealing a deal to bring Jericho back for at least eight episodes, possibly at mid-season. My spies caution that this is in no way official, but it certainly sounds like it could be by day's end. It's now just a matter of signing the actors to new deals and, according to one insider, finding a new soundstage to house the show's sets.To say this would be a huge victory for crazy TV fans everywhere would be the understatement of the frakkin' millennium.
Expect more turnover at the "Daily Planet" next season.One of my Smallville moles tells me that producers are looking for an "extremely hot" thirtysomething actor to play the new editor of the "Daily Planet" — presumably replacing that slacker Princess Leia, er, Pauline Kahn. He'll appear in six of the first eight episodes and, per my Super spy, will be a love interest for Lois Lane. I'm told the role is a few weeks away from being filled, so that leaves plenty of time for us to play armchair casting director. Post you suggestions to exec producer Al Gough below. Here's my pick: Will Estes.
First Gilmore Girls. Then Veronica Mars. And now this. Sci Fi has announced that Battlestar Galactica will come to an end after its upcoming 22-episode fourth season. The decision was made by exec producers David Eick and Ronald D. Moore. WTFrak?!"This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and finally, an end," the duo said in a statement. "Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have been moving strongly toward that end and we've decided to listen to those internal voices and conclude the show on our own terms. And while we know our fans will be saddened to know the end is coming, they should brace themselves for a wild ride getting there — we're going out with a bang."The fourth and final season kicks off in early 2008. As previously reported, the two-hour prequel pic "Razor" will premiere in November. Eick and Moore are holding a conference call this afternoon to discuss their decision. If you've got questions, post 'em below. Or if you ...
Rob Thomas is inching closer to lining up his first post-Veronica Mars gig.Sources confirm that Thomas — who has proven quite the hot commodity since Mars' unofficial cancellation earlier this month — is in advanced negotiations to take the reins of ABC's new midseason comedy Miss/Guided. This comes just weeks after CBS approached Thomas to come on board its new musical-drama hybrid Viva Laughlin as showrunner, an offer he ultimately refused. Contacted via e-mail, Thomas declined to comment on the Miss/Guided talks, but he did say this of the show's leading lady: "I heart Judy Greer — in a big way." That makes two of us. Confession time: My unhealthy Judy Greer crush started during Arrested Development (she was George Bluth Sr.'s hysterically loopy breast-baring assistant Kitty), intensified on Love Monkey (she was Tom Cavanagh's BFF) and is threatening to boil over with Miss Guided, a show I was wildly anticipating even before Thomas threw his hat into the ring. Chec...
Question: I just flooded peta.org with votes for you! Though I love Milo Ventimiglia, my favorite veggie is you.Answer: If that were really true, you'd still be over there mass voting instead of here telling me about it. OK, on that note, another AA has come to a satisfying conclusion. What's that, you say? Cue the housekeeping notes? You got it! Head on over to the Ask Ausiello Discussion Thread to debate the merits of this week's column; check out the latest installment of my Ausiello Report vodcast to find out when and where you can see Veronica Mars kicking ass in the FBI; send questions/hot tips/Keri Russell sightings to askausiello@tvguid
Question: The Lost season finale was sooooo great! Here's my question: In the last scene, Kate talks about somebody who's waiting for her at home. Who is he?Answer: My guess? It's someone we haven't met yet.
Question: Thank god Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls are gone! Now, can we finally get some scoop on some decent shows… like House?Answer: Gone? Gone!? Hardly. As I reported last week, there's a chance that both Gilmore and VM could live on as a TV-movie and a feature film, respectively. Worse-case scenario, nothing pans out and the MIA Network snatches them up. But the bottom line is, as long as
Question: Please tell me you have some scoop about the second season of Big Love.Answer: I just finished watching the first five episodes of Season 2 and, unless I'm misreading the warning signs, Bill is totally on the verge of committing adultery. If a guy with three wives can't remain faithful, what hope is there for anyone else?
Question: I don't care what you think of the show. Give me One Tree Hill scoop!Answer: According to someone very close to the show, we may not see everyone coming back. "Nothing is certain yet," says my spy, who predicts that "things will be very different" when the show returns at mid-season set four years into the future.
Question: So, now that we're into repeats for the summer, does TV Guide let you out of your cage to see the real world?Answer: TV Guide will let me out, but will you guys? I came home from my last vacation to a huge stack of hate mail and a half-dozen bomb threats. It's gotten so bad I've had to curtail my midday Tasti runs.
Question: Some fans have created this site for the Veronica Mars movie campaign. Could you help us get the word out?Answer: My pleasure. BTW, can you believe the nerve of Brian calling the show "done"?
Question: Any chance we can see the Veronica Mars trailer Rob Thomas pitched to the CW, online maybe?Answer: Big news in this week's Ausiello Report vodcast on that very subject!
Question: Does ABC know how the rattlesnake leaked?Answer: Not yet, but it sounds like an investigation is under way. "Disney security is trying to establish a full and complete list of all of the people through whose hands the show passed," said Cuse, who admits "it's incredibly frustrating" that the secret got out, even if the number of people who had the twist spoiled is miniscule when compared to Lost's overall viewership. "We did everything we felt we could do. There were only four copies of the rattlesnake that were distributed. Damon had a copy, I had a copy, Jack Bender the director had a copy, and Jean Higgins the producer had a copy. We even sent someone to [ABC president] Steve McPhersen's office with the pages. He read them and then they were taken away and returned to our office. I think it got out during the post-[production] process, because that's when it broke [on the Web]. The finale is like a feature film
Question: I totally voted for you for PETA's sexiest male vegetarian of 2007. Does this entitle me to some House scoop?Answer: No, but thanks for reminding everyone to go vote for me at peta.org! As you'll recall, despite my best efforts to rock last year's vote, I placed a disappointing third behind Prince and Joaquin Phoenix. I'm not really interested in being publicly humiliated two years in a row, so please, if you have an ounce of humanity in you, take two seconds and check off my name on the ballot. PETA just put out a press release announcing that Milo Ventimiglia has taken an early lead, so we've got our work cut out for us. The polls close in a few short weeks, so hurry up!
Question: Curse you, Michael Ausiello! I had to wait a whole week to get my AA fix regarding the pants-crapping greatness of the season finale of Lost. Please, please reveal what you know about Season 4!Answer: As anyone with an Ausiello Report bookmark can tell you, I had a smorgasbord of Lost goodies just waiting for you the moment the end credits started to roll on last Wednesday's pants-crapping finale. (Truth be told, I had the story up a few seconds before the end credits, but that's our little secret, K?) Of course, being the multiplatform slut that I am, I saved a few tasty morsels from my exclusive interview with Carlton Cuse for this week's AA — including a bit of scoop about the return of two maj
