Question: Got anything on One Tree Hill?Answer: When the kids wind up in Honey Grove, Texas, on May 10, not only do they crash the town's prom, but there is also a hookup. And according to a setsider, "it's gonna get hot at the after-prom." Meanwhile, Dan's going to contemplate suicide in the finale after he gets brought up on murder charges.
Question: If you tell me that the following statement is right, then I'll hire another bodyguard to protect my Ausiello ice-cream scoop: Peter gets his premonition dreams in Heroes from his mother. Am I right?Answer: Damn, you're good. Er, I mean, no comment.
Question: When will we find out the results of the race for chief on Grey's Anatomy?Answer: Surprise — the May 17 finale!
Question: WTF happened to Jack's dad on 24? Will we find out this season, or will they pull a Behrooz on us (or a Logan) and leave us high and dry?Answer: He'll be back — and soon.
Question: How can we be sure the fire in last season's Rescue Me finale wasn't just another one of Tommy's hallucinations?Answer: If that's the case, then Jennifer Esposito's new firefighter character is also a figment of his imagination, since she's the one who (spoiler alert) rescues Tommy from the blaze.
Question: You may have been joking about "how much tongue" there will be in the Luke-Lorelai kiss, but I want to know!Answer: Enough about the tongue!
Question: Can you tell us how much tongue is in there? Please. Answer: In where? Please be more specific next time.
Question: Am I wrong to suspect that Jack will be one of the five Lost deaths you have been speaking of?Answer: Yes, you would be wrong to suspect that. Jack is not dying. And remember, I said there will be at least five deaths this month — four after tonight.
Question: Does the National Enquirer really know what it's talking about re: Grey's Anatomy?! A trip to my local supermarket provided me with the news that Isaiah Washington and T.R. Knight are leaving, and Derek dumps Meredith in order to be named chief.Answer: Shameless cross-promotional plug alert! That very question is answered in the latest episode of my Ausiello Report vodcast, which is now playing at Ausiello Central.
Question: In response to your answer to last week's question about Luke and Lorelai's big kiss in the Gilmore Girls finale…. Yes, I would love to know how much tongue there is.Answer: Do you have no shame? For chrissakes, there are children reading this column! I mean seriously.
Question: Will Dirt see a second season?Answer: It's with great sadness and deep regret that I tell you, probably.
Question: Is this season of Veronica Mars really going to end with Veronica and Logan over and done with (Ask Ausiello 4/18)? That is truly depressing for this fan.Answer: I never said Veronica and Logan would be over and done with. I merely said that Veronica tells Logan he's out of her life forever. Those are two very different things. To say more would ruin the finale.
Question: So, we've had rumors of 24 leaving L.A. for the last two seasons. What's different this time?Answer: Well, for starters, the show is in desperate need of a facelift — and Kiefer Sutherland knows it. "I'd like to see a huge departure [next season]," he says in the new, finale-themed issue of TV Guide. "We go back and forth from the White House and CTU to the field, but I'd like to see that change up. I'd like to see Jack work in the outside world."
Question: Ugh! Rebecca is such a bitch on Brothers & Sisters! Please tell me that karma is going to bushwhack her ass sometime soon.Answer: EVC as a bad girl? Love. It. And to answer your question (spoiler alert), no, I hear Rebecca's indecent overture to Joe (and subsequent cover-up) goes virtually unpunished, which I find baffling. Equally as confounding: the shark-jumpy skeleton in Saul's closet that's about to, um, come out. I'll withhold final judgment until I see how the twist plays out on screen, but let me go on the record as saying I've got a bad feeling about it.
Question: Can you please give us something on Grey's, specifically Meredith and Derek? Are they going to be happy together anytime soon?Answer: Certainly not by the end of tomorrow night's episode, when life deals Meredith yet another bad hand (someone shuffle the damn deck already!). You know, a knight in shining whatever can only do so much.
Question: I can’t believe Fox cancelled Drive already! They didn’t even give it a fighting chance! Poor Nathan Fillion — first Firefly and now this.Answer: Yeah, poor dude can't catch a break — and he knows it. At Sunday's Waitress premiere, Fillion joked that working with producer Tim Minear is "the kiss of death…. C'mon, it's obvious!" All joking aside, Fillion was clearly miffed that Fox put the brakes on Drive so soon. "It's unfortunate. I was having a really good time. Just the lines I got to say. I had some great lines." Is he holding out hope that Fox will stick to its promise and run the two unaired episodes over the summer? "I've already seen them," he mock-boasted, "so I'm happy."
Question: Have you abandoned michaelausiello.com? I check there frequently but, besides some drunken vacation photos, there's nothing new.Answer: This might be a good time to check back in, Erica. (Hint: It concerns a little souvenir I brought back from the New York premiere of Waitress, starring my BFF Keri Russell.)
Question: I read somewhere that Foreman is resigning on House. Is this true, and does this mean Omar Epps is leaving the show?Answer: Yes, Foreman — fearful that he's morphing into a House clone — will quit. But no, Omar Epps is not leaving the show.
Question: Is One Tree Hill coming back next season?Answer: It's with great sadness and deep regret that I tell you, probably.
Question: Thanks for the Lost scoop last week. But I am a greedy bugger, and will take the words out of Oliver Twist's mouth: I want some more!Answer: And more you shall get, BF. Lost's streak of mind-blowing episodes continues tonight with "The Brig," the much ballyhooed "non-flashback" outing penned by Team Darlton. But I have to warn you, it's a dark hour, punctuated by one of the (spoiler alert) most, um, twisted Lost deaths ever.
Question: Did we see the "game-changing" moment on last week's Lost when Naomi revealed that the outside world had found Flight 815 and that there were no survivors?Answer: Take it away, Damon Lindelof: "Nope. Not yet. Trust us: YOU. WILL. KNOW."
Question: Any news on the Friday Night Lights renewal?Answer: Yes, and it's good: My mole at the Burbank-based Peacock Travel Agency tells me that certain key cast members have already booked their flights back to Texas in July.