Question: Do you have any new spoilers about CSI: NY?Answer: The show has put out a casting call for a child actress who looks like Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) at 8 years old. Not so coincidentally, they're also looking for a thirtysomething female to play a woman from Stella's past who harbors a secret identity.
Question: Izzie and George — noooooooooooooooooo!Answer: My thoughts exactly. BTW, don't forget to check out my urgent news bulletin regarding tomorrow night's Grey's. Your life depends on it.
Question: Since HBO's Rome will be ending this Sunday, how about you give some Grade A prattle before the show never generates any more scoop ever again?Answer: Let's just say the story doesn't follow the historical record exactly — particularly where Caesarion's fate is concerned. Producers also took some creative license (in a geographical sense) with Antony's and Cleopatra's twin suicides. And there's a double double-cross that I don't think anyone will see coming.
Question: Any CSI scoop?Answer: Will CSI: Miami suffice? This May, a member of the team will get fired.
Question: There are crazy rumors going around that everyone in the Veronica Mars cast has been released from their contracts with the exception of Kristen Bell. Is there any truth to this?Answer: Not a kernel. As I reported on Monday, no one has been released from his/her contract. And just to reiterate, there are three scenarios currently at play where VM is concerned: 1) Veronica Mars will be canceled (45 percent likelihood).2) Veronica Mars will be renewed as is, with V still in college (10 percent likelihood).3) Veronica Mars will be renewed with V in the FBI (45 percent likelihood). BTW, I was blown away by the enormous response to my
Question: Please tell us when we can see Rescue Me again. It has been forever!Answer: Sometime in June. And expect a huge action sequence in the season premiere. The money shot in Children of Men is being cited as a reference point for style.
Question: Audrey can't really be dead on 24, can she?Answer: What is your gut telling you? Trust it.
Question: I didn't hate October Road.Answer: It's unanimous: Audiences aren't hating October Road! Sure, they're not loving it, but they're not hating it, either! (Wait till they see Episode 2.) OK, my work is done here for now, so let's cut to the housekeeping notes: Head on over to the Ask Ausiello Discussion Thread to debate the merits of this week's AA, check out the latest installment of my Ausiello Report vodcast, send questions/tips/cash to askausiello@tvguide.com, and keep close tabs on the Ausiello Report throughout the week for breaking tube news, blind items and other stuff. Then come
Question: This whole twist with Lana's baby on Smallville is really confusing me. Is there a baby or not? Is it a superenhanced baby? What's the deal?!Answer: First off, Briana, breathe. OK, according to my sources, Lana will definitely see a baby in her ultrasound, but you know how things are never what they appear to be with Lex. As for enhanced abilities, the real gift this plot has is the power to turn Lana into one pissed-off woman with a mission. And we looove Lana when she's not a wuss.
Question: Given your Battlestar Galactica hintage in last week's vodcast about the final five words uttered in the season finale, I can't help but think that it's one of the following: A) "I think we've found Earth," B) "The Cylons have found Earth," or C) "It's a race to Earth." Can you confirm that it is one of those?Answer: I can't because "E***h" is actually one of the final 16 words in next week's finale, not the final five as I originally teased in my vodcast. (Sorry, I must've miscounted.) Allow me to put it in the correct context for you: "*'** **** ** E***h. * **** ***** it is. And *'* ***** ** **** ** *****." And the only thing more shocking than the words themselves is the identity of the person whose mouth they come out of.
Question: Do you have any scoop at all about Gilmore Girls?Answer: News flash: Rory isn't graduating in the season/series finale on May 8, as everyone (including me) assumed. She's graduating in the penultimate May 1 episode. And yes, Lorelai will be attending the ceremony with Christopher, so I guess you could say they're dating again. (I know, not funny.) BTW, click here to find out who'll be giving Rory the surprise of her life in the finale.
Good news: We won't have to wait until March 29 to see how this whole George/Izzie hook-up debacle plays out on Grey's Anatomy. Reliable sources (i.e. a just-released ABC bulletin) confirm that ABC has opted to air a fresh episode of Grey's this Thursday instead of an originally-scheduled repeat. Why the last-minute switcheroo? Two words: October Road. Apparently, ABC execs — encouraged by the show's opening-week numbers last Thursday — didn't want to lose any of that momentum in Week Two. And with the exception of American Idol, there's no greater momentum-sustainer on TV than an original episode of Grey's.Personally, I found October Road to be almost unwatchable. God-awful dialogue made my ears bleed.
UPDATE: Time to squash another Veronica Mars rumor that seems to be gaining traction this morning — this one claiming the enitire supporting cast has been let go. Not true. No one — not Jason Dohring, not Enrico Colantoni — has been released from their contract. According to sources, one of three things will happen in May:1) Veronica Mars will be cancelled.2) Veronica Mars will be renewed as-is, with V still in college.3) Veronica Mars will be renewed with Veronica in the FBI. That's where things stand at this hour. I now return you to your originally scheduled Ausiello Report story, already in progress... You know what they say about rumors: Most of 'em are true. Except in this case. Lisa Kudrow is not — let me repeat, not — joining the cast of Grey's 2.0. As one ABC source flatly puts it, "All of the roles have been cast." And while we're clearing up false rumors, let me set the record straight about all this Veronica Mars fourth-season flash-forward busin...
Say what you want about this season's Gilmore Girls, but show-runner Dave Rosenthal has succeeded in at least one area where Team Palladino failed: He's arranged for Rory to finally come face-to-face with her longtime idol, Christiane Amanpour!According to multiple Girls sources, CNN's internationally renowned newshound will make a cameo in the show's May 8 season (and likely series) finale. Amanpour's scene is still being written, so all that's known at this point is that she will be playing herself. As anyone with a passing interest in Gilmore Girls knows, Amy and Dan were relentless in their bid to lure Amanpour to Stars Hollow during their six-year reign. They almost succeeded in getting her late last season, but a scheduling conflict derailed things at the 11th hour. They left shortly afterwards and, well, the rest is history. Whatever mixed feelings they have about the show these days, I gotta think this news will put a smile on their faces. Now, regarding the small matter of ...
The mystery surrounding the setting of the Grey's Anatomy spin-off has been solved — by me!! Per one very well-placed mole, the hospital where Addison will accept her new job will be located in (drumroll, please… ) Los Angeles! That's right, Doc Montgomery's going Hollywood! Which makes perfect sense given what else I know about the top-secret offshoot. Sources confirm that plastic surgery and psychiatry (two L.A. staples) will play as prominent roles in the show as Addison's chosen field of neonatology. In fact, according to a source who read the script for the pilot, er, I mean the "enhanced two-hour Grey's episode with a potential for afterlife," there are multiple scenes set in a shrink's office and another scene involving a pampered Beverly Hills princess contemplating a chemical peel with her hot plastic surgeon (Tim Daly, perhaps?).Oh, and my spy also points out the show takes advantage of its setting in another way. "There's sex, sex and more sex," whispers my m...
Question: Are you ever going to give us the answers to your Blind Items?Answer: Depends where they fall on the potential-to-land-me-a-major-ass-whoopin' scale. If it's something relatively harmless, like, say, "'Hit' Show Facing Ax," I'll probably pepper AA with clues before solving it outright in one of my many TV Guide outlets. If it's something more sensitive and/or incendiary, like "BFF Goes MIA" or "Clashing Costars," then I'll probably save it for my highly anticipated memoir, due in 2031. And anything that involves a possible extramarital on-set hookup (i.e., "Art Imitates Life
Question: Still jonesing for some scoop on Battlestar Galactica.Answer: The final five Cylons are (Spoiler alert) just kidding! Check out the vodcast for hot prattle about the big bombshell that gets dropped at Baltar's trial, and the one word from the March 25 season finale that could change everything.
Question: Do you have any new Gilmore Girls scoop?Answer: Matt Czuchry's pilot has been put on hold.
Question: Can I persuade you to link to the website where us fans are once again campaigning to save our beloved Veronica Mars? There's a complete set of "Quotations by Brainy Smurf" in it for you.Answer: Here's your link. Now gimme what's rightfully mine.
Question: I was hoping that Izzie and George hooking up would be one of the false plot twists in your Grey's Anatomy tease last month (Ask Ausiello 2/21). But I just saw the preview for tomorrow's episode and I'm freaking out. Please tell me it's some kind of mistake.Answer: Let me just say this: After tomorrow's Grey's airs, you'll know which one of the six plot twists is real. Here they are again in case you're too lazy to click on the link above. • After breaking things off with Cristina, Burke will transfer to another hospital.• Callie will reveal she's pregnant.• Izzie and George will hook up.• Izzie will be reunited with her daughter, and it's s
Question: Please say Lauren Graham is singing ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me"! (Ask Ausiello 3/7)Answer: Nope, it's "Fernando"! And Lauren isn't the only Stars Hollow denizen attempting to carry a tune in the April 24 episode. We'll also hear from **r*, M*** *att* and *a*e**e.
Question: Is your "Gray Matter" Blind Item referring to Rob Lowe?Answer: No.