Kripke talks about the new characters.

Whew: recurring not regular.

I liked his answers, he didn't insult the fans when he was talking about the worry and he gave nice definitive answers about the characters and was honest about the possiblity of love interests/chemistry. I'd rather him be upfront about that than be kinda coy and leading to more freaking out.

One of the kerfuffles I read was that the CW is trying to undermine Supernatural by changing the date of the premiere and using Smallville as a lead in for a rerun of the Reaper pilot. Although I've seen people point out that a lot of big shows are premiering at the same time and it might be better for SPN to show up on a different night.

The main accusation on CW seems to be they want SPN to tank and Reaper is their new darling and instead of cancelling SPN out right they are going to let it languish and die.

CW really seems to dislike nearly all of its shows from UPN or WB. It's like the almost want to discard all that was about WB and UPN.

I guess they still like Smallville, but that might be about it. If they get rid of SPN, I'm not watching the channel any more - I don't think I have a reason to.

The episode of the Reaper that is being shown is a repeat of the pilot. It's premiering on Tuesday and then repeating two days later - and it'll be up against the csi and GA premieres.

I read that csi and WAT are going to do a cross-over with Grissom on WAT and Jack on csi.

Also - TAR is doing away with NELs. (Woo hoo!!)

ETA: this link to the blog where the csi/WAT/TAR info came from.

I think the kerfuffle is rubbish, myself -- SPN is in it's 3rd year, it should be able to survive a day change just fine. It's entirely possible CW are panicing about Reaper sticking. In fact, I'd place money on it.

Yeah. I'm not happy that it's even later but I'm glad it's not opening up opposite the premiere of GA and csi.

And I'm pleased that we will see Ellen and Gordon and Agent Hendrickson again.

And I'm pleased that we will see Ellen and Gordon and Agent Hendrickson again.

I zeroed in on the Ellen and Bobby mention—that was my biggest concern about the new season.

My impression is that Kripke is being a bit disingenuous about the new additions; the "We don't know which girl is going to spark to which guy" line sounds like the intent is definitely for a romance of some sort to happen. Which I don't actually have any objection to as long as they wait to make sure the chemistry between the actors is good, as seems to be the case.

JM approached Torchwood about appearing - and he's going to be in the season 2 premiere.

(Check out the JB/JM photo.)

And there's plenty of slash action in the episode in question. I believe he originally approached for Doctor Who, which makes the slash all the more funny.

Well, they did promise "omnisexual" action, right?