Greetings! As you probably know by the new look of the site, a new season of Doctor Who is coming to BBC America. And to celebrate we've got a slew of Doctor Who material for you, including information on a new giveaway for a Doctor Who Exclusive!!!!

First off BBC America has announced today that Doctor Who's new stars Matt Smith and Karen Gilliam, along with new head writer, Steven Moffat, will be kicking off the new season with a live screening and Q&A session in New York City. The Event, which is open to the public on a first come, first serve basis, will happen at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 14, 3 days before the US premiere. This is the first time the new Doctor will be making a state-side appearance! The Q&A will be moderated by USA Today's Pop Culture Columnist, Whitney Matheson, author of the Pop Candy blog. You can get more info on the Event at the Official Facebook page.

Next up I've got a new video for you, which features the first minute of the New Series!



Check Back Tomorrow for a new video and full details on the Doctor Who Giveaway!!!

If you haven't been watching Doctor Who for the last 5 seasons, you've been missing one of the best series on television. The British series follows the adventures of a Timelord (an alien race), known simply as The Doctor, as he travels through time and space. The series is a unique blend of science fiction, comedy, heartbreaking drama, and just about every other genre known to man. Because the Doctor can travel to anywhere in the universe at any time, the possibilities are limitless. The Doctor has meet up with everyone from strange alien races to Shakespeare.

The show is unique in that it can change genres so completely depending on what The Doctor stumbles onto. The show can go from a heartbreaking romance in one episode ('The Girl in the Fireplace') to one of the most frightening episodes of television I've ever seen ('Blink'), and always feel like the same show.

For most Americans the show is most well known for the past 4 seasons starring David Tennant as the 10th Doctor. But across the pond the show has been a much loved classic since it began in 1963. The genius of the show is that Timelords can regenerate when their body is about to die. Which basically means that when one actor gets to old, gets tired of the role, or wants to leave for any other reason, the show simply "kills" him off, and brings in another actor to play the newly regenerated Doctor.

David Tennant, beloved by many as the best Doctor to date, ended his run in January as his 10th Doctor died slowly and painfully from radiation poisoning. That episode ended with a tearful and angry goodbye that brought this TV viewer to tears. The episode also introduced the new 11th Doctor played by Matt Smith, the youngest actor to take on the role, and left audiences wondering what the new Doctor would be like.

Well that wait is finally nearing an end. Matt Smith's Doctor will debut on the BBC in Britain on Easter Weekend, but us Americans will have to wait a couple of weeks until it airs on BBC America on April 17th. The new series is being run by Steven Moffat, a brilliant writer who just happens to have written several of my favorite episodes, including the two mentioned above. Needless to say I'm very excited to see where the series goes, and from the previews one place it goes is back to some of the classic characters Moffat created in the episodes he previously wrote.

If you can't wait until April 17th, you can check out the Brand New Preview below, read BBC America's description of the new series, and keep checking back here for more videos, and info on the New Who.



On April 17, 2010, a new era of the BAFTA-winning series, Doctor Who, premieres on BBC AMERICA. From new lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, the series follows the adventures of The Doctor, the mysterious traveler who, with his human companions, journeys throughout all of time and space, facing a variety of foes and righting wrongs. This latest series sees Matt Smith’s debut as the Doctor alongside a new travelling companion, the enigmatic Amy Pond (Karen Gillan). Together they explore sixteenth century Venice, France during the 1890s and the United Kingdom in the far future, now an entire nation floating in space.

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Wow! That thought crossed my mind repeatedly over the course of tonight’s Season Finale of Psych. While the episode still served up some great laughs, it was a much more tense, scary, and dramatic episode than what Psych fans are used to.

Personally I loved it, I thought Roday’s direction was great, and I loved the shots he cribbed from Hitchcock, especially Lassie getting chased by the remote control airplane a la North by Northwest. I loved the Mary and McNab red herrings, and of course Gus' "What about my face" line. And I absolutely loved the song that played over the final scenes. ("I Go To The Barn Because I Like The" by Band of Horses) There was so much to love in this episode, and I didn't want it to end.

And, I don’t know about you, but I was honestly worried someone was going to die. First I thought McNab was dead, then when he wasn't I was worried again. I never really feared for Juliet’s life as I think she and Shawn will get together before anything happens to either of them, but I was genuinely worried that Shawn was going to have to watch Abigail die. I also feared for Henry’s life for a few seconds when Shawn chose to save Abigail over catching Mr. Yin, as I was worried Henry would be ambushed by our secret killer.

But lets discuss the thing I’m sure you’re all wondering about: That last moment where we see a picture of Mr. Yang (Ally Sheedy) and young Shawn. What does this mean? Does Shawn know that he knows Yang from when he was a kid? Is he hiding this fact from everyone else? What was their relationship like? And more importantly how long will we have to wait to see Yang again?

Personally I think Yang was someone who worked at his school, or someone he met on a field trip. Someone Shawn has no memory of having met as a kid, but who clearly had an impact on a very crazy woman. (I'll admit for a second I thought it was Yang and her son, Mr. Yin, and thought his resemblance to young Shawn was indicating that Yang and Shawn had a kid together. But I mostly attribute that to having originally watch the episode on a tiny square on my computer monitor)

During my interview with Ally Sheedy and James Roday on Monday several questions were asked about Mr. Yin and Mr. Yang. I didn’t want to spoil any of last night’s episode so I held those questions and answers for today. So keep reading to find out a little bit more about the serial killers that haunt Shawn and Gus at night. (This part of the interview is pretty Roday heavy as most of the questions center on last night's episode and the future of Psych)

I asked Roday and Sheedy when and if we’d be seeing her character again. Sheedy said that “there is a strange secretive sort of story going on here,” and deferred to Roday who said that “it’s fair to say we have not seen the last of her and we’ll leave it at that.”

Of course the questions that everyone wants to know is what is up with that picture that appears to be of young Shawn and Mr. Yang? Of course neither stars wanted to comment to much on that questions. “James can answer it.” Sheedy said, while Roday replied “I don’t even want to talk about that last moment.” So it seems like we’ll have to wait a few months to find the answer to that question.
"You're just amazing...My most admiral foe...That's why I chose you...We're going to be working together again...Shawn I knew you'd come."

Another question we’ll have to wait for a definitive answer to, just who is Mr. Yin. When asked if there had been any clues to that mystery Roday said there was nothing overt. “We’re still sort of working that out ourselves, but we’ll make sure that when we do finally sort of come clean we’ll do our best not to make it one of those things where retrospectively it’s like, well, that couldn’t have been possible. We’ll do our best not to cheat. I don’t think we’ve backed ourselves into any corners so far. We’ve kept it pretty ambiguous. We’ll just come up with something really cool and then lay it out there.”

Roday also said that the idea to make a trilogy out of the Yin/Yang killers came from Andy Berman and himself. “[We thought] that it would be fun to do a trilogy within the landscape of Psych. For a while it was just me and Andy that thought that was cool and then we did the first one and it kind of went over like gangbusters. And Ally was a huge part of our campaign to keep going because I think she did such a marvelous job with that character that it’s like how can you not want more of that?”

Roday also said that credit had to be given to Jimmi Simpson (Mary) who came in and “created this unbelievable sort of character that we didn’t want to see the end of yet either.” Roday said a lot of different things just came together and it was a no-brainer to do another one. “We started thinking about the second Yang, I think a day after the first one aired and everybody was so pumped about it. We have not stopped thinking about it since because we still have more work to do.”

Asked whether or not he thought the dramatic tone of this episode would change the series tone Roday said a hearty no. “I don’t think it’s going to change the tone. I think it’s another sort of feather in the cap of Shawn’s growth. Obviously I’m not getting younger; the character is not getting younger. None of us are getting younger so we have to start addressing that. This is a pretty good jumping off point, I think going into season five of just like wow, everybody sort of needs to check in with themselves and recognize that you can’t be a kid forever and maybe that should start informing our behavior a little bit.”

Roday also said that there while there would still be plenty of laughs in the next season, this episode would serve as a way to push the growth of Shawn’s character. “We’re still going to be plenty silly. This is just a character beat for him more than anything. He’s mortal even though he likes to think sometimes that he isn’t. This is sort of just a wake-up call. It’s good. You’ve got to do that kind of stuff once you get this deep into the series so that you feel like you’re going somewhere.”

Roday was then asked how he thought fans would react to the finale and the choices made by the characters. “I hope they dig it. There is not a lot of build up to it and I think our publicity guys have done a really good job of sort of getting everybody’s anticipation up and like I said I think we’ll get away with it partially because it’s a finale and everybody gets a few months off to sort of process and water cooler talk and you don’t have to sort of adjust yourself to come right back next week and watch us save a sea mammal of some sort.”

Roday continued saying that it’s easier to do these heavy episodes at the end of the season. “[It] buys us a little bit of latitude and the fact that it’s a little darker and a little scarier and the stakes are pretty high is fun I hope for fans. It’s a nice sort of curve ball that we don’t throw very often. Also, I think it’s a treat to watch good actors doing good work on a show that you’re a fan of. I think that’s what Ally and Jimmi and the rest of the cast sort of delivered in spades in this episode. They certainly all made me look good.”

Finally Roday was asked about the cameo he and girlfriend and Psych co-star Maggie Lawson had in the movie Gamer, and whether or not the mustache he had was his idea. “We’re buddies with the filmmakers. I’ve known [writer/directors] Mark [Neveldine] and Brian [Taylor] for a while and they just called and said, “Hey do you guys want to come to New Mexico for a day and do some silly stuff?” We were on our way across country to visit Maggie’s family anyway so we just made a quick pit stop and did that silly stuff. The mustache is always my idea, man. Any time I can exploit that thing I do because it’s serious and it’s real.”

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Tonight brings us the 4th Season Finale of Psych and it's a doozy of an episode, easily one of my favorite of the series. The episode brings back Ally Sheedy's Mr. Yang, the serial killer that wrought much turmoil in Shawn's life in last season's finale. This is part two of what James Roday calls a "trilogy" so expect to see more of Mr. Yang after tonight.

The episode involves a serial killer with a Hitchcock motif, using scenarios from several Hitchcock films to try and divide and conquer our fearless group of police and fake psychics. The episode was co-written and directed by series star James Roday and features many homages to Hitchcock including at least 4 shots taken directly from famous scenes in the auteur's catalogue. Monday I was lucky enough to take part in an interview with Roday and guest star Sheedy. Keep on reading to find out what Sheedy thinks happened to her Breakfast Club character, Allison, the odds of seeing David Bowie on the show, and much, much more. But first a clip from tonight's episode:

Since Roday had both written and directed tonight’s episode, the conversation quickly lead to him discussing those aspects of the show. I asked James if he drew inspiration from any other directors or if he stuck to Hitchcock when directing tonight’s episode. Roday said “You know, I really do try to stay as faithful to Hitchcock as I could both aesthetically and in pacing and I just shamelessly tipped off four or five shots straight out of his films, quite frankly. It was an homage episode and I’m a Hitchcock fan, and Andy Berman who wrote the episode with me is a Hitchcock fan. As much as we could get away with doing Hitchcock in a Psych episode that’s definitely what we set out to do.”

Roday went on saying “I have always been a Psycho fan. I’m a horror buff. I just think Hitchcock sort of revolutionized the idea of the chiller twist that horror films kind of attempted to be predicated on since Psycho came out. That is the original jaw dropping twist that sort of set everything else in motion. I love that movie, and Anthony Perkins is fantastic in it and it’s shot amazingly and yes, that would be my number one.”

Roday continued to reflect on directing the episode when asked, if like Hitchcock, he did most of his directing in preproduction. “No. Hitchcock, God love him, he’s one of the great masters of all time, but he did used to stick to that whole idea that the entire movie was in his head before he stepped on set for the first day and that never once in his entire career did anything ever change. That’s like the most impossible thing in the world for me to believe if for no other reason than something must have fallen over at some point or exploded or something.”

“We’re a TV show on a seven day schedule so it’s like you want to make people laugh, come in with a plan. Ha, ha that’s very funny. You learn very quickly that if you can get two or three or maybe four of the things right or at least close to what you had in your head over the course of a seven day shoot then you’ve succeeded. That’s a lot to be happy about. The same goes for this episode. I sort of chose my battles and I picked the things that I really, really, really wanted to look like the way that they were storyboarded or the way that they were conceived and everything else you’re just rolling with the punches and collaborating like crazy and hoping that other people will step up and make you look good because you simply haven’t had time to think about some stuff as much as others.”

“For this episode the Hitchcock stuff was obviously very important. We wanted to service that as best as we could and it was a lot. It was a very ambitious episode. Andy and I had sort of looked at each other several times and we were like, gosh, why did we think we could do this? It’s a game and you’ve kind of got to be ready for anything at any time and that’s the fun of it also.”

Roday said that there’s a challenge to acting and directing and surprisingly he finds the acting harder when doing both. “The acting part is more challenging because I just don’t want to think about it. This time I think I was a little more aware of it, but truthfully there are so many things that you’re sort of in charge of and there are so many questions that you have to answer after any given take from the director’s perspective that that’s kind of all you’re thinking about, at least me anyway. I’m just lucky that on the acting side I’m playing a character that I’ve played for many, many years, that certainly helps. Staying in the moment as an actor is definitely the biggest challenge while you’re directing.”

Asked whether he gets his inspiration for his character from the script of someone he knows in real life Roday said that Shawn’s “Peter Pan” and that he doesn’t know “real people like him.” Roday said that if you go back to season one and watch through to the present episodes there is an evolution to the character and “you can see a lot of differences.”

When asked about the feel of tonight’s episode, which is more serious and intense, that most episodes Roday said that although he doesn’t “want to pull the rug out from under the fans every week and slap them in the face...this was a season finale and it was the long awaited return of Mr. Yang...we wanted to load our canon with as much stuff as we could. That’s a fun way to end a season.”
The conversation turned to Sheedy and her character Mr. Yang, Sheedy spoke about getting the call to play Mr. Yang, saying that she heard there was a show called Psych and that “they want you to do a character called Mr. Yang, and could you take a look at the script? I read it. I didn’t know how on earth anybody had me in mind for that part either, not a clue. But as soon as I read it, I thought, okay. This is going to be really, really, really fun so absolutely and jump in. That’s how it went.”

Sheedy then talked about playing such a menacing character on such a funny show saying “it’s not hard at all,” everybody is so “whacked out and so extreme” that she doesn’t have to imagine how a serial killer would really behave and she can “sort of swing out there and wing it.” Sheedy said that working with Roday as a director was fun because she “had the feeling like anything [she] could come up with goes. Everything about Mr. Yang is fun for me, everything.”

I asked Sheedy about her character from The Breakfast Club, Allison Reynolds. I conjectured that had she not made friends with the other kids in detention that day, she might have gone crazy, her wheels might have come off, and eventually she might have become Mr. Yang. Sheedy said “Well, I think she has that day with them but I don’t think it means that her wheels don’t come off. I think things sort of go back to the way they were after that. That’s what I think at the end of the Breakfast Club day it’s the way it was before. I have my own ideas in my head about what happens with Allison but I do think the wheels definitely come off at a certain point, yes.”

On working with an 80s icon like Sheedy, Roday said “I’ve been a huge Ally Sheedy fan for a long time and she’s been on our board of people that absolutely must come on the show since the very beginning. It’s surreal. It really is. You grow up and you have dreams of doing this for a living and you have people that inspired you and then you get lucky enough to do it and one day you’re sitting across from them and it’s crazy, but it’s also – it’s unbelievable. All you can do is – you just kind of want to capture these moments in little time capsules. I haven’t been nervous many times on our show, I have to be honest, but I had the butterflies going with Ally.”

James went on to say that while he’d love to have the entire Breakfast Club appear on the show, he feels he’s “got the top two on the list,” saying “Ally was always sort of...number one and then Judd was number two and then there was like a three-way tie with lots of love for the other ones.” Sheedy said she thought Anthony Michael Hall would do the show, but that Molly currently has a show (ABC Family’s Secret Life of an American Teenager), and Emilio is out of the acting game, and currently directs.

Sheedy was asked which Breakfast Club actor she would like to “take down” as Mr. Yang, to which she replied “Oh, I don’t know that I should be answering this question. I don’t want to get – let’s just say I have an idea but I’m going to be in big trouble if I say it.” The questions was changed to which Breakfast Club actor she’d most like to work with on Psych. “One of my favorite people in the world is Judd, but he already did an episode of Psych. I guess my personal soft spot love is for Judd, so there you go.” Roday chimed in saying “So we can bring Judd back and then she can take him down and there you go.”

Some other quick takes:

- Asked about his quest to get David Bowie on the show, Roday said “There is a less than 30% chance it’s going to happen, but we’re going to keep trying.” And said that the closest they got was when they did “American Duos” because John Landis, who’s friends with Bowie reached out and almost made it happen.

- Asked about preparing for the role of Mr. Yang Sheedy said “I just told myself not to get – just to not plan anything ahead of time. It was so funny and wacky so I decided to completely dispense with the creepy dark, very serious and brooding serial killer thing and just like I thought the whole thing was hysterically funny.”

- On the episode being so dramatic versus the usual comedy “We as the cast dig those. We don’t get to do them very often. As much as we love our show and as lucky as we are to do it and still be doing it, any time we can mix things up it’s fun for us because we get to work different muscles and even if it’s just for a week it’s fun to mix things up. Once or twice a year we know that we’ll have these episodes coming up and everybody gets pumped and everybody gets a little extra sleep. We don’t go out as much and we recognize it as an opportunity to do something that we don’t always get to do. “

- Sheedy on Sunday night’s John Hughed Tribute “Really I haven’t seen most of those people for quite a while. It’s bizarre because every time we see each other it’s sort of like not a lot of time has passed. I share this crazy experience with those four people and nobody else in the world. It’s weird. We just share a lot so there is a lot of unspoken stuff that goes on.”

- On their favorite episodes of Psych Sheedy joked that she “love[s] the episodes that have Yang in them.” While Roday said that he’s “always been really fond of the tele-novella episode where we spoofed a Spanish soap opera...called “Lights, Camera, Homicidio,” and that he likes the first half of season once because they “were sort of flying by the seat of our pants and every week was truly a new adventure.”

That’s all for now, but head back here tomorrow to see Part 2 of my interview in which we get into a little more detail about tonight’s episode. Also don’t forget to check out my Psych Grab Bag Giveaway, which you can enter until midnight tonight.

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Word is tonight's all new Chuck, Chuck versus The Beard is going to be a game changer. Maybe not quite in the way that last season's finale was, but apparently it will still have a massive impact on the world of Chuck. What that secret is I haven't a clue.

The episode, which airs tonight at 8/7c on NBC, was directed by Chuck himself, Zachary Levi. And from the interview I did with Levi and Joshua Gomez (Morgan) last week I got the feeling that not only is it a big episode development wise, it's a big episode cast wise as well, as this is the first episode of the season to feature each and every one of the main cast. That's right, Elle, Awesome, Morgan, the Buy More Crew, and of course, Sarah, Casey, and Chuck are all in the episode tonight.

Levi and Gomez also said that this was probably their favorite episode to date, although the may be a slight bit biased. I can't wait to see what happens, and I'm sure you can't either. So to tide you over I've included a promo for tonight's episode and an interview with Levi about it.

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This Wednesday Psych has it's 4th Season finale, and from what I hear you don't want to miss it, especially they last 2 minutes! And based on the picture above, it looks like some serious stuff goes down! (I'm sitting down to watch it as soon as I finish this post.) And once again the people at USA Network have given me a sweet Prize pack for one lucky winner. This contest is open to anyone, anywhere! You can enter once, and the total value is $135! The contest will end at Midnight on March 10th.

To win I want to know how you think the Series will end. Will everyone survive the series? Will Shawn and Gus' friendship survive? Will Shawn be found out? You tell me how you think the series will end however many years from now. (E-mail me your answer at thecinemaniac.com@gmail.com or use the link at the top of the page.) Leaving a comment is not an entry and will not be counted as such. Details on the contest are below. And be sure to come back here Wednesday morning to read my interview with James Roday and guest star Ally Sheedy!

Don’t miss the most shocking PSYCH finale ever as a killer targets Shawn using scenarios from classic Hitchcock films. Ally Sheedy guest-stars in Psych's season finale, directed by James Roday — "Mr. Yin Presents" — premiering Wednesday at 10/9C!

Enter to win a Psych Prize Bag filled with:

– Psych Season 3 DVD Set

– Psych Talking Bobbleheads

– Psych Book: Call of the Mild

– Psych Pineapple T-Shirt

– Psych Pineapple Stress Toy

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The always great Chuck returns tonight after a 3 week hiatus and lots of screaming from fans. The last episode presented viewers with two new romantic relationships between Zachary Levi' Chuck and Kristen Kreuk's Hannah and Yvonne Strahovski's Sarah and Brandon Routh's Daniel. Personally I saw the relationships coming several episodes back and welcomed them with open arms, but some fans hated seeing Sarah and Chuck with other people, and the morning after the last episode saw a fan-splosion of angry comments and idiotic threats to boycott the show. Of course the last episode was never meant to be a 3 week cliffhanger and so tonight's episode should clear up some of those fears. So check out the promo below and keep scrolling for more Chuck Awesomeness!



This past Friday I had the opportunity to take part in an interview with Chuck himself, Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez who plays Chuck's best friend Morgan. The call itself was a blast, and after having my call dropped twice, just as it was my turn to ask a question, I finally got to talk to the guys on the third try. Although I will say it was worth having my call dropped to hear Zachary Levi singing my name. So keep reading to see how they feel about working with Doctor Emmett Brown, filming on Hoth, and a myriad of other fun, and slightly strange topics.

The interview began with a discussion of getting the show back for a third season and the role Twitter and the internet in that. Levi mentioned that he wasn't on Twitter at that point because he thought it was just facebook updates all the time and didn't really get it, but says he knows it played a big part in getting it back. "The interweb at large is just a huge and great way to viral get information around and keep fans informed." (Zach has since found twitter and you can follow him here.)

Levi and Gomez both talked quite a bit about Levi's directorate debut, Chuck versus the Beard, the second episode back. "I was really blessed...I got a really great episode. And one of the perks of it was I got all of our regulars, I got everyone in the cast in my episode. I got Casey and Sarah, good ole' Morgan Grimes, Big Mike, Jeff and Lester and Elle and Awesome. (It was great) to be able to work with everyone and feel supported by everyone. Not once did I feel like that is was a strange or uncomfortable situation...I get to work with these guys all the time and I know them and their characters inside and out better than anyone else does, so you don't really have to say much, you just kind of let them do what they do."

They both felt like this episode was their favorite so far, although both admitted to being a little bias, and that they also really loved episode 5, the one on the plane. Gomez said the episode was "a special episode to have (Levi) directing." He also said that some of the upcoming episodes, which haven't been finished yet are "really cool," and that he hopes the turn out as good as they did when filming. Levi agreed saying "we've got some other episodes coming up, but I don't really know how much I can talk about them. I think this season has really allowed us to create some of the best episodes, because of the way the rules have changed."

Another topic which the guys talked about at length was how being geeks affected how they played geeks. "When I first read the script, these two guys, I felt like I knew and grew up with, they were exactly the sort of guy that I was growing up. Video Games, SciFi and Fantasy movies, comic books, you name it, were a huge part of shaping who I was and am, especially as a younger man. I think it started when my dad brought home an Atari 2600 and took me to see Empire Strikes Back in the theater. From there on it was a life of a geek for me, Yo Ho, Yo Ho. There is obviously huge differences between myself and the character of Morgan, but there are a lot of similarities and it's probably a love and appreciation of all things geekdom." gushed Gomez.

Levi echoed Gomez saying it was "literally the same thing (for me). It's a little ridiculous, Josh and I just sit back and laugh at how lucky we are that we just get to be us. As Josh said their are certainly big differences between our characters on the show and our personalities in real life, but they are very small and very few. When I read the pilot I was like "Holy Crap! I know this guy, I know him because I see him in the mirror every morning."

One subject which was inevitably going to come up was the subject of Chuck's relationship with Hannah. But most of that discussion was from Morgan's point of view and how he feels about it. Gomez said that Chuck and Morgan never really spoke about Hannah, and while Morgan was pining over her, Chuck didn't know it. "It was heartbreak and disappointment that I couldn't have her, not that he got her. But maybe I secretly Hate Him. It's a bummer you know, new hot girl at the store and I thought I impressed her with my talk of french cinema and I wore an ascot and nothing."

The guys went on to discuss how Morgan might react, since he's now Chuck's boss, and whether he'd punish Chuck. Gomez thinks that Morgan might start to catch on to Chuck always being gone a bit more saying "it's put [Morgan}] on that road of going 'Wait a minute now' and the kid had an eye for Hannah so that doesn't help. It's hard to comment on it now, but there is some cool stuff that plays out and how it goes down. I don't think Morgan would be capable of "making Chuck's life harder" It's a true friendship, and I think it's always been a thing of "Just talk to me, Dude" and Chuck would like nothing more than to talk to Morgan. If there is someone who would understand, Chuck knows it would be Morgan. I don't think it's in Morgan's nature to cause any harm to his friend."

Levi added that from Chuck's point of view "It does change his work, but I'm also unaware of his cluing into my life a little bit more, I'm unaware of his suspicions, so it doesn't really effect me all that much, but you'll see how it progresses and affects both Morgan's character and my character and my ability to sneak out how I always do. I'm surprised it's taken this long to be honest, how does I keep leaving the Buy More and never come back with really any results, except maybe a black eye." "At least Casey is moving a Beastmaster or two every now and then." added Gomez. Levi agreed saying "I don't think I've sold of fixed anything in three years."

A question I think everyone was hoping would be asked, was how it is working with the great Adam Baldwin. Levi and Gomez agreed that Baldwin is a "big sweetheart" and "a Giant Teddy bear." Levi went on to say that "the man is a rock, of everyone on the show, he's the rock, he's been around the block...and seen a lot and worked with a lot of talented people, and he's such a trooper and finds every little moment to make Casey great and he's a pleasure to work with. I think part of the reason why we've found the audience we have and the success to the extent that we have right now, a large part of that is due to him. Being a part of Firefly and everything else he's done, having really dedicated fans that he's also really dedicated to."

Gomez said one of his favorite things was trying to get Baldwin to crack during a scene, "me and Zach will laugh at each other without saying anything, we're a couple of girls at a sleepover, but Adam is knocking down walls, and knocking people out, so making him laugh in a scene gives me a satisfaction."

My original question, which was asked after my call was dropped the first time was about working upcoming guest star Christopher Lloyd AKA Back to the Future's Doctor Emmett Brown. Levi commented that the show has "been very blessed, every guest star on the show has been a pleasure to work with. I think that's because of the type of person the show attracts. When I found out he was doing our show, I think I had an accident in my pants. I just need a hoverboard and my life will be complete." Gomez agrees saying working with Lloyd was "So insane" and "personally thats going into some serious geek fanboy zone. We don't always get like that, but to have Doc Brown on the show was like "are you kidding me"

The interview went on for over an hour and was a blast to be apart of, even with technical difficulties. Below are a few more quick bits of information. (I have audio from my calls being dropped which are pretty funny, which I'll try to upload at a later date.)

Short Bits:

Levi feels very good about the chances of the show coming back for another season based on the where they are as a show and where NBC is as a network, with 5 new hours of programming.

Scott Bakula will be in three episodes at the end of the season.

When asked about Chuck going "darker" after burning an asset on Chuck versus the Nacho Sampler Levi said "we're not going to see, you know, bizarro Chuck, I mean, he's not going to become this like, you know, unshorn fighting himself in a scrap yard although that would make a great episode. It's the same Chuck just a Chuck that's going through some different circumstances.

When asked what they'd do if they could basically do anything for one episode the guys said they'd be running around with guns all days, Yvonne and Sarah would be scantally clad, and Baldwin would be in the "freaking elf costume" that Morgan had to wear, and they'd over dress Jeff and Lester and the entire episode would take place in Hawaii or on Hoth. "Echo base this is Rouge 2, I've found them"

Finally Levi said "We've got a lot of really great stuff to share with everyone for the rest of the season."