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Posted: 11 years ago

#11

The CW to Finish November Sweep
with Year to Year Gains in Key
Demos
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2013/11/26/the-cw-to-finish-november-sweep-with-year-to-year-gains-in-key-demos-713412/20131126cw01/
THE CW TO FINISH NOVEMBER
SWEEP WITH YEAR TO YEAR GAINS
IN KEY DEMOS
The CW On Track to End November
Sweep Up Versus 2012 in A18-49,
W18-49, M18-34, M18-49 Demos
November 26, 2013 (Burbank, CA) -
As the November sweep draws to a
close, The CW is on track to finish
with year-to-year gains in adults
18-49, women 18-49, men 18-49,
and men 18-34, in most current
Nielsen data through Friday,
November 22.
November sweep highlights for The
CW:
The CW is up 6% year to year in
adults 18-49 (0.78 vs. 0.83), up 5%
in women 18-49 (0.99 vs. 1.04), up
7% in men 18-49 (0.57 vs. 0.61), up
6% in men 18-34 (.051 vs. 0.54),
and flat in total viewers (1.94 million
vs. 1.95M) for the November sweep
through Friday, November 22 in most
current Nielsen data.
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, n the heels of
its full season pickup, THE
ORIGINALS, paired with
SUPERNATURAL, gave The CW its
most-watched Tuesday night in more
than four years (2.38M, since
9/8/09), in Live + Same Day ratings.
Also on Tuesday Nov. 12, THE
ORIGINALS had its most-watched
episode (2.4 million) and matched
series highs in adults 18-49 (1.1/3),
and women 18-34 (1.5/4), hit a new
series high in women 18-49 (1.6/4),
and had its second best series
number in adults 18-34 (1.0/3).
Wednesday, Nov. 13, ARROW struck
a bull's-eye, hitting series highs in
adults 18-34 (1.1/4 - tie), and men
18-34 (1.4/5), and reaching season
highs in total viewers (3.1 million,
best since 4/24/13) and in adults
18-49 (1.2/3, best since 11/28/12).
Thursday, Nov. 21, The CW outrated
NBC head to head in adults 18-49
(1.0/3), adults 18-34 (1.0/3), and
women 18-34 (1.3/4) for the night
(8-10 p.m.). It's the first time ever
that The CW has outrated NBC's
regular Thursday night lineup in
adults 18-49 in head to head
competition.
For the sweep, THE VAMPIRE
DIARIES beat ABC and FOX in the
Thursday 8-9PM time period among
A18-34 (1.2) and beat ABC, NBC,
and FOX in W18-34 (1.7).

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Ekta

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Posted: 11 years ago

#12

CW to re-air Supernatural's 'Dog
Dean Afternoon' on December 17
CW will re-air Supernatural's 'Dog
Dean Afternoon' on Tuesday,
December 17.

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Posted: 11 years ago

#13

Originally posted by: devilish-grin
CW to re-air Supernatural's 'Dog
Dean Afternoon' on December 17
CW will re-air Supernatural's 'Dog
Dean Afternoon' on Tuesday,
December 17.

tfs all d news😊

but WTH, I want new epi on DEC 17 grrr 😡😡

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Ekta

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Posted: 11 years ago

#14

Originally posted by: Maano_billi

tfs all d news😊
but WTH, I want new epi on DEC 17 grrr😡😡

hmmm maybe they repeat it in day n new episode at night...I dont have the full info about it...it was just I found it on an spn related site😳

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Ekta

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Posted: 11 years ago

#15

Inspirational Women in the
Entertainment Industry: Felicia Day..
Fans of genre shows can be so
protective of their beloved characters
that they have their guards up when
anyone new comes in, but when
Felicia Day entered the Supernatural
universe her warm personality and
quick wit had her embraced
immediately. It certainly helped that
she was already known for being the
Ultimate Geek Girl after creating a
web series for herself to tear down
gender stereotypes and the all-too-
often-in-fighting of fandom and
gamer culture. On The Guild , Day
portrayed a quieter character, while
on Supernatural she embodies a
quirky go-getter young woman. But
whether it's tapping into one
character written by someone else or
writing one for herself, Day breathes
a kick-ass creative and confident
spirit into them all that gives anyone
who watches her a positive image to
which to aspire.

Day is in a rare position for many
actors in that she hasn't just sat
around and waited for the phone to
ring with her agent telling her she
booked a job. A few years ago she
went out and created a job for herself
in the role of Codex on The Guild .
She did it to work, but more
importantly, she did it to work on a
very specific kind of material-- one
in which she could see herself
reflected and one that she felt was
lacking in more mainstream media.
"When I wrote Codex, that was really
a reflection of who I was at the time.
I wrote that part for me because I
thought 'I want to see a girl who is
like me!" Day said.
"It was not easy. I didn't just wake
up one day and was like 'Hey I'm
going to take over the web series
world!' It was not like that; it was
months of self-hatred, crying,
depression, and then I was like 'Oh
just write [but] every word is pain. Oh
it's pain, uh I want to play video
games.' It was terrible, and it was
not easy, and a lot of people from
the outside, they always think about
goals, and they don't appreciate
processes. And I think that some of
the best advice that anyone has ever
given me is to make sure that
whatever you want to do, it's not just
for the goal. You take into
consideration how you have to get
there from A to B. So love the fact
that you're going to be in pain, and
you're going to make mistakes, and
you going to feel low some days.
Know that's part of filling in the dots
between where you start and where
you want to end up."
Since Day's focus with The Guild was
to give herself and others like her an
outlet and a place to connect, she
was able to truly embody her own
philosophy of finding "joy in every
step" of the process, rather than
worrying about running toward some
sort of end goal. This allowed her to
connect with those around her--
from collaborators to the fans
watching and interacting with her
through social media. And it was in
those connections that Day saw
success in her project.
"I just do what I do, and you know
what's very powerful? Just being
yourself and saying 'I'm going to
make a decision, and this is the right
decision for me whatever the
consequence is.' That's a very
powerful thing that I think a lot of
people don't take hold of. We do a
lot of things for other people and for
external reasons that might not be
what you really want, and that's what
I meant by in finding meaning and
joy in the things I do, I am not afraid
of what other people think of me,"
Day said.
"There's something in the joy of
creating something from nothing and
allowing yourself to be as weird as
possible that you can't really do
when you're doing math or
something. You have to be doing
something creative, so that's what
really drives me. One of the things is
that you really surprise yourself when
you're performing-- even when you
get a script and you're just reading
the words, everybody is going to
interpret them differently, and I just
think that's really beautiful."
While Day has noted her interest in
perhaps tackling another project for
herself sometime soon, she has
most recently been seen as a
recurring guest star on Supernatural,
a role that was created in large part
in Day's own personal image thanks
to the success of her web series to
begin with. And it is a role to which
she has also certainly lent her geek
girl cred to become a fan favorite
(something that is unfortunately rarer
than it should be for female guest
stars of this series). Self-proclaimed
"fan girl" Charlie was introduced in
season seven of the long-running
CW series with a gaggle of sci-fi
figurines on her IT desk. Over the
seasons, she has come into her own
was a warrior by shining in her own
element (LARPing and hacking
computers, for example), as well as
by stretching and challenging herself
(facing her past, as well as
Leviathans and the magical land of
Oz). She is also a rare representative
of an LGBT character on network
television who isn't defined by her
sexuality. In fact, Day was really
proud that a recent episode saw
Charlie striking up a friendship
(rather than a hook up) with another
bad-ass woman simply because
human relationships are more
complicated than attraction and she
"didn't want to see her just jumping
into bed with the first woman who
could be a real friend"-- a lesson
that more shows could use across
the board with characters, gay or
straight.
"The fun part of playing Charlie is
that I take those qualities of Charlie
[that] I have-- that everybody has.
That's the cool thing about being an
actor: you just have to find the truth
in yourself and pump up certain parts
of it. And of course the root of
Charlie is really personal to me but
the parts of Charlie that are most
define are parts that I definitely, at
least five years ago, didn't tap into--
that sort of boldness in a sense, and
I really love that about Charlie .She's
had to make her way in the world in a
way that Codex never had to. That's
sort of Codex' problem in life in that
she's a fish out of water all of the
time. So it's super fun to be able to
play both sides of those coins and
have people see that yeah they're the
"girl" part but not all geeky girls are
the same, you know? They have
some similarities, but there are
similarities in any two characters that
you can point out. And I love the
subtlety with which you can paint the
brush of somebody-- because we're
not all the same. Geek girls are not
all the same. Some people are geeks
about paper crafting, and that's just
as legitimate as people who love
Star Trek , and those are the
subtleties we lose when we...use the
word [as a] label to define," Day said.
The label of "geek" may no longer be
one that comes with negative
connotations, thanks to the kick-
assery of people like Day (who
proudly proclaimed that she "likes to
be in bed by 10 to read"), but that
doesn't mean that it is universally
celebrated yet, either. In fact, some of
the toughest critics can be found
within the culture itself-- female
gamers are often still looked down
upon, often by other female gamers
who may feel threatened rather than
supported by seeing someone who
looks like them representing them
but perhaps not playing exactly like
them. Things that are typical in such
a culture are generally used as
escapes, but it can also be easy to
lose one's self a bit in the vastness
that is the well of information and
now commentary surround it. Day
sees this as a double-edged sword
and believes it's immensely important
to make that space as positive as
possible to preserve it as a
sanctuary.
"What really matters in life is the
people who will be there in years and
the people who really know you. If
something really affect you, just
reach out to the support around you
and know that that's way more
important than trying to please
everybody. Because that's the good
thing and the bad thing that the
internet gives us is access. I think I
wrote in The Guild that the worst
thing in the entire world is to know
what everybody thinks about
you...and that's the internet. It's a
blessing because you'll meet some
people that you otherwise would
never have met or had in your life,
and that's fantastic, but then at the
same time, you're exposed to all of
these people who you really wouldn't
have cared what they thought
anyway, but their opinion seems as
valid as any other because they're
put on the same stage," Day said.
There is a lot of noise surrounding
this culture and Day's day job, but
she distracts from it by filling her
spare time with "silly dance classes"
and photography and other creative
things that she knows will bleed over
into her writing and her acting. One
creative endeavor may enrich
another, but they also all work to
make her a unique and well-rounded
woman in general. And that is
something she wants us all to
celebrate.
"We are defined by our individuality,
and unless we're allowed to express
that, I don't know what we're doing
here," Day said.

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Ekta

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Posted: 11 years ago

#16

MSR Online's Interview with actor
Sterling K. Brown(Gordon walker)
"Sterling K. Brown became a
thespian back in high school in St.
Louis, Missouri. After graduation, he
went on to Stanford, where he earned
a drama degree and later a masters
in fine arts from New York
University."
MSR Online recently interviewed
Sterling K. Brown (Supernatural's
Gordon Walker). He didn't mention
Supernatural but it is still a very
good interview.

Brown has nearly 30 acting credits,
mostly small roles in television to his
credit. His breakthrough role may
have been in Lifetime's Army Wives
(2007-13), where his Dr. Roland
Burton character was the only male
among the featured group of military spouses the show revolved
around.
During an appearance at this year's
Twin Cities Black Film Festival in
September, Brown talked with the
MSR about his seven seasons on the
cable drama.
"Army Wives was a gift from God,"
says Brown on the recently cancelled
series. "On a purely professional
level, I got a chance to work a lot in
front of the camera. It was seven
wonderful years and over 100
episodes. So many people are
looking for these opportunities " I
was one of the fortunate few to be
able to make a living from it."
Looking back, Brown says his role
"was too good to be true. There were
certain things that didn't jibe with me
character-wise. But then I realized
how many images of Black maleness
we have out there that is too good to
be true.
"To play a character who is the
primary caretaker of his children, who
was working from his home and is
supportive of his wife's career in the
military," Brown points out. "That
was a joy because I see how
important it was resonating in my
community to see a positive male
role model." He also points out that
the Dr. Burton character "was a
better human being than [I am] in
real life. [I] learned a lot from playing
it."
The actor easily recalls reading many
scripts and playing not so positive
roles because taking them helped
"pay your bills."
"It didn't seem to be a lot of
characters written for African
Americans that weren't stereotypical
in some way," says Brown.
Understandably, when he was asked,
he accepted the role as "the other
suspect" alongside co-star Mekhi
Phifer in The Suspect (2013), a crime
thriller about two Black professors
who posed as bank robbers to
expose "the racial dynamics of small
town law enforcement." The feature
film was screened at this year's Twin
Cities Black Film Festival (TCBFF).
Writer-director Stuart Connelly told
the MSR after the screening that after
he saw Brown in a Boston Legal
episode, he quickly went after the
actor as soon as he could: "That's
my guy," admits Connelly. "As we
started [editing] the film together, we
started to see an aspect of Sterling's
character that certainly wasn't written
nor was it directed [by him]. It was
really remarkable what the camera
could capture [on film]."
"I read the script one night [in about
two hours]" after receiving it, claims
Brown, who added he enjoyed being
in The Suspect as well as working
with Connelly on the writer-director's
first feature film. "He [Connelly] has
vision and he has contagious
enthusiasm," says the actor.
After watching the film along with the
TCBFF audience, "I enjoyed watching
myself and seeing everybody else up
there [on the screen] as well," says
Brown. "People responded to the
humor in the film which I think is
very important because it deals with
race and society. Seeing people
being able to laugh at it as well is
just as important as being able to
take something from it, and think
about it and discuss it afterwards."
Finally, Brown now plays "a no-
nonsense narcotics detective" on
CBS-TV's Person of Interest. He adds
that Army Wives may return
sometime next year in a "wrap-up"
retrospective.

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sayantika

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Posted: 11 years ago

#17

thanx eku😃 brilliant effort 😊

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Ekta

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Posted: 11 years ago

#18

Originally posted by: sayanti_ashiuv
thanx eku😃 brilliant effort
😊

welcome sayu

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Ekta

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Posted: 11 years ago

#19

Catch up with Supernatural' guest
actress Jessica Harmon
http://www.examiner.com/article/catch-up-with-supernatural-guest-actress-jessica-harmon

Jessica Harmon already caught the
eye of Supernatural' fans with her
role as Lily from season two's All
Hell Breaks Loose.' Harmon returned
to the set with her role as Olivia
Camrose, the other half of the hippy
duo from the PETA-Like group from
the episode 'Dog Dean Afternoon'
opposite David Milchard . Known for
Black Christmas' and a long
filmography, this talented actress is
enjoying a successful career.
Growing up in a show biz family
(brother is Richard Harmon) ; she
knew she wanted to be an actress
from the young age of ten.
Q. You played the lovely and tortured
character of Lily back from season
two's Supernatural' episode All Hell
Breaks Loose. ' How did the cast and
crew welcome you back to the set
after all these years?
A. They played this crazy prank. They
threw all of my stuff in a trash and
burned it. They didn't do that. It's
been seven years so several
departments have changed to new
crew members; the welcoming feel
that they gave off in season two was
still present though. Nine seasons in
and they are still talked about as one
of the nicest and most well run
shows in town; which is something
to be proud of. A lot of laughs mixed
with some very hardworking
individuals, it is a lovely set to be a
part of.
Q. What was it like for you to grow
up in a showbiz family? Did you
always want to be an actress?
A. Growing up in a film family I'd say
I always knew I wanted to work in
film I just wasn't sure in which
capacity. When I was ten they turned
my request of being a genny op
down so acting it was!
Q. Tell your fans about the projects
that are you currently working on.
A. After this recent episode of
Supernatural,' I went onto a film
called XBUS .' It's a revenge thriller
based on the 'bang bus' idea. I play
Beth who holds captive/tortures
three men involved in the rape of
several women. It's certainly on the
darker side of some of my films, but I
had an amazing time on the show
which was full of a wonderful cast
and crew. Now I'm currently filming
an episode of the television series
Motive!'
Q. Do you have any hidden talents
such as singing, music, painting?
A. No hidden talents, I like to throw
mine directly in people's faces. Uh
nothing like painting or music (I
wish) but I am getting into directing
which has been something I've
aspired to do for a while now so I
have my fingers crossed there!
Q. I'm going to end with what's
become my signature question. If
you were a baseball player, what
would your walk up song be?
A. Usher's Yeah.'

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Ekta

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Posted: 11 years ago

#20

Supernatural Chat: Interview - Misha
Collins Talks About Directing and
Castiel's Heavy Question in Season 9
http://www.tvequals.com/2013/12/02/supernatural-chat-interview-misha-collins-talks-about-directing-and-castiels-heavy-question-in-season-9/

Hey there, Supernatural fans! I've got
a special treat for you in this week's
Supernatural Chat . Last weekend I
was lucky enough to attend Creation
Entertainment's Salute to
Supernatural event and got the
chance to chat with Misha Collins
behind the scenes, along with some
other members of the press. Collins
talked to us about his preparations
for his first directing job on the
show, as well as shared some of his
insights about Castiel's journey this
season.
Castiel's Heavy Question
Collins was asked how he compared
Castiel's trip to humanity this season
to the end of Season 5 when the
angel went through a similar journey.
Though Castiel's struggles may have
been show as somewhat comical this
season, Collins said there is
something much more serious
behind them.
"In Season 5, when Cas lost more of
his angel powers and started
grappling with a lot of human-ish
stuff, it was darker. He was dealing
with a darker side of things. Now it's
more mundane, but I wouldn't
actually say that it's light. I think that
the stuff that he has been dealing
with is how to brush your teeth and
how to feed yourself and how to
make sense of what your purpose on
the planet is. But that's kind of a
heavy question. Like is this
satisfying in and of itself?'"
Preparing for the Director's Chair
Later this season, Collins will be
directing his first episode of
Supernatural and is looking forward
to working with the crew in a new
capacity.
"I think that, for the most part, the
crew is going to be supportive and
helpful - at least for the first day or
so. Once they see how badly I'm
botching things they might throw
their hands up in disgust and stop
helping me. It's nice going into my
first big directing experience with a
crew that knows me [and] that I
know, [and] that I'm not going to feel
like a fish out of water," Collins
revealed.
As for his two costars, Collins had a
different idea of how they might treat
him as a director.
"Jared and Jensen, generally
speaking, are pretty respectful of
first-time directors on the show.
They kind of give them a wide berth
and certainly give them a fair shot.
I'm not going to have that experience
so that's too bad," Collins joked.
But one of the jokesters, one who
has directed a couple of episodes of
the show himself, has actually given
Collins some good advice.
"I've talked to Jensen about his
directing experiences," Collins said.
"He'll deny it, but he actually gave
me a bunch of advice that was
helpful. I've basically grilled every
director that has come along and
asked them for their input. [I have] a
cloud app that I've been storing all of
my director input on."
One big question about the
upcoming episode is whether or not
Castiel will appear in it and, if so,
what will it be like for Collins to
direct himself.
"If I am directing myself, I think for
the most part the direction I'm going
to be giving is That was awesome.
Great work. Way to bring it'," Collin
joked, adding, "In a perfect world, I
think I would be very light or not in it
at all because it's just more to think
about."
Luckily for Collins, the show
apparently doesn't put too tight of a
rein on new directors.
"I think Supernatural , probably more
than a lot of episodic television,
gives directors a fair amount of
leeway and allows them to do their
thing," Collins revealed. "We don't
have a director/producer up on the
site. A lot of shows that shoot out of
LA, where the writers and executive
producers aren't around watching
what's going on in production - will
have a point guy. [That is] a
producer/director who will direct
maybe five episodes in the season,
but will also keep an eye on the
production and make sure that the
guest directors that are coming in are
doing things the way that they are
supposed to be doing.
"We don't have that on Supernatural
so sometimes people come in and
totally f*** stuff up," Collins added
with a laugh.
On a more serious note, Collins
attributes the show's variation in
tone to the amount of freedom
directors are given on set.
"There's nobody there who's saying
No, no, no. We don't do that' and I
think it probably gives the tone of the
show a little bit more variation than a
lot of episode television has. It's not
all the same. But we also have the
same cinematographer and wardrobe
department and a lot of key
department heads who are giving a
consistent tone to it - that helps
even it out."

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