This year there will be a small team of us representing TVOvermind at Comic-Con in San Diego! As for my schedule, I will be attending primarily TV panels all day on Saturday and Sunday, and in press rooms to interview the following casts & creative teams from the shows below marked with an asterisk:
FRIDAY, JULY 23
* Hawaii Five-0 (Aloha, Earth!) - Sneak Peak and Q&A : Executive producers Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci (Star Trek) and Peter M. Lenkov (24), director Len Wiseman (Underworld). CAST: Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica). [New series on CBS]
* The Big Bang Theory - Screening and Q&A: Executive producers Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady. CAST: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar.
Elizabeth Mitchell & Zoe Saldana at SDCC09
Entertainment Weekly presents Women Who Kick Ass - A New Generation of Heroines: Featuring Jena Malone (Sucker Punch), Anna Torv (Fringe), Elizabeth Mitchell (V), and Ellen Wong and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World).
True Blood - Panel and Q&A: Creator/Executive producer Alan Ball, author Charlaine Harris. CAST: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alan Ball, Nelsan Ellis, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Deborah Ann Woll, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Denis O'Hare, Joe Manganiello.
TV Guide Magazine - The 2010 Hot List: Featuring Morena Baccarin (V), Brannon Braga (Terra Nova), Morris Chestnut (V), Keith David (The Cape), David Fury (Terra Nova), Zachary Levi (Chuck), David Lyons (The Cape), Chi McBride (Human Target), Elizabeth Mitchell (V), Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries).
SATURDAY, JULY 24
Chuck - Screening and Q&A: Executive producers/co-creators Josh Schwartz & Chris Fedak. CAST: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Vik Sahay, Scott Krinsky, Sarah Lancaster, Adam Baldwin.
photo courtesy of NBC
* The Event - World Premiere Pilot Screening and Q&A: Producers Evan Katz (24), Steve Stark (Medium), Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights), Nick Wauters (The 4400) & Jim Wong (The X-Files). CAST: Jason Ritter (Parenthood), Blair Underwood (In Treatment), Laura Innes (ER), Sarah Roemer (Disturbia), Zeljko Ivanek (Damages, True Blood), Ian Anthony Dale (Daybreak). [New series on NBC]
The LOST Podcast with Jay & Jack - Interview and Q&A Session: Father/son team Jay and Jack Glatfelter have one of the oldest and biggest podcasts dedicated to LOST; they will discuss the series finale and the dedicated online community.
* V - Screening and Q&A: Executive producers Scott Rosenbaum & Steve Pearlman. CAST: Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman, Laura Vandervoort, Charles Mesure, Morena Baccarin, Scott Wolf.
* Fringe - Screening and Q&A: Executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J. H. Wyman. CAST: Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Anna Torv , Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Jasika Nicole.
LOST But Not Forgotten: Lost Encyclopedia authors Tara Bennett & Paul Terry, with other special Lost guests, discuss this seminal show's legacy, their thoughts on the finale, and the creation of the forthcoming Lost Encyclopedia.
If you would like to submit questions for any of the actors above in the Hawaii Five-O, The Big Bang Theory, The Event, V and Fringe panels - please leave them in the comments below or send them to me via Twitter by Thursday, July 22!
Paul and Tara are great. The panel will be fantastic I'm sure.
Please ask Charles Mesure and the others if they were SF&F fans growing up — what books or comics they liked, what TV shows and movies they watched. Would they like to be in more SF&F projects?What's their impression of Comic-Con? Have they met people they've always wanted to meet?
I love Joshua and Lisa on V. Please ask the producers if they are planning to expand on their relationship (a V romance maybe), and if Joshua will escape and help the fifth column on the ground.
Hey Jo, If you get a chance please ask Jeff Pinker and J.H. Wyman if they are going to try to have and end date for the show. How many seasons do they envision Fringe going? thanks!
Would you ask the producers of Fringe if Amy Jessup will ever return, or if they decided to just drop the storyline? Thanks!
I was really enjoying Leonard and Penny as a couple on TBBT, any chance we can get them back on track?It gave the show a lot more to play with.
Please ask Chuck co stars – Zach Levi and Yvonne Strahovski what it's like working together because they have chemistry on screen and if theres chemistry off screen ?
Question for Hawaii Five-0… Will there be any special guests from the original Hawaii Five-0 showing up on the "re-booted" Hawaii Five-0? Thanks!Gigi
I have a question for BBT cast: After 3 awesome years of making the show, have you considered that something in your life is also geeky even though you wouldn't consider it geeky at all before?
hi, i'm from Israel and i have a question for David Lyons (The cape):did you ever Dreamed to be a Superhero?are you living your dream?Thanks.
This question is for the Hawaii Five-0 panel. Will Steve McGarrett have a love interest?
question for anna torv-is johua jackson a good kisser?
hi im rikke from indianapolis, indiana with a question for V's logan huffman: "how has your dyslexia effected your acting or line memorization? im also dyslexic but iv been told i could never have a successful career as an actress because of my "disorder", any advise?"
IS ALEX GOING TO BE AT THE COMIC CON OR NOT"?? HEARD THAT GRACE PARK AND DANIEL WOULD BE THERE BUT NO MENTION OF ALEX/??? HOPE HE IS….HE GOTTA BE! SUZANNE FAITH ALEX'S FOREVER FAN
Hi, my question is for Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson (Fringe)I would like to know why we don't get to see more off-work scenes between Olivia and Peter? and if there's any chance they could raise a voice for us (hungry fans) with the writers?
For Fringe: I'd really like to know if they're planning on revealing Peter's past with Big Eddie/gambling debts. I really want to know more about it. Thanks!
I have a question for Jeff Pinkner and J. H. Wyman from Fringe: Was the big season 3 clue – the one they hinted would be in Over There, the season 2 finale – the anagram written on the chalkboard in Walter's lab in the alternate universe?
Question for Anna Torv: Could she consider the idea of having a Twitter account even if it were only for Fringe like Joshua Jackson and John Noble? Having real-time updates from her would be amazing!!!
For Fringe also: Are they planning on letting the audience know more about Peter, in why he has picked the life choices he has, pre Fringe? I feel I really don't know Peter as such, other than he is from the altuniverse. What happened in the years with Walter and his mother, for him to go off and lead such a shady life in those 18 years after Walter was institutionalised ?
I have a question for the producers of Fringe: Are we going to see a fleshing out of the relationship between Olivia and Peter this season? Why I ask this question is that I see the chemistry between the characters but I just don't buy their relationship. We never see them have in depth conversations with each other and other than work they are not shown having anytime together offwork, as friends or otherwise. While I can see how and why they would be attracted to each other, I think the portrayal of the relationship so far has been very weak. I want to like them as a couple/friends but the writers are making it hard for me to do so.
Will we be seeing more scenes with Peter's father and especially his altMother in season 3? I was incredibly disappointed with how Peter's storyarc finished in the finale. We got this great buildup to him finding out he is from the altuniverse and then going over there, to him very quickly coming back with no goodbyes to his mother.
Question for Alex O'Loughlin and the rest of the cast of Hawaii Five 0:How do you deal with some negative reviews or responses to the remake of Hawaii Five 0? I, personally feel whether a remake or new show should be given a chance before responding negatively since actors and the crew work hard.Thank you, Lola from NYC
Question for Lorre and Prady:The ending of Howard and Bernadette's relationship was very abrupt and actually only referenced in passing. Will we get an explanation for that next season and will Bernadette ever reappear in the show?
Question for the producers of Big Bang Theory – will we ever get to see deleted scenes on the DVDs? I've been to a few tapings, and have been disappointed a couple of times when a scene I really liked ended up being cut from the episode.
Hey there! Okay, two questions about the next season of Human Target: 1) Are we going to learn Guerrero's first name? And 2) Is his child going to be introduced, or at least have Guerrero's background/history explained?
Ask DDK if he's ever going to get off the island? For Fringe: where's the Emmy love? Especially for Joshua Jackson and John Noble?
For "The Event" How do you deal with the critics that say your show is a knockoff of "Lost" Will I get to see the answer for my question?
More than a question I think it would be interesting if Anna Torv talks a bit of the experience shooting the fight between Olivia and Alter Olivia.