Supernatural Scrapbook Jan-June 2010
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January 4
Supernatural starts in syndication on TNT
January 6 Winners all round!
- After months of speculation, Jared and Genevieve's engagement is confirmed.
- Supernatural wins for Best Sci Fi/Fantasy Show at the People's Choice Awards, beating LOST, Heroes, True Blood and the Vampire Diaries. CW video congratulating Supernatural on their win.
January 8
LivingUK launches Fight The Apocalypse - an 'alternate reality game' to promote Season 5 of Supernatural airing in the UK. The prize is a chance to appear on Supernatural.
January 10 Dawn and Eric do lunch ...
CW boss Dawn Ostroff says Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is warming to the idea of a sixth season.
“I think he’s in that state of mind,” she says. “I had lunch with Eric the other day and he’s really excited about the show right now. I think he feels this season has been really satisfying for him. He’s certainly not running out of ideas by any stretch of the imagination.”
Ostroff, who says Kripke has been “hitting it out of the park” creatively this season, also points to Supernatural’s ratings success as proof the show has a lot of life left in it. “The ratings are up,” she says. “We have more young women coming to the show than ever before. There aren’t a lot of shows that you can say are doing better in their fifth year.” Source
January 10
- Look who's heading to Vancouver (spoiler)
- Supernatural writer Jeremy Carver and his wife Anna Fricke will write the US adaption of "Being Human"
January 12
In response to the Haiti earthqauke on 12 January 2010, Superantural fan pinkfinity set up help_haiti on Livejournal, a pan fandom effort to auction fan services and raise money. Misha Collins sets up a donation site for UNICEF relief efforts.
January 16
Kripke gives an extensive interview including information on upcoming episodes and what season 6 may look like:
Jared and Jensen have strengthened their friendship on and off screen since the show began. Is that ideal in a season like this, when the bros are in a weird place emotionally and we know a little more about their connection with Lucifer and the angels?
Well, the trick is to not go big but go intimate – at least those are the initial conversations we’ve had [if the show is picked up for a sixth season]. We always set up this five-year storyline, because in my heart of hearts, I just never imagine we’d actually go five years, much less beyond. We are going to climax the storyline and really wrap up the story of Satan and Michael and the apocalypse. The big question is, how do you follow that? We look at this as a unique challenge but also an opportunity to really launch a new storyline next year. We’re almost looking at it as the sequel to a movie. Rather than as a lot of genre shows do as they get on in years, becoming so convoluted and almost collapsing under their own mythology and getting to the point where you just can’t follow any of it anymore, we’re really looking forward to the opportunity of just sweeping it all clean and starting over with something else. We talk about returning to a stripped-down version of the show that’s almost similar to season one, in which the mythology was just as simple as finding their father and finding something that’s really personal and meaningful to Sam and Dean. One of the things that’s hard about the end of the world is sometimes it’s hard to have your characters emotionally connect with it, because it’s so big. But if their emotional storyline for, say, season six is to save a loved one, then that’s something you can really understand and get behind and actually have some really emotional storytelling that takes you through a lot of the scary episodes.
We’re really lucky to have the two of them. As actors, they have such a comfort and respect and almost a shorthand with each other at this point, so they can just jump right in and really try some things that are a little edgy or different in terms of conflict and anger. They feel comfortable going to that place because they work together so well, and they know the other person can carry a heavy load.
There is a lot of meta humor involved, such as when the Winchesters go to a Supernatural fan convention or the knowing look Sam gives when House of Wax is mentioned. How do you balance that with the serious story at hand, and has it gotten easier over the years?
I would say that we’re probably pulling back on it from now on. My own personal feeling is we’re riding the hairy edge of just starting to go to that well too often and push it too far. Most of the time, we do it reasonably well. It’s a way to poke a little fun at ourselves and wink to the audience that we, as the writers of the show, don’t take ourselves too, too seriously. There’s nothing worse than self-important horror. At the end of the day, you’re in the business of scaring people and saying “Boo!” and ripping their hearts out and spraying blood on the screen, so to say that somehow I’m telling some epic religious story is a little pompous and disingenuous. We like to puncture that balloon, poke fun at the show and have a really healthy sense of humor about the characters and about ourselves.
If there’s a sixth season, how do you top the apocalypse?
January 20
The first issue in the third series of Supernatural's comics Beginning's End 1 is published.
January 21
#theboysareback
Fans got the Twitter tag #theboysareback to number 4 on Trending Topics as Season 5 resumes
- Cinema Spy says an "unnamed source in Vancouver" hints that Supernatural has been picked up for a sixth season.
- It is revealed that Jared did audition for the role of Conan in the new movie by director Marcus Nispel, but it has gone to Stargate: Atlantis alumni Jason Momoma.
- 5.11 Sam, Interrupted airs.
- Eric Kripke donates his nomination gift from this years' People's Choice Awards, where Supernatural won for best Sci-fi show, to raise fund for Haiti through an auction run by Support Supernatual. News item on the auction. The flutes sold for $2,325.00.
January 24 Who ya gonna call?
It's announced that in March 2010, ten Ghostfacers webisodes will be produced Source. More information from Variety.
January 27: Beware of Imitations
In January 2010, Jensen and Jared's bodyguard Clif Kosterman joined the Twitterverse and started working to expose frauds.
On the 27th Jared and Jensen posted a video via the fansite Winchester.com, confirming they are not on any online social media. This was prompted by stories of fans being lured into meeting with people posing as them through Twitter.
January 28th CW raises money for Haiti
Jensen, Jared and Misha feature in a CW promotion to raise money for Haiti.
January 30th Supernatural 100th episode party !!!!
A party is held in Vancouver to celebrate the start of filming the 100th episode of the show. Entertainment is provided by a band called "The Impalas" made up of crew members including Jensen on vocals and Bob Singer on harp.
February 6th: Another award win
Supernatural wins Best TV Show at the SFX Sci-Fi Awards 2010. Click here for Misha's video acceptance speech.
February 9th
Innovative promotion begins for season five's premiere in the UK on LivingTV - a ring of salt can protect you and London's famed Marble Arch goes up flames
February 10th I'm Batman... or you know the other guy."
Jensen voices Red Hood in a soon to be released animated DVD "Batman: Under The Red Hood" Source
He spoke about the role here:
“There really wasn’t any heavy acting choices to make,” says Ackles regarding Red Hood. “It pretty much just bounced off the page, and I just tried to do it justice. With working in this medium, once you get clear on all the specific pronunciations and how the tone of the voice needs to rise and fall, it was really about focusing on the more emotional elements of the script, especially in the intense moments and trying to envision the scene with the characters. And envisioning yourself in that scenario. A lot of times if you can do that, if you can put yourself there, I think the voice follows suit.”
Between his work on Supernatural and now the world of Batman, Ackles obviously has had some experience working in what has affectionately been called the “fan boy genre.”
“The positives of working in this genre are that the fans are extremely devoted,” he offers. “People really invest themselves in these stories and characters, and the mythology behind them. To be a part of something that so many people really get behind and want more of is extremely gratifying.” </blockquote>
February 17th: Beware of Imitations
Genevieve Cortese posted a video via the fansite Winchester.com, confirming she does not have a twitter account.
February 18th SUPERNATURAL CONFIRMED FOR A SIXTH SEASON.
Following months of speculation and rumours, it is confirmed that Supernatural will return for a sixth season on the CW. Excitment at the news saw Supernatural reach #5 on trending topics on Twitter.
The official CW press release said:
The network also renewed fan favorite SUPERNATURAL, which will enter its sixth season next year. SUPERNATURAL has one of the most loyal audiences of any show on television and does heroic work in a perennially tough time period. It has improved over last season among women and adults 18-34 (29% and 8%, respectively) this season, a remarkable accomplishment for a fifth-year show.
Michael Ausiello reports that both Eric Kripke will step aside as show runners to devote more time to new projects with the WB. Sera Gamble is promoted to showrunner. Ausiello reports a source saying: “Eric and Bob will be working very closely with Sera. They are not abandoning the show."
Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune got confirmation of Kripke's ongoing involvement and asked Sera about whether Season 6 would be "The Apocalypse 2: The Squeakquel".
"No, you will not be getting Apocalypse, The Squeakquel in Season 6 (that's hilarious)," Gamble wrote. "We're climaxing that story this season. We've been working on the Season 6 storyline for quite some time, and we're very excited about it. We have lots of ideas, and are grateful for the chance to keep the show going.
"Please tell the fans that the writers say thank you! We so appreciate the We so appreciate the support."
February 20th The Hangover
Jared had his bachelor party in Vegas this weekend at LAVO inside The Palazzo.
After the weekend, Clif Kosterman tweeted "Vegas was fun...no one died....at least there were no bodies around....just kidding...remember to laugh. ( really no one died ok )"
February 22 Young Actors nominated for Awards
In the 31st Young Artist Awards, Colin Ford was nominated for "Best Recurring Young Actor 13 and Under". Also nominated for their guest roles were: Cainan Wiebe who played Barry in 4.13 After School Special and Dalila Bela who played the girl with the tooth fairy in 5.06 I Believe The Children Are Our Future.
February 24 Captain Who?
Jensen's name had been mentioned through much of 2009 in connection with the upcoming "Captain America" movie - although Jensen had denied he was in the running at Salute to Supernatural Vancouver 2009. Around late February 2010, a number of articles appeared suggesting he had been "on a short list" but was now out of consideration due to scheduling conflicts.
February 27th Jared and Genevieve wed in Sun Valley, Idaho. Clif Kosterman tweeted after the weekend "It was a beautiful ceremony in a beautiful setting."
- Jared and Jensen talk about how they proposed
- Pics tweetd by CLif of his wife Clleen and Jensen,Genevieve and Clif
