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OMFG what were they thinking?

June 3 OMFG FYC
The CW mounts an Emmy campaign borrowing from its 2008 “OMFG” marketing campaign for Gossip Girl for its campaign slogan: “OMFG FYC.” The brochure also includes a DVD with promo trailers for Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, Smallville and Supernatural cut specifically for the Emmy stint.

The two Supernatural episodes submitted for consideration were 5.04 The End and 5.08 Changing Channels. Source

The campaign failed to garner any nominations for the shows.

June 8 Life's That Way
Jim Beaver writes a moving article about grief in the Huffington Post.

image from WB Japan website

June 9 Supernatural Anime

There is more to Supernatural than what is seen in the show. This is the birth of a new anime and you've never seen the characters like this before!

from the WB Japan website

The Warner Brothers Japanese site announced the production of a Supernatural anime to be produced by Madhouse in February 2011. The anime will be a 22-episode season that will cover the storyline of the live-action version's first two seasons. The series will be a combination of the retelling of existing episodes, and original stories. Jared and Jensen will provide English voiceovers for some episodes.

Jared and Jensen in football shirts from fans

12-13 June Rising Con Spain 2010
Guests are Jensen, Jared, Misha, Jim, Samantha Ferris and the actors who dub the characters in Spanish. David Robles (Sam) and Claudio Serrano (Dean).

June 12 Stonehenge Apocalypse
Stonehenge Apocalypse the epic scifi, apocalyptic thriller starring Misha premieres on SyFy to a fantastic audience of 2.4 million, with up to 20% of them reportedly neither drunk or high Source.

June 14
The Ghostfacers Producer, Patrick Doody and Warner Brothers submit Ghostfacers' Webisode #3 for the Outstanding Special Class - Short Format Live Action Entertainment Programs category for the Emmy Awards. Source.

July 9-11 Salute to Supernatural New Jersey 2010
Guests were Misha, Samantha Smith, Aldis Hodge, Alona Tal, Rob Benedict, Katherine Boecher, Matt Cohen and Steve Carlson for this second con to be held in new Jersey.

July 19 Constellation Awards
Supernatural wins Best Science Fiction Television Series of 2009 at the COnstellation Awards]]. Also nominated were:

• Best Male Performance in a 2009 Science Fiction Television Episode- Jensen Ackles (the 5.04 The End and Misha Collins for 4.20 The Rapture
• Best Female Performance in a 2009 Science Fiction Television Episode- Alona Tal for 5.10 Abandon All Hope...

July 22-25 Comic Con 2010
On July 23rd, Batman: Under The Red Hood premiered at Comic Con 2010 introduced via a video clip by Jensen Source.

from left - Ben, Misha, Sera, Jensen, Jared, Eric and Jim

The Supernatural Panel was on Sunday 25th and was attended by Sera Gamble, Eric Kripke, Ben Edlund, Jared, Jensen, Misha and Jim Beaver. There was extensive press interviews, with many spoilers about the opening arc of episodes for Season 6. See Comic Con 2010 for full coverage.

Cover of the Red Hood DVD

July 27 Batman: Under The Red Hood
DVD release of Batman: Under The Red Hood in which Jensen voices the Red Hood. Reviews for the DVD were positive, including for Jensen's work.

Ackles really stands out as the Red Hood. The Supernatural star makes the character arrogant, funny, and tragic...the combination is a perfect match for Jason Todd. Source

July 27

• Photos of Jensen and Cindy Sampson on set

July 29
Sera Gamble gives interviews and reveals some of the direction of Season 6 with an empahsis on family origins and the fact that it will have a noir feel to it:

I'm a huge noir fan, Bob Singer are huge noir fans. Eric loves this stuff too. It lends a different kind of gritty darkness because the heroes in those stories are not pure white hats.

If you think of 'L.A. Confidential,' if you think about Sam and Dean together being like a Bud White or being like a Bud White…. Bud White beats people up. He has anger management problems. He drinks too much. But he's a hero. The fact that he is moral is a problem. The other sort of hero in that story has a sort of moral relativism.

"There are a lot of shades of gray that we're playing with this season, in terms of the kind of heroes we're interested in."

Source

She was asked whether stepping into the showrunner role meant Sam and Dean would be getting their gear off more:

"I think the shirtlessness ratio is the same," Gamble laughs. "It's cold in Vancouver! I have to put their health first." Source

July 30
At the TCAs, CW boss Dawn Ostroff said Season 6 probably wouldn't be the last season of Supernatural Source.

August 8
Jason Manns In an interview with Zap2it, Jason talked about recording with Jensen, and getting involved with Supernatural.

Áugust 30 Ole!
Pictures of a shirtless Jensen and the crew playing soccer between shooting Source - also contains pics from August 30 of Jensen on a minibike

August 21 Random Acts
"At Random Acts, it’s our mission to conquer the world one random act of kindness at a time.": Misha talks to SFX magazine about random Acts.
Misha launches his charity [{Random Acts]] which grew out of the Minion Stimulus which had raised money for Haiti. In true Misha style, he posted a promotional video on YouTube about it.

August 27-29 Salute to Supernatural Vancouver 2010
The second convention to be held in Vancouver. A few hints are dropped about what to expect in Season 6, and Jared and Jensen confirm that they had signed a new 2 year contract so were available for a seventh season if there was one. Jared also revealed that Misha's wife was expecting a baby.

September 1 Enter Sandman
Eric Kripke is mentioned in relation to a project to turn Neil Gaiman's Sandman = a strong influence on Supernatural - into a TV series Source.

September 5 Run Misha Run!
Misha sets out on a run to raise money for Random Acts. He manages to tweet both pictures and videos along the rote and ends up running for 11 hours and covering 83 kms (50 miles). Jim Beaver had pledged $50/km and ends up donating $4,150. Misha raises $94,742 in total.

September 7 Supernatural: Original Television Soundtrack
A soundtrack for Supernatural is released featuring original music by Christopher Lennertz and Jay Gruska from the first five seasons of Supernatural.

Season 5 DVD is released and includes the Ghostfacers Web Series.

September 8 Connect with Jared
Jared answers fans questions with CW Connect and Misha talks to TV Squad about Random Acts and Castiel in Season 6.

September 13

Entertainment Weekly's Fall TV preview issues spot on Supernatural features a rather fetching retro sketch of the boys.

September 22
Leading up to the Season 6 premiere, Jared and Jensen give an interview to KSiteTV about what to expect and how their characters have changed.

JARED: I think it kind of hearkens back to Season One where there’s Sam’s story, and Sam’s like “Dean, with all due respect, I deserve respect as well. I have my own life. I’ve done my own things. I deserve my own credit, and I’m going to do things my way, and I deserve to do things my way.” And Dean’s like, “well, you don’t know what I’ve been through in this last year, and my priorities have changed and shifted. Now I don’t want to be so cavalier.” And Sam’s like “What? Why not? I just came back from Hell again!” So I think there are personal frictions with both brothers, and they’re sort of amplified by the fact that we hunt.

JENSEN: There was a big kind of a shift in Dean’s character, actually much to my chagrin. I was not happy with it. Dean was really kind of being written soft. We spent five years with this guy being a tough, shoot-first-ask-questions-later kind of guy, and now all of a sudden he’s lived one year in more of a domesticated life, and he’s gone soft on us. As a fan of the show myself, that kind of made me upset, but I did my best to kind of curve that in the acting. It read pretty soft on the page, but I think I toughened it. I’m like “Look, if I’ve got anything to do with it, I’m gonna beat this guy up a little bit.”

JARED: In all honesty, you kind of kept it true to the character. It wasn’t like you were just not doing what the writers were writing for. It was like “How can I work this in to where I don’t completely lose….?”

JENSEN: Which was different, because after five seasons of playing this guy, now I actually have to think harder about how to play this guy correctly than I have before.

September 24
TNT air a Supernatural marathon in the lead up to Season 6. Schedule of episodes.

September 24 Season 6 Premiere! Season 6 opens with 6.01 Exile on Main St.

October 4 Mini Misha!
Misha tweets a pic of himself and his new baby: "His name is West Anaximander Collins. And like a bee, he can smell fear. Unlike a bee, he likes boobs and needs frequent diaper changes. I like him." Source

October 8-10 Salute to Supernatural Chicago 2010
Jared and Misha relate that for a recent photoshopot in LA for new promo pictures (which in itself is a rare thing!) their wardrobe was sent down from LA and was stolen - including Dean's leather jacket from Season 1, and Castiel's trenchcoat. Jensen - a late addition to the COn - was not scheduled to appear on stage, but gate crashed Jared and Misha's Q & A.

October 15 Directed by: Jensen Ackles
We get to see the results of Jensen's directorial debut when 6.04 Weekend at Bobby's airs.

• Video of Jensen on set
• On set pics of Jensen directing
• Video Jensen, Jared and Bobby talk about Jensen directing.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/10/11/supernatural-jensen-ackles/

October 21
The voice cast for Tron: Evolution - a video game to tie-in with the Tron: Legacy movie - is announced and includes Jensen as the voice of Gibson.

• Jensen talks about his role in the game.

October 29-31 Asylum 5 2010
At the fifth Asylum Con in Birmingham, a guest list headed by Misha entertains fans, including Misha singing with his dad.

November 2 Polling the Electorate!
Tv Guide runs a competition where fans can vote for their favourite show to be on the TV Guide Cover. In the final days the race was between Supernatural and Chuck - which scores an average nearly 3 times as many viewers. Supernatural fans cried foul when it was discovered that Chuck fans were using a macro that automatically reloaded the page and repositioned the cursor for faster voting.

During the final hours of voting Showrunner Sera Gamble thanked fans:

Hey-- just a quick note on behalf of Bob, Eric, myself, and the whole gang here at Supernatural. We want to thank our incredible fans for your support. We hear you've been keeping us in the running against some very worthy competition. Regardless of what happens, we're deeply touched as always that you've got our backs. (But yeah, of course we'd love to see Jensen and Jared on the cover -- and we think they couldn't deserve it more -- so please do keep voting for 'em.) Thanks again, guys!

Source.

Supernatural won the competition and were featured on the December 16th cover of TV Guide. The cast thanked the fans in a video.

Jensen and Danneel at Lakers game

November 17 Operation Stealth Nugget
Another example of Misha's peculiar world - he posts a video of a ninja piece of urban renewal : Video here.

November 23
Jensen and Danneel are pictured enjoying a Lakers game in L.A. More pics

28 November
In an article on Airlock Alpha about the falling ratings for sci-fi shows, the author mentions that The CW was working to bring back Supernatural for a seventh season.

behind the scenes pic

December 7
Voting closes for the People's Choice Awards where Supernatural was nominated for best sci-fi show. This time the power of fandom was not enough and the Show didn't win.

December 13 Jensen on top
Supernatural, and Jensen features on MTV's Ten on Top, he mentions the TV Guide cover win and says "I will not have to buy any copies because my mother will have raped all the counters in most of the southwest.

December 18
Filming of the show breaks from December 18th to January 4th 2011 Source.

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