Season 8: Will it be a 2-hour movie? Will it be a miniseries? Will it be a midseason replacement? Show creator Amy Sherman-Palladino wants to create the real conclusion to the show, announcing that she's interested in doing a 2-hour movie, but we don't know yet what form a return may ultimately take. Therefore, whatever we can get, that's Season 8 and you've come to the right place to fight for it!

02-10-08 -- Hmmm . . .
The Mandate Petition passes 11,000 and the WGA & Studios finally reach an agreement on the same day. A coincidence? I think . .. yeah!

Random Thought: With the fate of Friday Night Lights (starring LG's BFF, Connie Britton) majorly up in the air, I was wondering, maybe we could join up with FNL fans and start a joint campaign called The MILF Brigade . . . or, uh, something?

(Crickets.)

Okay, okay, I'm a straight guy, I admit it, don't kill me! Seriously, though, with The CW having two more hours to fill next fall due to Smackdown finally leaving the netlet, wouldn't Gilmore Girls followed by FNL make for a great Friday night lineup for The, uh, Un-Frog? Seriously. With the strike having carved the current season up into bacon bits, uncanceling Gg would be, like, hardly noticed as uncanceling. Although somebody in Gg/Warner-land would need some convincing. Okay, two somebodies, one of them being Warner's TV head Peter Roth, who we should definitely be flooding with postcards now at:

Peter Roth, President
Warner Brothers Television
300 Television Plaza
Burbank, CA 91505 .

Copperboom!

-- Rob

PS: Not to complain or anything, but I like "Nuts!" better.

PPS: Uh, no, wait, that came out totally wrong. I swear I'm a straight male . . .

PPPS: February 14th?! What was I thinking?! Now I'll have to wait until the weekend to see Jumper. (Don't you think that Rachel Bilson would have made a great Young Lorelai?) Oh well, at least having any self-imposed deadline puts me into the kind of Lorelai-esque panic through which either massive inspiration or a complete meltdown -- or both -- usually occurs. Take when I started this here website for instance. Inspiration followed by a six-month meltdown, but do I complain? Umm, well, yeah, but that's totally beside the point . . .


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2-02-08: Where in the World is Robbieboy Sandiego?
Okay, okay, okay! Christmas is over, the repeal of Daylight Savings Time is near, the Thanksgiving-to-Just-After-New-Years Holiday Blob is sooo four weeks ago.

And now it's Groundhog's Day. Stars Hollow Hal has seen his shadow, but Gilmore . . . uh . . . Gustav[1] can see forever from any angle. Totally mixed signals, I know, but Rural Rob is ignoring the both of them and coming out of his horrific hidey-hole of habitual hibernation whether we get six more weeks of Writers' Strike or not.

Since even posting this message is a commitment to getting my act together, I've got to say that getting my act together will take a couple of weeks. So I'm going to outline for you what I'm intending to do when I don't procrastinate:

1) Arrange a way for this here home page section to be updated daily-ish without my having to write it all the time. Yes, I'm hoping to have a regular rotating cast of writers, which, hindsight is 20/20, is what I should have done in the first place.

2) Arrange a resolution to the LDDP.

3) Establish a discussion of what I've learned about campaign projects The Hard Way -- and explain (other reasons than my short attention span) why someone other than myself should be in charge of campaign projects.

4) Organize and finally send out the petition and (theoretically) a press release package. I've suddenly figured out that sending out a full copy of the petition to everybody that we want to is going to be a potential problem because at 50 or so signatures a page, sending a printout of 11,000-ish signatures is going to be half-a-ream of paper per packet. And that's not including my now-too-ambitious intent to include a copy of the similarly large Rumorville thread from the CW Source blog.

5) Clean up the forums and certain pages on the website that are either out-of-date or better expressed in another way (these are pages that are totally my fault).

Most of these items I've at least broached in private emails and I'm going to continue to do that for tasks where I feel that I have too many questions to nail down before I open it to wider discussion in the STL Forum. My goal is to have all this done by Valentine's Day -- yes, February 14th. Because that was an actual good day for Lorelai and Luke in Season 6.

So now that I've committed myself to a deadline, I'm going to stop blabbing and get to work.


-- Rob

[1] Because naming a Groundhog "Gilmore Gary" would be tasteless, whether or not the late Norman Mailer ever appeared on the show. Yikes!

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11-27-07: Amy Gives Us Direction:
Okay, so I procrastinate and procrastinate and procrastinate -- but the writers' strike has given me good reason. It's not as if Warner or The CW are in a position to greenlight any Gg revival while the strike is going on. However, I was catching up on my Ausiello news from last week and he interviewed Amy Sherman-Palladino on the picket line for his vodcast. Now, I'm on dial-up, so vodcasts aren't something that I can get unless they're YouTube, and even then it's iffy (I live in the sticks!). But in the comments section for his Ask Ausiello column last week, a poster summarized what Amy said, which boiled down to "Write to Peter Roth." Who is the President of Warner Television (ie: the studio).

So guess who the petition is going to go to for sure . . . eventually? Yep.

Peter Roth President, Warner Brothers Television 300 Television Plaza Burbank, CA 91505

If you want to drop Roth a postcard or a brief (I emphasize "brief" because, you know, I'm soooo anything but brief), polite letter, please be sure to read the Contact Sheet for guidelines.

UPDATES: We've made a couple of changes in the left hand column.

First, the LDDP Daisy Project is closed. Details on what we'll do with the Daisies that have been ordered will be forthcoming because I'll be soliciting ideas on how to distribute them to the appropriate Gilmore peeps.

Second, the petition is finally on the verge of crossing 10,000 signatures! Wah-hoo! Since the writers' strike hasn't ended yet, I'm going to keep collecting signatures until I've decided if/when it's the best time to send it to everybody we might want to send it to. 10,000 or more signatures means that each copy sent will use around a ream of paper -- and several ink cartridges just to print out one copy to then make more copies at Kinko's. I'm figuring that with it nearing Christmas and all, sending a large package now could get either lost in the rest of the holiday mail either in transit or at the offices of the various targets of the campaign. While I think it's accurate at this point to say that the petition will go out "when I feel like it," I hope that you'll take that "when I feel like it" as reading, "Either three weeks after the writers' strike has ended or January 22nd (three weeks after New Year's Day), whichever is later."


-- Rob

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11-09-07:
This one has to be long, because the Writers' Guild is striking. Too much to explain. And this is all-but a blog section anyway.

Hey, haven't you heard? The Writers' Guild is striking. (Uh, duh!)

Mark Evanier's www.newsfromme.com and Nikki Finke's www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com are two great sources of strike information. Somewhere along the way, you'll find out that Amy Sherman-Palladino has been walking the picket line with Tina Fey in New York City. Keeeeeeeeeeeen!

You can probably tell that I'm on the writers' side, especially if you've seen my posts on rec.arts.tv and certain other TV newsgroups on Usenet, so let's get that out of the way and not discuss "Who's side are you on?" Which, for the STL campaign, is a non-starter.

I'll admit to this, though: one of the main reasons that I've been procrastinating and slow to post here for, well, two months or so is due to the then-impending/now-ongoing writers' strike. Hard to figure out what decisions to make when timing would be an issue *even* if the strike weren't going to be happening. So with respect to getting the STL campaign toward any of the goals we've started, the strike just turned that into a game of 3-D chess.

So here's what we know: Alexis Bledel appears to be the Gilmore actor who needs the most convincing to come back according to several sources (the best are, of course, www.gilmoregirlsnews.com and this blog post at ABC Family's website.

Meanwhile, if we want more than just a 2-hour movie (an eight-hour miniseries, perhaps?) then it would be Amy Sherman-Palladino who would need the most convincing. And she's going to be on the picket lines for a while. So I have two points that I want to bring up regarding our ongoing discussions in the Forum:

1) If we try to petition Alexis Bledel now, is it too soon? The WGA's last strike, in 1988, went on for 5 and a half months. And the guild is more united this time. And both the DGA (director's guild) and SAG (screen actors guild) contracts similarly come up for strikes in the spring of next year. For mostly the same reasons (residuals). With the potential (even likelihood) that the WGA strike will/could last as long as or longer than it did in 1988, could trying to persuade Bledel of anything be premature?

2) Gilmore Goddess Amy Sherman-Palladino won't be writing anything for the studios/networks as long as the writers are striking (remember, she's *very* pro-union). And in any case, while Amy clearly jumpstarted the push for a Gg reunion movie in an interview with Michael Ausiello at the Upfronts last May, could the chance to persuade Amy to expand her ambition paradoxically be greater the longer the strike lasts? After all, she's got the support of most of the actors, who often say that they'd kill to work with her again (or words to similar effect). And the reunion hasn't been greenlit yet and won't have even a chance of being greenlit until the strike is over.

3) And just what does this mean for the LDDP and the petition? To answer the second matter first: the petition pretty much has to stay open until the end of the strike. To answer the first matter second: Some of us in the STL Brain Trust have discussed a Plan B regarding the LDDP, but that was a week or so before the strike began, so that Plan B has to be tweaked a little in terms of . . . yes, timing. (Sigh!)

All I'm saying right now is that it might be a good time to write to Amy in care of her management at ICM (available by clicking on that there Contact Sheet button in that column to the side over there.) and volunteer your opinion on why you want to see Gg continue and why you might want to see Gg continue for more than just a 2-hour movie. Perhaps whoever opens her fan mail might go "Oh. My. God. Don't these fans know that a strike is going on?" So my suggestion would be to make it clear that yes, you know that a strike is going on (I mean, I personally am thinking of including a picture of Kirk, with a comic-book balloon saying, "I know that there's a strike going on, but I'm talking about AFTER that, y'know!" and then a second balloon saying, "Oh Gilmore Goddess Amy, bless us with your words of wisdom when the writers' strike is over! (Or by snail mail, like right now, if that floats your boat.")

Aaaanyway . . . please post your thoughts in the Campaign Folder of the STL Forum.


Best, Rob

PS: Reminder: Go buy the Season 7 DVD on Tuesday. Or the (Not-Yet-)Complete Series set, if you can afford it.

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10-13-07:Amy Sherman-Palladino News:

First, the good news:

Amy Sherman-Palladino will be writing and directing for the Big! Screen! her own adaptation of the novel The Late Bloomer's Guide Revolution written by Amy Cohen. It'll star Sarah-Jessica Parker, another person with a hyphenated name. For more details read the original Variety article here

Now, the good-ish/bad-ish news

The Hollywood Reporter, err, reported that The Return of Jezebel James is basically Dead On Arrival. Its order has been cut back from 13 episodes to 7 episodes, which I suspect have already been filmed (and hence, the return to sender postcard that an STL member was returned after she sent the postcard to ASP in care of the studio at which JJ was filmed.)

Additional note: When you read the HR article, keep in mind that the Fox rep is not named and his/her commentary is perfunctory and pure spin. A midseason show that a given network has faith in just doesn't get its order cut in half from teh initial 13-episodes to 7 episodes. FOX even allowed Wonderfalls, as wonderfully strange and uncategorizable as it was, to film its entire 13-episode order, even though only four episodes aired.

Jezebel's cut down to 7 episodes means IMO that FOX not only are intending to cancel it, it also means that a) it likely won't launch as early as January as FOX had originaly slotted it (more likely March-ish IMO) and b) it will likely get pulled after only two-three-four of those episodes ala last year's Drive. For the record, I wish that Jezebel James had worked out as, well, it's Amy! And Parker Posey! And Max! Err, Scott Cohen!

What does it mean for a Gilmore Girls revival? Well, ASP definitely has more time on her hands, especially given the announcement of the Late Bloomer movie -- and it IMO more or less explains why she was already so eager to talk about a Gg revival movie as early as May. I've always interpreted ASP's statements to Ausiello at that Fox Upfront Party regarding Gg as her all-but-acknowledging that Jezebel was getting a tepid response. IMO, movie gigs don't have either positive or negative impact on a Gg revival as they're gigs with very short timespans by definition. Fitting a movie or a miniseries in around movie gigs is simply a matter of coordinating writer/director/actor schedules once a script is written.


-- Rob

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9-26-07: And some people try to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.

This here's from today's Ask Ausiello column at:
http://www.tvguide.com/ask-ausiello

permalink: http://www.tvguide.com/ask-ausiello/070926

Question: Any luck with the Lauren Graham interview? — Gabriella Ausiello: Bad news: My BFF declined my interview request. I also tried to get a hold of NBC's Ben Silverman, the architect behind LG's mega-deal, but he too was unavailable to speak to me. The same goes for Graham's manager, John Carrabino. Maybe the wall of silence is their way of keeping expectations in check. After all, as numerous sources tell me, this is nothing more than a standard 12-month holding deal, and one which may or may not result in a TV show. Whispers one insider, "NBC is basically paying her a crapload of money to spend a year sitting around reading bad scripts." Much like the cast of October Road.


In Lauren's defense: 1) There's an impending writer's strike at the end of October that will probably be bringing all of showbiz to a standstill and 2) Directors' and Actors' strikes to follow in March and May of next year and 3) the deal could accidentally lead to a series anyway. The likelihood that they'll just stick her into an existing series for some sort of several-episode arc is extremely high, given these new details and the corresponding likelihood that NBC Universal will have to actually justify throwing money at her, if they can, by putting her somewhere, anywhere. (Which is why Scott Patterson is on Aliens In America -- until it gets cancelled. BID.)

So, Lauren's deal, not as freaky toward a Gg revival as it looks like at first glance. At the same time, though, so NOT cool that NBC Uni didn't have a show appropriate for her right off the bat. Grrrrrr!


-- Rob

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9-22-07: Newsbits:

1) The petition has just passed 8,100 signatures -- let's push for 8,400 by the end of next Friday, Sept. 28th. Bug your family, friends, even frenemies to sign the petition. And keep spreading the word to websites and even remind websites and message boards that you've already been to. You'll know better than I will the places to go because -- well, no single one of us can cover every possible place we could go. So just let them know that the Petition Project continues.

2) Entertainment Weekly is running a suggestion box for what you think Lauren's eventual new series with NBC Universal should be. Post your suggestion and then find my suggestion and a few more like them at:
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2007/09/lauren-graham-n.html

3) You sometimes find Gilmore Alumni (Gilmorons? Or is that us?) in the weirdest places, y'know?. Two weeks ago, I looked in the credits for the first Legion of Super-Heroes DVD (Yes, I watch cartoons, so kill me. I started reading the comics . . . uh, right after Bouncing Boy and Triplicate Girl Duo Damsel got married.) and I noticed that Adam Wylie, who played Paris's unlucky plaything Brad, is now not only the voice of Brainiac 5 on the Legion series and also the voice of Jimmy Olsen in the new Superman/Doomsday movie. And I only mention those factoids in order to sneak in the following Gilmore 'toon trivia bit: Scott Patterson was the voice of secret agent King Faraday on Justice League Unlimited. So there. You Gilmore fanatics now have to buy superhero cartoons whether you want to or not.


-- Rob

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9-20-07: CW Schadenfreude Alert #1 -- Tuesday 9-18 Ratings

Uh, great interesting news: Here are the ratings for Tuesday night, 9-18-07 via Mark Berman at MediaWeek.com (Thanks to David Dimlan on the rec.arts.tv newsgroup on Usenet for doing the legwork to find these ratings analyses each week:

In season-premiere news, a two-hour installment of the CW’s Beauty and the Geek kicked-off with a disappointing (and last-place) 3.34 million viewers and a 1.7 rating/5 share among adults 18-49 from 8-10 p.m. The most recent season of Beauty and the Geek opened with a healthier 4.90 million viewers and a 2.2/ 6 among adults 18-49 on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. Comparably, that was a loss of 1.56 million viewers and 23 percent in the demo. If you keep in mind that most of the competition was repeats, you can expect more erosion once the new season officially begins next week.

Berman dodges the real issue, IMO: Namely, that BatG's ratings for its premiere this season were substantially lower than the 4.22 million viewers who watched the season premiere of Gg last year in the same timeslot -- more than a 20% dip year-to-year in the timeslot. Against all repeats. And note: BatG's previous season/cycle premiere was NOT on a Tuesday night and not in the fall. It was after ANTM on Wednesdays. In January.

Forget my disgust with reality shows in general -- if you're a fan of BatG and didn't want to see it go kerplotz in Gg's timeslot, no harm, no foul, I just would never watch the show because I object to the entire genre on principle -- but in simple statistical terms, BatG is not and never will be capable of anchoring a night the way Gg has. BatG suffers a nearly 40% drop in its own ratings year-to-year and a drop of more than 20% in the timeslot year-to-year versus the show it's replacing. And even another nearly 40% drop in ratings versus the most recent new episode of the series it was replacing (ie: the 7th Season Finale of Gg back on 5-15-07, when Gg scored 4.76 million viewers). And imagine what the ratings for a season 8 premiere would have looked like for that night with season 7 ending so inconclusively. Even if Gg 8.1's ratings would have even dipped at all year-to-year, it wouldn't have dropped like a lead rock the way BatG has. I said this way back when the CW announced the fall schedule with BatG in the timeslot: they were essentially forfeiting the timeslot to ABC (Dancing with the Stars) and CBS (NCIS) -- and now, since Bones has been moved there, too, to FOX.


-- Rob

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9-19-07: You can tell that I'm a Lorelai. When I get agitated, I babble on for paragraphs and paragraphs and now you know why Amy's dialogue could leave the actors exhausted. :-)

So I decided to give you the Cliff Notes version of my original rant from yesterday.

What does Lauren signing with NBC Universal for a development deal mean for the campaign?

1) Nothing. Literally.

2) I mean it.

3) No, really.

4) Consider it this way: it's just a lateral move from her "Wife World Tour" roles. There's no real chance of anything coming of it any sooner than the fall of 2008. There's no promise inherent in a development deal that she will get a new series built around her, it means that they'll try to build one around her. I'm not speaking for Lauren or the network, I'm just basing all of this on my observations of what typically comes from a development deal: new series, existing series or no series -- and a lead time of at least a year.

5) In any case, we already knew that any Gg revival/reunion/whatever you want to call it that might get a green light would have to work around the actors' current gigs, likely during a summer hiatus.

As I've noted below, I've moved my original rant into a new thread on the Forum in the Campaigns section due to IMO the need to discuss the direct non-impact of the news on the campaign rather than into the News section where it'd otherwise go. So see you in the forum!


-- Rob

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9-18-07: Reminder: The following news does not mean that the campaign to Save The Lorelais is anywhere near over. So keep spreading the word for Gg fans to sign the petition at: www.petitionspot.com and then to come on over here to STL. If they've only heard just the scant details of the following news, please direct them especially to my following comment.

Breaking Lauren Graham News! This is via TV Guide's Matt Webb Mitovitch at TV Guide Online:
"NBC Gives Lauren Graham Her Due
Emmy shmemmy! Our favorite Gilmore Girl has just scored a seven-figure development deal with the Peacock, Variety reports. "After having spent so many years representing the frog on the WB," the actress says, "I am especially comforted to be part of the only other network with an animal mascot." More importantly, it's now only a matter of time until the golden Girl is back on the tube in a new series! Yay squared! (URL: TV Guide Online")

The Variety article that Mitovitch references (too long to reprint here) is located at: Variety Online and specifically mentions that it's a deal to develop a new show around Graham.

Due to popular demand my whim, I'm only slightly editing my reactions to the following news (for repetitiveness and redundancy and repetitiveness) and have moved it to start a new thread in the Campaigns Forum.


-- Rob

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9-18-07:Hooray! On Monday night, we passed 8,000 signatures on our petition at www.petitionspot.com . We're 2,000 signatures away from our goal of 10,000 in time for me to print the petition out and send it to the appropriate people in conjunction with the November 13th release of the s7 and Not-Yet-Complete Series DVD Boxed Set. Like I said, we're still 2,000 signatures away from the goal, so now's not the time to relax. Keep spreading the word about the petition and this here website as far and as wide as you can and pay no heed to the few complainers you'll meet along the way.

Also, a reminder: Tonight starts premiere week on the CW and what do we get? Not the season premiere of Gilmore Girls but a two-hour dose of the "reality show" Beauty and the Geek. Yawn! Time to call in to the CW Comment Line again at 1-818-977-6878 and let them know that they really shouldn't concede Tuesdays at 8pm to NCIS and Bones (whose season premiere is next Tuesday night at 8pm on FOX, with David Boreanaz gaining the advantage of being back in Buffy's old timeslot). Keep flooding the comment line by asking them (politely) to bring Gilmore Girls back for a real conclusion! Those of you who like BatG, that's okay -- just ask them to move BatG to another night to make room for more of the Lorelais.


-- Rob

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9-11-07:Tonight, the series season finale of Gilmore Girls airs and then the show disappears from The CW, airing only in reruns on ABC Family until its revival is eventually announced. In honor of the occasion, it's time to declare this week The Season 8 Phone Blitz Week. Phone The CW's viewer comment line at 1-818-977-6878 throughout the week. Let's fill up the comment line mailbox as quickly as we can every day between now and next Tuesday, September 18th. If your cell phone plan includes unlimited local/long distance, then do it. But DO NOT call the line more than once a day per person -- any individual jamming the line with multiple calls in the same day will not help the cause of Gg (or even Veronica Mars) in any way, shape or form.

For more information on etiquette for calling the network's viewer comment line or similarly blitzing them by email, click on The Contact Sheet button to the left.

Important Reminder: Also, since this is going to be the last airing of the show on The CW until the eventual revival is announced, let's be patient with the network and remember that some political considerations that weren't the network's fault (I say obliquely) contributed to the collapse of the negotiations for the show's 8th season. In other words, even though The CW's president of entertainment, Dawn Ostroff, is our target at the network, the point-person to go to at the network to encourage the show's revival, the show's cancellation is not her fault. Please don't blamethrow (which revolts the people at the network) or threaten boycotts (which don't ever work). Just state your case in the affirmative about why you think that the network should revive Gg as a movie, a miniseries or even a full season. In other words, tell them why you lurves you them Gilmore Girls and why you want to see more of them!

-- Rob

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9-9-07: Jinkies! The jig is up! The moderators of The CW's Times Square ticker are onto us and are now blocking all comments referring to Gg (and VM)! They reacted to us. Consider that a win for our side.

Challenge: Somebody try to sneak in "Nag Hammadi is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels" or "Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too," "Emily Says Hello" or other episode titles that don't include the words "Lorelai(s)" "Rory" or "Gilmore(s)" in them. Just the episode titles. Nothing else. Let's see what happens.

PS: ALSO, DO NOT USE THE TITLE "TICK . . . TICK . . . TICK . . . BOOM!" for obvious reasons.

9-8-07: The following is courtesy of a post by Frannie in the STL Forum

"I was looking around the CW website. There is a forum called See your CW self up in the BIG LIGHTs of NYC! It says.....

"Talk about your favorite CW shows and characters here and see your CW username and words up in the big lights of Times Square in New York City! This board will post directly to a ticker in Times Square in the evenings for all of September. Be patient, your posts may not show up immediately on the board, but as soon as they do, they'll stream live to the ticker every night."

http://lounge.cwtv.com/showthread.php?t=138072

Just thinking Amy lives in NY. She must go by Times Square. Wouldn't she be surprised to see something about GG on the ticker."

And when I voiced my concern that the CW might edit out Gg references, Frannie followed up with:
"They have a moderator scanning the posts. There are some up there already for GG and VM."

So . . . Do it to it, Mountain Dew(tm) it, guys!

PS: For the record, I like catchy jingles, but ironically, I can't stand Mountain Dew -- I'm a Pepper. Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?

-- Rob

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9-2-07: Lots More News Bits Than You Might expect:

* In a display of what I really do think is accidental bad taste, The CW will be rerunning the series seventh season finale of Gilmore Girls on Tuesday, September 11, 2007. Let's flood ("blitz") The CW's Viewer Comment line at 1-818-977-6878 all day on Tuesday the 11th and Wednesday the 12th (at the very least.)

* In conjunction with that move, on Monday, September 17th, The CW's website www.cwtv.com, will be deleting their Gilmore Girls section (including its forum) as well as the sections and forums of other shows no longer on the network. If you post at cwtv.com or starting on the 17th you come across Gg fans who are wondering where Gg went, please refer them here to www.savethelorelais.org and to our favorite site, www.gilmoregirls.org for further discussion of the show.

And please remind them to sign the Season 8 petition at www.petitionspot.com

* Speaking of the petition: a competing petition whose link I won't post for obvious reasons is pushing for four more years of Gg. It may or may not be a sincere petition, it may or may not be intending to be divisive, but what it is, due to the nature of its stated request, 4 more seasons, is so unrealistic (not even ER got renewed for anything past 3 seasons at the height of its popularity) that the only thing that would happen is that no one in Hollywood would take it or us seriously, so please continue to direct people to our petition at www.petitionspot.com . We're at about 7,400 signatures as I type this and we're sure to hit our goal of at least 10,000 in time to send 'em out to be received by the necessary parties on Tuesday, November 13th, the release date for both the s7 DVD set and the Complete Series DVD boxed set. Pre-order yours from Amazon already, it's too expensive to buy at any store and Amazon's discount on it ($80 or so off!) is too good to pass up! (No, I don't work for nor are providing link-throughs to the Amazon page, so I'm not making money off this plug.)

* For those of you who are Jared Padalecki fans who want something akin to a portrait of Dean, Titan Magazines will be adding Supernatural to their lineup of show-centered magazines such as Lost, 24, Grey's Anatomy, Charmed and the now-ended Buffy. While the newsstand version of the magazine (the one you'd get at chain stores such as Barnes & Noble, Borders, Hastings, etc.) will have a more general design including both of the Winchester Brothers, Titan will also be publishing a variant cover, a head portrait of Padalecki only minus any cover text but the series logo. The catch is that this version will be sold through comic book shops only. You have a couple of options: 1) you can pre-order it through your local comic book shop. Your brother or the Xander Harris in your life should be able to help you if you aren't a comic book geek, or 2) you should be able to order it through the internet arm of the chain store Mile High Comics at www.milehighcomics.com or another mail order/internet comics business of your choice. The publisher does NOT carry backstock for these variants.
(PS: The publisher does this for every issue of Lost, too.)

-- Rob


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8-29-07: See what Melissa McCarthy had to say to Michael Ausiello, here in the STL Forums and then check out his full Ask Ausiello column. Ausiello is ginchy despite his addiction to Smurfs. -- Rob

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"As some of you know, I was on vacation for about three weeks in July and August, with intermittent online access, (like Lorelai and Rory, we all must take vacations during the summer months), so it's taken me awhile to get up to speed again. The vacation gave me some time to think up some tweaks and I'm going to be addressing many of the suggestions that you've given me over the past month that STL has been in operation. And I swear to God that I'll send the welcome message below to the archives and put something else in its place as soon as I can. In the meantime, check out our newest project, the Postcard Blitz directed toward Amy Sherman-Palladino here in the STL Forums."

Best, Rob
8-23-07

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