Leverage - an interview with the creators about season one and beyond

Hey folks!  There's a really nice interview with John Rogers and Chris Downey, the creators of Leverage, at iFMagazine.com. They take a look at each character and how they evolved based on the talented actors and actresses that play them, plus other season one things. Neat stuff!

( Chris Kane is a bit more of a shit kicker than Eliot Spencer was envisioned. )

A little help?

Can someone show me EXACTLY where it was posted yesterday that the summaries for the final three Supernatural episodes were an April Fools joke? I got my info from SpoilerTV. Are they the ones that made it up? If not, who was the source? What website made it up?

And if it is true, honestly, I'm really disappointed, because the way they were worded they didn't sound made up at all and I was looking forward to the final three.

ETA: Ok, what I've kind of figured out myself is that SpoilerTV got the descriptions from BuddyTV but then BuddyTV must've realized what day it was and removed those descriptions and now there are totally fake and funny ones up there. SpoilerTV must've heard BuddyTV's were a joke but didn't realize they were talking about the NEW spoilers they put up, not the first ones, so SpoilerTV took theirs down. Whew! LOL! So yeah, I'm totally convinced the ones I posted yesterday morning are indeed true. Which makes me very happy! :-)

Police Academy class #8

Last night's class was very interesting, as it was on our 911 call center. Our instructor was Jenny, and she's been in the call center for 30 years. Wow! Started as an operator and over the years worked her way up until she was running the entire center. With as stressful as this job is, it's pretty amazing how long she's been doing it.

Our county's 911 call center handles ALL cellular calls in the entire county. We have twenty 911 lines and ten non-emergency lines.

In 2007, our center handled 573,000 calls. In 2008 it went up to 663,000. That's over 1800 calls to 911 every single day!

We have 20 dispatchers, spread over 3 shifts. So think about it. That's six operators on shift, handling about 90 calls EACH, every single day. That's pretty crazy and totally and completely stressful.

Jenny put us through four tests, to see if we had what it takes to be a 911 operator, to see how well we listen. We were each given a pack of 12 index cards. Each card had either a letter or a number on it. Jenny played a tape that we had to listen to and do what it said. For instance, it would say, "Find the card with the B and place it on the table. Now find the card with the number 2 and place it on the right side of the B. Find the A card and place it below the 2, face down," etc.

The first test the instructions were moderately paced and it was only the woman's voice talking. As the tests went along the instructions got faster and faster and other sounds were introduced in the background - police sirens, barking dogs, jackhammers, etc. You had to concentrate and filter out all of the extraneous sounds.

In the end, I passed three of the four tests, the last test being the most important, as we were told if we passed that one, we had what it takes to be a 911 operator. I passed that one with flying colors (as did about 1/3 of the class) but there's no way I want that job!

Jenny then played some of the horrific 911 calls they get. One of them was a woman who came home to find her garage door open, as well as the connecting door to the house. When she walked in she found her 24 year old daughter beaten to death with a baseball bat on the floor. It brought you to tears to hear this woman who just couldn't comprehend that she was staring down at her dead child.

The operator who took that call (her name was Barb, too) was on duty last night, and when we went into the call center we got to meet her.

The actual call center was pretty damn impressive. Each operator has four computer screens in front of them corresponding to each 911 line, one to enter all the information from the caller, another to show what sheriff units are where via GPS in their vehicles so she knows who to dispatch where and another that shows what calls each deputy is on. That screen has a timer that goes off every three minutes for the operator to check on the deputy via radio to see if everything is still okay on his call. I think that's an awesome safeguard measure.

We got to hear some calls come in while we were there, including a person getting evicted who was refusing to leave, a fight with supposedly 20 people at it, and a man that called in to say that he had caught the two kids running around his neighborhood playing "ding-dong-ditch". LOL! Kids still play that game??

So my report wouldn't be complete without at least one M and W problem student story. (and I swear to you guys I'm not making this stuff up every week!) Now both M and W are completely clueless about the police department, right? Well last night M announces that his brother is a U.S. Marshal. WHAT?? Then why does he not know how the police operate?? ARGH!

Ok, folks, next week's class is going to rock SO HARD. Why, you ask? It's time for our live fire exercises on the gun range!! YES!!

Supernatural Coming to an End?

Oh man, this makes me SO depressed, reading this. I don't want just one more year of Supernatural!

'Supernatural' Coming To An End?!?

From the NY Post PopWrap:

As one of the only TV shows posting ratings gains this season, you'd think that "Supernatural" was just getting started -- preparing to introduce more baddies, more ladies and give the Winchester brothers a lot more to do. Well, you'd be wrong. In fact, everyone involved with The CW's spookfest is preparing to shut down the show next year!

"Despite what the network and studio may or may not want, I don't have more than five seasons of a story," creator Eric Kripke tells EW of the show, currently in it's fourth year. "I would be willing to make sure there are enough villains and heroes around to continue a new story, but there's no way I'm doing season six."

But at the end of the day, show runners leave their series all the time and -- "Smallville" dealt with it last season and it's currently experiencing a creative high. The bigger problem facing "Supernatural" is that the stars feel the same way.

"We don't live at home. We don't sleep in our own beds. Our families aren't here. Our friends aren't here. Out girlfriends aren't here," Jensen Ackles says of the Vancouver-shot series. "To do it for another five years ... I don't know if I could handle it."

His on-screen brother, Jared Padalecki, seconds that sentiment. "I don't want to be cheesy and here's Sam and Dean at age 50 sitting in wheelchairs. I'd rather leave them [fans] wanting more than get to the point where they boo you off stage."

What say you "Supernatural" fans -- are you ready to big adieu to the Winchester's or should The CW do whatever they have to (money! cars! blackmail! evil curses!) so the stars stick around?

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What do you think, guys?

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