Bones Episodic Photos - 09/17/12
8.01 - "The Future in the Past"

Bones Episodic Photos - 09/24/12
8.02 - "The Partners in the Divorce"

By Christiane Elin

Ghost Hunters returns on September 5th with season 8.5 on Syfy. The mid-season premiere is the first episode without co-leader Grant Wilson and the episodes have other noticeable changes. Ghost Hunters is shot differently than previous seasons. A Jason Hawes narrative is weaved into the show and some of the findings are dropped into the investigation. This season's changes seem influenced by other current paranormal programming.

The Syfy press release described the Ghost Hunters TAPS team as, "officially a team in transition, which means there are plenty of surprises on the way this fall!" One of the surprises was given away on a conference call with founder and lead investigator, Jason Hawes, on August 28th. Jason exclusively announced on the press conference call that a new female investigator, Ashley Troub of East Ventura Paranormal Society (EVPs), has joined the Ghost Hunters team. I have met and investigated with Ashley previously. Ashley will bring a new energy to the TAPS team. On September 26th, Ashley will make her first appearance on Ghost Hunters.

Exclusive Interview with Hollie Cavanagh of American Idol
Interview by Jamie Ruby
Written by Jamie Ruby

American Idol Live - 8/14/12
Consol Energy Center
Pittsburgh, PA

This summer the top ten winners of American Idol went on tour to forty-five locations, including the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before American Idol Live that night, Hollie Cavanagh, the fourth place winner, talked to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview.

Exclusive Interview with DeAndre Brackensick of American Idol
Interview by Jamie Ruby
Written by Jamie Ruby

American Idol Live - 8/14/12
Consol Energy Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Recently this summer the top ten from American Idol went on tour, stopping at forty-five locations, including the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before the concert, eighth place winner DeAndre Brackensick took time to talk to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision for an exclusive interview.

American Idol recently finished up its eleventh season on Fox. The reality show chronicles singers' journeys during the season where teens and young adults compete to win the ultimate title along with a recording contract.

Those that make it to the top ten travel the country on the official tour, American Idol Live. This year the tour stops in forty-five locations, including the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, on 8/14, which I attended to review.

By Jamie Ruby

ABC Family Conference Call
Switched at Birth
Lea Thompson 

August 28, 2012
2:00 p.m. ET

Most fans will recognize Lea Thompson from movies, such as the Back to the Future films, or from television where she played the title role in the series Caroline in the City. Thompson now, however, stars as Kathryn Kennish in ABC Family's Switched at Birth. In the show, Kathryn is shocked when she discovers that the daughter she raised, Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano), belongs to another family, who have her and her husband (D.W. Moffett)'s biological daughter, Daphne Vasquez (Katie Leclerc).

Thompson recently talked to the press about her role in Switched at Birth.

By Christiane Elin

Some of Necessary Roughness’s story lines are wrapping up while new ones emerge on the mid-season finale. During a conference call SciFi Vision attended with Necessary Roughness star, Callie Thorne, she shared her thoughts about the mid-season finale.

“T.K. and Dani and Matt and Nico all are sort of forced into this big fork in the road that is about choice. And not being able to figure out if there’s a right or a wrong. I think we all were in this place, we were all very excited to be and to have the show take this particular tone for a finale.”

Thorne goes on to say, “we wanted to keep everything really grounded in reality and not have it necessarily be something soap opera-ish, but much more developed in the big choices in life, the game changers.”