Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
Veronica Mars panel was good. All actors present with a couple of minor exceptions, along with writers and directors and executives.
First some spoilers: Veronica is not moving off to college, but living at home and commuting to school. Logan may become more of a "good" character, now that his dad is out of the picture, and he is still dating Veronica. Three new recurring characters will be introduced, including Mack's roomate, Wallace's roomate, and a third character (details of which I missed). Instead of one single season-long main mystery thread running throughout the episodes, there will instead be three shorter story arcs (the first of which is 9 episodes long). This is to allow for more new viewers to jump into the show during the season. Repeates and pre-emptions will no longer take place during a story-arc, but only between the arcs. That way, you get an entire story arc every week without interruption.
The ratings for the show are iffy. They have this season greenlighted. Despite the "13 episodes" contract they have for this season on the CW, apparently that is meaningful only in the sense of pay-or-play director contracts and not relevant to the show itself. If ratings dive, it can be cancelled well before 1 episodes, and if ratings are good it will get the full season, and none of it depends on the magic number 13 in any way.
But, like I said, ratings are iffy. The are following Gilmore Girls this season. If they maintain close to the ratings that Gilmore Girls gets, all is well and they will get another season for sure. If they get better than Gilmore Girls ratings then they will make a saint of Kristen Bell (who plays Veronica). If the ratings are significantly less than Gilmore Girls, the show is in trouble. They again urged people to watch the show live rather than TIVOing it later, as TIVO hurts their ratings in some way they failed to explain.
Standards and Practices is cracking down on them a bit more with the new network, as they insist it be a "good" follow-on to Gilmore Girls. However, the network hasn't said no to anything the writers considered important, yet.
Kristen Bell is also doing a horror flick called Pulse, and is staring in an indie film called Fanboys about star wars fans.
One funny moment during the panel involved a fan who now lives in Kristen Bell's former San Diego apartment, and he delivered a package to Kristen Bell that had arrived at his place in her name. She opened it, and it was a foot massager from her agent. Mind you, she moved from that apartment 2 years ago, and her agent apparently didn't have her current address. Kristen Bell seemed like a pretty nice person, and she was about as quick witted as the character she plays, keeping up with any odd questions from the audience or other panelists.
First some spoilers: Veronica is not moving off to college, but living at home and commuting to school. Logan may become more of a "good" character, now that his dad is out of the picture, and he is still dating Veronica. Three new recurring characters will be introduced, including Mack's roomate, Wallace's roomate, and a third character (details of which I missed). Instead of one single season-long main mystery thread running throughout the episodes, there will instead be three shorter story arcs (the first of which is 9 episodes long). This is to allow for more new viewers to jump into the show during the season. Repeates and pre-emptions will no longer take place during a story-arc, but only between the arcs. That way, you get an entire story arc every week without interruption.
The ratings for the show are iffy. They have this season greenlighted. Despite the "13 episodes" contract they have for this season on the CW, apparently that is meaningful only in the sense of pay-or-play director contracts and not relevant to the show itself. If ratings dive, it can be cancelled well before 1 episodes, and if ratings are good it will get the full season, and none of it depends on the magic number 13 in any way.
But, like I said, ratings are iffy. The are following Gilmore Girls this season. If they maintain close to the ratings that Gilmore Girls gets, all is well and they will get another season for sure. If they get better than Gilmore Girls ratings then they will make a saint of Kristen Bell (who plays Veronica). If the ratings are significantly less than Gilmore Girls, the show is in trouble. They again urged people to watch the show live rather than TIVOing it later, as TIVO hurts their ratings in some way they failed to explain.
Standards and Practices is cracking down on them a bit more with the new network, as they insist it be a "good" follow-on to Gilmore Girls. However, the network hasn't said no to anything the writers considered important, yet.
Kristen Bell is also doing a horror flick called Pulse, and is staring in an indie film called Fanboys about star wars fans.
One funny moment during the panel involved a fan who now lives in Kristen Bell's former San Diego apartment, and he delivered a package to Kristen Bell that had arrived at his place in her name. She opened it, and it was a foot massager from her agent. Mind you, she moved from that apartment 2 years ago, and her agent apparently didn't have her current address. Kristen Bell seemed like a pretty nice person, and she was about as quick witted as the character she plays, keeping up with any odd questions from the audience or other panelists.
