'Sweeps Weeks' is upon us in 'television land' and that means that TV series are pull out heavy hitting first run episodes for audiences to delve into and to entice advertisers to spend their money on buying ad spots during the shows.  This past week's episode of the hit CW Network series Supernatural titled I Know What You Did Last Summer swept into the fray with a powerful storyline about how Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) dealt with his grief over losing older brother Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) to death as Dean made good on his deal with a crossroads demon that came due at the end of season 3. The episode also introduced us to Anna Milton, a woman who hears 'angelic conversations', which makes her target of interest for angel and demon alike.  We also got to meet up with the newest demon 'big bad, Alastair (Mark Rolston) who seems to know Dean from the older Winchester's time spent in hell.

Despite being pre-empted in many areas by CW Affiliates choosing to air Football instead, I Know What You Did Last Summer still garnered an impressive 3.91 overnight rating which means that Supernatural continues to hit its stride and continues to gain audience approval and viewer-ship in what is considered a very 'killer' Thursday night time slot. Just goes to show that those Winchester brothers are kick ass tough and they have what it takes to 'go the distance' (cue Eye of the Tiger Music').

Supernatural continues on into 'Sweeps Week' with an episode titled “Heaven and Hell,” which will air on Thursday the 20th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW and will be the last original episode of 2008! Additional new episodes of “Supernatural” will resume airing on Thursday January 15, 2009 (The day before Jensen Ackles' big screen horror movie My Bloody Valentine: 3D opens nation wide in select theaters).

Heaven and Hell is the the second half of a two-part episode bloc, which began with I Know What You Did Last Summer and resumes right where the story left off with Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) struggling to save the mysterious Anna Milton (guest star Julie McNiven). As Anna starts to remember her past, the brothers begin to understand the reason behind Castiel and Uriel’s (guest stars Misha Collins and Robert Wisdom) desire to see her dead and ignoring the angels’ orders, they attempt to help her recover an important part of her past so she can be saved. Meanwhile, Alastair (guest star Mark Rolston) and his demons continue to try to get to Anna and the Winchesters before the angels can. Also guest starring Genevieve Cortese as ‘Ruby’ and Traci Dinwiddie as ‘Pamela Barnes.’ The teleplay for “Heaven and Hell” was written by Eric Kripke from a story by Trevor Sands and was directed by J. Miller Tobin.

Previews for Heaven and Hell indicate that viewers might get to see more of the scenes that Jensen Ackles filmed at the end of season 3 of Dean being strung from what look like meat hooks as he was being tortured in hell.

At Comic Con 2008 over the summer, I had the chance to ask Jensen Ackles about filming these scenes and what kind of special effects were involved in them and even though Jensen and I had a different idea of what I was asking about (he thought I was asking if things were done with CGI), his answer was more than I could have asked for in terms of descriptiveness and willingness to share the details with readers.

"A lot of that wasn’t visual effects, a lot of that was real," Ackles told me as he grimaced slightly in remembrance of the process.  "Especially when I was getting killed and I was getting bruised up, I had a full body suit on and blood was flying everywhere, I had to wear that thing for six hours – it was like … I don’t know if you’ve ever had corn syrup blood on you… but it’s real tacky and sticky and I had that thing on for six hours… it’s not fun."

Describing the scene of Dean hanging in hell, Jensen Ackles elaborated on this process as well. "In the hell scene, I was actually hoisted up about 13 feet in the air with wires connected to my wrists and my ankles, and one to my belt," He says, pointing to the areas of his body where the hooks were attached to Dean. "Just splayed out like that and trying to hold myself up was difficult. The hooks were real and they were digging into my skin and with having spent four hours in prosthetics, getting those hooks put into my , you know, back, my stomach, yeah I wish they did all that with CGI," Ackles finished his answer with a rueful smile.

So while we are waiting for more scenes of Dean's time in hell and finding out what happened to him while he was there, Eclipsemagazine.com readers can check out the advance teaser clips so generously provided for us by Warner Bros. Television and then tune into the CW Network this coming Thursday November 20th to watch Heaven and Hell at 9PM EST.

Final Grade = B-

Quantum of Solace, which is directed by Marc Forster and written by Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis & Robert Wade, is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Columbia Pictures release of EON Productions' 22^nd adventure in the longest-running film franchise in motion picture history with Daniel Craig reprising his role as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007.

'Quantum of Solace' picks up the storyline of Casino Royale mere hours after his betrayal by Vesper Lynd the woman that Bond had fallen in love with. In Quantum of Solace, Bond and 'M' attempt to interrogate Mr. White, whom Bond has captured and in doing so it is revealed that the organization which blackmailed Vesper to steal Bond's casino winnings is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.

First off let me say that Daniel Craig is only the second actor to play the role of James Bond that I have truly liked and enjoyed watching in the role and whom I feel captures the true essence of the character that Ian Fleming was writing about. I am probably one of those rare people who read all the James Bond books before every having seen any of the cinematic versions of them. To me, in all of Fleming’s books, Bond is a killer who can pretend to be a fancy gentleman, not a fancy gentleman pretending to be a killer. The only other actor in the Bond role that I felt captured the character perfectly for me was Timothy Dalton (and yes this means that I am not in the ‘Connery IS Bond and there can be no other’ camp. While nice to look at and he is a talented actor, Sean Connery just never cut it for me as James Bond).

Like Dalton’s Bond, Daniel Craig’s is gritty and hard edged. You believe him when he is ruthlessly stalking an enemy or playing by his own rules and codes of conduct giving quarter to none, not even M (played by the elegant as always Judi Dench) whom he respects more than any other person in the world.

Secondly, to me story wise Quantum of Solace reminded me quite a bit of Dalton’s last outing as Bond which was ‘License to Kill’. Both movies have the same elements of a James Bond driven by grief and the need for vengeance over the loss of woman he loved. Both dealt with a James Bond who was not only willing to risk his own reputation, position and his life, but that of others around him to accomplish his vengeance/grief driven goal. In both stories there is a bare minimum of snappy one liner comebacks and the ones given are well placed and have impact. There is no over the top witty repartee with the women and the bad guys and no smirking ‘wink, wink, nudge, nudge’ towards the camera. As with ‘License to Kill’, this was Bond at his most elemental and animalistic.

The good news about all of this is that I like this kind of James Bond. I want him to be gritty and edgy with a large measure of moral ambiguity and not some clear cut ‘superman’. To me this is how Ian Fleming wrote the character. I liked ‘License to Kill’ and, for the most part, I liked Quantum of Solace for many of the same reasons. Of course the bad news in all of this is, judging by how soundly ‘License to Kill’ and Dalton’s Bond was trashed by critics and Bond movie-goers alike, I seemed to be in a minority when it comes to wanting a grittier, edgier James Bond. Though I am sensing that there might be a difference in how the Bond audiences of now will react to this kind of James Bond compared to those of the late 80’s viewed such a drastic change in how the character was presented on screen. ‘License to Kill’ might well have been ahead of its time.

On a more specific level, I think that the biggest short coming that Quantum of Solace has is that there is too much reliance on the audience having seen and/or remembering the events of Casino Royale and the character of Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). There is too much reference back to this without a visual ‘recap’ for the audience to be able to fully connect with where Bond’s actions, emotions and motivation are coming from. His feelings for Vesper is too much just this nebulous thing that audience goers might not be able to drawn into caring about or having an interest in. I am of the opinion that it might not be a good thing to have an audience disconnected from the main point of a character’s motivation. Even I, who had seen and liked ‘Casino Royale’, was having a difficult time remembering the plot well enough without a visual recap to connect it to this movie.

Another specific thing I had an issue with was that there were far too many almost mindless ‘chase and kill’ scenes in the opening half hour of the movie. The car and gun chase at the beginning was excellent and it set the tone that yes this IS a Bond movie. But the subsequent foot-chase and boat chase scenes in my opinion went on far too long and with the case of the foot chase way too far into the improbable. It got boring and coming from me whose friends swear that I am an adult woman whose ‘inner child’ is a 14-year-old boy who likes car chases and explosions, that’s saying a lot if I was getting bored. I live for action movies. What I think really could have served this movie much better is that this time could have been devoted to doing a bit of a visual recap on the Vespa scenario. Spending time on that instead of wasting it on overdone chase scenes would have, in my opinion done more to solidify the plot of the movie.

Last point is that none of the other characters, with the exception of James Bond’s old friend Mathis (played by the very suave Giancarlo Giannini) and M, seemed to be given much depth or personality. Dominic Greene (played by the very intense Mathieu Amalric) the villain in Quantum of Solace was stereotypical and generic which made him extremely predicable. The big ‘reveal’ about what his nefarious plot was all about seemed to be of little significance to the movie. It went by in the blink of an eye with little or no elaboration to justify why it made him so worthy of being an adversary to James Bond. The two ‘Bond Girls’ came off as shallow ‘token’ presences in the movie were overshadowed by the specter of Vespa who wasn’t even in the movie. Though Camille (played by the stunningly beautiful Olga Kurylenko) faired much better story wise than Strawberry Fields (played by the striking Gemma Arterton) did.

Overall it was nice to see an edgier, grittier James Bond again. Daniel Craig is excellent. Yet the movie itself, while having good plot elements and ideas, seemed to lack cohesion and honestly it felt like it had been rushed and very little time was taken to think things out more extensively.

Minor nitpick. I disliked the opening credits to this movie and for me they lacked the cinematic presence of previous opening credits of James Bond movies.

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Watch the theatrical trailer for Quantum of Solace

R2-D2 and R3-S6 (AKA Goldie)

Have you ever wondered what is R2-D2 made of? Well audiences and Star Wars fans will find out, both literally and figuratively, as Duel of the Droids, an all-new episode of the hit animated series STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS premiers at 9 PM EST on Friday, November 14th on Cartoon Network.

Duel of the Droids which was written by Kevin Campbell ("Disney's House of Mouse," "Jackie Chan Adventures") completes a two-episode story arc. Anakin, Ahsoka and replacement droid R3-S6 (aka "Goldie") must embark on a dual rescue/sabotage mission when they discover R2-D2 is being held at General Grievous's secret enemy listening post. In writing this script, Campbell created a little extra work for the Lucasfilm Animation crew when he used the unusually vivid word "splayed" to describe how R2-D2's internal mechanisms would be removed and exhibited across an examining table. That gave the production team ample opportunity to delve into Artoos's inner workings and have a little fun with director Rob Campbell to boot.

According to director Rob Coleman, R2-D2 is the ultimate Swiss Army knife. “We all love the myriad things that come out of him, but having to build and animate all of that is another story", He say of the challenge of animating the ‘splayed out’ scenes for R2-D2.

To achieve the effect and have it stay true to the films and the history of this particular droid, they turned to Lucasfilm Animation's Gary Scheppke, who got a box full of 'Artoo bits' and to the modelers who began basing all of their work off the actual hardware that has historically been shown as being part of R2-D2.

“We crammed it into the model inside the computer. There are definitely some recognizable pieces on that table from the films, as well as all the things that show up for the first time in this episode - a cutter wheel, suction cups, etc.,” Coleman says of the process. “Then they animated in a few things like a pea shooter and a boxing glove just to get my attention. They're funny guys."

As for getting the opportunity to write this episode, Campbell says he took pride in the chance to add some history for Artoo and his capabilities, showing some aspects of the droid that audiences haven't seen before. "I love that we're adding back story to the back story,” Campbell explains with enthusiasm. “We discover that when Princess Leia hid the Death Star plans inside Artoo in Episode IV, it's not the first time he's been entrusted with important information."

Campbell says he also enjoyed that he and the production team get to play with Anakin's emotional side. “The other Jedi are saying he gets too attached, that he's willing to risk everything to get Artoo back. He's a Jedi, and yet he assigns sentimental value to an inanimate object. I can relate to that, because that's real loyalty."

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Sylvester Stallone has teamed up with Nu Image/Millennium films with a deal to write, star in and direct their latest action movie offering, “The Expendables” about a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

Stallone will also be weighing in on this film with two other heavy hitting action stars as  Jason Statham co-stars and Jet Li is in final negotiations to join the action film.

Filming on The Expendables starts in February 2009 in Costa Rica and Louisiana with a late 2009 release date tentatively set for the movie.

The hit CW Network/Warner Bros. series Supernatural, which stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as Sam and Dean Winchester: two monster hunting, demon fighting brothers - seems to be really hitting its stride in it's fourth season with this week's episode, Wishful Thinking, getting 3.73 overnight rating.

Next week, Supernatural heads into 'Sweeps Weeks' with one of two highly anticipated episodes of the fourth season. In this first episode, a tip from Ruby (guest star Genevieve Cortese) sends Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) on the trail of Anna (guest star Julie McNiven - “Mad Men”), a mysterious young woman who is being hunted by both demons and angels.  Fans will also learn the long-awaited answer to the question of what happened to Sam (Jared Padalecki) during the four long months following his brother Dean’s (Jensen Ackles) death.  Additional guest stars include Misha Collins as ‘Castiel,’ Robert Wisdom as ‘Uriel’ and Mark Rolston as ‘Alastair.”  “I Know What You Did Last Summer” was written by Sera Gamble and directed by Charles Beeson.

Check out the two teaser clips provided for us by Warner Bros/The CW Network and then check out Supernatural next week on the CW at 9PM EST.

Devil’s Due Becomes First Comic Publisher to Offer Tour Book in Comic Form

Devil’s Due Publishing, which has long been known for their licensed books, including holding the rights for the Halloween and Chucky franchises, announced today that it has partnered with multi-platinum rock act Hinder to produce a limited-edition comic-themed tour book, and is in talks to produce a monthly comic series based on the band’s upcoming “Take It to the Limit” tour.  The first “Take It to the Limit” book will serve as the band’s tour book, which will accompany their 2009 tour.

DDP has been making name for themselves in recent years by developing original comic crossovers and series built around existing stars. Most notably DDP recently developed, produced and published Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia’s “Rest,” which fans first got a look at in San Diego at the 2008Comic-Con. 

Hinder front man Austin Winkler is excited about the group's collaboration with DDP. “Growing up every kid dreams about being in a comic book, or being a super hero, we have a new and exciting opportunity to be portrayed in a comic book series of our own. We are going to have a blast with this, it will be a lot of fun, this is for our fans, and they will be heavily involved in this, we think they will love it. All in the name of 'rocknroll'!”

Channeling the spirit of 80s arena rock, Hinder which consists of Austin Winkler (vocals), Mark King (guitar), Blower (guitar), Mark Rodden (Bass), Cody Hanson (drums)  released their Universal Records debut, Extreme Behavior, in September of 2005 going triple platinum and spent 2 ½ years on the road in support remaining on Billboard’s Top 200 for more than 70 weeks. Hinder were recently honored with three BMI Awards including Pop Song of the Year and Internet Song of the Year for “Lips Of An Angel.”  Hinder’s sophomore release, Take It To The Limit, will be in stores November 4 on Universal/Republic.

For more about the rock group Hinder, check out their official Site. For more information and the latest updates on the Hinder comic series, please visit Devils Due Publishing's website.

In “Downfall of a Droid,” an all-new episode of the hit animated series STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, premiering at 9 p.m. ET/PT Friday, Nov. 7, on Cartoon Network, R2-D2 is lost during a fierce space battle and Anakin must find him before the Separatists discover the Jedi military secrets locked in the droid's memory banks.

Directed by Rob Coleman and written by George Krstic, “Downfall of a Droid” is the first episode to feature the beloved astromech droid who has been with the Star Wars Franchise since the very beginning, first appearing the 1977 release of Star Wars: A New Hope. Krstic, the creator of Cartoon Network’s “Megas XLR,” says that R2-D2 is his favorite STAR WARS character.

“Artoo is very childlike and inquisitive, there’s no subterfuge to Artoo,” Krstic says. “He’s got loyalty and bravery and, while he doesn’t speak English, I think everyone understands what he’s saying. The wonderful sound design work and the incredible characterizations for Artoo have made it so that it doesn’t matter what language you speak, or where you’re from -- you can relate to Artoo and what he’s about.”

A native of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and current resident of Los Angeles, George Krstic has written three episodes for STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS and says his ultimate “nerd moment” came when he discovered there would be merchandising on some of the characters he’s worked on for the series.

“A few of the characters I wrote for on the series are being made into action figures and, as a fan, that’s pretty much the pinnacle of my career,” Krstic said with a laugh. “I can die happy now because it’s not going to get better.”

Dave Filoni is the supervising director of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS. George Lucas is executive producer and creator of the series, and Catherine Winder is producer.

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My Bloody Valentine: 3D starring Jensen Ackles (Supernatural, Smallville, Dark Angel and Dawson's Creek), Jaime King (THE SPIRIT, SIN CITY, SIN CITY 2) and Kerr Smith (FINAL DESTINATION, "Dawson's Creek") doesn't open in select theaters across the USA until January 16, 2009.  However, until then fans can check out the official online website for the movie that features a full length theatrical trailer for this remake of the 1981 horror classic, MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D which is directed by Patrick Lussier and produced by Jack Murray and presented in stunningly real, cutting edge 3-D projection.

Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, he woke up...and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed.

Ten years later, Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine's Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend, Sarah (Jamie King), who is now married to his best friend, Axel (Kerr Smith) who is also the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror that it just might be Harry Warden who's come back to claim them.

On Thursday October 30^th at 9PM EST the hit Warner Bros/CW Network series Supernatural will air it’s Halloween episode, titled ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester’. As the Winchester’s say, every day is Halloween for them when it comes to dealing with all manner of beasties, demons, ghouls and witches. Plus this season there is even an angel or two thrown in for good measure. Those Winchester boys sure have their work cut out for them! 

In this spooktacular frightfest, which was written by Julie Siege and directed by Charles Beeson, Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles): the two monster hunting, demon fighting brothers will be facing off against every type of horrific creature they have every encountered as they investigate some strange Halloween-related deaths that are taking place in a town during the days leading up to the holiday itself. As they begin to solve the mystery, they also learn the real origins of Halloween and find themselves trying to save the entire town itself from a surprising pair of would-be assassins. The episode also guest stars Misha Collins (“24”) as ‘Castiel’ and introduces Robert Wisdom (“The Wire”) as ‘Uriel.’

While fans and viewers of Supernatural are waiting on the edge of their seats for this next episode to air, Eclipse Magazine.com has a real Halloween treat in store for it’s readers as we catch up and ‘go behind the scenes’ with Todd Stashwick, the handsome and talented actor who portrayed the shape shifter with the penchant for impersonating classic movie monsters in the Supernatural episode Monster Movie, which was filmed in retro black and white to pay homage to those classic horror movies of yesteryear.

Todd Stashwick, who describes himself as ‘quite the sci-fi horror geek’, is no stranger to appearing in these types of roles in his career having played all manner of beasties and ghouls before coming to Supernatural to play the shape shifter. The versatile actor has been in such notable scifi/horror series as Angel, Dark Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Enterprise along with a slew of other guest appearances on more mainstream hit series such as Monk, The Riches and The War at Home.

The first thing I learned about Todd Stashwick when I asked him if he was familiar with Supernatural before getting the role as the shape shifter was that he had a prior work connection to Jared Padalecki who plays Sam Winchester.

“Oddly Supernatural was off my radar. I'm quite the sci-fi horror geek but I missed it. I knew it was out there and that Jared was on it, he and I had done a pilot together 7 years ago, so when I saw his mug on huge posters around town I was like "Good for him!" I have since dived into season 1 on DVD and have to say I love it.”

Another new convert to the awesomeness of Supernatural. That’s always a good thing to learn about.

Todd also tells us that it was more than the chance to work with Jared again that drew him to take on the role of the monster movie loving shape shifter. It was the character itself and how the role was going to be presented that fascinated him, as he just like the character, is a long time fan of the classic horror monsters the role was based on.

“How often do you get a chance to recreate such an iconographic performance? We rarely get to play that broad on TV. That style of acting is outdated but quite fun.” It was also the very human side of this character that intrigued him as an actor as well. “Combine that with the emotional admission toward the end of the episode, which made for a complicated monster.”

In this reporter’s opinion, Todd Stashwick did an amazing job of bringing his character to life, especially in the persona of Dracula. The attention to detail in the accent, body language and hand gestures all harkened back to the early days of Bela Lugosi’s riveting work in the role. So I asked Todd if he had studied the old movies for inspiration or was the material for this provided in the script or by the director Robert Singer?

Being both the dedicated actor and fan of the old horror classics that he is, the actor revealed that when he booked the role on Supernatural in the episode Monster Movie, he bought the 75th anniversary edition of Todd Browning's Dracula with Lugosi on his own for reference and inspiration.

“This shape shifter wanted to BE Lugosi's Dracula,” Stashwick explains his take on the character’s motivation. “So I broke down what Bela (Lugosi) did technically. How he moved and spoke depending on whom he was talking to.”

Todd tells me that in order to keep himself on track with his source of inspiration, that he kept the DVD on his laptop in his trailer and watched it in between takes. “It was fascinating for me to study the ACTUAL performance versus the parody it has become through the years, I didn't want to do Sesame Streets "The Count" I wanted to be so loyal to Lugosi that when the gave me my fangs I raised the issue that Bela never had fangs in the original. I lost that argument.”

So what was the most challenging thing about this role on Supernatural and his decision to stay as true to the Lugosi version of Dracula as possible?

“Making sure my accent was consistent. Also staying sympathetic and grounded while still being over the top. I gained a great respect for Lugosi, how clean and stylized his acting was,” Stashwick says of living up to this challenge.

So what was the most fun? “Please, I'm Dracula, it was all fun,” he says laughing.

As to the Mummy and Werewolf versions, those, he explains were played by stunt performers so he really didn’t have to do any research on them.

Speaking of stunt work, I pointed out that his character had quite a few scenes where he mixed it up in fight scenes with the Winchester brothers, especially Dean. How much was stunt work and how much did Todd as the actor actually get to mix it up in the two lead actors?

Apparently all three actor’s, were quite involved in the ‘hands on’ approach to these scenes.

“I did all my own fights with the guys. The stunt guy did the leap over the fence.”

Todd Stashwick considers working with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles on Monster Movie to have been a special treat for him as an actor. “I had a great deal of fun on this project. The guys are hilarious, a lot of laughing. At one point I had Jensen (Ackles) in a choke hold against a wall, fangs in place and we both just busted up at the fact that here we are both grown men and this is how we are spending our evening.”

Knowing that the two leads are notoriously known for pranking people I asked Todd if he had ended up on the receiving end of any pranks by them or by others on the set?

“Can't kid a kidder,” he responded cryptically.

So I wonder does this mean that Jared and Jensen may have met their match? Since Mr. Stashwick didn’t elaborate, I guess this will remain one of life’s little mysteries in the Supernatural lore.

What Todd was willing to elaborate on was upcoming projects that fans/viewers can see this highly talented actor in.

“I'll be on Ghost Whisperer in November. I just shot an episode of Sarah Conner Chronicles. I got to play a terminator and that was very cool. I'm currently shooting an episode of The Mentalist. Also Surfer Dude comes out on DVD in December, beyond that who knows.”

While we are looking forward to seeing more of the talented Todd Stashwick in his upcoming projects, Supernatural viewers can tune into the CW Network this Thursday at 9PM EST to catch the new episode of Supernatural season 4, It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester.