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Thats cool Ash, I hope Supernatural will retain GG's audience too, and more people watch. We'll have to see what the ratings turn out to be.
New article....
From hollywoodnorthreport.com
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Supernatural Scares Up The Right Formula
Vancouver-shot series keep building in intensity
September 12th 2005 03:04pm | Posted by: Robert Falconer HNR Senior Editor
Well, it's almost fall once again, and the networks are wooing us with new series (i.e. Invasion, Surface), and the promise of exciting seasons for returning series (i.e. Lost, 24). Not to toot our own horns, but the shows lensing here in Vancouver are just getting better and better - and, yes, we can probably thank The X-Files for inaugurating this stratospheric success back in 1993.
Battlestar Galactica, The Dead Zone, Smallville, The 4400, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis, along with Canadian series DaVinci's Inquest and The Collector, all offer viewers thoughtful, entertaining faire. This fall, a new ABC prime-time crime drama, The Evidence will begin shooting here, starring the legendary Martin Landau.
But I digress.
In keeping with Vancouver's title as the "unofficial science fiction capital of the world" - at least when it comes to film and television production - comes yet another genre series...and it's a bloody good one, literally. Supernatural is the tale of two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles), who travel the country looking for their missing father, while battling evil spirits and frightening manifestations along the way.
Why would they want to do that, you ask?
During the genuinely creepy pilot, the seeds for their quest are sewn as small children. After witnessing their mother's paranormal death at the hands of a mysterious entity, the boys grow up trained to fight by their distraught Marine Corps father who wants nothing more than to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after older brother Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from their father's eerie phone message, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a violent and vengeful spirit called the "Woman in White."
And so the stage is set for these two young studs - shucking the apple pie life - to travel the country in search of their father, extinguishing phantoms and ghouls along the way, a la Ghostbusters. Helped along by a muscled-up '67 Impala with a rumbling exhaust note, a veritable arsenal in the trunk (the brothers' surname is Winchester, after all) and a heavy metal soundtrack, Sam and Dean ply the highways and byways of Rockwell's rural America.
The WB describes the series as delivering the terror of films like The Ring and The Grudge, and while that might be overstating the case, the pilot demonstrates enough innovative scares and interesting situations to warrant a serious look.
But ultimately, what makes the series work so well is the quality writing, the honest chemistry between Padalecki and Ackles, and the stylish, cinematic atmospherics (thanks in large part to producer/director David Nutter, no stranger to this genre).
Supernatural premieres on Tuesday, September 13 on The WB Network in the US, and on Citytv in Canada. Check your local listings for details.
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