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Ausiello: For those curious about Sheldon’s whereabouts all summer, I can confirm that he did, in fact, get on that train (vs. just squatting in the station, as some have speculated). The

question you should be asking yourself is whether he ever stepped foot

Shutdown Averted as Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco Score Huge Raises

Question: Can you tell us anything about this new woman that Tony will meet this season on

Ausiello: As previously reported, the woman due to enter DiNozzo’s life will do so via a case, and as such his dynamic with her will be “completely different” than what he shared with NCIS colleague Ziva David, show boss Gary Glasberg tells us. “The trick will be casting somebody where the chemistry [with Michael Weatherly] is there, but we’re excited about the opportunity,” Glasberg adds. “We’ll give it a shot and see what we can do.”

Question: Please give us scoop on Jude and Connor from

Ausiello: I will do nothing of the sort! Instead, I can offer you fresh details on the major new love interest the show is introducing for — apologies in advance, Jesus — Emma. His name’s Gabe, he will first air in the Season 2B premiere, he’s a charismatic, easy-on-the-eyes Latino student from a rival school, and, last and most importantly,

. Gabe becomes infatuated with Emma, and he’s not the least bit concerned about a certain ex-factor. (Again, deepest sympathies Jesus.)

promo, we saw Ben and Maggie kissing. Any news when this is gonna be shown? —JustinAnn

Ausiello: In the time since you sent this in, that “dream” hook-up has already aired. But what if I told you a

‘s return? Comic-Con came and went with no announcement. Are we getting more or has Jack Bauer finally run out of time? —Matthew

, but probably not until the 2015-16 season at the earliest. Everyone connected with the stellar

— namely, Kiefer Sutherland and his fellow EPs — are taking a little breather.

Ausiello: As if the twin threats of Chayton and Proctor weren’t enough to keep Lucas up at night, the Cinemax hit is throwing

‘s David Harbour (pictured, right) is joining Season 3 in the recurring role of Dalton, a ghost from Lucas’ past who runs a black ops outfit. He’s been pursuing Lucas for years and, like a good hunter, does not easily abandon his prey.

last week, and now I’m in Clone Club withdrawl. Got any deets on next season? —Syd

Ausiello: Oh, do I. I’ve been saving my exclusive, überjuicy Comic-Con Q&A with EPs Graeme Manson and John Fawcett for a special occasion, and I think the first Ask Ausiello of August qualifies as such. In the following video, the pair not only (sorta) confirm that trans clone Tony will make a reappearance in Season 3, but they share behind-the-scenes scoop on how Tatiana Maslany was able to perfect the character’s deep, masculine voice (spoiler alert: she had help!). Also, if you’re curious how many Castor clones we will meet in the new season, the following vid has the answer to that, too.

Ausiello: I think so…? For Season 4’s fourth episode, the ABC series is casting the role of an elderly, grizzled and unflappable knight who for many, many years has dedicated himself to serving a righteous cause. Anyone else getting a Holy Grail vibe from this…?

Question: Any chance we are going to get a Laurel and Felicity friendship on

, now that Laurel knows the secret, instead of some ridiculous catty girl nonsense? —Samantha

Ausiello: EP Marc Guggenheim says that with Laurel now in on everyone’s secret, the dynamic between her and Felicity will be “a lot of fun” — and decidedly

not in a catty way. “These characters [including Sara] should all be more than just who they are to Oliver,” Guggenheim notes. “We’re always trying to flesh out Felicity’s character and Laurel’s character and Sara’s character beyond whether or not they’re going out with Oliver that week.”

Question: What can you tell me about the Season 6 premiere of

Ausiello: The dude to the right is the latest obstacle facing Joel and Julia. Actor’s name is Coby Ryan McLaughlin. Character’s name is Chris. He’s Julia’s ex-boyfriend from law school. He’s also her new colleague. THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL!!!

Ausiello: The Hodgins-Angela relationship will continue to be the show’s “emotional rock,” but they won’t be without their challenges, previews EP Stephen Nathan. “Life won’t be easy for them,” he continues. “Angela’s still pulled in two directions — working [at the Jeffersonian] and being with Hodgins. I think there’s a sense for all the characters that their lives might have other demands for them. People are going to be changing and wanting different things — as would be the case with any group of people you’ve known for 10 years.”

Ausiello: I haven’t seen the Season 2 premiere yet, but exec producer Mark Goffman promises the Sept. 22 opener contains a “pretty shocking moment in purgatory” between the two, adding, “I don’t think anyone’s going to see it coming.”

Ausiello: If their romance crashes and burns, they’ll only have each other to blame. “The primary difficulty between the two characters is how different they are,” previews exec producer Matt Warburton. “Every little issue — like the fact that Mindy can’t keep a tube of toothpaste in Danny’s house without him being bothered by it — will be the primary driver of story, at least for the time being. We know the characters love each other, so introducing a lot of people from the outside just to upset that would feel phony. Our motive in the beginning is just, ‘What makes it impossible for these two people, who love each other, to get along?\'”

Question: I don’t care about Hayley and Elijah on

. I want to know about Mikael and Esther! What’s that crazy couple up to in Season 2? —Ashleigh

Ausiello: Funny you should refer to them as a couple, Ashleigh, as their relationship is going to be explored big-time in the coming season. “We know about their marriage, and we know that they made their kids into vampires, but do they like each other?” executive producer Julie Plec muses. “Do they hate each other? We’re having so much fun writing the history of Esther and Mikael right now.” Sounds like their future is just as mysterious as their past.

. Especially if any of those spoilers feature Francis. — Michelle

Ausiello: I hope you like demons, Michelle, because Francis has plenty of ‘em. “When Henry died, he talked about what it was like to take a life — it’s a big weight you carry with you,” executive producer Laurie McCarthy says. “One of the things you’re going to see this season is that Francis is carrying that weight; he’s carrying that guilt from killing his father. It was a justified killing, but a killing nonetheless.”

That’s a wrap! Please send questions, comments, and anonymous tips to askausiello@tvline.com. (

Additional reporting by Vlada Gelman and Andy Swift

This column gets more and more boring by the week. It used to be a mid-week staple of mine up until a few months ago.

lol Lets guess what show of alicia’s wasnt covered? Glee? Real Houswives?

Same here… maybe it is just that summer TV in general is the PITS!!!

Really? I’ve been loving a lot of the summer TV I’m watching. The Musketeers, The Last Ship, Witches of East End…just to name a few.

Really? Ausiello never let’s me down with scoop! He usually has it before most sites and by the time it reaches them, I already know because of this column. He can only cover what he has to work with and most fall shows barely have filmed their first or second ep, to each their own I guess.

Did you ever stop to think there wasnt anything to report because everything was on hiatus until about 2 weeks ago? Don’t be rude. He is trying create something from practically nothing and does an awesome job!

Sorry this information, which cost you nothing, by the way, was so disappointing. Your sense of entitlement is adorable. Except by adorable I mean pathetic.

Intrigued about that moment in Purgatory for Crane and Abbie! Considering that they’re still stuck there in that episode I’m guessing the shocking moment will be shocking in a scary, dangerous way…but be it bad or good, I’m anxious to see what happens!

I want at least one more season. 24 should definitely get renewed, but I was hoping it would come back in the next TV season.

I agree completely. Jack Bauers story is coming to an end, he just needs that happy ending to go along with it. It will come, that one final season to close out the series.

If they do not do another 24 quickly, Fox won’t be a network! They only have Bones and Sleepy Hollow along with a couple of cartoons.They need a new shows to hit quickly or they will be best friends with the WB!

The WB? I’m surprised you know about Sleepy Hollow as it appears you have not watched TV since 2005.

As always, thank you for the NCIS (Season 12/Episode 4) scoop. I’m looking forward to finding out who has been cast in this potentially important role and what career she has that brings her in contact with Tony during the case that week.

Thank God for no girl fight between Laurel & Felicity. Like most Laurel involved things I love Sarah better. Her relationship with Felicity was very fun. I hope Laurel’s relationship mirrors something along those lines. If Felicity does anything is make people likable.

Always happy to see Felicity’s character expanded and explored. Really looking forward to that for this season.

Looking forward to seeing what Big Bang does now with Sheldon since he ran away from home. LOL.

Strongly disagree. Part of what made this past season so good was the condensed time frame and the lack of fluff.

I never saw it as fluff. The show was always two different story arcs strung together, with each one taking 12 hrs to cover. Had they followed on from where this one ended, we would have followed Jack with the Russians for another 12 episodes. That would hardly have been fluff.

Now I strongly disagree with you,24 was always a fast pace series (apart from season 8,

which derailed it)and always leave you wanting more at the end of each season.So I do

believe they can give us a full season (24 episodes) without any fluff, as you put it.

I’m actually getting more of Don Quixote vibe from the OUAT item.

What about the white knight from alice in wonderland?

I’m getting more of a “Don Quixote” vibe from your OUAT spoiler than Holy Grail (and I was just in a production of “Spamalot”).

Excited to see what is in store for Tony this season. the show did a great disservice to the character and the actor letting him linger in the background last season after 11×2.

Here’s hoping this new lady in his life is the antithesis of his ex-partner as well. that will definitely make it easier to accept the character for many fans of Tony who hated the crap that was dished up for MW to play during the eternally ridiculous, boring and eye-rolling era of ‘tiva’ nonsense

He was stuck on Bishop Babysitting Duty all of season 11. I was hoping they’d give him something to do, but I was hoping it would be something related to being an agent. Oh well. Glasberg has a lousy track record with women characters so I’m not expecting much. Hopefully it will crash and burn and we can get it out of the way, so he can finally be an agent.

For Michael re: Bones, isn’t the tug-of-war for Angela between Jeffersonian and *art*? At least in the past, Hodgins has never seemed like the source of her career problems.

For Alicia re: this column, way to blame the messenger. Summer TV is a pretty strange mix of shows most of us watch and shows we watch but mostly don’t care about watching. It can be easy to make hay out of that or to spend months upon end previewing the fall season.

“Completely different dynamic”? Well that went so well when he talked that way about Bishop, not. Good luck finding someone with chemistry like Tony had with Ziva.

Totally agree. Gary;s characters have been subpar. So I am not expecting any chemistry at all betweeen Tony and this woman.

Which is okay, because even if they have chemistry Gary will likely never allow it to go anywhere. You know…leopards…spots not changing…that sort of thing.

Oh, you won’t be disappointed. Unlike the ones who would pick ANYONE but Ziva – the one with the most chemistry with Tony. Glasberg can not pull off a decent storyline – ever.

For OUAT the grizzled old knight gives me more of a Man of La Mancha vibe than a Holy Grail vibe.

well while the three on BBT get 1 mill the other two original stars also helped get the show to where it is,unless they get a mill each, will there not be hard feelings?

My family will not be interested in seeing Tony with a new woman, he belongs with Ziva. I don’t think we will be tuning in for this story line.

OMG! people–give the Tony & Ziva thing a rest. It is over & personally I am GLAD! Ziva did not concern herself with her fans when she left (well, Cote) so I am NOT concerned about her now. Let’s give the “new” love interest for Tony a chance before we slam her, ok? I hope they make a dynamic couple–Good Luck Tony & ?. May it sizzle<3

It will not sizzle. Nothing Glasberg does sizzles. The Tony and Ziva ‘thing’ will never be over. NCIS is dull without Ziva.

More like, fizzles. He’s good at that. It’s funny to look at Bishop now after all the fanfare when she started. She’s such a complete dud.

Totally agree! The show is flatlining due to Bishop and the only way to give it a little life so it goes out on a high is to bring back Ziva!

Any AHS FreakShow news? I know they added John Carroll Lynch to the cast at comic-con, but I was hoping you’ve got some more scoops, haven’t been any in Ask Ausiello for a while.

For Once Upon a Time, I got more of a Don Quixote vibe based on the scoop

I know it’s probably a very silly thought but, re:- Tony’s new girlfriend in NCIS, what about the return of Jeanne? There was definitely a spark even though it was work for Agent Di Nozzo. It almost killed him when as she left he told her that none of what he felt was real.

I think that ended forever when she accused him of murder.

This should be interesting, since Gary Glasberg has not created a likeable woman character ever.

1) Delilah 2) Borin = likable. Both happen to be women.

Glasberg didn’t create Borin, that was Shane Brennan I believe. I will give you Delilah, she is the only one.

I love Delilah and wished GG had not shipped her off to Dubai. As for Agent Borin, she was created by the previous showrunner, Shane Brennan. And I love Agent Borin. I can’t think of another character that Glasberg has created that I like though.

Double commenting seems to be happening this evening. Borin seems to be too recent to be credited to Shane.

She is season 7, Glasberg didn’t become showrunning until season 8.

Oh, Agent Borin was during Shane Brennan’s era, season 7.

according to Diane Neal’s IMdB page, Borin appeared in 2010. 2010-11 is S8, 2011-12 would be S9, 2012-13 would be S10, and 13-14 would be s11. 2010 puts Borin in the Glasberg era.

Ah, ok. Season 7 is 2009-2010, so her page is right, and she is season 7. Brennan for sure.

I wish she wasn’t shipped to Dubai either. She was great. Brody on NOLA might be great but it’s too soon to tell.

1) Delilah 2) Borin 3) Brody on NOLA. All women. All likeable. I look forward to what the future holds for Tony.

Careful, you’ll make the haters’ tin foil hats short circuit

I have a niggling feeling Borin was created by Shane Brennan. She showed up in Season 7, he was still show runner, wasn’t he?

Yes, Brennan was still showrunner when he created Agent Borin in Season 7.

Nobody will ever match the chemistry Tony and Ziva had. And you can’t force chemistry when it’s not there.

I hope we get to see the smart, witty & competent SFA this upcoming season cause we most certainly didn’t that last season with Tony pretty much having to babysit Bishop. We only saw that side of him in the first two & last two episodes of season 11.

Well we’ve seen what happened when they spent the whole season trying to force chemsitry with Bishop. it’s just not there.

So In other words, Bones will one again be driving down the same boring paths. Because you can’t rehash Angela-Hodges-Work-Free Spirit thing enough….

That Once Upon a Time scoop popped a picture in my head from Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade.

Give me a break! Gary tried someone (Bishop) that is the polar opposite to Ziva and she is not working at all! So we are to expect that this new woman he creates will have chemistry with Tony? I highly doubt it. You cannot create chemistry, it is either there or it is not. Tony and Ziva had chemistry that was not forced, it was natural and electric. There is no comparison.

Yay! Laurel and Felicity actually getting *along*! That would be great. Though, that might make Oliver worried. I know they talked about finding out who these girls are when Oliver’s not around, but girls will talk about what they have in common, and unfortunately for Oliver, he *is* a commonality, so at least one conversation will be about him…

Gary Glasberg’s record creating characters that work is not good at all. He will never find anyone else that had the chemistry Muchael and actor had.

Thank you for the NCIS spoiler. I hope they pick some someone who clicks with Michael Weatherly. Looking forward to someone who can look beyond the joking and deflections and actually see the wonderful, multi-layered character that Tony is. It gives me hope that they’re planning a different dynamic than Tony had with Ziva, which was fun in the earlier seasons, until Ziva’s snarky dismissal of Tony became off-putting. Time to let Tony be happy.

Gary Glasberg’s track record creating new character’s that work is pathetic. He will never find anyone that had the chemistry Michael and Cote had. Such a shame he wasted it.

Are you kidding?! Another woman for Tony DiNozzo?! The chemistry he has with Ziva is perfect! GG had chemistry with them and did not get it.

Gary Glasberg’s track record creating new characters that work is not very good. He will never find anyone that had the chemistry Michael and Cote had. It’s a shame they let it go to waste not getting them together on the show.

NCIS /GG had the chemistry with Michael and Cote why they wasted it is a great mystery to me. They have the $$$ do get Cote de Pablo back. They can pay 5 actors who work for a half hour comedy show one million a piece per episode!

As for Sleepy Hollow – I hope they get a little more realistic with the casting. In the show, 60% of the characters were black. According to Wikipedia, the real Sleepy Hollow is just 0.83% black. Who’s the casting director – Shonda Rhimes?

I can’t wait for this Chris guy to come between Julia and Joel! He was such an unforgiving ass last season.

Gary Glasberg’s track for creating characters that work is pretty lousy. Delilah is the only one I can think of, and he’s wrote her out. The only one that’s had chemistry with Michael is Cote, and I can’t see anyone else doubt that. The chemistry they have us rare.

Really ?! Another women for Tony. Some people complained it was a soap opera…but this season coming we have yet another Gibbs ex wife, Bishop’s Husband, and Tony met’s another woman…They need to bring Jesse Stern and Cote as Ziva on NCIS. I would not miss it for the world.

It’s interesting that you chose to use a picture of Ziva when the story is actually about Tony, could it be because Ziva gets more clicks and comments than any other character, even when she’s been gone for a year?

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