ROFL! I was trying to be positive... but yeah, that's who I immediately thought of too.

Vaughn was in on it... he plotted the whole thing. Vaughn's an asshole...

Like they'll care... they KILLED him afterall.

*sob*

ABC Frees "Desperate," "Lost" Online

ABC might soon stand for the Anytime Broadcast Company.

Furthering its quest to turn prime time into anytime, ABC announced Monday that four series will be available for free online viewing starting in May. The trial run--the first time a major network has offered multiple shows online--will last for two months.

New episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost, Commander in Chief and Alias will appear on ABC.com the day after they air. But while you can now watch Eva Longoria mow the lawn, Jennifer Garner change outfits and Geena Davis govern at any time of day or night free of charge, there's a rub.

Those tuning into ABC's Internet offerings have to sit through commercials that cannot be fast-forwarded through. Sponsors such as AT&T, Ford and Toyota have already signed up.

The Disney Channel will also get into the game, streaming full-length episodes of its more popular children's programming, such as That's So Raven, on its Website. (ABC is owned by Disney.)

The new venture comes at a time when networks are looking for different sources of ad revenue, now that at-home TV viewers are racing through commercials on their TiVos and more consumers are embracing mobile entertainment via cell phones, iPods and the Internet.

"It's a learning opportunity, about recognizing that none of us can live in a world with just one business model," said Anne Sweeney, president of Disney-ABC Television Group. "This is about the consumer, and how the consumers use all this new technology. It's consumer first, business model second."

ABC is no stranger to the portable entertainment pool, having been the first network to offer shows for downloading via Apple's iTunes Music Store. Episodes of all of the shows heading to the Internet, except for Alias, are already available for downloading and commercial-free viewing for $1.99 a pop. ABC will eventually make Alias's entire fifth season, which wraps up in May, accessible on the Web.

Lost has been ABC's most popular iTunes offering to date, and both the not so deserted island adventure and Desperate Housewives have seen their download numbers increase this year. Unlike the iTunes episodes, ABC.com's streamed shows cannot be ported to an iPod or downloaded to a file for later viewing on a laptop. (The shows will be available in Flash for PCs and Macs.)

Other networks, notably NBC, Showtime, Bravo, Comedy Central, Sci Fi and MTV, have since jumped on the iTunes bandwagon as part of a scattershot new media strategy and a legitimate rival to illegal downloads. Those nets and others, like the WB and E!, have streamed single episodes of shows on their own Websites. (E! Online is part of E! Networks.) CBS, which had a huge hit with its NCAA basketball simulcasts on CBS.com, also offers shows for sale on Google Video. Yahoo has teamed with networks to deliver shows online, while AOL recently launched in2TV, featuring classic TV shows for free--with ads.

ABC and Disney, meantime, also announced on Monday a soap opera channel for Verizon broadband subscribers called Soapnetic.

"Our ultimate goal is to find an effective online model," Alex Wallau, ABC's president of operations and administration said in a statement Monday that was careful not to alienate the network's traditional distribution stream. "One in which our affiliates can take part."

From: E! Online

Garner Dreading ‘Alias' Childbirth

Jennifer Garner is terrified about her upcoming onscreen childbirth in Alias--even though she has been through labor for real.

The actress, who gave birth to baby Violet last December, fears her on-screen labor will be a huge embarrassment.

She says, "I think it is going to be an incredibly embarrassing day. I have been dreading this moment as long as I have known it was coming.

"I can't even imagine being in front of my crew. It is not even about the people watching it on TV. Imagine what this crew has seen me do over the last five years?

"I still get embarrassed any time I have to not have my clothes on around them, because those are my guys. They are all like brothers or father figures, so it will be a rough day for me."

By Wenn of Hollywood.com

Thanks for not telling us anything we didn't already know, Kristin.

Grrr!

LIARS! Please...EVERYTHING pointed to Vaughn being dead. Like dead dead...not come back from the dead, dead.

I know! I honestly thought he was dead and then they give us the frickin' hospital scene... Whatever!

Entertainment Weekly's website has an article on Alias...

Going... Going... Going... Gone.
The highs and lows of ''Alias'' -- Creator J.J. Abrams tells us what he regrets and what he'd never change by Jeff Jensen

Ask J.J. Abrams for his favorite moments from his wildly clever, wildly uneven, superspy drama Alias — returning to ABC's schedule on April 19 at 8 p.m. to finish off its fifth and final season — and the exec producer gushes geekily. The moment when secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) seduces intel out of a naughty Russian aboard a plane, then parachutes to safety while the bad guy gets sucked into the engine. The moment when the person torturing Sydney to reveal the location of the Horizon is revealed to be her own mother (played expertly by Lena Olin). And, obviously, the moment when a carton of coffee ice cream prompts Sydney to realize her roommate has been murdered and replaced by a genetically rejiggered doppelgänger. (Francie. Doesn't. Like. Coffee. Ice cream.)
Yes, Abrams is Alias' biggest fan — and its most sober critic. Launched in 2001, the sexy-cool spy/sci-fi/family-drama hybrid seemed poised to follow The X-Files as TV's next great cult sensation. Yet the show never attained great ratings success, despite frequent tinkering designed to make it more accessible — like season 2's premise-imploding takedown of SD-6, which became necessary because the show ''had become incredibly confusing,'' says the producer. Nonetheless, tweaking only seemed to dilute Alias, not unlock its potential. ''The show was always trying to find the balance between what it was and what the powers that be wanted it to be,'' says Abrams, whose fertile mind also hatched Felicity and Lost . ''Despite a premise that seemed to have mass appeal, Alias was probably not a mainstream show.'' Among the producers' few regrets, here are the three biggest:

1. DITCHING THE CLIFF-HANGERS Originally, Alias concluded nearly every episode with Sydney in some kind of gasping, to-be-continued peril. But the endings were ditched after season 1 at ABC's request because they made the episodes too difficult to repeat and sell into syndication. Abrams notes that this was the only instance of pure corporate meddling, and praises the network for allowing his writers to reinstate the device for Alias' stretch run.

2. REVVING UP THE RAMBALDI According to exec producer Jeff Pinkner, Alias went ''off the rails'' when it delved too deeply into its mythology about the mysterious inventions of a 15th-century Italian egghead named Rambaldi. Pointing to season 3, Pinkner says, '' Alias was never designed to be about its mythology, but about its characters.'' Abrams agrees: He saw the show as a (dysfunctional) family drama set in a hyperreal world. His ideal Alias includes seasons 1, 2, and 5, plus season 3's Ricky Gervais and David Cronenberg episodes. ''I'm proud of seasons 3 and 4, but they do have an inherent sense of compromise, as if they were made from the outside looking in.''

3. MISMANAGING SYD'S MEN During Alias' first season, the writing staff was perplexed by the audience's ambivalence toward Syd's friend Will (Bradley Cooper), a reporter whose investigation into the murder of Syd's fiancé threatened to expose her secret-agent cover. ''We finally realized that the audience didn't like Will because he was putting Syd at risk. When we were able to do something about it, it was too little, too late,'' says Pinkner. Will lasted only two seasons, and ironically is now beloved by fans. More problematic was the dark, vengeance-obsessed turn taken by spy stud Vaughn (Michael Vartan) in season 3 following the wicked betrayal by Lauren, his treacherous double-agent wife. Says Pinkner: ''We could have handled that story line better.''

Abrams on 'Alias'

Despite its frustrating fluctuations, Abrams and Pinkner say Aliasmanaged to endure for five seasons thanks to the appeal of the Syd-Vaughn romance and Syd-Jack (Victor Garber) daughter-father relationship. Quips Pinkner: ''No matter what we've done to drive people away, somehow they kept coming back.'' For Alias' final episodes, the producers promise the return of fan favorites like Evil Francie (Merrin Dungey), Evil Mommy, and the presumed-dead Vaughn — plus a resolution to the Rambaldi business. ''It's bittersweet, but I feel like it's the right time,'' says Abrams, who is coy about the possibility of future adventures for Sydney. ''My instinct is that Alias has a beginning, a middle, and an end — and I'm pretty happy with the ending. But you never know...'' Hey, what would an Alias story be without a cliff-hanger?
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My fear is the cliffhanger will be something revolving around Vaughn and how he knew or something, so no happy-ever-after for the VSR. I can so see that happening.

Like I really needed to read that and I swear to GOD if that baby is named Violet, I will KICK someone's ASS so fast...

Jennifer Garner to Take 'Good Long Break' After Alias

By Josh Hart
Apr 17, 2006

Jennifer Garner has revealed that she is looking forward to taking some time to chill after the completion of her very popular - but cancelled TV show Alias saying it will be a 'good long break.'

Jen says she's ready for a break.

She also wants to let everyone know that the birth scene on the show is "nothing like real life."

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The sexy new mom will reveal to Extra that the scene where she gives birth on the TV show was "the single most embarrassing thing I've ever done on the show. Guys this is not what it was like for me" - she tells the crew - "turn your heads."

"It's not at all how it is in real life - it's how they expect it to see on TV. It was horrifying," she says in the interview.

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Virginia Rohan reports that the Emmy-winning spy drama returns to ABC's lineup this week with a two-hour "event" that includes the birth of her agent Sydney Bristow's baby and the reappearance of the presumed-dead Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan).

In the back-to-back episodes "S.O.S." and "Maternal Instinct," Jack (Victor Garber) calls on former agent Weiss (Greg Grunberg) and the APO team to search for Sydney after receiving a distress call from her. But Jack believes that a larger conspiracy may be in play. As the series approaches its grand finale, story lines will be tied up, and familiar faces from the past will crop up in Sydney's life.

They include Sydney's best friend, Will Tippin (Bradley Cooper); her mother, Irina Derevko (Lena Olin); and nemeses Julian Sark (David Anders) and Anna Espinosa (Gina Torres). (8 p.m. Wednesday, ABC)

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That means 'Lost' will take yet another break. Sigh.

From: The National Ledger