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I know we talk about Supernatural around here a lot, but at least this time we're talking about a Supernatural web spin off? (Before you ask, no, the Trickster is not getting his own Punk'd-style faux reality show where he goes around magically fucking with people's lives. That one is only in my dreams.)

As you may be aware, our favorite Ghostfacers have their own web series, and the first episode airs online tomorrow.

For those of you unfamiliar, Ghostfacers was a fake show-within-a-show on two episodes of Supernatural, spoofing on the slew of paranormal "reality" shows all over the boob tube: GhostHunters, GhostHunters Academy, GhostHunters International, Paranormal State, Paranormal Cops, Destination Truth, Ghost Adventures, Most Haunted, and last but not least, Psychic Kids. (stopitsomemore, for the record, loves and is genuinely freaked out by Psychic Kids. No, we don't know why either.)

The parody was dead on, and gave rise to aprons and t-shirts but also some beloved one-off SPN characters- Harry Spangler and Ed Zeddmore, the hosts of the show, and Corbett the famous gay (dead) intern.

Well, Ed and Harry are back (Corbett is not for obvious reasons), with a series of three minute webisodes that will air every Thursday concurrently with Supernatural, and hopefully will prove to be as scary/hilarious as what we've seen from the Ghostfacers team before.


There are no excuses for this. I apologize.

The first webisode will premiere tomorrow to go along with the 100th (!!!) episode of Supernatural, on CWTV.com. Who's excited?

According to TVSquad, Michael Rosenbaum, along with Jonathan Silverman, has signed on to play a one of the leads in a SyFy sitcom about washed up science fiction stars. The premise of the show, dubiously titled Saved By Zeroes, is that the two has-beens, now broke, must turn to the scifi convention circuit in order to pay rent. We'll let you turn that one over in your heads for a moment.


Maybe all of his participation in Smallville was just an experiment in Michael Rosenbaum being a method actor!!! The world may never know.

We’re not sure if this is the best or worst idea ever, but we do have one burning question: Do you think there will be a scene where someone presents Michael Rosenbaum’s character with a box of sex toys? We can only hope. (Maybe. We’re not sure. Actually, we’re possibly still traumatized.)

We over here at Fanspastic are big fans of Mr. Rosenbaum, and have been waiting for him to dust off his visor and return back in front of the camera for a while. (No, PG Porn doesn’t count.) This seems like a perfect project for Rosenbaum to capitalize on the fannish goodwill he still has from being the best thing about Smallville, while not requiring him to do annoying things like shave his head or wear purple or, you know, work that much.

However, the success of the project will ultimately depend on how well the show strikes that delicate balance in tone and humor. Hard to say at this early stage, but it’s possible that Saved by Zeroes will hit too close to home for some fans- or worse, get it all wrong.

More importantly, too much mean-spirited mocking of the convention-going "zeroes" and it will turn off its core audience faster than you can say “smut box" or “what is wrong with you, Smallville fandom?" We suggest looking at Galaxy Quest or later episodes of The Big Bang Theory for a model of how to do geek humor that laughs with us, not at us.

Either way, however it turns out, welcome back to TV, Mike. We’ve missed you.