"Ghost Wars" is a fresh new series on the Syfy network that is centered around the lead character, Roman. He has inherited psychic abilities that allow him to see and communicate with ghostly spirits. These skills put him in the epicenter of strange happenings in the small town in which he resides when an earthquake causes a rift that traps spirits there and prevents them from passing on. Creator Simon Barry spoke to us at San Diego Comic Con while the series was still shooting the first season and discussed the central theme of fear, his approach in developing the show, and his thoughts on the use of jump scares in the horror genre.

The most memorable moment of speaking with producer Dennis Heaton was when he shared how he'd choose to have the show end, if the decisions were entirely up to him. His finale preferences were downright shocking!

Producers Mike Frislev & Chad Oakes discussed the series conception, development, casting, Avan Jogia's protagonist role as Roman, and the creative process behind putting everything together.

Vincent D'Onofrio portrays Reverend Dan, a priest that was suffering from a crisis of faith before the ghosts rose up in the town. But after they begin to terrorise the locals, he begins to have far more partitioners coming to hear him speak. Meat Loaf portrays Doug Rennie, an angry man that frequently treats Roman as a scapegoat for all the pain and upset he harbours from his negative life experiences. Both actors further introduced their characters and spoke about what drew them to the project.

Series stars Avan Jogia and Kandyse McClure had banter to share about not only their respective characters but the approach of the show's creative team in utilising a great deal of practical effects to create the horror visuals. McClure portrays a research scientist at the LAMBDA Institute and despite having taken up residence in a small town, is only there in the hopes of furthering her career and not with an interest in living a small life.

Ghost Wars airs on Thursdays on Syfy at 10/9c.

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With any post-apocalyptic work of fiction, numerous large-scale themes such as existentialism and survivalism are bound to arise in the plot and dialogue. Actors Daniel Sharman and Sam Underwood are new additions to AMC's "Fear The Walking Dead" as brothers Troy Otto and Jake Otto, respectively. When visiting San Diego Comic Con to promote the return of the show for the second half of season three, we asked about these larger themes and what working on the show has made them learn on a personal level as a result of portraying and reflecting on such material.

"It's interesting because we obviously joined this cast on a well-established show," says Sharman. "People, actors as well, have gotten into a groove and way of working. It's quite interesting joining a cast when you're also playing a racist, white... very odd family. That's quite an odd way to introduce yourself. We shoot in a very remote location in Mexico so you feel like you've got to [form] a bond. I think it was really interesting, you form these really amazing attachments to people very quickly, and that happens in the show, which I'm really glad the writers put in there. Human beings, it doesn't matter how crazily different they are. You will always form these tendrils of attachment to people through it and that's what's so beautiful about some of the writing and it's got that - even though we are so different."

"I think that from a thematic standpoint, the basic idea that Troy represents, this is kind of what I take away from it," begins Underwood. "Troy represents the arm of society that again particularly right now is angry and is there for survival, there's fear of the Other, and there's this real animal need to protect ourselves. Our dad has set up this beautiful community for people which the majority is a really peaceful community. But they have to have this kind of border militia, mindset to keep us safe and that's why the racism and that kind of culture comes into it. So Troy represents in my mind that need for intense survival and aggression towards protecting yourself whereas Jake, being a constitutional lawyer, he is the exact opposite in a way. [He's] hoping to rebuild a crumbling or crumbled democracy cause now the lines are blurred between what's right morally and ethically and what is accepted and what do we need to do to survive? Jake thinks that civilization needs some form of democracy or some form of constitution in a way to keep everyone maintaining a sense of morals and ethics. I think that's the question that comes up a lot between us in this beautiful clash of ideals which continues throughout the season. It's really, really cool."

Fear The Walking Dead returns for season 3B on AMC on September 10.

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With "Fear The Walking Dead" on mid-season hiatus, the cast and crew descended on San Diego Comic Con to discuss how the series has progressed in it's journey and evolved over the seasons.

"Thematically, one of the things season three is about is resources and appropriation of resources and land, and specifically re-appropriation. That's something about the apocalypse, it's wiped away existing borders, many of which were put in place through violence and another theme of this season which is the building and rebuilding of civilization," says the show's producer.

"For Madison, she's definitely become more of a merciless character," says Kim Dickens. "In the beginning, she's probably a merciless high school counselor. She was really beholden to her morality and her compassion and her heart. By season three, I think she realises the currency is more brutality when required. Her main goal throughout has been to survive and to protect her family and now, it's at a higher cost. I think Madison has been quick to realise that."

The characters have struggled to find a place to call home since the apocalypse began, as each place they've stopped has had something go wrong, thus forcing them to move on to somewhere else, something Colman Domingo spoke on. "I think that's always the hope. I think that's exactly the nature of all of these characters, that you're constantly going to this new place and you're like, 'We're gonna rebuild and build here,' and then as you see, it will fall apart. Great civilisations always come tumbling down in some way. I think that's the nature of humanity and that's what we're exploring in the show is we're always hopeful and seeking this place that we can build on. Madison said it so clearly in this season, 'We can thrive here. We can make something of this.' Just like we tried to do in the hotel, we see how well that went, we definitely tried to do that on the boat, we see how well that went. We're constantly going to be searching cause I think that's just the nature of who we are as humans."

Colman Domingo's Victor Strand has experienced a compelling journey with highs and lows surrounding love, loss, and the will to survive. "When I first was engaging with Victor Strand in season one, I loved the fact that he was this mysterious man of means, a self-made man, the things that they would tell me about him. Then season two was all about his deconstruction and I feel like it was also a deconstruction of Western civilisation in many ways, what he represented and the things he was all about. He had to take stock and maybe as the world has taken stock in who they are and getting back to basics. I think that season three has been a journey for him to go off on his own to figure that out and hopefully merge the two in some way, to take the skills that he knew, that he could build and rebuild on. He just didn't know how. It's funny, there were times every so often, I was confused with what I was doing and I would call Dave up [on] how I'm playing this character, someone who I thought was this. But I thought, 'Oh that's a great journey for this man, to become a bit more human, and in touch with his feelings in many ways. Then to see how he can rebuild and use a little bit more of that con man, to survive, because he is a survivalist in many ways. He just has to figure it out and that's been an exciting journey."

Fear The Walking Dead returns on Sunday, September 10, at 10PM on AMC.

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Cory Michael Smith is ready for Ed Nygma to get unfrozen and unleashed once again on "Gotham" in the upcoming fourth season. As Ed had a significant falling out with Oswald, resulting in both of them trying to kill each other, the two are set to be in conflict once again. Ed will have to make new alliances, and we learned about what's to come for him at San Diego Comic Con.

"With this year brings new challenges for him. A nice theme that's happened that's been fun to latch onto is his issue with identity. We find another identity crisis this year in the way he thaws and his mind not quite thawing well and his mental deficiencies and that being the thing to overcome. 'Who am I without my level of intelligence and wit and speed?' His intelligence is stunted so he's gonna struggle with getting ideas across but he's a pretty prideful person so he's a bit in denial of his abilities. So there's some potential for some humour, someone who think they can do something but cannot. I'm really excited about that."

Season four will see Ed align himself with new characters he had not yet truly intermingled with. "My storyline is going to cross paths with Solomon Grundy and Lee Tompkins this year. It's a very exciting, unexpected choice that they've made. I love especially that I've allowed Ed to be extremely influenced by the company he keeps. Part of the fun of him having extreme evolution has been being influenced by those around him. The kind of ruthlessness and toughness and directness that he took from being around Oswald may not work in this new arena that he's in. To be around a new character like Solomon Grundy whose brute strength is incredible but is an idiot, how do you navigate around this person and control them? Then being around someone like a really dark Lee Thompkins, however she may be, we haven't gotten to those scenes so I don't know how Morena is playing that... it's very exciting. I've worked with Drew a lot. The few things I've done with Morena have always been super fun and I'm particularly looking forward to that cause I think she's an extraordinary actress."

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Sean Pertwee went through his most visceral arc yet on "Gotham" when Alfred sacrificed himself to save Bruce Wayne, though Bruce resurrected him using water from the Lazarus Pit. "It was a very big haul, actually. Initially, when you read it you think, 'Would someone really do that?' It begs so many questions, doesn't it? What is this insane loyalty that he has to this boy? What is the insane loyalty to this mashido-like oath that he has with Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne? Why would he do this? He's never been able to love.

I've just found out what's going on in this season by my show-runner and it's very exciting. You find out there's not been a lot of love in Alfred's up-bringing. To be given the chance, and the propensity to be able to love, means that much to him that he would give his life, which I think is rather beautiful and I have to say, without blowing my trumpet, but David Mazouz who unfortunately is not here, I thought that was an Emmy-worthy performance. What you didn't see was cut short because they consolidated two shows into one was that they were gonna do a sort of montage sequence of our whole entire relationship over the last three years and what Alfred actually does mean to him as he plunges his sword through him. After he does it, he has this sort of flashback and it does actually bring him back. I found it was extraordinary being three inches away from the young man's face, him going through that, we did it in sixteen takes. It was just incredible. It was actually very emotional and very moving. I thought it believable that he would give himself for that love, for that boy to bring him back.

When we start season four, it's six months later. They are on the vigilante path which is interesting so we start to hit the stride which people were expecting us to be at day one, which is bizarre. Alfred and Bruce's relationship, people were horrified originally about our relationship. But now you start to see the relationship that flowers into the one where they're stitching each other up, where they've got each other's back, and they start to work. But of course, with any relationship, you need to fall apart to get stronger so that also happens."

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Jessica Lucas enters season four playing a whole new territory for Tabitha. Not only is she alone without the support of her once-close allies, but she is set to take on a mentoring role to the post-balcony-fallen Selina Kyle. Believing her former love interests, Barbara and Butch, to be dead when they're both set to rise again, there was plenty to discuss at San Diego Comic Con about what's in store for season four.

"She's in a quite vulnerable place for the first time. She has no allies. She's starting fresh. She's kind of hiding out. She's grieving over the loss of Butch. Then quite quickly she finds out that Barbara isn't dead. So that brings up all her emotions again, and her anger. In Gotham, it's who you align yourself with, who your allies are, that's how you survive. She might be put into a position where she has to trust Barbara again just to survive. I'm really excited to explore the relationship with Selina. That's gonna be really fun. I've been waiting for that since I signed onto the show so that'll be great. I didn't know when it was coming and they said it would be quite some time but I always knew. When we conceptualised Tabitha as a character, we wanted her to look somewhat similar to certain versions of Catwoman so that there would be a nod to that. The whip is Catwoman's weapon and she wears a lot of black leather. I loved Michelle Pfeiffer's version of Catwoman but the thing with Tabitha is she doesn't have that sexual element to her as much. She's not really a seductress. That's more of Erin's side of things of the wheelhouse. So that'll be interesting cause that's such a huge part of that character so Camren will have to discover that on her own without Tabitha's influence."

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Ben McKenzie's starring role as Jim Gordon on "Gotham" has been filled with action, heartbreak, and a whole lot of detective work. Season three introduced the Court of Owls, which presented a new glimpse into Jim's father and his origins as a character, something that will have its lasting effects in season four.

"It's informed how he feels about things. It's not so much playing out on the screen in terms of actual pieces of action because we've seemingly close-ended that. However, we effective haven't. The presence of Ra's who is kind of behind the Court of Owls on a deeper level, Ra's is very much in season four so we'll be dealing with the practical implications of that but in terms of the emotional stuff, Jim [is] more fully understanding who his father really was, who his uncle really was, and his relationship to them further deepens and makes more complex his relationship to justice, the justice in Gotham, how that's achieved, how that's maintained, and law and order.

Jim Gordon has also had his fair share of romantic entanglements, all of which have ended from bad to worse. "Jim can't make it work with a woman for the same reason that no one can make it work with anyone in a relationship in Gotham which is that we're telling a story of tragedy, of darkness, and moral depravity all around us. Jim will seek out new relationships and will explore those in season four. One of the delicate balances of the show is, it's a dark world, it's a world of Batman in terms of its tone, but we do wanna keep some hope alive, some glimmer of humanity in that. Whether it's the villains being empathetic on some level, to be able to understand their human motivations, or the heroes failing and succeeding and failing again, that applies throughout whether we're talking about the power struggles, or the relationships, or the power struggles in relationships."

Jim's story has also often been closely intertwined with Penguin, with whom he has a recurring cat and mouse dynamic of power and control that alternates between being foes or reluctant allies. "I think Jim, particularly at this point in the series, much more fully understands his limitations and what he's capable of doing and what he's not. Whereas he would've just charged straight at Oswald initially and tried to crush him, particularly when Oswald was much weaker, now that's not really a viable option. Instead, he seeks out new alliances. In this case it's with Sofia Falcone, daughter of Carmine Falcone, who will become prominently featured this season."

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Erin Richards has spent the last three seasons on FOX's "Gotham" playing a rapidly evolving Barbara Kean. From doting girlfriend to power-hungry super-villain, there's been a wide wealth of material for her to play. Now that Barbara has died via electric shock from Tabitha's whip, there's a whole new version to play reborn from death, topped off with a new hairstyle.

"You're gonna see more skill. She's been brought back and trained up by Ra's al Ghul so she has fighting ability now, which will be a kind of Aikido-based martial arts, using other people's force against them. She's not a superhuman, I'm still the size that I am so if I'm fighting somebody big I have to be able to find a way to use their energy and power back against them.

This collaboration with Ra's al Ghul means the possibility of a refreshed intersection with Bruce Wayne. But just as she has been reborn into a more powerful fighter, Bruce has gone down a new path as a fledgling vigilante. "Barbara's interacted with the version of Bruce Wayne that is the child millionaire. That's really interesting because she calls him a brat and she sees this side of him but she's not met him as Bruce Wayne that will become Batman. I think that would be a really interesting development but I'm not sure that anybody can know him like that other than Alfred, Ra's al Ghul obviously, maybe Jim. I think that pocket has to be quite self-contained otherwise everybody would know who Batman was."

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When last we saw Oswald Cobblepot, he was well on his way to reclaiming his position of power and also had frozen Ed Nygma into ice to enact revenge for his attempt to kill Oswald. Now viewers are left to wonder just how long it will take before Ed is unfrozen and the two are reunited in their battle. "Obviously I can't give specifics... the lesson that Penguin never learns is the old saying, hubris precedes nemesis. Penguin, every time he makes a move that is successful or if he gets one over on someone, he immediately assume that it's locked and done. As we've seen over the past three seasons of the show, that's not the case. He thinks he's in a safe place keeping Riddler right there but he's also frozen the dude in a block of ice and put it as the center-piece of the Penguin Lounge. Stay tuned!"

Throughout the course of Oswald's journey on the series, viewers have seen how significant his relationship with his parents has been as well as the tragedy of losing both of them. "Danny Cannon, our executive producer, has said that one of the tenants of our show is, one of the bigger overarching themes is what happens to a human when love is lost, when love is taken away from them, when they don't experience love and they don't understand what it is. It's all about the loss of love, the lack of it, and what happens is you create super-villains. You create people who have no empathy, who put only themselves first. That's the overarching story that we're telling here. Oswald's loss of his parents, at least in the story that we're telling here, the loss of his parents are the reason why he becomes the monster, why ultimately, regardless of if there's something sympathetic about him or whatever people can see into that, regardless of all of that, he's a person who becomes a monster and deserves no empathy nor sympathy, [for] what he has done to innocent people since the pilot of our show. The loss of his parents are the main driving reason why he puts no one else above himself ever for the rest of his life."

Season three also brought about a plot point of Oswald becoming infatuated with Ed in an often too-rare showing in media of a same-sex romantic entanglement. "It's an enormous responsibility and as a gay man, it's incredibly personally important to me to not be cynical, to be honest with the character and true to the character, true to what his singular experience is, and also, any time you can show diversity on television especially LGBTQIA is an amazing gift, However, I will say though, I have a hard time accepting Oswald as a member of that community because he, as what we see with the Riddler, he has absolutely no idea of what love is. He has absolutely no true concept of what it is because what he does when he 'falls in love' is he rips the person that his loved one is most interested [in] out of his life. He murders that person. That's someone who is obviously so damaged and the moral compass is so off. I have a really hard time ascribing his experience to that of LGBTQIA. I love that just in the very least we portrayed this connection between these two characters, whether you want to call that love or whatever, but my favorite thing about doing that and this is a testament to the writers is that none of the characters used it as a derogatory thing against Oswald. It wasn't treated like, 'You're gay? I'm gonna blackmail you!' It was never about shaming him for being it, it was about getting one over on him cause he's a fucking asshole. But it wasn't about him being gay which, that's what I'm most proud of about that story. It was just another relationship."

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Camren Bicondova had plenty to tease about for Selina Kyle's jam-packed development in season 4. She's now undergone the quintessential "falling to a non-death and then being promptly swarmed by cats" moment of her character's origin story and now Bicondova will get to act alongside Jessica Lucas ("Tabitha") to further develop her fighting and whip skills. "It becomes a mix between a mentorship and a sisterhood. Selina initially goes to Sirens for Barbara and she finds that Barbara's not there and it's a gone-with-the-wind kind of step into this future of hers that we all know but she doesn't. She goes with it and this relationship forms where Tabitha teaches Selina hoot fight and how to basically escalate what she's already learned on her own. In episode 1 we learn that Barbara is alive. Selina wants to step up. You'll see in episode 1 where Selina isn't exactly where she expected to be with having Tabitha as her mentor. Selina believes that forming this relationship, mending this relationship with Barbara could actually elevate them and we'll see how that goes up and down throughout the season especially in the beginning part of it."

Selina Kyle is known for operating in a morally grey area, something that Bicondova has plenty to share about. "I've never seen her as an indecisive character. I've always seen her as a very decisive character. That concept of her walking between each line, I've never agreed with. I've always felt that she's definitely stuck with walking straight in the middle of the grey line. I hope she stays in that realm because sometimes it's fun to play a dark side but what I love about Selina is the fact that she doesn't like a label. She doesn't like being titled a hero, she doesn't like being titled a bad person. I hope she continues to stay on that path."

Bicondova is excited about all the new whip training she has and continues to do for this new facet of Selina's character journey and abilities. "It was so cool! I have a video on my phone that I've been waiting to share but I'm just waiting for the coolest moment ever to share it. For that scene in the finale, I only practiced for 45 minutes total that same day. I ended up getting some cracks and it was amazing but as far as filming, they don't allow you to actually use the whip itself because of liability issues and everything else. They just give you a nub. You have to know the technique so when you actually do it, visual effects can go in and add the whip itself."

True to form, Selina's journey will remain intertwined with Bruce Wayne. The two have had a falling out towards the end of season three so now viewers must tune in to see if they can mend their relationship. "They both truly love each other. It's just that his upbringing, not necessarily that their differences are what constrict them cause I think their differences actually bring them together more than they separate them, but I think his upbringing has made him a lot more judgmental than her upbringing is. His judgement has always been the backbone of their fallouts. I think it's interesting because there's a lot of fans that say, 'Oh Selina's so selfish! She only cares about herself' like Bruce said but I think it's the opposite. I think Bruce is the selfish one."

Bicondova is intrigued at the prospect of Selina getting to develop a taste for the finer things in life by forging this new relationship with Tabitha, though they haven't embarked on that characterisation just yet with the episodes of season four filmed thus far. "I think it would bring a different perspective to her for sure. But I don't think it would change her as much as being on the streets has changed Bruce. I think Selina has always desired that luxury of having the jewelry and having a place of her own, and not having to squat in these slums. It wouldn't change her as much as it would Bruce because she's always wanted it."

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Dylan Bruce and Parisa Fitz-Henley are no strangers to passionate fans of genre material. Bruce spent three seasons on the popular BBC America series Orphan Black while Fitz-Henley appeared as Luke Cage's wife Reva Connors on both Netflix-Marvel series Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.

Bruce is amused when it's pointed out to him that he has hopped from one character with a funny name ("Big Dick" Paul) to another ("Bobo"). "Bobo is actually derived from the French word 'beau' which is 'handsome' so I'll take it. There's worse things to be called."

Fitz-Henley is more than happy to join in at poking fun at Bruce. "I wish they could've gotten a handsome guy, though. That would've been helpful. They were like, 'He's such a good actor it doesn't matter that he's not that good-looking.'"

Of course they are more than professional enough to also introduce their characters. Bruce begins by introducing Bobo Winthrop. "He's the proprietor of the local pawn shop that's been there since the late 1800's. There's a lot of interesting relics in there. He comes to Midnight to escape a nefarious past that ends up catching up with him and jeopardising everything he's built in Midnight. He's a good guy but if you mess with his peeps he'll mess with you back."

I play Fiji Cavanugh," begins Fitz-Henley. "I'm a witch in the town. I didn't grow up there but I grew up with a relationship with the town. It's become my real home and I protect it as much as I can with whatever I can and I protect it's inhabitants however I can. This guy, Bobo, is Fiji's best friend and she's head over heels in love with him but for a very, very, very, very, very big reason she can't ever let him know."

"But Bobo's a dodo, he thinks she's out of his league so we got that going on. Fiji's out of everyone's league, man. She's in a world of her own," beams Bruce.

"You see our friendship develop and go through the ups and downs that a friendship goes through but in Charlaine Harris land, those ups and downs are pretty intense," says Fitz-Henley.

The show offers not only a diverse cast bringing to life romance, action, and all the supernatural goodness one would expect from a Charlaine Harris property adapted for live-action. It also brings social commentary that relates a world of fantasy to the world of the viewers.

"I think it's really important in this day and age to have that," says Bruce. "I'm glad we have our little things that we add in there that people will catch onto. It's all about togetherness though."

Fitz-Henley was amazed at just how much the show's writing related to socially relevant issues, even before certain topics became as big in the news and social discourse. "I saw things that were reflected in the society around us after we shot them, where I was like, 'Wait, where did you get that from?' Because it's in the news today and we're shooting it today so you wrote it months ago. I feel like our writing team is so on point and so cares about what's happening in the world that you see it come through in what we do."

Bruce gets exposed for being a bit of an overachiever in his extensive preparation for the role. Sarah Ramos, who plays Creek on the series, had claimed in an earlier interview that Bruce finished reading all three of the books of the series in one day. "I don't think it was one day," says a bashful Bruce.

Fitz-Henley is quick to chime in on the matter. "How did you know he was an overachiever? He is!"

"Not only the Midnight books, Bobo's in a different series called the Lily Bard series and I read those as well," continues Bruce.

"And then he read all the books that his character reads," adds Fitz-Henley.

"Yeah, I did cause he likes Jack Reacher. I like to read!" admits Bruce.

Fitz-Henley may not be as voracious a reader as Bruce but she had her own back-knowledge that further incentivised her to joining Midnight, Texas. "I wasn't as familiar with Charlaine Harris' writing as I was with Monica Breen's work. I'm huge into Lost, huge into Fringe, so when I saw she was doing this, I was just like, 'Oh my god! This is crazy! I really want to work with her!' I just had this every strong, intuitive feeling that this was the right project for me."

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Charlaine Harris is best known to television viewers for True Blood, an HBO series adapted from The Southern Vampire Mysteries that she wrote. Now the public will be treated to another romantic supernatural series that she wrote, Midnight, Texas. The series was brought to SDCC 2017, which is nothing new for Harris after all the visits True Blood had during its run.

Harris enters the process of having another of her properties adapted for television with considerably more experience this time around. "True Blood wasn't a big hit right away. It had to grow by word of mouth. So I had a little while to get used to it being on everybody's lips and then of course there people who just hated it. When I sold my house in Arkansas, they had it exorcised. I'm so bad! I felt pretty badass after that. I think I learned with True Blood, I was totally new to the industry, I had never met an actor, I had never met anybody like Alan Ball. He's a unique guy, one of a kind, I just think the world of him. But I had never met anyone in the entertainment industry before so I was terrified and that doesn't help. And now I feel just very causal about meeting people who are in entertainment and not being scared really helps."

Harris isn't involved much with the details of how her books are adapted to work for television, but Harris has no issues with this. "I'm not really involved because they have to make the decision that's right for television viewing. I made all the book decisions a hundred percent so I am glad to leave the making of the television show to them. They're the experts, I'm not, and I don't want to."

Midnight, Texas being adapted for NBC means a considerably less gratuitous approach to the violent and provocative aspects of the novels compared to True Blood. "David Janollari (executive producer) was very enthusiastic about the material and so was Monica. The first prerequisite is people who really love the material. I felt confident that they would stick to the spirit of the books and they have. I think that's really all I can ask. As for being a little less graphic, I'm kind of glad about that. I'm certainly no prude but sometimes on True Blood, as lovely as those people are, really it was the graphic quality of the killing scenes that bothered me a little bit more. So I wanted to cover my eyes. For NBC, it's pretty much pushing the envelope, though. I've seen the first six episodes and I'm still happy about it!"

Harris now refrains from projecting much when waiting to see how this new adaption turns out. "I don't have expectations anymore because I'm waiting to be informed. I'm waiting to have that experience. Entertain me! Show me what you've got! And they have, I've been very pleased with it. It's a very good show."

Midnight, Texas offers a new experience for Harris as a writer in that the series mixes events from different books into the first season, as opposed to adapting the content of just one book per season. "That was really new to me. But there again I thought, well there are only three books. That's okay with me, really. It's not like they have to be sequential to make sense. They don't. So far I'm going,  'Okay, that was from book three, I think that was from book two,' but okay, it's all good."

With just three books worth of material to pull from and uncertainty about the longevity of the television series, which has only just begun airing, there is a possibility of the show-runners having to create more substantial quantities of completely new events and characters. "I don't doubt that Monica can make up enough good stuff to fill it up. I have no doubts about her creativity at all. I really hope the cast and crew, I hope they're all employed for many years."

Harris hopes that having her work adapted for live-action hasn't changed her style of writing. "I don't think you can write thinking, 'Maybe this will be on TV someday,' and try to make your book more action-figure type than it would necessarily be. That's not my job. My job is to write the best book I can, fulfill my contract with the reader, which is to provide them with the best book, the most entertaining book I can write. Anything after that is beyond my control."

Harris no longer takes part in the practice of imagining certain actors to portray the characters she has created. "I kind of gave that up along with True Blood too. I want them to cast the best person for the role, not the one who looks most like the character in the books and inevitably, I would think about someone who looked like the character as I described them. I think you have to be able to see beyond that to the actor who can carry that character for several seasons if need be and I hope they will have to."

Harris is also full of praise for the Midnight, Texas cast. "I'm on board! Of course Peter was in True Blood also and so I knew he was good and he's got that gravitas. I'm so impressed with Yul as the Reverend. There again he's not the stick-like elver man I described but he's got the presence, huge presence. Oh and Jason as the angel, oh my gosh! He's so good. They're all good! Dylan and Parisa and Sarah and of course François, I really think they've gotten a really cohesive group that all stick up for each other."

The plot and greater themes of Midnight, Texas are highly relevant to the currently tumultuous sociopolitical climate of the world. It's a strength that gives the content greater weight and a means of connecting to the audience. "I think you write what's really pressing in you. I think the fact that people need to band together to present a united front is pretty important, especially now. When [I] write, I always have a message. Whether people get it or not is kind of up to them. If people just want to read the books for entertainment, that too is fine cause books are entertainment. I'm in the entertainment industry anyway. But I do have a message and I really hope it resonates with people and it gives them a minute to think about it. I'm not a preacher. I think that people who feel like they're outcasts or different or not mainstream for whatever reason can find family and likemindedness with each other. That's not exactly a new or startling message but it seems like a message that needs repeating."

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François Arnaud and Sarah Ramos are two of the leading stars on NBC's enticing new supernatural drama series "Midnight, Texas", adapted from the novels penned by Charlaine Harris. Arnaud plays Manfred Bernado, a psychic-medium new to the town of Midnight, while Ramos plays Creek, a waitress residing in Midnight who meets Manfred when he arrives. Both actors took the time to introduce their characters at the show's round-table interviews at SDCC 2017.

"I play Creek," begins Ramos. "She is one of the only people in town who was raised in Midnight. She doesn't really have any supernatural powers but she's really familiar with them. She grew up, it's not like anybody comes here and they're like, 'I'm a were-tiger." You just kind of figure it out by trial and error of living in Midnight. So Creek's really got the rules of Midnight down pat. There's kind of a question of if she doesn't have supernatural powers and everybody in Midnight is running from something or has a secret or a supernatural power, what is she doing there?"

"I play Manfred, who's a newcomer to Midnight," adds Arnaud. "He's a medium, he's had very powerful psychic abilities for a long time but he still doesn't control them very well. Ghosts and spirits have been taking over his body. He's been on the run from people he may or may not have hurt or scammed and he's trying to find a place to rest, and find peace of mind in Midnight. Little does he know the town is populated with a bunch of incredibly powerful, scary beings."

Being that the characters were first introduced in Charlaine Harris' novels, the actors must gauge how much to draw from the novels when creating portrayals in the live-action adaptations. "I think we have a loyalty to Charlaine's origin story and the characters that she created," says Arnaud. "But it's a new entity and we also have a loyalty to the scripts themselves and the tone of the show which I think is faster-paced than the books and at times darker and more violent. But physically, there are some changes. I think we try to stay true to the essence of these characters and their relationships."

"I think Charlaine created really cool characters that we were all excited to play," says Ramos. "I think Creek is a little bolder in the show than she is in the book but then again in the book there's a scene where Manfred's getting attacked by a biker or something and she comes up and hits him with a chair. I think she has really short, black hair in the book so there are physical changes but we tried to do our best to serve the characters that we really liked."

"Yeah, Manfred's supposed to be covered in tattoos and piercings, and have bleached blond hair. They wanted to go in a different direction," adds Arnaud.

"Like Spike from Buffy!" chimes Ramos.

"I got a few studs and earrings," says Arnaud. "I have a big tattoo on my back but they're covering it for the show. They're giving me new ones."

As True Blood was broadcast on HBO, there was no shortage of gratuitous displays of sexuality and violence. But with Midnight, Texas being an NBC series, the approach to the more sensual material must be approached differently.

"You can't show as much on network TV as you can on cable," says Ramos. "But sometimes less is more. We have a shower scene pretty quickly."

"I think there's definitely a lot of romance," adds Arnaud. "The dynamic is still steamy. A lot of the sexuality is implied more than shown, but... sexuality, I can't believe I said 'sexuality'. I think it is very sensual."

"Everybody's got a flame. Midnight is a very romantic town," says Ramos.

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Adapting a fan-favourite series from novel to live-action can pose a number of challenges. Midnight, Texas is based on a set of three novels from Charlaine Harris, who is best known to television viewers for being the author of The Southern Vampire Mysteries which were adapted into the HBO series True Blood.

Monica Owusu-Breen was at the helm of developing Midnight, Texas into a television series and was drawn to the material for the characters themselves as well as the manner in which she related to the characters. "I fell in love with these characters, I fell in love with their relationships, I fell in love with their love stories. So that was super important. We took parts of the first book and the third book for the massive plot of the season. In terms of the individuals stories, Midnight, Texas, one of the beautiful things about it is it's a tiny little town and so it moves at a tiny town pace. When we adapted it for NBC, they asked if we could add incident. It was about adding more than subtracting. It was about keeping true the heart and the spirit of Midnight and its characters but adding more plot and incident."

"We both fell in love with the books immediately so we came at it from a place of fondness and admiration," adds producer Mark Hentemann. "You'll see throughout the course of the first ten episodes, there's so many things that are pulled from all three of the books and there's still a lot more left for a second season, a third season, and a fourth season but like in any adaptation, a writer needs to run with it and turn it into a living, three-dimensional show so a lot of it is also inventive."

Midnight, Texas not only combines a diverse group of supernatural types, from vampires, were-tigers, angels, psychics, and witches, the representation expands to more resonant social groups such as race, gender, and sexuality. Owusu-Breen shares how inclusivity is an essential message to the show's writing. "The heart of the show, the theme of the show, that a group of very diverse people who have different talents, who bring different things to bear, who are really different from each other but can come together to form a community that has each other's back in the face of adversaries, that to me felt so perfect and beautiful and representative of what I want to see on television."

"The tagline 'Only Outsiders Fit In' really resonated with us when [the] marketing team came up with that. We kind of feel like Midnighters ourselves in the real world,"says Hentemann.

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Midnight, Texas introduces viewers to a small town predominantly populated by supernatural beings, including vampires, witches, and psychic mediums. There are non-supernatural humans living there as well but for the most part, all are aware of the existence of the supernatural. It's a haven of sorts from the larger world's lack of knowledge of or acceptance of the existence of the supernatural. It's socially relevant parallel to today's tense sociopolitical climate, something series stars Jason Lewis and Yul Vazquez greatly appreciate about the project.

"I'm a geek from the time I was a kid," says Lewis. "I took refuge in story, in libraries and movie theatres. I think as great as it is to be entertaining, that's where story really serves humanity. It lets us know we're not alone. Just because you don't fit in with the people that are immediately in your circumstances doesn't mean you can't find circumstances that you do."

"To have a place where everyone is accepted, particularly with everything that's going on now, everything we're seeing now where people are not only not accepted but being ejected, this is a town where you can live there as you are as long as you don't make any trouble. The only trouble we deal with are outside forces that threaten the existence of this peaceful place. Just behave." Vazquez plays Rev. Emilio Sheehan, a weretiger that struggles to accept his condition, though he cares deeply for his fellow Midnighters. "He goes to Midnight out of necessity. The fact that he has this dual nature where he becomes this tiger and he becomes a reverend and retreats to Midnight to deal with the fact that he has this dark nature that is violent that he is in conflict with. Turning to God and retreating to Midnight are how he copes with this other side."

Just as the residents of Midnight become a family, the cast of the series has bonded over the course of filming. "We shoot in a place that's very isolated," says Vazquez. "There's really not a lot to do and we spend a lot of time with each other. We had very, very long days. Everybody was very cordial and nice to each other. We really just got along and showed up there and got the job done."

"This is a really blessed situation to have so many great people and I think it certainly starts all the way back to Charlaine," adds Lewis. "Charlaine is an incredible, decent human being and so is Monica Owusu-Breen who is our show-creator who took the material and turned it into the TV series. From the very top of our production down through the lines of every department, it seems they just gathered a great group of people that really care about the work and have their humanity well intact."

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NBC's latest supernatural drama, "Midnight, Texas" serves up all the must-have delights associated with the genre. There's fantastical creatures, magic, and a whole lot of romance. For series stars Peter Mensah and Arielle Kebbel, it's an opportunity to play terrifically exciting characters.

"I play Olivia Charity," says Kebbel. "She is an assassin. She has an incredibly painful childhood as we'll learn as the series goes on. It explains part of why she doesn't trust men, why she's so angry. She's found a lot of compassion and friendship and therapeutic healing in her relationship with [Lemuel]. The two of them together are very protective of the town of Midnight and the other Midnighters."

"I play Lemuel Bridger, who is the resident town vampire." shares Mensah. "[He's] been around a couple hundred years and has over the years, been given the gift and adaptation of the ability to leech energy for his survival. So he doesn't actually need to feed on blood to survive. That allows him to live in Midnight and develop a relationship with someone living."

Kebbel teases that the relationship between the two is "very sexy," prompting Mensah to elaborate further on his character and his abilities. "As you watch the episodes, at some point each of us, our backgrounds get explored a little bit more and you get to learn how we became the way we are. With Lem, Lem actually at a certain stage was a regular vampire and something happened. So in some coming episodes, you will see what happened that made his eyes blue that turned him into the way he is. What he does is, he can actually leech energy from living creatures and people, and depending on the severity of the leeching it can be something devastating and can actually kill or it could actually be essential experience which is what he has developed with Olivia."

Despite the different take on the vampire mythology, there will be no shortage of kills and fangs. Kebbel even says that something brutal will take place in episode 6. Mensah shares that other signature vampire elements are still present. "Lem is a very different vampire. There are times his fangs will show but he doesn't show them all the time. There's a lot of the typical vampire characteristics, speed, strength, longevity. He's recognisable as a vampire, but you're gonna meet a very different kind of supernatural. You'll find in Midnight that the humans and the supernaturals are all a little bit different. Their stories aren't as obvious as you think."

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This final season of Teen Wolf will see two of its actors step into the director's seat, Tyler Posey and Linden Ashby for episodes 13 and 14, something series star Khylin Rambo is proud to support. He is also pleased with how the show evolves and shifts his character, Mason. "Let me just prefix it with, Mason's always been the happy-go-lucky guy. He's always been the guy that can see the positive no matter how dark things get. But it's gonna be great to see how those challenges actually resurface and see how he deals with them. There's some very intense moments that he's gonna experience and he's gonna respond in a way that I haven't seen him respond."

Rambo relates to his character for their shared value and prioritisation of friendship. "How we loves his friends, that's why he does the things he does for his friends. It's not just because they're cool, he truly loves the people who he's around. That's something that I do and something I aspired to grow into. I wish I was as brave as him, I say this all the time but when I really, really think of it, I would not do half of the things that he does. If most of the danger was real, running into it or staying in the middle and not moving away, I admire the bravery. For his friends, it's because of how much he loves his friends."

The friendship between Mason and Liam will remain an integral part of their character journeys. "The way I see this final season of Mason and Liam is, you know how Scott and Stiles, they got into a groove of being in the pack and being on missions and accomplishing things. They became partners as much as they became best friends and that's something I see Mason and Liam doing. Even though they make each other laugh and they're good friends, they have now become partners and it's more so mission-oriented and I like that. It's gonna be really cool to see that."

Rambo is disappointed to not have worked with the returning stars, as his character is on a separate mission that keeps him in a different location when those characters return to the series but is hopeful that he'll have the opportunity to work with them in the future. He raves about Posey's creativity and preparation for his directorial debut on the show, adding how it inspired him as a creative. He teases that the last season will be full of fear and possibly death.

So what's next for Khylin Rambo? He wants to play a superhero! "It's a dream of mine, and I plan to accomplish this, but to be a superhero, [or] superpowered individual of some sort. I would love it! The fact that I got to play the Beast, even though I didn't go through any makeup, it was CGI, that idea alone let me know this is something I want to do. I've done an action film and from that moment on, I was like, 'This is awesome!' I get to do the thing that I watch. When I watch action films, I've actually said I want to do that, and I'm doing that at a young age. So I would love for that to continue. Anything action, something supernatural, superpowers, I'd love." When asked about his favourite superhero, he says it's Nightcrawler. "He's the guy who teleports. I really like him cause he started off teleporting only to where he can see and then he figured out how to teleport anywhere. If you really think of it, you're invincible."

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Tyler Posey has spent the last six years playing the lead role, Scott McCall, on MTV's Teen Wolf but in the show's final season he got to expand from being both an actor and a producer to also direct an episode. "I was thinking about it not too long ago; I've been doing stuff since I was a kid. I would always grab a camera and I would grab my little brother and be like, 'Stand there and say this!' I'd point at him and yell at him and then when he wouldn't do what I said I would get really mad and cry, and that's still kind of how I direct. I used to film stuff all the time with my brother and then as technology advanced I would start to edit on the computer. I was twelve years old and I would make skate videos with my friends. So I'd always been interested in it and I always loved it. It always seemed like something I was so interested in, like a passion.

Then as the years went on Teen Wolf, I wasn't fulfilled enough as an actor so I started producing not too long after the show started. I'd always expressed interest in directing. I'd been directing shorts with my friends where I'm not in them, I'm just doing all the camera work. I love doing camera work. I think I like that more than anything, I love operating a camera. It's so much fun. I always expressed interest in it and then I said, 'I want to direct!' I was just like, 'I'm gonna see if they'll let me.' I think at first they were just kind of appeasing me but then they really started to see how invested in it I was and how serious I took it. I think everyone was pretty impressed with me which is a really sweet interaction and reaction from them and I really appreciated that. Directing was the coolest.

For a long time on Teen Wolf, I kind of struggled a little bit because acting isn't my favourite thing. I don't know, I just felt like I wasn't fulfilled enough. Then I directed and it was great. I had a great time and it made me enjoy acting more. It was needed. I can't wait for you guys to see it and I hope that I get to do more shows/movies in the future. I think it's the start of something. I wasn't just doing it just to get the credit. I really want to do this.

I'm directing stuff with my friends. We're editing a short right now that's gonna be a five-part series and then we're editing another short. So we have all this stuff filmed, we've got all these ideas, but nothing official. It's all stuff that we're doing. But I've had talks with my friends from MTV and they've said that they're interested in maybe bringing me and doing an episode of some other MTV show which I would be honoured and humbled, I'm not worthy but we'll see!"

Posey is full of passion when speaking about what Teen Wolf means to him after six successful seasons. "It's hard to explain what it means to me. It's like a loved one, it really is. It's something that I love a lot and I really view it as a member of my life. It's like a child that I raised. It's odd, I've never felt that with anything before. I feel so connected to it. Last year at Comic Con when we heard that the show was coming to an end, I was watching this video of all of the promos that we've done for the show over the years and I was there for every single one of them. It really punched me in the gut and I was like, 'Oh my god!' I was crying and that was the first time it really felt like I'm losing this show. It's just changed my life in so many ways, in the best ways possible. I've gone through the hardest shit on the show and I've met my best friends on the show, and this show has given me opportunities that are gonna help me in my career and my life. I owe a lot to this show and it was there for me when I needed it. For a long time, it was a best friend of mine. I love it like my arm. It's like a part of me, it really is."

Scott McCall has been a truly compelling and inspiring character for his unwavering goodness and heart. Posey shares how playing such an aspirational character has effected him. "I brought a lot of myself to Scott. I like to think that I'm a lot like him but he has inspired me a lot to keep being a good guy and love your friends, and protect your family. He's just a great leader and doesn't want anything in return. He just wants people to be happy and I just admire that a lot. I think he and I teach each other a lot, cause I'm older than him and I've been around the block a few times. I think he learns a lot from me and I learn a lot from him. So really, I miss him. I'm gonna miss that dude a lot. I like him, I wanna hang out with him. He's taught me a lot."

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Dylan Sprayberry's biggest film appearance in the beginning stages of his career was as young Clark Kent in Man Of Steel, but it was his long-term role as Liam Dunbar on MTV's Teen Wolf that gave him the greatest momentum and catalysed a significant flux in his own fan-following. Now that the series will be coming to a close, Sprayberry has time to reflect on his last few years on it.

"I feel good. I really am proud of what we did on the show. You come together every year to finish the show and to makes sure that we finish it on time and everyone does their job and I really think that we were all on track this season. We killed it. We wrapped everything up really well."

Sprayberry was already friends with his co-star Khylin Rambo before they joined the show. The friendship between Liam and Mason is integral to each of their characters and will continue to be so in these final episodes. "That was a big thing, especially cause it's the end of the show to make sure that we get to see their friendship, that they're still [close] even as the characters' lives go on that we won't see. We do a lot of really fun stuff. I think every season we've had great friendship moments. Jeff and all the writers know that me and Khylin are great friends so they alway write for us. They kind of watch us on set and see what dumb stuff we do and will play on that a little bit. So there's gonna be a lot of good stuff. I'm grateful for this show because it grew our friendship so well. We wouldn't be the friends we are today with that show. He lived with me, cause he lives really far away. So he lived with me and we would go to set every day together and drive there and I would wait for him and he would wait for me if we finished at different times. I started on the show when I'd just turned fifteen. I think I was fourteen when I auditioned and Khylin was seventeen, I think. I have a friend named Aramis, I met Khylin through him at Comic Con. I met Khylin for the first time at Comic Con in 2013 or 2014, which is really funny. We just got lucky. It's kind of the same like Dylan O'Brien/Tyler Posey story. We hit it off immediately like that. I think the fact that I knew him before allowed us to, we didn't need any time to 'make friends' or anything. We already knew each other. We were already comfortable because we were all friends.

In looking back at the complete arc of his character, Sprayberry is pleased with how it has all wrapped up. "I feel good about it. I think that the writers know what they're doing. I had a little input here and there with certain things but writers, they did a really good job. They're really good at observing and then saying, 'I think from what I've seen of Dylan, he would enjoy doing this as Liam'. They always did a really good job doing that and always having stuff that they knew I would like because I'm always on set, they're always on set, you have those relationships. I think they killed it. This season is gonna wrap up my character's arc very well and I think the arc in this season is great. I'm so proud of this season and I think this season is really where I always wanted my character to be.  I just like the way that my character looks this season, the wardrobe, everything about it. This is a really good season. It felt great to do and I'm excited for everyone to see it."

Sprayberry reveals that he didn't get to work with the returning actors/characters though he still has warm words to share about their presence on the show. "It was cool! I know all of them through events and them coming on set just to visit. I know everybody but I didn't get to work with them on the season cause we all have our own storylines. There's like seven storylines going on simultaneously in the show so you don't always get a chance to work with everybody. But it was great having everyone on set cause that just added to the whole atmosphere and the fact that we all need to come together to finish this. It was great to have that overall tone regardless of if I get to work with specific people or not."

Sprayberry also speaks highly of his co-stars that took on the added job of directing episodes in the final season. "Posey directed an episode and so did Linden. I'm really excited to see those because for an actor, when you get to work with another actor as your director, it's great, and for an actor getting to work with a friend as a director is great. So we got both. I got to work with a friend who's also an actor and they're directing me. So they know what I would want from a director. If I was gonna direct you and you're an actor, I know exactly what you would want me to say because I'm also an actor and I've been there when a director doesn't have that connection. That's one of the most important things between an actor and director is that connection cause you're not gonna have full trust and full commitment on both sides if there's no connection. It's not always like that so when that happens, it's really great. It's kind of like finding a golden egg. I like everyone being on the same page. We're all going to the same thing. I don't think my ideas are better than anybody's. I don't think that I need my ideas to be spoken. I just want to be able to sit down with a director and have a heart-to-heart and get to a middle ground where we can both be happy with what's going on. It's like a business deal."

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Teen Wolf is set to begin airing the final arc of its sixth and last season. The series has seen a number of fan-favourite characters come and go during its run. Series show-runner Jeff Davis hopes to work with the show's actors again on future projects. He is in the midst of developing a War of the Worlds series for MTV and also shot a pilot for a Let The Right One In series which was in negotiations with TNT but failed to work though it may yet find a home elsewhere.

Davis put the work in to bring back a number of former characters to optimise the send-off of Teen Wolf. "Some of it was, 'How many can I fit in?' I'll tell you, writing the finale was a challenge because  there's like twenty-something main characters and it's giving everyone their moment. I wanted Daniel Sharman back in but he was off shooting Fear The Walking Dead. Daniel and I had been texting a lot and talking about the possibility of coming back. He's the one I regret not getting back. There are of course other characters that I would've loved to have brought back. It still has to be dictated by the story otherwise it feels like you're just shoving everyone in for a cameo. The last season is about fear and it's about Scott and his friends becoming pariahs again in Beacon Hills. It's a little bit of an analogy for the current goings-on about being an outside, about feeling left out, or about feelings as though the world is against you. It's the rise of new hunters and it's about a creature that preys upon you and preys upon fear. I thought this show was over season five. That was meant to be a series finale in a way but then the network said 'You gotta do more.'"

This final season will see the return of former lead actors including Colton Haynes, Charlie Carver, and Tyler Hoechlin. Hoechlin's return was exceptionally well received by fans, many of whom enjoyed the bickering of his character Derek Hale with Dylan O'Brien's Stiles Stilinski. "That was one of the things I was looking forward to writing in the last episode was the return of Stiles and Derek together and their bickering. They have great comedic chemistry, those two characters, and [Tyler and Dylan] love playing it too, so you'll see that too."

Davis hopes that the show's legacy lasts in the hearts of the viewers that made it such a success. "I hope that people remember it with fondness. I hope that people say, 'Oh yeah, Teen Wolf, I used to love that show. That was a great show and it was one of my favourite shows when I was growing up.' That's how I feel about The X-Files. I didn't watch every season of The X-Files, I didn't even see the last movie but that was a seminal show for me. I hope people feel that way about it, like I feel about my favourite shows."

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