Andy Wood

The “American Dad” panel revealed new stuff for the next season of American Dad.

New “American Dad” episodes; will be returning on September 10.

The “American Dad” Spoilers are -

* Stan and Francine try to have another baby; at some point the story takes an odd turn and a Japanese vasectomy clinic enters the picture. It ends with a shootout in a sperm bank.
* Stan tries to convince his friend that God exists, and eventually kills said friend.
* Stan’s boss (G.W. Bush) comes to dinner. Roger ends up helping Bush fall off the wagon.
* Steve’s obsession with video games leads him through the looking glass – into the video game – where we see events unfold from within.
* Squirrels living in the backyard treehouse begin acting out scenes from “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?”

At the 2006 Comic-Con International Iron Man director Jon Favreau let the a rapt audience know that the villain in the movie would be none other than Mandarin.

As one of the smartest villains ever created, Mandarin wants nothing more than to take over the world. What makes this character so interesting is the fact that Mandarin has no superhuman powers to speak of. Rather, Mandarin has mastered multiple martial arts. He has five rings on each finger that he controls with his mind.

Iron Man comes to theaters on May 2, 2008 from Paramount Pictures.

Yesterday during G4’s coverage of ComicCon 2006. It was reported that Peter Cullen, the original voice of Optimus Prime in the Transformers cartoon would be reprising his role as the voice of the Autobot leader.

What can you tell me about the show’s first six episodes?
Carlton Cuse: Damon and I are designing the show as a sort of miniseason. We almost view the first six as a miniseries. And it’s going to answer what we left hanging at the end of the finale. Obviously, we’re going to explain what happened to Locke and Desmond and Eko, and sort of deal with the fact that Sawyer and Kate and Jack are in captivity. We really love the idea of having this little six-episode [arc], and we have a whole story design with a conclusion and a cliff-hanger that will hopefully keep the audience curious and hanging and excited about coming back in January for the longer run of episodes.Are you happy about the scheduling move?
Cuse: We’re ecstatic. We couldn’t be happier. Damon and I got so many complaints last year from the fans about frustration over the repeats, and feeling so confused about when Lost was going to be on. The impatience of having to wait two or three weeks before the story could continue. Now, when Lost is on, it’s on.

Would you have liked to have gotten more than six episodes up front?
Cuse: The problem, ultimately, is that we physically cannot produce more than 22, 23 or 24 hours. We did 24 hours of the show last year, and it nearly killed us. We were simultaneously producing episodes 22, 23 and 24 at the end of the season with three different crews. It’s such a hard show to make, and yet there are 35 weeks in the prime-time season. We wish we could make 35 episodes of Lost; we just can’t. There are always going to be compromises in scheduling the show. And [ABC president] Steve McPherson decided, I think very smartly, that it would be way too long to wait until January to have the show back on again. That was the other choice: to come back on in January and run straight through to May. But I think it’s better and more satisfying for the fans to have a pod in the fall. To not have to wait from May until January for the show to be back on. But we like it. We see those six episodes as a little miniseries, and it’s going to be intense and hyped and high-octane.

Will Cynthia Watros (Libby) be back in flashback?
Cuse: We would love to tell more chapters of Libby’s life, in the same way that you’ve got Jack’s father’s story. That character was dead from the word go, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t learned and seen his story over the course of the series. We would love to sort of finish up Cynthia’s story, but if I were specific about that, it would spoil the surprise of our storytelling.

Will the Oct. 4 season premiere pick up where we left off?
Cuse: We pick up where we left off, but obviously there are different stories on different parts of the island, and, you know, we will get to all of them in the first few episodes. But like last year, we didn’t deal with the raft survivors in the first episode. Not everything is going to be answered in the first episode. But the captivity story [with Jack, Kate and Sawyer] will definitely be addressed.

More stuff here

I was not expecting to see this…

This is for real as noted at the Startrek.com website.