PaleyFest 2012 is the Paley Center For Media’s annual two-week celebration of great television at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills March 2 - 14, 2012.  The list (it's heavy on the Whedonverse) and how to buy tickets after the jump.  Jump. Jump

by Myra Shinkman

The first thing to understand about "The Captains" is that it's not so much about the Star Trek captains from the five different televisions series and the latest movie franchise, but about the actors who play the captains.  And it's not so much about the actors as it is about one particular actor - William Shatner.

Is that a bad thing?  No, not at all.  After all, Shatner wrote it, directed it, starred in it, and, hey, he was the very first Enterprise captain (not counting Christopher Pike, of course).  "The Captains" is his baby from conception to actualization.

The second arc of Dark Horse’s Angel & Faith series starts this week with Issue #6, written by Christos Gage and with art by Rebekah Isaacs, and your friendly, neighborhood Comic Book Slayer has an advance review for his Scooby gang! I’m proud to report that both Gage and Isaacs are at full force in this issue, as the Angel & Faith series continues to jockey with Buffy: Season 9 for the title of best Whedon comic of 2012!
 
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We talk Once Upon a Time, House of Lies, The Fades, Downton Abbey, Lost Girl, Castle, Alcatraz, Justified, White Collar, Glee, Modern Family, Suburgatory, Big Bang Theory, Person of Interest, Vampire Diaries, and Fringe.

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Coverage By Suzanne Eggebrecht.

Writer Harlan Ellison enjoyed a surprise visit from Patton Oswalt during Ellison’s 2+ hour talk tonight (January 19, 2012) at the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood.  Ellison was delivering the second of two talks revolving around his “Glass Teat” Omnibus recently published.  Moderator and fellow writer Josh Olson gave over the moderating duties to Oswalt when... [click through to view video]

We have interviews of the cast of Spartacus Vengeance during the red carpet premiere.  The interviews include executive producer Steven DeKnight, Liam McIntyre (Spartacus), Lucy Lawless (Lucretia), Manu Bennett (Crixus), Peter Mensah (Oenomaus), Nick Tarabay (Ashur), Craig Parker (Glaber), Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Naevia), and Viva Bianca (Ilithyia).

This show is a great ride.  The story and characters are complex mixed in with a bit of violence.  Ok alot of violence.  Check out what the stars had to say below.

Spartacus Vengence premieres January 27th on Starz.

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Buffy: Season 9 #5 is a big one, kiddies! Writer Andrew Chambliss continues to deliver this month, along with the return of Karl Moline’s (Fray) pencils! We have familiar faces reappearing, the departure of major character, and a stunning ending to the issue that will most likely change everything for our favorite blonde slayer!
 
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Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association, now in its tenth year, will be published semiannually rather than quarterly.  The, WSA is encouraging papers for the upcoming Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses 5 (in Vancouver, Canada this year) submit to Slayage and ask that you also, if you are a professor, encourage your students to submit to Watcher Junior (More information after the jump).

The idea of Slayage was born in the spring of 2001 as WSA considered over one hundred and forty proposals submitted for possible inclusion in Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a book published by Rowman and Littlefield). It was learned, too, that two other collections of essays on Buffy were also in the works. It seemed obvious that there was a not-soon-to-be-exhausted international critical and scholarly interest in BtVS. With Whoosh! The Journal of the International Association of Xenoid Studies in mind as a model, Slayage was born early in 2001.  Founding editors are David Lavery and Rhonda V. Wilcox.  In the spring of 2010, beginning with Volume 8, Number 1, Slayage became "The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association."