"Nuevo proyecto para la CW sobre 'IZOMBIE'"

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- IZOMBIE 1.12 "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Right" Clip #1:

http://tvline.com/2015/05/29/izombie-se ... lor-klaus/


- IZOMBIE 1.12 "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Right" Clip #2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlyc0JSLjH0


- IZOMBIE 1.12 "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Right" Clip #3:

http://bcove.me/2vobcn0w



- IZOMBIE 1.12 "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Right" Producer´s preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ou3gadH-U

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- Robert Buckley sobre el futuro de Major con Liv y el 'Tenso' enfrentamiento con Blaine (TVLine):

Robert Buckley sobre el futuro de Major con Liv y el 'Tenso' enfrentamiento con Blaine
Por Vlada Gelman / 01 Junio 2015, 4:00 PM PDT

iZombie is offering up a Major dose of drama on this Tuesday’s episode (The CW, 9/8c) as Liv’s ex-fiancé gets dangerously close to brain-dealer-about-town Blaine.

With the stakes raised during the season’s final two installments, star Robert Buckley says he couldn’t have been more pleased when he saw what was in store for his alter ego.

“I was beside myself! I was so happy,” the actor exclaims. “There’s a lot of exciting adventure for Major… I loved the way it turned out.”

So did the rest of the cast, who got a sneak peek at the freshman dramedy’s season conclusion when executive producer Rob Thomas invited them over to his house for a screening of Episodes 12 and 13.

“All of us were like, ‘Holy smokes! Those came out so good!'” Buckley recalls. “Everyone’s in danger, and it just gets crazier and crazier.” (Editor’s note: He does not lie.)

Below, Buckley previews Major’s scary confrontation with Blaine and his romantic prospects with Liv following last week’s not-so-real confession.

TVLINE | I know it was all in Liv’s head, but do you think any part of Major would react like that if Liv came clean with him?
[Laughs] That’s a pretty ridiculous, crazy confession. I don’t know how anyone would take that. Major was insanely understanding. But he has shown himself to be a very loyal, loving guy. Who knows? If it was me in real life, I might be a bit more stunned. It would take me a little bit longer to get to the, “It’s OK.”

TVLINE | As clever as Major is, he hasn’t figured out Liv is a zombie despite the fact that she’s had a very extreme makeover. Why do you think that is? Is he in denial?
When I was trying to make sense of the character early on, I was like, “How does this make sense?” Obviously, what she went through at the boat party was a very traumatic event. But a huge overnight change… What is it? Is it denial? I think sometimes, when you really love someone, they can become your blindspot. You’re too close to it to see it. Or maybe you don’t want to see it. Subconsciously, you don’t want to acknowledge something.

I also think, because what she went through was so horrific, he can’t really say to her how she should react [or] behave. He’s not able to see the whole picture, because his judgment’s clouded by the fact that he loves her and he still wants to be with her.

TVLINE | And is Liv open to that? Or is she still in a state of grief over Lowell?
I don’t think that she’s anywhere near ready to get back into a romantic relationship, because nothing’s changed between Liv and Major. She still would be putting him at risk. The whole Lowell thing hasn’t changed that dynamic between Liv and Major.

TVLINE | Last we saw, Major found the brains and was determined to kill all the zombies. What’s he going to do next?
He’s definitely looking for vengeance. Besides the fact that these children are going missing and there needs to be justice served, look what he’s gone through. He’s almost been killed on numerous occasions. So he’s pretty hot in the biscuit, and he’s looking to make someone pay — specifically, zombies.

TVLINE | What are Liv and Ravi’s reactions like, considering how close Major is to the truth?
It’s growing increasingly difficult, especially for Ravi, to keep his mouth shut on the whole issue. What’s going to happen is if they don’t say anything soon, it’s going to be forced anyways, because he’s getting too close and he’s found the brains. So there’s only so much time before the truth is right in front of them all.

TVLINE | From the episodic photos, it looks like Major gets very industrious and finds his way into Meat Cute, so we have our first Major and Blaine scene. What is that interaction like?
First of all, it was a lot of fun to do, because David [Anders] and I really hadn’t had a chance to play much of the season. On the acting side, it was a blast. David is so fun to work with, and he plays the villain so well. And then the scene, it gets tense pretty quick. You don’t really know what Major’s going to do. How desperate or angry is he? And also, we don’t know how Blaine’s going to handle it. Is he going to be ultraviolent? Or is he going to try to get rid of this guy?

https://tvline.com/2015/06/01/izombie-s ... or-blaine/

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- Stills del 1.13 "Blaine´s World" (Season Finale):

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- 1.13 "Blaine´s World" Promo (Season Finale):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8oWrgxKktU


- 1.13 "Blaine´s World" Extended Promo (Season Finale):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQre791ry30




Añadidos los rátings del 1.12 "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Right". Podéis encontrarlos AQUÍ

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- Nuevas imágenes bts de la S1 (02-06-15):



(@katieish35: Let's do this @CWiZombie! Live tweeting with @RahulKohli13 and @malcolmjgoodwin now for the east coast folks!
@LisaOnTV: #Ravineaux onscreen and off! Live Tweet Now. #bromance #iZombie @CWiZombie @malcolmjgoodwin @RahulKohli13)

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- Imágenes y video BTS de la season finale 1.13 "Blaine´s world" (spoilers):

La próxima semana se emitirá la season finale d la primera temporada de "IZombie" y canadagraph ha compartido con nosotros unas imágenes y un video bts del rodaje del último episodio que contiene algunos spoilers del mismo.

Al principio del día, rodaron una escena con Aleks Paunovic como 'Julien Dupont' en la que estaba escudriñando en la furgoneta de 'Major Lillywhites' y encontraba un sobre, y luego cruzaba la calle de vuelta al "MeatCute" con el sobre en sus manos.

Luego rodaron unas escenas dentro con David Anders y otros.

Finalmente rodaron otra escena con Robert Buckley como 'Major Lillywhite', que se las había arreglado para escapar del congelador del "MeatCute" y se dirigía hacia la tienda con una escopeta volando la ventana lateral de la misma.





Video bts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAYvC8vBdgM


http://canadagraphs.weebly.com/other-ce ... ers-on-set

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- 1.13 "Blaine´s World" Producer´s preview (Season Finale):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdmFTzemJKw



- 1.13 "Blaine´s World" Clip #1 (Season Finale):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YGjxfSqyr4


- 1.13 "Blaine´s World" Clip #2 (Season Finale):

http://www.spoilertv.com/2015/06/izombi ... ce=Twitter

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- iZOMBIE 'Lo Da Todo' con el 'Explosivo' Final Promete la Co-Creatora de TV (Newsarama):

iZOMBIE 'Lo Da Todo' con el 'Explosivo' Final Promete la Co-Creatora de TV
Por Zack Smith, 05 Junio 2015 12:09 PM ET

Rose McIver may be the face of the CW's iZombie as the lead character Liv Moore, but one of the key players behind the camera is writer/producer Diane Ruggiero-Wright. Ruggiero-Wright developed the show along Rob Thomas after working with him on Veronica Mars, writing and producing many episodes and the feature film that came out last year. You may have also seen her credits on such shows as Bates Motel, Dirty Sexy Money and That’s Life, which she created.

Loosely adapted from the Vertigo comic by Chris Roberson and Mike Allred, iZombie has been one of the surprise critical and fan hits of the past TV season. Now, while the show’s toned down some of the more supernatural elements from the source material, it’s still got plenty of comic book flavor – from the credits to the comic book-inspired act openings to the people behind the scenes. We found out several people on iZombie were huge comic book fans – and so, with the season finale airing this coming Tuesday, we set out to speak with them for a trilogy of very, very geeky interviews, starting with Diane Ruggiero-Wright.

Ruggiero-Wright was happy to talk with us about her comics love, iZombie and even a detail about her upcoming work on a major superhero. If you haven’t been watching iZombie, we warn you – this has SPOILERS for several episodes this season (including the death of a major character).

Newsarama: Diane, congratulations on season two coming up.

Diane Ruggiero-Wright: Thank you! We’re very excited.

Nrama: Now, Chris Roberson and Mike Allred were saying you were big into comic books, so while we want to talk about the show, we love getting into people’s fandom. So feel free to let your geek flag fly. [laughs]

Ruggiero-Wright: You know what’s funny? I’m super-behind on everything. I’m not reading what’s new now, I’m reading what’s like forever ago. You read The Unwritten?

Nrama: Mike Carey and Peter Gross, yeah.

Ruggiero-Wright: Oh my God! I hadn’t read it and just started, and Pornsak Pichetshote, he’s our former executive at DC, he has – I’d just read the first one and liked it and was just overwhelmed and didn’t keep going. But Pornsak had all this original artwork from it in his office, and I saw it and went, “Oh, this is incredible! I have to get back into this!”

So that was a portion of my home life – when my two-year-old wasn’t screaming, I was reading The Unwritten.

You’re going to laugh at me – I have a magnifying sheet for reading comics, because they’re so small…! So I’m that dorky lady with the reading glasses, and then I have a magnifying sheet over my graphic novel and comics.

Nrama: Not going to make fun! That’s half of why the iPad and comiXology are so popular, they let you zoom in.

Ruggiero-Wright: Exactly! You want to see more, and have it be effortless reading. But if it’s dark, and you’re kind of cozy in your little den and don’t want to get up…[laughs]

And the problem with the iPad is you want to touch your comics – go to the store and have them pull your card and hand them to you…in Los Angeles, there’s Golden Apple Comics, and for a while there was Rocket Video, which had all this great obscure old stuff, and there was a time it felt like I was dating the guy from Golden Apple and the guy from Rocket Video, because the only people I saw were the guy who got me my comics and the guy who got me my DVDs. [laughs]

Nrama: I get that – working out of the home, I’ll take retail jobs just to get out of the house! But Wednesday at the comic shop, you get to have a nice discourse with the clerks and fans you know.

Ruggiero-Wright: Exactly! Especially if you have a relationship with them, and they know your tastes and can tell you, “Hey, I think you’d like this! Check it out!” I feel guilty buying stuff on the iPad because it just seems like you’re missing that connection, though it is a little bit easier.

This is the biggest thrill of my life – I’m a huge Wonder Woman fan, I have been since I was a kid. I’ve always been kind of old-school – I wasn’t even reading 1970s Wonder Woman, I was reading the 1940s stuff at the library. And I’ll be doing a digital Wonder Woman story for Sensation Comics!

Nrama: Awesome! When does that come out?

Ruggiero-Wright: I’m still writing it right now! But it’s awesome because with digital comics, there’s no constraints. You can put Wonder Woman in any time period, you can use any villain, and it speaks to whatever you want once they approve it. For me, this is like the biggest thrill of my life. [laughs]

I’m pretty excited, I’m trying to finish it before we start writing season 2 of iZombie. I can’t tell you what it’s about, sorry! I can tell you it’s Golden Age, so I’m pretty psyched about that.

Nrama: Very cool – I did an interview with Jill Lepore about her book on the origins of Wonder Woman last fall. There’s some crazy stuff in there.

Ruggiero-Wright: Oh my God. So my husband is the artistic director for a small theater, and back when we were just friends, he kept telling me to write a play. So I started writing a play based on that relationship that Lepore goes into detail about in the book – the kind of open marriage with the Marstons and that young inspiration for Diana Prince. I’ve been working on it for a while and might still finish it. That book was amazing! Did you love it?

Nrama: Oh yeah, that was a great book – despite the things attributed to George Marston, he really accomplished a lot with that character.

Ruggiero-Wright: It’s amazing – you go, “That’s the guy who created that character?!” Michael Allred posted a thing for me about an original Wonder Woman concept art for sale, with Marston’s notes on what he wanted her to look like, and it was…a little unsettling, but fascinating nonetheless. I just love that he helped invent the lie detector, and that and the Lasso of Truth came from the same person.

Nrama: I could go on with you about this for the entire interview, but –

Ruggiero-Wright: Yeah, we do need to talk iZombie! [laughs] I know what you mean.

Nrama: Before we go to far, I hope the PR people let you know I have a bone to pick with you –

Ruggiero-Wright: Oh no! They didn’t! What did I do?

Nrama: I was #TeamLowell, dammit! And then you just blew him away! I’m very sad!

Ruggiero-Wright: It was all Rob Thomas! I told him that I was going to do that in the press, tell him it was his idea, and I fought hard against it.

I have to say, we knew from the beginning we knew that was what we wanted to do. But then we cast Bradley James, and…imagine a world where we cast someone else as that character. Who can compete with Robert Buckley, you know what I mean? To cast someone you want this character to be with when Robert Buckley’s out there loving her…really hard to do.

But then they were just so great together, and the characters had such chemistry, and you were just rooting for both of them. Halfway through the second episode with them, I was watching the dailies with them and thought, “Oh my God, the audience is just going to hate us. What are we going to do?” But by the third episode, I thought, “This is great! They’re going to hate us! It’s going to be so compelling!”

So I’m sorry, but it did make for good TV…!

Nrama: I know! And, look, he’s obviously doing all right, he’s the Anti-Christ on A&E’s Damien now, that’s obviously a pay bump from being a zombie…

Ruggiero-Wright: [laughs] That’s like the next evolution.

Nrama: I shouldn’t kvetch. But that temporary GBF sequence was the sweetest thing! I felt ‘shipper pangs, and I do not like to go there!

Ruggiero-Wright: I feel so sorry for you! But let me tell you, that final sequence with Liv on the rooftop – I was saying on Twitter, I wish everyone could see the dailies with Rose. That girl was amazing – she’s cold, getting rained on in like two-degree weather, and she gave an unbelievably heartbreaking performance.

I was watching the dailies in my office, and Rob was coming in and laughing at me because I was just sobbing. He was also moved, but I’ll cry for hours. Rose was unbelievable, and she was just so real! There’s something about the Lowell character, he was just so perfect without being annoying. He was so normal. I’m sorry, but it worked out great.

Nrama: Well, I feel some closure from this confrontation.

Ruggiero-Wright: [laughs]

Nrama: I have to say, I love how Rose embodies Liv. She’s so good at being deadpan and sarcastic, and then when she smiles – she’s like a little kid.

Ruggiero-Wright: Here’s what I’ll say about her, it’s kind of mind-blowing: She’s just so damn likable! She’s just charismatic and – if I met someone and they didn’t like her, I couldn’t take them seriously. They’re obviously a person who kicks puppies and old people.

She is undeniably just likable, and there’s something about her that’s compelling, and you feel like you’re her buddy, even though you’re just watching her on TV – “Oh, she’s my pal!” Every time I see her, I think, “Oh, there’s Rose, my pal!” It’s a little fan-geeky of me, and it probably shouldn’t be that way, but I can’t help it. She’s so amazing. I’m a big fan.

Nrama: With your background and the format of the show, you’re going to get Veronica Mars comparisons – well, there’s actual brain-eating in this one.

But when you’re crafting this – what did you want to do that was similar to Veronica Mars, and what did you maybe want to do differently?

Ruggiero-Wright: Well, there was brain-eating on Veronica Mars, we just didn’t get to it.

I’m kidding.

No, I’d say one thing we definitely want to do differently was that Veronica Mars, being a noir, you had to rely very heavily on the A-story, the case of the week. Those had to have a lot of twists and turns and we had to spend a lot of time on them, because with a noir you need all the elements – the twists and turns, and you go down one route and then it takes a strange twist in a different direction.

We didn’t have that kind of story time for iZombie because we also wanted to cover things like the zombie apocalypse, and the hunt for the cure, and Blaine, and so on. So we didn’t have enough real estate to do a Veronica Mars-style mystery. We realized that when we were breaking the pilot, we didn’t have a two-hour pilot.

So we’re judicious about our mysteries – we don’t have five red herrings, we don’t spend as much time as them when we were on Veronica Mars.

We knew we’d get comparisons – and Rob and I have a similar voice anyway. We purposely didn’t try to make Liv sound like Veronica, but we knew if you get a petite blonde girl being sarcastic and deadpans, people are going to see similarities.

Nrama: It’s funny, I actually saw iZombie as less serialized than Veronica Mars, but that might have been because you had, as you said, that more red-herring-based mystery format – I was always looking to see what elements from the case of the week might tie into the overarching plot.

Ruggiero-Wright: I think also, with Veronica Mars, in the beginning you’re preoccupied with who killed Lily and the people in Veronica’s daily life who might have done it. So every time there was a conversation with a character like Logan that could just be about the A-story or just a high school scene, you’re having it with someone who’s potentially a murderer. Which is very noir and I think part of why the show was as good as it was.

With iZombie, there’s the question of what happened on the boat, and is Major going to find out, but it’s not a giant mystery – it’s not as overarching.

Nrama: It’s more “What’s going to happen?” as opposed to “What did happen?”

Ruggiero-Wright: I don’t know – I’m not sure if the audience is itching to find out what happened on that boat or if they just want to know if she gets better. [laughs]

Nrama: You want her to be a happy zombie! Or less zombie-ish.

Ruggiero-Wright: Exactly! There’s a way to be a zombie and not have to eat brains. But you’d miss her chowing down and getting all those new personalities.

We’re gearing up for season 2 and doing my episode pitch homework for all the brains she could eat is just so much fun. I’m out in the world and meeting people and thinking, “Wow, this jackass’s brain is just someone Liv needs to eat, because we need to lampoon this guy on iZombie.”

Nrama: But that creates a unique kind of emotional involvement – in any TV show, you want that procedural, week-to-week element, but in this case, she’s literally walking in someone new’s shoes every week…well, brains. There’s this emotional correlation between who these people were and how they change her.

Ruggiero-Wright: Yeah, I love writing that. There’s that moment in the pilot where she experiences how the prostitute was killed, and just kind of feels that weird connection to her as a result. I feel like that emotional connection is important – it helps make her a hero, someone who wants to right a wrong because they feel compassion for someone we don’t really know.

Nrama: We’re running low on time, so I have a few very quick questions. First – I know you had to streamline the more supernatural elements from the comic in adapting this, but is that something you’d ever consider bringing in for the future – ghosts, were-terriers, etc.?

Ruggiero-Wright: Yeah – that’s not really something that works, considering…we feel like that’s been well-tread. Like, True Blood kind of covered everything, they introduced so many underworldly creatures and did it so well that it’d feel like copying. And Being Human covered similar ground as well. We don’t feel like we’re reinventing the wheel, but…there’s not too many fake psychic zombie detective shows on the air, so we’re trying to be a little bit different.

Also, production-wise – it’s hard enough to do the zombie effects. The zombie eyes are just a thorn in my side trying to do them well. So the budget to do a were-terrier well, one that looked awesome and moved, we just wouldn’t be able to do it. And I feel like they already have that kind of world in True Blood and we’re trying to do something different. I loved True Blood, you might have guessed it.

Nrama: And last question: With this running just before the season finale, what can our readers expect?

Ruggiero-Wright: I can tell you – Episodes 12 and 13 are a two-parter with one mystery, and I have to say, it’s pretty frickin’ amazing. We see a whole different side of Major –

Nrama: Poor Major! He just keeps getting it in the face.

Ruggiero-Wright: Poor, poor Major. I have to say, I like him a little beat-up. He’s just so damn pretty that I feel like someone has to consistently smack him around to keep him a little rugged.

I love Robert Buckley – he’s so funny and such a great guy that one of the great things about the show is getting to see him do different things, drama and being funny and not just the sexy guy who walks around in shorts. Yeah, we do get to see that, [laughs], but he gets to show his acting chops and range and be funny as hell. But the Major storyline is – almost said “a major part,” that’s so dorky – a big part of the final episode and things with Blaine go off the chain.

It’s a pretty explosive finale. We went all-in.

And again, I feel so sorry about Lowell. Blame Rob Thomas!

Next Week: Things get even geekier when Rahul Kohli (Ravi) talks his own comics love, sneaking into a Star Wars set and…mango juice? And just in time for the season finale, Robert Buckley reveals his very hardcore fandom in an interview that just might make us #TeamMajor.



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- Rahul Kohli habla sobreRavi, el comer cerebros y ¡¿Los pantalones de Obi-Wan?! (newsarama):

Rahul Kohli habla sobreRavi, el comer cerebros y ¡¿Los pantalones de Obi-Wan?!
Por Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor 08 Junio 2015 Time: 06:37 PM ET

Our three-part series with the people behind The CW’s iZombie, based on the DC/Vertigo comic, continues today with our talk with actor Rahul Kohli, who plays Medical Examiner/crime-fighting sidekick Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti on the series.

We had a good time geeking out with series co-developer Diane Ruggiero-Wright…but this interview gets even geekier. Find out what it’s like to eat (the show’s) brains, what kind of role Kohli would love to play, and find out how far he was willing to go to see a Star Wars movie being made. Also: A terrifying secret from his past involving mango juice. You have been warned.

Newsarama: Rahul, let’s start off by talking about the show – what’s it been like to see the reaction to Season One and your character?

Rahul Kohli: It’s very surreal, to be honest. This is one of the first things I’ve done, so to have this be my first show, and have it get picked up for a second season, it’s kind of magical.

And it’s nice to see that people are very faithful to the characters. They’re constantly ‘shipping them…and I’ve found out what that means. So it’s great fun to go on Twitter and see what people are saying.

Nrama: Aww, you’re being ‘shipped! What’s it mainly, Ravi and Peyton or even Ravi and Liv, people going there?

Kohli: Well, there’s #RaviOli, which is Ravi and Olivia, and then there is #Pavi, which is Peyton and Ravi…and then there’s #Rajor, which is Ravi and Major. There’s kind of a huge group that wants Ravi and Major to be a couple.

Nrama: …I can actually see that. Y’all are, as they say on Adventure Time, “Turbros,” or turbo-bros. Just be glad you’re not on Supernatural.

Kohli: Exactly, exactly, the bromance. We went into it knowing that where things were going. And obviously, some of that had to do with Robert Buckley, and having things in common, such as games and comic books. So it’s nice that it found its way into the show.

Nrama: So I read that you two are both big comic book fans.

Kohli: Yeah, well, actually, Buckley is kind of the Jedi Master, and I’m just his Padawan. Buckley is forever coming around with a backpack full of new issues every Wednesday and plopping down and educating me. He’s showing me things I’ve never even heard of.

My tastes are a bit more mainstream – I’m a big Batman fan, so most of my knowledge consists of the Batman Universe. And he’s going, “Hey, you need to read Saga! You need to read Sex Criminals! You need to read this and that!” And in the first season, at least, we lived next to a comic book shop, which is where me and him spent the majority of our time, perusing.



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iZOMBIE’s Rahul Kohli talks Ravi, Eating Brains and…Obi-Wan’s Trousers?!
by Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor
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Our three-part series with the people behind The CW’s iZombie, based on the DC/Vertigo comic, continues today with our talk with actor Rahul Kohli, who plays Medical Examiner/crime-fighting sidekick Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti on the series. Here’s an intro to his character:

We had a good time geeking out with series co-developer Diane Ruggiero-Wright…but this interview gets even geekier. Find out what it’s like to eat (the show’s) brains, what kind of role Kohli would love to play, and find out how far he was willing to go to see a Star Wars movie being made. Also: A terrifying secret from his past involving mango juice. You have been warned.
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Newsarama: Rahul, let’s start off by talking about the show – what’s it been like to see the reaction to Season One and your character?

Rahul Kohli: It’s very surreal, to be honest. This is one of the first things I’ve done, so to have this be my first show, and have it get picked up for a second season, it’s kind of magical.

And it’s nice to see that people are very faithful to the characters. They’re constantly ‘shipping them…and I’ve found out what that means. So it’s great fun to go on Twitter and see what people are saying.

Nrama: Aww, you’re being ‘shipped! What’s it mainly, Ravi and Peyton or even Ravi and Liv, people going there?

Kohli: Well, there’s #RaviOli, which is Ravi and Olivia, and then there is #Pavi, which is Peyton and Ravi…and then there’s #Rajor, which is Ravi and Major. There’s kind of a huge group that wants Ravi and Major to be a couple.

Nrama: …I can actually see that. Y’all are, as they say on Adventure Time, “Turbros,” or turbo-bros. Just be glad you’re not on Supernatural.

Kohli: Exactly, exactly, the bromance. We went into it knowing that where things were going. And obviously, some of that had to do with Robert Buckley, and having things in common, such as games and comic books. So it’s nice that it found its way into the show.

Nrama: So I read that you two are both big comic book fans.

Kohli: Yeah, well, actually, Buckley is kind of the Jedi Master, and I’m just his Padawan. Buckley is forever coming around with a backpack full of new issues every Wednesday and plopping down and educating me. He’s showing me things I’ve never even heard of.

My tastes are a bit more mainstream – I’m a big Batman fan, so most of my knowledge consists of the Batman Universe. And he’s going, “Hey, you need to read Saga! You need to read Sex Criminals! You need to read this and that!” And in the first season, at least, we lived next to a comic book shop, which is where me and him spent the majority of our time, perusing.

Nrama: What were some of your other favorite books, and how long have you been reading comics?

Kohli: I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 Batman, the Tim Burton one. Being on a DC/Vertigo show, that’s kind of reignited my love of comics. So I went to DC Comics and raided their vaults, and took every issue of Batman from the New 52. So my love of comics is back with a vengeance.

I’m probably more of a gamer, though. Gaming is what I do more than anything. Including, probably, my job.

Nrama: So what are some of your favorite games?

Kohli: Wow. Well, right now it’s Witcher III. I just started and withholding judgment right now, it’s only been a few days. For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don’t know why, but that period just resonates with me – Goldeneye and Ocarina of Time and Rogue Squadron.

But in the last five years, I’d say the best game I’ve played has been Red Dead Redemption. I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but you can always hope.

Nrama: Well, look at your career right now. Zombies have made quite a comeback! Pirates came back! I think cowboys are overdue for a comeback.

Kohli: They are! We’ve got The Hateful Eight coming out from Tarantino, we’ve had Django Unchained and True Grit, and one of my favorite films, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Oh, and I have to give a shout-out to the best TV show ever made, Deadwood. Yeah, I think it’s time for all that to come back. Cowboys are the new zombies.

Nrama: With you on Deadwood especially. I want David Milch to come back and do that conclusion he’s talked about.

Kohli: Oh God – I am so jealous of David Anders (Blaine), because he’s done two things. First, he’s worked with J.J. Abrams on Alias, so he has kind of a Star Wars hookup, which I keep asking him about every day. And he was also in Deadwood – he was one of the Civil War soldiers who camped in Deadwood.

Nrama: Dammit, I’m jealous too.

Now, I wanted to ask about this bit from the comic – when Ravi got bitten by the zombie-rat a few weeks back, there was some speculation among fans he might turn into a were-terrier like in the comics, but Diane said in our interview that the budget wouldn’t really allow for that to happen in a way that would look cool. So is it a disappointment for you that you won’t get to play a were-terrier?

Kohli: To be honest, going into this production – after we did the pilot, I read through the comic books. And the were-terrier role, Spot, he’s clearly the zombie’s friend. And I really connected to that, like, “Oh, that’s a role I could potentially fulfill.” But as we progressed into the series, it became increasingly clear that we were diverging from the original comics.

I’d love to do it. As long as we did it right, and it works for the story. But it seems like it will never happen.

But I’ve become rather fond of Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti myself. He’s very different from who I am, that character, but he’s such a big ball of light in a dark world. And I’m kind of a big dark hole in a light world. So I enjoy playing a character who’s so full of energy and so upbeat.

I kind of like who he is! Not that I want him to get stale, but I’m kind of happy for him to get to keep doing what he’s doing, without the were-terrier or the zombie-ism.

Nrama: Well, it’s a nice character because he’s the everyman. He’s the one who gets to be the cheerleader and the voice of the audience and go, “Zombies can be kind of cool!”

Kohli: Yeah, I guess in a way he is kind of the voice of the audience. You know, you have a voice-over with Liv, you’re fully on board with her journey, but there’s always a disconnect with the audience because we’re not zombies.

Nrama: …yet.

Kohli: But everything she experiences in that universe,– eating brains, getting these new personalities – she kind of shares these experiences alongside Ravi, just as the audience experiences them alongside her. And if Ravi becomes a were-terrier or a zombie or anything like that, you lose that role.

Nrama: Speaking of the zombie angle – in interviews early on, Rose McIver was complaining that the prop brains they had her eating were…not very good-tasting. You’re on the morgue set a lot with her – have you had a chance to sample any of that gelatinous cerebellum for yourself?

Kohli: I have…much later into production, because I remember with the pilot, they sort of hadn’t perfected their recipe, and I just remember watching Rose eating the brains, while her character is watching Night of the Living Dead, and take after take, just spitting the brains out whenever the cameras stopped rolling.

So even after we came back for Episode 2 and they went, “Hey! We’ve got these new ingredients!” I was still reluctant. So it wasn’t until we were close to production wrapped that I tried it. And it’s not bad!

I think the problem Rose had was this – the gelatin is all right, but it’s the syrup they use to give it that bloody look. That’s what made her slightly sickly. But it’s better in small doses.

Nrama: That reminds me of this book I read when I was a kid, How to Eat Fried Worms, where the kid has to eat worms and put them into all these recipes – only like that with brains. Also, I read Hannibal has a food consultant to make Hannibal Lecter’s meals look delicious. You need to get them to double-dip, be your “brain food” consultant, especially with Blaine making all those gourmet brain-meals for his clients.

Kohli: That’s an excellent idea, actually. I will speak to those who can make it happen.

I remember just before we premiered, someone – I think was The CW – they had people come on and eat real brains. You know, cow’s brains, sheep’s brains. And actually, the people who ate these meals, they found them quite all right. Someone obviously pukes, but most of them liked it. (Newsarama Note: You can watch the video here. At your own risk.)

Nrama: Okay, the question I’m sure you’ve gotten a thousand times – if you could eat anyone’s brains and temporarily assume their personality, who would you take? You’ve had some time to really master your answer for this.

Kohli: I always try to improvise my answer for this, but you know, the first brain that always comes to mind is Daniel Day-Lewis. I guess I’m just focusing on work. He’s one of the actors I grew up idolizing. And there’s a lot of kind of rumor and conjecture about his research and methods, and I’d really like to eat his brain and figure out what he really does to create his characters.

And you know, I’d want some of that talent. When it comes to character work, you have to show some kind of discipline, but I’ve never been able to do anything in the realm of what he’s done. So yeah, if I could eat any brain, it’d be Daniel Day Lewis’.

Nrama: I was looking at your earlier acting credits, as you’d mentioned iZombie is your first series. I see some guest credits on your IMDb page, but there’s not a lot of movie/TV work. Have you mainly been doing theater before this?

Kholi: Sort of. So, prior to iZombie, I was in London. After I got out of drama school, there was like an eight-year gap. Screen was where I always wanted to break into…but the IMDb credits, they’re not totally accurate. People will say, “Oh, you were in that, was that a guest role?” And I have to say, “No, I was literally in it for like three lines.”

It was just a good…yeah, almost eight years of constant auditioning for…you name it. Anything I could be in, I went out for. It was a constant cycle of disappointment. Commercials were kind of the helicopter flying overhead...they really kept me going. I don’t know why, but I was just able to score them really easily.

And then when iZombie came along, it was just another audition in a long line of opportunities I would never get – it’s a series! It’s Rob Thomas! It’s pilot season! – all of those fancy things you try to ignore so you can do your job. But with iZombie, it happened and happened quickly. I auditioned on tape in London, and it went to Rob and Diane, and within about a week I was flown out and shot the pilot.

Nrama: Well, the people I know who watch the show, they go about you, “Wow, he’s good! Why haven’t I seen him in anything before?”

Kholi: (laughs) Well, the casting director spent a good portion of time trying to A) remember what she had seen me in, and B) figure out why we hadn’t met in eight years of my auditioning. That was a good sign!

Nrama: Do you have any classic commercials you were in that might be on YouTube that we can link in this interview and embarrass you?

Kholi: (laughs) There’s a hell of a lot. A hell of a lot. I don’t want to give you all of them…all right, I’ll tell you what.

There’s one I shot in Cuba for mango juice. It’s for a famous company called Rubicon Exotic Drinks. While I was in Cuba for the shoot, they – seconds before we were due to shoot – they decided to give my character dialogue, and requested it be in a Jamaican accent. And it’s terrible.

Nrama: Okay, I went on YouTube and found this one for “Rubicon Mango Juice…”

Kholi: Oh, there you go. That was one of my many commercials. Newsarama Note: Experience this for yourself. And remember: We all have to pay our dues.

Nrama: Now, with Diane, we talked about the season finale a bit, and you have Season Two coming up. What would you like to see happen with Ravi down the line?

Kholi: Actually, not a lot. I have no expectations whatsoever for Season Two for Ravi. I have decided that Major has been training him in the gym, so he’s getting into shape. But other than that…I have no real demands or expectations. That’s kind of sad, but my focus, what I really want to see, has nothing to do with Ravi.

I do want to see more of Det. Babineaux. Malcolm Goodwin, of the five of us, does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to the procedural element. I want to know more of his background – we see he was in Vice, but other than that, I think there’s so much scope to find out more what he’s about. I’d love to see his relationship with Liv develop further.

Like I said, with Ravi – maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m watching it with different eyes – I kind of feel like he’s one of those characters who has relationships already. He’s met Blaine, he rooms with Major, he works with Liv and he has this relationship with Clive Babineaux going back before the series started. So he’s acquainted with everyone’s lives already, and I kind of feel like with him, he is who he is, and he’ll stay doing what he does throughout the season.

I tend to lean toward very dark characters, and I love gritty drama, and I’d love to see Ravi go through some ministrations that would let his dark side come out, because I got so much enjoyment with one of my favorite scenes in the entire season – when Liv pushed Ravi too far, when she had the sex-expert brain, and was too disrespectful and blunt with him. And you see him get short and passive-aggressive with her. That was fun to see – any time Ravi gets to go dark, I’d love to see it.

Nrama: What are some of your favorite zombie tales outside of iZombie – comics, movies, literature, video games, etc.?

Kholi: Well, my first introduction to the zombie world was Resident Evil on the PlayStation. I was in like elementary school and an older friend got it, and I literally crapped my pants. It was the most terrifying thing I’d ever seen.

That was the first time I saw the undead…wait, that’s a bold-faced lie! I think Michael Jackson was the first time I saw them. But Resident Evil was the first time I experienced them in a narrative. And one of my favorite comedies of all time is Shaun of the Dead – I love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and Edgar Wright. And it shot in Ealing Studios, which is one of my favorite places.

Nrama: The Ealing comedies! I love those! The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets --

Kholi: The Alec Guinness ones, yeah!

Nrama: Those are some of the greatest comedy movies not that many people over here have seen.

Kholi: Yeah, they’re better-known over in England, but they’re not as well-known in the U.S., And where I trained in the theater, it was right next door to Ealing Studios, so I remember being in the wardrobe department, and I wound up picking up Alec Guinness’s trousers from one of the comedy movies he’d done.

They didn’t fit, but obviously, I had to try them on so I could go, “I tried on Obi-Wan’s pants!”

And I snuck into Ealing Studios as a kid.

Nrama: I have to hear this.

Kholi: Well, they were doing Attack of the Clones, and were shooting what they call “pick-ups” there for the droid factory sequence. I was 14 or 15, and I was a huge Star Wars fan.

So my uncle drove me down, and I don’t know how we got in, but we got as far as George Lucas’ car-park space before security escorted us out. And then I quickly went home and wrote letters to George Lucas care of Ealing Studios basically begging him for any kind of part in a Star Wars thing.

Nrama: Well, you tried. That’s the thing.

Kholi: And I’m still trying! He still won’t read my letters! I’m not even joking about this, I’m building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a Star Wars project. My life goal is to have a character in the Star Wars universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.

Nrama: What are some of your favorite zombie tales outside of iZombie – comics, movies, literature, video games, etc.?

Kholi: Well, my first introduction to the zombie world was Resident Evil on the PlayStation. I was in like elementary school and an older friend got it, and I literally crapped my pants. It was the most terrifying thing I’d ever seen.

That was the first time I saw the undead…wait, that’s a bold-faced lie! I think Michael Jackson was the first time I saw them. But Resident Evil was the first time I experienced them in a narrative. And one of my favorite comedies of all time is Shaun of the Dead – I love Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and Edgar Wright. And it shot in Ealing Studios, which is one of my favorite places.

Nrama: The Ealing comedies! I love those! The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets --

Kholi: The Alec Guinness ones, yeah!

Nrama: Those are some of the greatest comedy movies not that many people over here have seen.

Kholi: Yeah, they’re better-known over in England, but they’re not as well-known in the U.S., And where I trained in the theater, it was right next door to Ealing Studios, so I remember being in the wardrobe department, and I wound up picking up Alec Guinness’s trousers from one of the comedy movies he’d done.

They didn’t fit, but obviously, I had to try them on so I could go, “I tried on Obi-Wan’s pants!”

And I snuck into Ealing Studios as a kid.

Nrama: I have to hear this.

Kholi: Well, they were doing Attack of the Clones, and were shooting what they call “pick-ups” there for the droid factory sequence. I was 14 or 15, and I was a huge Star Wars fan.

So my uncle drove me down, and I don’t know how we got in, but we got as far as George Lucas’ car-park space before security escorted us out. And then I quickly went home and wrote letters to George Lucas care of Ealing Studios basically begging him for any kind of part in a Star Wars thing.

Nrama: Well, you tried. That’s the thing.

Kholi: And I’m still trying! He still won’t read my letters! I’m not even joking about this, I’m building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a Star Wars project. My life goal is to have a character in the Star Wars universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.


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- Entrevista de Ed Catto con Mike Allred, creador de IZombie Parte 2 (comicmix):

Entrevista de Ed Catto con Mike Allred, creador de IZombie Parte 2
Ed Catto 08 Junio, 2015

It’s still astounding to me how an art form like comics can, on the one hand, celebrate the creative contributions of individuals while, on the other hand, leave behind a tragic history and rotten track record for its treatment of these creators. The debates on this topic continue to rage on. Recently the appropriate level of recognition for a particular creator, who has long since shuffled offstage, dominated the online comic conversation.

As part of an ongoing series exploring today’s creators’ reactions to their comic creations’ successful crossovers into other media, I caught up with Mike Allred, who along with Chris Roberson co-created Vertigo’s iZombie. It’s a hit series on the CW network and has been renewed for a second season. Fans of Allred have always been delighted with his rich body of work: his brilliantly independent Madman, his innovative, genre-busting X-Statix, and more recently, his quirky FF series and Batman 66 covers. In this interview, I explore his involvement in and thoughts on the popular iZombie series.

Ed Catto: Comics has a sad history of many creators not fully sharing in the economic success of their literary creations. Fans know the tragic stories of Siegel and Shuster, Gerry Conway has discussed issues concerning creator credits of certain DC characters, and Wally Wood’s contributions to the Daredevil character and mythology have been debated. Given today’s realities, do you think current creators are better prepared to protect their own rights, or is it still the same old story?

Mike Allred: Everyone always tries to make the best deal for their own interests. On all sides. It will always be that way. But it’s up to the individual to protect themselves. Despite all the history to learn from, there will always be bad deals. I was lucky with my first major success being something I completely created and own myself.

I couldn’t get a gig with the “big two” starting out, so I was content to create my own worlds. That brought me opportunities and the freedom to choose where, when, and how I play in the wonderful world of comic books. I’m as big a fan as anyone, so I get a big kick out of playing with established company-owned characters, but I do so with eyes wide open knowing that I’ll have to fight for ownership of anything original I bring to the table. I balance that with my own creations. It’s always been clear to me what is mine and what rights I have to my sole creations. Collaborations get a bit more complicated and every contract has its own challenges.

I’m keenly aware of the shoulders I’m standing on and how I’ve benefited. Thankfully, so far, I have very little to complain about personally.

EC: Back when you were developing iZombie and the look of the comic series, what were you trying to create and what were some of the challenges you found working on a zombie/horror story?

MA: Chris Roberson and I were wanting to do something different, something askew. We were eager to do contemporary takes on classic monsters. Priority one for me was to make an attractive, appealing lead character who also happened to be a zombie.

EC: Were you pleased with how the comic series turned out? And what would you have done differently if you could go back and do it over again?

MA: I’m extremely proud of it. There were two paths. One was sticking with the “brain of the day” template and have each new brain become a new storyline, and the other was going epic and blowing out our world, which obviously is the path we took. There was a part of me that kinda wished we’d stuck with the more intimate stories involving the people whose brains were eaten, but since the TV show picked up that baton I’m completely satisfied on every level.

EC: How did you find out that your iZombie concept was going to be a TV series? How long did it take to reach network television and can you tell us some of your reactions and thoughts along the way?

MA: I’m pretty sure Shelly Bond at Vertigo told me first. She was very much a collaborator in every way on the series. It simply wouldn’t exist without her. Geoff Johns gave me a call too around the same time. He had all the details. It all happened very quickly.

Initially I was a bit perturbed with the changes. Most especially Gwen’s name change to Liv. But I’m a big boy and know that there is no such thing as a completely faithful adaptation of any entity from one medium to another. My immediate concern was that it was good and something I’d be proud to have my name on. Once I saw that Rose McIver was hired as our zombie girl and how the production bent over backwards to make her look how I designed her, my fears started dropping away. When I saw the completed pilot it felt exactly like falling in love. And now I’m thrilled with virtually every creative choice that has been made. Rob and Diane and are the best. All the writers are killin’ it in the best way. Every cast member is the coolest. And Rose is a dynamo rocking a showcase of personality quirks. I feel crazy lucky. This could have gone bad in so many ways and it’s done the exact opposite.

EC: The opening credits of iZombie showcase your artwork. Can you tell us a little about how that came to be and the process behind it?

MA: Rob and Diane thought it’d be cool and wrote it up. I’ve always loved the animated opening titles to the 60’s Batman TV show, so I jumped in with both feet. I drew all the images that they asked for and more, wanting to make sure they had more than needed. I even drew the spiral by putting a piece of paper on a turntable and moving my brush from the center out. Laura (Allred, Mike’s wife and an award-winning colorist) then colored all the illustrations and various layers separately which were then edited to the theme song and… Ta-Dah!

EC: What’s your involvement in the TV series now? What’s your reaction to what they’ve done and what they’re doing?

MA: At this point I’m simply sitting back and enjoying the show for the most part. I’ve never been busier so it’d be difficult to increase my involvement, but I have a nice rapport with everyone and may throw in more if we score a third season.

EC: Are you pleased the show has been renewed for a second season?

MA: Over the moon!

It’s not lost on me how difficult it is to get anything at all produced. My Madman property has been optioned and in various degrees of production since 1995.

So, we leapt the first major hurdle of getting it produced, then on the air, then well received. Lots of great stuff doesn’t find an audience, let alone get a second season. We’re very, very happy.

EC: On Free Comic Book Day, the fans at one of the stores I stopped by started raving about your work on Silver Surfer. The fans collectively said they enjoy the new character you and Dan Slott created, Dawn Greenwood. But is there a different thought process that now goes into creating a character for a company?

Silver surfer and dawn greenwood Ed Catto interviews Mike Allred: iCreator Part 2MA: There is and there isn’t. I know going in that Dan and I will always have bragging rights on what we’ve created to support a legendary Marvel character. Here it is largely about compensation. I go in knowing that I’ll have little to say in what happens with my creations after I walk away. So it’s important for me to feel creatively satisfied, which I am. I hold no illusions that I’ll be self-publishing a Dawn Greenwood mini-series. It is what it is. I get a sweet paycheck and get to play on this big wonderful stage I’ve loved my whole life. If I want to work on purely creator-owned material I can do that too whenever I want. It’s how I started out, so I’m completely aware of all the circumstances.

EC: What’s coming up next for you, Mike?

MA: I’m having a total blast working with Dan on Silver Surfer, so I’m gonna ride that wave all the way to shore. I’m always planning and working on the next Madman special, where I do my most personal work, as Frank Einstein is pretty much me. And I’ve co-created an all-new Vertigo series, which will be announced at the San Diego Comic-Con.

EC: Last one: Who would win in a fight: iZombie or X-Statix’s Dead Girl?

MA: They would never fight. They’d have a nice lunch and then go to the movies.


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- IZOMBIE 1.13 "Blaine´s World" Promo Poster (Season Finale):

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- Rob Thomas adelanta la Finale de la Season 1 (seat42f):

Rob Thomas adelanta la Finale de la Season 1
Por Tiffany Vogt 09 Junio, 2015

As IZOMBIE comes to its climatic close in its Season 1 finale, Liv Moore (Rose McIver) is set for an epic showdown with zombie nemesis Blaine (David Anders), who not only killed her boyfriend Lowell (Bradley James), but who now holds the fate of her former fiancé Major (Robert Buckley) and perhaps Liv’s brother Evan (Nick Purcha) in his hands. It has been a tumultuous first season as Liv has acclimated to her newfound zombie-abilities and tried her best to find a new place in life as both a medical examiner and part-time police psychic. But life as the undead has proven less restful and more adrenaline-filled than ever before.

With the zombie population spiking and the incidents of unexplained deaths on the rise, it is a wonder that entire world has not yet clued in that there are more and more dead-folk walking amongst them. Yet if that video clip of Liv eating her first human brain on the beach of Lake Washington ever comes out, that is sure to blow the lid off the lurking zombie presence that has infested Seattle.

In an exclusive interview, creator and executive producer Rob Thomas talked about what the Season 1 finale holds in store and teased just who may or may not make it out alive.

With Major in a very precarious position at Meat Cute and Liv’s brother Evan in the crosshairs, will Liv be forced to choose between the fate of her brother and Major?
ROB: No, fortunately, she doesn’t have to make that decision. There are other big decisions, but that is not one of them.

So how dire is Major’s situation? We last saw him hanging in chains at Blaine’s mercy.
ROB: His situation is extraordinarily dire.

So we need to be praying for Major’s survival then.
ROB: We do. Actually, all of them — Liv, Evan and Major. It is showdown time on IZOMBIE.

Will we then see a face-off between Blaine and Liv, finally?
ROB: (Laughs) I believe we will. That I can promise you.

Are we supposed to be rooting for Blaine? Like does he have a redemption turn, or should we just hate him for the villain he is?
ROB: (Laughs) He is a villain. I would have normally said, “How can you ever redeem a character who has murdered a bunch of homeless teenagers?” And then you watch GAME OF THRONES and you find yourself rooting for Jaime Lannister, and he threw a kid off a balcony in the first episode. So it might be possible. But we’re enjoying him quite a bit as a bad guy.

So we’re hoping at this point that there is no zombie-cure because we want to see that fight off between Blaine and Liv.
ROB: Well, the zombie-cure comes into play.

As far as the zombie-cure, have they found one?
ROB: It is untested. Ravi believes that he possibly has some formula that could work. But it is not much different than the formula that killed the last rat.

Yikes, sounds like the cure might be a death-sentence then. If there is a cure and it doesn’t kill Liv, is she willing to give up her newfound superhero abilities, or does she really just want to be human again?
ROB: Without a doubt, Liv would trade anything to be human. There is a whole monologue in the finale about how badly she would like to be human. She would like to go back to life as normal.

Another thing we were left hanging from the last episode with was Peyton’s (Aly Michalka) reaction to finding out that Liv was a zombie. Is that going to be resolved this season or will that still be hanging?
ROB: That will still be hanging. Some background on that, Aly Michalka was doing a pilot. Because she is not a series regular, we don’t control her. So she was going off and doing a pilot and we wrote her character in a way that if we had lost her and if she got on a show that was going to go for the next several years, we could survive, but we wanted to leave the door open. Yet she booked a pilot that did not go, so we are happy that we have that option of bringing her back.

Is there ever really going to be a chance for Liv and Major? Their romance hasn’t had much of a chance to be played up this season. Will we get to see more of that or is that something to hang out hope for in the second season?
ROB: (Laughs) You definitely get to see more of that.

We were kind of super bummed that Lowell (Bradley James) was killed off so quickly. We were loving the Liv-Lowell romance.
ROB: There is an old story that William Goldman tells in “Adventures in the Screen Trade.” He had written a movie “The Great Waldo Pepper” and it was a Robert Redford movie about WWI flying aces, and the movie didn’t do well and in explaining it later, he said that they had cast this young, gorgeous actress and she died halfway into the movie. William Goldman said that was the reason the movie didn’t work, “Everyone fell in love with this new actress Susan Sarandon and they never forgave us for killing her off.” I had no idea that people would fall that far in love with Lowell. So even before we cast him that was the arc we were going tell and I was sort of taken aback by how much people had taken a shine to him. So it was like, “Oh, maybe we should have gotten someone they didn’t love quite so much.” So lesson learned.

What can you tease for the Season 1 finale? What would you like fans to look forward to?
ROB: It’s so tough. The thing I will tell you is that everything we set up in the second to last episode, we pay it off. I feel like people at the end of the season will not feel like they were cheated — like we led them to the water and didn’t let them drink. Showdowns happen. Storylines get their punctuation at the end of it. I’m not saying that everyone gets the ending that they want, but there will be a sense of completion that I think fans will find satisfying.


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- Rose McIver adelanta grandes revelaciones y una "Desgarradora" Season Finale (THR):

Rose McIver adelanta grandes revelaciones y una "Desgarradora" Season Finale
Por Bilal Mian 09 Junio, 2015 8:00am PT

The repercussions of being a zombie are starting to affect those close to Olivia ‘Liv’ Moore (Rose McIver).

In the penultimate episode of iZombie's first season, Liv found her roommate Peyton (Aly Michalka) trapped in their apartment with a zombified version of Sebastian (Matthew MacCaull), acting as corporate muscle for energy drink manufacturer Max Rager.

In order to save her best friend, Liv went “full on zombie mode” to end Sebastian’s life for good as Peyton watched. Sadly, Peyton’s reaction to Liv’s heroics was met with fear and caused her to leave the apartment after she learned the truth of what Liv has become.

To make matters worse, Seattle’s underground zombie kingpin, Blaine, (David Anders) decided to hire Liv’s younger brother, Evan (Nick Purcha), at the butcher shop he’s using as a front for the city’s brains operations.

How could things possibly get any worse? After learning the truth about zombies, Major (Robert Buckley), Liv’s ex-fiancé, found himself tied up in the back of Blaine’s butcher shop for stealing valuable astronaut brains.

The Hollywood Reporter caught up with McIver ahead of Tuesday's series finale to discuss the danger of those around her learning the truth about her, the threat to those close to her, and what's ahead in the finale.

As the zombie world gets closer to those around her, do you believe Liv would rather tell those she loves the truth or do you think she’d rather shelter them as best as possible?

It’s quite an ugly thing and you don’t think that people are going to want to keep you around. In many ways, it’s as much about them as it is because she’s ashamed, but at the same time she’s trying her hardest not to isolate herself from her family and friends and she thinks that reveal will ultimately end those relationships. There’s only so long a secret that substantial could stay buried and I guess she learns it. Maybe it would be better if she were able to decide when and where she tells them, controlling the circumstances under which they find out, rather than waiting for the ticking clock of it to reveal itself.

At the end of episode 12, Evan hands in a job application to Blaine, who reads it and realizes he’s Liv’s brother and hires him on the spot. What can we expect from his first day of work?

I would imagine that he’s not going to be the teacher’s pet. I don’t think Blaine is planning on having him as his protégé. That’s the thing that interested me most about the zombie genre was the idea that once it looks like it’s going to affect the people in your life, your family, it is a really terrifying concept. Such a thing could really bring down a loved one. It’s going to be a pretty harrowing episode. Poor Evan, being under Blaine’s supervision... it’s an accident waiting to happen. It’s the most terrifying thing that could happen to Liv right now.

Major’s been doing very “Major-esque” things in terms of getting himself into trouble. Getting in trouble with the law and buying illegal weapons are just some examples. What is it about Major that is driving him to put himself in danger and not seek help from others?

Major is an incredibly awesome person. He’s a social worker, he works with people who need a voice, who need support, and he’s found his calling. He really thinks he has a responsibility now to help and stalk to find out if zombies really exist. His altruistic nature tells him he cannot stop at any cost in bringing them down. Whenever I watch the show, I feel terrified for Major’s mum. My instincts actually go to what it would feel like to have this kid who is doing these amazing things, but at the risk of his own life. It’s for all the right reasons, but I feel like I want to protect him and for him to stop putting other people first and look after himself.

In episode 12, there’s a scene where Ravi and Liv discover the cured rat, Hope, has died. How does this news of a temporary cure that may kill her affect Liv?

Liv is very hesitant to believe that her life is going to change. Even in the pilot episode she says to Ravi, “Do you really think there is a cure for this?” She’s really accepted her fate and the limitations that come with her being a zombie. It’s almost too scary for her to acknowledge a lot of the time that the cure is tangible, potential, and close. She’s waiting for it to fail, for something to go wrong. It seems too good to be true. At the same time, there’s that thought that she could be back with Major and that her life could be restored. It’s a very quiet hope for her.

Major and Liv have both been investigating Blaine and the zombies in town. Heading into the finale, it looks like their paths are finally going to cross. What can you tease about this interaction from the finale?

Liv is going to be trying to protect Major from finding out the truth because she thinks it’s what is best for him. Unfortunately, circumstances get well beyond her control and it will certainly be revealed then.


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- Rob Thomas apunta a una gran recompensa en la Season 1 Finale (CBR):

Rob Thomas apunta a una gran recompensa en la Season 1 Finale
Por Kiel Phegley, 09 Junio 2015

Things haven't gotten too crazy for Rob Thomas -- yet.

Tonight, The CW airs the first season finale of the "Veronica Mars" creator's adaptation of Chris Roberson and Mike Allred's Vertigo comic "iZombie," and when its over, things will be getting crazy in a number of ways. For one, the show is about to begin production on its second year. "We're back in on Season 2 right now, but it's just the writers," the executive producer told CBR News. "We have about six weeks before the show actually starts shooting. So while we are busy, it's not the insanity that will start in a few weeks when we're both shooting and writing."

But from a fan perspective, this week's episode draws together a number of storylines as the brain-eating mythology of the show's zombie idea culminates in a final confrontation between Liv and Blaine. CBR spoke with Thomas about how the series has evolved over Season 1, why the show will never be "The Walking Dead" or "Game of Thrones," and what viewers can expect in terms of major payoffs from "iZombie's" freshman finish.

CBR News: Last week's episode took a turn towards horror in a way that we haven't seen before, even though this is a zombie show. That tone, and the dire, serious nature of Liv's existence seems to have built as the episodes have gone along. Was that by design?

Rob Thomas: There are probably two things going on at once there. One is that just over the course of the season, we came to realize to some extent that the most fun of the show revolves around the zombie mythology. I feel like we kept stealing pages from our A-story to give to the mythology. So, the case of the week would suddenly get five less pages in the script, and those would be devoted to more zombie action -- or at least the mythology. And then for two, I think almost any show when you get closer to the end of a season you start to lean on the ongoing stories to build more to that climax. That's just the natural rhythm of the show.

We are aware, though, that we can't try to out Walking Dead "The Walking Dead." They've got a whole different set of broadcast standards and practices and an entirely different budget. So we have to choose our moments with the violence and gore and zombie makeup. I don't think we could pull it off every week financially, and I'm really not sure how much that would be playing to our strengths. We kind of have to rely on being witty when we can't afford more than four zombies at a time, you know? [Laughter]

So there will be no overrun cities anytime soon.

Oh, no. You know, I just watched for the second time last week's "Game of Thrones" with the White Walkers coming over the hill, and I thought, "We could not afford one page of that sequence!" But we're trying to do what we can do and hopefully do it pretty well.

It must be very different doing this kind of genre show as opposed to something like "Veronica Mars," which you and your co-developer Diane Ruggiero-Wright both worked so much on. That was a mystery show where all the clues for the whole season had to be planted in the very first episode, and while this is a procedural, it seems that you have the leeway to let the long story develop organically. Were there any instances over Season 1 where you said, "I never thought we'd be talking about this idea or character, but now we use them every day"?

This is insane as a quote, but I've been really pleased with how well we ended up casting this. There's no one that we're not happy to go to at any time, which is not always the case on a show. That's particularly the case with Rahul, who plays Ravi. This is a role that's grown because we all love this guy, and it's a better show the more Ravi is on it. So we have to figure out ways to get him out of the morgue, which we didn't expect to be doing at the beginning of the year. Let's get him involved in other storylines and not go too many pages without seeing him.

I already spoke about how we spent the year gravitating more towards the zombie mythology week after week. Doing "Veronica Mars," it was a detective show, and so that was the genre. We were doing a noir mystery with a gumshoe element and real red herrings. We wanted the show to have a "play at home" game almost. We'd put the clues in the show, and the savvy audience member could figure out the mystery with Veronica. But on "iZombie," Liv has these sort of magical visions that can shortcut things, and the frustrating thing for me is that cops are supposed to be able to prove things. With Veronica, she could just get a piece of information in hand, and then she'd clap her hands and be done with it. With a police show, trying to get a piece of evidence that you could use to prosecutor someone in court is a pain in the ass. [Laughs] It made me understand why in something like "Law & Order," everyone just confesses at the end. So now our goal is to have maybe one red herring and then use a really solid piece of information to wrap that criminal up so we can get back to the zombies in deep freeze.

One thing you spoke about early in the development of the show was doing your personal take on the Buffy archetype -- taking the idea of a young woman at a specific time in her life and using the fantastic stuff to dig at the character. Liv's story was so much about a quarterlife crisis -- realizing that she's not quite ready for adulthood as she thought. How does the finale help either resolve or evolve that idea?

It's an angsty sort of idea, the quarterlife crisis. And that's fine. We liked playing that as a long arc theme for Liv in Season 1 -- but I don't think you can keep playing it. If we were having her reluctantly diving into these cases or feeling sorry for herself for too long, I think fans would get tired of that naval gazing from the character. So I'd say that as we pick up Season 2, she's sort of accepted who she is. She's not in great shape at the start of Season 2, but I think it's more about her personal relationships and where they stand at the end of the year rather than grousing about being a zombie and how all her plans have been derailed. I think of her in Season 2 as being more in the new normal -- or just the normal.

One of the things that seems to have evolved over the season as well is the idea of synching the brain she's eating with her own personal story from being a sniper when she needs to kill someone to being an alcoholic after someone close to her dies. Do you feel like you've gotten better at that kind of storytelling as you've gone along?

Yeah. Back when we were doing "Party Down," the most fun we'd have would be those couple of brainstorming sessions where we'd be going, "What is the party of the week? It's a pet wedding!" You'd just put these ideas up on the board of "What would be funny? What would naturally create comedy?" Now with "iZombie" we get to do the same thing with "What brain do we want Liv to inhabit at some point this year?" and you start to put all of them up on the board. And I think we break murder cases differently than most shows with a case of the week format because other shows are taking a compelling murder mystery and starting from that point. Our starting point is what would be fun for Liv to channel.

I kind of equate it to "The Big Lebowski," which I've referenced in so many other shows that I think people are tired of seeing me do it. [Laughs] But the first time I watched that movie, I felt unsatisfied at the end because I was really tracking the mystery of it. I was invested in the detective case. But then on subsequent viewings, I realized that it's all about the fun ride. That's what the Coens are doing there. It's all about the ride you're on, and that's the kind of path we take on "iZombie." There are plenty of detective/murder-of-the-week shows out there. Let's find a fun way inside of it.

And I feel like that allows Rose McIver to get to some almost "Orphan Black" levels of character work. When she was a stoner, I thought, "Yup. Nailed it."

[Laughs] Yeah, if I had to submit an Emmy tape for Rose, I would submit last week's episode. I loved her as both cheerleader and stoner.

One of the ways in which TV has evolved in the binge era is that shows are encouraged to take more risks and shake things up with their finales. You've got the eternal question of someone becoming a zombie in there as well as Major in a tight spot. What can you say about how the finale will take what we know and complicate it in a way that sets up Season 2?

I will say that I'm a believer in season finales that pay off, which is not to say that everyone is going to love the choices we make. But we have taken the audience on this journey this season. We've been telling these stories and building momentum, and I wanted to give a sense of completion. We also tee up storylines for a future season, but I really wanted people who have been watching all year to go, "Oh yeah! This is what I wanted to see happen" or "I wanted these storylines to come to fruition somehow." I hope we've delivered on that.

And I think that when we see the final episode, we'll see that the show will definitely be going off in some new directions for Season 2.


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- Por qué el épico Final de la S1 de iZombie os recordará totalmente a Buffy (E!Online):

Por qué el épico Final de la S1 de iZombie os recordará totalmente a Buffy
Por Sydney Bucksbaum 09 Junio, 2015 11:15 AM PDT

You want a TV show about a full-on zombie apocalypse? Turn on AMC's The Walking Dead. You want a smart, mature, funnier zombie TV show? That's when you turn on the CW's iZombie.

Helmed by Veronica Mars mastermind Rob Thomas, the DC Comics TV show started out its freshman season with a bang, and has kept the punches right on coming every episode until the season finale, airing tonight. Each hour has had equal parts heart, laughs, and—yes—braiiiiins. But no matter how much you've been enjoying season one so far, you are so not prepared for what's coming in tonight's epic season finale.

That's why E! News got Thomas on the line to dish on all things iZombie! Check out our full Q&A with one of our favorite showrunners below:

E! News: I can't believe it's already time for the iZombie finale, I feel like the show only just premiered!
Rob Thomas: I know, it's really flown by. And the fan response to the last episode could not have been any better. It was fun to watch my Twitter feed that night.

I'm definitely nervous for the finale since, thanks to his snooping around Meat Cute, Major (Robert Buckley) is now Blaine's (David Anders) captive—how dire is it going to get for Major?
That episode took everything right to the edge of the cliff and I don't want to give anything away, but you can say that Blaine is essentially freezing Major to death in hopes of getting his astronaut brains back.

Do you think fans are going to be shocked by how much they find that they enjoy how evil Blaine gets in the finale? Because I know I was. He's just diabolical.
He wasn't diabolical enough as he was murdering the teenage runaways?! [Laughs.]

He was bad before, but this is like a whole new level!
Yeah, getting to see him rhapsodize over how evil he is, I enjoyed that too. I was just so happy that I could finally put Blaine and Major onscreen together because they spent all year actually not doing any scenes together until the final two.

Their dynamic is amazing, so it was definitely worth the wait.
Good! I'm excited for everyone to see more of it in the finale.

The fight scene between Liv (Rose McIver) and Sebastian (Matthew MacCaull) was so cinematically awesome in last week's episode and in the finale, there's one scene that's full of amazing action—are you guys going to be ramping up the action and violence in season two?
I was pleased with how both of those came out, but the thing that we know in the iZombie writers room is that we'll never be able to "out-Walking Dead" The Walking Dead. Our bread and butter is always going to be this fun, funny tone that we're shooting more for Buffy rather than The Walking Dead where violence is a mainstay and you get to see that week after week. But that said, we want to pick our moments so that when we have a fight, it's a good one.

We know we're not going to get recognition or talked about for our zombie hordes or anything like that like Game of Thrones' big episode last week. They had thousands of zombies whereas for us to put one zombie in makeup really puts a dent in our budget. [Laughs.] So we know we can't outdo them on that; we have to be charming and funny and hopefully use our compelling plotlines to keep people coming back.

Well, there's one action scene in the finale that is going to blow people's minds…
Normally we shoot our episodes in eight days and we knew we wanted to have a big season finale, so we saved money all year wherever we could so we could have a ten-day shoot on the final episode. One of the reasons we could have all that blood and action is because we gave ourselves two more days to shoot it. And it shows. It really feels bigger than a regular iZombie episode.

What are you most excited for fans to see from the season finale?
I've been so excited to see the response to Major's arc. People thought in the beginning of the season that he was just there for Liv to pine over or to mope around, but he's really grown as a man of action. There's a moment during the finale where I'll be watching my Twitter feed, because that's the moment of the entire year that I've been really excited about.


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- Robert Buckley habla sobre la Finale y el origen secreto del nombre de Major Lilywhite (CBR):

Robert Buckley habla sobre la Finale y el origen secreto del nombre de Major Lilywhite
Por Bryan Cairns 09 Junio, 2015

As the social worker ex-fiancé of the show's lead character, actor Robert Buckley has no clue that Liv joined the ranks of the living dead when zombies attacked a boat party she was attending. Nor did Major fathom that hungry zombies were killing innocent people for their brains. However, when a few kids from his counseling center inexplicably disappeared, Major's investigation led to him being captured by evil zombie Blaine, who will stop at nothing to obtain brains for his burgeoning zombie food delivery business.

With Major closer than ever to discovering zombies truly exist, along with and Liv's big secret, the question is, will Buckley's Major survive to see Season 2?

Ahead of tonight's "iZombie" finale, Buckley spoke with CBR News about Major's dire circumstances. We also touched upon his zombie rival Julien, his character's admittedly wacky name, and whether he feels Major can ever truly accept Liv's undead state.

CBR News: The teaser for tonight's finale shows Major in a deep freezer. How dire are his set of circumstances at this point?

Robert Buckley: It's rough. For the whole season, poor Major -- can the guy catch a break? It's been one ass-kicking after another. If he's not getting beaten up with fists, it's being beaten up by Mother Nature.

We see him in that freezer, and Major is not doing so well. Blaine is so twisted that he's gone so far as to research how long the human body can go before freezing and the person dies. He's literally going to tell Major, "By the way, I did a little homework and I figured out just how cold I can get you just before I kill you."

Major previously loaded up with guns and a grenade. In what ways will that heavy artillery finally come in handy?

Let's put it this way. There's no such thing as a one-sided great fight. For a fight to be great, there has to be moments when you don't know who is going to win. "It looks like Rocky has got him. Nope. Apollo has got him." Major is not going down without a fight. If you think about all that he has been through -- the death of his kids and the merciless beat-downs that he's taken and being told he's crazy -- he's kind of lost everything and arguably his mind as well. There's a lot of anger coming out of him, so are the bad guys safe from his wrath? I think it's safe to say, "Hell no!"

No doubt Major will get an eyeful of the walking dead and Liv in full zombie mode. How does he process everything that's thrown at him?

To answer that question, I'd have to give away what he discovers in that finale. The day I read the finale, I was absolutely beside myself. The writers did such a good job of crafting a story that is exciting throughout. It doesn't stop. People have said, "Episode 11 was great. Episode 12 was great." Honestly, if you enjoyed those, that was the calm before the storm. That was tame. Everyone gets thrown into the mix. No one is safe. It doesn't stop. The last frame of the episode, you're like, "No, wait. Come on." Then it ends in a way where you're like, "Oh, boy. Thank God there's a second season."

The name "Major Lilywhite" sounds like something out of "Magic Mike." What was your initial reaction to your character's name and is it something that still gets joked about?

Yes, routinely. It's funny you mention it. When I had my first conversation with Rob Thomas, right out of the gate one of the first five questions I asked him was, "Okay, the name Major Lilywhite. How married to it are you?" His answer was a quick, "Very." I was like, "Oh, okay. Great. Sure." Then I found out later on that it actually had a significant amount of backstory to it. Rob played collegiate football. One of his favorite players had the last name Lilywhite. Diane Ruggiero, our other executive producer, had a crush on a young man in high school whose first name was Major. That's how we got Major Lilywhite, the Frankenstein love child of Diane's high school crush and one of Rob's favorite collegiate football players.

Major suffers a bit from Lois Lane Syndrome. Even though Liv has gone through an extreme transformation, Major can't see what is right in front of him. How did you rationalize that?

As a third-party observer, it's insanely obvious and almost absurd that you're not seeing this. "Really? You're not seeing this? No one is noticing what's happening?" The way I made sense of it was two-fold. What Liv went through the night of that boat party was so traumatic, and so horrific, that I would buy any sort of drastic change in behavior. It's almost like you want to distance yourself from the traumatic experience, so you cut your hair and move. It could be that.

But, deeper than that, when you really love someone, they become your blindspot. They can become your weakness. Oftentimes, people's downfalls will be their spouse. It's the last person they would ever suspect because they trust them and don't look at them with the same level of scrutiny as a friend or an acquaintance. On some level, Major probably didn't want to ask too many questions. He still very much loves her and has shown that with a ridiculous amount of patience. I'm pretty sure there are monks who are like, "Holy crap. That guy has got that whole patience thing down." What it comes down to is, he can't relate to what she went through. Therefore, he can't tell her how to respond. He doesn't know. That would be very arrogant and bold.

How important was it for Major to have a life outside of Liv and her zombie shenanigans?

The very first question I asked when the initial conversation began about me joining on the show, I had said, "Would it be possible to set up a phone conversation with Rob Thomas?" I was familiar with Rob, but I didn't quite understand exactly how much he had done and what a talent he was. Within five minutes of being on the phone, I immediately knew he was a guy I wanted to work with.

For starters, my first question was, "Look, with all due respect, I want to understand how Major is going to fit into this. If he's sort of there to be a purse and exist to solely show up in one or two scenes an episode, to remind audiences he's still there and express his love for Liv, that's not very fun as an audience member because it's the same thing over and over." He was quick to assure me that, "Oh, no, no, no. He absolutely has his own world. In fact, you are going to start off like that, but are going to very quickly begin your adventure and quest." I loved hearing that, and as we've seen, that has been the case. Major no longer serves as, "Oh, I'm here to bring you flowers." Or, "Liv -- oh, my God. There's a shirtless British guy here."

If Blaine is Liv's arch-nemesis, what does that make Major and Julien Dupont?

I think it's safe not to say BFFs. I feel a nemesis has to have a lot of history. I think he is the guy on Major's list of people I want to kick the shit out of and put behind bars. Julien safely tops that list.


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- Jefe de iZombie sobre el futuro de Liv and Major, el delicado reto de Blaine y el gran villano de la Season 2 (TVLine):

Jefe de iZombie sobre el futuro de Liv and Major, el delicado reto de Blaine y el gran villano de la Season 2
Por Vlada Gelman / 09 Junio 2015, 7:00 PM PDT

Warning: The following contains spoilers — of the major variety and about Major — for Tuesday’s season finale of iZombie.

Is the iZombie apocalypse upon us?

On Tuesday night’s Season 1 finale, Blaine gutted Major — forcing Liv to turn the love of her life into a zombie. Of course, the catalyst for all that drama was Major going all Taxi Driver on Meat Cute and taking out the brain dealer’s posse! (More on that awesome sequence below.) When Major argued that his ex didn’t really know him if she thought that was the kind of life he wanted, she injected him with the cure and prayed for the best.

Rather than killing Blaine — if he dies, the hungry zombies of Seattle will just eat everyone — an angry Liv stabbed him with the other half of the cure. Meanwhile, Max Rager unveiled its plans to be an even more evil empire by producing a crazy new energy drink. But first, they’ll need to eliminate their undead problem.

Finally, Liv’s brother got caught in the Meat Cute explosion, and she refused to donate her blood to save him for obvious reasons.

Below, executive producer Rob Thomas previews Season 2’s new foe, Liv and Blaine’s “strange bedfellows” partnership, Major’s new outlook on life and much more.

TVLINE | There’s not one, but at least three major cliffhangers in the finale. Was that always the plan, even before the show was renewed?
Yes. In fact, it’s been the plan for a long time. When we offered [Robert Buckley] the role of Major, he called me and said, “Listen, I just want to make sure that I’m not just going to be the boy that Liv pines for, that I’m going to have something to do,” and I pitched him the exact ending of the show. I said, “It’s going to end like Taxi Driver. You going into the zombie headquarters and mowing people down. You will have gone through this horrible journey. You will have this moment where you get to take out all these enemies.” So we were always building to that.

And probably around midseason, we had some ideas on how we wanted to reset for Season 2. We announce our big Season 2 storyline right there in the finale. Vaughan, the head of Max Rager, says, “We’re going to take out all the zombies.” So that will be a big part of Season 2, and it will make Liv and Blaine strange bedfellows. One of the things that was rough in Season 1 was we loved those two actors on screen together, but part of the season arc was Liv searching for Blaine. We couldn’t play them on screen. Next season, you’ll see a lot more of them on screen, at the same time, with a common enemy.

TVLINE | Is it safe to say that Blaine as a human, even without his zombie strength and rage, is still not a nice person and a dangerous threat to Liv and Major?
Yeah. We’re not going to make him cuddly next year. If you talked to me a few years ago, I would have thought, “Well, how in the world, after him spending Season 1 murdering homeless teenagers, could we ever believe him as anything but evil?” Then you watch Game of Thrones. Somehow, Jaime Lannister has become a sympathetic character even though he threw a young boy out a window in Episode 1. So it can be done, and maybe someday, we will attempt that. But for the immediate future, Blaine is bad.

TVLINE | Can he keep his business going as a human?
That’s going to be part of the fun of Season 2. He will need to trick his clientele. Next season, he may be passing as zombie in order to maintain the fear, which I think we’ll have fun with.

TVLINE | So instead of tanning, he’ll be putting on powder.
It’s funny you say that because we already have a scene up on our writers’ board in which we will see him getting powdered up in order to appear as a full-blooded zombie.

TVLINE | The Max Rager folks want to take out all the zombies. Does Suzuki taking himself out and pointing the finger at Blaine play into that?
We are going to make a meal of that moment. But that part of it is going to be Clive’s story in Season 2. Suzuki is going to get credit for being the hero of Meat Cute, and the police are going to very quickly and neatly wrap up that case, but Clive isn’t buying the story. He will be looking for Blaine and believing that Major has a connection to that. So that will be Clive’s great white whale of Season 2 — trying to solve that case.

TVLINE | If Liv’s brother dies, does that undo all the emotional progress she’s made?
Yeah, that would probably send her back into a pretty deep valley.

TVLINE | Major now knows the whole truth. What does that allow you to do that you couldn’t before with Major and his relationship with Liv?
Now that they both know, and Major knows what he’d be getting into, we’re toying with, could they try a romantic relationship in which no bodily fluids were exchanged? It’s sort of a great existential question of, could you have a romantic partner with whom the sexual limits were very, very strict? How would that go? We may explore that.

TVLINE | Now I think The CW should have paired the show with Jane the Virgin and done A Night of Abstinence.
[Laughs] That would be funny.

TVLINE | How changed is Major going to be in Season 2?
He has now killed a bunch of people. It has changed him. We wanted to paint him as a good a guy as you could ever want to meet, like the perfect guy. Lovely, sweet, charming, funny. And then just put him through a ringer and see who came out on the other side. I do think it has affected him. He is less innocent, and he probably has a darker view of the world. As we pick up Season 2, he is reeling.

TVLINE | That action sequence was like Major’s hero moment. How did that all come together? Did you have any inspirations from film?
The thing that was an inspiration when I originally asked [Robert] to do the show was Taxi Driver, when [Robert] De Niro goes to rescue teenage Jodie Foster. He’s having to move through rooms, and it would be very violent. It [is] tough to look at the two things as a direct comparison, as we’re doing broadcast network television and can’t be quite as violent. We knew we were going to push the limit as far as we could on this finale.

TVLINE | The song selection of “Der Kommissar” was so perfect. How did you land on that one?
It just came to me. I don’t think I’d written it in the script, but it occurred to me pretty early. It was probably the third or fourth song I tried in there, and it just felt very right.

TVLINE | Robert Buckley mentioned to me that there was another song at some point. What was the other option?
It was “When Doves Cry.” That was what I had in the cut, and it turns out, a) Prince is very expensive, [and] b) he doesn’t want his music associated with violence. So we were out of luck on a couple accounts there.



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- Rob Thomas habla sobre la Finale de la S1 que cambiará las cosas y los planes para la Season 2 (seat42f):

Rob Thomas habla sobre la Finale de la S1 que cambiará las cosas y los planes para la Season 2
Por Tiffany Vogt 09 Jun, 2015

Now that fans can breathe again after that momentous and game-changing Season 1 finale of IZOMBIE, for those wondering what is next for Liv and Blaine in Season 2, here is a few quick teasers from creator and executive producer Rob Thomas on what is coming up next season:

Should we look forward to Blaine being evil and continuing his evil ways in Season 2 in light of where things were left in the Season 1 finale?
ROB: Even though Blaine continues to be a “bad guy,” Liv and Blaine are forced to work together in Season 2. They will have a common enemy whose scares the hell out of the both of them. So you get to see a lot more of Liv and Blaine on the screen together next season.

Are they going to have their Batman and Robin moment in Season 2? That sounds crazy.
ROB: (Laughs) Yeah.

What else can we look forward to in Season 2?
ROB: We’re hoping to get Peyton (Aly Michalka) back. With a recurring actor, we can never be sure, like if she books something. We love Aly and would love to have her back. Also in Season 2, there will be much for Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) to investigate about the Season 1 showdown. The showdown at the end of Season 1 will become Clive’s “great white whale” for Season 2.


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- ¿Qué es lo próximo ahora que se sabe el secreto de Liv? (EW):

¿Qué es lo próximo ahora que se sabe el secreto de Liv?
Por Natalie Abrams 09 Junio, 2015

Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season finale of iZombie. Read at your own risk!

Liv’s big secret isn’t really that secret anymore.

During Tuesday’s iZombie finale, Major (Robert Buckley) attempted to wipe out Blaine (David Anders) and his crew at Meat Cute after escaping their clutches. Alas, he was stabbed in the process, so Liv (Rose McIver) was forced to scratch him to turn him into a zombie. Naturally, Major was pissed that he wasn’t given the choice to become a zombie—and that Liv had been lying to him the whole time—so Liv gave half the cure to him… and the other half to Blaine!

However, Liv’s brother (Nick Purcha) still showed up for his first day at work at Meat Cute just as Lieutenant Suzuki (Hiro Kanagawa) blew the place up. And the only thing that can save her bro? Liv’s blood, which she declines to give up. Is Liv’s life about to blow up? EW caught up with executive producer Rob Thomas to get the scoop on season 2:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Now that Major knows the truth, how does that change his relationship with Liv?
ROB THOMAS: We’re starting to break season 2 right now. He’s not happy with her as the season begins. We’re going to pick up the show a few months after the finale. Major still is not happy with Liv as we move forward.

Does Liv giving him the cure possibly thaw things between them?
What he’s mad about is the same stuff that everyone in my Twitter feed is mad about in terms of feeling like Liv should’ve told him much earlier, and should’ve trusted him with that information, and that she let him go into a mental hospital and doubt his own sanity rather than tell him.

This is a tough place for Liv to be when she gives Major the other half of the cure. How does Liv feel about losing her chance to become human, sacrificing being with Major once again and setting back the cure process? Is she in a bad state when the show returns?
Yeah, as a matter of fact she is for all the reasons you just listed. I don’t think she regrets giving Major the cure, but I do think that she would do almost anything to be human again. It has not escaped her that she had that shot and passed it up. As we go into season 2, they’re missing the tainted Utopium, which might allow them to make more. Ravi’s (Rahul Kohli) holy grail in season 2 is trying to track that down. I’m glad you picked up on all those things because there’s so much going on in that final episode that Liv never slows down to even let the audience consider the fact that she’s giving up her own shot when she gives Major that injection.

How will Blaine feel about being human again?
He loves not being a zombie. That said, it’s not good for his business model. In fact, I think we’re going to have a lot of fun next year with Blaine trying to pass for zombie with his clientele. It will be a very dangerous position to be in if his zombie customers are no longer frightened by him. If much of season 1 was about trying to pass as human while zombie, for Blaine in season 2, he’s going to try to pass for zombie as a human.

Will Major or Blaine suffer from any side effects from the cure next season?
I’m willing to tell you that much because I want there to be surprises, but yes, that cure is not perfect. There will absolutely be side effects. I’m not saying they’re heading toward death, but we have a mini-Flowers for Algernon story going on here with the rat. The rat is on the same cure that both Blaine and Major are. Whatever is going to happen to them may happen to that rat first.

Blaine threatened that zombies will overrun the city without him providing their meals. Is that one of the threats we’ll see in season 2?
Yes. That much is true. Also, in the finale, Vaughan (Steven Weber) lays down this gauntlet that will be a big part of the story for season 2. He says to his scientist, “You work on this Super Max and I will make sure to eliminate the zombie problem.” That’s going to be a new development in season 2. Zombies are going to start going missing. One of the things we want to do is make very strange bedfellows out of Liv and Blaine. They find themselves having to work together to fight a bigger evil.

We didn’t see Peyton (Aly Michalka) in the finale, but she also knows the truth about Liv. Is there anything you can tell us about where she went? A commenter in our recaps thinks she got scratched by Sebastian (Matthew MacCaull) and now she’ll be a zombie, too.
She didn’t, so that one is off the table, though maybe it’s not a bad idea. Maybe I should go back. [Laughs] We love Aly Michalka and the show is definitely better with her in it. She left to go do a pilot because she’s not a series regular. We had to write her off in a way that if we don’t have her available next year, it makes sense and we understand why she went away. But her pilot did not get ordered, which makes her available to us. We’re very hopeful of seeing more of her. In my mind, she’s bumming around Europe right now trying to get her head together.

Liv has declined to save her brother by giving him her blood. Is she going to have to reveal her zombism to her family?
That is one that I want to keep secret. That’s the question that I want fans discussing and seeing what they think before we launch in season 2. I know the answer to that question, but that’s one I want them thinking about.

Will Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) become more suspicious about the zombie situation next season?
It’s funny. I will reference my Twitter feed again: If I left it to my Twitter feed, Liv would’ve told everyone in episode 2. I like that there are secrets Liv is keeping. Somehow Clark Kent managed to keep it from Lois and Jimmy that he’s not Superman for 50 years. I’m hoping we can pull it off for two seasons with someone. That’s a different question than, “Will Clive ever land on zombies?” We’re breaking the first half of season 2 right now. It’s not on the board right now. At a certain point he may be presented with too much evidence. I never want to make him look dopey for not figuring it out. But right now there are no plans on it. We haven’t put it on the board yet.

My colleague Jeff Jensen was wondering whether you guys shot any alternate endings in case the show wasn’t renewed. Did you have any other plans?
No. We were feeling pretty good. Usually a network will warn you, “Hey, you might think about tying this up a bit.” We got no such warning, so we just plowed ahead.


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- Jefe de iZombie Revela algunos grandes planes para la Season 2 que son igualmente divertidos y horribles (E!Online):

Jefe de iZombie Revela algunos grandes planes para la Season 2 que son igualmente divertidos y horribles
Por Sydney Bucksbaum , 09 Junio, 2015 7:00 PM PDT

For a show about zombies eating brains, iZombie sure likes to rip out our hearts as well, huh?

That season one finale really put us through the ringer tonight (raise your hand if you need a hug, because we sure do). From Liv (Rose McIver) having to turn Major (Robert Buckley) into a zombie to save his life, only to give him the last batch of the cure to turn him back when it became clear he would never forgive her, only to then find out her younger brother was in critical condition in the hospital and needs her blood to survive his injuries, meaning she just saved her relationship at the expense of her brother's life...man, iZombie was not playing around!

And we haven't even mentioned that epic, jaw-dropping action scene in which Major finally got his revenge on Blaine (David Anders) and Meat Cute...and Liv finished the job, giving Blaine the only other dose of the zombie cure, turning him back into a human! So. Freakin'. Amazing.

It's going to be one long summer while we oh-so-impatiently wait for iZombie season two, so we got executive producer Rob Thomas to spill all he could about what's coming up when the CW show returns this fall!

E! News: Blaine and Major have both been cured—are there going to be any complications with becoming human again?
Rob Thomas: Yeah, there will be. Ravi would not have wanted to put that cure on the market yet, and for good reason. There will be side effects. There will be fallout from that. It won't be as easy as boom, you're human again, go enjoy the rest of your life. Blaine will have to try to maintain his zombie world while being human so we're going to have some fun in season two with him trying to pass as a zombie. Imagine him trying to put on white face to convince his clients that he's still a badass who they should be afraid of.

Liv's brother is in critical condition by the end of the finale—how is this going to shake up their family dynamic especially since Liv can't give her blood to save him?
It will have real repercussions next year. We know that the season two opening scene is going to be a really rough scene with her family. They do not understand the decision she made and it's kind of impossible for her to tell them.

So there won't be a time jump in between seasons one and two?
No, there will be a time jump. There's a few months between the end of season one and season two, but we will not be seeing her first attempt to patch things up with her family. We'll be seeing like the eighth attempt to get back into their good graces.

Over the course of season one, was there anything you discovered that wasn't working that you're going to abandon going into season two or anything that you found worked that you're going to play up more going forward?
A couple things, actually. Robert Buckley is so good at comedy. He's so charming. He and Rahul [Kohli], who plays Ravi, we discovered how fun and funny they are together. But we wrote a storyline in which in the middle of the season, we took away his fastball. There was a lot in the middle of the season where Major was looking sad or dour. I want to find ways to let Rob Buckley be engaging and fun and active and I think the show got much better when we gave him back those things we had taken away from him. But it was just hard for him to discover the kids who he worked with at the shelter were being murdered, and then play romantic comedy!

True!
The other thing, we're trying to achieve the right balance between our murder case-of-the-week and the rest of the zombie mythology stuff. As the season progressed, we found that we kept wanting to get to the zombie mythology stuff. There was a shift. The earlier episodes were about 60 percent murder-of-the-week, 40 percent zombie stuff. Those reversed by the end of the year. The show might be better for that and yet, the tricky thing is the A stories suffer a bit when you take eight pages of them and give them to the other stories. We're still trying to find the right balance. We also approach the case-of-the-week stories differently than most shows. We start with: what brain do we want to see Liv eat this week? What will be the most fun thing we can imagine Rose McIver playing next week? And then we'll fill in the murder case around that.

What are you most excited for fans to see from season two?
Blaine and Liv will have a common enemy in Max Rager next year. As Max Rager states in the finale that their quest is to eliminate all zombies so it will make strange bedfellows out of Liv and Blaine. I'm really excited about getting to play the two of them on the same side next year. I'm not saying everything is going to be peaches and cream between the two of them but they will be forced to work together.

I can't even imagine what that would look like after everything Blaine has done to her.
Yeah! It's going to be really fun.

I do have a bone to pick with you, though. While I've absolutely loved the first season, I'm hoping for a little bit less of Robert Buckley getting his face punched every single episode in season two. That seemed to happen quite a lot this season!
[Laughs] I know! He's too pretty to punch in the face! Again, dumb move by the writers to keep messing up that face!

To be fair, he can pull off a black eye very well.
You do not have to convince me of that one. Trust me, we were all laughing about how we kept beating him up. It was tough on makeup and we were taking our leading man and messing up his face! Stupid, stupid, stupid.


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- Rob Thomas habla sobre la Season Finale cargada de revelaciones y los planes para la Season 2 (collider):

Rob Thomas habla sobre la Season Finale cargada de revelaciones y los planes para la Season 2
Por Christina Radish 09 Junio, 2015

In the season finale of The CW series iZombie, “Blaine’s World,” Liv (Rose McIver) and Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) pay a visit to Vaughn Du Clark (Steven Weber) at Max Rager HQ, after discovering new evidence, while Ravi (Rahul Kohli) continues his search for a zombie cure. And with Major (Robert Buckley) in a situation that there’s no telling how he’ll get out of, Blaine (David Anders) makes Liv an offer she can’t refuse.

During this exclusive phone interview with Collider, show co-creator/executive producer Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars, Party Down) talked about how everything in the season finale is a reveal for the characters, whether viewers will feel that Blaine has gotten what he deserves, when we might see more of Peyton (Aly Michalka), getting to see Major take charge, knowing the big arcs for Season 2, hoping for 22 episodes next season, and why people should binge-watch over the summer, if they haven’t checked out the show yet. Be aware that there are some spoilers.

Collider: What can you say to tease the season finale and what fans should brace themselves for?

ROB THOMAS: I feel like that penultimate episode drove it so close to the age that I don’t know what else I can say. Episode 12 and 13 are kind of a two-parter. It’s the only episode this year where there was still a leftover murder at the end of Episode 12. We still haven’t solved that case, and we will solve that case, in the next episode. I feel like everything in this episode is a reveal. I’m generally not the most concerned showrunner in town about spoilers, but this final episode is all pay-off.

Blaine would say that he’s making the best of the hand that he’s been dealt, but others might say that he’s just a horrible villain for having people’s brains removed from the body that houses them. Do you think people will feel that he’s gotten what he deserves, by the end of the finale?

THOMAS: It’s so funny, people love to hate [Blaine]. He’s a character that every writer on staff wants to write for ‘cause he makes things delicious. He’s been given the complete green light to go for it on the material and chew as much scenery as he wants to, and it’s been fun. He certainly gets put through the ringer in the finale, but I’m not sure where people want him to end. I’m not sure if they want the satisfaction of seeing him dead, or if they want to see him continue on in the show. On Game of Thrones, I want to see Ramsay Bolton cut up into little bitty pieces, and I want to see Cersei get hers, but I want her to continue being in the show.

We saw how Peyton reacted to learning that Liv is a zombie, but we don’t know how she’ll be about that, in the long-term. Is that something that you intentionally wanted to hold off on a bit, or did you have to hold that back, just because there are so many life-or-death storylines going on?

THOMAS: Yeah, there is some of that. Unfortunately, we don’t have Aly [Michalka] as a series regular and we had a certain number of episodes we could afford to put her in, and we were at our limit there. But, we all love her and we love writing for her. The danger of having someone that’s a guest star is that you can lose them, at any time. At the time we were doing this, she was shooting a pilot and we thought, “There’s a chance we’ll never get to see her again, if her pilot goes and she’s on a show for the next few years.” Her show did not go, so what we did with her gives us the opportunity to bring her back.

We get a definite character shift with Major, by the end of the finale. What can you tease about where he’s going in the finale and how things will end up for him?

THOMAS: I’m really proud of that arc for Major. Because I check in on Twitter on Tuesday nights and see how people are responding, I had a feeling that the response would go like it has. Early in the season, when he was in mopey mode and just seemed to be sad, people weren’t loving him. But when we hired Robert Buckley, I pitched him the arc that we shot. I pitched him the final episode. I said, “The end of this show is like Taxi Driver. You will be a man of action. You will not simply be the boy that Liv fawns over.” I think people respond to people that take action. I think they love Major because he’s not a soldier, he’s a social worker who just was dogged about this. I know some people kept saying, “Don’t do that, Major!,” but I had so much fun watching him take charge in that final episode. I’m really hoping the fans dig it.

At WonderCon, you hadn’t officially been picked up for Season 2 yet, but you said that you had a rough plan in place. How much more concrete is that plan, now that you have that official pick-up and have to be focused on Season 2?

THOMAS: I just turned in a lengthy document to the studio saying, “Here are our plans for Season 2.” It’s pretty detailed. We know the big arcs for Season 2. We’re already breaking episodes for Season 2. So, unless the studio or network vetoes ideas or has issues with ideas, we know where we’re going.

Do you know how many episodes you’re going to do for Season 2? Will you be sticking with a shorter run?

THOMAS: We’re hoping for 22, but the initial order is for 13. Like many CW shows, we have to prove ourselves with that 13, and then hope for a back 9.

For people who were not quite sure what to make of the show and who might not have tuned in this season, there’s still plenty of time for them to watch Season 1 before Season 2 premieres. So, if they haven’t watched the show yet, why should they binge-watch it over the summer?

THOMAS: I specialize in shows that sound dumb on paper. The comment that I see all the time is, “For a show with this premise, it’s better than you might think it would be,” whether it’s a teenage girl private eye, or a zombie who eats brains and solves crime. It’s not like we’re doing arthouse fair, but I think it’s a fun show. It’s smarter than maybe the premise would lead you to believe. I certainly hope that fans of Veronica Mars are checking it out, and I think a lot of them are. I also think that The CW is going to re-air maybe most of the season this summer, so there are some real opportunities to check it out.


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- Rob Thomas y Diane Ruggiero-Wright contestan vuestras preguntas calentes (TVInsider):

Rob Thomas y Diane Ruggiero-Wright contestan vuestras preguntas calentes
Por Rob Moynihan | 09 Junio, 2015 10:05pm

Spoiler Alert! Stop reading if you have not yet watched the iZombie season finale!

Don't turn around, uh-oh! The CW's iZombie concluded its first season on Tuesday with an action-packed hour that saw Major (Robert Buckley) unleash a massacre at the Meat Cute against Blaine (David Anders) and his zombie minions. But after he sustains a life-threatening injury, Major's ex-fiancé Liv (Rose McIver) saved his life by first turning him into a zombie, and then immediately administering a dose of the untested cure developed by her boss/confidant, Ravi (Rahul Kohli). And the only other shot of the cure went to Blaine, against his wishes. We picked the brains of executive producers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright for some death-defying scoop on Season 2.

What's next for Liv and Major?
Now that Liv has finally admitted to her former lover that she's a zombie, the couple could get back together, but not without first confronting some trust issues. "It's going to be rocky going forward," Thomas says. "But at a certain point, now that everyone is in the loop about what she is, they may give it a go and see what kind of relationship they can have." Major will also reassess his attitude towards zombies in general. "He will recognize that there is such a thing as good zombies and they don't necessarily equal evil," Thomas says. "He will be more included to judge each zombie by his own merits."

Is Liv's brother going to die?
Last we saw Evan (Nick Purcha), he was critically injured in a hospital room and Liv decided against using a transfusion of her own zombie-infected blood to save him. But Thomas insists that doesn't mean the end for the character. "I want that to become a driving question until we air again," he says.

Will Clive go rogue?
The good detective (Malcolm Goodwin) doesn't believe the full story behind the late lieutenant and secret zombie Suzuki (Hiro Kanagawa), and will begin his own investigation into the truth. "Clive is going to be doing some digging on his own, and that's not going to be a very popular road to take because people think the lieutenant is the big hero," Ruggiero-Wright says. "He started off being a newbie to homicide in Season 1, and in Season 2, every action he takes to uncover what really happened that night is going to make him more of a pariah." Season 2 will also explore more of Clive's life away from the force. "I want to see Clive without the leather jacket, but I don't mean naked," Ruggiero-Wright says with a laugh. "I want to see who he is as a person, so you will see more of his backstory."

Is Blaine gone?
Now that he's been cured, the zombie baddie is undead no more. "But he's not going to be disappearing," Thomas insists. "His mission statement will be a bit different next year and he will be in a completely new business." Steven Weber will also be back as Max Rager energy drink boss Vaughn Du Clark with a renewed passion to rid Seattle of its zombie population. "Blaine and Liv may even end up as strange bedfellows trying to prevent zombies from disappearing off the map," Thomas hints.

Will there be any side effects from the cure?
While both doses of the zombie antidote appear to have worked on Major and Blaine, Ravi might discover issues with his original formula. "The cure is not done," Ruggiero-Wright says. "And with any potential complications that may arise, that's an element that Ravi's going to have to contend with in the second season."


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- ROBERT BUCKLEY es un 'Gran' Fanboy (Newsarama):

ROBERT BUCKLEY es un 'Gran' Fanboy
Por Zack Smith, 10 Junio 2015 Time: 04:44 PM ET

Big things happened during Tuesday's iZombie season finale, and while now the wait is on until season two, Newsarama has something to help tide you over -- the third part in our interview series with some of the most ardent comic fans who work on the the CW show based on Chris Roberson and Mike Allred's DC/Vertigo series.

Our previous interviews with show co-developer Diane Ruggiero-Wright and co-star Rahul Kohli got pretty geeky, but this one with Robert Buckley, who plays zombie Liv Moore’s ex-fiancé Major Lillywhite, gets nerdcore. Seriously. This might be some of the most geeking out we’ve ever done in an interview.

Buckley’s known as a romantic lead from a number of TV shows, including One Tree Hill and Lipstick Jungle, and for facing the devil on 666 Park Avenue. But we were warned by our previous interviewees that Buckley was a huge comics fan, and this interview did not disappoint. Sit back to learn of his favorite books, his art collection, and his efforts to convert us to #TeamMajor.

Newsarama: Rob, thanks for talking with us.

Robert Buckley: My pleasure. Sorry I was running late!

Nrama: Oh, no problem. Now, we talked to Diane and Rahul before, and they were both saying that while they were pretty big comic book fans…they were nothing compared to you.

Buckley: You know what? I can actually blame my slight tardiness on my comic book addiction. I had to go by my local shop to make sure I picked up Fight Club 2 from Dark Horse. I had to make sure I got all the variants.

Nrama: Y’know, it’s too bad you guys are both straight and he’s off the market, because I would tell you to marry Scott Porter. We did an interview back when he was doing Friday Night Lights and he was late for that exact same reason.

Buckley: That is so funny – Scott and I worked together when I did a couple episodes of Hart of Dixie, and we just immediately bonded over comics and HeroClix and everything. Jaime King is looking at us like, “What is happening?” We’re going “You’re reading that?! You like HeroClix?! Did we just become best friends?!” One of those moments, you know? [laughs]

Nrama: What are some books you’re enjoying – both right now and of all time?

Buckley: Oh my God. Uh – right now, I’m enjoying the Saga series – huge fan. And I’ve turned on a lot of my friends onto it, some unwillingly, and they all love it.

I really love the New 52 Batman, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. And growing up, I loved Jim Lee – remember when he did that reinvention of X-Men, that classic fold-out cover?

Nrama: Yes! There were like five or six of them.

Buckley: Right! I just fell in love with the X-Men right then, I just loved Wolverine. And as I got older, I found myself gravitating towards characters that had darker origins like Batman and Daredevil.

I’ve branched out – Blacksad is a book I found and just fell in love with.

Nrama: Aw man, the artist on that is going to be in my area at Heroes Con in a few weeks. I am psyched about meeting him.

Buckley: Really?! Oh my God. Where’s this?

Nrama: North Carolina. Actually a few hours from my hometown, which you knew as Tree Hill.

Buckley: Oh my God, I am jealous. Isn’t that just an incredible series?! It’s so beautiful. One of my favorite things is when there’s someone who’s never really read comics or didn’t like them as a kid, and then I get to introduce them to my favorite titles, and getting to talk about them.

The staples I have – Saga, Blacksad, the New 52 Batman. I’ll introduce different books to different people, but Blacksad is always in there.

I’m a sucker for artwork – to the point where I was actually avoiding Watchmen, because I went, “Oh, that’s old-school artwork!” And it took me like three tries to get into it, and the third time I actually sat down and got myself to read enough to go, “Oh my God, this is incredible.” I ended up falling totally in love with it.

Books like Blacksad and Watchmen, where the art is just beautiful – that’s what I love.

Nrama: Do you collect any original artwork?

Buckley: Funny you should say that – I love collecting original artwork, and I think I started in your old hometown, when I was on One Tree Hill. I discovered original artwork online, and went “Holy smokes! I can buy the pages and covers of books I own?!” And I was just hooked.

It was, “Well, Jim Lee is my favorite artist, I gotta get a Jim Lee…” and then it just escalated from there. I have amassed an absurd collection that I am sure one day my future wife is gonna have to tell me “You need to pick your favorite five and put the other 400 in storage.”

Nrama: I’m single and already have that problem. What are some of your grail pieces?

Buckley: One of my absolute favorites – for my 31st birthday, Jim Lee drew this killer Batman piece for me that wound up being the cover of last year’s San Diego Comic-Con booklet.

Nrama: [long pause] Rob, I’m just going to have to say this: I kind of want to kill you.

Buckley: [laughs] “When this interview’s over, I’m going to make you sound like a monster, and I hope you get a canker sore.”

Nrama: I want to beat on you like those zombie drug dealers were doing recently.

Buckley: There’s been no shortage of beatings for my character this season. I think of all the shows I’ve been on, this has had the most number of beatings per episode.

Nrama: You mentioned getting Fight Club comic books, and Jared Leto’s been in the news as the Joker in Suicide Squad lately, and now I’m just thinking of his character in the Fight Club film --

Buckley: “I just wanted to destroy something beautiful.”

Nrama: How’s it been, playing that? Because your character’s kind of the golden boy who’s been going down the very, very bad path.

Buckley: I love it. I started referring to Major as “The Human Pincushion” by the third episode in a row where I was showing up with stitches and just beaten to heck.

And I loved it! Because the character starts off as very charming and likable, and the guy every mother wants their daughter to marry…which is lovely if you’re trying to marry off your daughter, but not super-interesting to watch week after week.

So I liked that the story was going to get dark. I remember very early on, when I first got involved with the project, I asked if I could get to talk to Rob Thomas.

And I did, we had a phone call and he was great, and I asked, “Are you looking for Major to sort of be the love interest at a distance, kind of solely existing in that capacity, or will he have his own arc, his own story?”And he reassured me that yes, Major would have this story, this very interesting journey.

It was great, because at Comic-Con International: San Diego last year, we’d just shown the pilot and were walking back, and Rob says to me, “Hey, I had an idea…” And he pitches me the story. I’m like, “Oh my God, yes! Please, just do that!”

Basically, Rob was, “His story is going to get very dark.” And I was sold from there. I liked the idea of the token good guy who’s being put in this position where people are going crazy, and things are getting violent and confusing. That’s so much fun to play as an actor, and I think it’s a lot more fun for viewers to watch.

Nrama: It’s been a lot of fun watching the character unravel, particularly with episode 11, “Astroburger”, the way things build to that climax and the way the character reacts to what he’s learned.

Buckley: I have such a soft spot for that episode. I remember getting that script and reading it, and I was sitting there going, “Oh my God! Finally! They’re going to have the talk!” Every episode was, “How long can they keep this guy in the dark?” So Liv tells Major, and he’s kind of understanding, which is unusual, and then you get to the end and it was all a hallucination –

Nrama: You got Shyamalan-ed, man!

Buckley: They threw a Shyamalan twist at me. But I loved it. It takes you to this lovely Disney ending extreme, and then goes, “By the way – the exact opposite actually happened.” He shows up with brains and goes, “Zombies are real, and I’m gonna take ‘em all out.”

Nrama: It’s a nice moment, because the character moves forward, but not in the way you expect. You have that nice, supportive moment, and then the reality is he does find out about zombies, but instead of learning about Liv and accepting her, he’s now “Major, Zombie Killer.”

Buckley: Right. But the thing is, to him, he’s – I think, Major wants justice for what’s happened to these kids who’ve been eaten by the zombies. No one’s looking into it; he wants to expose what’s going on. And the person he swears this vow to is actually a zombie! The irony of that moment, and the way Rose McIver plays it – “Oh good! Oh s**t!” is just terrific.

Nrama: She’s very good with the reactions. I was talking with Diane about it.

Buckley: Rose is – I can’t stress enough how talented she is, and how great a job she does. Because every week, her character changes. All of us, we’ve got our character, and we get to flesh them out and figure out who they are, and that’s the adventure we go on every week.

Every week, it’s a moving target for her. Every week, there’s that new character. Most of the time, when you’re playing a character, you find your comfort zone, your groove. You sort of know how, instinctually, your character would respond. She doesn’t have that luxury, because every week she’s eating a new set of brains.

So she has this new challenge – “Okay, whose brains were these? How would that type of person react?” And she has to do that in an American accent. So she’s doing a play and bouncing a soccer ball on her feet and reciting the alphabet backwards, all at the same time.

Nrama: They do those “Stay tuned for an all-new iZombie!” promos with her, and she’s got the full accent, and it’s so disconcerting because you forget she’s not American!

Buckley: I know! She has a wonderful American accent, she really does. It’s a heavy workload for her. She comes in for over an hour of hair and makeup every morning, and is in almost every scene, and thank God she has such a fun demeanor, and is so nice to everyone, and is so fun to work with. If she wasn’t such a delight, that would trickle down and affect everyone else.

And instead, she’s so much fun to work with, and she’s great, so you always have to bring your A-game. We lucked out with our cast, everyone is great, but Rosie does such a fantastic job.

Nrama: Were you a fan, or aware of, the original iZombie comic book series or Veronica Mars before you did this series?

Buckley: I was aware of Veronica Mars – I shot two telenovelas in San Diego while they were shooting Veronica Mars there. So my involvement with that show was limited to one day accidentally wandering into their craft service truck, and then realizing that I was staring at people I didn’t recognize while I was filling my pockets with food. “Oh! I’m so sorry! Can I keep the snacks?”

So that was all I knew of Veronica Mars. I watched that a bit afterward, but Party Down – I was a huge, huge fan of that show.

As far as the iZombie comic book, I was aware of it, but I hadn’t ever actually read it. Being a comics fan and going to the shop every week, I knew the title, and was familiar with Michael Allred’s work, but I never actually sat down and read it.

Nrama: Do you want to sit down and read it now, or do you want to keep it separate, because the show goes down such a different path?

Buckley: It’s funny you should say that. I started to read it, and then stopped myself after the first two volumes of the trade paperbacks, because I wanted to get a grasp of where the series was coming from, and wanted to be able to tell fans of the comic how the show was similar and different.

The thing I liked the most about the comic book was that wry, self-aware, sarcastic narration, getting to hear the comic’s version of Liv’s thoughts, being aware of her situation and snarky. They brought that to the show, and it works so well, because those moments of levity are so great.

They humanize her and allow us to connect to her to a degree, have a bit more of a relationship to her, as opposed to her being a full-on zombie. It’s better than if you’re an observer from a distance – you don’t get to do things like watch her love life and care about her relationships and stuff.

Nrama: Actually, I have to ask about the love life, because I was giving Diane a hard time for this – now, how were you when it came to #TeamLowell? Because I hate to tell you this – I was a fan. Were you #TeamMajor? Obviously, you had a vested interest…

Buckley: Really? Come on Zack, that had to be rhetorical. Obviously, I’m #TeamMajor.

I mean, come on! Eight years of dating – he put in his time! And he really held out for her – six months after the boat incident is when we meet present-day Major, and he’s still holding out for Liv pretty well.

I think Major has a ridiculous amount of love for Liv. If I was engaged to someone and they just dropped it, cut me out of their life, I don’t know I’d be as cool, calm and collected as he is.

Nrama: I’ll say this – this interview has pushed me in the #TeamMajor direction.

Buckley: Oh, thank God, Zack. I was worried I was going to have to start cajoling you, bribing you with Jim Lee art and such.

Nrama: …see, I should start dissing you now.

Buckley: I showed my hand too soon.

Nrama: But it’s been fun to see that arc, that back-and-forth and evolution of the characters and their relationship.

Buckley: Yeah, definitely. And it’s been a lot of fun to play.

Nrama: Our time’s almost up, so anything you’d like to say to iZombie fans, or to people who maybe haven’t tried the show?

Buckley: To the fans, I would like to say thank you for all the support and positive feedback. I didn’t know how this show was going to be received, because it was so different. And I think it’s great we’ve found an audience that’s willing to get on board and go along for the crazy ride.

So I really do have a lot of love for fans – I live-Tweet episodes (@RobertBuckley), and get to talk with them, and I just love that, that going back and forth.

And to the producers, I want to say thanks for giving me a job, and keeping me employed. I really appreciate that.

And to you, this has been a wonderful interview, and shamelessly, we need everyone we can aboard #TeamMajor. So support that ‘ship!



http://www.newsarama.com/24781-izombies ... anboy.html

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- Últimas imágenes bts de la S1 (09-06-15):





- Video bts de la season 1 finale:

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Añadidos los rátings del 1.13 "Blaine´s World". Podéis encontrarlos AQUÍ

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- ¡La WBTV anuncia su programa para el SDCC 2015!:

Muchas series de TV llegan al San Diego Comic-Con cada año y el estudio que normalmente suele llevar la mayor cantidad de ellas es la WB. Eso parece que seguirá en la misma línea este año, ya que la WBTV ha anunciado su programa de series para la convención, con un total de 18, entre las que están "The Flash", "Arrow", "Gotham", "iZombie", "Supergirl", "Legends of Tomorrow", "Lucifer" y la nueva serie de animación que comparte universo con Arrow y The Flash "Vixen".

Por segundo año consecutivo, la WBTV tendrá un mega-evento especial en la noche del Sábado dedicado a sus series de acción basadas en DC Comics ("Supergirl", "The Flash", "Arrow", "Gotham", "Legends of Tomorrow" y "Vixen"). Ninguna de las series que están incluñidas en la "Super Hero Saturday Night" tendrá sus propios paneles, manteniendo su presencia centrada en este evento. No se ha dado una lista específica de los invitados que aparecerán en ella aún, pero teniendo en cuenta el precedente del año pasado, es casi seguro el esperar que acudan casi los elencos completos de las distintas series.

También, la WBTV continuará su tradición de mostrar los pilotos de las nuevas series el miércoles por la noche, durante la noche previa de la Comic-Con:


SCREENINGS ESPECIALES DE LOS PILOTOS, MIÉRCOLES, 8 de JULIO

6:00–10:00 p.m. La primera vez es siempre la mejor. Comic-Con y Warner Bros. Television continúan con orgullo nuestra tradición de la Noche Previa, con las premieres exclisivas de los episodios pilotos de nuestras más anticipadas series para la temporada 2015–16 — Supergirl, Blindspot, Containment y Lucifer — así como un episodio completamente nuevo de Teen Titans Go!. Ballroom 20


CALENDARIO DE LAS SERIES DE LA WBTV/WBA

Nota: Las estrellas y equipos creativos de las series que está previsto que asistan están sujetos a cambios. Se proporcionará más informacion sobre las sesiones de paneles, firmas y otros eventos a medida que se sepan más noticias.

VIERNES, 10 JULY

• 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Lucifer (Midseason on FOX): Sexy, oscuro e irreverente, Lucifer hace su debut en Comic-Con con screenings del episodio piloto al completo, seguido por una sesión de Q&A con las estrellas de la serie Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Lesley-Ann Brandt, DB Woodside y los productores ejecutivos. Room 6BCF

• 5:45–6:45 p.m. iZOMBIE (Tuesdays 9/8c on The CW): El cerebral éxito de iZOMBIE regresa a San Diego para su siguiente aparición en la Comic-Con. Tras los impactantes eventos de la season finale, sed uno de los primeros en conocer las primicias sobre lo que está por venir en la season 2 con los productores ejecutivos Rob Thomas y Diane Ruggiero-Wright, junto con las estrella de la serie Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli, Robert Buckley y David Anders. Ballroom 20


SABADO, 11 JULIO

• 8:00–11:00 p.m. Warner Bros. Television & DC Entertainment Presenta: La Super Hero Saturday Night Ofrece a los Fans un vistazo interior a los mundos de "Arrow", "The Flash" y "Gotham", además del screening del piloto de "Supergirl" y Video Presentaciones de "Legends of Tomorrow" y "Vixen": DC fans … ¡preparáos para otra Super Hero Saturday Night! Warner Bros. Television y DC Entertainment darán de nuevo la bienvenida a los fams en los mundos de algunos de los más grandes personajes de DC Comics durante una super-experiencia de tres horas en el Hall H. El evento exclusivo mostrará los pilotos de la altamente anticipada nueva serie de acción "Supergirl", seguido de una sesión de Q&A con las estrellas y productores; además, video presentaciones individuales especiales y sesiones de Q&As con las estrellas y productores de "Arrow", "The Flash" y "Gotham". También, no os perdáis una sesión especial de Q&A con el elenco y productores de "Legends of Tomorrow" y un vistazo a la nueva serie digital "Vixen". Hall H




http://www.ksitetv.com/general-tv-news/ ... lans/68567

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- Primera imagen bts de la S2 (15-06-15):



(@irosemciver: #weZombie prepping for season twoooo)



- Nuevas imágenes promocionales de la S2:

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- ¡¡¡Conoceremos al padre de 'Liv' en la S2 de "iZombie"!!!:

Durante toda la temporada, nos hemos estado preguntando por el padre de 'Liv' y su hermano.

Ahora, según TVLine parece que el misterio quedará desvelado en la S2, puesto que el personaje por fin hará su aparción:

Estaba indecisa al principio, pero terminé adorando iZombie. ¿Alguna primicia? —Amy

Ausiello: Hay muy buenas oportunidades de que conozcamos al padre de Liv y Evan eb la Season 2 (y, sí, a pesar de la diferencia de edad tienen el mismo padre). “Hemos estado hablando de que la Season 2 sea la Temporada de los Padres,” comenta el creador de la serie Rob Thomas. “Puede que conozcamos a muchos padres en la Season 2, incluído el de [Liv y Evan]. Lo mantuvimos intencionadamente sin mencionar porque no habíamos trabajado sobre el cómo queríamos traerle o qué queríamos hacer con él... Teníamos el deseo de hacerlo, y piendo que tenemos una genial historia de fondo sobre su padre”

http://tvline.com/2015/06/16/nashville- ... -ausiello/

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- ¡Revelada la fecha de estreno de la S2 de "iZombie"!:

La CW acaba de revelar la fecha de estreno de la S2 de "iZombie", cuya season premiere será el 6 de Octubre a las 9pm.

http://www.thewrap.com/cw-sets-fall-pre ... n-october/