While it may not be the MOONLIGHT revival that fans were hoping for (or to be more specific, that one really dedicated fan who is single-handedly keeping the “Save MOONLIGHT” campaign alive by inundating my email box with bi-weekly emails), star Alex O’Loughlin is making a return to the small screen this evening on a very special, not to mention intensily creepy episode of CRIMINAL MINDS. And here to talk about tonight’s role with your very own TV Addict, in between shooting his new CBS pilot (THREE RIVERS) and his upcoming romantic comedy opposite Jennifer Lopez is the immortal one himself, Alex O’Loughlin.
Before we get into your guest appearance on tonight’s CRIMINAL MINDS, I of course have to first ask about MOONLIGHT. Were you surprised it was cancelled?
Alex O’Loughlin: Yes and no. It was a tough show for everybody in a sense that it was a high maintenance girlfriend. You love her, she’s great in bed but it takes so much of your time to appease her [laughs] that you’re left going, “Okay, is this worth the end result.” From the very beginning, there were huge amounts of changes: Five different showrunners, from the early days when it was Twilight we fired everyone, recast the show, reshot the pilot, called it MOONLIGHT, changed the showrunner. [Producer] Joel Silver and the network were butting heads constantly about the creative direction of the show. It was a lot of stuff to deal with behind the camera, maybe too much in fact. But to answer your question, I was surprised we were canceled because it was doing so well.
On tonight’s CRIMINAL MINDS, you play Vincent, a serial killer who couldn’t be more different than MOONLIGHT’s Mick St. John. How did this guest appearance come about, and did you purposely look for a role that was Mick’s polar opposite?
In terms of CRIMINAL MINDS specifically, the writer, Simon [Mirren] is a great friend of mine, and he said, “listen, I’m writing a role with you in mind. Would you read it,” and I did and the rest is history. I love playing different roles, the more variety the better. Once I’ve played a role I don’t want to play it again.
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Most Welcome EX of the Week
Here’s a formula even ex-Betty boy-toy Henry Grubstick can figure out. UGLY BETTY – Henry Grubstick + New York City = More Mode, more Marc, more Amanda and most importantly, more fun! Welcome back Betty.
Least Welcome EX of the Week
Elizabeth Reeser’s THE EX LIST attracted less viewers than MOONLIGHT. That sound you just heard, eight million MOONLIGHT fans muttering “I told you so.”
Career Advice of the Week
After sitting through Greg Kinnear’s FLASH OF GENIUS over the weekend, this TV Addict can’t help but wonder… How many non-descript supporting wives and girlfriends is ex-GILMORE GIRL Lauren Graham going to play until she comes to grips with the fact that her star shines brightest on the small screen.
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Good News: HBO renewed the Alan Ball Vampire series TRUE BLOOD after only two episodes. Bad News: The renewal comes from the network that green-lit a second season of IN TREATMENT and a DEADWOOD wrap-up movie. And how are those projects going… oh wait… [Source]
Good News: In related Vampire news, MOONLIGHT fans will finally get something exciting to sink their teeth into. Bad News: It’s not a second season. Rather the announcement of a DVD release, which let’s face it, effectively puts a final nail into any and all hope for a second season. [Source]
Good News: The second episode of FRINGE was up an astounding 68% from the show’s tepidly received season premiere. Bad News: We’re pretty sure a test pattern would do well following the highly anticipated series premiere of HOUSE. [Source]
Now that CBS has taken the ‘bite’ out of MOONLIGHT’s cancellation by signing Alex O’Loughlin to a one year holding deal with the hopes of developing a new starring vehicle for him in partnership with high profile TV Producer Mark Gordon [GREY'S ANATOMY, ARMY WIVES, CRIMINAL MINDS]. This TV Addict feels the need to ask the obvious question. Is a talent holding deal enough to get MOONLIGHT fans back to CBS, if [and when] the Untitled Alex O’Loughlin Project premieres? 
Thanks to The Hollywood Reporter for the Tip
By: Kevin Kelly, Special TCA Correspondent
Minutes ago, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler filled us in — and by ‘us’ I mean the hundred or so journalists attending the 2008 Television Critics Association Press Tour — with regards to what fans can expect from the character replacing William Peterson’s Gil Grissom on CSI this upcoming season. According to Tassler, Grissom’s replacement will be a doctor, who not only is a bit of an outsider and must work his way onto the team, but has somewhat of a complex dual identity. One that DEXTER fans might be intimately [or is it eerily] familiar with.
In other news, Tassler pretty much put a final stake into MOONLIGHT’s chances for survival by revealing that she stands by her decision to cancel this season’s JERICHO. Said Tassler, “We love Alex and the rest of the cast, but we’re okay to let the show go.” Adding that most of the comments she received from viewers were aimed at the actors and not the show itself.
Which naturally got us thinking. If Alex O’Loughlin is currently unemployed and the gang from CSI are on the look out for a dark and mysterious investigator. It doesn’t take THE BIG BANG THEORY’s Sheldon and/or Leonard to connect the dots here! Match made in television heaven? You be the judge.
Here are five words this TV Addict never expected to write: Perez Hilton has a point.
In his recent post titled, ‘Vampires Are In’ the reigning queen of celebrity gossip sights the 3.5 million copies being printed for Stephanie Meyers fourth and final installment of the TWILIGHT series BREAKING DAWN, the upcoming September premiere of Alan Ball’s [SIX FEET UNDER] highly anticipated new HBO series TRUE BLOOD and the TWILIGHT movie set to hit the big screens in December as proof positive that vampires are the new boy wizards.
Leading us to wonder aloud — with interest in Vampires seemingly at an all-time high — could CBS have cancelled MOONLIGHT at a worse time?
Okay seriously MOONLIGHT fans, it’s enough! You win. I’m raising the white flag and conceding. MOONLIGHT isn’t dead and you’ll never give up the fight. Really I get it.
And just to make sure we’re clear. I’ve awarded the first spot in theTVaddict.com’s Second Annual Pimp Your Favorite Show Contest to MOONLIGHT. Courtesy of designer ‘Anonymous’, I hope everyone enjoys this TV Addict’s personal favorite of the over twenty different MOONLIGHT header designs that were submitted.
And rest assured all you non-MOONLIGHT fans, throughout the week theTVaddict.com will be highlighting some other great designs that don’t include Mick St. John’s hypnotic blue eyes. I promise.
… They would do their absolute best to extend an olive branch to the eight million or so angry and bitter fans of the recently axed MOONLIGHT.
Take it from a TV Addict who knows. When EVERWOOD was unceremoniously cancelled to make way for the CW’s much-hyped and short-lived RUNAWAY, ask me how many episodes of it I watched. Not a single frakkin’ frame of footage! Seriously, that’s how bitter I was.
So rather than simply be remembered as the show that replaced MOONLIGHT, showrunner THE EX LIST showrunner Diane Ruggiero [who oddly enough knows a thing or two about fandom coming from the world of VERONICA MARS] might wish to consider taking a proactive approach when it comes to reaching out to grieving MOONLIGHT fans.
Which brings us to the free advice. With THE EX LIST revolving around Elizabeth Reaser [GREY'S ANATOMY] exploring her past relationships after a psychic tells her she’s already dated her future husband, why not make one or two of the potential love(s) of her life a familiar face. I hear Alex O’Loughin and Jason Dohring find themselves with a little free time on their hands.
Full disclosure: Having just devoured TWILIGHT over the weekend, this TV Addict is the first to admit that I may be a little bias when it comes to protecting all things Vampire.
But as a result of to today’s speculation courtesy of Variety’s Cynthia Littleton that MOONLIGHT may not be seeing a second season pick-up thanks to CBS being high on a slew of new dramas in development. I thought I’d take an opportunity to remind the proverbial ‘Powers that Be’ of the following. Remember CANE? SMITH? THE AGENCY? 3 LBS? THE BROTHERHOOD OF POLAND NH? Neither does anybody else!
Which is why I’m imploring you to give MOONLIGHT a second chance. Or at least consider this interesting idea by theTVaddict.com reader Eric S., “Maybe it’s time to suggest to CBS that it place one of its minor cult hits (Moonlight) on its younger-skewing partner network, The CW. That would bring new viewers to The CW, give it a vampire hit (the show really belongs there), and keep the show in the “CBS family,” as well.”
THE OFFICE
Not only was spending the full twenty-two minutes at Dunder Mifflin Scranton a welcome change of pace from the recent over-the-top zany antics of Michael Scott. It gave the Dunder Mifflin denizens a welcome opportunity to shine. Stanley’s tour-de-force performance aside, anyone else curious as to what Phyllis the delinquent teenage vandal immortalized in cement all those years ago? Because you just know she was a wild child!
HOUSE
Even with the new team and the return of Cutthroat Bitch, this TV Addict can’t seem to get excited for HOUSE anymore. Is it just me, or are we watching virtually the same show each and every week? Diagnose, Snarky Comment, Cure, Repeat.
THE BIG BANG THEORY
As a stare blankly at my ridiculously large collection of Entertainment Weekly magazines [quite literally, almost every one], this recovering eBay Addict couldn’t help but laugh sympathize with Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz and Raj’s Time Machine predicament.
SMALLVILLE
It should come as no surprise that television’s most frustratingly uneven series relied on the tired and clichéd “It’s a Wonderful Life” plot contrivance for their very special 150th episode. Talk about your super lack of creativity.
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