Exclusive Interview with Jack Kenny for Warehouse 13
Interview by Jamie Ruby
Written by Jamie Ruby

Syfy's popular series Warehouse 13 closed its doors tonight. Recently the executive producer, Jack Kenny, sat down with Jamie Ruby in an exclusive interview to talk about the finale.

One of the things Kenny talked about breaking the stories of the season when they received the news that they would only get six episodes, and how they decided on the finale. "We had already broken I guess about ten episodes by the time we finally got the word whether we were picked up at all. We were in there pitching episodes trying to get them to pick us up, and I actually think pitching them the telenovela episode ("Savage Seduction") was one of the reasons they gave us six instead of just canceling us or whatever. They were very excited about that, the idea of a telenovela episode, so that helped.

"But we had I guess a total of about ten stories when we got the word. I didn't want to end the series on another 'oh, the world's going to blow up and we have to save it' episode. We'd done that; we'd done it three times: saved the world, or the warehouse, or both. And so the way we were arcing out the season with Benedict Valda (Mark Sheppard) and stuff, we thought, 'We can wrap that up in episode five. Let's use episode five as our penultimate and make that the warehouse episode where they save the world.'

Exclusive Interview with John-Paul Nickel for Warehouse 13 on April 17, 2014
Interview with Jamie Ruby
Written by Jamie Ruby

To many fans' dismay, Warehouse 13 unfortunately reached its end last night on Syfy. The writer of the series finale, John-Paul Nickel, who also wrote the episodes "The Greatest Gift" and "The Big Snag," recently talked to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about working on the episode.

In the series finale, fans got to see the characters' defining moments. Nickel had some of his own from the show to share. "I started as a fan of the show, not on it in any way, and then I got hired as the writers' PA, so I went from fan, to coffee bitch, to guy who wrote the series finale...I kind of have a few defining moments. The first is, Jack gave me the second Christmas episode ("The Greatest Gift") to write, and the fact that I got to write not just like a freelance staff, not just any episode in the series, but the Christmas special. And there were extenuating time circumstances involved with that, so to be able to write quickly and still be treated like a writer on the staff, and to be given that chance to actually sit down and write the story and be welcomed aboard, and write and do rewrites, and then go up and shoot, just like I was any writer, to me that was amazing.

The Anthem is a unique stage production coming to the Lynn Redgrave Theatre this month. The original musical was inspired by the Ayn Rand novella with a book by Gary Morgenstein, music by Jonnie Rockwel, and lyrics by Erk Ransom. The sci-fi musical, directed, choreographed, and designed by Rachel Klein, takes place in the future where individuality is illegal.

Jenna Leigh Green, who plays the part of Pandora, recently sat down with Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview.

The play is only loosely based on its predecessor, according to Green. "The show is very, very loosely based on the Ayn Rand novel The Anthem, but we are definitely taking somewhat of a farcical, over the top sci-fi twist and throwing that on top of it. The show is going to be an explosion of flash and sparkle and glitter with one very structured world and one very fantastical world. And just taking a very tongue-placed-firmly-in-cheek at this world."

Exclusive Interview with Aaron Ashmore on the set of Warehouse 13 in Toronto on August 23, 2013.

By Jamie Ruby

Tonight a great show comes to an end as Syfy airs the final episode of Warehouse 13. Last August Aaron Ashmore talked to SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about the final season.

Ashmore first joined the cast of Warehouse 13 in season three. The actor talked about how Steve's journey has changed this season now that he has been a part of the warehouse for a while. "I think it's a transition. I mean, the other characters have had two years up on Steve, so he was jumping into this thing. They'd already been together, so I think definitely before the season Steve had found his place at the warehouse, had built up connections with the characters, and became more comfortable with himself, and with the warehouse.

"And I mean, it's a continuation. I think by this point Steve is part of the warehouse and he's come to terms that this is his family; this is his home. So there's less of sort of that development and finding like 'do I belong here?' I mean, I think he's kind of discovered that by the end of the fourth season.

Episodic photos from the final episode of Warehouse 13 entitled "Endless," airing 5/19/14, after the jump.

Exclusive Interview with Jack Kenny on the Set of Warehouse 13 in Toronto on August 23, 2013.
By Jamie Ruby

Monday Syfy's popular series Warehouse 13 comes to a close. In August the executive producer, Jack Kenny, talked to SciFi Vision during a set visit about the final season.

Kenny talked about some of the things that have been stuffed into the final six episodes. "There're like a thousand new things. Pete (Eddie McClintock), Myka (Joanne Kelly), and Artie (Saul Rubinek) fall into a telenovela, and they all speak Spanish. [We have] Anthony Head as Paracelsus; we see Hugo (Rene Auberjonois) and Vanessa (Lindsay Wagner) again. Pete and Steve (Aaron Ashmore) end up at a Renaissance fair. We meet Claudia (Allison Scagliotti)'s sister (Cryssie Whitehead) and help her.

"And then there's one final big threat to the warehouse, one last hurrah, where somebody comes at us in a bad way. We have a surprising big bad...We discover him in episode one in an alternate universe; it's very interesting. And then the finale, which is six episodes rolled into one."

We are happy to announce that Warehouse 13 star Eddie McClintock, executive producer Jack Kenny, along with writer of the series finale, John-Paul Nickel will be special guest stars next week during our Warehouse 13 special podcast on Fandom Access.

The podcast will air live during its normal time at 10:00 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday. The two will talk about the series in general as well as the finale specifically.

We will be taking calls for questions during the show as well. You can call in during the podcast at (914) 338-0314 (& press 1) or submit questions via the chatroom. You can sign up for BlogTalkRadio anytime (or stay an anonymous guest) for the chat prior to the call.

Help us to say good bye to Warehouse 13.

The episode will be available for download and streaming after it airs.

By Jamie Ruby

On May 22nd Fox debuts it's new action-drama series Gang Related. The series follows Detective Ryan Lopez, played by Ramon Rodriguez, a cop in Los Angeles' Gang Task Force, who before becoming a cop was part of the Los Angelicos gang. After Lopez's partner is killed by a gang member, he partners with Cassius Green, played by RZA. Lopez must decide if he is dedicated to the task force or still loyal to his old gang.

Rodrguez and RZA recently talked to the media about the new series. 

Monday Warehouse 13 will open its doors for the last time, when Syfy airs the final episode. The finale was written by John-Paul Nickel and directed by executive producer Jack Kenny. 

Kenny has said in previous interviews that the episode was a love letter to the fans, and it really is. The episode does a great job in closing out the show and packs tons of great scenes in. The episode is a clip show, but in the best way, because it's clips that people have never seen before.

By Jamie Ruby

Next Thursday the comedy competition Last Comic Standing returns to NBC with a revamped format for the eighth season. This season the choice of who will be the "Last Comic Standing" is completely up to the judges, who include Rosanne Barr, Keenen Ivory Wayans, and Russell Peters, rather than by America's vote as in the past. The show will be hosted by JB Smoove. Page Hurwitz, who was an executive producer on season seven of the series, will return again to executive produce, along with Wanda Sykes and Javier Winnick.

In preparation, Barr and Hurwitz recently talked to the media about the new season of Last Comic Standing.

Barr talked to SciFi Vision about why she decided to do the show. "I just thought it would be really fun. And when I heard that Keenen Ivory Wayans was one of the judges, you know, I really love him. And, you know, I like Wanda a lot too. And so I thought it would be fun to work with some really great comics and get right in the middle of stuff that has to do with standup comedy."