{"id":4224,"date":"2012-04-16T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2012-04-16T16:41:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:41:51","slug":"transmissions-interview-with-colin-ferguson-and-jamie-paglia-of-eureka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=4224","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: Interview with Colin Ferguson and Jamie Paglia of Eureka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week the star of Eureka, Colin Ferguson and series creator \"\"<\/a>Jamie Paglia took some time to chat with reporters about the fifth and final season of one of Syfy’s best shows.<\/p>\n

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Our first question comes from the line of Kathy Huddleston with blaster.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Kathy Huddleston:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, guys.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey.<\/p>\n

Kathy Huddleston:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, congratulations on a great, great series so far. So I mean, what do we have to – oh, that\u2019s a basic question – what do we have to look forward to this season on the final season of the show?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, did you watch the first three? I know the packet got sent out with three episodes. Did you have a chance to watch those?<\/p>\n

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Kathy Huddleston:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, yes.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n

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Kathy Huddleston:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awesome stuff.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, and I mean – I just wanted to say right out of the gate, I\u2019m usually the king of pessimism. I\u2019m the king of like, well, we did okay, or we did – I watched the first three episodes in the last couple days. I\u2019m so proud of them from a production standpoint, from a writing standpoint, from an acting standpoint. I\u2019d put them up against anything, and that might be cocky and stupid. I\u2019m so excited for this season to come out. It\u2019s the best thing that we\u2019ve done. Jamie, you can take it from there.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gee, I never even make Colin happy, so that\u2019s high praise indeed. I do feel like these last two seasons, seasons four and five, and if you want to call it 4.5 in there as well, that\u2019s good. But I think that everybody has really done their best work.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We just had the most amazing creative team, obviously from our cast and crew to the writing staff, and the level of work has just raised – we\u2019ve really raised the bar once again I think, even after season four and what you\u2019re sort of dealing with over the course of the back episodes are the ramifications of the experience that our people have during those first three that you guys have seen.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So storylines will be spun out of the experience, not just psychologically of what\u2019s happened to them on the character level, but physically what they\u2019ve gone through and how that actually impacts individual storylines.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And it\u2019s some of the funniest stuff that we\u2019ve done. I mean, there\u2019s a smart car episode, which is phenomenal as Jamie\u2019s directorial debut, is in disc thirteen, which is amazing. I watched that all the way – it\u2019s really so – it\u2019s the show that we always wanted to make where it\u2019s really character-driven and really fun.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I mean, they did such a great job of sort of knowing their cast. I mean, the writers did, or knowing their cast, so oh, this person does this and we\u2019re going to let them fly, and this person does this and we\u2019re going to let them fly, and it\u2019s really exciting for us.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, it was the most fun to make.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Mike Hughes with TV America. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, Jamie, I want to take from what Colin said a minute ago about the show you\u2019ve always wanted to make. I mean, as people mention, it\u2019s been a terrific show from the beginning, but it\u2019s also had so many interesting twists and turns along the way. Is this always where you thought it would be after five years, or are you really surprised yourself at where it is at this point? What during this journey has just been different from what you thought it would be?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Honestly I didn\u2019t know what to expect on the journey when we started this. It was my first foray into television, and after having done a few feature films that didn\u2019t get made, giving that process and working with some amazing producers in the studios, it was really exciting to get to finally make something.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And it\u2019s such a different animal, making television, because you don\u2019t have ten weeks to mull a script over and two years to turn it in. You actually have to, usually you\u2019re creating and putting it up on the screen in a very short amount of time, and I think that, like any show, we had the growing pains of just trying to figure out what the show was, all of us, not just us as writers or producers, but the cast finding the characters and it\u2019s an involving kind of creative process. And it\u2019s – that kind of collaboration is something I really enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, let me ask you, do be kind of specific because there\u2019s this huge plot twist, even in this first episode this time there are two enormous plot switches at the beginning and at the end.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did you think there would be that kind of big plot switches? And when you look at where the show is compared to where it was five years ago, does this all surprise you or what?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if surprise is the right word. It certainly excites me. We found different opportunities as our stories have evolved over the seasons, and there were things we did in season one that we weren\u2019t able to I think fully complete in terms of some set-ups, like (Beverly Barlowe) and the Consortium and these sort of longer story arcs that had been part of the mythology that we had hoped was going to kind of continue.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But due to a number of reasons, they kind of got truncated a bit in seasons two and three, and so it was nice to be able to kind of come back around full circle and satisfy some of the things that we had originally wanted to do. And I think that the opportunity of you just – a very quick example.\u00a0 We did the Astraeus mission, which Bruce Miller, my co-show runner, that was really more of his passion.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He really wanted to do an episode and a series of storylines about going to space. But we didn\u2019t know where that would lead us, and I was very apprehensive about starting down a road that I didn\u2019t know where the end was. But it actually forced me with –\u00a0 our team to say, okay, what\u2019s going to be the interesting twist?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where are we going to go? What\u2019s going to happen? And that\u2019s exactly what led to the episodes that you\u2019ve seen. This was going to be a huge abduction. It was going to bring Beverly Barlowe back, and that was an incredibly exciting discovery for us.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, cool. Thanks a lot.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You bet.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of David Martindale with Hearst Newspapers. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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David Martindale: Thank you. Basically a similar question for Colin, what were your expectations when you first signed on with this show? How long did you see it going? What did you see it amounting to, and when did it meet your expectations or surpass them?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we signed on, Salli and I, we were shooting in (unintelligible). Salli and I went downstairs. There was a psychic convention, and we actually had our futures read when we went down, and she said it\u2019s going to go. It\u2019s going to go for a while, but it\u2019s not going to be what you think it is.<\/p>\n

And nothing could be more true. I mean, with the writer\u2019s strike in there and the recession, and doing 20 episodes and then getting split over a bunch of seasons – that was the hard bit of what went down that nobody could see coming. The amazing thing is to get to where we got to this year. It\u2019s funny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Did I –\u00a0 to answer the question was I surprised, yes, I was stunned that we could do what we did, and it\u2019s only in the sci-fi genre that you can. In other genres when you reinvent the wheel, it\u2019s you bring in a new character; you bring in an evil twin; you bring in –\u00a0 it\u2019s sort of standard stuff. But it\u2019s a testament to the imagination of the writers that we could get, going back in time and there\u2019s a new Eureka in one season.<\/p>\n

\u00a0And in this one all of a sudden there\u2019s the matrix and we have to get people – it\u2019s the greatest plot twists that only this genre can afford, and it\u2019s – it was a joy to marry that sort of structure change which I feel lucky to be able to do with the unbelievable character stuff that they were writing for us, so I never saw this coming. I\u2019m stunned with what it\u2019s become. I\u2019m so proud, particularly watching those episodes, so I guess that\u2019s my take on the last bunch of years. I never saw this coming.<\/p>\n

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David Martindale:\u00a0 Cool. Good for you. Good for you.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I just want to – let me just add to that, because Colin, we\u2019ve had this amazing cast, too. And I think Colin\u2019s gifts as both a dramatic actor and as a comedian, lends it for us to be able to write essentially anything.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, these are our cast members who can take a scene and have you in tears in one moment, and then have you laughing through your tears in the next, and that sort of magical chemistry is very rare I think, and you see a lot of shows struggle with it. And we\u2019ve been really unbelievably blessed with the group of people that we\u2019ve had to write for.<\/p>\n

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David Martindale:\u00a0 Cool. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Michael Hinman with Airlock Alpha. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Michael Hinman:\u00a0\u00a0 Good afternoon, everybody. How you doing?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty good. How\u2019re you doing?<\/p>\n

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Michael Hinman:\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty good.\u00a0 This question – I\u2019d like to hear both from Colin\u2019s perspective and Jamie\u2019s perspective as well. \u00a0Eureka, when Eureka came onto the landscape science fiction was more really space-driven, kind of the whole Battlestar Galactica style, science fiction that everybody\u2019s used to.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But Eureka\u2019s really changed the landscape in showing that, how great (unintelligible) can take place today,\u00a0 in funky little towns called Eureka and such. And I would just kind of get your perspective on how much Eureka has influenced not just SyFy the channel, but also the genre as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You want to go, Colin?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sure. I\u2019ll take a quick pass. The – I don\u2019t know if I can speak to how it\u2019s affected the genre as a whole because I don\u2019t have a ton of perspective on it. I know that when we came on we were told no space, no aliens. And this is also my first lead role that\u2019s gone for a long time, and Jamie\u2019s first TV thing that\u2019s gone for a long time.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So in a lot of senses, Jamie and I were sort of finding our way in our jobs, over the course of it, and we\u2019d get marching orders like that, like no space, no aliens, no comedy.\u00a0 and come to find a show that has some comedic beats and we send a ship into space in this the final season. So how it\u2019s affected the genre? Gosh. I know that Warehouse was supposed to be its sister show.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I know that I\u2019m proud of the fact that we succeeded and more proud of the fact that no one really knew what we were doing in a sense. You know we\u2019d meet up with Jamie and be like this is what we\u2019re doing now? Like, okay, this is what we\u2019ve got. Okay. And it\u2019s been a fun journey to go down. I\u2019m mumbling, Jamie. You can just slap me in the face and take over.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think you\u2019ve pretty much covered it. I think that the interesting thing was when we took this – the pitch in to SyFy and they bought it in the room, in the follow-up meeting, Mark Stern, who has, shepherded us from the very beginning said, we didn\u2019t really know what we were missing on our channel until we heard this concept, because they weren\u2019t doing really kind of grounded, earth-based sci-fi, especially with a sense of humor.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I mean I think that we were kind of inadvertently creating something that was sort of all the favorite things that we like in television that we like to watch and write, and kind of maybe putting them into a new blend of elements, and sort of a –\u00a0 the earthbound sci-fi space dramedy hadn\u2019t really been done.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I can\u2019t say that it was a plan to create that. I think that we kind of all of us collectively, that\u2019s – that ended up sort of being the outcome. And I am proud that it has, I think, opened up the possibilities for other shows and they\u2019ve had more success on the channel with Warehouse and Haven is now on, and Alphas coming into its second season.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And a lot of great talent from the Eureka team that\u2019s also going to be trying Alphas. So it\u2019s – I think that we\u2019ve got – we had a good run and I\u2019m proud of the show that we\u2019ve been able to do.<\/p>\n

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Michael Hinman:\u00a0\u00a0 Well thank you guys so much for all the wonderful years of Eureka, and we\u2019re really going to miss it. Thanks a lot, guys.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Tony Tellado with Sci-Fi Talk. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Tony Tellado:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi, gentlemen. I will say that I definitely think you have changed the science fiction television landscape. If anything embodies imagine greater, it\u2019s certainly Eureka, so you will be missed, definitely.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, thanks.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Tony Tellado:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As far as what to look forward to in this season, it\u2019s very bittersweet for me, but any special guest stars? You certainly have brought in some great people over the years.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ve got Felicia Day and Will Wheaton are back for, as a number of episodes. I\u2019m thrilled that we\u2019re able to bring back Wallace Shawn as Warren Hughes, and even more was excited that I got to direct him in the episode that I did. We\u2019ve got a couple of surprises that I don\u2019t want to spoil because they might be at the very end, but you will see Matt (unintelligible)…<\/p>\n

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Tony Tellado:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You mean like in the final episode?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You might see him in that final episode. There\u2019s always – there might be a surprise there, so yes. And then obviously (unintelligible), Debrah Farentino, but there might be another surprise there in the final episode as well.<\/p>\n

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Tony Tellado:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sounds good. Good tease, guys. Thanks so much for five wonderful seasons, and this one\u2019s going to be on my DVD shelf for a long time.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, thank you.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well that\u2019s good to hear.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Kyle Nolan with noreruns.net. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Nolan:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi, guys. Thanks for taking time to talk to us today. So once you found out that this was going to be the final season, did you need to make a lot of changes to your original plan for the season in order to make sure things got wrapped up properly?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, yes, that is a very (unintelligible). We had – there was, you know – I\u2019m sure that you all probably remember all the sort of publicity debacle about having gotten picked up for a sixth season, but it was only going to be six episodes. And that was one week, and then we were actually on the final day of prep for the season finale, which was a huge cliffhanger that was going to set up, excuse me, what season six was going to be.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And originally we had actually hoped, and everybody at the network, we were all on board with wanting this to be a full season order for season six, so it was already a little bit of a surprise that it was only going to be six for budget reasons. So we thought, well, okay, well we can truncate some of those storylines and get it down to six episodes. But then on – it was Monday I think at five o\u2019clock that we got the phone call that there was not going to be a sixth season and that was it.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But I told –\u00a0 Mark Stern called Bruce Miller and I personally to give us the news. And it\u2019s –\u00a0 of course it\u2019s impossible to course correct the script at this point. And this would be just this giant cliffhanger and there would be no resolution for the characters, much less the storylines. So\u00a0 is there any chance that we could have one more episode?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And he said that he would support that, that I would have to write an email to everybody, because obviously with the Comcast merger it was not going to be a single unilateral decision. So we ended up – I wrote a long email. It took 24 hours before we got the answer that we could have one more episode, so when we went in to tell the writers that following Wednesday, it was basically the good news is we have the last episode.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bad news is it cuts tomorrow. So normally what would be basically a two-month process of breaking the story, writing an outline, getting notes on an outline, writing the first draft, getting notes on that first draft, polishing it, what\u2019s a two-month process, we had (unintelligible). So I think it was really a testament to our creative team that we didn\u2019t, nobody – obviously it was disappointing, but nobody really even blamed – they just said, well, let\u2019s get to work.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And we broke the story in two days. I had different writers writing pieces of the outline, and I started writing the script as soon as we had the notion of what we were going to do. We finished it. Basically I wrote the episode in three days over the weekend, and we started prepping it. We only had a four-day prep instead of seven, that following Monday.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Nolan:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great, thanks.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Erin Willard with Sci-Fi Mafia. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Erin Willard:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi, gentlemen. Great talking with you again. I\u2019ve lost and loved your show since the season one premiere on, so thanks so much for all of your great work.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, thank you.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Erin Willard:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Is the final episode – to kind of do a follow-up to what you were just saying – is it going to be an absolute and definitive end to the season, to the series, or is there a possibility that there could be some kind of, I don\u2019t know, Christmas special or anything else in the future?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My death scene is one of the most moving death scenes you\u2019re ever going to see.<\/p>\n

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Erin Willard:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s sci-fi, so you can come back, right?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exactly. No, there\u2019s no death scene. Jamie, how about you take it?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I –\u00a0 there are no plans right now for that. I think that the realities of having taken down all of our sets would make that definitely challenging. There have been discussions about potentially doing a spin-off to the franchise, and I\u2019m open to that and the network is certainly open to that.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not pursuing it right at the moment, mostly because I think everybody probably wants to just feel some resolution with this series before we\u2019re off to the next one. So I certainly would not say that there\u2019s – that it\u2019s definitively over and that we couldn\u2019t do another either spin-off or actually shoot it as a movie, and we could do different – use different sets and then that would help with that aspect of it, but no hard plans at the moment.<\/p>\n

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Erin Willard:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, great, then we\u2019ll…<\/p>\n

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((Crosstalk))<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And it would be really hard, because we eviscerated Carter in that last episode, so it\u2019s…<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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((Crosstalk))<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, drawn and quartered by robot horses.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I still think, though, that we could do like a – like the team goes elsewhere. The team is called to Chicago, because there\u2019s a problem in Chicago.\u00a0 like that definitely get done as a movie. I\u2019d love to do that, like some sort of two-hour thing. That\u2019d be fun to do.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, and I – that\u2019s one of the other possibilities, if we – and we\u2019d certainly – there\u2019ve been lots of people who have talked about that. So I think that that would be…<\/p>\n

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((Crosstalk))<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What am I thinking? No, there\u2019s a horrible problem in the Bahamas. That\u2019s where the problem is.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the Bahamas. On Hawaii.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, yes. I could – all of Colin\u2019s favorite destination spots are going to somehow make it into the storyline.<\/p>\n

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Erin Willard:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well we\u2019ll definitely watch for that, so thanks very much, guys.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You bet.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with scifivision.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, Jamie.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ruby:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hello, guys. Hey. Thank you for taking the call.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I like you already. Hi.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ruby:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi. So I don\u2019t know how much you will talk about, but obviously the – you (unintelligible) imagine how the storyline is (unintelligible). Next week, and again, is there anything you can kind of tease about, whether it be like,\u00a0 the time difference or anything like that that you can talk about?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The time difference?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In terms of the story for season five?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ruby:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, yes.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So is the question are there going to be more discoveries because of the timeline shifts?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ruby:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, I mean, can you talk about how the current plans kind of changed – I don\u2019t know how much you could say. That\u2019s why I\u2019m trying to…<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, okay. Well, yes – well, we\u2019ve sent a – well, those first three went out, so we can definitely talk about the matrix and the solving and then the reintervection, and then I mean there are residue effects. I mean, that\u2019s the great thing about how these guys write, is that things don\u2019t just go away.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They always have residual effects and residual sort of ramifications that go through it, the specifics of which I think would be more spoilery, particularly with how the third one ended, so I don\u2019t really want to – I wouldn\u2019t – I don\u2019t feel comfortable addressing that, but just know that things don\u2019t end right there. They continue to resonate through the rest of the series.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ruby:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All right. (Unintelligible). All right, thanks a lot.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks, Jamie.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Pattye Grippo with Pazsaz Entertainment Network. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Pattye Grippo:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi, guys. Thanks for talking with us today.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, Pattye.<\/p>\n

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Pattye Grippo:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, Colin, let me ask you, how do you think your character has evolved from the very beginning of the show, and this season coming up, where do you see it going?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love what they\u2019ve done with the character evolution, and I mean, the funniest thing about looking back on the whole experience is, the writers are always down in LA, and we were up in Canada, and it\u2019s funny to sort of see a lot of commonality and with what Jamie was going through and what I was going through and trying – and with what Jamie was trying to do and what I was trying to do.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We were always given sort of marching orders, like this need to be more standalone type episodes. But Jamie in his way was always looking for, well, okay, but can we put more drama in? Can we put more jokes in? Always looking for different ways to add things in all the way up in production lab. I was doing the same, so with that sort of being the model of what happened, I\u2019m really proud with what we pulled off.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We came – he started as a guy who was a bad father, very closed off to people and very all about work, and by the end of it had really embraced not only his daughter and his family but a community of scientists and people, and really life, in a sense.\u00a0 as many times as maybe he\u2019s saved Eureka, I think ultimately Eureka saved him, and that might be the most poignant salvation of all of it for me.<\/p>\n

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Pattye Grippo:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good point. Well, thank you very much for your time today.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I couldn\u2019t top that. That was perfect.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s not bad, huh? Whew!<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not bad, man.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I got lucky.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And we have a follow-up question coming from the line of Jamie Ruby with scifivision.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ruby:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, yay. I get to go again. Okay, so what will the two of you miss the most, about, working on Eureka?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, so much. You want to go first?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, for me, it\u2019s honestly; it\u2019s the people that we got to work with. I mean, the creative process is great. I love writing. I love making the show, but we have I think a really unique group, and on the writing, producing staff, post-production department and our visual effects guys and our cast and crew, and we\u2019ve – we all are genuinely – we like each other.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We like to spend time together and we would frequently get the comments from other, writing staffs that they\u2019ve never seen a staff that actually voluntarily goes to lunch together instead of wanting to get the hell away from each other after being in the writer\u2019s room all day, or spend time with cast and crew on the weekends if you\u2019re –\u00a0 when you have down time.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The people that we have on the show have just been amazing people as well as creative talents, and that is something that I\u2019m definitely going to miss having every day. I\u2019m looking forward to building the next show so that I can try to build some semblance of that again.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And that\u2019s exactly right, I think. That comes from Jamie. That\u2019s –\u00a0 I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve got a bunch of guys that have met him at this point. Jamie\u2019s a phenomenal human being and he sets that tone in the room, and so that trickles down to set. That trickles down through the writer\u2019s room, and that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019ll do on his next show, is build that same structure again.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I know that room will be just as happy and just as good a place to live and work. For me, I\u2019m going to miss – gosh, probably the process as well. I mean, I\u2019m so proud that this is our swan song.\u00a0 if we could do this show, this final season, forever, that would be amazing. This is always the show that we struggled to make.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m so happy that we got to make it on our final season. I have a lot of fond memories and a lot of dear, dear friends that have come out of it, and it\u2019s nice to meet up with them socially now. You know what I mean? Like, Jamie, we\u2019re going to – where are we going? We\u2019re going to Phoenix, are we?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re going to Phoenix Comic Con coming up. Yes, it\u2019s over Memorial Day weekend, and then I think we\u2019re going to – I haven\u2019t heard yet. I\u2019m hoping all of you can throw in your urging that we would love to have a swan song at San Diego Comic Con this year to say goodbye. And then I know we\u2019re going to be going to Dragon Con as well. So yes, I\u2019m looking forward to that.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, so it\u2019s the people and it\u2019s the process and it\u2019s the luxury of being able to shoot how we shot with the level of talent, and being able to do scenes that have drama and comedy and you earn a level of autonomy after five years, and it\u2019s starting at square one is hard. And we\u2019re all in our various ways doing it as we speak.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ruby:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, well, we still hope to see more of it in some shape or form, so…<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, me too.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, me too.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Ruby:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks a lot, guys.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And thank you, Colin. You\u2019re far too kind.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s true though. I mean, it\u2019s really true. That whole thing stems from how you run a room and how you run a show, and that\u2019s I think something you should be really proud of, you know.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks. Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question is a follow-up from the line of Tony Tellado with Sci-Fi Talk. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Tony Tellado:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi, gentlemen. You certainly get my vote for Comic Con again in San Diego. I\u2019m actually making arrangements to go there now, and I\u2019d love to see you all there again. That\u2019d be a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019d be great. I\u2019d love it.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We would love to go, believe me.<\/p>\n

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Tony Tellado:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, as far as looking back on the series, we have to kind of exclude this year, because we haven\u2019t –\u00a0 you can\u2019t talk about certain things, but favorite\u00a0 plot lines or stories – certainly the time shift was my favorite, was one of my favorites on there. Anything for you gentlemen that stands out during the course of the run of the show?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colin?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I have my favorite eps. I know – this is probably my favorite plot line twist, the one that\u2019s coming up. The matrix was just an amazing – I pushed so hard in my own ineffective way to – I wanted this premiere to be attached to the season finale of last season because I loved the plot twist so much. That\u2019s probably my favorite plot twist. My favorite episodes are probably actually the one that Jamie directed. What\u2019s that one called, Jamie?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s Jack of All Trades.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jack of All Trades, I loved. Smarter Carter, I loved. Up in the Air, I loved, and Your Face or Mine, which was my directorial debut, which will always be a phenomenal place in my life, and also the first time Erica got a big plot line, and to be there for her was amazing, to be there for Alexandra, our script coordinator\u2019s, first episode was amazing. How funny! All of my favorite episodes are someone\u2019s directorial debut. It\u2019s…<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s the best. It\u2019s the best. You can\u2019t top it. How about you?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I – you actually named a number of my very favorite episodes, and it\u2019s true I think that, like Your Face or Mine, the reason for them I think in some ways, and it\u2019s funny, I was just given – they did a little featurette for our season five DVDs, and they were talking about the making of the episode that I directed, and Colin is giving me a hard time for having written a small character episode, and – but the truth is those are the stories that I love the most, and for Colin\u2019s directorial debut I wrote him a small character episode, Your Face or Mine, and I think that he and I both and all of us really just love what you can do when you have the time, where you\u2019re not necessarily having –\u00a0 the world is about to explode, that the stakes are smaller from the danger standpoint, but for the characters they\u2019re higher.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think from season one my very favorite episode still is Once in a Lifetime, the season one finale. I felt like that was the episode where we found the right balance of real, true emotional drama and humor. And that was kind of the benchmark going forward for us, and Founder\u2019s Day will always also be a favorite, just because we were getting to create a new world with a new time, and that had been an idea that I\u2019ve had since season one, wanting to go back to the origins of the town, and we were never able to afford it for various reasons,\u00a0 mostly because of the standing sets that you would have to build.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But we managed to pull it off, and I think that Matt Hastings, who directed it, and Robert Petrovicz, our producer who actually physically managed to make that – coordinating that production happen,\u00a0 along with my co-show runners Bruce Miller and Todd Sharpe who have been amazing partners these last couple of seasons,\u00a0 just creatively being able to get that stuff done. That was a – that was definitely a turning point for all of us.<\/p>\n

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Tony Tellado:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, and I\u2019d have to chime in that one of my favorites was last year\u2019s holiday special. I thought that was – hearkened back to my childhood…<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, that was –\u00a0 it\u2019s funny. We – I think there are a number of – certain kinds of episodes or concepts that I\u2019ve wanted to do for a really long time, and one of them was an animated episode, and also for the same kinds of reasons that we haven\u2019t gone back and done the Founder\u2019s Day episode, the cost is so extra prohibitive when you\u2019re not using the sets that you already built and paid for and all those things.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was so thrilled that we got to do an animated episode, and the (unintelligible) pictures, and we got our own director for the animation stuff, and Matt Hastings, again, who directed that episode, just did such an amazing job pulling it off. I think our cast had the most fun doing those voices.<\/p>\n

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Tony Tellado:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks. Great, guys. Yes, I\u2019m just looking forward to what you have next. It\u2019s always been a pleasure.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks so much.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Tim Holquinn with tvovermind.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Tim Holquinn:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi, guys. I got to see the first three episodes, and I was really impressed.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks, (Tim).<\/p>\n

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Tim Holquinn:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, the lost, especially, the first one. You\u2019ve mentioned before, Colin, about how it would have made a great season finale, and while that would have really been a creepy hiatus, because I was dreading that it was going to reset the status quo to be that, and I was actually (unintelligible).<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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Tim Holquinn:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But so, Kavan Smith and the production design of the (Venturi) brothers I thought really added to that premiere. Would you like to talk about either of their works helping to bring that episode to such a different level?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, I love to talk about Kavan. Can I hit Kavan first?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I was going to say, jump in, man. Yes, go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Like, we just so – like, Kavan\u2019s so good, it\u2019s amazing.\u00a0 and he wasn\u2019t the original Sheriff Andy, and that\u2019s a testament to,\u00a0 the strength of our team, where we had someone else – I think it was Ty Olsen who was doing it, and the fit wasn\u2019t quite right. It was just like he was busy; the days weren\u2019t working out. And then Kavan came in as his replacement and just knocked it out of the park.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, that character blossomed in a way because Kavan does stuff and then Jamie can write to that, and then it – whatever Jamie wrote Kavan could then take to the next level. I mean, there\u2019s – you – I absolutely adore working with Kavan, and the levels that he brought into the premiere are just really, really impressive. He really impressed – constantly impressed me.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, you see the level of his ability in that premiere. I mean, for me, when I fell absolutely in love with Kavan in the role, and that was a big challenge for him, because Ty had been I think a really great draft creating that character, and we couldn\u2019t work out the dates, so he was stepping into a role that (unintelligible) obviously there were certain expectations for what it was, and he also wanted to be able to try to make it his own, and we wanted to give him the latitude to do that.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After we did I think Lift-Off last season, and at the end of that episode, at the end he comes in and he\u2019s talking to (Unintelligible) I think after he\u2019s been\u00a0 sort of (unintelligible), and they have their reconciliation scene. And whenever you get a guy who\u2019s been (unintelligible) or in love with (unintelligible), and you believe that relationship so much that it actually brings you to tears, that\u2019s really – that\u2019s unbelievably talented (unintelligible).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And (unintelligible) dramatically I think in Lift-Off was just truly astonishing. It was a great –\u00a0 we\u2019ve put a whole lot on Kavan\u2019s shoulders to pull that episode off, and\u00a0 (unintelligible) that he just – and Colin said he knocked it out of the park.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And then the (Venturi) brothers, (Paulo) and (Vaik) are phenomenal. They had been and are key members of our art department and design team under Lance King, who had been doing our show up until season five, and then it was great because Lance decided to retire, and the Venturis got to take over. And we\u2019ve always tried to come up from (unintelligible) our show in all departments, when people earn it.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And there\u2019s another aspect to that that I want to sort of hit. It\u2019s when Fringe came on the scene we lost a bunch of our crew, and what happened with that is we lost (Dave Warner), who was always the gaffer under (Rick McGuire), who was our DP. When (Warner) left, (Warner) was actually – had worked with (Robert Petrovic) for a decade or plus at that point. So when (Warner) left, (Ricky) got to choose his own lighting department, his own crew for the first time, and that was season four.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So if you notice the kick-up in lights in season four was due to (Ricky) having sort of like his own new – his own toy store. And I think the lighting in season four and season five and like I was even commenting on it watching the first three episodes, just phenomenally well done, like all the blow-out lights…<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 …and how sharp it was and the colors, versus the real world. It was really – I mean, (Rick) – it\u2019s such an unbelievable bonus for the show. He can light anything so quickly.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, and (Mark) (unintelligible) for (Dave Warner) and did a phenomenal job too, and he was great to work with.<\/p>\n

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Tim Holquinn:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Obviously all you guys did an excellent job, and I just thought those two were deserving of some noteworthy mentions.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, they did good.<\/p>\n

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Tim Holquinn:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Kristyn Clark with popculturemadness.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Kristyn Clark:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi. Thank you so much for speaking with us today.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sure.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Kristyn Clark:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I\u2019m curious, what are some of your plans for the future? Are there any upcoming projects in the works for either one of you?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colin\u2019s going to go be a giant sitcom star now.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m…<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Go on and talk about your new show with Bill.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019ve known Bill Lawrence for a while. He did Scrubs and Spin City\"\"<\/a> and Cougar Town, and we just finished shooting a pilot last week called Like Father. I guess it\u2019s through Warner Brothers for Fox, and we\u2019ll find out in a month whether it\u2019s going to go or not, but I was – it was really fun sort of doing, you know – talk about easy. We had seven days to shoot 30 pages, (unintelligible).<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, my God. I\u2019m angry and getting angrier.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s so much time. But so that was really great and really fun, and Jamie, as – you\u2019re doing Boston Corporate, yes?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a project that we\u2019ve set up over at Universal that (Eric Watchford) is actually the creator of the show, a writer out of AFI, and a producing partner of (James Middleton) who was an executive producer who he was actually the guy who developed the last couple Terminator movies, and he developed Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So he and I have been partnering on that, and I\u2019ve got a number of other projects that are in development with some other producers and companies, and we\u2019ll sort of see I think which one goes first as far as – this part of the process is a little bit of a waiting game. So – and then I think it\u2019s interesting, this is actually the first time that I\u2019ve been free.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0This will be seven years of Eureka being on the air when you count the split seasons for three and four. And then it was two years of development prior to that, that it was pretty much taking over my life. So I might actually go and work on someone else\u2019s show for a while if I find a show that I really like that makes sense and is a good fit. It would be really fun I think to try to do something in maybe a different capacity, as well as create something new. So I\u2019m keeping a lot of options open.<\/p>\n

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Kristyn Clark:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s great to hear. Well, we\u2019re certainly going to miss Eureka, and I definitely look forward to seeing what you both have in store in the future.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Jim Garner with TV Fanatic. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Jim Garner:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good morning, gentlemen. How are you guys doing? I know this is a long process, but we really appreciate you sitting with us.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s good to get to talk to you guys.<\/p>\n

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Jim Garner:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colin, I have – my question\u2019s actually part question and part compliment. In Up in the Air – that\u2019s the one where the – if I\u2019m not mistaken, the bank is floating, the facial expression and squeal that you do as you\u2019re going through the window by far is one of the funniest pratfalls I have ever seen. We actually rewound it like three times to rewatch it.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where does that – where do you find inspiration for that type of – because you do some great facial expressions and squeals and screams and it\u2019s just such great timing, and it adds such a great flavor to the episodes where those – where you have those. Where do you kind of get that inspiration? Like, where does that come from? Do you practice?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, we always – I think it\u2019s – I mean, I\u2019m a bit of an idiot. We always try to push it as far as we can push it, and the funny ones are frequently the ones that go too far, where you just take, and then you\u2019ll hear from behind the monitor, \u201cNo.\u201d Tone it back a bit.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s really fun when one of them sneaks in like that where all of a sudden it\u2019s sort of appropriate and it can fit there, and I\u2019m so glad you enjoyed that. That makes me so happy. That\u2019s – we have a really goofy sense of humor. Where does it come from? I don\u2019t know. We enjoy having a good time. I\u2019m just really grateful that it plays and that it makes the cut, and that –\u00a0 it\u2019s recorded for posterity so it\u2019s – it certainly makes up for…<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I got to (unintelligible)…<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I got to pay Colin a compliment here too, which is I think that he is kind of a rare actor who, first of all as I said, can do both the drama and the comedy and the physical comedy. I mean, it\u2019s one thing to be really great with a one-liner and have that kind of timing with other actors, but to be able to be that funny in the physical comedy is another sort of extra gift, tool that he has in his voluminous box of acting tools.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s also I think a rare actor who is not afraid to look –\u00a0 not the most macho guy in a moment, and to be afraid and to show that and to go\u00a0 to the larger comedy moments and not be worried about,\u00a0 what does that – how does that speak about my character? And he\u2019s – he is fearless about doing anything in the scene that will maybe work, and he gives us a whole range of colors to choose from.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So we can go more broadly if we want to with the comedy, or not, and it\u2019s really fun when you\u2019re editing the show to be able to have all those options. So I\u2019m going to miss you, Colin.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes. We – well, what – but it did. It sort of spiraled up. I mean, it was one of these things where Jamie would write something, and it comes to set, and you\u2019re like, oh, we\u2019re going to do that? All right, well, let\u2019s see how far we can push that. And then Jamie can – he watches that and goes, oh, you pushed it, there? All right, well then I can see if I can write this.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And see we –\u00a0 it\u2019s sort of –\u00a0 I\u2019m going to do that, but then I\u2019m going to make it dramatic, and then we\u2019re going to – and it was a really fun exchange over the years to sort of see how far we could push the different boundaries of things, and\u00a0 obviously,\u00a0 make us laugh along the way.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I think that process is, especially when I was lucky enough to be able to be up there for a lot of the shows that I had,\u00a0 written and be able to work with our cast and directors, but to be able to kind of work through those – some turns of the scene,\u00a0 just talking them through with Colin and our other cast members, was like, okay, so then I need to find – okay, if I can have this there, I can make that turn.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And then Colin is like, you know what? I\u2019ll figure that out. I got that. I can – I know what I have to do. And then but that\u2019s part of the creative process that you – that is –\u00a0 it\u2019s a surprising operation.<\/p>\n

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Jim Garner:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well thank you so much, and I\u2019m – Colin, I\u2019m really looking forward to see what you do in Like Father, being it\u2019s a sitcom. I was – I had a little internal cheer for you when I read that you were planning on to do it. I\u2019m really hoping we get to see it.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, thanks, Jim.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, man, I can\u2019t wait to see it. It\u2019s going to be great. I think even Colin is fixing to knock this out.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m nervous. I mean, it\u2019s – you know me. I\u2019m the king of pessimists, so I\u2019m like, I haven\u2019t seen it yet, so I\u2019m like, oh, I probably screwed it up. I know some bits of it worked, but I was like,\u00a0 I\u2019m always the last one to make it work. So well, thanks, guys. I\u2019ll let you know if it works.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s going to be great.<\/p>\n

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Jim Garner:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Sammi Turano with TV Grapevine. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Sammi Toronto:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi. It\u2019s good to talk to you again. How are you?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, Sammi.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, pretty good.<\/p>\n

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Sammi Toronto:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good, I\u2019m glad to hear it. My question for you is 20 years from now how do you want people to remember Eureka.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colin?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By this last season. By this last season. I want them – yes, I want them to remember by season five. I want them to remember it by the end of our journey, where we got to, the growth that we all went through, how our stories got tighter, our acting got better, our lighting improved. I want – it\u2019s been a great journey, but I\u2019m so proud of the end of the road that I\u2019d love them to look back on that and remember us for that.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I think – I hope that people remember the town and miss the town still and wish that they could be a part of it. I think that\u2019s – that for me, the part of the show that always resonated the most was this sort of Northern Exposure aspect to it. I grew up in a very small town in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And there was the dynamics of those people and the kind of characters that you meet that – that\u2019s what I love to write, and that\u2019s kind of what I love to watch, too. And I watch a lot of things, but that\u2019s one of the things, and so when I – when people started talking about how they want to move to Eureka, even though you\u2019re just dying on a weekly basis, that\u2019s a good thing to have created. So I hope that it\u2019s sort of remembered fondly that way.<\/p>\n

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Sammi Toronto:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wonderful. Thank you so much and good luck and congratulations.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks, Sammi.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Sheldon Weibe with eclipsemagazine.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Sheldon Weibe:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, guys. Good to talk to you again. First, I just have to say, Colin, I hope the Canucks close it out this year.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m actually an (unintelligible) fan myself. I\u2019m from Montreal originally. But I\u2019ll – I think my call for the hockey this year – not your question, but you\u2019re going to get an answer – my call for the hockey this year would be – I\u2019m going to go with the Rangers. I\u2019m going to – not what I thought I was going to say, but they – I thought I was going to say Pittsburgh, but…<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Go Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

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Sheldon Weibe:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bold choice. Now the first three episodes of season five are really dark for Eureka, although there\u2019s still those unique comedic moments that can only happen on that show. What I\u2019m wondering is when was the decision made to go that dark, and I remember earlier in the conversation you were saying that there was a lot of comedy ahead, so I\u2019m hoping that the comedy comes from the repercussions.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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Sheldon Weibe:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So could you talk about that, please?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can\u2019t say that we made a decision to go dark, but it felt like the show has always sort of been this evolving thing, and the idea of this mission was all orchestrated and it – by Senator Wynde and Beverly Barlowe was behind this, and the idea was to kidnap this crew, the greatest minds in Eureka, and basically put them to work for us without them ever knowing it. I just thought it was a really interesting concept, but when you – when we started to break down what does that actually look like for the people that have been kidnapped, and trying to justify what the world should look like inside the matrix to make sure that they don\u2019t get (unintelligible) to it, it had to be kind of shocking.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It had to have them back on their heels so that they don\u2019t notice the inconsistencies. And so that really allowed for some interesting dramatic moments. And so the idea of you\u2019ve missed out on your daughter\u2019s childhood, and oh, by the way,\u00a0 Carter is now with Joe. If you believe those things, then that\u2019s going to resonate with you for a while.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s like if you have a bad dream about your spouse having an affair, and you wake up, and even though they didn\u2019t do it, you\u2019re kind of pissed at them. So you still carry that with you for a little while. It\u2019s that kind of thing taken to the nth degree.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So we wanted those first three to be a trilogy of sorts, where we\u2019re resolving the kidnappings and that the experience is impactful enough that it will definitely resonate for those characters and their relationships with each other for the rest of the season, because that was a really rich place to start drawing new storylines from, and but the – what we just draw from them is often very, very funny. I agree.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think that we think we\u2019ve actually done a couple of our very – of the funniest episodes that we\u2019ve ever done. The one that Colin was talking about, the one that I directed, I think for a number of reasons, one because of the sci-fi trope that we\u2019re using lends itself to it, and to the strengths of our actors as well. But you don\u2019t have to worry about being stuck in the dark through the place, for the entire season. Trust me, you have a lot to laugh at.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s why I was so proud of it, was because the – \u00a0the first three are as dark as we\u2019ve ever gone, but then there are definitely two, maybe a third one that are as funny as we\u2019ve ever gone, so we\u2019ve really like the – made it darker and then funnier and like the extremes are better. Like, it\u2019s a really, really fun ride this year. And there\u2019s some really funny episodes.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I think that one of the great things that the concept of our show has afforded us is exactly that. I mean, we have the ability to kind of do anything, and I\u2019m sad that we won\u2019t get to continue to do that. I think we have a lot more great concepts that we were – that were already mapped out for season six, and I wish that we had gotten to do, but I think that the upside of this is that we are kind of going out, I think, Colin and I both feel, on a high note.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think it\u2019s our best season yet. Our audience has grown every year for the last six years, and this will be our seventh year now. I hope that they find this on the new night and time, and they make this continually one of the highest rated shows that the network has ever had.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Which is on Monday the 16th, at 9:00, just so everyone knows it.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s USA Canada. Yes, US and Canada for the first time airing together, I believe, April 16th at 9:00, every Monday.<\/p>\n

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Sheldon Weibe:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And we heard it here first. I just want to say I hope the season continues to go as well as the first three, because they are absolutely amazing, and I hope that there are commentary tracks for all of the episodes this season on the DVD. Thank you so much for your time and your energy and your creativity.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Brian O\u2019Neil with Scifi Storm. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Brian O\u2019Neil:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi, guys. I\u2019m trying to think of what to ask that hasn\u2019t already been asked at this point. Not to spoil anything for those – I know there\u2019s probably some people on the call who haven\u2019t seen the first three episodes, but I just wanted to say I have an 11 and a 7-year-old daughters and they absolutely adore the show and they actually watched the episodes with me.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And I know Jamie knows about this particular part, and I\u2019m sure Colin does too, but there\u2019s this thing that happens in episode two that they\u2019re still muttering about, and so they\u2019re going, I hope they fix it, I hope they fix it.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But I don\u2019t want – I know you can\u2019t spoil anything, but just thinking, I know you guys have been getting together to work on already the DVD commentaries for season five. And like, Colin, you had some excitement with that apparently last night.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, yes, that was crazy. I was – I tracked down (Neil Grayson) and was doing I think episode – whatever, two, and yes, some guy who started hanging out of his window in his underwear, like ten stories up. So yes, I mean, I\u2019ll make it quick, but there was a show. (Neil) and I were yelling to him as his roommate ran – I don\u2019t even know if they were connected to the building really well – down and up and got over to his room, and ended up pulling him back in.<\/p>\n

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Brian O\u2019Neil:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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Brian O\u2019Neil:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As far as the question goes, you doing the DVD commentaries, so you\u2019re at least getting back together for that. Is that kind of the last thing you have to do kind of as a group other than kind of the promotional things like this and the conventions and so forth? Is there anything else that\u2019s kind of planned for you guys to get together and do?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I hope that we do get together to watch some of them. That would be great. But for me, you summed it up. That\u2019s the end of the road for me. How about you, Jamie?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes that is for me as well. I just gave like the final notes on some of the DVD extras that have been in post-production, so I\u2019m almost done with that. I delivered the series finale a couple weeks ago to the network, so I think that really it\u2019s going to be about – we\u2019ve got the summer press day coming up, where I get to see Colin and (Salli) together there.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And we\u2019ll go do that together, and then it\u2019ll be probably I think the various conventions. One way or another, I\u2019m going to – I will have a series finale party for everybody to view and we\u2019ll probably have a screening room for that, so…<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 …I\u2019ll – once – when we get closer to that date, we\u2019ll do that because I feel like we need to have a sort of a reunion for that last episode.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019d be great. I\u2019d really like that.<\/p>\n

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Brian O\u2019Neil:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, again, to reiterate what others have said, thank you guys for such an awesome show for the past five seasons, seven years, one of those shows that my entire family just looks forward to every single week, and it\u2019s been a great show. Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Diane Morasco with Morasco Media. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Diane Morasco:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hi, gentlemen. First of all I want to say thank you so much for everything. It\u2019s bittersweet, so I want to put that out there, but I want to ask you from playing the final season, what have you learned about yourselves from it, and if so, are you going to take it forward, or is it something that\u2019s just for Eureka that you want to keep inside?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, wow. I think professionally for me it\u2019s a funny thing to –\u00a0 we went into this tunnel six or seven years ago, and you come out the other side,\u00a0 being aware of changes that you made as a person and a priority shift that you\u2019ve made and choices that you\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s another thing sort of professionally to exit and sort of be on the market again for the first time, and to realize in a really flattering way that people have been watching, and that professionally speaking it has counted for something. As I went into auditions and what not, and people would be what appeared to be genuinely excited, and that felt really great, to walk into a room, like, oh, great! Oh we\u2019re so excited that you\u2019re available this year, and that was – that meant a lot to me.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So that\u2019s definitely something I can put in my pocket as a win for our show, that people respected it. They have that certainty, I guess, but it was nice. It was really warming to realize. Anything for you, Jamie?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0Yes, I think similarly that it is great to have people now actually wanting me to come to work on things, which I wasn\u2019t available to do before, and there are – you\u2019re like, oh, wow, thanks! That\u2019s great that you actually want to work with me, because that was – obviously when we started out, I was –\u00a0 brand new to this.<\/p>\n

\u00a0And I think that the main thing that I\u2019m going to be taking away is the fact that I learned so much by all of the amazing creative people that I have had on the writing staff and producing staff and in our cast and crew, how to run a show. And that\u2019s –\u00a0 that\u2019s a hard skill. It\u2019s something that you can\u2019t really study for it.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You kind of have to figure it out along the way, and I know that I certainly was not great at it when we first started out, and made a lot of mistakes and I\u2019m sure a lot of people had to put up with that for a while as –\u00a0 because I was green.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0But this has been the most amazing training ground that I can imagine, given that it\u2019s a one-hour show with a limited budget and a tight time schedule, and it has drama and comedy and giant physical effects and huge visual computer-generated effects, and you try to sort of meld all that stuff together, so I kind of feel like I\u2019m ready to do anything.<\/p>\n

\u00a0And that\u2019s definitely a different feeling than I had when we started this out and I said, what? I can make a TV show now? Okay. So I\u2019m grateful for the experience and for all the people who helped – who put up with the growing pains and helped me figure out how to do it better along the way.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I feel similarly. I feel like I\u2019m ready to do anything at this point because of the training ground that it was. It was so hard to shoot, and so hard to create. The – just because of the budget that we had, and we\u2019re always so ambitious with everything that we did, and I look at Jamie now, and now he\u2019s a director, and he\u2019s a producer and a writer, and he\u2019s – it\u2019s one thing to be around when someone else is directing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s another thing to actually do it yourself, to sort of go – and once you\u2019ve done it, nobody can ever take that away from you. So all those life experiences really incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to have.<\/p>\n

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Diane Morasco:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My other question is, if we go back seven years and five seasons, knowing what you know now, what advice would you give yourselves if you had to kind of flashback.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All right, get ready. I can\u2019t wait to hear. Yes. Yes, go.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would. I\u2019d probably just laugh and pat myself on the back and say, good luck, buddy.<\/p>\n

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Diane Morasco:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jamie?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think probably it\u2019s just about not – about being more open to the possibilities that things can look a different way, because in some ways,\u00a0 I do think of myself as being very collaborative in terms of making this show.\u00a0 you have to be, despite the nature of the medium.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so many moving parts, and you\u2019ve got so many people with expertise in their areas. If you don\u2019t rely on those people to do their jobs, it makes it impossible to do yours. And I know that I – I\u2019m sure I drove our director, Peter O\u2019Fallon, of the pilot, absolutely crazy on those first days shooting because, well, wait a second, that\u2019s not how I envisioned this particular line being said, and wait, they dropped a word there.<\/p>\n

\u00a0And you realize that this is a sort of fluid beast, and how to roll with it in a way that it gets better as opposed to – well, it\u2019s not how I had it in my head. So I think just sort of being open, and – yes, I think that\u2019s probably the biggest thing.<\/p>\n

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Diane Morasco:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019d go with that too, and patience. I learned a lot from Grant Rosenberg, who was one of our supervising producers and Matt Hastings, their political acumen and how they accomplish things, that was a great learning ground for me, working with those guys, and I\u2019d say the same thing, just patience and other points of view and sort of how to get things done. I really learned how to get things done, which was I\u2019m sure everyone was very glad when I did.<\/p>\n

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Diane Merasco:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My last question is twofold. You did drama. You did the comedy. You did a lot of physicality. What did you prefer most, the drama or the comedy? And what did you guys do to prepare yourselves for the physical aspects of the characters?<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, I – one doesn\u2019t work without the other in my head. I don\u2019t – I think if you\u2019re – you need the best of drama to get the best of comedy, and if you can get the best of both, then it\u2019s a win. So there – it\u2019s a symbiotic relationship in my head between those things. And what we did to prepare physically was rested, healed, went to the gym, made sure that we were really physically fit and stretched, and seriously, because those stunts are miles up right now, shooting Primeval, as the lead of the show. And I talk to him every couple weekends, and he\u2019s like, oh, buddy, my body\u2019s tired.\u00a0 You got to rest it.\u00a0 go to – make sure you…<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, and Colin\u2019s like, yes, tell me about it.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are you on, episode four? That must be tough.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s – that\u2019s what we would do. I mean, Jamie would go through a similar thing. I mean, (unintelligible), he\u2019d come out and laugh about it at work and be like, oh my God, I\u2019ve been sitting in a chair writing for way too long, I can\u2019t wait to get some exercise.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, that part – it\u2019s like, it\u2019s – writing – being able to write for a show is definitely a luxury. It\u2019s a great job. We all love it. We get to spend a lot of time together thinking up things, and then we get to put it on television for you guys and our fans to watch, and that\u2019s the most fun ever.<\/p>\n

\u00a0But you do have to make sure that you actually get out of that room and see the sunshine and exercise once in a while, because it\u2019s very easy to just totally just fall apart when you spend as many hours as we do,\u00a0 to write a show. It\u2019s – that\u2019s a balance that everybody has to try to manage.<\/p>\n

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Diane Merasco:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you guys so much and really, phenomenal brilliance with the show. Like I said, it\u2019s very bittersweet. I wish you the best.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks very much.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, thank you.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next question comes from the line of Robin Brooks with Fangirl Confessions. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Robin Brooks:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, guys. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this Q&A with us. I have one question, but I\u2019ll keep it short and sweet. One of my favorite guest stars that\u2019s been on the show is (Unintelligible). Is he going to be making a return as Dr. Grant?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think you should make sure that you see every episode.<\/p>\n

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Robin Brooks:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, Robin, (James) was great to work with. He\u2019s –\u00a0 one of the many unbelievably lovely people that we have been fortunate to have on our show and our guest cast, just a great human being as well as obviously a phenomenally talented actor. So I – we always had hope that we would – we were going to have a lot more of Trevor Grant in season six, so I think that you might keep your eyes open for him, maybe potentially showing up somewhere along the way in season five.<\/p>\n

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Robin Brooks:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Definitely. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Operator:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And we do have time for one further question coming from the line of Mike Hughes with TV America. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, Jamie, I was kind of interested in your comment about growing up in a small town, and – because really the town does – Eureka has that feeling of a place you\u2019d like to live. First of all, what (unintelligible) and I\u2019ve forgotten this. What\u2019s the Canadian town…?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike, say again. You drowned out there for a second.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, so first of all, what\u2019s the town that you grew up in, in Oregon?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s Warrenton, W-A-R-R-E-N-T-O-N.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay. And I was wondering, does look or feel of anything at all like the mythical Eureka town here? And I was also wondering what is the town up in Canada that you dress up to look like Eureka?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would – the town is Chillowac, and those – the people have been – they\u2019re just great to us. They welcomed us, and we got to know all – a lot of the shop owners along the way whenever we would go up and shoot, because they would keep their doors open, and we would just sort of redress the store fronts to be our town. And we\u2019ve had a great time shooting there.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In terms of does Eureka look like Warrenton, I would say that in terms of the green that we tried to bring to the show and the trees, yes. Main Street is probably a little more spruced up than my Main Street was. I was very excited that my Main Street actually got its first traffic light not too long ago. Until then we had a stop sign, recently.<\/p>\n

But I think that the general sort of energy is just something that we\u2019ve tried to find in the show, even though it might feel a little more sparkly and \u00a0Technicolor.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, thanks, and was that Warrenton that just got the first stoplight, or Eureka?<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, Warrenton. Yes, Warrenton…<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, yes. Cool. Okay.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 …got their first stoplight not too long ago.<\/p>\n

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((Crosstalk))<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would that be North Main and First? I\u2019m looking at a satellite view of Warrenton right now.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, do you have it right there? Yes, I think you have it. I think that\u2019s it right there.<\/p>\n

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Mike Hughes:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, thanks a lot.<\/p>\n

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Colin Ferguson:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks, everybody.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Paglia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks so much, everybody.<\/p>\n

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Don’t forget to tune in tonight at 9pm only on Syfy!<\/p>\n