NOBODY FROM THE CRIMINAL MINDS STUDIO ALLOWED!

Criminal Minds: After much thought, research and moderator input, I think we've found the perfect birthday present for Ed Bernero. Read the comment inside and then email me at displacednewyorker@gmail.com with your comments, thoughts, etc.

CRIMINAL MINDS: DON'T TAKE CBS OFF YOUR SPEED DIAL!!

Criminal Minds: According to Variety Online, SAG has rejected the AMPTP's final contract offer (we'll see how final it really is!)and now the AMPTP and SAG are at a impasse. "The lack of resolution of SAG's contract has slowed down but not completely stopped major feature production. TV production has been largely unaffected." Those of you that had Les Moonves' phone number programed into your phones during the WGA strike might want to keep it there until this situation is resolved. Hopefully there won't be a strike. When the WGA strike ended Les was given a very generous pay and incentive bonus. The amount is so disgustingly high that I'm not even going to post it. To quote Nikki Finke, "It would make you vomit in your mouth a little bit".

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989579.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

CRIMINAL MINDS: A NOTE FROM A.J. COOK.

Criminal Minds: AJ Cook (JJ on Criminal Minds) sent us a thank you note and this wonderful picture of her with her flowers. Pregnancy becomes her! She looks even more beautiful that normal. Congrats and Happy Birthday to our special leading lady:

Thank you so much for all the birthday and baby well wishes. It means so much to me. The flowers were an unexpected surprise and they were gorgeous!!! You guys are the best. I'm sending a picture of the beautiful flowers and my big ol' belly. Can you believe the size? I feel like I'm about to pop. Luckily it's the home stretch. My husband and I are really excited to meet our little CM baby. Thanks again for all of your support.

It means the world to me!

Lots of love,
AJ.

CRIMINAL MINDS: MS BIKE RIDE

Criminal Minds: Shemar Moore (Derek Morgan on Criminal Minds), Paget Brewster (Emily Prentiss on Criminal Minds) and Joe Mantegna (David Rossi on Criminal Minds) and the Bike MS: Southern California Ride September 20 & 21, 2008 Camarillo to Santa Barbara.

To learn more about the ways you can help people afflicted with MS please go to this website: http://bikecal.nationalmssociety.org/site/PageServer?pagename=BIKE_CAL_homepage

CRIMINAL MINDS BIRTHDAY CARD FOR A.J. COOK

Criminal Minds: A.J. Cook (JJ on Criminal Minds) will be celebrating her birthday tomorrow. Please join us in wishing her a very Happy Birthday. :)

Mark Mancina Takes Two For ‘Criminal Minds’

Criminal Minds: BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross stopped by the studio to present composer Mark Mancina with back-to-back BMI Film & Television awards for scoring television’s Criminal Minds. This marks the second year in a row Mancina has been awarded for the hit program.

Mancina, who is best known for scoring such feature films as August Rush, Con Air, Twister, Disney’s Tarzan, Brother Bear and The Haunted Mansion, is currently working on Nowhereland, set for a December 2008 release.

http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/536977

CRIMINAL MINDS SCREENCAPS FOR "HONOR AMONG THIEVES"

Criminal Minds screencaps for "Honor Among Thieves" are courtesy of slashgirl. Criminal Minds starring: Shemar Moore, Thomas Gibson, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Paget Brewster, Mandy Patinkin and Kirsten Vangsness. Criminal Minds "Honor Among Thieves" written by Aaron Zelman. :)

CRIMINAL MINDS "HONOR AMONG THIEVES" QUOTES:

Criminal Minds "Honor Among Thieves" quotes:
Opening quote: Russian proverb: "There can be no good without evil." .

Closing quote: Leo Tolstoy: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". - opening line from Anna Karenina

CRIMINAL MINDS: KIRSTEN VANGSNESS ATTENDED THE 2008 OUTFEST FILM FESTIVAL.

Criminal Minds: Kirsten Vangsness (Penelope Garcia on Criminal Minds) attended the 2008 Outfest Film Festival Hosts The 14th Annual Film Competition Awards

"The awards were led by Were the World Mine, which won Outstanding US Dramatic Feature. The film focuses on an all-boys school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (and for those Twin Peaks fans out there, the crazy Nadine, Wendy Robie, pops up). On the international side of things is the excellent XXY, which I reviewed from TIFF last year. It is no surprise that this film nabbed the Best International Dramatic Feature prize, to add to its ever-growing list of nominations and wins. It's really, really worth your time."

http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/LIFESTYLES0102/807220325/-1/lifestylesfront

CRIMINAL MINDS: "HONOR AMONG THIEVES"

Criminal Minds: "Honor Among Thieves" written by Aaron Zelman airs tonight! Agent Prentiss' mother, a foreign ambassador, enlists the help of the BAU team when a Russian immigrant is kidnapped and held for ransom. Guest starring Kate Jackson, Gina Garcia Sharp and starring Kirsten Vangsness, Mandy Patinkin, A.J. Cook, Matthew Gray Gubler, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore and Thomas Gibson. Our Kris is in this episode. Info from cbs.com

CRIMINAL MINDS: MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER & OUTI IN FINLAND!

Criminal Minds: Matthew Gray Gubler, Dr. Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds, may not have shown up personally in Finland to visit with Outi but she is very happy to own his autographed picture! :)

CRIMINAL MINDS: MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER ATTENDED THE AGENT PROVOCATEUR FASHION SHOW IN JUNE

Criminal Minds: Matthew Gray Gubler (Dr. Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds) at the Provocateur Fashion show in Berlin in June. I think Dr. Spencer Reid would faint or have a heart attack if two women dressed like this approached him!

"Model and actor Matthew Gray Gubler attended the Agent Provocateur Fashion Show at Galeries Lafayette department store in Berlin, Germany Friday night.

Gubler, best known for his role as as Dr. Spencer Reid on the CBS television show “Criminal Minds,” was surrounded by beautiful models in skimpy lingerie as they strutted the season’s latest luxurious fashions."

http://bittenandbound.com/2008/06/22/agent-provocateur-lingerie-fashion-show-photos/

CRIMINAL MINDS: MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER & SHEMAR MOORE AT THE CBS PRESS PARTY

Criminal Minds stars Matthew Gray Gubler (Dr. Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds) and Shemar Moore (Derek Morgan on Criminal Minds) at the CW, CBS, and Showtime Press Party.

CRIMINAL MINDS RATINGS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 20, 2008

Criminal Minds continues to do well in the Nielsen ratings. Criminal Minds was number four for the week ending July 20. 2008.

1. "Major League Baseball All-Star Game," Fox, 14.54 million viewers.
2. "America's Got Talent," NBC, 12.79 million viewers.
3. "All-Star Pre-game Show," Fox, 10.37 million viewers.
4. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 9.26 million viewers.
5. "So You Think Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 9.01 million viewers.
6. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 8.92 million viewers.
7. "Wipeout," ABC, 8.65 million viewers.
8. "CSI: NY," CBS, 8.6 million viewers.
9. "So You Think Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 8.4 million viewers.
10. "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 8.39 million viewers.

CRIMINAL MINDS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES PROMO

Criminal Minds "Honor Among Thieves" written by Aaron Zelman. Criminal Minds starring Shemar Moore, Kirsten Vangsness, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Paget Brewster, Thomas Gibson and Mandy Patinkin. Golden Globe and Emmy Award Nominated Actress Kate Jackson ("Charlie's Angels") Guest Stars as Agent Prentiss' Mother, Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss.

"Honor Among Thieves" - While searching for a kidnapped man, whose captors are sending the victim's body parts to the family demand of the ransom, the BAU team uncovers ties to the Russian mob who live by a strict code of conduct, on a rebroadcast of CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, July 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT).(Originally broadcast 4/11/07)

CRIMINAL MINDS WEEKEND UPDATE:

Criminal Minds: The Criminal Minds Conversation Yahoo group and the Criminal Minds Fanatic message board have scheduled a CM chat for Sunday, July 20th at 3pm est. The password is still enya.

Kim's Aid Marathon: We have a winner in our first and second donation contests. As we said in the original posts, the first winner will be announced on Deb Fisher's birthday and the second on Andrew Wilder's birthday. We have met Kim's original pledge which is totally awesome. Thank you everyone BUT we still remain behind a runner from another CBS show in total donations and we have until September to have our runner Kim represent Criminal Minds as #1 in total donations. We have definately closed the margin this week but they are now actively competing with us so we have to keep it up and get into first place and STAY there. Thanks to the generousity of Ed Bernero, the writers and fans who have donated auction items, I know we can do this! It is for such a worthy cause and Criminal Minds deserves bragging rights. We're the best and we all know it!

There are four active auctions on this blog right now to raise donations for the Aids Marathon and I will be adding more over the weekend!

The Actors Fund auctions are off to an amazing start. A dozen or more new items will be added to that site every week so please check it often. I am thrilled to say that Ed, the writers and even some of our guest stars have sent items and you would not believe the amount of items pouring in from other showrunners, actors, writers, musicians and crews from other shows. The donation committee has done an amazing job and while it is strange for me to be working on this project with non-CM people I am happy to report that there has been nothing but harmony and incredible mutual respect by all involved.

Counting the days until Season Four and hope you are too. It is not too early to start finding more converts so be on the lookout for non watching potential fans!

Have a great weekend everyone! CM is on A&E tonight. Don't forget to watch.

CRIMINAL MINDS: WIL WHEATON FEELS THE CM LOVE:

Criminal Minds: I love it when guest stars blog about their experiences working on Criminal Minds. I especially like it when they appreciate the incredible job the Criminal Minds writers, cast and crew do to give us a quality show. Wil is a fellow blogger. Here are some excerpts from his blog and the web address so you can read more:

Here is what he had to say about our "Gruesome Twosome" (you have to appreciate anyone who appreciates our Deb and Erica)

"The script's been rewritten a few times since I first read it, and I've been able to read each draft in its entirety, which has been really interesting to me as a writer, as I track the changes and try to figure out what network and studio notes they were intended to address. It's got to be so difficult for these writers to take a certain scene or character in one direction, write really great dialog and stuff to get them there, and then be told that they have to throw it all away and take things in a different direction. And do that three times in five days. I honestly don't know how they do it."

Here is a portion of his latest entry. The man sounds like an utter sweetie. Great job by April Webster and Scott David in casting him. Ed, can we keep him?

We've been shooting nights this week on Criminal Minds, and I've worked every single day, which doesn't leave any time to write, or do much of anything else. I got home at 4 this morning, didn't fall asleep until 5, and then had to explain to my dogs that, no, just because I was in bed and the sun was coming up, I'm not interested in getting up to do stuff with them.

So I only got to sleep for seven disturbed hours, and I feel like I'm on the road to Bat Country right now. Luckily for me, I don't go to set until 5:30 tonight, and I don't have any dialog today.

Despite the havoc the last few days have unleashed on my body (which is very confused by the hours I'm forcing it to keep, and [spoiler]) I have loved every second of the experience.

I'm keeping a production diary, which I can't release until my episode airs in October, but I can safely say that working on this show, with this cast and crew, creating this character, has reawakened my slumbering love of acting. I'll have more to say about that when I can really analyze how I feel about it and why. (short short version: I miss the camaraderie of being in a cast, and I'd forgotten how good it feels to discover interesting moments with the director, writers, and other actors. I work best while collaborating, it seems.)

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/07/strange-as-it-s.html

CRIMINAL MINDS: MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER & GALAXIE MAGAZINE!

Criminal Minds: Matthew Gray Gubler was on the cover of Galaxie Magazine this month. It is not too late to buy a copy!

"You wouldn’t necessarily notice from the roles they play (because they embody geek so well) but Galaxie has uncovered, and identified, four heartthrobs who have downplayed their looks beneath thick-rimmed glasses and pocket protectors for the sake of their art.

Lee Pace (Pushing Daises), Matthew Gray Gubler (Criminal Minds), Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty) and Zachary Levi (Chuck) are featured on the cover of Galaxie’s July 1 issue as they normally appear on TV but inside, Galaxie reveals the hunky truth behind these stars."

http://zachary-levi.com/tag/galaxie-magazine/

CRIMINAL MINDS: A&E AIRS "NATURAL BORN KILLER" FRIDAY & SATURDAY.

Criminal Minds: A&E is airing "Natural Born Killer” written by Debra J. Fisher and Erica Messser and directed by Peter Ellis on the following days:

Friday, July 18 @ 11pm/10C
Saturday, July 19 @ 3am/2C

"When an undercover cop involved in a mob investigation goes missing, the BAU believes a serial killer rather than the mob has something to do with his disappearance. The probe leads to several unsolved missing persons cases."

Criminal Minds starring Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Lola Glaudini and Mandy Patinkin. This is A&E's first airing of an episode written by the "Gruesome Twosome". Newbie watchers are in for a real treat. Great episode!

CRIMINAL MINDS: JASON ALEXANDER IS PAYING US A VISIT.

"Jason Alexander has booked a killer (ha!) guest stint on CBS’ Criminal Minds. “It’s a really crazy role,” says executive producer Ed Bernero. “He's going to come in and turn himself in, but we have no idea who his victims are. So we have to reverse profile.” The episode’s slated to kick off November sweeps." -Michael Ausiello for EW

CRIMINAL MINDS GETS EMMY NOMINATION

Criminal Minds received an Emmy nomination. We all know it should also have received nods for Best Drama, etc. but here it is:

Outstanding Stunt Coordination

Chuck • Chuck Versus The Undercover Lover • NBC • From College Hill Pictures, Wonderland Sound and Vision in association with Warner Bros. Television, Merritt Yohnka, Stunt Coordinator

Criminal Minds • Tabula Rasa • CBS • ABC Studios and CBS Paramount Network Television, Tom Elliott, Stunt Coordinator

CSI: NY • Playing With Matches • CBS • CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Norman Howell, Stunt Coordinator

NCIS • Requiem • CBS • A Belisarius production in association with CBS Paramount Network Television Diamond Farnsworth, Stunt Coordinator

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles • Gnothi Seauton • FOX • C2 Pictures in association with Warner Bros. Television, Joel Kramer, Stunt Coordinator

CRIMINAL MINDS CONVENTION UPDATE:

Criminal Minds: I wanted to take a moment and update everyone on the status of the first Criminal Minds convention tentatively scheduled for the end of June or first week in July. Because Criminal Minds fans live all over the globe it has been impossible to find a month that will please everyone based on the overwhelming emails of interest we have received. A very small committee, representing various Criminal Minds groups, is traveling to LA the last week in Feb. to book a hotel and to plan an itinerary based on the meeting rooms we find and the tourist attractions that we find that meet the limited financial budget that several people have asked us to be sensitive to. Ed Bernero, the Executive Producer of Criminal Minds, will be popping into the convention in 2009 at some point which is exciting and several of the writers have also expressed their desire to meet the CM fans attending.

Lori, the Co-Mod of the Criminal Minds Conversation Yahoo group, Debbie, moderator on the Criminal Minds Fanatic message board as well as Lee's wonderful MGG site, and Phoenix, moderator on the CMF message board are working hard to pre-plan as much as they can before our Feb visit. For more info please feel free to email them at loripppls@msn.com or Spymama6863@gmail.com

Now let me answer some of the generic questions I have had emailed to me: No, you do not need to be a member of the Criminal Minds Fanatic message board or Yahoo group to attend the convention. You just need to want to attend! Yes, we realize that those of you traveling from Europe and beyond will want to stay in LA for more days than the convention lasts since you are traveling so far and we are going to pick a hotel that is available for you to continue living in after/before the convention begins. Yes, we can help match you up with a roommate if you need to share a room to save money. Yes, there will probably be scholarship funds for those who may need a bit of financial help. I will know more about this at a later time. Right now the charity committee is committed to making sure that Kim Harrison is #1 in donations for her Aids Marathon but that fundraiser is over in September. The committee raising money in Rick Dunkle's name to benefit the Red Cross has a goal of $7,500 and they are about a third of the way there, so that needs to be accomplished. Criminal Minds fans are helping with the Actors Fund Assistance Fund but that won't affect our ability to raise funds. Once Kim and Rick's charities are completed we can start raising funds for those that need help. Once again our wonderful and generous friends, Allie and Maura, have pledged to help start that fund with $500 so we will need to wait and see what we can do concerning convention assistance.

You now know as much as I know! :)

CRIMINAL MINDS: "ASHES & DUST" SONG & QUOTE INFO:

The opening song in Criminal Minds "Ashes & Dust" was "Boadicea" by Enya and the closing song was "Grey Room" by Damien Rice.

The quotes were:
"Live like you were going to die tomorrow. Learn like you were going to live forever." - Gandhi

"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul". John Calvin

CRIMINAL MINDS NIELSEN RATINGS FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 13, 2008

Criminal Minds: Here are the Nielsen ratings for the week ending July 13, 2008. Criminal Minds reruns continue to stay in the top twenty. :)

1. "America's Got Talent," NBC, 12.73 million viewers.
2. "Wipeout," ABC, 10.6 million viewers.
3. "The Bachelorette" (Mon, 10 p.m.), ABC, 9.99 million viewers.
4. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.86 million viewers.
5. "The Bachelorette" (Mon, 8 p.m.), ABC, 9.53 million viewers.
6. "Greatest American Dog," CBS, 9.53 million viewers.
7. "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 9.14 million viewers.
8. "So You Think You Can Dance" (Wed), Fox, 8.93 million viewers.
9. "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 8.91 million viewers.
10. "CSI: NY," CBS, 8.9 million viewers.
11. "So You Think You Can Dance" (Thur), Fox, 8.85 million viewers.
12. "NCIS," CBS, 8.62 million viewers.
13. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 8.41 million viewers.
14. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.2 million viewers.
15. "Flashpoint," CBS, 8.13 million viewers.
16. "House," Fox, 7.93 million viewers.
17. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 7.83 million viewers.
18. "Price Is Right Primetime," CBS, 7.71 million viewers.
19. "Celebrity Family Feud," NBC, 7.54 million viewers.
20. "48 Hours Mystery" (Tuesday)," CBS, 7.35 million viewers.

CRIMINAL MINDS: A.J. COOK & NO DEAD FLOWERS

Criminal Minds star A.J. Cook (JJ) will be celebrating her birthday on July 22nd. Given the fiasco that the Criminal Minds moderators went through trying to get live flowers sent to Kirsten Vangsness (Garcia on Criminal Minds) for her birthday, I decided to start early and I used a different company. It took three deliveries over the course of several days for Kirsten to receive a live batch of flowers. Lets hope that we have better luck getting live flowers in a timely manner to wonderfully talented A.J. and future momma of our first CM baby! A.J. hasn't announced whether she is expecting a boy or a girl but I have a feeling so the arrangement that I picked is called "Pink Blush".

CRIMINAL MINDS "ASHES & DUST" CHAT WITH ANDREW WILDER

Criminal MInds: The Criminal Minds Conversation Yahoo group and the Criminal Minds Fanatic message board are happy to be hosting a chat with Andrew Wilder on Wednesday, July 16th at 10pm est directly following the airing of "Ashes & Dust". The password for the chat room will be changed Tuesday night so please email if you want the new password.

CRIMINAL MINDS GUEST STAR: SEAN O'BRYAN

Criminal Minds: "Ashes and Dust" has two guest stars. One of them is Sean O'Bryan who had some additional camera shots and a small scene left to shoot the day I was on the set. The particular set they were shooting on when Sean arrived was very small so if you wanted to watch the scene you were literally standing behind the director and continuity person in little more than a hallway. There were lots of people in that tiny hallway but Sean has a presence. Let me get the fangirl stuff over with first. The man is extremely good looking. Makes you stare good looking. Okay, done with that. He already knew who I was and why I was on the set and the conversation quickly turned to how he was also a huge fan of the show and was so happy about being one of the guest stars. I asked him if it would be alright if I wrote about him on this blog and he agreed. My first lesson early that morning was that you always ask. We talked about tv and the cast and crew of Criminal Minds while Thomas, Shemar and Paget were shooting a scene and then it was Sean's turn. The man can act. I mean he has game. I wish we could keep him permanately. For more information on Sean please check his website: http://www.seanobryan.com/ or http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639917/

** This was my original post after I returned from the set of Criminal Minds**

CRIMINAL MINDS: A MESSAGE FROM ED BERNERO:

Criminal Minds Executive Producer Ed Bernero checks in with the Criminal Minds Fanatics:

Hey Fanatics!

Ed Bernero here. Just want to tell you all how excited we are with the upcoming season. We had a great read-thru today of our fourth episode (written by Deb and Erica) and it's the last day filming our third (written by Andrew) so we are definitely off and running.

We're pretty excited about the things we're doing and I think you are all going to be excited as well. The cast is, as always, doing amazing work and the scripts just get scarier and scarier. Then there's the crew, who have always been great but this year are practically performing miracles. Seriously, there doesn't seem to be anything we ask of them that they can't do better than we hoped.

I read the reaction to the spinoff questions. Let me clarify that there are always discussions about spinoffs of shows but that there is no deal in place to make one and we don't even know yet what form a spinoff would take if we did do one. One thing we all agree on -- the show, the studios and the network -- is that we love Criminal Minds and wouldn't do anything to damage it.

I can't wait for September to roll around so we can get back on the air and you can start seeing eps again. Thanks for still talking about us and still thinking about us over the summer.

All the Best --

Ed

CRIMINAL MINDS: A NOTE FROM KIRSTEN VANGSNESS!

Criminal Minds: Kirsten posted this message on her birthday thread but I'm reposting it here so everyone can see it. Thanks to Kim the only flowers Kirsten saw were the live ones. I think they put the other two sets in the Criminal Minds writers room.


YOU GUYS!!!!
Thank you soooo much for my roses!!! They are totally gorgeous and I am staring at them right now (when I am not typing I am staring at them, when I am typing, I am staring at the keyboard of my mac, because, unlike sweet Garcia- I have to look when I type:)
I did have quite a blissful birthday, I am firm believer in the "birthday week" so it's still going strong, thank you very much. Every year me and my friends have a lip sync party where my gift is that they lip sync a song- I highly recommend this kind of party- it's a great mix of terror and joy.
I worked on my birthday but I truly couldn't think of a better place to be than there. We just had a read thru today of our next script, it's written by Erica and Deb true to their demented, gorgeous brains, it's totally spooky. We also have some kick-ass guest stars coming up...not gonna say who- but I was SUPER EXCITED today when I saw who is in this episode!!!
You guys are the best. Thank you so much for supporting us, for loving us so completely, for helping Kimberly(she's a running machine!), for helping the actors fund, for staying involved, for other stuff that I don't know about that you do in your personal life that you should be thanked for, and for my totally awesome birthday gift.
I am grateful for you friends.
Love,
Kirsten

CRIMINAL MINDS GUEST STAR CHANDLER CANTERBURY

Criminal Minds: Chandler Canterbury who guest starred in Criminal Minds episode "In Birth and Death" has just completed filming a new movie, "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage. The promo looks great and congrats to Chandler for starring in the movie.