American Idol recently finished up its eleventh season on Fox. The reality show chronicles singers' journeys during the season where teens and young adults compete to win the ultimate title along with a recording contract.

Those that make it to the top ten travel the country on the official tour, American Idol Live. This year the tour stops in forty-five locations, including the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, on 8/14, which I attended to review.

By Jamie Ruby

ABC Family Conference Call
Switched at Birth
Lea Thompson 

August 28, 2012
2:00 p.m. ET

Most fans will recognize Lea Thompson from movies, such as the Back to the Future films, or from television where she played the title role in the series Caroline in the City. Thompson now, however, stars as Kathryn Kennish in ABC Family's Switched at Birth. In the show, Kathryn is shocked when she discovers that the daughter she raised, Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano), belongs to another family, who have her and her husband (D.W. Moffett)'s biological daughter, Daphne Vasquez (Katie Leclerc).

Thompson recently talked to the press about her role in Switched at Birth.

By Christiane Elin

Some of Necessary Roughness’s story lines are wrapping up while new ones emerge on the mid-season finale. During a conference call SciFi Vision attended with Necessary Roughness star, Callie Thorne, she shared her thoughts about the mid-season finale.

“T.K. and Dani and Matt and Nico all are sort of forced into this big fork in the road that is about choice. And not being able to figure out if there’s a right or a wrong. I think we all were in this place, we were all very excited to be and to have the show take this particular tone for a finale.”

Thorne goes on to say, “we wanted to keep everything really grounded in reality and not have it necessarily be something soap opera-ish, but much more developed in the big choices in life, the game changers.”

By Jamie Ruby

Greg Grunberg is not new to television. Many fans will know him from series such as Felicity, Alias, Heroes, and even Lost. He has also done some voice work in various video games such as Halo: Reach and L.A. Noire. The actor can also be seen in the upcoming Syfy films Mega Spider and End of the World.

Grunberg recently talked to the digital media about one of his newest roles, guest starring on ABC Family's Baby Daddy.

Exclusive Interview with Verne Troyer
Steel City Con - Pittsburgh, PA - 7/28/12
Interview by Jame Ruby
Written by Jamie Ruby

Most fans probably know Verne Troyer as Mini-Me in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, but he has quite a few other film credits to his name, including Mighty Joe Young, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, to name a few.

The actor recently talked to me in person for an exclusive interview for SciFi Vision to talk about his career.

By Lynn Tackitt

Switched at Birth returns to ABC Family for its second season on September 3rd, and in anticipation of that, star Vanessa Marano, who plays the role of Bay Kennish, recently talked to the media about the new season and what fans can expect moving forward.

Exclusive Interview with Peter Shinkoda of Falling Skies
Interview by Jamie Ruby
Written by Jamie Ruby

Recently Falling Skies came to an end for the summer. Many fans were sad to see Dai, played by Peter Shinkoda, die in the season finale. I recently talked to the actor in an exclusive interview for SciFi Vision specifically about filming the death sequence and the end of his journey on the series.

Shinkoda did not know until the last minute that this season would be his last. "Honestly it was very late in the game. I could have learned earlier, I wish I could have learned earlier, as an actor. But the thing was, the situation didn't lend itself to that.