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Spoilers and other Wild Wild Web curiosities have become so relevant the Associated Press even published links to spoiler sites in its Harry Potter coverage.

Whether revealing a key plot point or summarizing a movie's story, plot highlights and ending -- a kind of cinematic Coles Notes -- spoilers vary in value and intensity.

And there is no shortage of websites -- spoilerfix.com, ruinedendings.com, themoviespoiler.com and the like -- ready to spill the beans.

Read the entire article HERE. The article was reprinted under the title 'Spoiler alerts' are a sign of the times in the Ottawa Citizen and under the title Living with the 'S' word in the Regina Leader-Post.

For readers unfamiliar with the term, spoilers are those pesky tidbits of information that blab what you’ve been trying your best not to find out until the time is right – think the sex of your baby or the score of a game you’ve recorded to watch later.

And they’re everywhere. Among the websites dedicated to ruining peoples’ fun is SpoilerFix.com, devoted entirely to spilling the beans for people who have to – make that HAVE TO – know what’s happening on their favourite TV show before it airs.

The train gets back on track: Next week, the water treading seems poised to end. The episode, "Enter 77," will feature a Sayid flashback, information about a new Dharma station, that weird dude with the eye patch and, as last night's preview showed us, Locke matching wits with a 20-year-old computer in an intense game of video chess. Want to start spoiling the whole thing for yourself? Just click here. And, as always, feel free to discuss amongst yourselves by posting comments to this post. Until next week, see you in another life.

Today on Attack This, we're showing you some websites that will let you know what's going to happen next on your favorite television show and what to expect from movies that haven't been released yet!

I know one other secret about the Sayid episode, "Enter 77." It's the latest iteration of a signature storytelling device, and you'll need Internet access or a library card to properly suss out its significance. But be careful, kids: This is revolutionary stuff. If Big Brother sees you getting TOO obsessed with this Easter Egg, you might find yourself sent to Room 101 (or is that Room 23?) for some cultural reconditioning. If you want to play detective, even at the risk of spoiling something for yourself, I'll help you out by linking you in the right direction. When you find it, email me your discovery and insta-theory at JeffJensenEW@aol.com.

There's an online devotion, too. SpoilerFix.com, the site that spoils upcoming episode plots of TV shows, says "NCIS" is a Top 10 show for drawing Internet traffic to the site.

Olney, Md.: Where can I go to find "Heroes" spoilers. That show is so awesome!

Liz Kelly: I'm sure a Google search can turn up some good fan sites for you. Anyone?

A: Next week, Feb. 14, it's back to the main island, with a Desmond-centric show. On Feb. 21, we supposedly learn the secrets of Jack's elaborate tattoos (according to Internet spoiler sites like www.spoilerfix.com). Upcoming episodes will be about Claire, Hurley, Locke and Sayid. Remember them?

SpoilerFix (http://www.spoilerfix.com/lost.php): If you can't wait to find out what will happen on the show, bookmark this site. Spoiler info is listed by episode.

Simply must have "Lost" spoilers? Check out SpoilerFix, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Author: Cathrine Holden
Website: Side 2 (Norway's TV2, TV channel)
Date: January 19, 2007

This article found of Norway's TV2 website mentions SpoilerFix.com as one of the two sites to visit to know more about Desperate Housewives.

You can believe your eyes, which tell you what shows you liked in 2006. Or you can believe the Web, where experts chronicle the preferences of critics (at Metacritic.com), diehard fans (SpoilerFix.com), disappointed fans (JumptheShark.com) and pervy men (MrSkin.com).

But the TV show that drew the most diehard fans to SpoilerFix.com wasn't in Metacritic's Top 10 critics' list. It was a cult fave that never amounted to much in the ratings: "Charmed" on the WB.

So says the site, where writers spill secrets about upcoming twists, deaths and romances on 52 shows.

"When 'Charmed' was still around, it was our most popular page, and we got at least 100 questions about the show per week," says Izzy, the honcho at SpoilerFix. (She wouldn't give me her full name for fear of getting swamped by readers.)

"CW shows," Izzy says, "have a huge following. It's weird that they get so little ratings when they have almost the biggest fan base online.

Now that "Charmed" is gone, the shows that draw the most readers at SpoilerFix are "Lost," "Gilmore Girls," "Grey's Anatomy," "Veronica Mars" and "One Tree Hill," Izzy says.

SpoilerFix.com reveals upcoming story developments for 52 TV shows. Here, in alphabetical order, are the 10 spoilers that drummed up the most fan reaction after SpoilerFix exposed the plot and character twists before the episodes ran.

"Alias" on ABC: That Vaughn (Michael Vartan) and Irina (Lena Olin) would return for the series' final episodes.

"Charmed" on the WB: That a sister would die. "It turned out that two sisters died, and that they were saved in the finale," says SpoilerFix's grand poobah, Izzy.

"Gilmore Girls" on the WB/CW: "Every spoiler about Lorelai [Lauren Graham] and Luke [Scott Patterson] had fans go through an emotional roller coaster," Izzy says. Since Lorelai and Chris (David Sutcliffe) hooked up, "now fans are just waiting for them to break up."

"Lost" on ABC: That several characters would die at the end of the second season. Also big was the later spoiler that Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) would perish.

"NCIS" on CBS: That Gibbs (Mark Harmon) would return this season, and he would be sporting facial hair.

"Nip/Tuck" on FX: That the plastic surgeons would get new bosses, and Dr. Merril Bobolit (Joey Slotnick) and Escobar (Robert LaSardo) would return to the show.

"The O.C." on Fox: That Marissa (Mischa Barton) would die. Another biggie was that Johnny (Ryan Donowho) would die, which excited fans who hated him. "Some fans even returned to the show to watch his death and watch episodes without Johnny."

"Prison Break" on Fox: That Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) would not die of the overdose she suffered in the first season's finale.

"Smallville" on the WB/CW: That Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) would propose to Lana (Kristin Kreuk), and that she'd be pregnant with his kid.

"Supernatural" on the WB/CW: That there'd be a recurring character, Jo. Fans speculated whether she'd be a love interest for a leading man.

But in Hollywood, as elsewhere, life must go on. And actor Nathan Fillion, who played Captain Mal Reynolds onboard the Firefly, and the preacher from Hell, Caleb, on the last season of "Buffy", has now joined the cast of ABC series "Lost". The information is a bit spoilery, so be warned.

Sources confirm to me that Nathan Fillion (Buffy, Firefly) has been cast on Lost! He starts filming the show next week in Hawaii, and will guest star in at least two episodes this season, from what I hear.

If you want to know *WHO* he's playing, keep reading ....

He will be playing someone from Kate's past. Someone who was VERY close to our beloved Katie -- as in, legally bound and not genetically.

You got it, right? It seems there's much more to Kate's past than we've seen ...
That would seem to be episode 6 of this season and however many follows, as per the spoilers from the great site SpoilerFix.

"Lost" (8 p.m., WLS-Channel 7): The debut of the third season is so important, ABC is expanding it from 60 minutes to 61 minutes. Impressive. The network says Jack, Kate and Sawyer will find out how they'll be treated as prisoners. If you want to spoil some of the season's mysteries, check out the usually reliable SpoilerFix.com.

10. Where can I find out more about Lost?

Try these sites: abc.go.com/primetime/lost/; spoilerfix.com/lost.php; lostlinks.net/index2.htm; lostpedia.com/wiki/Main_Page; oceanicflight815.com; lost-tv.com; lost.com; and thefuselage.com.

After a confusing second season, 'Lost' fans will (finally) get some questions answered

Those "Lost" writer-producers are a secretive bunch. How difficult could it be to give a hint about to expect next season? Apparently, very. A little digging, however, turned up some clues on the gripping ABC drama.

Author: Paula Neal Mooney
Newspaper: Associated Content
Date: September 19, 2006

Don’t know much about Grey’s Anatomy?
Tune in an hour earlier for the special "Grey’s Anatomy: Complications of the Heart," which premieres Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006 at 8 p.m. EST. According to SpoilerFix.com, it “examines the key moments from Season Two.”

Regular TV does not turn them on. So, they don't turn on the TV. They turn to the Internet, raid DVD stores, invest in set-top boxes or DTH to get their daily dose of entertainment. If they had a choice, they would be serial-killers, cleansing the small screen of the soppy saas-bahus. . Because they don't, they do the next best thing. They tune into alternative programming and source the best of TV shows from around the world. They are a cult by themselves. And a growing one at that.

"'Lost' is just the best TV series I've seen. We have had elaborate discussions and speculated for hours about how they will possibly explain every single mystery, after every few episodes and yet, it manages to surprise us every single time," says filmmaker Vijay Prabakaran. "Of course, there are some who cheat by checking out spoilers online," he laughs.

Spoilerfix.com, for instance, is a site dedicated to letting out spoiler information of their favourite shows. Also, there are online forums and communities that give them a chance to speculate and share their excitement with the rest of their world.

Last season some of your favorite shows left you with burning questions and sometimes September is just too long to wait for your answers. With the help of professional spoilers at spoilerfix, and ain't it cool, you do not have to wait to find out what’s going to happen next season.

Top Ten Blogs for TV Spoilers and Updates
Show Updates for Next Season - Desperate Housewives, Lost and More!

Last season some of your favorite shows left you with burning questions and sometimes September is just too long to wait for your answers. With the help of professional spoilers and ordinary fans, you do not have to wait to find out what’s going to happen next season.

What’s going on with Desperate Housewives? Check out SpoilerFix.com blog and chat room for current show incites.

What make these sites great is that they are easy to navigate through, and they have information on various shows so you will be sure to find a spoiler update that fits your needs. >

Authors: Geoff Bennett and Elizabeth Chan
Website: AOL.com
Date: August 21, 2006

Warning: If you don't want to ruin the element of surprise this TV season, jump back to Fall TV Central.

The 411: With Michael and crew on the lam, William Fichtner ('Invasion') joins the cast as Buck Mahone, an FBI agent hell bent on returning the guys to the slammer. On the season opener, Mahone takes an interest in Michael's tatoos and buts heads with Bellick about how best to track down the escapees. Meanwhile, Dr. Sara is still comatose back in Chicago. And things take a turn for Kellerman and Franklin when a former prison employee reveals that he knew about the escape plan.
Source: spoilerfix.com

SpoilerFix.com is amongst the 10 sites listed as a daily visited link on the Brilliant But Cancelled's blog, a NBC Universal site.

The ‘Lost’ universe: Where to find out more

“Lost” is a modern phenomenon, the right concept for our media-saturated world. The show’s producers and fans add to the extras. A sampling:

There's no talking about developments on the previous night's hot TV show because somebody might not have seen it yet, executive producer and show runner Jeff Pinkner explained over breakfast at the Disney Studios commissary here late last month.

"Among us writers, there's a cone of silence... . But there is a statute of limitations. After a week, you're allowed to talk about it. If somebody hasn't caught up by then, too bad."

The crew is hoping silence will be maintained about the two-hour Alias finale, airing at 9 p.m. tomorrow on ABC. The spy show starring Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow is ending, promising answers to all the major head-scratchers, and there are some doozies, posed over five years.

It's just the kind of thing that excites know-it-alls. There is even a Web site, SpoilerFix.com, devoted to revealing TV show action before it happens. Those tidbits have been labeled "spoilers," even by the folks who trade in them, because they do spoil the show for people who want to be surprised.

"The viewing experience is that much better if you don't know what the twist or the secret's going to be," Pinkner said. "So we're hoping that people will practice some sort of radio silence."

Lost, Desperate Housewives, and Other TV Spoilers from SpoilerFix

Website: ClickPress
Date: May 15, 2006

Patience is a virtue, but sometimes it's too hard to wait to see what's going to happen in the TV shows we love. Isabelle of SpoilerFix will satisfy your curiosity by hosting a live one hour chat session on BuddyTV starting Tuesday May 16 at 4 p.m. Pacific time 7 p.m. Eastern time. Isabelle’s sessions will cover Lost, Desperate Housewives, and other popular TV shows.

Isabelle is self described TV maven who runs SpoilerFix.com. Isabelle contends that spoilers ''enhance the viewing experience. They attract viewers. They create hype." She does have some self-imposed rules such as leaving the biggest spoiler surprises for the airwaves. Isabelle will reveal that someone’s death is imminent, but she won’t publish the name.

Isabelle’s live spoiler sessions are interactive and provide fans with the chance to ask questions and discuss the shows with Isabelle. To join Isabelle's chat session just log on to www.buddytv.com during her session time. The sessions are all free, and all you need is a computer, an Internet connection. After this Tuesday the live spoiler chat sessions will be held on the first Tuesday of every month.

About SpoilerFix
SpoilerFix was founded in 2001 and provides fans with spoilers, rumors and information about popular TV shows. SpoilerFix also provides users with forums, surveys and contests. Currently it covers 30 US TV series and gets over 15 million hits per month. For more information go to www.spoilerfix.com.

About BuddyTV
BuddyTV was founded in Seattle in 2005 and creates online community through forums and real time chat about popular TV shows. BuddyTV uses TVj's to lead discussion sessions and provide insider information about the shows they cover. To start participating and interacting with experts and other fans go to www.buddytv.com.

My pals over at spoilerfix.com just dropped the first Season 4 Nip/Tuck spoiler on my lap and it's so juicy I'm not waiting for next week's Ask Ausiello to bring it to you guys. When the show returns in September, McNamara/Troy will have a new owner named Michelle Latham. Set to appear in a 12-episode arc, the character is described as a "powerful and sexy woman in her 30s" who will now run the company as her wealthy 70-year-old husband looks on. What do you wanna bet she's having sex with Chrisitian by the end of the season premiere? I'm in for $20.

Are you a spoiler junkie?
It’s OK, you can admit it if you are.

Many television watchers have become spoiler junkies. I guess they just can’t wait to find out what will happen on their favorite show.

Me? I like to walk a fine line between being spoiled and being in the dark. If I know who’s going to die and in which episode they’re going to die in, it doesn’t make it fun for me to watch. But for some, spoilers have become an addiction and it’s being fed by the Internet.

Google “tv spoilers.” Go ahead, and you’ll be hit with tons of sites offering spoilers about a variety of television shows.

Sites like eonline.com, soapcentral.com and spoilerfix.com, are some of the hot spots for spoilers and it shows. For instance, at one point the Watch with Kristin message boards at eonline.com had more than 11,000 threads on different subjects. On soapcentral.com, there are more than 61,000 members, and the number grows daily. And on spoilerfix.com, there were more than 21 million hits to the web site in March alone.

I’m going to go back to that fine line, because I think that it’s a happy medium. It’s fun to have little tidbits, morsels, if you will, of what’s to come. But I’d rather stop shy of finding out exactly what’s going to happen.

There are other types of spoiler junkies, like those that are stuck at work or without a TV and go to the message boards to find out what is happening as the shows progress. A poster at the eonline.com message boards actually wrote, “Please help! I’m stuck at work and I’m taping the show, but I HAVE TO KNOW what’s going on!!!!” These types threads are sometimes referred to as “live threads” where posters at home watch the show and type in what is going on as it happens.

On soaps, these live threads are helpful. I admit I’ve read over them before. But there are just so many soap episodes, I don’t want to waste my time at home that night watching a show where nothing happens.

However, on weekly shows it shouldn’t be that dire. I mean, you have a full week to watch before the next show comes on. What’s a couple of hours to wait anyway?

Spoilers are nice. They can be helpful. But they should be used with caution. It’s bad enough we’re a nation of couch potatoes, but now we’re keyboard potatoes, too? Stop clicking on the spoilers and watching your favorite show may be much more enjoyable. And come on, didn’t your parents always tell you that it’s more fun to be surprised?

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A weekly mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of Web Logs, from Detroit News wire services.

Besides, in this era of cross-promotion, it's becoming increasingly hard to keep the information out. The people kicked off of the island on ''Survivor" turn up the next day on CBS's ''The Early Show." The winner of last season's ''Project Runway" gets a highly promoted spinoff. And if you venture on the Internet, the news is everywhere. Even TV shows' official sites flirt with viewers with spoiler sections before episodes air. They realize that part of you wants to look.

Indeed, a whole new sort of collective experience has cropped up around this other sort of spoiler: a chirpy online community, dedicated to ruining TV surprises before they happen. I'll admit that these speculation spoilers, offered regularly on sites like E! Online, Ain't It Cool News, and spoilerfix.com, are a mystery to me. I like to be surprised at plot twists; I never figure them out on my own, anyway.

But the networks actually love them, says Isabelle, the 28-year-old Canadian translator who runs spoilerfix.com and scours the entertainment media to collect spoilers for some 30 shows. (She doesn't want to reveal her last name because she fears that rabid viewers will call her at home. It has happened, she says, to some of her spoiler-mongering friends.)

Knowing that Luka and Abby were getting back together, she contends, has drawn some long-lost viewers to ''ER." Knowing Justine Bateman is expected to show up might bring viewers to the needy ''Arrested Development."

Spoilers ''enhance the viewing experience," she says in an e-mail missive. ''They attract viewers. They create a hype."

As they become a regular part of TV-viewing discourse -- and, presumably, draw more and more complaints -- they're spawning an intricate culture of caveats and apologies. ''Spoiler Alert" crops up more and more often on entertainment websites and in newspaper texts. A TV writer for the Toronto Star last month issued a feverish warning before he revealed the ending of ''A Christmas Story" -- a film that was released in 1983.

Isabelle has her own self-imposed rules: She leaves the biggest surprises for the airwaves. She'll tout that a death is coming, but she won't reveal the name. Yet she admits that, in an age when we take our entertainment seriously, some facts cross the line into news and cannot be avoided. When Ain't It Cool News revealed Shannon's death on ''Lost" ahead of time, she says, she had to print it. She posted a spoiler alert and put the answer behind invisible text.

When you come into work, ask, ''Did you see it last night?" before launching into your many thoughts about last night's ''Prison Break." If you're discussing the show in the hallway, talk quietly until a few days have passed.

If you work for, say, Bravo, creating promos for, say, ''Project Runway," use common sense. Don't run a preview of next week's episode that reveals who will still be ''in" five minutes from now.

Corollary: Don't go looking for trouble. Just because you have a DVR doesn't mean you have to use all of its functions. A friend of mine recently paused the TV during said ''Project Runway" promo and scoured the scene to see who was in it. And then complained about the spoiler. No dice.

Even if it's spoiled, watch anyway. There's always dialogue and character development, cinematography, music. Subplots. Attractive actors.

Or else give up TV entirely and rent a DVD. There's a great movie out there called ''The Sixth Sense"...

Descriptions of the next three Lost episodes are online over at spoilerfix.com, a website dedicated to opening all of your presents before they're given to you on Christmas morning. Spoilerfix also has spoiler updates on upcoming episodes of Alias, Arrested Development, Desperate Housewives, Smallville and others. This is us, dtheatre, warning you that a website named SPOILERFIX.com contains spoilers, so don't blame us. We told you so. Read Spoilerfix.

Frigid weather and stunning views of the mall may not be compelling reasons to come to Providence, but some of California's hottest fictional characters are considering leaving beaches and boat parties behind for the Brown experience.

Next month, Seth Cohen and Summer Roberts of Fox's hit TV show "The OC" will join high school seniors across the country as they wonder whether they could get into Brown. The University will feature in two episodes scheduled to air Dec. 1 and 8, said Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations.

The two fictional characters, played by Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson, will express interest in applying to Brown, Chapman said, but no footage of the University will be shown. After the show's production company contacted him earlier this fall, Chapman read scripts for both episodes concerning Brown.

According to fan Web site SpoilerFix.com, the second of the two episodes will feature a representative from the University who will tell Seth and Summer that only one student from their high school is typically admitted.

Chapman did not confirm script details but said that no formal request had been made to "admit" the fictional characters to Brown or film scenes on campus.

"The OC's" executive producer Doug Liman graduated from Brown in 1988, while Josh Schwartz, the show's creator and writer, grew up on the East Side and attended the Wheeler School for more than a decade.

Spoiler warning! Wondering where everyone gets spoiler information before you even watch an episode of a current series? Log on to http://www.spoilerfix.com and read all you want about upcoming episodes of "Lost," "Desperate Housewives," "Charmed," "Alias," "Veronica Mars," "Smallville" and much more. If you want to be surprised by what you see on television, don't go to the site. But if you don't care, log on and enjoy.

AIM Today made SpoilerFix.com their "cool site of the week" starting on September 22, 2005. Here is what was posted on their site: "Who doesn't love knowing what's going to happen next? Get the scoop all season with these TV spoilers."

Spoilers galore: Speaking of Lost, I don't want to keep going to this site, but I can't help myself. It offers spoilers for Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias, Gilmore Girls and more — though only time will tell how right they are.

SpoilerFix.com got national news coverage in Norway in an article about LOST, spoilers for the series, and the Oceanic-Air.com website. Here is the part of the article that mentions the site:

Har du lyst til å lese deg opp på alt vi vet - og hva vi lurer på - etter første sesong, er dette en glimrende oppsummering. Noen har også tatt seg bryet med å samle en rekke spoilere for neste sesong.

The following links will "blow your mess out!" Only click the links if you want to find out what's going to happen on your favorite TV shows!

If you just aren't satisfied with just a preview of what's happening next week on Desperate Housewives there is a site that gives you more than a sneak peek.

SpoilerFix.com gives summaries of upcoming shows. It tracks plot twists and behind-the-scene news for some of TV's most addictive shows, including Desperate Housewives, Alias and Lost.

Where does the site gets its crystal ball? Some show secrets are pulled together from entertainment reports and audience members who've attended tapings or seen tapings. Viewers can also submit their own TV gossip for the site's editors to research.

Now, while there are some good nuggets of information, the site doesn't give everything away. The summaries are just enough to know what's going on but the most shocking twists are left out so you're still surprised when the show airs.

Site Reveals Upcoming TV Show Plot Twists
Surprise In Store For A Desperate Housewife

BOSTON -- If you just can't wait until the next episode of your favorite show, here's a Web site that gives summaries for upcoming shows.

SpoilerFix.com tracks plot twists and behind the scenes news for TV shows like "Desperate Housewives", "Alias" and "Lost." If you're wondering where the site gets its crystal ball, show secrets are pulled together from entertainment reports and audience members who have attended tapings. Visitors can also submit their own TV gossip for site editors to research.

The summaries give enough to know a bit of what is going on, but leaves out the shocking twists so you are still surprised when the show airs.

For example -- on an upcoming episode of "Desperate Housewives," there's a surprise in store for one of the housewives.

Note: Read the article and view the videoclip from the news broadcast about the site HERE

During The Jeff and Anna Morning Show, SpoilerFix was getting talked about. They told listeners that the link to SpoilerFix.com is on Mix's website if they can't wait for the Friends finale to air and don't want to be surprised. Here is what the Mix's website said:

We've unmasked a legit website full of spoilers from your favorite TV shows. Click here to read the "Friends" spoiler, BUT ONLY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SURPRISED!

During a segment about Friends in the morning show, the radio hosts mentioned SpoilerFix.com as the place to get spoilers for all the shows that they watch. A caller called in and talked about the website. Below is the blurb about the site found on Q-100's website:

Friends Finale Spoiler!
Late in the show Tuesday, Bert Show listener Jennifer called to let us in on what we think may be a legit website full spoilers from your favorite TV shows. Click below to check it out, BUT only if you dont want to be surprised.
TV Show Spoilers

Author: Jerry McCormick
Newspaper: The San Diego Union-Tribune
Date: April 25, 2004

Internet sites let the cat out of the bag on show plots – and not everyone thinks that's a good thing

What's going to happen to Nate and Brenda on "Six Feet Under," returning in June?

Are you aching to know details on the special effects-filled "The Day After Tomorrow" (opening next month)?

What if the outcomes of your favorite TV shows or a movie you were anxiously awaiting were only a few mouse clicks away?

For some savvy Web-heads, half the fun of watching TV and movies is knowing in advance. That's why "spoilers" and "spoiler sites" are booming across the Internet.

Depending on what kind of viewer you are, you can love spoilers or love to hate them.

Kristin Veitch, 28, grew up in San Diego and is the queen of spoilers for eonline.com and E! Entertainment Television.

It's her job to dig out the dirt on upcoming shows. Based on the traffic at her Monday online chatroom and Friday column, "Watch With Kristin," fans are eating up the information. She's fed them such goodies as Debra Messing missing from the last few episodes of "Will & Grace" and the premise for the "Friends" spinoff "Joey," as well as Mia Maestro joining "Alias" as Jennifer Garner's sister and Quentin Tarantino returning to the show.

"People want to know what's coming up so they can impress their friends at the water cooler," she said. "And with increasingly long hiatuses between new episodes, TV fans get frustrated and impatient. They want to know now."

"Spoilers have been a part of the Internet community almost from the beginning," she said. "TV and the Internet are a perfect marriage because the Net really allows fans to be active and turn TV watching into a spectator sport. They no longer have to sit there and take bad TV; spoilers are a huge part of that."

Edward Havens, 36, who runs Filmjerk.com, says in many ways the information leaked to the Internet can actually help a movie's buzz.

He said that what the site posts is "pretty accurate" and that there's been a huge spike in hits. (The site's traffic fluctuates wildly, according to Alexa.com, an Internet ranking site.)

"Some sites do give away too much information, but we don't spoil everything," Havens said from his New York office. "We can keep secrets, like the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan movie 'The Village' – it has a twist but we don't give it away in our review because we understand that some people like some surprises."

Amy Amatangelo, 34, who writes the TV Gal column for Zap2it.com, says she too withholds some information in order for viewers to enjoy the show.

"Sometimes, I know information way out and sometimes I know right around showtime. Sometimes, I just wait because it's better for the viewers to see the surprise and not be spoiled." An example of this is this season's surprise HIV plot on the WB's "Everwood." A new character, Linda, was revealed to be HIV-positive after starting a romance with the doctor played by Treat Williams.

Veitch says that she too withholds some spoilers, but in many cases the producers of the shows don't mind if the information leaked.

"Some of my best sources are the executive producers themselves," she said. "They'll give me hints and teases, or sometimes even spill a big upcoming plot twist, because they realize it's valuable to have people talking about, and trying to guess, what will happen on the show."

"I have sources that are linked to shows in (working) pretty much in every aspect you can imagine – writers, producers, publicists, managers, casting agents, even hairdressers. . . . " "(A) good gossipy scoop is hard to come by, but the longer I do this, the more contacts I make and the easier it gets.

"And you learn whom you can trust – sometimes, the hard way. In this age of ('Survivor' creator) Mark Burnett-inspired misinformation, you have to swallow your pride and realize that sometimes even the most trustworthy sources are fed bad information."

Burnett and Joss Wheldon of the WB's "Angel," have been openly vocal about their disdain for the Web sites.

Responding for Burnett, Colleen Sullivan, director of publicity for CBS, said in a statement "We can neither confirm nor deny the printings on fan sites" and doesn't bother to correct information on its show.

A recent example of this is the popular Aint-it-cool-news.com. Two recent postings had a list of those dumped from "Survivor: All-Stars," including a spoiler about the final four. While the list had accurately predicted the first four outcasts in order, it got wrong the fifth person –negating the accuracy of the rest of the list. However, on another post, it accurately gave a scene-by-scene account of three crucial episodes of Fox's "24" (including the plotline of a hotel being infected by deadly virus).

"I wouldn't post any 'Survivor' information in my column," said Amatangelo. " 'Survivor' is wonderful at keeping things under wraps and people don't clamor for much information about that show because half the information out there is leaked by them (folks associated with the show) and you can't trust it.

And while many of the people who work or run the spoilers sites are fans themselves, some keep their identities secret not only because of possible consequences from the producers of the shows they are spoiling but because of the fans as well.

At spoilerfix.com, the Web master who only identifies herself as "Izzy" said in an e-mail interview that fans can do some wild things.

"(I) know that fans are so eager to get spoilers that giving out your identity is almost a certainty that fans will get a hold of you to have more," she said. "Some fans are willing to do crazy things to have spoilers, know what's coming up, grab a hold of their favorite actors, get goodies from their shows.

"That's one of the reasons why some people who start giving out spoilers stop eventually; they can't take on that pressure, or gave too much info about them and are now being chased down by fans in order to get info about their favorite shows. So spoilerfix.com has been able to prevent most (maybe 95 percent) of those crazy fans from contacting us by not revealing too much about the staff members."

She also said that the site does give out some spoiler information to fans but withholds the truly "shocking" TV moments.

But while some fans are obsessed with knowing everything that's coming up on TV shows and movies, some say they believe spoilers should be avoided at all costs.

Wyatt works at On Comic Ground, a comic book store in Hillcrest, and says that while he tries to avoid spoilers, sometimes he can't help being spoiled.

"I don't want to know what's coming up in movies such as the new 'X-Men,' but it's hard because a lot of the stuff is (available) in the magazines I stock and I can't avoid." he said. "It's just not enjoyable knowing ahead of time what's going to happen."

"I would never go looking for spoilers for shows I really like (such as) 'Gilmore Girls' (or) '24' because it would really ruin the experience for me. . . . "I don't think the show runners, producers or the networks mind at all. It truly does not affect ratings in the least. If anything, people are even more prone to watch to see if the spoiler was correct."

"Spoilers to a TV fan are like chocolate cake to a diabetic. You know it's wrong, but it just feels good to know what nobody else knows."

So here's the scoop on "Survivor: All-Stars": The winner is . . . nah, we'll let you watch instead.

While most viewers like a TV show's plot to gradually unfold (including its surprises), there are some who just can't wait and want a sneak peek at what's going to happen next.

So, here are a few TV spoilers. Grab this page, head to a mirror and enjoy. Don't read if you don't really want to know. Also, remember that some of this information may or may not be accurate.

For some, television is an addiction. And many who need a fix between new episodes of their favorite shows are turning to www.spoilerfix.com.

The website tracks the plot twists, cast updates and the behind-the-scenes happenings of nine television shows ("Alias," "Charmed," "24," "Tru Calling," "Smallville," "JAG," "ER," and, for a moment longer, "Angel" and "Friends"). The site also issues a weekly brief to answer fan questions and provide hints for other shows it can't cover in-depth.

"If you visit bulletin boards and websites, you'll see people love to know what will happen next," writes the site's creator, Izzy during an e-mail interview. The twentysomething Canadian says that she and three volunteer staff members chose the site's nine shows for a simple reason: They're the ones they enjoy watching. "It's important we at least watch the shows we cover," she notes. "That way we ensure that the spoilers we post could come true and are not just pure fan fiction."

Visitors to the site contribute episode and cast information, while Izzy and staff glean spoilers from other fan sites, entertainment reports, network sites and from audience members who attend show tapings. But spoilerfix.com understands just how much is too much information. The staff reveals just enough to pique audience interest -- with no actual spoilers.

"Charmed" fans are the most zealous about sleuthing for cat information, Izzy says, and episode clues, but "Friends" fans aren't far behind.

With the May sweeps coming up around the corner, spoilerfix.com is becoming another necessary habit for those who just can't get enough.

SpoilerFix.com was made site of the week on September 22, 2003, by the radio show "The R!ot."

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