Eureka podcasts to continue

This is good news. I really enjoyed the podcasts done by Colin Ferguson. Eureka premiers this Tuesday on Sci Fi at 9pm.

"Over the last year, the comments were like, 'Yeah, it's great to have you talk, but how about everyone else?'" Ferguson said in a press conference on the set in Vancouver, Canada. "So I won't be doing as many. And everybody else can do them this year."

Ferguson, who was a driving force behind the podcasts last year, is a fan of DVD audio commentaries and wanted to create a similar supplement for Eureka fans. "I'm that guy," he said. "When I rent a DVD, I do listen to every single DVD commentary on it, which is incredibly time-consuming. But I do it. And so it was important to me that we sort of document it and have it."

Ferguson added that the podcasts have become an important part of the show's appeal to fans online. "I just love those things," he said. "And especially with our audience base and who we're making the show for; it seems like it's a very Internet-savvy group. And the fact that we can make it more of a community was the idea. That people would tune in, and then if they felt like they wanted to go online there'd be one or two, sometimes three, podcasts. If they could tune in and have a different character talk about the show, that would really help build sort of an infrastructure, with chat boards and whatnot."

At the same press conference, SCI FI Channel executive vice president Mark Stern praised Ferguson for championing the commentaries. "I mean, how many times do you have an actor who says he wants to do a podcast for his show?" Stern said. "I think it shows a real commitment. And you see the commitment all of our actors have for this show. But I just want to point that out, because I thought that was really impressive."