The Point Radio: Dishing With The Girls From GRIMM

GRIMM is back to wrap up it’s fourth season on NBC, but what can we expect as we head toward the May finale? Actors Bitsie Tulloch, Bree Turner and Clare Coffee let us in on a few teases including just how their characters may wind up this time. Plus the backyard inventors of BRAINSTORMERS talk about the times things worked and the times they didn’t.

In a few days, we go to the set of the CW’s latest comic inspired hit, IZOMBIE. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @ThePointRadio.

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The Point Radio. It's Mike Raub. Grim is back on NBC for Friday nights and things are all headed towards the finale in May. We sat down with the ladies of Grim, Vitzy Tooley, Claire Coffey and Bree Turner to see if they leak anything about what's coming up.

Plus, they're the Zamy Inventors from Brainstormers, the new series on the Weather Channel. And we'll find out just what cool stuff they've made out in the backyard. Let's get to The Point. This is The Point. The Point Radio.

Get The Point Radio. Season 4 of Grim is winding down with just enough time remaining to address at least a few major questions. One of which is what to do with Juliet, played by actress Vitzy Tooley. Now that Juliet is a full-blown supernatural creature, Vitzy said that might not be changing anytime soon. I don't know that they're planning on doing it anytime soon because the writers are having so much fun with this sort of darker character.

But yeah, I mean, you would hope that at some point maybe they'll get married and actually have like one day of respite. So this is a really big transition for Juliet as Vitzy recalls her character's journey so far. Well, I've always had a blast on the show and I've, you know, they've always given me interesting things to do. I think season one was probably the hardest for me because the character was so passive and everybody else is kind of running on doing fun stuff. But that also really serves the storyline and Nick really needed to keep her in the dark because he was himself so I like to talk about what it meant to be a grim and everything.

And then season two I had this great arc of losing my memory and not remembering Nick and that whole storyline. And then slowly season three, kind of having the secret revealed and joining forces with the Scooby Squad. That was that's always really fun because those scenes are really fun to shoot because you have the most of the cast together and everybody's having a blast and chit chatting in between scenes. And then but this has been really just cool because it's the first time she's had any sort of supernatural power. And so I personally have been having a blast with it and it's nice that they're using Juliet who up to this point has hasn't been missed.

She's coming in now. She's adding all the fuel to the fire and so it's sort of centered around the havoc that she's causing among the group. And so I think especially going into season five of a TV show, you need to really kind of revamp stuff a little bit. Keep it interesting how there'll be a game changer and there certainly is a massive game changer at the end of season four in the finale. So everything's pointing to the season finale in May and for actress Bri Turner, who plays Rosalie, she's still hoping for a turn for her character. You know, as an actress, you hope because that's where all the good stuff is.

You know, I think what the fans often say is, you know, don't bring drama to Marone Rosalie. And I do agree. You know, I think it has been really nice, especially with the insanity of the grim world that is, you know, there's so much going on. It is nice to have this really stable couple dealing with really domestic issues, you know, even though their their personal world is what humans can't even imagine. So, you know, I don't want to tear that up, but I think to make it a little more dark and stormy for them would be interesting for the story. Claire Coffey, who plays Adeline, says she's besieged by fans who always want to know what's coming up constantly.

I mean, and we get very little information. So we we really hear about it when the scripts come out and then every now and then I'll hear from David. Like, hey, this is kind of where we're going. But it's not not much. Betsy did leak out a little bit saying that her character will have a big part in the season wrap up. In fact, she says her character will affect everything. She's going to cause major, major problems for basically everyone. And, you know, the reality is she's, you know, she misses Nick and she loves him, but she just can't imagine a way for them to be able to stay together under the circumstances.

So, you know, she's been told by numerous people now there's absolutely nothing she can do about it. And so what else would you do? I mean, you have to embrace your new life. She has to go forward with that. And she is dead set on embracing it. And she's like, this is how it's going to be. Then I might as well be the best action beast I can. And, you know, there's a darkness to that that's going to seep into her veins. And you're not going to really see this sort of sweet, you know, loving girlfriend that, you know, everybody's gotten used to for the last few seasons.

Catch Grim at its new time, 8 p.m. every Friday night on NBC. See more at NBC.com and catch up on past episodes right now at Hulu Plus. All right, let's catch up. Here's the latest in pop culture. There's a teaser out there for the rebooted Astro Boys series. You can find it in a number of different places on the web. But with it is absolutely no word on when we'll get that new series. Twenty six episodes have been planned, including both 2D and CG animation.

And so far, the series doesn't have a home here in North America. One thing we do know is that Dark Horse will be reissuing the entire manga series in omnibus form. That'll be coming later on this year from that publisher. The much talked about web series, Guidestone, Sunflower Noir is coming to Hulu. The second season will premiere on Hulu on March 29th.

Andrew Dice Clay is back. He's been given a new six episode straight to series project from the folks at Showtime. It's called Dice and it pretty much is almost a reality base showing exactly the difficulties that Dice has had in trying to resurrect his career as of late. No word yet on when the series will premiere on Showtime. Marvel is taking another step to celebrate their female superheroes with a new bi-monthly graphic novel anthology coming out later this year. It'll be called A Force Presents and it focuses on the Marvel female heroes, including Ms.

Marvel, the new Thor, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, She-Hulk and more. The first one, which is due in September, will reprint the first issues of Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, the new female Thor, She-Hulk, Black Widow and the unbeatable Squirrel Girl as well. Every volume of A Force Presents will include six Marvel comics and also be designed to help prove as an entry point to the Marvel universe. A Force number one will sell for $14.99 and again be in stores in September.

Over the past few days, things have gotten a few steps closer to finally getting the X-Files back on television. It appears that creator Chris Carter and Fox have agreed on a storyline plan for the series. And both David Duchovny and Juliet Anderson have had their schedules worked out should they be needed to film the new series. Right now, that's pretty much where everything stands except the fact that Fox has said they'd like to see the series run about 10 episodes should a revival be done. The point, the point.

Backyard inventors Ryan Parker and Bill LaVassar have moved their hobby to the big time. A part of a new TV series called Brainstormers every week on the Weather Channel. I asked Ryan when he first got the bug to start inventing things. Yeah, actually, I grew up on a farm here in Colorado and both my mom and dad were pretty resourceful. When things broke, they fixed it and made it sometimes better than what they could have bought it for.

Because we didn't have a lot of money. And so I started traveling around the world and I saw people from other walks of life doing the same thing. And I said, you know what, there's a great idea here as an entrepreneur. I brought in my best friend and we started spotlighting these invention heroes, these backyard geniuses. And one thing led to another after a couple of little online videos and the Weather Channel spotted us and said, hey, guys, I think we can do something great here.

And so that's what we do. So for Bill, where do these ideas come from? You know, it's what's really great is I'm I like doing research online. That's kind of my thing. Like electronics and those types of things.

And I've also been tinkering since I was a little boy, four years old, on the garage with my dad, working on cars. And then we have on the other end of the spectrum, we have Poppy, who's been who's been doing this stuff since well before I was born. And you the three of us in a room together and we bring our different backgrounds in. And my solution is going to be completely different from Ryan's, who's going to be completely different from Poppy. And then we just start kind of going down the board and seeing what we can actually do and end up deciding on one.

So the ideas come from, you know, again, I've called my dad numerous times. We're trying to figure something out. And and we have a lot of smart friends as well, which really helps. So what are some examples of things they've invented? Let's see, wind turbines.

We have a community up in the mountains that literally they run off the grid and the wind turbine was destroyed by some heavy winds not too long ago. And we went up there and repurposed a bunch of car parts and pieces of wood and and made the wind turbine better than it was before. We've got farmers and ranchers, a guy from Borough, Kansas, who drove his bus seven hours to our ranch, to our shop. And we converted it. Hey, hauling, stacking bus and made it even better on a small scale, turning air into water with an air moisture harvester and taking places that have a lot of drought and giving people clean drinking water.

So it's a litany of different things. And I think it's going to be a lot of fun for people and their biggest success so far. Wow, I think just that being able to actually work together under the time constraints and the constraints of a camera crew. I've been working with Ryan and the dad in the shop just casually working on our own projects, whether it be old cars that we're restoring, helping neighbors fix things. But then you add a camera crew who's constantly stopping you and asking you to do something in or explain something.

And then just the type constraints of we don't have four days to build something like we normally take. We have four hours and things things can get heated and you see a bit of that in the show. So I think that probably the greatest success is that we're able to get a full season out there, eight full hours and that Ryan and I are still willing to be in the same room together to do to do this call. It's been good for us and we really honestly, you know, it's always fun to say we wish we could change somebody's life with something that we do. And I can honestly say that there's been a few things we did in the first season that have genuinely changed people's lives and really, really proud of that for sure.

Which leads me to ask what their biggest failure was. That would be the, uh, the silly global log splitter. Initially we started off in that thing and it was, it was a point in our time where brainstorming that we weren't all seeing eye to eye and we went with an idea that I thought was kind of silly to begin with and it failed. And then we, we kind of, uh, we, we, we, we went back to the drawing board and brainstorm a little more and came up with an idea that worked out well. So, and that's part of this invention process is failing forward and taking the research and development and making it better as you go.

Yeah. Ryan and Bill and the cast of brainstormers every Sunday on the weather channel. You can see more right now at weatherchannel.com. Backyard inventors, Ryan Parker and Bill Lavassar have moved their hobby to the big time. A part of a new TV series called brainstormers every week on the weather channel. I asked Ryan when he first got the bug to start inventing things.

Yeah, actually I grew up on a farm here in Colorado and both my mom and dad were pretty resourceful when things broke, they fixed it and made it sometimes better than what they could have bought it for. Because we didn't have a lot of money. And so I started traveling around the world and I saw people from other walks of life doing the same thing. And I said, you know, there's, there's a great idea here as an entrepreneur, I brought in my best friend and we started spotlighting these invention heroes, these backyard geniuses. And one thing led to another after a couple of little online videos and the weather channel spotted us and said, Hey guys, I think we can do something great here.

And so that's what we do. So for Bill, where do these ideas come from? You know, it's what's really great is I'm I like doing research online. That's kind of my thing. I like electronics and those types of things.

And I've also been tinkering since I was a little boy, you know, four years old on the garage with my dad working on cars. You know, and then we have on the other end of the spectrum, we have Poppy who's been who's been doing this stuff, you know, since well before I was born. And you, the three of us in a room together and we bring our different backgrounds in. And my solution is going to be completely different from Ryan's who's going to be completely different from Poppy. And then we just start kind of going down the board and seeing what we can actually do and end up deciding on one.

So the ideas come from, you know, again, I've called my dad numerous times while trying to figure something out. And and we have a lot of smart friends as well, which really helps. So what are some examples of things they've invented? Let's see, wind turbines. We have a community up in the mountains that literally they run off the grid and the wind turbine was destroyed by some heavy winds not too long ago.

And we went up there and repurposed a bunch of car parts and pieces of wood and made the wind turbine better than it was before. We've got farmers and ranchers, a guy from Borough of Kansas who drove his bus seven hours to our ranch, to our shop, and we converted it. Hey, hauling, stacking bus and made it even better on a small scale, turning air into water with an air moisture harvester and taking places that are have a lot of drought and giving people clean drinking water. So it's a litany of different things. And I think it's going to be a lot of fun for people and their biggest success so far.

Wow. I think just that being able to actually work together under the time constraints and the constraints of a camera crew. You know, I've been working with Ryan and his dad in the shop just casually working on our own projects, whether it be old cars that we're restoring, helping neighbors fix things. But then you you add a camera crew who's constantly stopping you and asking you to do something in or explain something. And then just the type constraints of we don't have four days to build something like we normally take. We have four hours and things things can get heated and you see a bit of that in the show.

So I think that probably the greatest success is that we're able to get a full season out there, eight, eight full hours. And that Ryan and I are still willing to be in the same room together to do to do this call. It's been good for us. And we really honestly, you know, it's always fun to say we wish we could change somebody's life with something that we do. And I can honestly say that there's been a few things we did in the first season that have genuinely changed people's lives and really, really proud of that for sure.

Which leads me to ask what the biggest failure was. That would be the silly global log splitter. Initially, we started off in that thing and it was it was a point in our time when brainstorming that we weren't all seeing eye to eye. And we went with an idea that I thought was kind of silly to begin with and it failed. And then we we kind of rebamped.

We rebamped. We went back to the drawing board and brainstormed a little more and came up with an idea that worked out well. So that's part of this invention process is failing forward and taking the research and development and making it better as you go. And Ryan and Bill and the cast of brainstormers every Sunday on the Weather Channel. You can see more right now at Weather Channel dot com.

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