Once again this year, Keith, Michael and I are braving the crowds at San Diego Comic-Con to learn the latest news, get the inside scoop and rub elbows with the stars of some of our favorite shows … and 125,000 of our other closest friends. This is my third year attending, and it is amazing how much the con has grown just in those three years (I can only imagine it from Michael’s perspective, who has been attending long before SDCC became the craziness that it is today).

Keith previewed what he was looking forward to most this year earlier this week. I’d planned on doing the same, but decided to skip my post when I realized that my list was nearly exactly the same as his.

Instead, I’m going to attempt to spend a couple of minutes each night going over the highlights of what I saw and learned during the course of each day. I’m not promising I’ll get it done every night – I can promise you with almost absolute certainty that Saturday Night’s schedule will definitely preclude me from chiming in – but I’ll do what I can.

• Technically from Wednesday night, but I learned that Wil Wheaton can brew a mighty fine tasting brew. The picture above is the three of us catching up. Wil’s Memories of the Future book came up, and I joined his wife Anne in hounding him for the follow-up.
• I attended the screenings of both Intelligence and Star-Crossed in Ballroom 20 (SDCC’s second largest room). I’ve previewed both before, but it was nice to watch with a large audience. Intelligence in particular was well received.
• One of SDCC’s most fervent Fandoms continues to be the Psych-o’s. The cast and crew embraces the culture of the convention about as well as any show factors into that a great deal. USA also announced the winner – “Nightmare on State Street” (formerly named “Dream Therapy”) – of the fan vote for the plot of an episode in the upcoming final season.
• EW’s Visionaries panel is always an interesting discussion, and this year’s panel with Alfonso Cuarón, Marc Webb and Edgar Wright was no exception.
• The Nerdist’s Chris Hardwick is easily the best panel moderator I’ve ever seen. He handled both Divergent and Ender’s Game, and was phenomenal.
• Speaking of Divergent, we got to see the first footage released for the film (principal photography just wrapped a couple of days ago). I’m a big fan of Veronica Roth’s series of books, and if the footage we saw was any indication, the movie series is going to be just as good.
• Veronica Roth, the author of the novels, announced that the third book — Allegiant, due out in October — will actually be told from both Tris and Four’s point-of-views.

• I’m not sure that the highlight of the Ender’s Game panel happened before they even took the stage. An attendee got in line during the Divergent Q&A, and began asking the cast and crew a question about Ender’s Game. Hardwick mocked him pretty badly, but made sure he got the chance to ask the question when the right time came around.
• I became a big fan of director Gavin Hood. He brought a joy and passion to the panel that can almost make me overlook X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
•  I’m lying about the highlight … it had to be Harrison Ford. He handled some of the off-the-wall questions amusingly – though obviously irritated. My favorite? “What would Han Solo and Indiana Jones say to each other if they met?” “Hi? How are you?”

I am looking forward to Day Two. I will be spending time with the casts of The 100, The Following, Falling Skies and The Blacklist. Later tomorrow night, though, is one of the things I’m most looking forward to for the entire week, the Veronica Mars movie fan event. I was a day one backer of the project, and cannot wait to see what Rob Thomas has in store for us.

Are you ready, folks? Wednesday night (March 27), USA Network airs the 100th episode of Psych, titled “100 Clues.” Not only will it be an awesome Clue-themed episode — featuring some of the players from the movie of the ’80s — but fans have the opportunity to determine the show’s ending by voting on psych.usanetwork.com and via Twitter using a custom hashtags for each possible culprit: #PsychButlerDDit, #PsychGroupieDDit, #PsychManagerDDit, #PsychAuthorDDit and #PsychHostDDit. Wait, where’s the #PsychShawnDDit?

And now, the giveaway details. We’ve got one Psych-themed t-shirt, commemorating the show’s 100 episodes, with the top-pictured image, and a Psych iCade box (for an iPad, not included). All you need to do is leave a comment to this post saying what your favorite episode of Psych has been so far. We’ll pick one commenter amongst the comments to this post, completely at random, and alert them after the giveaway ends on Wednesday, April 3 at Midnight ET (make sure your spam filters aren’t blocking mail from @cliqueclack.com!). Only one entry per person per method and you must have a valid U.S.-based mailing address. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents of 18 years of age or older only. Not following these guidelines voids your entry. Good luck!

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The wait to find out whether Henry lives or dies finally comes to an end when Psych season 7 returns in “Santabarbaratown 2.” Once that situation comes to a resolution, Psych continues the season with several themed episodes, including: The Clue-themed 100th episode, Single White Female episode, and the much awaited two-hour Psych musical.

While on set, we had the opportunity to speak with James Roday (Shawn), Dule Hill (Gus), Maggie Lawson (Juliette), and Tim Omundson (Lassiter). They are just as funny in person as they are on the show. Below is a edited portion of the interviews, including  a few of the funny exchanges.

Season 6 ended on a pretty dark note, are you worried that the audience might think the show took a bad turn?

Omundson: We’ve ended pretty darkly in the past, especially when James is at the helm. I think our audience appreciate it when we can mix it up a little bit like that. And it’s not just always, you know, Pez dispensers and unicorns. I think they like it.

Lawson: Pez dispensers and unicorns.

Roday: There’s a colloquialism that has been around for many years.

Omundson: Come on. We’re happier, pez dispensers and unicorns.

Roday: The truth is creatively we’ve been trying to figure out a way to get Corbin off of the show for years. So it was a sense a relief … when we thought that this could be it finally. But you know what I think after six years, you basically shown every pitch that you have in your arsenal, and it’s fun to come up with something that the audience hasn’t seen yet and you know, it still Psych. It’s always going to be Psych at the end of the day. But, if we can make your heartbeat a little bit faster every now and then, I think it’s probably healthy for everybody.

Omundson: I really think we should’ve gone with the mauled by a wombat though. Instead of the shooting, but whatever.

Lawson: Well, that was.

Omundson: Wombats are hard to work with.

Can you give us an idea of what’s going to happen with each of your characters?

Roday: Well [Lassiter’s] all soft now. … We are looking forward to treating you to the beginning of the next chapter of Lassiter’s domestic life. At some point. … You know Shawn and Juliette are just going to keep feeling it out. You know what I mean.

Lawson: That’s what we do.

Roday: Dule I’m sure will talk to this as well, but we’re finally bringing him up to the front of the pack in terms of getting the love that he deserves. I mean we’re starting to kind of pair people off and think about the future and try to bring this thing in, and land it properly.

Hill: Yeah, we have the lovely Parminder Nagra. She’s on the show this year, and Gus finally kind of takes a few steps into the relationship world. And it still doesn’t go exactly as planned, but so far, so good. I think it’ll be exciting for the audience to see how Gus interacts in relationship land. We’ll see how long it lasts, though, I don’t know how long it’ll last. But it’ll be there for at least a little while.

How does Gus meet his new girlfriend?

Hill: I guess being that we’re in, you know, 2012, and there’s new ways of dating and meeting folks with social media and all those kind of things, that would be the avenue that Gus takes….

What happens when the it comes out that Shawn’s a fake psychic?

Roday: Well my feeling is that the big road block there is Shawn’s personal relationship with Juliette. I think that that’s probably the biggest issue. As far as the police and everything else. we’ve solved probably a 160 murders, …. we’ve [put] many people behind bars. The fact that Shawn may not be psychic probably isn’t going to ruffle that many feathers at this point, but you know, the fact that he’s been lying to the girl that he wants to make a life with is a different issue. So, sort of the whole Batman catch 22 I guess.

Psych season 7 returns on Wednesday, February 27 at 10 pm ET on USA Network.

As I slog through the mostly just-OK TV on lately (no offense, folks — it’s just the picky way I roll these days), I can’t help but get a bit excited at the return of USA’s Psych next Wednesday, the 27th. It’s just good fun and rarely takes itself too seriously, and it’s been pretty consistent from day one (with the exception of its odd choice of changing up the actor for young Shawn). To celebrate the show’s return, we’ve got a Psych-themed desk set to give away to one lucky commenter!

The prize pack, pictured above, includes:

• Psych 3-hole-punch
• Pineapple USB Drive
• Poppin’ In/Out Box (2 boxes)
• Poppin’ Stapler
• Poppin’ Staple Remover
• Poppin’ Ruler
• Poppin’ Scissor
• Poppin’ Tape Dispenser
• Poppin’ Calculator
• Push Pin Tin
• Set of Post It Notes

All you need to do is leave a comment to this post saying something cool about the series or why you want the set — more than just “I want it.” We’ll pick one commenter amongst the comments to this post, completely at random, and alert them after the giveaway ends on Friday, March, 1 at Midnight ET (make sure your spam filters aren’t blocking mail from @cliqueclack.com!). Only one entry per person per method and you must have a valid U.S.-based mailing address. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents of 18 years of age or older only. Not following these guidelines voids your entry. Good luck!