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Tonight should be a SUPER night all around. Hopefully you have purchased "Superman:Unbound" and have watched it by tonight's STR Round table. Hope you can join us for some more summer fun! Photo credit/copyright: Warner Premiere/DC Comics from DC Entertainment .. sheryll - WonderCon Panel, March 2013. Oh, and the SUPERStana Tshirt was designed and created by @MindyD1013 :) Stana fans are THE best!

Hopefully everyone has watched "Watershed" by now and may have some second thoughts after multiple viewings of the Season 5 Finale of #Castle.  Please rewatch the episode by tonight's show and Elena will post the questions in advance on our web site: www.stanatalkradio.com under "STR Round Table". We listened to your positive and constructive feedback and might be trying out some of your suggestions.  "See you" tonight!

Look at the time! June is half way through 2013 and tonight we thought it would be a great opportunity to enlist some of YOUR creative ideas into "the mix" as we plan for the rest of the year and into 2014. We know many of you have thought of several ways [while either listening or participating in 100% support of Stana Katic] of helping STR continue to grow and evolve. So, tonight is YOUR opportunity to jump in to the discussion while we plan for the future.   We truly know the power of brainstorming together and want to tap into that very creative energy tonight as we continue to move forward.  After the latest STR News we’ll open up our STR Round Table to “poll the audience” for your thoughts and views on the future.  Hope you can join us. If not, we trust you will at least find a moment where you can give us your honest thoughts/suggestions via our web site and/or email address. Hopefully we can incorporate as many of them as possible. "See you" tonight! www.stanatalkradio.com stanatalkradiofeedback@gmail.com

Tonight is our first "STR Book Club" discussion. We will be discussing "The Marriage of True Minds" a novel by Stephen Evans. http://stanatalkradio.com/str-book-club-3/ We chose this book because Stana's Production Company, Sine Timore, has optioned it and will be working to turn it into a film in the future: http://www.stanakatic.com/sine-timore So, it's still not too late to buy/download it today to get in on tonight's lively discussion. It's our first STR Book Club selection.. who knows what'll be said. Here's just one of the ways you can purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-True-Minds-Stephen-Evans/dp/1932961461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369150456&sr=8-1&keywords=The+marriage+of+true+minds Happy reading and hope to "see you" tonight!  

"Watershed" was a perfect title for the Season 5 Finale of Castle. What will Beckett decide? What do you think she should do? It has been called a "soft cliffhanger".. more along the lines of a heart cliffhanger. We now have the entire summer to try to figure out every possible thing/angle Andrew W Marlowe could have as Beckett's response to Castle. Stop by and tell us your thoughts on this Caskett Critical episode. Photo copyright/credit[above]:  Castle ~ ABC Studios/Network 

'The Human Factor' episode has set the stage for the Castle Finale next week.  In last night's episode, Beckett's skills have caught the attention of a certain Attorney General's Office Agent who has offered her an opportunity wayyyy beyond her current growth potential as a NYC Police Detective ~ based upon all her abilities she clearly demonstrated during the investigation/solving of this case. I hope you were able to watch this episode which was written by David Amann and directed by Bill Roe. No doubt tonight's STR Round Table will have us all wondering/speculating about how the Castle Team will leave us heading into the summer with the Season 5 Finale. Photo credit/copyright[above]: ABC Studios/Network

NOTE: the music was edited from the original show to fit the alloted time for a "featured episode".. we hope you were there LIVE! We can't wait for NEXT year! "Say what you wanna say, and let the words fall out .. honestly.. wanna see YOU be BRAVE" are the lyrics and the "say what you wanna say" chorus is the theme of tonight's STR Birthday Bash showering on our VERY favorite Stana Katic.    Here's Sara's new song and video: via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwTr_CRw3GY and via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/brave-single/id635410318   Let the party begin, HAPPY BIRTHDAY STANAAAAA!!!   Photo credit/copyright[above]: Stana at GOT Premeire, Getty Images, Elena|Miah|Sheryll, Stana at LHJ, Brooke Nipar. All "door prizes" were donated for this party. Thank you to our fellow Stana Fans!

"Still" was so much more than a "clip show" episode of 'Castle'.. hope you were able to watch it and have formed your own opinion of the "making of #Caskett". "Still" was written by Rob Hanning and directed by Bill Roe. Plus, we learned from Terri that Orlando Machado Jr put together all the flashback clips, awesome job by everyone past and present on the "Castle Team" who's body of work over 5 years was clearly and lovingly remembered in this episode of Castle! Photo credit/copyright: ABC Studios/Network May 2, 2013 is the 3 year anniversary for STR. Thank YOU to everyone who has ever participated in promoting and supporting Stana Katc.. through STR.

Castle jealous? You betcha! Obviously Castle is VERY comfortable with how the current Caskett relationship is progressing but Beckett seems to be doing a lot more thinking of late.. Hopefully you were able to watch last night's awesome #Castle episode, "The Squab and the Quail" [teleplay by Jason Wilborn & story by Adam Frost/directed by Paul Holohan] and have some of your own thoughts on the current status of "Caskett". If not, and you DVRd it, please watch it by Wednesday night. Photo credit/copyright[above]: ABC Studios/Network  

Do you believe in "Bigfoot" like Castle in this episode? Or are those really just "giant clown feet" per Beckett. Hope you were able to watch "The Fast and the Furriest" #Castle episode last night or today to find out the answer to that question and then hopefully can stop by tonight to join our STR Round Table to give your thoughts on "Sasquatch" and this FUN #Caskett episode.  Photo credit/copyright[above]: ABC Studios/Network  

We could NOT do it!  There had been so much EPIC Stana awesomeness since the previous week that we simply ran out of our alloted time for STR and didn't even make it to the discussion of the 100th episode itself, "The Lives of Others" ~ written by Terri Edda Miller and Andrew W. Marlowe. We loved each of your personal stories about how you started watching #Castle and then why you stayed and continue to watch. There were so many interesting stories from each of the live callers that we encouraged everyone to read the STR Facebook/twitter comments we weren't able to include. Thank you to those of you who shared your personal stories. As those who heard at the tail end of last week's STR show, we decided to expand it and discuss the episode on tonight's originally scheduled "Just The News Please" show into a "Part 2". Hope you've had the opportunity to rewatch the episode several times before tonight and can't wait to hear your thoughts about this new "fan favorite" episode. Photo credits/copyright: ABC Studios/Network for Castle

Castle witnessed a murder?! What?! And no one believes him?Perhaps it's just a case of an overactive writer's imagination or truely the effects of knee injury medication.  Sure hope you were able to watch this EPIC 100th episode of Castle to find out. Terri Edda Miller and Andrew W. Marlowe [MilMar] have giving us so much to talk about during tonight's STR Round Table with their nod to Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" plus even a cameo just like Alfred did in his films.  There were so many wonderful Caskett/CastleTeam scenes in this episode that clearly demonstrated their love for their millions of loyal Castle fans who stuck with them on this journey from the very beginning and continue to enjoy their method of storytelling along the path to 100 episodes [over 5 seasons].  So we hope you'll be able to join us in this fun dicussion. But right before all that we'll have the latest News and we will definitely have some STRC reports from this past [extended] weekend's Stana events. If you haven't watched "The Lives of Others", please do so before end of day Wednesday so your viewing of the episode will count in the revised numbers. As of midnight last night, it was great to see #Castle100 trend in the United States during the East/Central air time zones on ABC.  Photo Credits/copyright: ABC Studios/Network - Castle/GMA/Kelly and Michael,  DC Comics - Superman:Unbound, @LewisInNC from Robin|"Kelly and Michael"    

Who knew all this about Detective Kevin Ryan?! Wow! Certainly the #Castle showrunner Andrew W. Marlowe did and the writer of this Ryan-centric episode [long time Castle guru], Terence Paul Winter.  Through this murder we learned some very interesting back stories on Ryan – who’s past was NOT quite as simple as perhaps we thought. We learned he was deep undercover with the Irish mob before joining Beckett's team and even had a tumultuous pre-Jenny romance..

Think playing "serious and teasing" to the "nervous and scaredy Castle" Stana did an oustanding job as Beckett in "Scared To Death" last night.  Even the famous Wes Craven cameo (of Nightmare on Elm Street/Freddie Kruegar fame) even tried to help the perceived cursed Rick in this funny horror episode of Castle. If you missed watching it, please be sure to watch it via ABC.com/Hulu/Netflix and/or your recorded/DVRd copy before tonight's show. Shalisha Francis (After Hours) wrote this fun nod to the classic horror film genre and it was directed by Ron Underwood (Food To Die For). All the "Caskett-y" scenes we know you'll want to talk about after the latest news from the last two weeks away.. we truly missed YOU and hope you can join us again tonight reviewing this fun F.U.N. episode of Castle.   Photo credit/copyright[above]: ABC Studios/Network

Tonight we will have the latest news and then will try our very best to have a fun little "give way".  So, are YOU missing anything from your #Stana collection of memorabilia? Well, then tonight's show COULD BE a fun way for YOU to receive something shipped to you [anywhere in the world] as we are giving away some free extra copies of some Stana related items we have from our mini "Spring Cleaning". Stana's career is soaring and we each definitely need to be good "sharerrrrs" and make room for more on the horizon.. To win, you might want to call/skype in "live" tonight for an opportunity to snag an item you might be missing from your own personal collection. One prize package per person. Don't worry, if YOU are a Stana fan, you will already know the answer to every single question.. Photo credit/copyright: 2013 Independent Spirit Awards and Oscar Canada/Reuters