With Dollhouse crashing to an unbelievable series finale, we wanted to post this interview we did on The Cabonauts set with Miracle Laurie about the show. She gushed – as you can tell – about Eliza, Joss and how she made it on to the series in the first place as Mellie! Add @TheCabonauts to your twitter for the latest updates!

While we gear up The Cabonauts, we’ve been keeping busy with a brand new comedy/horror series that debuts today. The Occulterers stars Ellen Sandweiss (The Evil Dead), James C. Leary (Buffy, The Cabonauts), Camden Toy (Buffy, Angel), Amy Kline (I <3 Vampires) and my good self Hayden Black!

The 6-episode series airs one new episode every night this week thru Halloween following a bunch of VERY dysfunctional ghost hunters as they spend the night in Castle Vampire in Transylvania. It’s accompanied by 6 x 1 hour live feeds where you can watch for yourself what goes on there. If you see anything spooky, twitter the team at @TheOcculterers.

It was tons of fun making the series – I wrote it and shot it in just 2 weeks because of the deadline – and we hope to have another season soon.  Let us know what you think!

A brief interview on set of The Cabonauts where we talk to Miracle Laurie, co-star of the pilot (and, of course, Dollhouse). Miracle reveals what happens in the first episode! You of course know the lovely Miracle from Dollhouse where she plays Mellie/November. Her co-star in the pilot is another member of the Joss Whedon universe – namely James C. Leary who played Clem, the loose-skinned demon on Buffy.

You may recognize – or not, as the case may be – James C. Leary as Clem (the loose-skinned demon) from Joss Whedon’s Buffy TV series. He played a demon and was covered in latex. Well, he’s now co-starring in The Cabonauts pilot episode as a husband who’s been…well, a little too kind to his wife (if a man could ever be too kind!) because he’s opted to get pregnant instead of her. This is 2183 after all.

We grabbed a moment with him in the backseat of the Scarad to talk about it.

Here it is – our first exclusive interview with Miracle Laurie (Mellie/November from Dollhouse) about her role in the first episode of The Cabonauts!

Feast your eyes on this! The Cabonauts trailer featuring Nichelle Nichols and revealing that in our pilot, it’s guest starring none other than Dollhouse’s Miracle Laurie (Mellie) and Buffy’s James C. Leary (Clem). The Scarad 27 has been cleared for take-off. Glad to have you all on board

The news is out and the buzz is pretty damn loud! The wonderful, beautiful, exceptionally talented Nicky Nichols – Star Trek’s Uhura – has come on board the Cabonauts as CJ, the CEO of the cab company.
We couldn’t have done it without our unbelievable casting director, Erin Gray. Erin allowed us to connect and, after I delivered a script and character breakdown, Nichelle said yes. It happened so fast too; within 3 weeks of having the initial idea to approach Nichelle, she’d said yes.

We’ve already spent some time shooting scenes and recording songs and videos. Nicky looks amazing in an outfit put together by Angela Sauceda, our stylist. It was a crazy day that first day – about 20 people buzzed around doing various jobs, among them the Bui Brothers who took some amazing pictures. You can imagine my surprise when, during an interview we did on set, Nichelle began comparing me to Gene Roddenberry and The Cabonauts to Star Trek. As far as absolutely surreal experiences go, that was right up there. We’ll be releasing clips of that interview over the next few weeks as teasers – you can see the first one up above!

Nicky’s character CJ comes from a long line of very successful women. In fact, she keeps one of them on her desk – the clone brain of her dead Grandma sits in a plexiglass container doling out unwanted advice. CJ had been COO of Farmer’s Seuticals, a top drugs manufacturer, but was ousted after being tainted in a financial scandal that she had nothing to do with. CJ’s now working as CEO of The Cabonauts Inc., a huge step down for her, but she’s going to give it her all.

CJ was married briefly to Cyril’s father who passed away. On his death-bed, he made her promise to help his son out which is why Cyril is employed by her as a cab instructor. And of course it’s Cyril who’s her biggest problem, slovenly care-free guy that he is.

Nichelle will be in every single episode, either in scenes or singing and dancing in the music videos – or both! Mostly both (Grandma will too, but don’t expect her to participate in much dancing.) Seeing Nicky dancing with our dance troupe was so much fun too; I was watching her on the monitor as she shimmied away, her dazzling smile absolutely infectious! You’ll agree when you see it. Plus, we’re lining up some extra special interactive features that will…You know, it’s a bit too early to reveal those surprises, but rest assured you’ll be closer to Nichelle than you ever dreamed possible!

The show will most likely premiere in a few months but between then and now, we’ll be appearing at some big sci-fi conventions across the country, releasing interviews, trailers, pictures and news so be sure to sign up to the mailing list (links on the main page) to be the first to find out what’s going on. Our guest cast keeps getting bigger and bigger too – because someone needs to play the role of the passengers and we’re only taking names from iconic sci-fi TV series and movies ‘cause that’s how we roll. More news soon on who those people are – and which two players from the Joss Whedon universe will guest-star in the pilot. In the meantime, in the summer of Star Trek, we couldn’t be happier, and prouder, to be a tiny part of it with one of the biggest icons in the world of Sci-Fi. Nichelle – thanks for coming on board!