Melinda Gordon unlocks a long-held secret of a missing girl on the next episode of ‘Ghost Whisperer’.

More drama will be seen on episode 4.09 of CBS’s drama fantasy thriller, “Ghost Whisperer“. As revealed in the recently released preview posted below, Melinda Gordon has to deal with her true love who doesn’t even remember her, and a spirit of a girl in the episode entitled “Pieces of You”.

Beside giving a sneak peek on the latest drama in Melinda’s life, the preview also mentions that the girl’s spirit may have help Melinda’s true love to regain his memory. Meanwhile, the episode itself is said to be dealing with a young girl who has been missing for 12 years, and following Melinda in tracking down the girl that unexpectedly leads to the uncovering of a long-held secret about the girl.

“Ghost Whisperer” has just got a behind-the-scene video for its episode 4.09. The video posted below shows the on-set shooting of a scene where Jennifer Love Hewitt and two other characters can be seen sitting around a dinner table where they eat Chinese meal.

Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, the “Pieces of You” episode will be aired on CBS network at 8/7c on December 5. —

Both the preview and out take video are below:

Conrad says death brings his ‘Whisperer’ character to life

By Amy Amatangelo, Boston Herald, Friday, November 28, 2008 – Added 7h ago

David Conrad wants fans of CBS’ “Ghost Whisperer” (tonight at 8 on WBZ, Ch. 4) to know there’s no reason to panic.

Earlier this month, Conrad’s character Jim was murdered. But, in keeping with the series’ paranormal bent, Jim entered Sam’s (Kenneth Mitchell) deceased body. Now his beloved wife Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt) must help Sam (who is really Jim) through his amnesia.

“I’m not going anywhere,” Conrad said. “I am there most of the time.”

Executive producer P.K. Simonds promised that viewers will see Conrad, and not actor Kenneth Mitchell, who plays Sam, 99 percent of the time.

Conrad said the controversial story line finally gave him a chance to do something different.

“I think actually it’s an exciting development instead of going through the same kind of trope that we usually do, which is nice but somewhat predictable. Look, after three years, Love and I were like, ‘Oh, no, another kitchen scene.’ We kiss each other and its, ‘OK, honey, I’ll give you a back rub,’ end of show,” he said. “It’s kind of cool for us to walk out and do a scene that we’ve never done before, and I think that will reflect in the show.”

The Pittsburgh native said the story that will unfold over the rest of the season is akin to a prequel.

“I get to play the part we never got to play at all, which was, I meet this stranger who I am really attracted to. They get to date, flirt, fall back in love with each other, and that’s thrilling.”

Conrad has been preparing himself for his character’s demise since filming the pilot.

“I thought, you know what, at some point they are going to hand me a pink slip,” he said. “But I didn’t know it would be in such a creative and kind of cool way. I thought somehow I was going to become sort of ghostly, and I kind of looked forward to it, and I have to say I think Jim kind of looked forward to it. From the pilot, he was always fascinated by what’s on the other side.”

Simonds said the plot will finally allow the show to tap into the full complement of Conrad’s talent.

“David is an amazing actor, and one of the reasons that we were excited about doing this in the first place is that we knew we had an actor that could do a lot more than frankly we were asking him to do.”

Both Simonds and Conrad are aware that many fans haven’t yet made peace with the story line.

“You feel bad because you don’t want the audience to feel bad,” Simonds said. “You don’t set out to do that, ever. But at the same time, we knew where we were going with it, and we were sure for the fans who stuck around, it would be a worthwhile journey for them.”

David Conrad is dead to me. To all of you. And to all past, present and future Ghost Whisperer fans. But in the mystical world of miracles depicted in GW, that doesn’t mean that he’s really dead, that his character has been killed off, or even that he’s taking a hiatus to rehabilitate a sex-addiction on a VH1 reality show. No. It does mean, however, that in a recent Ghost Whisperer plot twist, the nature of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character, Melinda and David Conrad’s character, Jim, will continue to change in a surprising way. And since we’re pretty big ghost fans and quite partial to inside voices and low-talking, we decided to catch up with Whisperer star Conrad and executive producer P.K. Simonds to get some real dirt on the turn J. Love’s hit show will take! Check out our full interview after the jump.

What was your reaction when they brought the “Hey we’re going to kill you on the show but don’t worry – you’re going to be in another body” storyline to you?

Conrad: My first reaction was kind of like something out of Prizzi’s Honor or Goodfellas, where they walk up to you and they’re like, “Yeah, you’re gonna’ end up here for a while.” I was pretty sure that they were very nicely saying “you’re done, you’re off the show.” But P.K. in a very polite, very reassuring way said, “I have this great plan…” At first I was like, “Oh, c’mon…” But then I was just like, “Great.” It was a face-to-face meeting, a guy knocked on my door and handed me an envelope. [Laughs.]

Do you miss the supportive character you were playing before now?

Conrad: Well that’s really an exciting thing for me. What I initially liked about the script was that John Grey wrote a character from the get-go that really loves his wife, he likes what she does – he thinks it’s a little freaky – but it’s still something that he likes about her. The core thing that she is and the best thing she does – he loves, which is probably a good thing. But after a few years for me, I guess the disbelieving thing – and I don’t really know how that’s going to go – but I guess what’s exciting for me is getting to play the part I never got to play at all, which is, I meet this stranger and I’m really attracted to her for some reason, I really like her, and so I really get to flirt and we get to start all over again.

Is the other actor that’s currently playing your character on set all the time? Do you have kind of a strange relationship with this person that you’re sharing a role with?

Conrad: He’s a sweet guy and he is around pretty often. Um yeah, it is kind of strange. But he’s amazing at imitating me – I try to do it sometimes – but he’s amazing at kind of mimicking some of my movements and what not – and he’s just fought on, I mean his timing is great.

Simonds: If I can just jump in and say… Kenneth Mitchell – the actor – is a great guy and he’s actually more of a model, he’s just kind of there in weight. He’s there to remind us what the rest of the world sees. But because we as the audience quickly understand that it really is Jim in that body and that’s because that’s essentially what Melinda sees when she looks at him – not literally but that’s who she knows is in there – we see David probably 99 percent of the time.

Although we’re getting 99 percent of David right now, how long will we be seeing David from Melinda’s side?

Simonds: We’ll always be seeing David from Melinda’s side. I know I’ve mentioned before that Heaven Can Wait is a big influence – it’s a great movie, I highly recommend renting it. It’s one of my favorite movies ever. The storytelling that we’re doing is kind of picking up the storytelling at the end of that movie. Which is when Joe Pendleton, Warren Beatty’s character, makes the last leap into another body so while we see him, we know it’s still his soul. He doesn’t even remember his past life. But that’s all by way of saying in that movie we never ever saw any of the other characters whose body he was occupying. So what you’re sort of saying to the audience is that it’s still Jim’s soul – it still in every sense is Jim and that’s who we want to see. We’re interested in seeing the soul of Jim and obviously the real reason we’re interested in that is because we have David and he’s an amazing actor. And one of the things that excited us about doing this story in the first place is that we knew we had an actor who could do a lot more than frankly we were asking him to do – and he’s been doing an amazing, amazing job of filling out this new role – which we’re really excited for the audience to see.

What would you say to fans that are sort of freaked by this storyline?

Conrad: I mean… what they’ll do is they’ll say that and then they’ll watch it and realize that I am there most of the time. As P.K. said, I am still there 90 percent of the time.

Simonds: 90 percent in the way that we want to remind you that people in the show see him differently when they look at him. But aside from reminding them that – since it really is Jim’s soul, we want to remind the audience of that and focus on that. He’s the same character. He just doesn’t look the same to other people. But a majority of the time you’re not seeing him through other people’s eyes.

Conrad: I think the only thing that’s gone is the memory. I think actually it’s an exciting development because instead of going through the same kind of trope that we usually do, it’s like a prequel. You’ll get to see them date, flirt, and fall back in love again. And that’s thrilling. Maybe that’s what’s at the heart of what makes them so exciting – that chemistry between them.

So far, Jim has memory loss since being in his new body. Is there a plan to resolve this issue or will it last forever?

Simonds: Yes. We’ve plotted it out through the end of the season, so we know where we’re going to go. We don’t want it to last forever. And really what we’re interested in is a journey. You’ve got these two characters, who, as David pointed out… it was always our intention to do kind of an emotional prequel because now we get to see what may have played out at the beginning of their relationship. Part of the reason she was drawn to Jim is he was very believing, very ready and very open to believing her gift and accepting it and embracing it. Without getting too intellectual, one of things we have to explore in this season’s story is what makes a person. It’s partly their soul and partly their experiences. Here’s a guy who still has Jim’s soul but it’s kind of a purer version of that soul in many ways, yet he has different experiences, because he’s been brought into the world, almost reincarnated, under such bizarre circumstances. It changes the way he reacts when he learns things about her that we all know as fans. Even though he at this point doesn’t have access to his life’s memories, those things are going to come back and that’s what makes the storytelling even more interesting.

Conrad: I mean it’s like Star Wars where we’re going back to the thing before. I mean, after three years, Love and I were like, “Oh, no. We’ve got a kitchen scene. Yeah, that’s great. Tell me the story. Okay, honey, I’ll give you a backrub. End of show.” It’s kind of cool. I’m really excited to be able to do a scene that we’ve never done before, and weren’t able to do before. It’s cool to find that kind of spark in one another.

Did it ever occur to you that, in a show about ghosts and spirits, that you could become one of them?

Conrad: Actually, you know what, I think it occurred to me while I was filming the pilot. I was like “I wonder when they’re going to hand me the pink slip…” [Laughs.] I didn’t know it would be in such a creative and cool way. I thought they’d be like “Hey, we hired David Duchovny and he’s going to come on the show and you’re going.” I knew it all along in some way. I thought at some point it would be very logical for my character to be tied into that aspect of the storytelling. I kind of looked forward to it. I’d have to say that Jim probably looked forward to it because, since the pilot, he’s always asked the question, “What’s on the other side?”

Many Ghost Whisperer fans are really interested in the romance between Jim and Melinda, which has become a huge part of the storytelling. For FEARnet fans, the supernatural aspect is probably a bit more interesting. With the new storyline, where do you see this fitting in?

Simonds: Well obviously we have new ghosts every week. We’ve been focused a little bit less on new ghost powers and manifestations and so forth – partly because with the amount of the premise portion that the audience is being asked to embrace with the storyline with Jim, he’s large enough that we kind of don’t want to strain the limits. But once we head towards the resolution of that story, we want to sort of get back into what you’re talking about and that sort of stuff that’s related to what we’ve been doing or were doing before in terms of possession. Also these ghosts that we’ve introduced at the beginning of the seasons, the Watchers, we’re going to see more of them and we’re going to learn more about who they are and how they work in relationship to the world of the beyond. It’s kind of complicated and more two-edged. Then there’s some other stuff that I can’t really talk about for the end of this season and the beginning of next.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and David Conrad in “Ghost Whisperer.” CBS photos

• Episode 4.09 – Pieces of You [Airing December 5]: Eli talks to Travis, who he believes to be a serial killer but after hearing Travis’s story, he changes his mind. They deal with a bunch of dolls taken apart into pieces and a well full of wishes. Travis’s sister died when they were younger and is haunting him and Eli and Melinda learn something more about his more recent past that helps heal him. Source: SpoilerFix.com
• Episode 4.10 – Ball & Chain [Airing in January 2009]: Melinda helps the ghost of a woman named Tammy who was abused by her husband. She wants Melinda to help who she believes is the man’s new wife or girlfriend, Elizabeth, who is also being abused. Melinda figures out that the man was holding the women basically as prisoners and helps reunite Tammy with her real husband so she can pass over. Jim, as Sam, is still with Melinda. Source: SpoilerFix.com
• Episode 4.11 – Life on the Line: Melinda helps the ghost of a young boy named Josh who was killed when trying to drive a riding lawnmower with his brother. The whole family is falling apart and having trouble talking and Josh wants them to get along and talk about what they are feeling before he moves on. Source: SpoilerFix.com

71 “Pieces Of You” December 5, 2008 409
A mystery involving a wishing well uncovers information about the decades-old disappearance of a little girl, now haunting Sam/Jim. Melinda tracks down a girl who has been missing for 12 years and discovers a long-held secret.
72 “Ball & Chain” December 12, 2008 410
coming soon…
73 “Life On The Line” January, 2009 411
A 14-year-old ghost wants to get his divorced parents and estranged brother back together so they will finally discuss the real reason for his death…
74 “This Joint’s Haunted” January, 2009 412
coming soon…
75 “Body of Water” January, 2009 413
When Nikki pays a prolonged visit, Melinda fears that Sam/Jim will never reconnect with his true nature. Meanwhile, Melinda discovers a mysterious and vengeful contingent of ghosts at a local lake, where a financially distressed mortician had been secretly dumping bodies scheduled for cremation…

* Directed By: Jennifer Love Hewitt

76 “Slow Burn” February, 2009 414
As Melinda and Sam/Jim decide to give dating a try, Melinda must also help the ghost of Deborah Marks protect her teenage daughter from a supposedly bad-news boyfriend…
77 “Greek Tragedy” February, 2009 415
A sorority girl goes missing in the woods during a secret initiation ceremony, and Melinda is confronted with the uneasy spirit of a sad ghost who encountered tragedy during that same ritual 40 years ago..
78 “Ghost Busted” February, 2009 416
coming soon…

Jim Lives On, Sort Of, On Ghost Whisperer

Jim is dead; long live Jim. Yes, Jim (David Conrad), the understanding and adoring husband of Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), died of his injuries a couple of weeks back on Ghost Whisperer. But, pulling a page from Heaven Can Wait, Jim will remain very much a part of Melinda’s life and Conrad will stick around on Ghost Whisperer. How, you ask? Well, Jim is now safely nestled inside the body of Sam (Kenneth Mitchell), and even though the characters within the Ghost Whisperer universe – except Melinda – will see Sam, it’s Jim through and through. You following any of that?

Anyway, for a better understanding of it all, check out tonight’s episode of Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda embarks on her second shot at true love and contends with Jim/Sam’s amnesia. In the meantime, read on to hear the thoughts of David Conrad and Ghost Whisperer co-executive producer P.K. Simonds, who took to the phone the other day for a conference call with journalists to discuss recent and upcoming events on the hit show.

UGO: David, how did they tell you about this storyline? Did they come up to you and say, “We’re going to kill, but don’t worry, you’ll be in another body?”

Conrad: My first reaction was kind of like something out of Prizzi’s Honor or Goodfellas, where they kind of walk up to you and say, “You’re gonna disappear for a while.” I was sure in a very nice way they were saying, “You’re done. You’re out of the show.” But P.K., the man on the phone with us, in a very erudite, complete and assuring way, said, “I have this great plan…” And at first I was like, “Oh, come on…” And then I thought, “Great.” But, yeah, it was a face to face meeting. A guy knocked on the door and handed me my envelope.

UGO: So many shows and movies of this kind have a spouse who’s disbelieving. Jim was so open and believing and supportive. Now, in a way, you’re the familiar disbelieving character. How different will it be to play Jim as Sam?

Conrad: That’s really exciting. In the first place, what I really liked about (the show) was that (series creator) John Gray wrote a character who, from the get-go, knows this about his wife. He thinks it’s kind of cool, that it’s a little freaky, but it’s something he loves about her. The core thing that she is, the best thing that she does, he loves, which in any marriage is probably a good thing. But after three years, for me – the disbelieving thing, I’m not sure how that’s going to go – what’s exciting is that I get to play the part we never got to play at all, which is I meet this stranger and I’m really attracted to her for some reason and I really like her. So we get to flirt. It’s like we start all over again.

UGO: How much is Kenneth Mitchell around? And how strange is it for you to now share your role with him?

Conrad: He’s a sweet guy and he is around pretty often. Yeah, it is kind of strange. He’s really good. He’s amazing at imitating me. I’ll do a scene and he has to mimic some of the movements, and he’s spot-on. His timing is crazy.

Simonds: If I can jump in… Kenneth Mitchell is a terrific guy. The model is actually much more Heaven Can Wait. He’s there to remind us of what the rest of the world sees, but because we as an audience quickly understand that it really is Jim in that body and that because that’s what Love Hewitt’s character sees when she looks at him – not literally, but it’s who she knows is in there – we’ll see David 99 percent of the time.

UGO: It’s Jim now, but some David Conrad fans are concerned that once the transition is complete it’ll be this other guy, and not David, that they’ll see. How long will we see David at Jennifer Love Hewitt’s side?

Simonds: We will always be seeing David at her side. I mentioned Heaven Can Wait. It’s a great movie. Everyone should rent it. It’s one of my favorite movies ever. There’s too many people who haven’t seen it and it’s a brilliant, brilliant movie…, but that’s all by way of saying that in that movie we never, ever saw any of the other bodies Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) was occupying. What you’re saying to the audience, which is true in our case, is since it is still Jim’s soul it’s still in almost every sense Jim. So that’s who we want to see. We’re interested in the soul of Jim, and obviously the real reason we’re interested in that is we have David, and David is an amazing actor. One of the things that excited us about doing this story in the first place was we knew had an actor who could do a lot more than, frankly, we were asking him to do. And he’s done an amazing, amazing job of filling this new role, which we’re really excited for the audience to start to see, and it really kicks off with (tonight’s) episode.
Originally posted: November 20, 2008

David Conrad is dead and loving it

Posted at 11 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20

His character is dead, and David Conrad of CBS’ “Ghost Whisperer” loves it.

The actor, who plays Jim Clancy, the husband of the ghost whisperer herself, Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), was killed off in last week’s episode. Conrad said the twist is giving him and Love Hewitt the chance to reboot their love story.

“What’s exciting to me is I get to play the part [I] never got to play at all,” he told reporters Thursday. “… We get to start all over again.”

Confused? Let me explain. When Jim died, his ghost took over the body of a dead man named Sam after his soul “went into the light.” Now a revived Sam—who doesn’t look like Jim to anyone but Melinda—has amnesia. He doesn’t have Sam’s, or Jim’s, memories.

Viewers will see Conrad as Sam/Jim “99 percent of the time.” For the other 1 percent—just to remind viewers who the other characters are seeing—actor Kenneth Mitchell plays Sam/Jim.

”It is kind of strange,” Conrad said of Mitchell. “He’s amazing at imitating me … I’ll do a scene and he has to mimic the movement and he’s spot on.”

Conrad said that because Melinda wants to be with Jim, she and Sam must fall in love, beginning with the episode called “Heart and Soul,” airing at 7 p.m. Friday.

“It’s like a prequel,” he said. “They get to date, flirt, fall back in love with each other. And that’s thrilling, that’s maybe at the heart of what makes them exciting, that chemistry.”

Conrad said he wasn’t surprised with the story line, considering the show deals with death, ghosts and other supernatural phenomenon.

“It occurred to me when I was filming the pilot [that] at some point they were going to hand me the pink slip,” he joked. “I didn’t know it would be in such a creative, cool way. I thought they’d be like, ‘You know, we hired David Duchovny, and he’s coming on the show and you’re going …’

“I knew it all the time. Somehow, I was going to become ghostly.”

All I want to know is the bottom line when it comes to Ghost Whisperer‘s Jim dying. Will he ever be brought back to life (his life), or is his only involvement going to be in the body of Sam?
MATT: It’s simple, really: Jim is now going by “Sam,” but Sam is mostly Jim. “Since it’s Jim’s soul [inside Sam’s body], we will always be seeing David [Conrad] at Melinda’s side,” exec producer P.K. Simonds tells me, dismissing rumors that Conrad is leaving the show. Much of the story to come involves Sam (who to everyone else looks like Jericho‘s Kenneth Mitchell) realizing that he has this new life inside of him. As Conrad explained it to me, “It’s the whole question of how you define yourself, in terms of what people say you were and what you slowly find out you are. Jim gets told by people who knew Sam that he was ‘this way,’ so he doesn’t believe what Melinda says.” OK, maybe “simple” wasn’t the best adjective to use earlier. — TV Guide

The last episode of Ghost Whisperer experienced a rather daunting blow in the ratings.  Its previous installment, “Heart and Soul” brought in 11.36 million viewers, 300K shy of its preceding season high.  The results actually lost quite some fans due to the plot twists it’s been employing, but the series remains a driving force in the 8pm timeslot.

The Jim/Sam storyline seems to be keeping fans curious, which is probably the strategy of the writers.  It raises more questions than answers, sometimes inundating the viewer with mystery that it gets rather difficult to keep up.  But even though it’s gotten pretty bad response from the audience, Ghost Whisperer remains able to maintain its strong ratings.  However, only the next few weeks will tell if they can get it higher.

On December 5, don’t forget to catch “Pieces of You,” the next episode of the Melinda-Jim saga. Ghost Whisperer airs Fridays at 8pm on CBS. — Buddy TV

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