Sure, you could get your hands on a "lost" script, follow everybody on every social network or count on a rubbish postal worker to spoil something for you, but none of those approaches are guaranteed success. If you want a method of leaking that appears to have a 100% success rate, you just need to keep an eye out for casting calls. The latest source for spoilers are the adverts that production companies post for actors, which are usually accompanied by the names and short biographies of the characters whose roles they're looking to fill. Which, if you know your stuff, can be totally spoilerific. Again, it's the TV obsessives that have been most blessed and/or cursed by the humble casting call, which now circulate with as much fervour as a teaser trailer or early review through fandoms. People have picked apart adverts for roles in True Detective, Game Of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and even fantasy series Once Upon A Time, through which they've figured out character debuts, deaths, and pinpointed future plot twists that they'd otherwise have to wait months or even weeks to see! Can't you see that's just too long to wait? True Blood obsessives have predicted flashbacks via castings for "young" versions of existing characters, changes from George RR Martin's books have been signposted with the choice of protagonists, and prior to JJ Abrams sticking a bunch of stuff on YouTube and Twitter, our first real idea about what the new Star Wars film would entail came from the open casting call from which we learned details about the galactic ensemble. So hanging around agents' offices is best not only for swiping scripts, but cast lists too!
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
