The L Word Season 4

I knew it was a bad sign when I checked Showtime's website for information on The L Word last week and found out that oops, even though the show starts in less than a month The L Word site was completely MIA. Well they've fixed that now but I'm still believing it's a bad omen. I've had a few spoilers come my way, some of them only mildly eye-roll inducing, some of them led me to sprain my left eye cause I rolled it so hard. One spoiler even made me happy, I know hard to believe. Because I'm good to you I'm going to share.

So yeah, um, consider this your spoiler warning.

- Marina the predatory lesbian is coming back for a couple episodes. Rumor has it she's going to screw up Crazy Jenny's love life. Again.
- Carmen will possibly be on for a few episodes but not long term.
- Cybil Shephard is going to appear as a middle aged straight woman who starts questioning her sexuality with Alice.
- A new character named Papi will be a "very hot Latina" who competes with Shane in lots of areas.
- Marlee Matlin joins the cast as a love interest for Bette.

Can you guess which spoilers caused physical injury to me and which one made me happy?

Season 4 premiers Sunday January 7. Check out a promo.

In addition to Season 4 The L Word creators have something else up there sleeve. It seems web 2.0 fever has struck them and they're starting a lesbian social networking site called Ourchart.com.

Like hugely popular social networking sites, such as My Space, Facebook and Bebo, OurChart.com will facilitate connections of all kinds, but is aimed directly at gay women, as well as their friends and family. Although there are many lesbian-centered Web sites, discussion groups, classified listings and news outlets, there has never been an online social space that is strategically and conceptually aligned with a franchise phenomenon like "The L Word."

Um, ok.

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