It was the last day of Comic-Con 2009 on Sunday, and our Brian Truitt checked out a panel for the CBS Friday night staple, The Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as a woman who regular talks to ghosts and helps them cross over to the other side. He found out there are big changes afoot this fall, coming out of last year’s season finale in which Melinda Gordon (Hewitt) was told her baby boy would have powers even greater than hers, and that the date of Melinda's death corresponded with her due date. Hewitt revealed on the panel that the fifth season premiere, an episode she directed that airs Sept. 25, will show the delivery of her baby, but then jump five years into the future. “We really felt it would allow us to tell better stories,” says Hewitt, who will also direct the 100th episode during the season. “We thought it would be really crazy for Melinda to be running to a bridge at 3 in the morning with a baby strapped to her chest.” The actress admits that she's wanted Melinda to have a baby for a couple years. "It's been fun to play a mom, but I didn't think I'd be doing that at 30

Also on the panel was Hewitt’s co-star (and boyfriend) Jamie Kennedy, who plays Melinda’s ghost-listening confidante, Eli. “Are you going to kill every girlfriend on the show?” Kennedy jokes, referring to Eli’s love interest Zoe getting offed in the season four finale. “Yes. And I will cross them all over!” Hewitt playfully says. Eli’s parents will be be on the show in the fifth season, fans will find out what exactly happens when ghosts cross over, and the season premiere will begin a new mythology connected to a new place that’s important to the series. Also this season, The Ghost Whisperer is getting a sister psychic show with the former NBC drama Medium, which will air after it on Fridays. “Medium paved the way for us to do what we do,” Hewitt says. “I don’t know if there will ever be a case where Allison DuBois and Melinda Gordon cross over. But hopefully, people will want to watch both shows.”