Smallville is Big for WB
Posted by Christopher Stone Categories: Action, Drama, Prime Time, Cable, WB,
100 episodes into its five-year run, Smallville continues to deliver big numbers for the WB. Above and beyond muscular Nielsens, the series about the super adolescent has been a winner in other arenas, too. Smallville‘s Seasons 1-4 DVDs have grossed in excess of $100 million for Warner Home Video. In 2004, ABC Family picked up the super series for syndication, paying $400,000. per episode for the privilege.
As WB and UPN morph into the CW, Smallville is definitely among the neophyte network’s most valuable assets.
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Jessica Simpson To Fill Pamela Anderson’s Shoes In “Baywatch” Movie
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Drama, Reality, Talent, News,
Pop sensation and reality star Jessica Simpson is quickly racking up the movie credits. Although the blond superstar has lamented being viewed as a sex symbol, she doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to dispel that view. Case in point: she has recently been cast in the movie version of Baywatch, playing voluptuous lifeguard C.J. Parker, the character created by vixen Pamela Anderson.
Producers told The Sun, “Jessica has all the assets to make Pam’s part her own.”
Ahem, indeed. What do you think? Will a Baywatch movie, so long after the series was popular, be a success? Will Jessica have any hope of being taken seriously after this role?
Read More | Female First
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Can’t Get Enough Of Your Favorite Shows? Read The Blogs!
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Drama, ABC, CBS, NBC, Internet,
It’s the hottest trend in television: blogs produced by the ‘characters’ of shows. These blogs provide supplemental information and insights for the amusement and delight of television viewers.
Whether it’s Medium’s Joe Dubois’s journal detailing his psychic wife’s dreams, case notes from the lawyers of Boston Legal, or delightfully gruesome entries from several forensic dramas, these blogs are guaranteed to at least curb the hunger of salivating fans wanting more details about their favorite shows and characters.
Which blog would we most like to see launch? It’s no contest: the world needs one from the Grey’s Anatomy cast. Oh, the wonder that would be! Perhaps we should lobby for one. Which are your favorite television blogs, and which show would you like to see get one?
Read More | USA Today
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Another Relationship Planned for Grey’s Anatomy
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, ABC, Grey’s Anatomy,
According the recent issue of US Weekly, there will be soon be another coupling in the halls of of Seattle Grace—this one being of the same-sex kind. Actress Kate Walsh (Addison) told the magazine that this relationship ‘affects all’ of them and that she would be ‘involved in some way’. Interesting… so does this mean that it will be Dr. McDreamy? Maybe he’ll hook up with George as well!
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Sharon Stone Knocked Out On Television And At Box Office
Posted by Christopher Stone Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Cable, Showtime, Ratings,
The Huff: Season 2 Premiere, guest starring Sharon Stone, Sunday night on Showtime, was less than a lusty success with viewers. According to the AC Nielsen Company, the initial airing of the episode was watched by a scanty 372,000 viewers, losing 36% of Huff‘s lead in show, the Oscar-winning Crash.
It was a difficult weekend for the 48-year-old sex star elsewhere, too. Movie-goers didn’t exactly roll out the Welcome mat, much less the red carpet, for Stone at the nation’s box offices, either. Despite a media blitz of advertising and publicity, the opening weekend of Stone’s Basic Instinct 2, a sequel to her early ‘90s’ mega-hit, grossed a dismal $3.2 million, placing 10th on the list of last weekend’s top-grossing motion pictures.
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Bitty Schram Catches Thief, Speaks Out
Posted by Christopher Stone Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Cable, Talent,
Bitty Schram, wonderful as Sharona in the first seasons of Monk, returns to prime time as an art gallery owner in two episodes of the new FX crime drama Thief, airing April 4 and 11.
Schram has never spoken out about the real reason that she left Monk at the height of its popularity - that is, until now. In the April 3-9 print edition of TV Guide, Bitty reveals that she didn’t want to leave Monk, but she suspected that she “was being paid less than many people who got raises,” and she couldn’t “work out a new contract.” She went on to call Monk “the best experience of my career.”
We’re certain Schram wasn’t earning Screen Actors Guild minimum, but, nonetheless, a pay dispute is a better exit issue than the long-circulated rumor that Bitty walked because she wasn’t getting enough screen time.
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The Sopranos: The Fleshy Part of The Thigh
Posted by Christopher Stone Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Cable, HBO, The Sopranos, Features,
It’s head-spinning how rapidly highly paid television stars recover after surviving life-threatening health catastrophes on their shows. Tony on The Sopranos is a case in point. Comatose for most of last week’s episode, Tony was conscious and on his feet Sunday night. Beyond that, everyone and his brother visits Soprano to pay homage. The near death experience did nothing to cleanse Tony’s potty mouth. “Get out of my room you sick c***!” he bellows at an insurance company representative.
The episode’s best bedside visit is from two Jesus zealots who want Tony to accept Jesus Christ as his Personal Savior. Given Soprano’s “wink and nod” approach to the Catholicism in which he was raised, the attempt to see Tony Born Again is simultaneously comic and ironic.
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Oscar-winning Best Picture “Crash” on Showtime
Posted by Christopher Stone Categories: Award Shows, Drama, Prime Time, Cable, Showtime,
This must represent a record: Less than one month after winning the Best Picture Oscar, Crash is premiering on Showtime, Sunday, 8:05 PM, ET/PT. Even better, the Crash TV debut is part of Showtime’s Free Weekend Preview.
I saw the triple Oscar-winning Crash last May at the Writers Guild of America, West, Theater in Beverly Hills. Following the screening, Crash‘s Oscar winning writer/producer/director Paul Haggis took the stage for a Question and Answer session. He claimed to have been inspired to write Crash after he and his wife were car-jacked on Wilshire Boulevard’s Miracle Mile in Hollywood, after renting videos at Blockbuster. Sunday you can see the acclaimed motion picture in the privacy of your own home, no rental or late fees apply.
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24: In Need Of More Storylines
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, FOX, 24, Editorial,
It’s no secret that the producers of 24 are still masterminding the end of their season even after the premiere has aired. So there comes an hour during every ‘day’ when the writers were clearly in need of a time filler. Previous memorable ‘time fillers’ would include the Kim/cougar and Kim/convenience store robbery plotlines. As for this season? I think the show hit another one of those low moments this week with the incredibly stupid Shari/Miles sexual harrassment storyline. Maybe I’m being judgmental way too soon—but where in the heck do the writers think they are going to take this? Are they going to waste CTU’s precious time by having Shari file a complaint against Buchanan for brushing up against her? Will Chloe lose another co-worker after she clocks Shari for being so lame? Oooh, that would be good…
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Carol Burnett Visits Wisteria Lane
Posted by Christopher Stone Categories: Drama, ABC, Desperate Housewives, Talent, News,
On Sunday, April 9, a television legend will be ringing Bree Van De Kamp’s Wisteria Lane doorbell. That’s when Carol Burnett guest stars on Desperate Housewives as Bree’s bad seed stepmother Eleanor Mason. Don’t expect the veteran comedienne to be the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down on Wisteria Lane. At Carol Burnett’s request, Marc Cherry, Housewives’ creator and executive producer, is writing Eleanor as an evil woman. In that case, she’ll be a good match for Bree’s son, Andrew, or he is more commonly known at my house, Satan’s Spawn. Should Burnett’s evil turn catch fire with viewers, TV’s legendary funny lady is open to reprising the role in subsequent episodes.
Read More | USA Today
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