Raven-Symone Shines In True Life Drama For One Night
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Drama, Cable, Talent,
Raven-Symone, best known for her roles as the adorable tyke Olivia on The Cosby Show, and as the lead character on the eponymous That’s So Raven, will step into more serious shoes Monday night. Based on a true story, Lifetime’s For One Night follows the story of Raven’s character, who causes violent controversy when she seeks to end her high school’s tradition of racially segregated proms.
The show premieres tonight, and will repeat several times throughout the week, so be sure to check your local listings. We were fortunate enough to screen an advance copy, and it is obvious that the comedy-trained Raven-Symone could have a shining future in dramatic series. This would be an excellent film to watch with your family, and discuss the issues afterwards.
“I was so excited to be a part of this,” Raven-Symone says. “I’d always held out on doing a dramatic piece, because I didn’t want my first step into drama being a superficial, thin story. I thought this was just thick enough to show people [what I can do]. I don’t want to do pieces that don’t make a difference, and this being a true story made it even more perfect for me.”
“For One Night” may startle viewers by showing such prejudice still exists some places, but Raven-Symone maintains she isn’t surprised. “I come from the South (Atlanta), and there’s still racism there. A lot of people don’t want to open their minds to the new world, and I never said that’s everybody, and it’s not saying I think their beliefs are wrong. They haven’t opened their eyes completely. It’s not stupidity, it’s just ignorance ... not knowing the facts, not wanting to change.
“You get that sometimes, and you just have to walk away from the situation sometimes. Otherwise, you can get yourself in trouble and get your emotions tied in, then bad stuff can happen. If you can handle it responsibly, and you’re smart and educated on the subject, you’ll be OK.”
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Rejected Series Given A Second Chance By Television Networks
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Comedy, Drama, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC,
Dashed dreams are given a chance of rejuvenation as major networks give the go ahead to previously rejected pilots. This move has been successful in the past, such as when CBS first rejected Numb3rs, but then gave it a chance to air and watched it become a hit show. Will other shows be as lucky?
The mix of second chance pilots offers a bit of everything: drama, comedy, and adventure, and producers hope that viewers will be receptive.
With a staggering amount of new material pitched every development season, the resurrection odds for an older script that already has been passed on are minimal. But there are a few factors that can increase a show’s chances.
“The key word is passion,” Fox executive vice president of programming Craig Erwich says. “Somebody—it can be the writer, an agent or an executive—has to not allow the project to die. In the back of their minds, all executives carry about 10 projects they wish they’d made.”
For eight years after CBS passed on his drama The Truth About Joey Ice Cream, writer Paul Haggis tried to get the project, about four young Irish brothers in New York, made. Finally, NBC last summer picked up the script to a pilot and later to series titled The Black Donnellys. It didn’t hurt that in the meantime, Haggis had become one of the hottest filmmakers in Hollywood after garnering critical acclaim for writing Million Dollar Baby and for co-writing and directing Crash.
Shonda Rhimes, creator of ABC’s red-hot drama Grey’s Anatomy, also is a writer whose previous work is being revisited after she made it big. Rhimes is writing a new journalism-themed drama pilot for ABC for midseason 2006-07 consideration. In reality, that project was developed a year earlier than Grey’s and now is being reworked.
We’re hopeful that we’ll find some diamonds in this so-called ‘junk pile.’ Sometimes a second chance is just what a quality show needs.
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ABC Shakes It Up With Major Midseason Rescheduling And Additions
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, News,
ABC is in a frenzy of moving popular shows around, eliminating the clunkers, and adding new series in hopes of raising the network’s ratings. It may not work, but it will certainly be exciting.
You may want to take notes.
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Mariska Hargitay Will Be Replaced For Six Episodes on Law & Order: SVU
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Drama, NBC, Talent, News,
We sure will miss her! One of the best actresses on television, on the best crime show today, will miss six episodes for maternity leave. Mariska’s character, Olivia Benson, will not be pregnant on the show. Hmm…that would be hard to explain, since Olivia never has time to date!
Gladiator’s Connie Nielsen will fill in for Hargitay.
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Prime Cuts: Your Best Bets In Prime Time For Thursday, 2-02-06
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, WB,
Wow! After Wednesday night’s dearth, you’ll enjoy a mind-blowing array of TV options tonight!
Survivor Panama: Exile Island, 8pm, CBS. The most anticipated reality show premiere of the TV season invades your TV screen tonight. Tune in to see underwear model types frolic, flirt, and fight in the steamy underbelly of the jungle.
Will & Grace, 8pm, NBC. The end is nearing for this fan favorite, so don’t miss this all-new episode.
That 70s Show, 8pm, FOX. The once beloved comedy limps towards a tarnished end.
Smallville, 8pm, the WB. Clark and company deal with repercussions from last week’s emotionally devastating episode.
CSI, 9pm, CBS. Grissom and crew hunt down the bad guys, completely ignoring the law, as usual.
My Name Is Earl, 9pm, NBC. The lovable barfly continues to make things right.
The O.C., 9pm, FOX. Uh-oh, little sisters can be trouble! Especially when they arrive out of the blue for no other reason than to be a plot device!
Beauty and the Geek, 9pm, the WB. Oh, how we love this show! Our biggest wish is that Chris and Cher would somehow be forced to pair up, then get eliminated!
Without A Trace, 10pm, CBS. Here’s betting the crack team will find plenty of traces.
ER, 10pm, NBC. Can you believe this show is still on?
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Prime Cuts: Your Best Bets In Prime Time For Wednesday, 2-01-06
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, FOX, NBC, UPN, WB,
American Idol, 8pm, FOX. Tune in for some ear-bending auditions. Will the show ever get to the Hollywood phase?
E-Ring, 8pm, NBC. In a 24-esque episode, JT and the gang must travel to Spain to rescue a comrade before the terrorists get them.
Bones, 9pm, FOX. The two hot leads continue to investigate dead stuff while ignoring the romantic beatings of their own hearts.
Biggest Loser, 9pm, NBC. More adventures of Incredibly Shrinking People.
Veronica Mars, 9pm, UPN. Our favorite sweetheart detective is on the case.
MTV Cribs, 10pm, MTV. Undeserving rich people rub it in.
CSI:NY, 10pm, CBS. The weakest CSI franchise does its thing.
Project Runway, 10pm, Bravo. Divas continue to make fashion even more flamboyant.
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Cult Hero Blade Slices Into Television
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Drama, Sci-Fi/Horror, News,
Officially announced today: Spike TV has ordered 11 episodes of the new series, Blade, based on the Marvel superhero vampire-human hybrid who slays vampires.This gritty, non-stop action premise is a perfect choice for the male-centered network, but we’re willing to bet the ladies will enjoy it, too!
“Blade” is perfectly suited for Spike TV and its male viewers,” says Pancho Mansfield, Executive Vice President, Original Programming at Spike TV. “The new ‘Blade’ promises to capture what men want to see: thrilling action and effects combined with an intelligent and highly creative story.”
David S. Goyer, who wrote the screenplays for the “Blade” trilogy as well as Batman Begins, serves as executive producer and co-wrote the script with popular comic book author Geoff Johns. Peter O’Fallon (“Suicide Kings,” “Eureka,” “American Gothic”) serves as director.
Spike TV’s “Blade” focuses on Marvel’s eponymous immortal warrior of the same name fighting a shadowy underworld of vampires who want to destroy the human race. The title character is a half-man, half-vampire who uses his incredible powers and skills to fearlessly battle the demonic creatures of the night in a blood-drenched crusade to prevent the ascendance of vampires over mankind.
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Prime Cuts: Your Best Bets In Prime Time For Tuesday, 1-31-06
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, WB,
It’s a great night for television! Too bad President Bush’s undoubtedly boring and awkward State of the Union Address will mess up everything!
American Idol, 8pm, FOX. The auditions continue, as Simon recovers from last week’s hissy fit.
Gilmore Girls, 8pm, the WB. If you only see one show tonight, make this the one. We were lucky enough to view an advance copy, and trust us, it’s good. Before the night is over, there will be a blowup, a Friday Night Dinner fight to beat all others, the ruin of an editor, an eviction that leaves a main character homeless, a rekindled romance, and well…you’ll see.
Fear Factor, 8pm, NBC. Tonight, mothers and sons pair up to challenge themselves with death-defying stunts and bug eating!
State of the Union Address, 9pm, every darn channel! Stupid speech. Don’t they know how important Tuesday night TV is?!
Supernatural, 9pm, FOX. Hottie brothers continue their fight against ghoulies and beasties.
The Shield, 10pm, FX. This critical darling and fan favorite ups the grit and the gore tonight. Good times!
Tuesday’s post-8pm choices are much weaker than usual, with most networks opting for repeats. And we all know why. Stupid speech.
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Commander in Chief Declines in Approval Ratings
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, ABC, Commander In Chief,
As we’ve been hearing lately, the approval ratings for the President of the United States have been reaching all-time lows. Now just one day before Pres. Bush’s State of the Union speech (snore!), ABC is delivering news about their own fictional POTUS: her ratings stink too.
Despite early success for the first-term show - and a recent Golden Globe win for Geena Davis - it seems that the novelty may have worn off for President Allen’s constituents. (Of course, the powerhouse better known as American Idol probably had something to do with that). Not even bothering to stick it out through the upcoming February sweeps, ABC is already putting the show on hiatus to make room for the network’s new comedic offering: Sons & Daughters.
Of course, ABC execs claim that they are not abandoning the show— they are simply allowing it to return in the spring with all new episodes. Because watching new show uninterrupted, as opposed to
not at all, makes a lot more sense?
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Matthew Lillard Comes To Television in FOX’s 13 Graves
Posted by Rhys Alexander Categories: Drama, FOX, Talent,
Scream sensation Matthew Lillard continues his ‘regular guy caught up in a strange situation’ persona in this new FOX show with a fascinating premise.
13 Graves revolves around Matthew McQueen, a former fortune finder who travels across the country looking for his missing brother.
The story coincides with a search for Incan gold believed buried by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 13 underground chambers throughout present-day U.S.
This sort of a Supernatural meets Survivor theme sounds truly fantastic. We’ll give it a try.
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