Archive for the ‘Television’ Category
“Desperate Housewives” Gets Another Shot
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
They can pass he bubbly on Wisteria Lane—”Desperate Housewives” has been picked up for another season.
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that ABC will be bringing back a dozen of their most popular series for the 2009-10 season. Those renewed include scripted series “Lost,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Ugly Betty” and “Private Practice.” Reality shows returning are ”Dancing with the Stars,” “The Bachelor,” Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” “Wife Swap,” “Supernanny” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”
None of the shows in ABC’s freshman class have been picked up, and it’s not likely that any will be on the final fall schedule the network will announce at next month’s upfronts.
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Debra Returns To NBC
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Debra Messing has been missing from the small screen lately, but she’ll be back on NBC this fall in a new series.
The Hollywood Reporter states the “Will and Grace” actress will star in a not-yet-titled sitcom as a hard-driving CEO who is forced to be a full time wife and mother after she gets laid off.
While losing your job is certainly something a lot of us can relate to these days, I have to wonder how much comedy there will be in watching Debra fumble around the kitchen, trying to figure out what all those appliances do.
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Death Doesn’t Pay For “Housewives”
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The ladies of Wisteria Lane gave Edie Britt a big sendoff Sunday night—but not big enough to draw ratings for “Desperate Housewives.”
According to the AP, 13.9 million people watched the episode, which was enough to make the show number seven for the week, but short of the 15.2 million “Housewives” has been averaging this season.
Is interest in the show waning? Maybe, but it’s possible several weeks of reruns have caused viewers to look elsewhere. May sweeps are coming and those are the ratings that really count.
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Fred Segal – The Series
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Famous fashionistas (like Paris Hilton, pictured) have shopped the Fred Segal stores for decades. Now the general public can see what really goes in inside the posh retail outlets.
Bravo revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that they will be launching a new show based on the Fred Segal location in Santa Monica. Bravo executive vp and general manager Frances Berwick stated, “Bravo has established itself as the go-to network for the hottest, trendiest and most dramatic docu-series on television. Fred Segal is a legendary retail haven synonymous with high fashion and style, and the fashionistas who work, shop and gossip at the store promise to have arresting, entertaining, colorful personalities and lives.”
This might be fun if we get to watch the customers making fools of themselves or the employees stealing, but if it’s one long infomercial for the Fred Segal stores—forget it.
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TV Cops Face Real Gangs
Friday, March 27th, 2009
The cast and crew of the new NBC drama “Southland,”starring Benjamin McKenzie, found out first-hand what real cops have to deal with when they did some on-location shooting in gang-ridden South Central L.A. It seems some gang members took offense at having their territory invaded.
A producer told RadarOnline, “We heard there was a disturbance in the area we were shooting and we went around it by doing the scene in another area.”
A local cop added, “This particular area is occupied by gangmembers and they are pretty mean. Usually, we are notified ahead of time so that we can offer some kind of protection to crews that are going to film here in South Central. But in this particular instance our Watch commander was not notified that they needed any assistance. Gangs are very territorial and they often don’t take kindly to having their neighborhood’s blocked-off, so, it pays to have the real police around when shooting in dangerous areas.”
Yeah, having the police around is always a good idea. Now we know why so many TV series are shot in Beverly Hills.
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