Posts Tagged ‘Television’
“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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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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Is “Idol” Fixed?
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Simon’s not talking—but somebody behind the scenes at “American Idol” is. The NY Daily News reports that an “AI” staffer has been blabbing that this season’s final four have already been chosen—even though 11 contestants still remain in the running.
The lucky four are, not surprisingly, Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds, Adam Lambert and Alexis Grace. So who’s going to win? According to the snitch, it’s between Gokey and Grace. She told the Daily News why.
”Adam Lambert and Lil Rounds are better singers and musicians than Gokey and Grace, but they’re too much like past winners and ‘A’ successes. Adam’s too close in style and sound to Chris Daughtry, while Lil Rounds is a dead ringer for Fantasia. Even their background stories are similar! The producers really want it to be Danny or Alexis. They think they’re very commercially viable, have a good image and a great story.”
But what if America votes one of them off before the finals? Maybe that’s why the judges have the chance to save one contestant from going home. But what will they do if the viewers vote off two of the fave four?
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