| Reviews: TV | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:15:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | When I sat down to write about the two new sitcoms that are debuting on Channel Nine next week I came to the unfortunate realisation that I could barely remember a single thing about either one of them. To be honest, my brain is rather fried at the moment from one too many Christmas parties and I did watch most of the preview episodes through the bottom of a wine bottle – but that’s nothing unusual. So I was ultimately forced to sit down and watch both of these shows for a second time… and it turns out that my brain had simply been trying to do me a favour. Til Death features Brad Garrett, who was the second banana on Everybody .... | |
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| | | lookListen 11/10 | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:24:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Daniel Baldwin was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica on suspicion of stealing a white GMC Yukon. Baldwin was stopped him after the SUV was reported stolen in neighboring Orange County, authorities said. The actor was taken to jail and booked for investigation of grand theft auto. Bail was set at $20,000. "The car belongs to an acquaintance of Mr. Baldwin, but he had no permission to take it," said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County sheriff's department. Baldwin, brother of actors Alec, Stephen and William, has appeared in the television series "Homicide: Life on the Street" and the movie "Car 54, Where Are You?" Cruise is part Welsh, Trump's mom a ScotThe ancestry of some famous Americans, including Tom Cruise, Halle Berry and Donald Trump, is revealed in immigration records posted on a British genealogy Web site.... | |
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| | | Heche Thanks Poker Nights For Tv Success | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:04:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | Former ALLY MCBEAL star ANNE HECHE credits her weekly poker nights for helping her land the lead in hit new US show MEN IN TREES - because they help her understand men. The actress plays a relationship counsellor who finds herself stranded in a remote Alaskan town, where men outnumber women 10 to one. And Heche thinks her testosterone-fuelled playing card contests gave her the edge when she was auditioning for the role. She says, "Guys talk differently than women and I'm able to communicate with them. "I play poker when I'm not working, so I'm often at a table full of men. I think that helped me with this show." 16/10/2006 19:49 .... | |
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| | | Heche hits new stride in series | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:02:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | On her new ABC series, "Men in Trees" (10 p.m. Fridays), Anne Heche plays Marin Frist, a relationship guru suddenly jilted while on a book tour who then decides she can better cope with life in Elmo, a small Alaskan town, than back in New York City. Or can she? Asked what self-help books she'd read lately, Heche immediately responded, "'Call Me Crazy.'" That's the title of her revealing 2001 autobiography, authored after a low point in her life that included bizarre, widely publicized behavior seemingly tied to her break-up with Ellen DeGeneres. The 37-year-old Heche -- glossily sleek, golden-haired, sexily dressed, an astute combination of the self-involved and the self-aware -- is on another track now. Married to a motion picture cameraman and the mother of a 4-year-old son, she talked about "balance" in her life and work, and how the choice of playing Frist fits in with her philosophy.... | |
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| | | Remaking Hitchcock: A Look at the Past and the Future of Alfred ... | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:02:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Lodger (1927): This film was inspired by Jack the Ripper, based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London in the late 1800's. "A mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and is seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect he may be the avenger." Interestingly enough, The Lodger has already been remade three times already. In 1932, British director Maurice Elvey took on the first sound remake which featured returning star Ivor Novello. In 1944, John Brahm also made his version of the story. In 1953, Hugo Fregonese remade the movie as Man in the Attic with Jack Palance in the lead role.... | |
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| | | Fall TV preview: Part 1 | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 2:21:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | Here we go again -- the U.S. networks court us with serial dramas that beg viewers to commit to long-term relationships -- only to have them snatched away in midstream. Remember how Fox aborted its 20-part serial Reunion last year? And NBC dropped Surface and CBS dumped Threshold and ABC ended that alien Invasion? Well, apparently, short-attention-span network heads forgot. Sure there are serial successes like Lost, Prison Break and 24, but why should we put our faith in new shows if networks won't? There are tempting offers on the fall slate. Just don't bite too hard: Vanished (Fox/Global) A U.S. senator's wife is abducted from a charity gala, sparking a season-long hunt, along with a quest to uncover family secrets. Seems the woman went missing 12 years earlier, and the senator's bitter ex-wife and rebel teen daughter both have tenuous links to the kidnapping.... | |
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| | | Anne Heche's Press Tour Personality Declares Actress Sane | | Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:08:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | TV Week's TCA blog attended the press conference for Men In Trees, a show on ABC's fall schedule starring Anne Heche as a relationship guru who swears off men, only to find herself stranded in Alaska and surrounded by the incorrigible critters! (We give it six weeks.) One brave TV critic soldier gingerly broached the subject of Heche's tinfoil-hat-wearing past: He started gently, asking for a "status report" on how Ms. Heche was "doing." "It seems like you're totally ... ," he paused, searching for the most respectful word. "Sane?" Heche suggested. "Sane," he confirmed, with more than a little relief that Heche herself had said it. "I'll let myself speak for myself," she said confidently. "Obviously I'm sitting up here with a group of incredible people.... | |
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| | | Will fall season leave ABC out on a big limb? | | Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 7:02:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | -The big story of the coming television season, and the one with the most local implications, will be ABC's health. Katie Couric might generate more headlines for her Sept. 5 debut on the CBS Evening News, but ABC's risk-taking will have a greater influence on the season. The many Disney employees in Central Florida will have reason to watch closely how Disney-owned ABC performs. The television critics' summer press tour, which ended last week after 18 days, provided these snapshots: CBS and Fox look mighty sturdy. NBC seems ready to rebound, thanks to stronger new series and the addition of Sunday-night football. But ABC remains a puzzle. That network will offer the strongest new series: Ugly Betty, a delightful comedy with America Ferrera, elicited more positive buzz than any new series.... | |
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| | | Future looks bright for Fall TV lineup | | Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:04:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's time for the nation's television critics to make their annual trek to Los Angeles to be wooed by programmers, producers and stars hawking their new fall wares. The summer press tour, as it is called, can be either excruciating or hilarious, depending on the new shows. I'm happy to report that there are way more intriguing series coming this fall than I've seen in a long time. And one of the all-around best is the Austin-based "Friday Night Lights." Previews of new shows were sent to critics weeks ago, so we've had time to watch, digest and discern trends. In a nutshell, I can tell you that comedy continues to be minor, and serial dramas in the super-intense style of "24" and "Lost" are all the rage. Among the best of the new ongoing sagas are NBC's "Kidnapped" and Fox's "Vanished." Of course the genre could backfire: Shows with continuing story lines don't have a prayer if the debut audience isn't huge - and if those viewers aren't thrilled enough to return the next week.... | |
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| | | Monday July 10, 2006 - 12:19 EST | | Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 3:03:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | LAS VEGAS, Nevada – (PRESS RELEASE) -- A field of more than 1,128 women -- by far the largest in poker history - entered the Ladies No-Limit Hold'Em tournament at the 2006 World Series of Poker, each hoping to unseat reigning champion Jennifer Tilly and outlast a host of other Hollywood celebrities who entered the event. Last year's victory by the Oscar-nominated actress Tilly generated widespread publicity and sparked a near doubling in the number of entrants from the previous record field of 600 in 2005. "Jennifer Tilly has helped fuel the explosive growth in the popularity of women's poker," said Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the World Series of Poker. "She was a gracious winner of last year's event and has been a terrific ambassador for the game." This year, Tilly joined forces with ELLE magazine and PartyPoker.net to form a team including actress Shannon Elizabeth and some of the country's top female players to raise funds for the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign.... | |
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