Posted Jul 18th 2008 11:47AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, TCA Press Tour, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, Reality-Free
I wanted to wait a bit before I posted about the ABC showrunner panel, because a) I already posted about the "news" from
Shonda Rhimes about Katherine Heigl's statements, and b) I wanted to think about why these panels seem to be so much more informative than the individual show panels?
We'll get to that more later. On the panel were Rhimes (
Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice), Marc Cherry (
Desperate Housewives), Silvio Horta
(Ugly Betty), Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
(Lost), and Greg Berlanti (seemingly the rest of ABC's schedule). As you'd expect, Rhimes got the Heigl questions, Lindelof and Cuse got the most esoteric questions, and Chery made the most jokes. The funniest line, though, came from Horta.
Continue reading ABC show-runner panel: Heigl, Lost's endpoint, and musical theater - TCA Report
Posted Jul 18th 2008 10:44AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: TCA Press Tour, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
The photo to the right is of
Dirty Sexy Money (and
Eli Stone and
Brothers & Sisters) EP Greg Berlanti, from the ABC show-runner panel. The reason why I post it is because ABC doesn't have any web-ready photos of either the
DSM or the
Private Practice panels for download, many hours after both panels. This despite promises that they would have web-ready pictures from the press tour up quickly. OK, cranky rant over.
Anyway, the panels for the two sophomore Wednesday shows didn't reveal all that much in the way of new info. We found out a little about what both Berlanti and
PP creator Shonda Rhimes have in store, and how they deal with returning from such a long break (ABC held back the two shows and
Pushing Daisies after the strike, making plans to restart in the fall).
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money and Private Practice panels: Lots of resetting going on - TCA Report
Posted Jul 16th 2008 6:25PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Lost, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, TCA Press Tour, Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, Reality-Free
After
Jimmy Kimmel left the room, ABC Entertainment Steve McPherson got on with the business of facing the press at his executive session. I kicked it off with a question about
Scrubs, following up on
what Bill Lawrence told me in May about a possible "next generation" ninth season.
"We do think there's an opportunity after (this eighth season)," said McPherson. "If any or all the cast is a part of that, I think there's a growth (opportunity) there. It's a show that, despite being moved around into like 17 time periods and really never being given the marketing support, has really performed unbelievably well on NBC." He went on to say that they hope "it won't be a one-season situation."
Other than that, most of the conversation revolved around the network's returning shows, which makes sense, since the network is only debuting a few new shows (none of which had pilots that the network thought were suitable for preview) this fall.
Continue reading ABC president: We're prioritizing returning shows, and Heigl is staying - TCA Report
Posted Jul 10th 2008 4:21PM by Kelly Woo
Filed under: Interviews, Celebrities, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
AOL TV's new video interview series, Outside the Box, takes questions from you (the fans) and poses them to the stars of the hottest shows.
We already asked you to submit questions for the
stars of Scrubs. Next up will be Peter Krause and Lucy Liu of
Dirty Sexy Money.
While
DSM's first season was tragically cut short by the writers' strike, the 10 episodes that did air were full of frothy fun. And that cast! Krause, Liu (who's new for the second season), Donald Sutherland, Jill Clayburgh, Billy Baldwin, Glenn Fitzgerald ... and I could go on. And if you don't quite remember where the show left off, read Erin's
review of the season finale.So, if you're wondering what's in store for
Dirty Sexy Money, what Liu's character will be like and if we'll ever find out who killed Nick George's dad ... submit your questions in the comments below by Tuesday, July 15. Be sure to include your first name and your city and state. Good luck.
Posted May 15th 2008 1:23PM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, TV Squad Lists, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
The writers' strike forced some of my favorite shows into an unexpected, summer-long hiatus and delayed the return of others. I'm grateful that shows like
Lost still have new episodes, but the second half of this TV season hasn't felt the same. I especially miss the promising new series that were cut short.
It feels like other shows have been on hiatus forever.
Flight of the Conchords was supposed to return this year, but had its premiere pushed back until 2009. I miss Bret, Jemaine, and their strange circle of friends. I've been wondering about the fates of several absent characters lately. So many storylines were left unresolved.
Here's a short list of some of the faces I can't wait to see again:
Continue reading Characters I'm missing right now
Posted May 12th 2008 11:03AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Boston Legal, Scrubs, Smallville, Supernatural, Pickups and Renewals, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, New Amsterdam, Reality-Free
Ok, it is after midnight here in the Jet City, and as I sit down to bang this post out on my beloved Model M it would appear that my tasty glass of juice is half empty. Maybe I'm just not in the right frame of mind to spin this news in a positive direction that will lead to a 2009 full of Dollhouse win.
Tucked away in a report on various network goings on over at Hollywood Reporter is a little line that says "Dollhouse is expected to launch mid-season." This is me shaking my fist in the general direction of Fox and screaming "Khaaaaan!" Just, because. Doesn't this seem like a road that has been traveled before? It's one that usually leads to a pretty disappointing destination. We haven't seen the finished fall schedule yet, but I would wager that most of us could easily find three or four hours where the network would be better served by inserting Dollhouse. Highlights of what the networks have planned are available after the jump.
Continue reading Dollhouse to midseason... and other network news
Posted May 6th 2008 9:02AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Samantha Who?, Reality-Free
ABC offered a set of fun
Valentine's Day e-cards earlier this year, and they're at it again with a more extensive set of
Mother's Day e-cards. More of my favorite ABC shows were let in on the fun this time, including
Pushing Daisies,
Dirty Sexy Money, and
Samantha Who?. Show Mom your love with a clever message from
Lost's Claire, Susan from
Desperate Housewives, or Hilda from
Ugly Betty.
The cards are one part of a "Guide to Motherhood" page on ABC's website. You can watch clips from ABC's hit shows based on four motherhood themes: New Moms, Nesting, Words of Wisdom, and Letting Go. It's an amusing way to look back at some of the unconventional approaches to parenting taken in the last season.
Continue reading Send an ABC e-card for Mother's Day
Posted Apr 23rd 2008 10:34AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Celebrities, Casting, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
Dirty Sexy Money just got a whole lot sexier. That is, if
Cashmere Mafia isn't renewed, and its being on the bubble is the buzz.
ABC is wooing Lucy Liu to stay, this time as a cast member of Dirty Sexy Money. Although her role would be a secret, you can bet she'd be there to look great and shake things up.
Will she be a replacement for Samaire Armstrong (who plays Juliet Darling), who will not be a regular next season? If so, she'll need to be flighty. I picture Liu as a more devious business woman, using her feminine wiles and cunning to get what she wants, from everyone she comes across, but hopefully not in a two-dimensional way. It will be fun to see how her role pans out.
And the really good news is that if
Dirty Sexy Money does phenomenally well as a series, they can always
unfreeze Liu to star in its revival, a century later.
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Posted Mar 28th 2008 8:23AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Casting, Dirty Sexy Money
This explains why Samaire Armstrong was
suspiciously absent from the Paley Festival panel for
Dirty Sexy Money this week. She's no longer part of the show. At least, she's not a big part of it. This revelation comes from
Michael Ausiello over at TV Guide. He says
DSM producers chose not to renew Armstrong's contract with the show. She'll appear as a recurring character, as her schedule allows.
Remember last year
Samaire Armstrong went into rehab and had to suddenly be written out of a script? According to Ausiello, she then appeared in the very next episode so who knows how long rehab lasted. Still, there's no word on whether her personal problems are the reason she's being demoted.
I find this all very interesting. The point of the show is the Darlings and their extravagant messes. She's a Darling and just as important as the rest, right? I think we would forgive the producers if they needed to get rid of Armstrong and recast the part. Or maybe they were just bored with Juliet Darling.
Posted Mar 12th 2008 11:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, WGA Strike
Autumn may not look the same way it usually does on ABC in 2008. The network is seriously considering opening the new season sans new drama series. There will still be returning shows, including the dramas from 2007 which have been deemed successes by the ABC brass, including
Pushing Daisies, Private Practice and
Dirty Sexy Money -- but no new pilots.
Continue reading Untraditional autumn set for ABC
Posted Feb 20th 2008 5:39PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Programming, Boston Legal, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Pickups and Renewals, Ugly Betty, Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, WGA Strike, Samantha Who?
It's so nice now that the WGA strike is over and all the shows are coming back, isn't it? It's like we're suddenly inundated with presents galore. Just the idea of new shows puts a smile on my face; let's hope it's still there once the shows air!
ABC
has announced that
Samantha Who?, their most promising new sitcom of the season, will be returning with six new episodes on Monday, April 7 (at 9:30). But maybe the network's biggest news is a time shift. Starting April 24
, Lost will commence five new episodes at 10:00, rather than 9:00. Also on April 24,
Ugly Betty and
Grey's Anatomy both return with five new episodes each.
Continue reading ABC has lots of new episodes scheduled; Lost moves to 10 PM
Posted Feb 11th 2008 5:42PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Pickups and Renewals, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, WGA Strike, Samantha Who?
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