Posted Jan 22nd 2010 4:26PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
One of the most sought after comic book properties is
one step closer to infecting a television near you.
AMC has ordered a pilot for
The Walking Dead based on
the popular Robert Kirkman comic book series with Frank Darabont still attached to write, direct and produce it.
I can't tell how psyched I am to hear it. Not only am I excited to learn that AMC is producing and bringing this awesome comic series to life, but I'm even more excited to learn that zombies are starting to take over the deluge of suck that are vampires. If both factions got into a war, zombies could totally kick the vampires' collective asses. It's just simple science.
Posted Jan 22nd 2010 3:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, 30 Rock, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
About a month ago, our friends at CliqueClack listed
five reasons why Diablo Cody's thriller Jennifer's Body should be made into a television series.
They seemed to list some compelling reasons, especially the fact that it would play well with fans of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So when Cody was at the TCAs to promote the upcoming season of her Showtime hit
United States of Tara, I decided to ask her about the prospect as she got off-stage.
"I had never heard that," she replied. "That would be amazing."
When I asked her if the show would appeal to
Buffy fans, she asked, "Did the original
Buffy movie do well in the theaters?" When we said it didn't, she shot back in self-deprecating fashion: "This could be the perfect metaphor, then."
Continue reading Diablo Cody thinks a Jennifer's Body series would be "amazing"
Posted Jan 22nd 2010 5:18AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) "Are we supposed to love this job or hate it?" - Dylan Hewitt
I like this show! Let's face it.
Grey's Anatomy is dying, and
The Deep End is
Grey's Anatomy (the early years, that is), only with lawyers. It's got plenty of snappy dialogue, romantic sparks, inter-office power struggles, handsome people in nice clothes, office sex, Black-Eyed Peas tunes and cupcakes! What's not to love?
Continue reading Review: The Deep End - Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Jan 21st 2010 11:33PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
TNT has some new dramatic shows on the horizon and believe it or not, they actually don't involve sexy cops or lawyers. Well, one of them does.
The cable network has picked up a new science fiction series about aliens overtaking humanity starring Noah Wyle, a detective series starring Angie Harmon and (surprise!) a cop drama starring Jason Lee.
The "untitled alien invasion series" (wouldn't it be a big bowl of hilariousness if that were the actual title?) will star Wyle as the leader of a band of human resisters who aspire to take back the Earth from an alien race that has laid waste to humanity. Since this is being produced by Steven Speilberg, how about calling it
Close Encounters of the Ass Kicking Kind?
Continue reading TNT picks up more dramas
Posted Jan 21st 2010 4:51PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Rob Lowe has announced that he is leaving the hit ABC drama Brothers & Sisters.
His reps confirm that Lowe is leaving the show later this season because he isn't being used enough. Every time I hear that as the reason why someone is leaving a show I think of the line Catherine said on
NewsRadio after a magazine review said she wasn't being used enough. Dave said that he'd "find more ways to use you" and Catherine responded "uh huh. I've heard that noise before." Lowe plays Senator Robert McAllister on the show and he's married to Calista Flockhart's character Kitty.
Lowe left a hit TV show once before. He quit
The West Wing in the middle of the fourth season, pretty much for the same reason. ABC would like to keep him around and maybe give him his own show. That's a great idea. As long as it's not a rejuvenated
Dr. Vegas.
Posted Jan 21st 2010 10:00AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E11)
Leverage has the thankless task of walking one of the most difficult tightropes in television writing.
How do you keep an audience interested in a show that they already know how it will end? The good guys always win and have so far for TNT's favorite scheming do-gooders.
The show runners must have a whole bag of plot tricks and devices they use to keep the show interesting and last night's was one of the most interesting diversions to keep our minds off the fact that good is about to triumph evil.
Continue reading Review: Leverage - The Bottle Job
Posted Jan 21st 2010 6:00AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E02) If there's one thing that
Human Target gets right, it's the action. This episode just kind of sat there until Chance started kicking the assassin's teeth in at the fifteen-minute mark. The fight scene wasn't as nuts as Sunday night's bloody train tussle, but it added some much needed energy to the first half of this episode. And things only got crazier a few minutes later when Chance uttered the line of the night: "We're gonna flip the plane!"
Flipping an airplane at 30,000 feet would probably be a "jump the shark" moment for most other shows. But not on
Human Target, a show so ridiculous and over-the-top that "jump the shark" simply does not apply.
I love the tone and spirit of this show. It's retro and fun and a little tongue-in-cheek, but it's also packed with some very appealing characters, compelling stories and a top notch cast. The first half of tonight's ep left me a little cold, but I was still invested enough to want to see how it would all turn out in the end. And I'm glad I stuck around.
Continue reading Review: Human Target - Rewind
Posted Jan 20th 2010 1:25AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E08) "Hold on. I've never seen someone die before." - bad guy, watching Neal and Peter slowly suffocate.
So the question that all
White Collar fans have about this episode is whether or not they answer the big cliffhanger question from the fall finale. And that question, of course, is this: will Neal Caffrey wear a stylish hat this episode?
OK, so that's not the big question that fans want asked. They want to know what it meant when Peter was in the hotel room with Kate, wearing the ring, looking all bad guy-ish. Did the show explain that in this episode? Read on...
Continue reading Review: White Collar - Hard Sell
Posted Jan 19th 2010 10:30AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Video, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Has it really been over a month since
White Collar left us hanging on the cliff? Yes, I guess it has. Thank goodness
USA has given this show an order for a second season. It's delightful. I know, it's a fruity word, but I can't think of a better one that describes the show. Okay, fun.
Tonight, apparently, we're going to resolve the Kate/Neal/Peter question in some way, shape or form because clearly there are other cases to resolve and the partnership between Neil and Peter is moving on. It's the premise of the show, so it was inevitable that they were going to have to keep it together.
How do I know for sure, well... take a look at the preview. After the jump.
Continue reading White Collar is back tonight at last
Posted Jan 19th 2010 7:04AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Late Night, Celebrities, Cancellations, Reality-Free, Jay Leno
The whole Jay Leno/Conan O'Brien shakeup may have the rest of the world crying like jilted prom queens, but it's got one man grinning from ear to ear. And no, it's not Jeff Zucker. That would be more of a giant, belly shaking James Bond villain laugh.
Ben McKenzie, the man who tore into Jay Leno and his former network for pushing his cop drama
Southland out of its time slot when Jay moved into primetime, has said
he's happy The Jay Leno Show is going out of commission.
While he says that Leno is a "great guy," it still doesn't change his sentiments that he's "glad it failed...Things have worked out in a good way."
I'm sure Conan seconds those thoughts. That should make his first interview on Fox's
Up Late at Night with Conan O'Brien especially awkward when he goes on it to promote
Southland on TNT.
Posted Jan 18th 2010 4:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
We told you a while back about a
new version of Hawaii Five-0 that CBS had in the works. Now it looks like they might have their leading man: a vampire doctor!
Alex O'Loughlin, to be exact, who starred in two flops on CBS recently, the vampire drama
Moonlight and the medical drama
Three Rivers. The network seems to love the guy and they want to give him another show to star in, and
that show might be the remake of the Hawaii-based cop show. Sources will only say that "talks are ongoing."
What do you think of this casting? Whoever they get for the show, I only have one request:
please keep the original theme song.
Posted Jan 18th 2010 2:31AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E02) "It's clear that Bill has a calling, I'm sure of it. Just maybe the wires got a little crossed. Maybe you're meant to be the next prophet of Juniper Creek." - Nicolette on the revelations that he should run for the State Senate
Just when I thought I had a handle on everything surrounding the swirling complex vortex that is
Big Love, Bill decides the best way to protect his already complicated family from slipping even further out of each other's grasp is to run for public office. Politics, it truly is nature's weed whacker. It aims to clean up messes, even if it destroys everything surrounding it in the process.
Now that Roman is dead and almost buried, talk of a new prophet is rising. In the red corner stands Alby, a frail, shadowy, smarmy little man with plenty to hide and expectations to live up to that everyone knows he can't possibly meet. And in the blue corner stands Bill, a rock of a man with just as much to hide but an ambition and willingness to stand and protect his beliefs, even in the face of unfathomable scrutiny and ridicule. Who does it sound like would come out on top in this sparring match?
Continue reading Review: Big Love - The Greater Good
Posted Jan 18th 2010 1:31AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) Chris Chance is
The Mentalist's Patrick Jane,
Lie to Me's Cal Lightman and
Die Hard's John McClane rolled into one phenomenal package. It's ridiculous, but it works.
The same can be said for this show. Simply put,
Human Target rocks. It's a lightning-paced, cocksure and surprisingly funny contempo version of an '80s action TV show. So rejoice, folks. The smart action-packed hour we've been waiting for has arrived.
If there's any justice in this world,
Human Target will make Mark Valley a star. No -- a superstar. Three minutes into the pilot and I saw the makings of a classic witty TV hero in his performance. The veteran actor hits all the right notes and manages to make his implausibly awesome character feel like a real person.
Continue reading Review: Human Target - Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Jan 17th 2010 1:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Casting, Reality-Free, Mad Men
Oh, dear Betty, where is the love? I'm speaking of ABC's
Ugly Betty, naturally. Despite the braces, the red glasses and the questionable fashion sense, the vivacious Betty Suarez remains a popular date. I can think of only one time this past season when she was dancing with herself, and that was by choice.
Well, after Betty's on-again, off-again thing with Matt turned into a very much an "on" thing -- and a clingy one at that -- last week saw Matt making a decision that definitely puts the romance on hold.
What's next for Betty? Apparently one of the
Mad Men.
In March, Mad Men actor Rich Sommer will appear on Ugly Betty in a guest role. He'll be playing a Seth Rogen type -- that's code for schlubby, nice guy -- who asks Betty out.
Continue reading Could Rich Sommer be Ugly Betty's new man?
Posted Jan 15th 2010 1:29PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
If there was anyone working in TV today who could create an accurate, in-depth portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans, it's David Simon. Many people call Simon's previous HBO series,
The Wire, one of the greatest dramas of all time, and they do it for a reason: it has rich characterizations, well-examined stories, and it gives viewers a real feel for the underbelly of Baltimore.
So, with
Treme, debuting on HBO in April, Simon tries to examine the lives of ten people who are trying to pull things together three months after Hurricane Katrina flooded out New Orleans.
"New Orleans, to me, represents a place where it's a triumph of American urban culture," said Simon. It's what - it's the best that an American city can be and also the worst in a lot of ways, as I said before, but it has created a culture that has gone around the world."
Continue reading The Wire's David Simon takes on Post-Katrina New Orleans in Treme - TCA Report
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