AmySherman-palladino-related stories
Posted Oct 14th 2009 12:07PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Recently, I spent a couple of hours watching
Gilmore Girls on SoapNet. The experience put a smile on my face and reminded me that I miss the kind of dramedy that Amy Sherman-Palladino created on that show.
The show remains a near perfect blend of character, comedy, drama and emotion to me. So, when I read this morning that
Amy Sherman-Palladino is doing aproject at HBO about a mother-daughter relationship, I let out a "yeah."
True, true, true, Amy's last show was the disappointing sitcom -- hell, call it like it was, dreadful --
The Return of Jezebel James at Fox. No excuses. It was a mess. Still, I'm more than willing to give this writer another chance to soar again.
Continue reading HBO snags Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino
Posted Dec 18th 2008 11:30AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Festivus, Celebrities, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Oh,
Festivus, Oh, Festivus, the holiday for TV fans. How exciting that once a year we can close our eyes, click our heels and make our wishes for the magical ways television can be made better in the year to come. Still, there are more than a few changes that I think need to be made to make TV better ... not to say that it's bad. It just that everything can be better.
This is a great opportunity to get a little Scrooge-y and vent about what I want to see corrected/improved/altered in TV in 2009. Is it wrong that I hope the bigwigs at the networks and cable companies are surfing the net and take my grievances to heart? Is it wrong that I still believe they care about what viewers think? Yeah, probably, but here's my wish list anyway:
Continue reading All Allison wants for Festivus
Posted Apr 9th 2008 11:20AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, The Office, Casting, Reality-Free
So, while we've been speculating here on our own about
The Office spinoff, others are doing the same.
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, one of my favorite TV chatters, was asked in
his column about said
Office spinoff and whether it may be the perfect spot for Lauren Graham. Hmm...very interesting.
Ausiello agreed with the writer, that especially in light of the
big deal Lauren inked with NBC, it makes sense. He wrote, "It would be insane not to at least consider Graham for the gig. Are you with me?"
Continue reading Lauren Graham for Office spin-off?
Posted Mar 24th 2008 7:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Cancellations
Well, this isn't a big surprise: TV Guide's Mike Ausiello has just found out from FOX that
The Return of Jezebel James has been canceled after three episodes.
Jezebel James was the first project for executive producer Amy Sherman-Palladino since she and her husband, Daniel Palladino, left
Gilmore Girls after the show's sixth season.
Reviews for the show --
including mine -- were largely negative; almost all of them cited how Sherman-Palladino's unique writing style and pace were thrown off by the studio audience / laugh track used for the show. FOX obviously didn't have any confidence in the show, because it was airing episodes on Friday nights after cutting its initial order
from 13 episodes to 7.
Continue reading FOX cancels Jezebel James; no one is surprised
Posted Jan 8th 2007 12:31PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, Gilmore Girls, Smallville, Everybody Hates Chris, The CW, America's Next Top Model
(Part 5 of 5) In the winter of 2006 CBS and Warner Brothers got together to create a new 5th network . . . The CW. You read right, I said 5th network. That's probably confusing you right now since you thought there were six major broadcast networks on the air last winter: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, WB, UPN. Yes, that's true, but The CW was to do something unique to make it the 5th network. It was going to combine the programming of both the WB and UPN, eliminating those networks completely.
It sounded like a good idea at first. Take the best programming from both WB and UPN and put it on one network. No more jumping between the two networks to find the show you wanted to watch. No more confusion as to whether Veronica Mars was on WB or UPN. Plus, there was elimination of much of the mediocre crap that filled their weeknight schedules.
Like I said, it sounded like a good idea.
Continue reading Top TV Stories of 2006: The CW
Posted Aug 2nd 2006 12:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Talent, Industry, Gilmore Girls
Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator of
Gilmore Girls has
signed a deal to create a sitcom pilot for Fox. The half-hour pilot is going to be about two sisters who reunite after a number of years apart. The twist is that the reunion happens after one sister agrees to carry the other's baby. She is set to write, produce, and direct the pilot, which is a lot of work. But remember that AS-P and her husband Daniel left
GG earlier this year after the couple and Warner Brothers couldn't come to terms on a new deal, so she'll have time.
Knowing Amy's writing style, I'm sure there will be lots of references to current and past pop culture, with band names popping up from time to time.
[via
Netscape]
Posted Apr 20th 2006 10:45PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Talent, Industry, WB, Gilmore Girls
Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Dan
have left the WB show because they couldn't come
to an agreement on their contracts with the studio. They are going to leave at the end of this season.
It
looks like the show will go on though. Dave Rosenthal, a producer and writer on the show already, will take over when
the show returns next year (?) on the new CW.
[via
Lee
Goldberg]
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