Posts with tag BlairUnderwood
Posted Mar 26th 2008 8:30AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, Dirty Sexy Money
From March 14th to March 27th,
The Paley Center for Media is presenting the twentieth-fifth annual William S. Paley Television Festival. The Paley Center, formerly the Museum of Television and Radio, says that the festival celebrates "television's rich and diverse programming and the creative process behind the medium." This year the festival included
Chuck, Friday Night Lights,
Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, and
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reunion.
Last night, I attended the
Dirty Sexy Money panel. For what happened during the panel discussion, read on past the jump...
Continue reading Paley Festival: Dirty Sexy Money
Posted Feb 7th 2008 11:03AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Web
If you're cool, then you've been following HBO's bold new nightly series
In Treatment, starring Gabriel Byrne, Blair Underwood and Dianne Wiest among others. If you're even cooler than you've been reading our awesome reviews
right here at TV Squad. Don't worry, the reviews will continue, only instead of being nightly you'll get a weekly recap.
So far, you've missed eight episodes, but it's still not too late. In an unprecedented move for HBO, they're making the first three weeks (that's fifteen episodes for you mathematically challenged)
available for free viewing online. The full series runs 43 episodes, but these 15 will give you plenty of time to give your cable/satellite provider a call and sign up for HBO.
Continue reading Get three weeks of HBO's In Treatment sessions free online
Posted Jan 31st 2008 11:15PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews
(S01E04) "So was that convincing enough?" Amy, after a long monologue about her 'depression.'
It's like the fourth first episode in a row! It really is amazing how every episode so far has essentially been the first episode of a new series. In fact, when they do the "Next time on..." bit, it's not "Tomorrow on
In Treatment." It's "Next Thursday on
In Treatment: Jake & Amy. And there has been no real connection between these first few episodes, save the common thread of Paul Weston as therapist. Tomorrow night's episode will show what this series is really going to be about as Paul goes to see his
own therapist.
In Treatment is one of the most unusual television experiments I've ever seen, but after four episodes I think I'm beginning to really like it.
Continue reading In Treatment: Jake and Amy-Week One
Posted Jan 22nd 2007 11:59AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, HBO, Premium Cable, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
HBO continues to prepare for a post Sopranos world. There has been a lot of talk about their upcoming shows lately, including adapting George R. R. Martin's
Song of Ice and Fire, David Milch's
John From Cincinnati, and the untitled
Kanye West project. We can now add
two more to that list.
The network has picked up a one-hour comedy from producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (Designing Women) called
12 Miles Of Bad Road. The show will star Lily Tomlin as the matriarch of a rich Texas family. Add in the family real estate business and a collection of relatives and hilarity will ensue, hopefully. The idea almost sounds like a
Dallas spoof. With Tomlin on board, it will certainly be worth a look. Look for Gary Cole, Mary Kay Place, and Leslie Jordan to also appear.
Continue reading HBO orders more new shows
Posted Dec 26th 2006 7:00PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order
Eriq LaSalle, who played Doctor Peter Benton on ER from 1994 to 2001, returns to NBC's prime-time schedule in January. This time, though, he won't be acting. Rather, he will be behind the cameras as he directs an episode of Law & Order: SVU.
LaSalle will be reunited with SVU cast member Mariska Hargitay, who portrayed Cynthia Hooper during the fourth season of ER, and Michael Michele, who played Doctor Cleo Finch (and Benton's girlfriend) for two seasons on the medical drama. In the episode itself, which will air January 9th, a messy marital estrangement and subsequent custody battle (are there any others on SVU) will pit Valerie Sennet (Michele) against her estranged husband Miles Sennett (Blair Underwood) and result in some secrets being discovered by detectives Benson (Hargitay) and Stabler.
Continue reading It's an ER mini-reunion on Law & Order: SVU in January
Posted Jul 27th 2006 2:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, CBS, Talent, Lost, The New Adventures of Old Christine
The hunky Blair Underwood has signed on to play a recurring role as a "hunky new teacher" at Richie's school, on
The New Adventures of Old Christine. Underwood joined the cast after a pilot he was in, called
Company Town, didn't get picked up by the networks. Most recently, Underwood co-starred in NBC's failed
LAX with Heather Locklear. I swear, he doesn't look like he's aged a single day since he was on
LA Law.
In other casting news, that really hot Brazilian actor from
Love Actually is joining the cast of
Lost. His name is Rodrigo Santoro and, in case the name and the reference don't ring any bells, he played the co-worker who had the hots for Laura Linney in the movie. Not sure what role he's playing on
Lost, but then again I don't really want to know in case it ruins something.
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