DirtySexyMoney-related stories
Posted Sep 29th 2009 12:28PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Survivor, Reality-Free
What happens when the producer of
Survivor collaborates with his wife, an actress who starred in
Touched by an Angel, in a story created by the guy who brought us
Dirty Sexy Money? Do you get
Touched by a Dirty Sexy Angel? I guess that's what CBS will find out because
Mark Burnett and Roma Downey are teaming with Craig Wright for a drama project for CBS.
Burnett, he of
Survivor and a half-dozen other reality shows, is married to
Angel star Roma Downey, and they're both executive producers while Wright is doing the writing for Sony Pictures TV. The show is the story of a lawyer who nearly dies in a car crash and gets a second chance at life when the ghost of his ex-wife appears to him.
Continue reading Mark Burnett gets real for CBS drama
Posted Sep 13th 2009 10:00AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Scrubs, Reality-Free, Jane After Dark
Several DVD sets came my way this week, so I did some marathon viewing sessions for
Jane After Dark. I'm brand new to some of these, so you'll get the stark, raw newbie version. But I'll start with one I've watched since the beginning ...
Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete Second and Final Season. I really liked this show at the beginning. It had all the elements of a great series, including excellent actors (starting with Donald Sutherland, Jill Clayburgh, and Peter Krause) and intriguing storylines with rich people, sex, murder, and mystery. But by the time they got to season two, the storylines just seemed to fizzle out. I would love to hear your thoughts on why
Dirty Sexy Money didn't work. Crummy writing? Poor use of great actors? Too many characters to keep track of? Poor timing with the writer's strike occurring in the middle of its run, resulting in ten months between seasons?
Bonus features: Directing the Darlings (behind the scenes with director Jamie Babbit); A Total Knockout (a day in the life of Natalie Zea, who played Karen); Dirty Sexy Crafty (a featurette about the food on the set); Faux Pas (bloopers); deleted scenes.
Continue reading Jane After Dark: Sexy Samantha talking Greek in Scrubs
Posted Aug 19th 2009 5:07PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Casting, Reality-Free
So I've been watching
Hung (because I'm flattered that they'd base a show like that around me). It's proven to be a much more entertaining take on the premise than I expected. Thomas Jane and Jane Adams are simply perfect in their respective roles as the reluctant gigolo and his high-strung pimp. I was digging Anne Heche as his wife, and even getting his bizarre kids.
I didn't even know the show needed anything more, until Ray booked his most demanding and bizarre client yet and Natalie Zea (
Dirty Sexy Money) sashayed into the room. Wow, did
Hung need her. And I don't mean because she's gorgeous, though that certainly helps. What a new dynamic she's brought to everything.
Continue reading Natalie Zea adds some dirty, sexy money to Hung
Posted May 4th 2009 9:03AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Upfronts, Reality-Free
This leak appears to be unauthorized, but still pretty solid. It looks like the television remake of Ron Howard's 1989 film
Parenthood has been picked up by NBC for next season. Peter Krause (
Six Feet Under, Dirty Sexy Money), Maura Tierney (
NewsRadio, ER) and Craig T. Nelson (
Coach) are on board to star, and that's a pretty solid foundation right there.
The original
Parenthood movie starred everybody who was anybody in the late '80s, including Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Jr. and Mary Steenbergen and Steve Martin. It was like
Crash with an extended family, following multiple story lines that all ultimately connected.
Continue reading Now new show pick-ups are leaking out of NBC camp
Posted Apr 9th 2009 11:03AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free
ABC announced their summer schedule, complete with returning reality "favorites" and some new shows, but honestly, who cares about all that?! What matters is that three of my favorite sophomore shows that were killed too soon are all scheduled to make their triumphant (?) returns to ABC this summer,
as promised.
Yes, I'm talking about
Pushing Daisies,
Eli Stone and
Dirty Sexy Money. Apparently, ABC has decided that the Saturday 10pm/9pm Central timeslot is the perfect place to air the remaining episodes of each series, one after the other. After all, it is the dead zone of television, so what do they have to lose?
Continue reading ABC schedules the last episodes of Eli Stone, Daisies and DSM for this summer
Posted Jan 2nd 2009 1:22PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, News, Industry, Programming, OpEd, American Idol, The Daily Show, Festivus, Celebrities, Eli Stone, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
Welcome back from your humongous hangover. I just wanted to let you know that you are now in 2009 -- a fresh new year that we should look forward to. However, since you are a common citizen of Earth, you don't look ahead to a future. Instead, you look to the bleak and bloated year that has now passed.
That's why they invented "Best and Worst" lists for the previous year. It gives you a chance to remember last year's crap, get angry, proceed to get drunk, pass out, wake up, and forget it's a new year again. At that point, you get angry again. It's a vicious cycle and we love it! With that, here's my "Best and Worst" list for 2008.
Continue reading Best and Worst of 2008: Rich's List
Posted Nov 6th 2008 12:40AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
(S02E05) That was more like it! Just as I was about to write off this week's episode as another bland installment of
Dirty Sexy Money, down came an embarrassment of primetime soap riches. Letitia's trial was resolved with the kind of speed only possible in TV-land, and we got a cliffhanger and three major shocks to boot! Read on for the details.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Verdict
Posted Oct 30th 2008 8:33AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
(S02E04) Election night on
Dirty Sexy Money was about more than simple politics. There were lost children, marriage proposals, and bribes to worry about. With so many major things happening, though, I wish some of the minor storylines had been cut from this episode. Nick's gradual transformation into the next Tripp Darling is fascinating, and we finally got a better idea about Simon's master plan. Next week's installment appears to be a lot meatier (and soapier), so I'm not worried.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Silence
Posted Oct 23rd 2008 8:28PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Cancellations, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Has anyone else noticed the lack of hair trigger cancellations thus far this season? We're a good month or more in now and only
Opportunity Knocks and
Do Not Disturb have had the plug pulled. And believe me those needed to happen. By now, though, your high quality shows that have underperformed like
Pushing Daisies usually would be doing just that ... pushing up daisies. But, for some reason, not this year. At least not yet.
Hell, ratings-challenged shows like
Knight Rider and
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are even getting full season pick-ups. And that's FOX giving
Sarah Connor a chance to find an audience! FOX!! I think what we're seeing is the continuing fallout from the Writer's Strike last year. Remember when the execs were talking about how they were going to rethink their approach to television, ordering fewer pilots and possibly even altering the landscape of television in regards to seasons and sweeps? Well, the fall season started up pretty much like it always has, but I do believe there are far fewer shows waiting in the wings to replace this season's failures.
Continue reading Did TV execs get kinder and gentler this year?
Posted Oct 23rd 2008 9:25AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
(S02E03) We already know what it's like to be a Darling: lavish parties, vast conspiracies, and emotional outbursts. This week's episode gave us some insight into what it's like to be a George: same psychological problems, less money. Letitia's upcoming trial brought Nick face-to-face with someone from his past, and this person had quite a story to tell.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Star Witness
Posted Oct 9th 2008 8:29AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
(S02E02) The Darlings had to bury one of their own this week, and they sent the deceased off in style. Sure, the eulogy was written about someone else and some of the mourners were arrested, but that's part of the fun of these events. The rest of the episode was business as usual--power struggles, inappropriate sexual partners, and suitcases filled with cash. No complaints here.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Family Lawyer
Posted Oct 5th 2008 9:39AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Ratings, Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free
You know the one I'm talking about. After the writers strike ended last year in February, most of the networks made the interesting decision to just go ahead and shelve most of their freshmen series for the season, even if they'd picked up their "back nine" orders. Instead, they thought they'd launch the shows to big fanfare this fall, almost as if they were new again. Unfortunately, it looks like this plan backfired on them tremendously.
Across the board, those
sophomore series that went on hiatus for more than six months are way down in the ratings. Apparently, absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder when it comes to the television landscape. It makes the instant gratification generation forget you existed. And stop caring.
Continue reading The long hiatus is killing second-year shows, and some older ones
Posted Oct 2nd 2008 12:42AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free
(S02E01) The Darlings are back! Despite all the behind-the-scenes
personnel and casting changes,
Dirty Sexy Money appears to be better than ever. Loyal fans were rewarded with a major development in last season's murder mystery, and the premiere gave new viewers plenty of reasons to come back for more. Season One feels like it ended ages ago, but "The Birthday Present" was the perfect refresher course in the elements of this gorgeous, twisted world.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Birthday Present (season premiere)
Posted Sep 5th 2008 12:02PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
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This week we have:
24, Bones, Brothers & Sisters, Chuck, Desperate Housewives, Dirty Sexy Money, Ghost Whisperer, Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Private Practice, and Pushing Daisies. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Aug 12th 2008 8:03AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TV Royalty, Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free
Ed Bernero is such a big
Hawaii Five-0 fan, he has the show's theme song as his ringtone. But that's not all.
The
Criminal Minds exec producer is also creating a new version of the classic show that starred
Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett, head of an elite branch of the fictional Hawaii State Police. The show won two Primetime Emmys and ran on CBS from 1968 to 1980 (Really?! It ran that long?!).
According to
The Hollywood Reporter, the new version
will feature McGarrett's son as top cop. Bernero says he won't try and re-invent the series, and will "keep as much of the original show as possible."
Okay, let's think about this. Who looks enough like Jack Lord to play his son? (Of course, he'll have to have the same immovable, thick mane.) Jake Gyllenhaal? Kyle MacLachlan? How about Peter Krause?
Dirty Sexy Money can't last much longer, can it?
Continue reading Book 'em, Danno! Hawaii Five-0 2.0 on the way
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