Felicity-related stories
Posted Apr 6th 2009 6:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.Hmmm...no idea why there's a new edition of
Alias' season 5 coming out tomorrow. There was another version of the season already released, but it has been discontinued. I wonder if there's something different in the set that will tick off fans who bought that deluxe
Alias Complete Series Set with Rambaldi Artifact a while back.
And the fourth season of
Felicity too. Maybe it's J.J. Abrams' birthday?
- Alias - Season 5 (new edition)
- Ben 10: Alien Force - Season 1, Vol. 3
- Beverly Hills, 90210 - Season 7
Continue reading New TV on DVD releases this week
Posted Jul 16th 2008 12:26PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Desperate Housewives, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Haircuts on TV shows are often a very big deal. Remember when Keri Russell had the audacity to cut her long, curl mane on
Felicity? Some fans never forgave her or the character!
Well, be prepared for another cut to your psyche,
Desperate Housewives' devotees. Eva Longoria Parker has
cut her hair for the upcoming sixth season of the show. Unlike Keri, however, Eva's cut was done with the blessing of the producers.
As you can see, it's a very cute 'doo; not too blunt or pixie-ish. It's quite stylish and flattering. The idea is that with the five-year time jump that we saw in the finale last season, Gaby doesn't have the time or inclination to care for her long, flowing locks. (If you've ever had long, full hair like hers, you know what I'm talking about!)
Continue reading Desperate Housewife gets trimmed ... her hair, that is
Posted Jul 2nd 2008 11:38AM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, 24, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Dennis Haysbert
recently claimed that his role as President Palmer on
24 may have helped pave the way for a viable African American presidential candidate. He went on to claim that his portrayal of Nelson Mandela in the movie
Goodbye Bafana ended apartheid and that his role as Jonas Blane in
The Unit cured polio. Haysbert was then wrestled to the ground by his handlers and is now "recuperating" at the Clay Aiken Home for Delusional Celebrities.
My first thought upon hearing this news was that Dennis Haysbert is obviously insane. Since I've been criticized in this space for not having an open mind about
insane things, I decided to take Mr. Haysbert at his word. I then went even further and went to work putting together a list of other politicians who exist mainly due to the hard work done for them by TV actors. After researching Wikipedia for almost a full fifteen minutes, this is the list I've managed to put together...
Continue reading Six other politicians who have had their ways paved by TV actors
Posted Jun 30th 2008 11:02AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Interviews, Numb3rs, Casting, Reality-Free
Flashpoint premieres Friday, July 11, at 10 p.m. ET on
CBS, and yes, it's another cop show, but it sounds gritty enough to offer something interesting. The new summer drama stars
Enrico Colantoni as Sergeant Greg Parker,
Hugh Dillon as Ed Lane,
David Paetkau as Sam Braddock, and
Amy Jo Johnson as Jules Callahan.
The series follows the lives of a Toronto-based Strategic Response Unit (SRU), unique cops who go beyond the call of ordinary cops to rescue hostages, bust gangs, defuse bombs, handle state-of-the-art weaponry and, of course, risk their lives to save others.
I participated in a conference call this week with Colantoni, Dillon, Johnson, and executive producers
Bill Mustos and
Anne Marie La Traverse. Some highlights of the call:
Continue reading Stars of Flashpoint talk about Toronto taking center stage
Posted Mar 24th 2008 9:41AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Medium, Family Guy, Casting
It'll be one more time around for a
Wonder Years alumna and a
Felicity fave.
Fred Savage and Amy Smart have both been cast in CBS pilots. For Fred, who for me may have peaked as an actor as Kevin Arnold (although I did love him in
Austin Powers in Goldmember playing Number Three -- the guy with the mole on his face), the new project on tap is
Single White Millionaire. The sitcom is from the pen of writer Ricky Blitt, one of the
Family Guy scribes, so that's a plus. The plot is described as the story of an unassuming, thirtysomething millionaire ready to settle down -- and obviously looking for the right lady to share his life (although I guess he could be looking for a significant other of either gender -- the project line leaves it open).
Continue reading CBS orders pilots with Amy Smart and Fred Savage
Posted Mar 10th 2008 3:24PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, Web, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The coffee at Luke's Diner is perking again. Well, sort of.
The WB television network is being resurrected it as a new web site. The WB, tentatively called wb.com, will offer free streaming episodes of
Gilmore Girls, Everwood and
What I Like About You, to start.
Those are all shows that were WB-produced during 1995-2006, before the WB merged with UPN to become the CW. It has yet to be determined if other series, including
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Felicity and
Dawson's Creek are slated for the wb.com stream. Like other online streaming venues that allow people to watch for free, the shows will be paid for by ads. In addition to the shows, the site is also going to create new, short (approximately five minute) vignettes targeting the old WB audience, primarily women 12-34.
Continue reading WB coming back on the web
Posted Jan 17th 2008 4:28PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming
JJ Abrams, of Lost, Alias, and Felicity fame, has another TV show coming up, this time on FOX.
Fringe will star Kirk Acevedo and Tomas Arana and is about a young female FBI agent who teams up with a scientist to investigate odd phenomena and other sci-fi happenings. Wait, is this X-Files 2?
More interesting than the plot of the show is the price tag for the pilot episode: $10 million. That's just for the pilot episode. I hope it doesn't turn into one of those shows that has a great-looking, expensive pilot episode (*cough* Smith *cough), hooks viewers in, and then the rest of the show falls apart. But I have faith in Abrams. He has a great track record, enthusiasm, and is an actual fan of the genre and not just a producer, so I'll give this a shot.
Posted Feb 13th 2007 6:43PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Gilmore Girls, Lost, Nip/Tuck, Grey's Anatomy, The CW, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Heroes
It's that time of year again, where everything around you suddenly takes a heart shape. The stores around you are filled with waves of reds and pinks.
But darn it! Not everything is roses and overpriced candies. (Especially for the fellas who rush to the stores because you're told to.)
We've all been single and we've all been there with breakups... the question is
how well do you know your TV Breakups?
Perhaps you're in a tumultuous love triangle and not sure whose valentine is yours?
Well some of our favorite characters don't get that right either. Remember that even if you're with or without a valentine this year, that you can always find your remote control in your arms. (Because you can't snuggle and watch your TV at the same time. Duh.)
Posted Jul 17th 2006 9:08PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: TV Royalty, Industry, Lost
Geez. I guess we know who television's "It" man is these days. J.J. Abrams, creator of
Felicity, Lost and
Alias and director of
Mission: Impossible III, signed new television and film production deals with Warner Bros. and Paramount, totalling approximately $60 million. According to
E! online, the deals wrap up some intense negotiating where nearly every Hollywood studio was vying to get the Abrams name on its stuff. There's a funny quote from a Warner Bros. exec in the LA Times, saying, "J.J. is such a unique and extraordinary talent, someone whom I've admired for years." I laugh at that because, if he was so talented, why didn't you bozos sign him years ago instead of now when he's hot? Oh, I think I just answered my own question.
J.J.'s television deal with Warner Bros. gives him $4-$6 million a year and pays $2 million of Bad Robot's overhead costs. The movie deal with Paramount gives him $2.5 million a year over five years, plus costs and $5 million for his first movie. Paramount execs call J.J. "the next Steven Spielberg."
No pressure, J.J.
Posted Jul 11th 2006 1:48PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Commercials, Celebrities
Keri Russell is the new face of Cover Girl. She'll begin appearing in new television advertisements for Cover Girl's Outlast Double Lipshine later this month and she'll make her magazine debut in August. The television ad is a bit unusual for Cover Girl; Keri fights ninjas and looks gorgeous doing it. Apparently since her appearance in
Mission Impossible: III, the former Felicity star is now an action hero!
Posted Jun 30th 2006 5:31PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Programming, The CW, Retro Squad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel
The WB is scheduled to breathe its last breath on Sunday, September 17. In a look back at its eleven-year run, the netlet will run the pilots of the five shows it considers to be its most important. So, starting at 5 PM, viewers will get to see the pilots of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, and
Angel. During commercial breaks, the network will air promos from the various campaigns shown over the network's run. Hopefully they'll also bring back Michigan J. Frog, who they summarily dismissed last year; the poor guy deserves some respect.
And, yes, I only named four shows.
Felicity airs from 5-6PM, followed by
Angel from 6-7PM,
Buffy from 7-9PM, and the
Creek from 9-10PM. Why not air the pilots for
Smallville, Gilmore Girls, or
7th Heaven? Because they're still running, silly; they're all part of The CW's fall lineup. According to
this article in
Variety (registration required), getting the rights to air these pilots from the studios and their current cable homes was tough, but deals were struck that included date and time promos for the cable reruns and ads for the DVD releases by the studios.
Anyway, it should be a fun day of nostalgia before the CW takes over the next day.
[Thanks to Jeff, Dorv, Scott and Tammy for the tips. ]
Posted May 26th 2006 10:22AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Celebrities
Greg Grunberg seems to be in just about everything that J.J. Abrams does. He was a regular on both
Alias and
Felicity, the doomed pilot on
Lost (what killed him anyway? A monster?), the star of
The Catch, the bounty hunter show that never made it to air, and has made cameos in everything from
What About Brian? to
Mission: Impossible 3.
But Grunberg will next be seen in a non-Abrams project, the new NBC fall show
Heroes, where he will be one of six ordinary citizens who find that they suddenly have superpowers (he can also be seen in Jason Bateman's failed show
The Jake Effect, which had a marathon on Bravo last night and can be seen on BrilliantButCanceled.com).
If I could have one superpower, it wouldn't be the ability to fly or super strength. I'd have to go with invisibility, because I have a dirty mind.
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