Glenn Gordon Caron-related stories
Posted Aug 4th 2009 7:00PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, Reality-Free
Zombies are everywhere these days. The walking dead have invaded
Marvel Comics,
Jane Austen books, and they'll soon be chomping on brains in a
galaxy far, far away.
This Halloween, Patricia Arquette will face off against a classic undead army in an
upcoming episode of Medium. That's right,
Medium! Show creator Glenn Gordon Caron said an upcoming Halloween-themed episode will insert Arquette's character into scenes from George Romero's original
Night of the Living Dead film. It's part a dream sequence that would not have happened if the show had stayed on NBC.
Continue reading George Romero's zombies to invade Medium this Halloween
Posted Jan 13th 2009 6:08PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free
If you were to make a list of the TV shows from the '80s you could bet wouldn't come back as a reunion movie, ABC's
Moonlighting is one of them. Not only is the show 20 years old, but there was constant tension/problems/fights/delays on the set of the show (sometimes Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd weren't even speaking to each other, except in scenes as Dave and Maddie), and when it ended Willis went on to a major big-screen movie career and you'd think he wouldn't want to look back on some TV show he did in 1986. But you'd be wrong.
Liz Smith reports that
Willis and Shepherd ran into each other at an Encino deli (probably the last place I would think they would run into), and they were quite happy to see each other, even getting a little teary-eyed talking about old times. They're both up for a reunion movie (this year marks the 20th anniversary of the show's end), but they'll only do it if creator/producer Glenn Gordon Caron is in charge of the show again.
Glenn is currently doing
Medium, and before that created
Now and Again, which I really liked and should have stayed around a lot longer than it did.
Posted Mar 25th 2008 9:32AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Medium, Casting
Didn't
Medium's Allison see this coming? Apparently not.
Kelly Preston will be joining NBC's Medium for a four-show stint. Kelly will be playing a character named Meghan Doyle, a venture capitalist who invests in Joe Dubois, Allison's husband's, new solar-based invention. Presumably her interest in Joe is all business, but by the time the first of four episodes ends, the one called
Partners in Crime, you can bet that the tension between Allison and Joe will be positively palpable.
Continue reading Kelly Preston slated for mini-arc on Medium
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 May 7th 2007 4:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Medium, Pickups and Renewals
Medium has become the Yes, Dear of "psychic who sees ghost genre and helps people," a show that not too many seem to talk about but gets pretty good ratings and gets renewed every year. See also: JAG.
NBC has given the Patricia Arquette show a fourth season, a week before the official fall 2007 lineup is announced at the network's upfront presentation. NBC President Kevin Reilly praised the show as only a network executive can (and while you read the praise, replace the title Medium with any show that NBC has canceled in the past 6 months).
Continue reading Medium renewed for a fourth season
Posted Mar 13th 2007 1:55PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd
For a while there, Moonlighting was great, wasn't it? It's a show that truly defines the 80s (the clothes, the attitude), it was really fun and clever, and made Bruce Willis an A list star. Sometimes it's easy to forget how SCREWED UP the show got there for a while. Almost every episode had some problem (script delays, fighting between cast members), and there were whole episodes that were affected by a writers strike and episodes where costars Allyce Beasley and Curtis Armstrong had to take over. It was a rather up and down show, especially in the last couple of years. But it was always entertaining and even joked about these delays and problems in a good, wink-wink sort of way.
Continue reading DVD review: Moonlighting, The Final Season
Posted Nov 23rd 2006 8:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Medium
(S03E03) This was an interesting episode. When Allison 'woke up' from the first dream, I wasn't sure about the whole groundhog day idea. It's something we've seen before, my favorite version being "Run Cleo Run" from
Cleopatra 2525, but it holds the potential to get boring. As the mystery unfolded though, this version of the story turned out to be pretty good. The changes between the different versions of the day were big enough that things didn't feel repetitious.
Unfortunately, I was spoiled on the aftermath of the car crash from the first dream. Glenn Gordon Caron mentioned it in his live blog for the premiere last week. I'm sure it was much better for those that didn't know it was coming, but even knowing, that was a nice bit of effects work with the amputation. The car crash that led to it was good too, but points out two things I had issues with in the episode.
Continue reading Medium: Be kind, Rewind
Posted Nov 16th 2006 11:01AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Medium
(S03E01/S03E02) I was surprised that NBC held Medium back when they announced the fall schedule. While it hasn't been a breakout hit, it has performed well in its first two seasons, and managed to garner some awards. I suppose the thought process was to launch all the untested new stuff, knowing that something isn't going to work out, and then bring Medium in to shore things up. Whatever the case, Allison is back, and with a two hour premiere.
The first thing that stood out to me about this episode was that it was co-written by Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron and Javier Grillo-Marxuach. Javier was formerly a writer-producer for Lost and is a good hire for this show. The two of them put together a great story that managed to weave a few different story lines together into an interesting mystery.
Continue reading Medium: Four Dreams
Posted Sep 14th 2006 6:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, Talent, Industry, Programming, Celebrities
You know, just the other day I was looking over the network schedules, and I thought to myself, "you know what we need more of on TV? Shows where a woman can see dead people and investigate crimes." My wish has been granted!
CBS has given the OK for a supernatural pilot from Glenn Gordon Caron, the guy who gave us Moonlighting and the short-lived, much missed Now and Again. The show is called The Meant To Bes, about a woman who dies but must return to Earth to help people before she can get into heaven.
Maybe that's the twist. She sees live people!
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