Jack Nicholson-related stories
Posted Oct 14th 2008 9:05AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) Watching
My Own Worst Enemy is like deja vu. You feel like you've seen something like this before. Was it
The Bourne Identity, Casino Royale, Minority Report, Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Or maybe it was something on TV, like that failed Ray Liotta series
Smith or Jennifer Garner's
Alias or
The Bionic Woman or
The Six Million Dollar Man or something else...
See, that's the problem with
My Own Worst Enemy. It's familiar but not in a cool way. Rather it's derivative and not very compelling. NBC is already doing a double life, super secret spy thing much better in the ratings-challenged
Chuck.
The obvious appeal of
My Own Worst Enemy is two-fold: lots of action including cool gadgets, cars (thank you, GM), guns, blood and the mystery, combined with the charm and complexity of Christian Slater. Slater's a fun actor, a sort of Jack Nicholson only younger. I remember when he first started on
Ryan's Hope! He's got something.
Continue reading My Own Worst Enemy: Breakdown (series premiere)
Posted Aug 12th 2008 8:23AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
With Maggie Friedman (
Dawson's Creek) behind it, I have to imagine that
The Witches of Eastwick ABC pilot project just announced may feature a younger cast than the 1987 film on which it is being based. The announcement specifically states that it is a variation on the film as opposed to the controversial John Updike novel. The book has been blasted for being misogynistic, while the movie offered more in female empowerment.
This will be third time someone has made a go of adapting the film for television. I can't help but think think of this as a more serious
Charmed. Will the male antagonist, played by Jack Nicholson in the film, remain throughout the series, or will he just be an early problem dealt with by the three witchy leads? Considering Friedman's resume also includes the horridly under-appreciated
Jack and Bobby and the brilliant
Once and Again, there are a lot of ways she could go with this.
Continue reading ABC sets up shop in Eastwick
Posted Feb 20th 2006 3:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
PBS has a new Antiques Roadshow. Check local listings. - At 8pm, ABC has a new two hour Wife Swap, followed by a new Bachelor, where the
women the guy rejected come back and insult him (and each other).
- FOX has a new House tonight at 8 (?), followed by a new 24.
- CBS has all repeats: King of Queens, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half
Men, Courting Alex, and CSI: Miami.
- NBC has The Olympics.
- The WB is showing Agent Cody Banks at 8, while UPN has new eps of One on One, All of
Us, Girlfriends, and Half & Half.
- Four great Friends repeats at 8 on TBS: the first two are about Phoebe's stepbrother asking her
to have his kids, and the other two focus on Rachel's crush on Joshua and the girls taking Chandler to a strip
club.
- Also at 9: FLIX has Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces.
- Not sure what this film is, but at 9 Lifetime has Luke Wilson in Bad Seed, where he plays a man
accused of killing his wife who looks for a videotape that can clear him. (Must be "Seed Night" on
Lifetime: the movie before this at 7 is Seeds Of Deception.)
- Also at 9: Toon Disney has a new A.T.O.M.
- At 9:30, HGTV has a new House Hunters International.
- At 10, Court TV has a new Dominick Dunne: Power, Privilege & Justice.
- Also at 10: Bravo has two new eps of Outrageous & Contagious Viral Videos.
- Late night sports at 11: Speed has Inside Nextel Cup, while Outdoor has a new Fishing Across
America. And ESPN has Sportscenter, of course.
- At 11:30, TCM has Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Top Hat.
Posted Jan 16th 2006 5:30PM by Kim Voynar
Filed under: NBC
Let's face it - awards shows are mostly lots of boring stuff with the occasional
exciting moment when the awards you care about come up. To make things more exciting for you, though, TV Squad has come
up with this fun-filled Play-Along-at-Home game to help occupy your time during the more mundane moments. We're not
saying this is a drinking game, but, you know, if you wanted to make it a drinking game, or a potato chip eating game,
or whatever, you could do that.
Here's how you play along. Just keep score at home (or drink, or eat a chip, or whatever you want) everytime you
see the following things happen during the broadcast of the Golden Globes:
Continue reading The Golden Globes Play-Along-at-Home Game!
Posted Jan 15th 2006 8:09AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: NBC, Music and Variety, Web
NBC
has created a game on
its website to go along with the live
telecast of the
Golden Globes, which air on Monday night (8-11 pm EST). It will feature a film and television
trivia game that parallels whatever is happening on the
Globes. It looks like the website is also going to
have polls up as each category is announced so the internet can vote for who it wants to be Best Actress or whatever,
and the results will appear in real-time up until the winner is announced. I think it would be interesting to see who
people are hoping will win each category, compared to who actually wins.
You know what the website needs,
that it doesn't have? A
Golden Globes drinking game. Somebody kisses Jack Nicholson's ass? Take a drink!
Someone does an impression of Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch? Drink! Scripted, playful banter between presenters
falls flat? Drink up!
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