JennaElfman-related stories
Posted Nov 4th 2009 9:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
CBS Monday night comedies have been doing pretty well so far this season, as far as the ratings are concerned.
The Big Bang Theory is challenging
Two and a Half Men for top Nielsens for a sitcom;
How I Met Your Mother is doing as well or better than last year, and the new kid on the block,
Jenna Elfman in
Accidentally on Purpose, has benefited by being smackdab in the middle of all that established comic success.
CBS has ordered five additional episodes of Accidentally on Purpose. It's not a ringing endorsement, but it does give the show a chance to improve on what it's done thus far.
Continue reading CBS orders a bit more Accidentally on Purpose
Posted Sep 24th 2009 11:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Cougar Town
Some of you may think that TV Squad is filled with cheerleaders, that we all love TV so much that we rarely pull out our swords and skewer a show. Well, this should change your mind. I tuned in to
Cougar Town last night and, I have to say, I was appalled. I thought I had seen what is likely the worst sitcom of the season --
Accidentally on Purpose -- but
Cougar Town has surpassed it in badness.
Let me preface the rest of this criticism by saying that I was a loyal viewer of
Friends. I liked Bruce Springsteen's video
Dancing in the Dark.
Scream was a hoot! I've been following Courteney Cox's career for years and I think she's terrific. She's funny and pretty and self-deprecating. I went into
Cougar Town with high hopes. In other words, I have good will for Courteney Cox, like Jenna Elfman.
Continue reading The women of Cougar Town are obsessed with sex
Posted Sep 21st 2009 9:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) Watching
Accidentally on Purpose, thoughts of Seth Rogen danced in my mind. Not Seth, actually, but the film
Knocked Up. This is the second year in a row that CBS seems obsessed with that film. Last season, it was
Worst Week, with a schlubby Kyle Bornheimer channeling Rogen's goofy lack of grace. It didn't work and
Worst Week bit the dust. Now we have
Jenna Elfman in the Katherine Heigl role, knocked up by accident after a one-night stand, albeit with a twist. Instead of a schlub, Jenna's fling is a boy-toy named Zach.
And there you have the premise of
Accidentally on Purpose. Are you ROFL? Will you LOL? Read on after the jump.
Continue reading Accidentally on Purpose: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Sep 17th 2009 9:00AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
On her
new CBS sitcom, Accidentally on Purpose,
Jenna Elfman plays a woman who picks up a guy, has a one-night stand and winds up pregnant. It may be a case of being overly practical, but
in real life Jenna Elfman has gotten pregnant because, as she put it, "My character's pregnant the whole first season, so I said, 'It's a good time to have another baby, because we won't have to hide it."
Isn't that a good reason to have a baby? Elfman, who's married to actor Bodhi Elfman, is already a mommy. She and Bodhi have a two-year old son named Story. Hmm, you think they're ever tempted to sing, "Here's the story of a kid named Story..."?
Continue reading Jenna Elfman is pregnant on TV and off
Posted Jul 2nd 2009 2:00PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Upfronts
Generally speaking, CBS had a strong 2008, developing one bona fide hit drama --
The Mentalist -- even though shows like
The Ex-List never found an audience or a critical plaudit. Ironically, I liked
The Ex-List based on the screener I reviewed last summer, so go figure. Sometimes a preview can inform you about a show's potential and sometimes it's just the best it'll ever be.
CBS has shared previews for
the new season and we've had a chance to take a look. There are star vehicles for Jenna Elfman, Alex O'Loughlin and Julianna Margulies, which would seem logical based on the success of Simon Baker as
The Mentalist. CBS is counting on familiar, popular TV stars to win over audiences. Will the strategy work? It's probably too soon to tell.
Continue reading TV Squad previews CBS's new shows
Posted May 19th 2009 12:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Upfronts, Reality-Free
We're still over 24 hours away from
CBS making their official announcements about the new season, but apparently pre-upfront news is as plentiful as upfront news, so here we are with
more information about what CBS will be telling us tomorrow. In addition to the already leaked
three dramas that are a go -- Alex O'Loughlin in
Three Rivers, Julianna Margulies in
The Good Wife, and LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell in the
NCIS spin-off -- today we've learned about three more new shows.
Jenna Elfman is back on TV with a new sitcom. In 2006, she tried a CBS comedy called
Courting Alex that failed to click, but she had a five-year run on ABC with
Dharma & Greg. The actress toplines
Accidentally on Purpose, playing a film critic (and I hope whatever publication she writes for doesn't go belly-up like so many others these days) who accidentally gets pregnant after a fling with a younger man. I'm laughing already.
Continue reading More about CBS's plans for the new season
Posted Jul 30th 2007 4:06PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
In
other baby news, actress Jenna Elfman gave birth to a boy last week. She and her husband, Bodhi, named their son Story Elias. He weighed 7 pounds, two ounces.
Jenna has been laughing through her pregnancy and birth. When she was late term, she did
this trash-talking basketball video with her belly hanging out. And the
official statement about her birth is just as funny. It says Story is already a fan of "classical music, a clean diaper, mom's boobs and long naps. Story wants to give big props to his mom for all her hard work." Cute.
Hopefully we'll be seeing Jenna on television sometime soon. She had a short-lived show,
Courting Alex, last season but it wasn't as good as she is.
Posted Jun 23rd 2007 9:03AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Video, Web, Celebrities
If you've been searching the Web today trying to find video of a pregnant woman playing basketball, I'd like to say, "welcome."
At the bottom of this post, courtesy of Funny or Die, is a short clip featuring actress Jenna Elfman taking part in a game of B-ball, complete with trash talk and everything. That might be kinda humorous, but add in the fact that she's also pregnant and I'd say that's pretty damn funny. Elfman has a lot of great lines, but my favorite comes toward the end as she's walking off the court and tosses the ball away.
I'd love to see a whole series done this way, with Elfman playing a different sport in every video. I've always been a fan of Elfman's, though I never really liked Dharma and Greg. Funny, that.
Anyway, check out the video below. It does contain some bad language, so be warned.
Continue reading Jenna Elfman and her baby play basketball - VIDEO
Posted Apr 16th 2007 1:32AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, Brothers and Sisters, Episode Reviews
(
S01E19) Meh. I really like
Brothers and Sisters and I am a really big cheerleader of this show. But this episode wasn't really stellar. I am a big enough geek that I have done some background research on the show and I know that the episodes don't all have the same writers, and perhaps that explains some of the unevenness in the episodes. I guess they aren't going to let me come and hang out with them in LA if I say that this episode wasn't the best example of writing, are they? No, wait, that's not fair. It was just a fairly contrived episode.
Continue reading Brothers and Sisters: Game Night
Posted Jun 2nd 2006 8:04AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS
CBS has a lot of confidence in Jenna Elfman. Her comedy,
Courting Alex, didn't even last for half a season on CBS, but the network is already creating another show just for her. She has reportedly signed a development deal with CBS and is now searching for a scriptwriter.
Is Elfman worth it? She's hot and funny and,
according to Joel, she's "sexy in a non-threatening way". Is she worth hanging onto?
Posted Jan 1st 2006 8:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Cable, Programming, UPN
Now that 2005 is behind us, we can look forward to new and returning favorite shows all this month on television.
What will you be watching?
South
Beach (Wednesdays, UPN) Two hot, New York City working-class bachelors leave the big city behind to
follow one of their girlfriends to South Beach, FL, only to discover that she has a new boyfriend. They get mixed up
with the rich and famous in the club scene. After viewing a sneak preview on UPN's website, it looks like a guilty
pleasure like
The O.C., except with more sex and no high school. Jennifer Lopez is the executive producer and
it co-stars Vanessa Williams as a club owner and mother to one of the main characters.
South Beach premieres
on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 8 pm.
Continue reading Mid-season television preview
Andy Richter: The TV Squad Interview
Have any questions for Vik Sahay of Chuck? Ask them here!
Mike Henry and Daryl Hall on a Cleveland Show Thanksgiving
