Posts with tag Kim Delaney
Posted Aug 18th 2008 11:42AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Army Wives
"No matter how horrible the loss, I couldn't push away the people who still needed me." -- Claudia Joy's advice to DeniseBeneath the surface, there were emotional land mines all around the friends at Fort Marshall in this episode. There were also some interesting revelations. It started with the arrival, out of the blue, of Charlotte, Claudia Joy's mom. Played by Marsha Mason, famous for
The Goodbye Girl, Charlotte has always been hard on her daughter.
Fortunately, the way it was written and the way she played it, she wasn't there just to scrutinize her daughter's housekeeping. It was surprising to hear that she hadn't even called Claudia Joy since Amanda's death. Could there be a more clear indication that there's a gap between mother and daughter?
There was a lot of subtext, things unsaid between them, and that made their scenes all the better. Her visit was more about what's wrong in her life and therefore how it'll impact on Claudia Joy and Michael's. Watch for Mother to move in for a while.
Continue reading Army Wives: Mothers and Wives
Posted Jul 10th 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free, Army Wives
Kim Delaney is not Quinn Cummings, but the actresses share one thing in common: Marsha Mason as a mom, on screen that is.
Army Wives has cast Marsha Mason, Oscar-nominated actress for
The Goodbye Girl, as Claudia Joy Holden's mom. She will be appearing on at least two episodes this season, visiting Fort Marshall and her daughter, the general's wife.
Marsha, who is actually has been Oscar-nominated as Best Actress four times in all (
Cinderella Liberty, Chapter Two, Only When I Laugh), will guest on
Army Wives as Charlotte Meade, Claudia's socialite mother. Her relationship with her daughter is strained and her visit comes without warning.
Continue reading Marsha Mason to guest on Army Wives
Posted Jul 6th 2008 1:11PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Judging by the
Nielsen ratings Lifetime is raking in for Army Wives in its second season, this show has found its audience. It actually started last spring when
Army Wives was a national surprise -- to everyone in the business outside of Lifetime, which picked up the show when ABC passed.
It's still amazing to think that ABC had a chance to put this show in their schedule and let it get away. Their loss is Lifetime's gain -- and they're feasting on it.
If you missed the first season of
Army Wives, and didn't get into the show until the fifth episode -- like me -- then you'll be glad to know that
Army Wives: The Complete First Season is now available on DVD. It's a great set, too, with some very nice bonus features and quality commentaries.
Continue reading Army Wives: Season One - DVD review
Posted Jun 16th 2008 11:42AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E02) Army Wives is reminding me of some of my favorite TV dramas of all time, shows like
thirtysomething and
Party of Five. Especially this episode where there are more feelings and reactions to the bombing at the Hump Bar. How does life go back to normal after a tragedy? How do you cope?
Time has passed and life may appear to be getting back to normal at Fort Marshall, but things are still quite unsettled among the close knit coterie on
Army Wives. Chief among them are the Holdens. Claudia Joy is simply not returning to normal and it become clear as the episode progressed that she's an emotional powder keg.
Continue reading Army Wives: Strangers in a Strange Land
Posted Jun 8th 2008 11:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S02E01) The season finale for
Army Wives last summer was a cliffhanger. It was an explosive, shocking and dramatic conclusion to a season filled with the characters' ups and downs, the good times and the bad, the yin and the yang of the lives of military families on Fort Marshall in Charleston, South Carolina.
This season two opener is no less stunning. It was a powerful episode, as the tribe, as the Army spouses like to call themselves, deal with the aftermath of a suicide bomber walking into the Hump Bar determined to fulfill his mission and take all of them with him. The watering hole was filled with patrons, and the question fans wondered since then has been, who survived the blast?
Continue reading Army Wives: Would You Know My Name (season premiere)
Posted Feb 14th 2008 1:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Desperate Housewives, Cable/Satellite, Ratings, WGA Strike
Cynopsis reports that now that the writers' strike is over -- hallelujah! -- Lifetime Television will soon begin production on the second season of
Army Wives with episodes scheduled to air in early summer. This is great news for fans of the Lifetime original drama series that was a ratings juggernaut when it premiered last summer. In fact, Army Wives was the most successful series in Lifetime's 23-year history! During its 13-episode run,
Army Wives was the highest rated drama on cable among women, establishing new Lifetime marks for an original scripted series. The soapy-drama was scheduled to return in April, but then the writers struck and the show has been in hibernation -- I mean, hiatus -- ever since.
Continue reading Attention! Army Wives back in training
Posted Dec 2nd 2006 6:14PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Pickups and Renewals
The Lifetime cable television network has ordered 13 episodes of
Army Wives, a drama about spouses living on a military base in South Carolina. The ensemble cast includes Kim Delaney (
NYPD Blue) and Catherine Bell (
JAG), who have both had recent guest appearances on popular shows including
The O.C. and
Law & Order: SVU.
The series is based on the book, Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives, by Tanya Biank. Like the book, the series will be about the pressures on military spouses (there's one man in the mix) and the traditions they are expected to uphold.
Army Wives is set to premiere in March 2007.
Posted Oct 22nd 2006 12:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, The Five
It seems that everything is being released on DVD these days. Not just shows from the 50s and short-lived shows like The Adventures of Brisco County and Profit and many others. But there are many shows you'll never see on TV, because they're too obscure, don't have enough fan base, wouldn't be worth it financially, and/or just don't have any "buzz" to make it worth releasing by the studio. Now, I've been surprised before. I'm still shocked that Riptide made it to DVD. But I'm pretty confident we won't see the five shows below on DVD. Which is a shame, because they're five of my favorites.
In fact, if any of these shows are released on DVD (whole seasons, not an odd episode thrown on another DVD), I'll run naked through Central Park while eating a chicken salad sandwich and singing the theme song from Fame.
Continue reading The Five: Great shows you'll never, ever, ever see on DVD
Posted Sep 7th 2006 10:31AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Talent
Kim Delaney is joining a pilot for the Lifetime television network. It's called
Army Wives and it's about a sassy woman (Sally Pressman) who marries a soldier and moves her kids to the military base where she meets some interesting military wives. Delaney's character is the strong wife of the colonel, whom everyone looks up to. Filming begins later this month in South Carolina.
Delaney has had a weird career, to say the least. She was very popular when she was on
NYPD Blue but then sort-of disappeared. She was a co-star on
CSI: Miami but abruptly left the show and has never really explained why. She showed up on season two of
The O.C. looking different and... uh, puffy. Not sure what her story is.
Posted Aug 2nd 2006 10:07PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Horror, TNT
(S01E08) While I haven't been overwhelmed by every episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, for the most part I think they picked decent stories to base the episodes on. I would have liked to seen more of Stephen King's older short stories represented, but I guess the producers lost my phone number or they forgot to call and ask me which stories I would have picked.
Anyway, I would not have picked "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" as one of the stories. One of my favorite things about Stephen King's short stories is how outlandish they can be, but this one, about a couple that winds up in a small town inhabited by dead rock stars, was just silly. I thought maybe they could turn that into something kind of fun and goofy for television, but instead they played it straight, which really wasn't the best approach.
Continue reading Nightmares and Dreamscapes: You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
Posted Jul 11th 2006 12:16PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Horror, TNT
It hasn't even aired on television yet (it starts on Wednesday on TNT), but Warner will release the DVD set for the Stephen King miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes on October 24.
In addition to episodes starring Steven Weber, William Hurt, Kim Delaney, and Tom Berenger, the set will include an extended episode starring William H. Macy that won't air on the TV version of the miniseries. The set will also have commentaries and documentaries.
Take a look at Keith's preview of the show here.
Posted Dec 19th 2005 5:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Short-Lived Shows
So, raise your hands: who remembers this show? It
lasted for a whopping two episodes (a two hour pilot and another episode). They ran the two episodes in 1992, and then
the next episode was pre-empted by some major breaking news (can't remember what), and then the show was never seen
again! But oh, was it good.
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