MandyPatinkin-related stories
Posted Oct 14th 2009 8:04PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Casting, Reality-Free
If I were an executive at CBS, I would never want to do business with actor
Mandy Patinkin again. Even though Mandy is a terrific actor and one of my personal favorites -- I loved him on Broadway in
Evita and
Sunday in the Park with George, not to mention on screen in
The Princess Bride and
Yentl -- his history with CBS is abominable.
He was an Emmy-winning star on
Chicago Hope, then left after a couple of seasons to be closer to his family in New York. Okay, that was understandable. Then after getting
Criminal Minds off to a great start, he walked out of that show, citing creative differences.
Apparently, someone has said let bygones be bygones because
Mandy Patinkin will be a guest star on Three Rivers. Maybe because this is a very personal issue with Mandy, he's convinced the powers that be to let him return to the network, albeit for just a guest appearance.
Continue reading Mandy Patinkin back to CBS... as guest on Three Rivers
Posted Oct 1st 2009 9:31AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free
Oh, no. Please. CBS, please don't. I know it's tempting when you see the
NCIS: LA ratings -- number two for last week, topped only by
NCIS! -- but please, refrain. What am I talking about?
CBS is pushing a spinoff of Criminal Minds, asking the show's executive producer Ed Bernero and executive producer Chris Mundy to come up with a variation on
Criminal Minds. Hmm...
Criminal Minds 2.0?
Son of Criminal Minds?
Criminal Guts?
Continue reading No, no, please, not a Criminal Minds spinoff
Posted Jun 5th 2008 8:23PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Celebrities, Awards, Casting, Reality-Free
CBS has secured
even more celebrities to grace the stage at Radio City Music Hall next Sunday. Gabriel Byrne (
In Treatment), Julie Chen (
Big Brother), Harry Connick, Jr. (
Will & Grace), Laurence Fishburne, Mandy Patinkin
(Criminal Minds), David Hyde Pierce, Lily Tomlin and John Waters (
Til Death Do Us Part) have been added as presenters. These actors and actresses (and, er, Julie Chen) will join an
already stellar list of presenters and host Whoopi Goldberg.
I have to admit it. I'm getting a little excited for The Tonys. I usually find them boring. The performances are fantastic but the awards in between are a bit of a snore. However, this cast of presenters is intriguing. I'll at least be flipping back and forth hoping to catch the performances and my favorite stars.
The 62nd Annual Tony Awards will be held on Sunday June 15th from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. ET on CBS.
Posted Nov 15th 2007 10:03AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD
Over the summer, I kept you in the loop as to the latest spoilers and info about the direct-to-DVD
Dead Like Me movie. Since I
last gave you news about the movie about three months ago and because the
DLM posts here at TV Squad still get a good number hits, I thought it was time I check up on the movie status and see if I could get more dish. Thanks to the movie's
IMDb page (it's been up for a while now but I had given up on it since usually IMDb creates pages before or during shooting and it hadn't done that for the
DLM movie) I can bring you some news.
Continue reading Dead Like Me movie update
Posted Aug 20th 2007 3:23PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Criminal Minds, Celebrities
There have been a lot of stories floating around about Mandy Patinkin's departure from CBS' Criminal Minds. That he's only going to be in one scene of the show to wrap up his storyline, that his costars didn't like him. Turns out neither of those stories are true.
Co-star A.J. Cook says that Patinkin has actually been phoning all of his Criminal Minds castmates and explaining to them what happened. Cook says that the cast didn't know what was going on, and now that they know they "just want him to be happy."
Continue reading Here's the real story about Mandy Patinkin and Criminal Minds
Posted Aug 12th 2007 11:01AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, Celebrities, Casting
Thanks to
Multichannel blogger Mary McNamara, we now have fresh casting news about the
Dead Like Me movie. The blogger, who attended the MGM panel at Comic-Con, reports that MGM's Senior Executive Vice President Finance and Corporate Development Charlie Cohen confirmed that everyone, except Mandy Patinkin and Laura Harris, was back for the direct-to-DVD movie. That is old news for TV Squad readers. But what is new is that Cohen gave the names of the actors set to replace both actors.
Continue reading Casting news about the Dead Like Me movie
Posted Jul 31st 2007 1:22PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, Spoilers Anonymous
Dead Like Me is still quite popular amongst the TV Squad readers even if the series ended a few years ago. The hype surrounding the canceled-too-soon Showtime series was revived this spring when
it was announced that a made-for-DVD movie was in the works.
Not much has been revealed about this upcoming movie yet. However, we know that Ellen Muth will reprise the role of George and that Mandy Patinkin was written out since he was committed to
Criminal Minds at the time the movie started shooting.
Earlier this month,
Muth warned fans that the movie would feature a few changes mostly because Patinkin was not reprising his role but also due to a two-year jump between the series finale and the movie.
Spoilers after the jump!Continue reading Some Dead Like Me movie spoilers
Posted Jul 17th 2007 8:31AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Criminal Minds, Celebrities
Last Friday intrepid TV Squad reporter Isabelle Carreau posted an item about Criminal Minds lead Mandy Patinkin not returning to the CBS drama. Now it has been confirmed by both ABC Studios and CBS Paramount Network Television that Patinkin is definitely not returning to the program for the new season.
In press releases sent to the hugely palatial TV Squad offices both ABC and CBS stated that Mandy left the show due to "creative differences" and not because of contract renegotiations or salary disputes. As Isabelle reported in an update to her post Patinkin will return for one episode early next season that will explain his departure from the series. In the meantime, a new character will be added to Criminal Minds to fill his spot.
Continue reading Mandy Patinkin is leaving Criminal Minds
Posted Jul 13th 2007 9:05AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, Criminal Minds, Celebrities
Yes, you read right. It is possible that Mandy Patinkin, lead of CBS'
Criminal Minds, be let go from the show.
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello's reports that after he failed to show up for work, it was decided to write him out of the season premiere.
Continue reading Mandy Patinkin to be let go from Criminal Minds?
Posted Jul 9th 2007 4:04PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD
A little over two months ago,
I told you that a made-for-DVD movie was in the works for Showtime's
Dead Like Me.
Ellen Muth, star of the series, announced on her
MySpace page that she's been informed the series could make a come back on TV if the movie sells well.
In her post, Muth mentions a
new concept being featured in the movie and that fans should give it a chance. Does that mean reapers will not get Post Its anymore?
Continue reading Dead Like Me movie and series news
Posted May 1st 2007 3:01PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TV on the Bigscreen
Dead Like Me fans rejoice! The canceled-too-soon Showtime series about grim reapers may return from the dead in a made-for-DVD movie.
SyFy Portal reports that a
Dead Like Me film is in the works.
Dead Like Me aired for two seasons on Showtime in 2003 and 2004. The series starred Ellen Muth, Mandy Patinkin, Jasmin Guy and Callum Blue, just to name four of the stars who appeared in the series' 29 episodes.
Continue reading Dead Like Me goes to the movies
Posted Feb 6th 2007 2:21PM by Brett Love
Filed under: CBS, Programming, OpEd, Criminal Minds, Ratings, Super Bowl
The numbers are in and Super Bowl XLI was huge. Coming in at 93.1 million viewers, it was the third most watched program in history, and the second most watched Super Bowl. Having the lead-in to end all lead-ins also helped
Criminal Minds put up the best numbers ever for the series. The special episode following the game averaged 26.2 million viewers.
Is that a disappointment? Last year, the post Super Bowl episode of
Grey's Anatomy drew a considerably larger 38.1 million viewers. We can chalk part of that difference up to the fact that
Grey's was more of a hit show going in, but I think more of it has to do with the subject matter.
Criminal Minds is never a touchy-feely, happy bunnies on clouds kind of show, but the post Super Bowl episode was dark even by their standards. Come on, Dawson chaining up a woman and setting the dogs loose on her? That's asking a lot from the family friendly Super Bowl audience.
Continue reading Was the post Super Bowl Criminal Minds a mistake?
Posted Nov 24th 2006 4:30PM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Programming, Lost, Watercooler Talk, Dancing With The Stars, The Nine, Ratings, Day Break
There has been much chatter about ABC's somewhat unconventional scheduling of
Lost this season. In an effort to avoid a repeat filled schedule, they have split the season into two parts, handing off the time slot to
Day Break for three months in the middle. While they will tell you it was because of outcry from the fans, the cynic in me thinks that the fact that
Lost doesn't repeat well had something to do with it.
Either way, it's not working. Rather, it's
really not working.
Day Break premiered with a somewhat disappointing 11 million viewers, despite having the
Dancing with the Stars finale drop 27 million sets of eyeballs on their doorstep. But 11 million sounds just grand compared to this week. With the dancing shoes stowed away for the foreseeable future, Captain Kirk's
Show Me The Money is delivering just under 8 million viewers as the lead in. And Wednesday,
Day Break only managed to hang on to 5.12 million of them. 5 million? The worst repeat of
Lost would never approach 5 million viewers.
Continue reading Screw the hiatus, bring back Lost now
Posted Sep 29th 2006 1:55PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, Criminal Minds, Celebrities
I think I may be one of the very few die-hard
Friends fans who think that Monica and Chandler should never have been put together. I think that she should have stayed with Richard. Courtney Cox and Tom Selleck had a lot of chemistry together, it added another dimension to the show, and I think already having two of the core friends get together (Ross and Rachel) was enough (jeez, why didn't they just go all the way and pair up the other two, Joey and Phoebe?)
And who should Chandler have ended up with? No, not Janice! He should have ended up with Kathy, played by Paget Brewster. They were great together, and that was one of the best seasons of the show. Brewster is
joining the hit CBS show
Criminal Minds as a regular (she'll play a new profiler).
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