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Posted Jun 30th 2008 3:05PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, Casting, Reality-Free
Rod Lurie is no stranger to writing strong female characters. In film, he wrote and directed
The Contender, with Joan Allen as a woman who was being considered for the Vice Presidency of the United States.
Then with
Commander in Chief on ABC, he made Geena Davis the President and actually showed her in action -- until the show was canceled.
Lurie's working on another female-driven drama now for Showtime, but this time it's not about politics.
Hillary Jones is the name of the show and the character, a police detective working vice in Los Angeles during the week, but moonlighting as a hooker in Nevada during the weekend.
She's not breaking the law, though, because prostitution -- as you and I know from the movies -- is legal there.
Continue reading Rod Lurie creates new femme series for Showtime
Posted Jun 3rd 2008 8:01AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Music and Variety, Celebrities, Awards, Casting, Reality-Free
CBS is rounding up some
A-listers to appear at The Tony Awards this year. Alec Baldwin (
30 Rock), Kristin Chenoweth (
Pushing Daisies), Glenn Close (
Damages), Richard Griffiths, Laura Linney (
John Adams), John Lithgow, Liza Minnelli, Mary-Louise Parker (
Weeds), Daniel Radcliffe, Brooke Shields (
Lipstick Jungle) and Marisa Tomei will be presenters at this year's award show. As previously announced, Whoopi Goldberg of
The View, a Tony-winner herself, will be this year's host.
Also, the Tony Award-winning productions
The Lion King and Rent will make rare encore performances at this year's gala.
The 62nd Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 15th from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. ET (delayed PT) on CBS. Here's my issue with the
Tonys. It's long and it's usually a snore. Do you think this effort to spice up the show will pay off? Does it make you want to tune in?
Posted Aug 14th 2007 12:25AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Weeds
(S03E01) Oh,
Weeds, how I've missed you. I've missed your soft-hearted thugs and manchild stoners. I've missed your misguided children and far more misguided parents. Tonight's episode was pitch-perfect, and while we still don't know whether Peter is dead and whether Nancy will live, we know that the world will keep turning with or without the MILF-weed in it.
Continue reading Weeds: Doing the Backstroke (season premiere)
Posted Apr 18th 2007 11:05AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, Rescue Me, My Name Is Earl, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Heroes, TV Squad Lists
Welcome to TV Squad Lists (formerly 'The Five'), a feature where each blogger has a chance to list his or her own rundown of things in television that stand out from the rest, both good and bad.
Being newly single, I've been spending a lot of time these days thinking about the perfect woman. More often than not, my thoughts end up drifting into the realm of television and all of the perfect women there. So I decided to compile a list of the ten hottest moms on television. Unfortunately, there were way too many to fit on a top ten list, so I expanded the list to fifteen. This was a tough list to compile and I'm sure many of your favorites are absent, but I doubt that anyone can refute the fifteen below.
Susan Mayer - Desperate Housewives (Teri Hatcher) Hatcher has always been smoking hot but it wasn't until Desperate Housewives that she became a TV mom. The best part of her character is how Susan is continually clumsy, awkward and unsure of herself and still manages to be hot.
Continue reading Top 15 hottest moms on television
Giveaway Thursday: Tickets to the New York Television Festival ... all of it!
I miss the media-friendly John McCain - VIDEOS
Giveaway Wednesday: Supernatural, season three
