Posts with tag Matthew Perry
Posted Sep 3rd 2008 2:38PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, 30 Rock, Casting, Reality-Free

We all speculated as to what role
Jennifer Aniston will play when she guest stars on NBC's 30 Rock later this year, and
now we know what part she'll play. It's actually one of the choices we came up with.
Aniston will play an old friend of Liz Lemon who starts to stalk Jack Donaghy. The character is described as an ex-roommate of Liz's from Chicago who is a "free-spirited,
Fatal Attraction-like stalker." Well, let's hope that she isn't completely like that. We don't need any gunshots to the chest or bunny-boiling on
30 Rock. The character's name is Claire Harper.
So we've had Aniston and David Schwimmer on the show. I think all of the
Friends people should appear on
30 Rock at some point.
Continue reading Here's who Aniston is going to play on 30 Rock
Posted Aug 13th 2008 2:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free

Remember
Studio 60? It was a little show that not many people had opinions about, and no one here really talked about it that much. But creator/writer
Aaron Sorkin is talking about it, to
GQ.
Sorkin actually feels guilty about the entire thing, because he knows he screwed it up. He tells Mickey Rapkin that the ultimately the show didn't work because he made too many mistakes:
I was too angry when I wrote Studio 60. The show became like the cover of Abbey Road. Everybody was trying to figure out who this character was in real life or what that incident was trying to be.Continue reading Aaron Sorkin feels guilty about Studio 60, meets with HBO
Posted Jul 6th 2008 2:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free

Thanks to the success of the
Sex and the City movie -- and talk of more to come -- the rumor mill has been bubbling with other TV shows making the leap to the big screen. In the case of
Arrested Development, it
sure sounds like the truth.
However,
the Friends feature is a rumor that has no legs. Warners owns the property and on July 4th, even though all U.S. offices were closed for the holiday, denied the rumors via the London office.
Jayne Trotman,
Warner's director of publicity, said of the Friends movie, "(There's) no truth in the story." Just to be sure, Matthew Perry's press rep also denied the rumor. She told the BBC that nothing is happening and the rumor is just that, a shred of news with no value attached to it.
Continue reading No, no, no to Friends feature says Warners
Posted Jun 18th 2008 2:40PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Matthew Perry spent ten seasons on Friends and a rough season on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, but it looks like he isn't sick of television.
Perry has signed to star in a new comedy titled The End of Steve. Perry will play a radio talk show host in Rochester, NY who likes to swear a lot. In fact, the first word you hear Perry's character say on the show is a certain word that women don't like to hear. It begins with a C and rhymes with something a baseball batter does, especially if there is a runner on first with no outs.
The show is from Peter Tolan (Rescue Me, The Larry Sanders Show, Home Improvement), and while there is no network announced for the show, I think we can assume it's going to be HBO or Showtime (unless it airs on FX or AMC and they bleep the swears, but that would blunt the edginess of the words).
[via Google News]
Posted Jun 13th 2008 2:43PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Reality-Free

If there is one rumor that never dies it's the one about the possibility of a
Friends reunion. Since the series finale aired in May 2004, rumors about a reunion popped up here, there and everywhere. Sometimes the rumor takes the form of "
there will be another spinoff" (remember
Joey?) but most of the time it's a "
there are talks about a movie but one of the stars doesn't want to commit." This week's revival of the rumor is of the latter kind.
Continue reading The rumor that never dies: the potential Friends movie
Posted Oct 20th 2007 1:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd
I almost didn't want to review this DVD set. Did I really want to go back into those murky waters again and bring up all those old disagreements? But here we go...
Actually, the DVD set for Studio 60 is much like the TV series itself. It starts out brilliantly and then as it goes on it starts to get worse and worse. But then it ends nicely!
Packaging
Pretty standard packaging, just a regular box containing three plastic holders housing two DVDs each. The artwork on each plastic holder is fairly interesting. Instead of a large pic on the front and the info on the inside, all the episode info is on the front and back of each individual holder, including pics from episodes and promotional pics.
Continue reading Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Complete Series - DVD review
Posted Oct 18th 2007 12:23PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV Royalty, TV on DVD, OpEd
What can I say about Friends that hasn't already been said? You either like the show or you don't. I think a lot of people look at the show as "just another sitcom" about friends who hang out somewhere, one that was overhyped and one where the stars where overpaid. The hype I can't argue with and the pay, well, more power to them if they could get it. But I also happen to think that for a while there, several seasons in the middle of the show's 10 year run, it was one of the best sitcoms of all-time. It was remarkably well-written, clever, and at the same time had at its core a really big heart that all the copycats that followed couldn't recreate.
But what about this DVD set? Should you go out and buy the complete set?
Continue reading Friends, The Complete Series - DVD review
Posted Sep 6th 2007 11:00AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Watercooler Talk

Since the last episode of the hit series
Friends aired in May 2004, rumors have been flying around as to if and when a reunion would happen. Over the years, there have been reports that some of the actors didn't want to be part of a reunion, at least, not for a while. None of these reports were properly confirmed. However, this week comes the confirmation that David Schwimmer, who played the character of Ross, will not take part in a
Friends reunion if there ever is one.
Continue reading Any Friends reunion would be Ross-less
Posted Jun 27th 2007 11:25AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Just in time for tomorrow's series finale on NBC at 10pm comes this announcement from Warner Home Video that they will release Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - The Complete Series on October 16.
The set will not only include all 22 episodes from it's first and only season, but there will be a new behind the scenes featurette and episode commentaries by creator Aaron Sorkin and director Thomas Schlamme (hopefully cast members will join in too).
Continue reading Studio 60 complete series coming to DVD this fall
Posted May 6th 2007 3:31PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Video, Celebrities
Ah, the 1990's! Not quite as good as the 1980's but still an okay decade. I mean, it brought us Generation X, the Grunge movement (which basically involved dressing in flannel and not showering), Boy Bands and, courtesy of Bill Gates and Microsoft -- Windows 95. You remember Windows 95, don't you? It combined Windows and DOS into one comprehensive operating system, gave us our first look at Internet Explorer, and provided us with a chance to hop on to the information superhighway.
Continue reading Friends stars do Windows 95 - VIDEO
Posted Apr 27th 2007 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
You knew I'd be the one to tell you this news, right?
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip returns to the NBC schedule on May 24, presumably to just run the rest of the episodes they have filmed. Hopefully they knew they were ending early while filming so they can end the show in a good way.
By the way, May 24 is a Thursday. The show will air at 10pm in the slot currently occupied by ER. I wonder what would have happened to the show if it had originally been in this slot, or maybe an hour earlier. Oh well. I guess the best way to think of it now is as a long miniseries, one that will have around 22 episodes and a conclusion.
Posted Mar 29th 2007 2:24PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
...of course, the second part of that headline should probably be "...but it probably won't be renewed."
There have been rumors going around that Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip had stopped production, but that's not the case. In fact, they just finished filming episode 19 earlier this week, and filming of episode 20 started earlier today. So it looks like they'll film the full 22 for the season, but after that...well, they'll probably burn off the episodes during the summer and the show will not see a second season. That's Ray Richmond's take on it, and I agree with him.
Which is really too bad, because...well, for all the reasons I've mentioned several times here at the site before. And it's too bad that NBC abandoned the show, even though other shows that have premiered since Studio 60 was put on hiatus haven't done any better in the ratings. It would have been really nice to see what the show could have done in another time slot, another night. But I guess we'll have to be happy with a one season DVD set, hopefully with extras.
[via TV Tattle]
Posted Feb 19th 2007 7:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
I almost didn't write this, because I'm really just inviting every person who hates me or hates Studio 60 (or the many people who seem to have a part-time job hating me and Studio 60) to just jump into the comments section and tell me why the show was bad and why I'm a terrible, terrible human being for even liking it. But then I decided, what the hell. In fact, let me help you with your comments. Cut and paste as you desire:
1. No one cares about what's going on behind the scenes of a late night comedy show
2. Sarah Paulson isn't funny.
3. The show isn't funny.
4. Sorkin is too preachy!
5. There's no chemistry between Paulson and Perry, and they focus on the Matt/Harriet plot too much.
6. Amanda Peet isn't believable/too young/too pretty to be a network exec.
7. You suck Sassone!
Continue reading Will tonight be the end of Studio 60?
Posted Feb 14th 2007 11:33AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Celebrities, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, 30 Rock

The gossipers over at New York
Daily News have a great tidbit about Tina Fey dissing Aaron Sorkin at a recent event. She reportedly told the crowd at the Writers Guild Awards, "I hear Aaron Sorkin is in Los Angeles wearing the same dress- but longer, and not funny."
As the kids on
That '70s Show would say, "Oooooh! BURN! BURN!"
Tina Fey was probably just being funny, but the girl definitely has earned the right to gloat. While
30 Rock and
Studio 60 are both behind-the-scenes of sketch comedy shows, Fey's show prevails.
30 Rock is getting funnier and funnier, while
Studio 60 is getting worse and worse. I stopped caring about Matt and Harriet in the second episode of
Studio 60. And I can't wait to see Alec Baldwin each Thursday night!
[Via
TV Tattle]
Posted Feb 6th 2007 10:33AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
The previews hammered it home a thousand times this past week: this episode of Studio 60 would be the one that "America will be talking about." So I have to ask America: are you talking about it this morning?
I don't bring this up to dig into the episode specifically (though the two-part "Harriet Dinner" episode was certainly the worst so far). I like the show. I bring it up to point out that network promos these days are overdone, overhyped, misleading and/or confusing. They usually don't make sense or are disappointing when it comes to everything from ER to Lost, but this one was truly odd. Why would America be talking about this episode when America hasn't really been talking about the show so far? The moment they were talking about, I assume it was the kiss between Danny and Jordan? OK, nice moment, and the second part of this ep was better than the first by a longshot, but I hardly think it's something that we're talking about in any major way. Danny and Jordan aren't Sam and Diane yet, or Dave and Maddie.
Maybe they meant Ugly Betty star America Ferrera?
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