MollyParker-related stories
Posted Mar 9th 2009 2:00PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Sarah Michelle Gellar
is starring in an HBO comedy pilot called
The Wonderful Maladys, about a group of dysfunctional New York siblings. The project also stars Nate Corddry (Rob's little brother) and
Swingtown vet Molly Parker.
We don't know much about the show's concept yet, but I'm looking forward to it. Being a
Buffy fan, anything Sarah Michelle Gellar does instantly pops on my radar. So far, Gellar's post-
Buffy career has delivered a few tedious big screen horror thrillers like
The Grudge and
The Return, but I loved her comic performance in Richard Kelly's
Southland Tales. That performance, along with some of her funnier bits from
Buffy, have me convinced that Gellar would make a great comedic lead.
Charles Randolph (
The Interpreter) wrote the pilot script and TV vet Alan Taylor (
Mad Men,
Big Love) is directing. Gellar is executive producing the project, which will be shot early next year.
Posted Jun 20th 2008 11:41AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E03) Consider this episode of
Swingtown a case of being betwixt and between. The Millers have been in their new home all of two weeks and so much has happened to shake their foundation; Susan especially seems like the song "caught in the middle with you." Does she want to be the good wife going to church and being satisfied with the way they were, her and Bruce, back in the old neighborhood? Or is she ready to embrace swinging?
She's at first drawn back to Janet and Roger and the old ways. Because she's still perturbed by the business card she found in Bruce's pants from the Playboy Club, the one from Sylvia suggesting a get together, Susan drags her family to Sunday services for a little God-time. Impulsively, when chatting with Janet, Susan announces that she's having a housewarming and wants Janet's help. It's like she's clinging to a simpler past.
Continue reading Swingtown: Double Exposure
Posted Jun 3rd 2008 1:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Early Looks, Reality-Free
How swinging is CBS's new summer series
Swingtown? It's not swinging in the Sinatra-Rat Pack-ring-a-ding-ding way. No, this
Swingtown is set in an era ten years later, specifically July 4, 1976, the bicentennial. But
Swingtown, which premieres on Thursday at 10 PM ET,
is not a nostalgic, optimistic wallow. However, It does evoke a time when America was undergoing a lot of change as the college kids from the late sixties were moving into the seven-year-itch of marriage, raising children, exploring boundaries.
Swingtown reminded me of
Knots Landing meets
Boogie Nights with a dollop of
The Stepford Wives thrown in there, too (maybe it was those scenes in the supermarket). Superficially, there are elements of
Swingtown, in particular the attention to detail in the production design and music, that are as spot on for 1976 as
Mad Men was for 1960. When you see that pop-top can of Tab, you can't help but go back in time.
Continue reading Swingtown -- An early look
Posted Mar 5th 2008 3:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, Pickups and Renewals, WGA Strike
Way back in July 2007, TV Squad wrote about
a bunch of shows CBS previewed and were slating for the upcoming season, including
Swingtown. It was supposed to premiere in mid-season, but then mid-season came and it was nowhere to be found. The network will announce today their plans for the serial drama;
it's going to run this summer. Instead of taking that move as a lack of faith in the show, executive producer Carol Barbee told
The Hollywood Reporter that a summer run creatively suits the project. "A summer launch is perfect for
Swingtown since the pilot takes place on the Bicentennial Fourth of July," Barbee said. Barbee has most recently been working on
Jericho.Continue reading CBS gives Swingtown a whirl
Posted May 16th 2007 10:48AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Industry, Programming, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Jericho, Shark, Upfronts
CBS is on a good run, being the most watched network for the last five years, but they have taken a bit of heat for the formulaic way they have gone about doing it. Not arguing with success, the whole family of CSIs, and their crime based cousins, will be back, but the network is trying to branch out with some edgier programming. Most notably,
Swingtown, Viva Laughlin, and
Moonlight.Returning: The Amazing Race, Cold Case, 60 Minutes, How I Met Your Mother, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Miami, NCIS, The Unit, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY, Survivor, CSI, Shark, Without A Trace, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, 48 Hours Mystery.
New: Viva Laughlin, Swingtown, Moonlight, Cane, Big Bang Theory, Power of 10, Kid NationOut: King of Queens, Jericho, The Class, Close To HomeMoving: Without A Trace moves back to Thursday at 10.
Shark heads to Sunday at 10.
Continue reading The Upfronts: CBS
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