My Fair Brady-related stories
Posted Mar 28th 2008 11:02AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Web, Interviews
There are six human beings on this planet who will be forever linked by one experience: growing up on the set of
The Brady Bunch. But, of the six actors who played the Brady kids during the show's 1969-74 run, none has embraced the role as consistently and enthusiastically as Barry Williams, who played Greg. Over the years, Williams has been involved in every reunion show (including the ill-fated "dramatic" show
The Bradys in 1990) and has never shied away from discussing the show during interviews. He even wrote a book about the experience, 1992's
Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg, where he recounted stories like his crush on co-star Maureen McCormick, his "date" with his TV mom, Florence Henderson, and Robert Reed's constant arguments with the producers. The book was made into a TV movie in 2000.
Now, at 53, Williams has a blog, called
The Greg Brady Project, which debuted in December. There, Williams tells stories about his experiences as an actor over the last 40-plus years while a series of co-writers wax nostalgic about the past, and not necessarily about
The Brady Bunch. I spoke to Williams by phone earlier this month. We talked about the blog, why he's embraced his Greg Brady past more than his co-stars, and what he thinks of some of those co-stars' new projects. The interview is after the jump.
Continue reading Barry Williams: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Dec 10th 2007 9:28AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Ask TV Squad, Celebrities
This weekend Scott Baio tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Renee Sloan. Many guests were in attendance; the most recognizable, however, would have to have been the cameras and crew for his show on VH-1.
Last year, Baio starred in his own reality show called Scott Baio is 45 and Single. Personally, when I heard about this show, I was worried. If Scott Baio is actually 45 then I must be much older than I thought.
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Posted Nov 17th 2007 12:00PM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Ask TV Squad, Celebrities
There is a treat for all fans of The Brady Bunch over at AOL TV. As part of their "Where are they now?" series, AOL TV is providing the current stats on all your favorite BB cast members.
Some of them have been more high profile than others. Christopher Knight (Peter) is, of course, well-known to today's reality show fans. He was a cast member on The Surreal Life where he met and fell in love with America's Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry. The two of them went on to star on their own reality series My Fair Brady which ended with their wedding.
Continue reading Here's the story...
Posted Dec 6th 2006 9:29AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, VH1
The producers of VH1's
Surreal Life and
My Fair Brady have another card up their sleeves. They're currently
casting twenty bachelorettes to live in a Hollywood Hills mansion and compete for the love of "one of the 90s hottest rockers." They're keeping the name of the rocker under wraps, but claim that he's a "famous, sexy, bad boy rocker" and "lead singer of a famous 90s rock band."
This
Flavor of Love-type premise requires some real loons to make it work.
Idolator has made a few guesses at who said bad boy might be. They've floated Adam Duritz of Counting Crows, Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind, Steve Harwell of Smashmouth and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit. I'd find it way more humorous if someone like Eddie Veder or Billy Corgan had decided that they were going to try and undermine the genre by colluding with it, but Idolator's list makes sense. I'd say the smart money's on Durst or Duritz. Anyone interested in auditioning?
Posted Jul 15th 2006 6:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, NBC has two hours of Saturday Night Main Event. That's wrestling to you and me.- ABC has M. Night Shyamalan's best movie at 8, Unbreakable.
- FOX has a new Cops at 8.
- Also at 8: OLN has stage 13 of the Tour de France.
- At 8:30, VH-1 has a My Fair Brady: We're Getting Married marathon.
- At 10, CBS repeats the latest episode of Brotherhood.
- Also at 10: IFC has a new Henry Rollins Show.
Posted Jun 11th 2006 5:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 7, ABC has a repeat Extreme Makeover, followed by the NBA playoffs, the Heat vs. The Mavericks.- CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, followed by the 60th Annual Tony Awards.
- NBC has a new, two hour Dateline at 7, followed by a repeat Law and Order: CI and (yes, yet again) the pilot of Windfall.
- Over on FOX at 7, a repeat Malcolm in the Middle, followed by repeats of King of the Hill, The Simpsons, The War At Home, Family Guy, and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
- The WB has two Reba repeats, then two Charmed repeats.
- HBO has the season premiere of Deadwood at 9, followed by the season premiere of Entourage and the series premiere of Lucky Louis.
- ABC Family reruns the Falcon Beach movie at 9.
- USA has the season premiere of The 4400 at 9.
- Also at 9: VH-1 has a new My Fair Brady: We're Getting Married, followed by new eps of Hogan Knows Best and Supergroup.
Posted Jun 1st 2006 9:31AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities, VH1
No, the other guy. The middle kid. Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady on
The Brady Bunch television series and now has his own reality show on VH1, got married over the holiday weekend to another reality television star. Knight, 47, met Adrianne Curry, 23, when they were both on
The Surreal Life. They went on to star in the reality series,
My Fair Brady, and in the sequel,
My Fair Brady: We're Getting Married. The actual wedding was May 29th and some of Knight's former co-stars attended, including Barry Williams (Greg Brady), Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady), and Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady). There's no official air date for the nuptials.
After all these reality shows, when do you think reality will actually set in for these two lovebirds?
Posted Jan 30th 2006 5:48PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Talent, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
Ah, there's nothing like an entertainment
convention to bring out the freaky, the obsessed, and the just plain weird. Such was the case at the
Chiller Theatre winter convention, which was held in Secaucus, NJ this past
weekend. Probably the smallest of the three Chiller conventions (there's one in the summer and "the big one",
around Halloween), this one still had it's share of sci-fi and fantasy nuts floating around, especially in the dealer
area, where there were tables with Japanese anime action figures, fake samurai swords, tons and tons of movie imports,
sci-fi toys in the original packaging, and lots of black t-shirts.
(A good example: I went with my buddy
Roger, a Chiller veteran. While we were there, he found out that one of his friends bought some rare Japanese monster
toys for $23,000 at the show. Another guy dropped $5500 on
a single monster toy. The people who go here are
hardcore, to say the least.)
But what has always intrigued me about this convention are the celebrities that
attend. Unlike
Star Trek or other show- and genre-specific conventions, Chiller usually gathers fallen
celebrities from all over the entertainment spectrum.
That is what brought me to the convention on
Saturday.
Continue reading My day with the G-Listers at the Chiller expo
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