New York City-related stories
Posted Aug 17th 2009 3:30PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: 24, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
At least that's what it sounds like 24 EP Evan Katz told EW's Ausiello. According to Katz, some of the things they have planned for the FOX drama's eighth season don't involve a Jack/Audrey reunion.
Can you blame them? 24 has had some doosie plots in the past that are pretty hard to swallow, but the last we saw of Audrey was at the very end of season six, and she didn't look so good. If she somehow ended up in the fold again next year (which takes place in New York City), I can't see people being too happy about it.
Continue reading Kim Raver won't be clocking any hours on 24 next season
Posted Jul 2nd 2009 7:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Reality-Free
The picture above isn't from a Los Angeles street, it's from a New York City street.
TNT is creating some ambitious marketing for their new cop drama
Dark Blue. They're turning part of NYC's subway into "underground L.A." Included in the ad campaign will be posters, signs on staircases, even entire subway cars wrapped in pics that show the L.A. skyline. The show starts on July 15.
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TV Tattle]
Posted Jun 18th 2009 7:08PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Reality-Free, Mad Men
I don't mean the filming of the show moving to Los Angeles. It is already filmed there. I'm talking about the
setting of the show moving from New York City to Los Angeles.
Matthew Weiner hints at such a move, in that secretive way that he does because he hates giving away spoilers. But he does say in
this new Rolling Stone interview that the 60s were all about Los Angeles overtaking New York as "the future," and we've already seen a few episodes set there (last season, when Don got involved with Anna). Weiner doesn't say they will move there, but he does say "I always want the audience to be worried that I'm going to pick up and move the show somewhere. Because, you know, I might."
Continue reading What would Mad Men be like if it was set in Los Angeles?
Posted May 22nd 2009 12:25AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps, So You Think You Can Dance
"Your metal rod is showing" – Sonya Tayeh(S05E01) Screams and potential contestants wailing to the cameras start off our show. What did I get myself into? Cat Deeley preps us that we have thousands of dancers, six cities, lots of tears, and one obsessively screaming judge. I guess we don't get an explanation as to what happened to Joshua, other than making it to the opening credits. Whatever did happen to Step Up 3D? Let's hope it doesn't go straight to DVD.
We started the night with New York City's auditions, specifically in Brooklyn. Cat does the Brooklyn Dance while more people dance for the camera. Our judges today are Nigel, Mary, and Tabitha & Napoleon, our favorite lyrical hip-hop choreographers. The dancers still have the same process for auditions: win (straight to Vegas), lose (rejection) or draw (choreography round where the judges will make their decisions).
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: NYC and Denver Auditions
Posted Apr 22nd 2009 2:04PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free
Variety has an article about some
renovations going on at the Paley Center for Media (formerly known as the Museum of Television and Radio, which is the name I still use for it) and it got me thinking. Is such a museum even necessary anymore?
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely think we should keep a historical broadcast record of television, radio and other types of media. But isn't that what the Internet is for? Wouldn't a virtual museum accomplish the same purpose online without the need for a brick-and-mortar presence?
Continue reading Is the Museum of Television and Radio necessary anymore?
Posted Apr 16th 2009 4:24PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Industry, 24, Reality-Free
Jack Bauer's very bad seventh day on 24 still has six hours to go, but we already know where he's headed next:
New York City.
Season seven's two-hour finale is scheduled to air on FOX on Monday, May 18th and production on the show's eighth season begins right around the same time. EW's Michael Ausiello has confirmed that the Big Apple is going to be Bauer's next metropolitan playground.
NYC isn't the only change in store for Jack though.
Continue reading Jack Bauer is taking on the Big Apple
Posted Apr 6th 2009 2:12PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Jason Katims, the producer behind
Friday Night Lights and
Parenthood, is
making another drama for NBC. This one will be a modern take of an old classic,
The Wizard of Oz. But rather than having Dorothy go to Oz, she will go to New York City (her version of the Emerald City) and join the art world as a naive Kansas girl. Her boss will be the Wicked Witch.
Okay, so it's a
Sex And The City version of
The Wizard of Oz. It may work. It certainly has enough familiar elements to do so.
Without knowing anything about this series other than what is written in the article, I already know that she will have three co-workers, one with no brain, one (and pretty loose) with no heart (and fairly stiff) and one with no courage (and quite possibly hairy. And, if he acts like Burt Lahr in the classic movie, quite possibly gay).
Posted Mar 26th 2009 1:38AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Life on Mars
(S01E16) In our second-to-last episode, we get a few revelations about Sam and the reason behind his trip to 1973. Nothing conclusive, of course, but that's probably been saved for next week. Will Sam get back to 2009? Will he die? Will he get hit by another car and wake up in 1938? The mind boggles.
Sam is really adapting to his environment and becoming more brutal in his police work. Being stuck in a 1973 cop show is really rubbing off on him. On the plus side, even a bullet can't keep Michael Imperioli from delivering a great performance while in surgery. I think I'll miss you the most, Ray.
Continue reading Life on Mars: Everyone Knows It's Windy
Posted Mar 24th 2009 11:00AM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Video, Cable/Satellite, Music and Variety
Nothing breeds talent quite like cable access television.
Starting in 1979, Brooklyn resident Frank Masi created and hosted a program on local New York television called
Stairway To Stardom. Filmed in what appeared to be a freshly carpeted Staten Island basement,
Stairway was an especially early, low-budget predecessor to
Star Search and
American Idol, but sprinkled with the key element of hometown appeal.
Continue reading Stairway to Stardom, or what American Idol filmed in a Staten Island basement 25 years ago would look like - VIDEO
Posted Feb 23rd 2009 5:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Reality-Free, Fringe
I didn't even realize that
Fringe was filmed in New York City. Maybe because the show is set around but not filmed in the Boston area and is a little
X-Files-ish, I always assumed that it was either filmed in California or in Vancouver, the way
The X-Files did for most of their run. Now it looks like the show really is going there.
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that for the show's second season (if it has one, which is a good bet), the show will move to Vancouver and film there, because of the production costs. Seems the program for getting shows to film in New York proved to be more popular than they thought it would be and they've run out of money.
Continue reading Fringe moves production farther north (and I don't mean Albany)
Posted Jan 13th 2009 1:03PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Commercials, Reality-Free
Since Michael Bloomberg became mayor of New York, the city has been notorious for its mommy-state health initiatives. Part of that has been a series of harsh ads featuring folks like
"tracheotomy guy" Rolando Martinez and ads featuring a smoker who has to get his
gangrenous foot amputated.
The latest set of ads, which air three times an hour in New York, depict a sick woman getting a bronchoscopy. During this, we hear the whistling noise of air whipping around the tumor in the lung, and the doctor explains that at that point, it's "too late to operate."
The first few times I saw
the ad, though, something struck me as odd: it was the doctor's voice. It sounded very dubbed and announcer-y, as if some Shakespearean actor was reading from a script. Upon further review, it looked like it was indeed a dubbing job, and not a very good one at that.
Continue reading New York City dubs Australian anti-smoking ad; makes it sound stupid
Posted Nov 13th 2008 11:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
(S05E01) When I watch
Project Runway, I'm reminded of the fact that I'm no fashion designer. I'd be up a tree if I faced the challenges those contestants face. The same with
Top Design, not to mention any of the hair shows. However,
Top Chef is a different story. I do cook and every day is a challenge to figure out what to make and how.
So, the return of
Top Chef -- season five -- was like greeting an old friend. Here are people I can relate to, even if they have culinary skills that exceed mine.
The new edition is set in New York, a point that was obvious from the start with arrivals not coming via a pedestrian airport. No, here we are at Grand Central Station, a landmark. Then it's onto a ferry to Governor's Island to really get a look at the city.
Continue reading Top Chef: New York (season premiere)
Posted Oct 26th 2008 12:45PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Reality-Free, Mad Men
So how are you celebrating the season finale of
Mad Men tonight? I'm doing it the same way I do it every single Sunday night at 10, with a
Mad Men party! Of course, my party consists of me and an alcoholic beverage, but still!
There are a lot of people who having parties tonight, including the cool ladies over at
Basket of Kisses, who are
throwing a bash at Phoenix Park in New York City.
Noir Bar at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA is having a season finale party, too, with retro drinks and snacks and even a lookalike contest with prizes. I bet there are a lot of bars in your local area that are having parties as well, so I'd check if you feel like dressing up and going out instead of being plopped on your couch tonight.
Continue reading Lots of people are having Mad Men parties tonight
Posted Oct 17th 2008 11:26AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free, Mad Men
This isn't going to be the most earth-shattering news of the day, considering it's the most buzzed about show on television and just won Emmys for Best Writing and Best Drama. But it's good news for
Mad Men fans: the series is THIS close to being
picked up for a third season.
The Hollywood Reporter says that AMC has told Lionsgate that they want to renew the show for a third season, though the terms of the renewal depend on what deal they make with creator/producer/writer
Matthew Weiner.
Continue reading Mad Men close to renewal for a third season
Posted Sep 15th 2008 12:33AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Mad Men
(S02E08) "Crab, Duck. Duck, Crab." - Roger, introducing Crab to Duck.
I have a 12-pack of
Heineken in my fridge right now. I don't drink it, but my roommate does. So it's fun to see the Sterling Cooper gang going after the beer company.
But can I say that I don't get Betty's reaction at the party when it came to the beer? Sure, this is just one more thing that she feels Don "deceives" her about, but I don't think he was doing anything particularly bad to her. What is nasty are the boldfaced lies that he tells her when she confronts him about his affair with Bobbie. Though I wonder, what else can he do? I know, I know, tell the truth. But given what the truth is, he probably feels that he has to lie or he's going to be that guy in the credits, falling from the sky as his world collapses beneath him.
Continue reading Mad Men: A Night To Remember - VIDEO
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