Silvio Horta-related stories
Posted Jul 18th 2008 11:47AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, TCA Press Tour, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, Eli Stone, Reality-Free
I wanted to wait a bit before I posted about the ABC showrunner panel, because a) I already posted about the "news" from
Shonda Rhimes about Katherine Heigl's statements, and b) I wanted to think about why these panels seem to be so much more informative than the individual show panels?
We'll get to that more later. On the panel were Rhimes (
Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice), Marc Cherry (
Desperate Housewives), Silvio Horta
(Ugly Betty), Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
(Lost), and Greg Berlanti (seemingly the rest of ABC's schedule). As you'd expect, Rhimes got the Heigl questions, Lindelof and Cuse got the most esoteric questions, and Chery made the most jokes. The funniest line, though, came from Horta.
Continue reading ABC show-runner panel: Heigl, Lost's endpoint, and musical theater - TCA Report
Posted May 19th 2008 9:22AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Ugly Betty, Casting, Reality-Free
Now that we know that
Ugly Betty is coming back next season (it was never in doubt) and that the
Ugly Betty production is moving to New York, executive producer
Silvio Horta has shared a few more bits of news and tidbits about Betty and company.
For starters, the producers are determined to streamline the show, taking advantage of being in NYC and sharpening the focus of the show. Horta said the goal for the
Ugly Betty writing team for season three is "to make the show more about Betty's journey and to weave the characters into more unified, emotionally grounded plots."
Continue reading Ugly Betty will be better in New York says exec producer
Posted Nov 7th 2007 9:36AM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: Industry, WGA Strike
It's Day Three of the WGA Strike, and things are getting serious. Production on some scripted sitcoms and dramas is already
coming to screeching halt -- despite the fact that completed scripts have yet to be shot.
Sitcoms which have already gone dark are:
The New Adventures of Old Christine,
Back to You, 'Til Death, and
Rules of Engagement. And with Steve Carrell refusing to cross the picket line,
The Office has
shut down for business, as well.
Meanwhile, Shonda Rhimes (
Grey's Anatomy,
Private Practice) and Shawn Ryan (
The Shield,
The Unit) have publicly stated that they won't perform their showrunner responsibilities either. Without their showrunners, these high profile dramas will most likely cease production earlier than networks expected.
Continue reading TV production halts as showrunners refuse to cross WGA picket lines
Posted Apr 27th 2007 2:50AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Ugly Betty, Episode Reviews
(S01E20) Betty is back and in fine form. The writers have officially ditched all the weak links - Constance, Nico, the warm-hearted version of Wilhelmina. The bitches are out in full force, and the camp is in overdrive. And, oh my god, I think we have a new word in the pop culture vernacular - "faux-mo!" This week was great, but we're clearly just setting up for next week's Medieval meltdown. Who doesn't want to see a bunch of fashionistas plopped down at a RenFaire to dissect the tragedy? But, that's next week, let us focus our attention on Betty as Carrie, hairapy and little orphan tranny.
Continue reading Ugly Betty: Petra-gate
Posted Mar 16th 2007 2:33AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Ugly Betty
(S01E17) Here's the formula for a great
Ugly Betty episode - let Wilhelmina be bitchy, let Marc and Amanda be campy and send one of the Manhattanites to Queens to have a fish-out-of-water bonding experience with Betty. Throw in a little geek chemistry, and you've got yourself one shiny
Betty episode.
Continue reading Ugly Betty: Icing on the Cake
Posted Jan 15th 2007 11:45AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, Industry, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Men In Trees, Brothers and Sisters, TCA Press Tour
For the last session of the day yesterday, ABC decided to do something a little different and put the executive producers of their biggest hour-long shows up on stage. On the panel were Jon Robin Baitz and Greg Berlanti (
Brothers & Sisters), Marc Cherry (
Desperate Housewives), Shonda Rhimes (
Grey's Anatomy), Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (
Lost), Jenny Bicks (
Men in Trees) and Silvio Horta (
Ugly Betty).
They answered questions about what it's like to run their shows, from the pilot process to network notes to the writing process to Internet fan scrutiny. Because the reporters were so eager to ask them questions, no more than one or two EPs answered a question at any one time before the next one was asked (and, believe me, if you don't blurt out your question and just keep talking until everyone else stops, you'll never get your question out). The funniest panelist was Cherry, who had something funny to say at almost every turn. The best lines, funny and otherwise, are after the jump.
Continue reading ABC's show runners talk about pitching, network notes, and Internet scrutiny - TCA Report
Posted Nov 17th 2006 3:30PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Ugly Betty
Chicago Tribune television critic Maureen Ryan has spent the past week regaling readers with
"Betty-palooza" - a treasure trove of
Ugly Betty-related interviews and features.
The centerpiece of the
Betty fest is a nice tribute to the Norman Lear-ish quality of the series' concerns with class and ethnicity, but the big fun comes in the forms of revealing interviews with Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie, Ana Ortiz and the show's creator Silvio Horta. There's also a
piece on Justin's sexuality and
Marc's guide to being the perfect assistant.
Continue reading Betty-palooza at the Chicago Tribune
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