ThomasJane-related stories
Posted Aug 19th 2009 5:07PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Casting, Reality-Free
So I've been watching
Hung (because I'm flattered that they'd base a show like that around me). It's proven to be a much more entertaining take on the premise than I expected. Thomas Jane and Jane Adams are simply perfect in their respective roles as the reluctant gigolo and his high-strung pimp. I was digging Anne Heche as his wife, and even getting his bizarre kids.
I didn't even know the show needed anything more, until Ray booked his most demanding and bizarre client yet and Natalie Zea (
Dirty Sexy Money) sashayed into the room. Wow, did
Hung need her. And I don't mean because she's gorgeous, though that certainly helps. What a new dynamic she's brought to everything.
Continue reading Natalie Zea adds some dirty, sexy money to Hung
Posted Jul 31st 2009 1:14AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
Going in, everyone in the crowd had to know that the panel for HBO's
Hung was going to consist of puns and schoolyard humor. After all, it's a show about a down-and-out guy who uses his best asset -- his manhood -- and becomes a male prostitute. So it shouldn't have been a big surprise when a reporter started the questioning by asking whether the show continues a trend of shows about "ordinary working stiffs with a secret."
It went pretty much downhill from there, aided and abetted by the show's stars, Thomas Jane and Jane Adams.
Jane, on his audition process: "I had to go into the other room to disrobe, so I wouldn't hit anyone in the eye. It's for safety."
Adams told a critic that it was interesting he was making so many penis puns "While you're holding that mike."
Co-creator Colette Burson got into the act, calling the member of Jane's character of Ray Drecker as "The Platonic Penis. It's the ideal penis on a certain level."
Continue reading If you like schoolyard puns, then you'd like the Hung panel - TCA Report
Posted Jul 30th 2009 8:00PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free
I love how blunt executive producer
Steven DeKnight is about the usage of a male prosthetic on his new Starz series
Spartacus: Blood and Sand, as
Joel mentioned in his report last night . "Some guys aren't as well-endowed as other guys," he says. I wonder if they were inspired by
Watchmen, or made to feel comparatively inadequate to Dr. Mammoth.
What's odd to me is that while
Spartacus has put thought into the fact that male nudity is a part of their world and addressed it in this manner, no one has come up with a prosthetic for Thomas Jane in
Hung over at HBO. Isn't his dong the centerpiece of the whole show? Or maybe he doesn't need one *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*.
Continue reading Spartacus gets fake dongs, but not Hung?
Posted Jul 6th 2009 7:03PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd
HBO has billed their new series
Hung as a comedy. But last week's pilot was pretty light on the laughs. That's not to say that the show doesn't have potential. I do think it's fair to say it's not living up to any of it, though. I didn't get around to watching the premiere until this weekend, which is when I realized that there was no new episode this week. It makes sense when you consider the Fourth of July holiday. But when you're trying to establish a rhythm and audience for a new show, it's a horrible idea.
Especially when your show is only "eh" to begin with. The biggest flaw in the premiere of
Hung was how it ended. You have to consider that after only one episode to get to know your premise and characters, you're going to be asking people to wait two weeks and then come back for more. That means you have to grab onto them with something that makes them need to come back.
Hung just kind of withered at the end.
Continue reading Way to kill whatever momentum you had, Hung
Posted Dec 19th 2008 12:34AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Reality-Free
It's Dirk Diggler on the small screen. Sort of. Actually, it's the Punisher with a giant schlong. Well, sort of.
HBO has picked up Hung, starring Thomas Jane for a 10-episode summer run. It's a show about a high-school basketball coach who's well ... hung. Well hung. Yeah, I meant to do that. The half-hour comedy is hoping to capitalize on the success of
Entourage, Flight of the Conchords and virtually nothing else comedic on the network by using sex and a giant dong to capture ratings.
Hey, if Showtime can find success with the UK's
Secret Diary of a Call Girl, then HBO should be good to go, right? The best part about the article is that writer Dmitry Lipkin said, "The show is very much about what's happening in the country, how people are trying to survive using what God had given them." I guess prostitution is on the rise then, because God gave lots of women the tools to do that. And I can't wait to get started on my career in modeling because God gave me all of this (just imagine Brad Pitt and Denzel Washington and think way more beautiful).
Continue reading The Punisher gets Hung on HBO
Posted Aug 1st 2008 2:02PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Programming, Casting, Reality-Free
HBO has found the lead for one of their roughly 658 new "Hey, remember how we used to have good TV shows before we started giving you crap like
John From Cincinnati? Huh? Do ya?" pilots.
Thomas Jane (The Punisher) has been tapped to star in Hung, a one-hour dark comedy about a middle-aged high school basketball coach who figures out a way to use his best asset. Now, I'm no expert, but I'm guessing that the title doesn't mean that his best asset is his ability to tie a wicked hangman's noose.
Hung is a top priority at HBO, as new entertainment president Sue Naegle has made the spec script her first major purchase and first pilot pickup. Written by the creator of
The Riches and directed by Oscar winner Alexander Payne (
Sideways),
Hung marks Jane's first regular TV role. He has, of course, previously made TV appearances, including a stint on wife
Patricia Arquette's series,
Medium.
Continue reading Thomas Jane is Hung
Posted Nov 16th 2006 11:01AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Medium
(S03E01/S03E02) I was surprised that NBC held Medium back when they announced the fall schedule. While it hasn't been a breakout hit, it has performed well in its first two seasons, and managed to garner some awards. I suppose the thought process was to launch all the untested new stuff, knowing that something isn't going to work out, and then bring Medium in to shore things up. Whatever the case, Allison is back, and with a two hour premiere.
The first thing that stood out to me about this episode was that it was co-written by Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron and Javier Grillo-Marxuach. Javier was formerly a writer-producer for Lost and is a good hire for this show. The two of them put together a great story that managed to weave a few different story lines together into an interesting mystery.
Continue reading Medium: Four Dreams
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