Tom Everett Scott-related stories
Posted Oct 8th 2009 10:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, Cancellations, Reality-Free
Oh, this is going to tick off sooooo many people.
NBC has decided to cancel Southland! They have finished filming six episodes for season two but NBC suddenly pulled the plug on the show. There's still a chance that a cable network could pick it up. I can picture the show on FX or TNT or USA. Or maybe NBC could put it on Bravo? Nah, then they'd have no room for
Real Housewives of Bangor, Maine.
Continue reading Goodbye Southland
Posted Jul 3rd 2009 2:00PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Upfronts, Reality-Free
NBC isn't exactly engendering a lot of goodwill among people, with their cancellations of shows like
Life and
Medium, and
My Name is Earl. The fact that they're replacing these shows with
not one but two medical shows, isn't exactly a confidence booster. NBC hasn't sent screeners of all their pilots yet, hence the "Part 1" in the title. But I have gotten a taste of both their comedy and drama offerings with
Community, a comedy starring
The Soup's Joel McHale, and
Trauma, one of the aforementioned medical dramas.
Going into this, I didn't have high hopes for
Trauma, and while I wanted to like
Community, I had a bad feeling that it wasn't going to be the vehicle that would change Joel McHale from cute host of a basic cable show to primetime star. Now, after seeing both of them, I will say that I was pleasantly surprised by one.
Continue reading TV Squad previews NBC's new shows (part 1)
Posted Jun 4th 2009 8:08AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Law and Order, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
I haven't warmed up to Jeremy Sisto and Anthony Anderson, but I still like the second half of the
Law and Order team. This season finale was ... convoluted. I was lost about 20 minutes into it, even after McCoy went to the board and literally drew a graphic for the audience to explain what was going on. In short, an S&M murder case led back to Tom Everett Scott's governor character and his wife, and hinted at an interesting race next season (which will see the show on at a new day and time, Friday at 8 PM).
What did everyone else think?
Posted May 1st 2009 11:16AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
I think I'd like
Southland a lot more if it just focused on the cops played by Ben McKenzie and Michael Cudlitz. I find myself getting less interested when they cut away from what they're doing. I think
Southland should be like a fictional version of
Cops, showing the two cops inside the car talking and then going to various calls during the hour. I know, you're thinking, that's just
Adam-12. But I really liked
Adam-12!
Posted Apr 3rd 2009 1:29PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, Early Looks, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Southland, the gritty new police drama from film producer Ann Biderman, puts the spotlight on the dark and grimy corners of Los Angeles as seen through the eyes of uniformed cops and plainclothes detectives. Unfortunately, the series premiere is mired in cop show clichés and forgets to deliver anything we haven't seen before.
The first episode –
stream it now or watch it below, a week before it debuts on NBC – owes a lot to
NYPD Blue,
Homicide: Life on the Street and countless other cop shows that came before it. It's a procedural with a large cast about cops struggling to balance "the job" with their personal lives.
Continue reading Southland -- An early look - VIDEO
Posted Jan 7th 2009 12:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Reality-Free
I was afraid this might happen to new shows.
Brett
told you last June about a new show from
ER producer John Wells titled
LAPD. Well,
the show has been retitled to Police, and NBC is still interested in it. However, not only is the number of episodes ordered under dispute (they're looking for 12, but NBC might want six instead), there might not be a place on the schedule for it. Jay Leno is taking up the 10pm time slot Monday through Friday later this year, so they might only want it for a short period of time. And that's if they have room for it at all.
Continue reading NBC likes Police (but there might not be room for it)
Posted Sep 23rd 2008 6:00PM by Thomas DiChiara
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, CSI, ER, Grey's Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, Casting, Reality-Free
Let's get the bad/obvious news out of the way first:
Despite what ER showrunner David Zabel told TV Guide in a recent interview, George Clooney will not -- repeat NOT -- be returning to the show for it's 15th and final season.
According to Clooney's publicist, "He is on record as saying he is not coming back. It is something he has already done. He is busy making movies." If you're an optimist, though, you can always hope for a surprise Clooney return a la the 2000
ER season finale, in which Georgie showed up at the very end of Julianna Margulies' farewell ep.
On a more positive note, there are plenty of actors who ARE joining popular existing series or are attached to promising upcoming projects. A rundown of these casting coups ensues.
Continue reading Casting scoop: George Clooney, William Fichtner and more
Posted Apr 26th 2008 7:01PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Law and Order, Casting, Reality-Free
I really wish Tom Everett Scott would find a great role he could sink his teeth into for a few years. He's so talented, and yet he keeps ending up in short-lived and dead-end roles.
The actor has
signed for a two-episode guest stint on NBC's
Law & Order, playing Governor Shalvoy, according to a
Hollywood Reporter story. He'll be joined in one of the episodes by Alison Elliott, playing his wife, Rita Shalvoy.
Since breaking onto the Hollywood scene in 1996's
That Thing You Do, Scott has floundered in short-lived series like 2002's
Philly, playing Kim Delaney's love interest, and 2006's
Saved, where he played a troubled paramedic. Most recently, he played
Lucy Liu's estranged fiance on
Cashmere Mafia.
Continue reading Tom Everett Scott to guest on Law & Order
Posted Jun 12th 2006 10:06PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, TNT
(S01E01) In the beginning, about 2002, television gave us FX's The Shield, a police drama featuring corrupt but effective angst-ridden cops. Two years later the big picture box gave us FX's Rescue Me, a firefighter drama featuring cracked but effected angst-ridden firefighters. Both series have gone on to be critical and popular successes. And now, the glorious TV has given us a new 'first response' drama on TNT called Saved, which features flawed but effective angst-ridden paramedics.
Television should have taken a rest after the first two shows because it didn't do very well on this one. You see, while both The Shield and Rescue Me have main characters that you can connect with, despite the fact they are so flawed, you can't do that with Wyatt Cole, the main character on Saved. Why? Because he's so freakin selfish.
But, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me explain after the jump. However, be warned of the spoilers ahead.
Continue reading Saved: A Day in the Life (series premiere)
Posted Jan 23rd 2006 11:12AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Programming
This one is about a troubled paramedic working
in my hometown of Portland, Oregon. The execs at TNT really liked the pilot and have ordered 12 more episodes, to be
shot this spring. Not sure if they actually shoot this thing in Portland but, if so, I'm totally going on a Tom Everett
Scott hunt. He plays the lead character, described as "flawed' and "three-dimensional." Can't we all use
those words to describe ourselves? The series, called
Saved, made the cut among three new dramas that TNT was
considering adding to its summer line-up.
Saved is the third original drama for TNT, which found huge success
last year with
The Closer and
Wanted.
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