TrustMe-related stories
Posted Apr 10th 2009 9:38PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Cancellations, Reality-Free
On paper,
Trust Me looked like a sure fire hit. I tuned in week after week to watch the show, so I consider myself a loyal viewer, but I have to be honest. The show never took off.
Bob got it right in his early look,
Trust Me had all the elements for something special, but it just never jelled.
TNT has cancelled Trust Me after one season.
The guy in charge of TNT programming, Michael Wright, implied that a drama set in the advertising business was just a little too inaccessible for viewers. And that was the issue; not enough Nielsen numbers.
Continue reading TNT pulls the plug on Trust Me
Posted Mar 19th 2009 10:02AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Casting, Reality-Free
Are there any big fans of TNT's
Trust Me out there? I'm really curious to find out. I like the show, but it still hasn't hooked me. I thought it started out with a lot of potential, and the charismatic leads – Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh – are great, but that's not enough to keep me coming back every week.
I guess most viewers feel the same way.
Trust Me has been getting
killed in the ratings for weeks, and now it looks like the show might never get a chance to find its groove. McCormack is reportedly ready to move on. He's been
cast as the lead in an ABC comedy pilot produced by Tad Quill (
Dirty Sexy Money).
Continue reading Trust Me might be going bye-bye
Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:01PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Lost, Scrubs, Smallville, Grey's Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, Celebrities, Reaper, Reality-Free
In case you didn't know, I'm Canadian. That being said, I watch tons and tons of American TV, partially because our main English channels -- CTV and Global, just to name two -- mostly air US shows. And, let's admit it, I enjoy a lot the shows created by my friends south of the border.
Since there are more TV shows produced in the US and because actors can make more money down south, a lot of Canadian actors go to the USA. to work (or try to get work in a US show shot in Vancouver or Toronto). Here I present you with ten Canadian actors currently starring in lead roles in various primetime US TV shows. Did you know these ten actors were not from the US?
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Canadians who shine on US TV
Posted Mar 4th 2009 3:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
Trust Me is one of those shows that will probably not make it --
the ratings have been careening -- but I'm still watching it. I'm not sure why. It's not a great show, but I do like Tom Cavanagh and Eric McCormack. They're good together, even though the show around them seems to lurch from story to story without much cohesion.
I think the problem is that unlike a legal, medical or cop show, it's hard to dramatize the creative process. How do you show two ad men, an art director (now creative director) and a copywriter, come up with amazing commercials, billboards, ads, etc.?
Continue reading Trust Me gets creative with frozen lasagna
Posted Feb 9th 2009 2:28PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: CSI, How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, NCIS, Reality-Free, Mad Men, Burn Notice, The Mentalist, TV Squad Ten
What is cool? Can you define that thing, that quality that makes certain characters seem like they're more with it than everyone around them? Maybe cool is a state of being, not a thing you can pick up by wearing Armani or drinking Grey Goose or driving a BMW.
As I was looking around the current crop of television shows, I found ten characters who seem to capture the essence of cool -- whether they know it or not. After the jump, we count them down.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: The coolest characters on TV now
Posted Dec 30th 2008 1:01PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Programming, Video, Stargate, The Office, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
Enough looking back already! Let's forget that 2008 was a mostly dismal year for TV and focus on the future. From sci-fi detectives to modern
Mad Men, the 2009 TV season has a lot to offer. Here are ten new shows to keep on your radar (listed by premiere date).
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: New shows to look forward to in 2009 - VIDEO
Posted Dec 18th 2008 8:35AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Scrubs, Casting, Reality-Free
One of the greatest guest stars in
Scrubs, nay, in television history
will make his triumphant return soon.
Tom Cavangagh told
TV Guide he will make another guest appearance on
Scrubs as J.D.'s older brother Dan before the final season's hourglass runs out of mortality sand.
Cavanagh confirmed the news by saying the "chances are 100 percent" that he'll get to go back on the show this season. Cavanagh will also star in
the TNT show Trust Me with
Will & Grace star Eric McCormick and
Scrubs regular Sarah Chalke.
Continue reading J.D.'s brother returning to Scrubs
Posted Dec 8th 2008 1:02PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, TV Squad Polls, Reality-Free
Time for an impromptu poll, boys and girls. Something that will shake you out of those holiday blahs that the egg nog, Christmas cookies, and constant replays of Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer have caused. Something that will get your brain working again and make you think about your television viewing habits.
I want to know where you are watching most of your shows. Are you still one of those people who focus their attention on the major 'over the air networks' of ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and, on occasions when the month ends in a capital 'A', CW? Or, are you one of those new-fangled hippies who do nothing but watch everything and anything on cable? Or, perhaps, it's a bit of both.
Continue reading What do you watch more of...network shows or cable shows?
Posted Sep 30th 2008 5:04PM by Kelly Woo
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, The Closer, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
After the success of
The Closer, you can't blame TNT for going with a proven formula.
The cable network is close to
greenlighting two police drama pilots, a project from Jerry Bruckheimer about young undercover officers and
Bunker Hill starring Donnie Wahlberg (which actually already received an a pilot order).
TNT's certainly been a busy little bee, stacking up
new series left and right. Besides these two pilots, they've got
Time Heals, starring Jada Pinkett Smith as a hospital nursing director;
Night and Day, with William Fichtner playing an agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; and
Men of a Certain Age, a dramedy featuring Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher.
Continue reading TNT making more cop dramas
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