Posts with tag drea de matteo
Posted Aug 27th 2008 9:59AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Early Looks, Reality-Free
You're going to hear a lot of things about FX's new motorcycle club drama Sons of Anarchy. It's different, it's edgy, and it covers a fairly taboo topic that, up to now, hasn't really been addressed in a TV drama.
However, strip away the leather jackets and exhaust fumes and you're looking at something we have seen before: Sons of Anarchy is The Sopranos on Harleys. You've got your powerful crime family, illegal gun smuggling, rival gangs, conspiracy, and for good measure? Drea de Matteo (of Sopranos fame) plays a crank addict. Trade the crank for blow and we've seen that before too.
Continue reading Sons of Anarchy -- an early look
Posted Mar 28th 2007 1:41PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, The Sopranos
Joe Pantoliano does not want his infamous
The Sopranos character to be remembered as "a head in a bowling bag".
Access Hollywood obtained a letter that "Joey Pants" wrote to
Sopranos creator David Chase, expressing his anger over a photo spread appearing in the April edition of Vanity Fair (
see the photo here).
The photo, taken by Annie Liebowitz, features the legendary characters who've been whacked over the years, including actors Drea de Matteo, Vincent Pastore, Annabella Sciorra, and Steve Buscemi. Pantoliano refused to appear in the photo, so Liebowitz improvised by having a headless mannequin hold one of the actual head molds used from the episode where Tony kills Ralphie and puts his head in a bowling bag.
Continue reading Joe Pantoliano's panties get in a wad
Posted Apr 6th 2006 11:54AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Talent
I think it's pretty obvious at this point that
Joey is not coming back for another season. First, co-star
Andrea Anders left the cast to join the
CBS comedy pilot,
The Class. Now Paulo Costanzo, who played Joey's nephew, has signed on to a different CBS
comedy pilot about an engaged couple, a married couple and a single guy. I know, you were probably thinking Costanzo
will be the single guy, but he's actually one-half of the engaged couple.
Now, what do you think Drea de
Matteo will do next?
Posted Mar 11th 2006 11:29AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Programming
After one appearance in its new Tuesday night
time slot, NBC has
pulled
Joey off the schedule indefinitely. It will be replaced by the one show that may be even less
entertaining than
Joey:
Most Outrageous Moments.
Variety is reporting that
NBC might burn off the remaining new episodes of
Joey sometime this summer. Of course, the peacock network has
yet to actually admit that it has cancelled
Joey, but it's only a matter of time. Especially since one of the
co-stars has already
signed on to a new
pilot on a different network.
Posted Feb 28th 2006 5:07PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Web, The Sopranos
HBO realizes that it's been a really, really long time since
we've seen any new episodes of
The Sopranos, so it has enlisted the
assistance of Google Maps to
help you remember. On
The Sopranos website, the Google Map
shows different locations in New Jersey where key plot points happened last season. Move your mouse over a red dot and
a box will appear with a video clip, summary, and a link to an entire episode guide. A lot of the video clips are just
conversations between Tony and other major characters like Tony B. (Steve Buschemi), Christopher (Michael Imperioli),
and Sack (Vince Curatola) and really aren't all that exciting. They're used as a reminder of who got whacked and where
the tensions lie between crime bosses. And, of course, it includes the scene where Adriana gets whacked.
Speaking of getting whacked,
here's a way to
kill time. It's
The Sopranos' version of Whack-a-Mole.
Posted Feb 19th 2006 10:35AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Web
HBO
understands the viral power of the internet and is apparently hoping to get in on it with a couple of online promotions
for the upcoming season of
The Sopranos, which starts March 12. First, it's paying Google to use its maps to
identify certain parts of New Jersey where key parts of
The Sopranos have happened (does that mean we'll know
where Ralphie's head is buried?). Starting February 27th, all you'll have to do is go to Google and type in
"Sopranos Map".
HBO.com is also planning an interactive game called
Whack a Soprano.
Posted Feb 15th 2006 8:04AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Programming, The Office
Joey is making a surprise return to NBC, but it's
getting moved to Tuesday nights. From March 7-21,
Joey will air at 8 pm and then a
Joey repeat will
air at 8:30 pm. That means
Fear Factor is being bumped off the NBC schedule until this summer.
Scrubs
will air at 9 pm, followed by a new comedy,
Teachers, at 9:30. Don't worry. We'll get our back-to-back episodes
of Scrubs starting on March 28, when it airs at 8:30 and 9:00 pm. Your TiVo will figure it out.
Also, NBC has
figured out that
The Office is good. Really good. The network has managed to work around Steve Carell's
busy
schedule to add one more episode to the schedule, a finale that will air on May 11. Originally, the season was going
to end on March 30th but now NBC is going to play reruns through April and add that one new episode in May. I wonder if
Jim will crash Pam's wedding?
Posted Feb 8th 2006 7:23PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, CBS, Celebrities
Andrea Anders can take a hint. The actress co-stars
as Matt LeBlanc's neighbor on
Joey, which is not-so-mysteriously absent from NBC's post-Olympics schedule. It
is widely speculated that the lame
Friends spin-off isn't going to get a third season, and Anders isn't
waiting around to find out. She just signed on to join a new CBS comedy,
The Class, which hinges on the
premise that a 27-year-old man (
Jason Ritter) holds a party to reunite
six of his childhood friends who have lost touch. Anders plays one of the schoolmates, as does Jay Bernthal and
Heather Goldenhersh.
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