Posts with tag guest star
Posted Jul 10th 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free, Army Wives
Kim Delaney is not Quinn Cummings, but the actresses share one thing in common: Marsha Mason as a mom, on screen that is.
Army Wives has cast Marsha Mason, Oscar-nominated actress for
The Goodbye Girl, as Claudia Joy Holden's mom. She will be appearing on at least two episodes this season, visiting Fort Marshall and her daughter, the general's wife.
Marsha, who is actually has been Oscar-nominated as Best Actress four times in all (
Cinderella Liberty, Chapter Two, Only When I Laugh), will guest on
Army Wives as Charlotte Meade, Claudia's socialite mother. Her relationship with her daughter is strained and her visit comes without warning.
Continue reading Marsha Mason to guest on Army Wives
Posted Jun 25th 2008 7:30PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Casting, Chuck, Reality-Free
This fall Special Agent Sarah Walker will get a blast from the past as she attends her ten-year high school reunion and comes face-to-face with her old nemesis.
Nicole Richie will play a spiteful and sarcastic character who tortured the special agent for years. Sarah Walker has to go to the reunion for a mission; her date, of course, is Chuck.
Executive producer Josh Schwartz says Nicole Richie is actually quite funny: "Nicole auditioned for the part and was very funny. This role is a great opportunity for her to show off her comedic skills and be diabolically evil and kick some butt."
Continue reading Nicole Richie to guest star on Chuck
Posted Jun 18th 2008 7:07PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: TV Royalty, Celebrities, Casting, Lipstick Jungle, Reality-Free
Television icon
Mary Tyler Moore guest star on NBC's Lipstick Jungle. She will play Wendy Healy's (Brooke Shields) mother Joyce, a retired high-powered executive. Joyce will force Wendy to question whether or not she can have it all: the successful career and the happy family. A trailblazer for working women back int he 1970s, Joyce's concerns for Wendy leave her overachieving daughter in a tailspin.
Of the guest starring role, Moore has commented, "I'm fortunate to have had a front row seat to the evolution of working women on television. It's been great fun to watch the strong female characters of
Lipstick Jungle go at it week after week. I absolutely adore Brooke and I'm delighted to be a part of a show which is so well written."
Brooke Shields feels lucky to have Moore on her show, which goes into its second season this fall: "I am excited and extremely honored to have an actress of Mary Tyler Moore's stature and talent join our show."
Lipstick Jungle premieres Wednesday September 24th at 10-11 p.m. ET.
Posted May 13th 2008 4:41PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Sometimes you have to call it like you see it. Last week,
One Life to Live staged a bachelorette party for Adriana with a surprise appearance (not to viewers, but to the characters) by Snoop Dogg. I was skeptical. This sounded like just another shoe-horned, topical musical guest starring role to throw a spotlight on the show. Well, it was to a point. It was a publicity stunt. However, the way
One Life put the show together, this intervention was something to shout about. It was a superb hour of music, comedy, drama and soap entertainment. If you're going to be cast in a bright spotlight, you better shine, and that's just was
One Life to Live did.
Continue reading TV Squad Soap Report: One Life is soaring
Posted Jul 16th 2007 8:04AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities, Casting
Despite being fired from
Grey's Anatomy and
blaming everyone but himself for his predicament, it looks like Isaiah Washington is landing firmly on his feet.
According to
USA Today, NBC
is set to announce that they've signed the actor to a development deal; under the deal, Washington will star in an action drama that he pitched the network, starting in the 2008-09 season. In the meantime, he will have a guest role on the network's upcoming remake of
The Bionic Woman, playing a mysterious figure that will either help or hurt the main character, Jamie Sommers. He's signed for at least five episodes.
Continue reading Washington to guest on Bionic Woman, signs NBC development deal
Posted Mar 7th 2007 3:34PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, HBO, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Celebrities
Steve Coogan, creator of enduring BBC comedy character Alan Partridge and director Michael Winterbottom's apparent muse, is joining the cast of Larry David's
Curb Your Enthusiasm as a psychiatrist. According to the ever reliable and always tasteful
Sun, Coogan is a huge fan of the show and jumped at the chance to play opposite David.
If you haven't seen
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story or
Knowing Me, Knowing You... Alan Partridge, I must insist that you leave TV Squad immediately, join Netflix and get started on your own personal Coogan marathon. It's rare that I say this about anyone media-related other than Joss Whedon, but the man is a genius. My fandom cannot be stopped.
Posted Mar 6th 2007 4:24PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Rescue Me, Celebrities, FX
I don't know why I'm so fascinated by Artie Lange's career. Maybe it's because I listen to him every day on Howard Stern's Sirius radio show and I get a daily dose of Lange's everyguy persona and funny wisecracks. I'm also fascinated by the fact that, while he's doggedly determined to be a success in his comedy career, he is pretty much unable to resist just about every temptation known to man, from drugs to gambling to food to booze. Yet, no matter how addicted he is, he is so open about his life that he's been able to endear himself to the show's fans, and his career has taken off as a result.
Case in point: he announced this morning that he'll guest star on six episodes of
Rescue Me this season, playing a fireman buddy of Denis Leary's character of Tommy Gavin. Perhaps this is part of the
development deal Lange signed with FOX last year, as the show is on FX. But it may just be a part of the fact that, no matter what he gets into in his personal life, producers know that Artie has a following and can deliver a good performance. Either way, it's good to see him getting more and more work. He just needs to get some sleep and stop being so "sick," as he has been lately.
Posted Feb 16th 2007 1:37AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, OpEd, Ugly Betty
(S01E16) To quote Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii in
Kill Bill and as The Chin on
Ugly Betty, "You didn't think it was going to be that easy, did you?" Tonight's theme - "it's complicated." I ended my review last week by saying this, but I think it bears repeating. Watching good TV can be an emotionally masochistic endeavor. One of the first lessons you learn in "how to be a TV writer" class is to put the screws to your characters. This lesson is often phrased as, "Give the audience what they want, and then take it away." This week's episode was all about giving us what we wanted and taking it away. Betty opens up to Henry about her feelings for him. Done. Christina catches a break. Done. Alexis gets to feel a little human connection post-op. Done. Justin gets to see
Hairspray. Done. Hope you enjoyed it because now those cruel, cruel writers are going to make us regret that we ever wanted those things to happen in the first place.
Continue reading Ugly Betty: Derailed
Posted Jan 16th 2007 8:08AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, FX, Dirt
Former
Friends co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox reunite on the small screen for the season finale of Cox's new show,
Dirt. F/X announced yesterday that Aniston will play a character named Tina Harrod, the editor of a magazine that rivals Lucy Spiller's (Cox's) DirtNow gossip mag. Aniston's role marks her first return to television since
Friends went off the air in 2004. Aniston appears on the season finale, which airs Tuesday, March 27th.
So far,
Dirt has averaged about 3 million viewers for its first two episodes. Do you think Aniston's appearance brings in more viewers?
Posted Dec 6th 2006 11:48AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Watercooler Talk, The Colbert Report, Celebrities
After he ended his long run on
Saturday Night Live in 2000, it seemed like Tim Meadows followed the career path most former
SNLers go down; in other words, he faded into the background.
Now it looks like Meadows has come back, but stealthily so. He's been all over TV over the last year or so, but in small supporting or guest roles. For instance, last year, he was in a great episode of
The Office, playing a client that Michael Scott schmoozes over drinks at the local Chili's. He's also has been a few episodes of
Help Me Help You, playing a character named Petey. He also made a reality push this past summer, as a contestant on
Gameshow Marathon and a judge during the early rounds of
Last Comic Standing.
Continue reading Is Tim Meadows everywhere these days or is it me?
Posted Nov 3rd 2006 11:49AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, OpEd, Ugly Betty
(S01E06) One of the reasons I like
Ugly Betty is that the characters aren't "TV stupid." You know what I mean: instances where the main character or one of the side characters blithely accepts someone's help without even considering why that person is offering help or what their motives might be. Or characters that continue to be played for suckers even though everyone around them, including the audience, start screaming for the person to wake the eff up.
But
Betty is different. Betty knows that Wilhelmina's offer to pay for her dad's legal services was done to help drive a wedge between her and Daniel. Whilhelmina knows that her daughter Nikko is acting out when she gets thrown out of boarding schools and shoplifts. And Amanda is smart enough to know that Daniel is never going to settle down with her... he's looking for bigger fish to boink.
Continue reading Ugly Betty: Trust, Lust, and Must
Posted Oct 26th 2006 11:38AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, OpEd, Celebrities, Ugly Betty
Being an entertainment journalist (or writer, or blogger, or crayon scratcher... whatever you want to call it) sometimes yields some unexpected e-mails. After I
interviewed actor Christopher Gorham six months ago, I somehow landed on his e-mail distribution list; I guess after his CBS sitcom,
Out of Practice, got cancelled, he wanted to make sure people knew where to find him on the TV dial. God bless the Internet; you can be your own PR rep with just an e-mail account and a huge text based list of addresses. I do it all the time.
Anyway, he shot out a note to let people know that he will pop up tonight as a guest star on
Ugly Betty. It's the first of a series of appearances as Henry, a nerdy accountant who has a little crush on Betty. To be honest, when I saw the teaser for this episode, I didn't even come close to recognizing him. Looking forward to seeing him; I liked him on
OOP, and I think he's a pretty good actor, despite
what others have said.
Posted Sep 1st 2006 10:17AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, Talent, CSI: New York
Edward Furlong will have a recurring role on CBS'
CSI:NY this season. He'll play Shane Casey, a young man who is somehow involved in the investigation of a serial killer. The description of the actual storyline makes me think the
CSI writers have lost their minds: "where a serial killer uses trendy t-shirts as inspiration for his grisly murders." Do they mean those innocuous t-shirts from American Eagle, etc. that are either retro or don't mean a damn thing? How will a vintage
Miami Vice t-shirt have a role in a murder?
In case you're wondering who Edward Furlong is... he had a brilliant role a few years ago as Edward Norton's hateful younger brother in
American History X, but you may also recognize him as a young John Connor in
Terminator 2. Oh, and
he was arrested in 2004 for freeing lobsters from a restaurant tank.
Furlong's first
CSI:NY episode airs Wednesday, Oct. 11.
Posted Jul 21st 2006 11:35AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Talent, Programming, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities
Ah, Shonda. How you tease us. Apparently,
Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes let a little tidbit drop about the upcoming season of her hit show: Diahann Carroll, of
Dynasty and
Julia fame, will guest star some time next year. Only Shonda won't reveal exactly what role she'll play.
Rhimes
revealed the casting news as critics toured the
Grey's set, in one of those side trips from the press tour that critics like to make their readers think they took on their own. I can just see it now: a herd of critics, standing among hospital beds, eagerly asking Rhimes repeated questions about next season and Carroll's role, using different wording each time to try to trip her up, and Shonda just stonewalling. Yikes. Hope someone took the time to ask Shonda about that
ridiculous finale...
Posted Jul 17th 2006 9:59PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Talent, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Everybody Hates Chris, Celebrities, The CW
Among the other details the CW network gave to critics gathered at the TCA press tour today -- the network will open its first fall schedule with
America's Next Top Model on September 20th, and the network will air original wraparound segments during commercial breaks -- the new network announced that Whoopi Goldbert will be guest starring in two epiosdes of
Everybody Hates Chris. According to the network press release about the move (which they sent to me directly! Look, Ma, I'm somebody now!), Goldberg "will play Louise, a woman from Queens who moves in next door to Chris' family, and whose granddaughter is the latest object of Chris' affections."
Say what you will about Whoopi, but her strength has always been comedic acting; she even had some funny moments during her much-maligned and short-lived NBC series
Whoopi. So, paired up with the fine writing talents of Chris Rock and his staff on
Chris, Whoopi's guest stint might actually be pretty good. It might actually help me remember to watch the show, which
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