Posts with tag hawaii
Posted Jul 4th 2008 8:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, Industry
Bravo's top-rated and highly acclaimed reality food show,
Top Chef, has big plans for the fifth season. Like real estate, it's all about location, location, location and
Top Chef has chosen a most unique place, somewhere you might not guess in a game of 20 questions. I'm not going to reveal the place until after the jump, because there may be some of you out there that want to be surprised.
Just to recap,
Top Chef has already spent seasons in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago. They've also had special episodes and finales in Napa Valley, Las Vegas, Hawaii and Aspen and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Traveling to interesting and even exotic locales is part of the fun, giving the contestants a chance to incorporate the regional foods and the style of that part of the world.
Okay, if the suspense is getting to you -- I know it is -- go to the jump and see where season five of
Top Chef is going to be...
Continue reading Top Chef's exciting new location
Posted Oct 26th 2007 11:02AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Lost, Celebrities
Don't be surprised if Jin dies this season on
Lost. That's what happened when two other actors on the show
got DUIs (although, the producers swear their deaths were not related to their off-set antics).
This time, Daniel Dae Kim
got the DUI. He was arrested early Thursday by Honolulu police, taken into custody, then released on bail. Kim joins the ranks of Cynthia Watros, who played Libby, and Michelle Rodriguez, who played Ana Lucia.
Continue reading Another Lost actor gets another DUI
Posted Aug 14th 2007 8:59AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Lost, Celebrities, Casting
Kristen Bell, formerly of
Veronica Mars,
was reportedly asked to join the cast of
Lost next season as a new, recurring character (one of The Others!). But, Bell has apparently turned down the opportunity to live and work in Hawaii in favor of living and working on Broadway in New York City.
According to TV Guide's
Michael Ausiello, Bell will take over the lead role in the Broadway version of
Legally Blonde in February. He's putting two-and-two together to come to this conclusion, but it seems pretty logical. She has wanted to do Broadway in the past, but her
Veronica Mars schedule would never accommodate it.
This seems like an...interesting...career choice. A role on
Lost would boost her visibility with mainstream viewers, while a role on Broadway will only make her visible to those who are into that sort of thing. But, if Broadway's your dream, go for it!
Posted Aug 11th 2007 4:09PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Lost, Casting
All casting rumors for
Lost seem to have been debunked almost as quickly as they spread.
Last week,
Isabelle reported on word that
Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell and
Prison Break's Peter Stormare were being considered for two new recurring roles on
Lost. The Stormare rumor
got squashed pretty quickly, and today TV Guide's Ausiello
is reporting that Kristen Bell won't be joining the cast, either. The reason, he says, is because Bell didn't want to relocate to Hawaii.
Well, shucks. I adore Stormare and would love to see Bell get a gig that'll give her a wider audience.
Posted May 7th 2007 10:01AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Lost, Pickups and Renewals
This morning, ABC announced that
Lost will get three more seasons, but
only 48 more episodes. That means each season will have only 16 episodes, as opposed to the traditional, full-season run of 22-23 episodes. Executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have agreed to stick around for the final three seasons and guide the show to the ending that they want. (Each guy is reportedly getting an 8-figure deal to stick around) Of course, nothing is being said about which actors will be on the show that long.
This new end point pushes about 20 more episodes out of Cuse and Lindelof than they had hoped.
Last January, the producers said they saw the show wrapping up at about episode 100, but the new deal pushes
Lost's entire run to 120 episodes.
Lost fans, are you willing to wait three more years for answers? Seems like a long time...
Posted May 7th 2007 12:26AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: OpEd, The Amazing Race, Episode Reviews
(
S11E13) Ahhh... I really was rooting for the Beauty Queens! I think they were really, really bummed about coming in very close second. I wanted to cry with them. I'm not sure what my problem is with Eric & Danielle. I just felt like they didn't have a whole lot of personality, unlike the other teams in the top three. I feel like they pout a lot.
Continue reading The Amazing Race All-Stars: "Low to the Ground, That's My Technique" (season finale)
Posted Apr 15th 2007 7:28AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, Obituaries
Hawaiian singer Don Ho, whose most famous song was "Tiny Bubbles," died yesterday morning in Honolulu of a heart attack. Ho had several heart problems in recent years, had a pacemaker installed, and had experimental surgery done in Thailand two years ago. He performed right up until the end, with his last show this past Thursday.
Ho hosted his own variety show, appropriately titled The Don Ho Show, on ABC in 1976-77. He made appearances on several TV shows, including McCloud and Hawaiian Eye, but most of the time he appeared as himself, in shows like The Brady Bunch, Charlie's Angels, One West Waikiki, Fantasy Island, Sanford and Son, The Fall Guy, Life Goes On, Batman, and I Dream of Jeannie.
I think it used to be a law that every TV show had to film at least one episode on location in Hawaii, and if they did, Ho guest starred.
Posted Jan 16th 2007 8:34AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost, Web, Watercooler Talk
Here's a vacation idea that will have your family planning an intervention and your internet friends jealous: Go to Hawaii. But, don't just go to the beach. Follow the
Lost trail. You can visit most Hawaiian filming locations for
Lost, thanks to this
nifty little website created by some uber-fans.
For example, check out
Hurley's golf course from Season 1 Episode 9. The fans are nice enough to take a whole slew of photos, and compare them to screen grabs from various episodes to prove that, yes, they did find the spot. They also write up a little bit about the location and about other films that were made there (
Pearl Harbor,
Jurassic Park and
Godzilla share settings), as well as directions to the spot. Other cool locations include the place where
Ana Lucia killed Goodwin, the
rickety bridge in "Numbers",
the waterfall where Michael goes after Walt, and
the beach where Kate strips down to her bra and undies. You can search by episode or by geographical location. The guys behind the website have done a heck of a lot of scouting around and really know their episodes in order to take the photos they take. I dare you not to waste an entire afternoon on
Lost Virtual Tour!
Posted Dec 29th 2006 3:37PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Ask TV Squad
TV Squad reader
Kat Griffith asks us this interesting question:
I am trying to find a list of TV shows that have geographic names in their titles, I know of a few but was wondering if there is a list of shows out there somewhere.
Kat, we spent many hours on Google trying to find such a list, but no luck. However, if you are interested in a list of TV show settings you may want to order a copy of TV Land: A Guide to America's Television Shrines, Sets, and Sites, which is available for sale on amazon.com.
But, you're not looking for that type of information. So, as a public service to you, and our other rabid readers, here is a list of geographically-named shows that was compiled by the equally rabid staff of TV Squad writers. The list can be found after the jump.
Continue reading Ask TV Squad: Where can you find a list of shows with geographic names?
Posted Dec 20th 2006 7:10PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Lost, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
Evangeline Lilly's rental home is a total loss. A fire gutted her home early Wednesday morning in Kailua, Hawaii. Luckily, neither Evangeline nor her two roommates were at home. Evangeline was already on the set for her last day of shooting
Lost before the Christmas break.
According to newspaper reports in Hawaii, neighbors heard "electrical popping sounds" just before seven this morning. Then they saw flames and the fire quickly engulfed the entire house before firefighters arrived. One neighbor even rushed into the house to see if anyone was inside, but was pushed back by black smoke (
the black smoke?).
That just plain sucks. I hope A) she had insurance and B) she didn't lose anything important. I'm sure people in Hawaii are lining up to offer her a place to sleep!
*Update:
Here's a photo of the burned home.
Posted Nov 28th 2006 6:04PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Andy Baldwin, 30, is the next contestant on
The Bachelor. It is a game show of sorts, right? For the gals who like men in uniforms, Baldwin is an "undersea medical officer for a special operations dive unit" stationed in Hawaii. Reading the press release that ABC sent us, I'm shocked that he's not taken. He probably sounds better than he is, but still. The guy saved up $25,000 for college, did his undergrad at Duke and went to medical school in California. He's a tri-athlete who competes in honor of his uncle, who died of pancreatic cancer. ABC is all excited about this new guy, dubbing the season "An Officer and a Gentleman". Sorry, no picture yet.
Maybe he's just looking for a girl who can keep up with him. Hopefully they'll cast some athletic women and not just all wanna-be princesses. We'll meet Andy on the 10th season of
The Bachelor on ABC next spring.
Posted Nov 26th 2006 11:03AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Programming
Tim Minear has had a rough go of it with his post Whedonverse career.
Wonderfalls and
The Inside were both shut down early in the going, which is a shame because
Wonderfalls was a fantastic show. I don't have a lot of hope for his current gig as Consulting Producer for
Standoff either. The show just doesn't seem to be able to find an audience. But you know what they say... try try again.
USA Today's
Coming Attractions has a little blurb about Minear's latest project,
Drive, that says it is coming in March. They refer to it as "
Amazing Race meets
24." Minear adds, "There's a giant purse of money at the end, but they don't know where the end is." Other than that, most things about the show remain up in the air. Early reports had Nick Lea (
X-Files, Whistler) and Ivan Sergei (
Hawaii, Jack & Jill) starring in the show. However, a recent post on
nicklea.com reveals that many of the roles are being recast, including Lea's and Sergei's. Even with all the confusion, it's still a Minear show. That makes it worth watching.
Posted Nov 2nd 2006 1:07AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, ABC, OpEd, Lost
(
S03E05) Now there's only one new episode of
Lost left before a 13-week hiatus until February. The writers have answered quite a few questions in the last two episodes, but you know we're going to be left with a big, fat cliffhanger one week from tonight.
This episode had a heavy religious theme that ran through all of the storylines. In Eko's story, we come to understand how he interprets his life and that he does not see himself as a sinner, despite all the people he has killed. Eko spends the episode chasing his brother, Yemi, around the island. I think that Yemi was the black smoke, either actually taking the form of a man or causing Eko's hallucinations (he also saw the people he killed and the altar boy). During season two, in the "23rd Psalm" episode, the black smoke scans Eko and we see scenes from his life in the smoke. So, the question is: did the smoke take on alternate physical form or did it cause him to hallucinate? It did seem to admit to him that it was his brother at the end, and it may have set the tent on fire at the beginning.
Continue reading Lost: The Cost of Living
Posted Oct 16th 2006 4:33PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost, Celebrities
When you heard about the earthquake yesterday, did you immediately think of the cast and crew of Lost and wonder if they're OK? Yeah, me either. I thought about the people, the tourist attractions, the beautiful coastline, and the bars I've hung out in and around Waikiki.
Boston.com assures us that everyone on the set is fine, and none of the sets were damaged.
How do we know this was a natural earthquake, or even an earthquake at all? Maybe someone in one of the hatches forget to type in all the numbers in time and one of those electro-magnetic mishaps occurred?
(Note: this might be one of the very few times that the post here is much longer than the actual article we're linking to, heh.)
Posted Sep 27th 2006 4:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Lost, Celebrities
Earlier this month, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who plays Mr. Ecko on
Lost, was arrested in Hawaii on charges of disobeying a police officer and driving without a license. Yesterday, in Waikiki district court, the actor's lawyer was able to
get the charges dropped after proving to the court that the actor does indeed have a driver's license. Adewale spent six hours in jail and paid five hundred dollars when he was arrested, so it's not like he got off scot-free.
What I want to know is if he even showed up in court. I've been to traffic court before (don't ask... I blame overzealous suburban cops... anyway, it was ten years ago), and you basically have to stand in line with every speeder, stop-sign runner, and drunk driver that's been caught over the previous week. If he was there, I wonder if anyone recognized him; he's hard to miss, considering he's a pretty big guy.
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