Posts with tag hustle
Posted Aug 5th 2008 2:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, TV on the Bigscreen, Reality-Free
We all know that studios go ga-ga for big screen movies based on TV shows. Even if they tank, there seems to be an unending appetite to bring a beloved (or even semi-beloved) TV show to a theater near you:
The Fugitive,
Charlie's Angels,
Transformers,
The Beverly Hillbillies,
Serenity (
Firefly),
The Simpsons,
South Park,
The Flintstones,
The Jetsons...the list is endless. Now Den of Geek has a list of
23 shows that studios are planning to bring to the big screen.
But this list is really incomplete in so many ways. We've all heard that
Magnum, P.I. might get the movie treatment, but this list only says that Matthew McConaughey might star and doesn't mention other people who have been rumored to have been attached to it in the past, including Ben Affleck and George Clooney.
Continue reading Coming to the big screen: Magnum, Wonder Woman ... and V?
Posted Jun 13th 2008 8:06AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E02) So, now things are starting to get interesting with Bruce and Susan and Tom and Trina and Janet and Roger. Oh, and there were also Brad and Sylvia who look great doing the hustle, and Paul and Martha who will never be invited back to the Thompsons after that awful dinner.
All in all, I'm getting hooked on
Swingtown. It's a soap, no doubt about that. Being in 1976 is a time and a place and a specific social setting, but ultimately this show is about these characters and their intertwined lives. It's a serialized drama and rather addictive. More about the show after the jump, including all the happenings from tonight's show.
Continue reading Swingtown: Love Will Find A Way
Posted Jan 21st 2008 6:09PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 3, Fire Vol. 2
- Banacek - Season 2
- Barney Miller - Season 2
- ER - Season 8
- The Girls Next Door - Season 3
- Hawaii Five-O - Season 3
- Hustle - Season 4
- The Jeff Corwin Experience - Season 1
- Make Room For Daddy - Season 6
- The Odd Couple - Season 3
- The Simple Life - The Simple Life Goes To Camp
- Swamp Thing - Season 1
- Thunderbirds - 40th Anniversary Megaset
- Torchwood - Season 1
Posted Oct 30th 2007 4:24PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, TV on DVD, Interviews, Celebrities
Mention The Man From U.N.C.L.E. to a younger, casual TV fan, and they'll probably look at you with a tilted head, the ways dogs often look at people. But to people of a certain age, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (side note: that's a really hard title to type out) brings back a lot of cool memories. It was a spy spoof that debuted in 1964, in the height of the James Bond craze, but unlike a lot of 007 spoofs that didn't make it or were just plain lousy, U.N.C.L.E. stood on its own and still does today as a really fun light adventure show.
I had a chance to talk with U.N.C.L.E. star Robert Vaughn in conjunction with the release of the massive Time-Life Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Collection set.
Continue reading Robert Vaughn: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Jul 9th 2007 6:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Beauty and the Beast - Season 2
- Bewitched - Season 5 (Color)
- Extras - Season 2
- The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark (Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett)
- Home Run Derby - Vol. 1
- Hustle - Season 3
- My Super Sweet 16 - Seasons 1 and 2
- Punky Brewster - Vols. 1-6
Posted Apr 18th 2007 7:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TV on DVD, Celebrities
Lots of Robert Vaughn-oriented news today: not only is Hustle returning to AMC tonight at 10pm, but it looks like the legal fight over The Man From U.N.C.L.E. DVDs might finally be over.
Vaughn tells the Akron Beacon Journal that he is getting together with NCIS star David McCallum (he played Ilya Kuryakin on the 60s spy show, the partner to Vaughn's Napoleon Solo) to record commentaries and extras for the set, which should be out by the end of this year.
Oddly, Vaughn had already recorded four hours of extras for the show, but then the legal fight delayed the release of those DVDs, so it looks like those extras will be lost forever.
[via TVShowsOnDVD]
Posted Feb 12th 2007 7:55PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
Here are the new TV DVDs in stores tomorrow.
- All in the Family - Season 6
- Beauty and the Beast - Season 1
- Cobra - Complete Series
- Emergency - Season 3
- The Golden Girls - Season 7
- Grosse Pointe - Complete Series
- The Hills - Season 1
- Hustle - Season 2
- Masters of Horror - Pelts (Argento)
- Men Behaving Badly - Complete Series
- Reno 911- Most Wanted Uncensored
- Zoey 101 - Season 1
Posted Jan 12th 2007 6:20PM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Hustle, TCA Press Tour
I have to say this right off the bat ... I love con jobs. Anything about 'em from movies like David Mamet's
House of Games to books like 'Bringing Down the House'. Seeing a really deserving 'mark' getting hooked by 'the lure,' then getting drawn in by 'the roper' and to have the whole plan come together (a la Hannibal from
The A-Team) is really satisfying. See how I know all the lingo? That's how cool I am, thus making me the biggest mark of all, because I'm arrogant and annoying -- although not rich, so maybe I'm safe.
Anyhow, AMC's continuing original series
Hustle comes to Las Vegas this season (April 18th to be exact) and picks up Robert Wagner as a special guest star along the way. He stars as a collector of Hollywood memorabilia, and thus the con is on as Danny promises to bring him the Hollywood sign. Whoops.
Quotes of the panel:
- Someone asked the cast if they had ever been conned, to which Robert Wagner replied "Well, we're here ... aren't we?" Zing! Unfortunately I can't stop picturing him with an eyepatch and reporting to Dr. Evil.
- Robert Wagner was asked about clashing egos when working on a tv series, and he said he wished his was bigger so that he could impress co-star Jaime Murray. So calmly replied, "I told you darling, it's not the size of the trailer ..."
Posted Sep 5th 2006 8:33AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
The Abbott and Costello Show - 100th Anniversary Collection - ALF - Season 4
- The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4
- Broken Trail
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Curse of the Hellmouth
- Charlie and Lola - Volumes 1 and 2
- Combat! Best of Espionage and Best of the Color Episodes
- Commander-In-Chief - Season 1, Volume 2
- Doctor Who - The Web Planet and Inferno
- Family - Seasons 1 and 2
- The Flintstones - Season 6
- Fraggle Rock - Season 2
- Hustle - Season 1
- Lost - Season 2
- Oz - Season 6
- Red Dwarf - The Complete Collection
- Silk Stalkings - Season 5
- Supernatural - Season 1
Posted Aug 3rd 2006 7:15AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, OpEd, BBC, Hustle
(S03E06) This was another great episode, but I was kind of disappointed finale-wise. The characters didn't develop any further, the story's complications weren't much more intricate than those of the previous episodes, and the sexual tension was still virtually untouched (hasn't really been talked about since Season One). I guess this is because each and every episode wraps up really nicely so that, even if you watch them out of order, everything still makes sense. I want Hustle to do something extreme for once. Have the gang royally screw something up! Have a con go horribly wrong, resulting in the death of a member's loved one and the eventual crippling depression of the aforementioned member.
Something.Continue reading Hustle: Episode 18 (finale)
Posted Jul 2nd 2006 8:33AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, Industry, Programming, Celebrities
On the cover: Dennis Haysbert of The Unit. - Behind the scenes of the Grey's Anatomy cast photo shoot.
- An interview with Supergroup's Sebastian Bach.
- Yet another interview: Prison Break's Stacey Keach.
- Matt Roush really likes Psych and Hustle, but finds that the new season of Chappelle's Show leaves a sour aftertaste.
- In the print edition: a tribute to Aaron Spelling; a look at the new season of Rock Star; photos of some of the acts from America's Got Talent; and a Q & A with Rescue Me's Tatum O'Neal.
Posted Jun 22nd 2006 8:31PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, TV on the Bigscreen, BBC, Hustle
Our friends at
Cinematical recently posted that FOX has picked up the rights to create a feature-length version of the BBC/AMC show
Hustle. The original minds behind the series are going to work on the film, so that's good news. This is nice and all (
Hustle really is a fantastic program), but each episode already runs over an hour. I hope they figure out something really exciting to do, because I'm not sure I'd be willing to fork over $10 to
just watch what is essentially an extended episode.
Meanwhile, the third season starts June 28 at 10:00 PM EST for the Americans, with a fourth season in the works.
Posted Apr 24th 2006 11:50AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Industry, Programming, Web
Tim Goodman ("The Bastard
Machine") gives his list for the Best Shows You're Not
Watching." We've done lists like this before, but I don't think we've done one in a while. His list includes
Hustle, Footballers Wive$, and Thief.- Comedian Patton Oswalt has a blog too.
- Television writer Ken Levine gives
his Summer Movie Preview. On
Mission: Impossible 3: "They can spend $300 million to make this stunt fest and the best thing will still
be the theme song."
- Lots of spoilers over at the Television Without Pity West
Wing boards. Let me repeat: lots of spoilers, so click at your own risk.
- EW's PopWatch
blog has a new HeadScratcher: what
(specifically) do Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood and Diane Lane have in common?
Posted Mar 25th 2006 4:37PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
- ABC has Signs at 8, followed by a
repeat of The Evidence.
- CBS has college basketball until 9, then it's two repeat eps of How I
Met Your Mother and a new 48 Hours Mystery.
- NBC has a new Dateline at 8, followed by
repeats of Law and Order: SVU and Conviction.
- TNT has Seven at 8, followed by
What Lies Beneath.
- At 10, AMC has a new Hustle.
- Also at 10: IFC has
Henry Rollins: Uncut From NYC.
- At 10:30, HGTV has a new Design on a Dime.
- Cartoon Network has a new Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo at 10:30.
- At 11:30, NBC repeats the recent
SNL with Steve Martin and Prince.
- Also at 11:30, Sundance has the acclaimed documentary
Tarnation.
Posted Mar 18th 2006 4:39PM by Ryan j Budke
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, BBC
Hustle seems to be one of those shows that I've
been hearing about forever and meaning to get around to watching, but just never have. It's originally a British show
(now in its third season across the pond) that AMC has been showing at various times. They just started with the first
season back in January, I think, so don't worry, you can still get into it. To help you along your way, AMC is showing
a mini-marathon tonight of all the shown episodes thus far. It's starting at 7pm and going through 11pm. Tune in and
give the show a shot, it seems like it would be worth your time if you're a fan of
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels,
Snatch,
Layer Cake and the like. I know I will.
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