Posts with tag intervention
Posted Oct 13th 2008 10:09PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E04) The first three episodes of
HIMYM season four have been uneven, as you might expect at the beginning of a new season. The last two episodes have been funny, but it was mostly missing what made the show so special and attracted such a rabid set of fans.
This episode, however, had everything every
Mother fan could hope for: Huge laughs, time shifts back and forth, clues big and small about where the story is going to go, and Barney unrepentantly trying to hook up.
Oh, let's just get the
Best Barneyism out of the way right now: it's his Future Barney / old man hookup Daily Double. Sure, his not-so-subtle references to his shrink's assessments were funny, as was his continued dalliance with fire-based magic. But Barn (and Neil Patrick Harris) really
sold the old man bit, from his voice, to his shaky hands. We knew Barney had a bit of the thespian in him, but he used that skill to its maximum this week.
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother: Intervention
Posted Aug 27th 2008 3:04PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Video, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free
Man,
Intervention is a downer. Between the alcoholism, the anorexia and the
8-10 per-day dust can huffing habits, it is
really hard to watch that show and maintain a positive outlook on life. Luckily,
Kristin Chenoweth, Broadway diva and effervescent star of
Pushing Daisies, has found a solution to all that nastiness: a peppy song about the dangers of crystal meth.
Chenoweth has teamed up with Funny or Die to create her own episode of
Intervention. It still has distraught family members confronting an addict in a nondescript hotel room, but instead of a laundry list of ways that Bob, a musician and a meth addict, is ruining his and everyone else's life, there's a peppy song about "Tina," the poor man's cocaine, that includes warnings about "waking up in a pile of your own urine and doo-doo."
The video is after the jump.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies star urges you not to meth up your life - VIDEO
Posted Jun 4th 2008 8:01AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Documentary
A&E is bringing back its award-winning documentary series
Intervention for a fifth season. The series follows people who are estranged from the friends and family and in personal crisis because of their addiction to drugs, alcohol or other compulsive behaviors. At the end of each episode, the addict is surprised with an intervention led by family, close friends and one of these experts: Jeff VanVonderen, Candy Finningan or Ken Seeley.
The season premiere will profile Chad, a gifted athlete who suffers from an addiction to crack cocaine. Chad, once a part of Lance Armstrong's cycling team, now spends his days panhandling, abusing drugs, and drinking. Also on the slate for later this season is
Intervention: After Treatment. This one-hour special will feature a panel of past addicts brought together in a Los Angeles studio for a candid discussion about how the intervention changed their lives.
Intervention returns on Monday June 16th at 9 pm. ET/PT on A&E.
Posted May 28th 2008 7:03PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
This summer,
A&E will launch its first scripted drama series in six years.
The Cleaner stars Benjamin Bratt (
Law and Order,
Miss Congeniality), Amy Price-Francis (
Californication), Grace Park (
Battlestar Galactica), Kevin Michael Richardson (
Knights of Prosperity), Esteban Powell (
Dazed and Confused,
Powder), Brett DelBuono (
Balls of Fury) and Liliana Mumy (
Cheaper by the Dozen).
Bratt will play William Banks, a recovered drug addict who helps others kick their habits. After hitting rock-bottom because of his own problems with addiction, Banks makes a deal with God when his daughter is born. He vows to help others. However, his means of intervention are unconventional and unrelenting to say the least. In the series premiere, Banks helps high school meth addict Zach, a once-promising young athlete. Along the way, Banks discovers the cause of Zach's addiction, a fracture in the family after Zach's father died. He also uncovers a drug-fencing operation.
The Cleaner premieres Tuesday July 15th at 10 p.m. ET. Will you be watching?
Posted Jan 25th 2008 9:00AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd
They've been a bit sneaky about it. But it's there. It seems that A&E is creeping in more reality programming almost monthly. I have to ask myself ... is this art? Oh, without a doubt, no.
Is it entertainment? The jury is still out on that a bit--at least for me. What it definitely is is something for background noise as I read a novel, peeking up occasionally when something on the show sounds interesting. Now, none of the three shows will garner a full review, but I'm going to do a quick take on
Intervention,
Parking Wars, and
The First 48.
Continue reading Parking Wars needs an Intervention within The First 48
Posted Jun 15th 2007 5:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 8, CBS repeats (from this morning) Bob Barkers final Price Is Right. It's followed by the Daytime Emmy Awards. - ABC runs a episode of Kyle XY at 8, then new episodes of National Bingo Night and 20/20.
- The CW has a new Smackdown at 8.
- TCM is showing Nancy Drew movies all night.
- Also at 8: Sci-Fi has a new Stargate SG-1, followed by new episodes of Stargate: Atlantis and Painkiller Jane.
- At 9, FOX has a new Standoff.
- Discovery has a new Man vs. Wild at 9.
- Hallmark has a new movie at 9, You've Got A Friend.
- At 10, A&E has a new Intervention.
Posted Jun 8th 2007 5:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 8, PBS has a new NOW, then a new Washington Week. - The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
- Food Network has a new Emeril Live at 8.
- Nickelodeon has the final two episodes of Ned's Declassified at 8.
- Also at 8: Sci-Fi has a new Stargate SG-1, followed by new episodes of Stargate Atlantis and Painkiller Jane.
- At 9, Standoff returns to FOX with new episodes.
- ABC has a new National Bingo Night at 9, then a new 20/20.
- Hallmark has the new movie Love's Unending Legacy at 9.
- At 10, A&E has a new Intervention.
- G4 has a new G4's Free Stuff at 10, then a new Ninja Warrior.
- TCM has Butterfield 8 (with Elizabeth Taylor) at 10.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Jun 1st 2007 5:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 8, PBS has a new NOW, then a new Washington Week. - FOX has the two-hour special TV's Funniest Moments at 8.
- The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
- Also at 8: Sci-Fi has a new Stargate SG-1, then new episodes of Stargate Atlantis and Painkiller Jane.
- At 9, ABC has a new National Bingo Night.
- TLC has a new What Not To Wear at 9.
- Food Network has a new Paula's Party at 9.
- WE has a new Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter at 9.
- There's a new thriller on Hallmark at 9, Pandemic, with Vincent Spano and Tiffany Thiessen as a sexy epidemiologist.
- At 10, A&E has a new Intervention.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Jan 5th 2006 11:07PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Talent, Saturday Night Live
In a highly publicized interview with
Vanity Fair magazine, 19-year-old Lindsay Lohan admits she has
experimented with drugs and suffered from bulimia. She says she's over the drug use, and she credits
Saturday Night
Live's Lorne Michaels with saving her from the bulimia. After Lohan hosted SNL back in May, she says Michaels
staged an intervention to confront her about her eating disorder. Lohan says, when Michaels confronted her, she started
bawling and right away admitted her problem. She blames the stress of newfound fame, her break-up with
That 70s
Show's Wilmer Valderrama, and the nightmare divorce of her parents for causing her to go off the deep end.
Wow. It's honestly very refreshing to hear a teen idol admit she had a problem, and to hear that Lorne
Michaels, of all people, stepped in to help. During his years at SNL, Lorne has seen too many celebrities on a downward
spiral, and it's just so nice to hear that he tries to help people stop their self-destructive behavior before it's too
late. Maybe he should book
Nicole Richie next.
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