Posts with tag interview
Posted Jul 20th 2008 10:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Daytime, Interviews, Celebrities, Game Show, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
When Drew Carey takes the stage later today to begin taping the 37th season of
The Price is Right, he'll be seeing whatever changes they have in store for the first time. Why? Because he's just as much in the dark about it as everyone else is. "They don't tell me anything," he told me on Friday night at the CBS all-star party at the Boulevard3 club in Hollywood. When I asked him if he prefers it that way, he told me "No. It's disheartening. They don't tell me what they're thinking about doing or changing."
Drew also told me that he found out about longtime producer Roger Dobkowitz' dismissal the night before it happened. Executives at Fremantle told him about the change at a dinner near the
Price studios. He felt bad for Dobkowitz, especially because of how well he got along with him. When asked if that put a damper on a fairly successful first season, he at first said it didn't, then he reconsidered. "Well, yeah it did, actually, because I really thought the world of him and I was sad that he let go. But like I said, I'm like an employee. They don't discuss their personnel changes with me."
The entire interview, including a response from CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler, is after the jump.
Continue reading Drew Carey doesn't know what to expect for Price's new season - TCA Report
Posted Jul 10th 2008 11:40AM by Kelly Woo
Filed under: Scrubs, Interviews, Ask TV Squad, Reality-Free
As TV fans, we all dream of being able to communicate with our favorite stars (Taylor Kitsch, why aren't you answering my letters?), but now AOL TV is going to make it happen.
In a new video interview series called Outside the Box, stars from the hottest shows will sit down together to answer questions submitted by you, the fans. Will a on-again, off-again couple finally get together? Boxers or briefs? What is the smoke monster? You ask, and they'll answer.
First up in our series will be the stars of
Scrubs, which, in case you haven't heard, is
moving from NBC to ABC. Shows almost never jump networks (
Buffy switching from The WB to UPN is a rare example), so it's great to see a veteran show with a healthy fanbase getting a second chance. And I'm especially happy that
Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence will get the chance to end the series his way -- or even
extend it to a ninth season.
Stars Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison will be going "Outside the Box," so we need your questions! Submit them by Tuesday, July 15 and be sure to include your first name and your city and state. Now, wanna play Jiggly Ball?
Posted Jul 9th 2008 11:41AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Celebreality
VH1 is calling this t
he best interview ever; Flavor Flav of the network's hit franchise
Flavor of Love talked to
Complex Magazine.And you won't believe what he said. Here's what you
never wanted to know about the rapper-turned-reality-superstar:
1. He made another kid eat dog poop. It was revenge for the kid making Flav eat his own booger.
2. His favorite possession is a Coo-Coo clock from Switzerland. It has a little Flav that comes out and screams "Yeah Boy!" when the big hand strikes three.
Continue reading Flav lost his virginity at six-years-old?
Posted Jul 8th 2008 3:40PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Web, Interviews, The Office, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Ah, summertime. The heat, the haze, the traffic, the lack of
The Office; what's not to hate? Luckily, the brilliant folks behind
The Office have been busy figuring out ways to tide us over until the fall. Starting Thursday, July 10,
NBC.com will be airing
Office webisodes. For those of you who like your Dunder Mifflin-ites live, Mindy Kaling (Kelly) will be hosting the
Office Games in Scranton on Saturday, July 19.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in a conference call with Mindy Kaling and Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) as they discussed the webisodes, Office Games, friendly competition and the status of a few MIA Dunder Mifflin employees.
Continue reading The Office's Mindy Kaling and Brian Baumgartner talk Office games, webisodes and sexiness
Posted Jun 23rd 2008 8:22AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
ComicBookMovie.com has an interview up with Adam West, who played the lead character in the
Batman television series of the 1960s. He is asked his opinion of the current
Batman movie franchise. Not surprisingly, West finds it too grim and gritty for his taste.
"It was silly and funny. With the villains, especially, it was almost Shakespearian because of the bizarre costuming and makeup," West recalls. "In those days we didn't rely on special effects as much so everyone was challenged to use their imaginations," he goes on to reflect.
Continue reading Interview with Adam West online
Posted Jun 20th 2008 8:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Burn Notice
On USA's spy-action-comedy series
Burn Notice, there are great actors all around. Recently, I had the chance to spend a day on the set of
Burn Notice (more on that next week!), and share in round-table interviews with the stars of the show.
Here's one of those wonderful actors, the irreverent and brilliant Bruce Campbell. As Sam, Jeffrey's old friend -- and sometime nemesis -- from the spy wars, Campbell is having a ball filming in South Florida and stealing scenes like nobody's business. Oh, and he smells good, just like
Old Spice.
Q: What is the character of Sam about?
Bruce Campbell: He's about 50. No, he's like the other characters in the show, damaged goods, which is why I like him.
Continue reading Bruce Campbell: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Jun 19th 2008 4:41PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Rescue Me, Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Denis Leary and Peter Tolan are busy men. As the two executive producers behind FX's phenomenal drama Rescue Me, the two have had their plate full ever since the WGA strike ended. For those that haven't heard, Rescue Me was renewed for a network-length 22 episode season scheduled to air in spring 2009. I had the opportunity to sit in on a conference call with Leary and Tolan earlier today and both pointed out that this is an entirely different animal since they're used to producing 13 episode seasons. Leary was quick to make a sports analogy: they pretty much have been working on season five since last year's football season and they probably won't wrap until next year's basketball playoffs. He also made an alcohol analogy: it's like they're in TV rehab. Coming from the guy who plays Tommy Gavin, I'd say that's fairly appropriate.
Continue reading Denis Leary and Peter Tolan on Rescue Me, Red Sox, and writing
Posted Jun 2nd 2008 6:22PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Music and Variety, Interviews, Celebrities
I talked with
Haylie Duff this afternoon. She has a new show on MTV called
Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods. Ten young women from across the country will compete for a starring role in the hit Broadway show.
Read on to find about what Haylie said about the finalists, the judges, and her own stint on Broadway as Amber Von Tussie in
Hairspray.
Kristin Sample: So tell me about the show.
Haylie Duff: It premieres tonight on MTV. And I'm excited about it. We've got a lot of really talented girls and there's a great prize at the end of the season. So, the stakes are high and we're all excited about it.
Continue reading Haylie Duff: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Jun 1st 2008 10:20AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Wired Magazine has posted online an interesting interview with Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ron D. Moore. In it he discusses several topics such as his philosophies behind the Battlestar Galactica relaunch and its prequel series Caprica and his new Fox show Virtuality, his work on the Star Trek franchise as well as his personal history and religious beliefs.
In the interview, Moore confesses that he was both jock and nerd. He went to a California high school in a town that was so small, he was a quarterback for the football team yet watched the original Star Trek. Or maybe he just simply didn't believe in such labels.
He also discusses dealing with online fans, stated best in this quote: "oh really, they don't like it when we do that? Well that's what were doing. We kind of go the other way. Oh, that'll piss them off? Well let's really piss them off. This'll really piss them off, that'll drive them insane. They'll say, oh, there's this guy who really hates the show, and all he talks about is how much he hates Starbuck. Oh, yeah? OK. Let's do a Starbuck episode."
It's a very good interview. Recommended.
Posted Apr 28th 2008 8:02PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)
Last night Adam won $500,000 on
Big Brother 9. Now, I know I heard Julie Chen tell them she'd be giving Adam his check and Ryan his winnings of $50,000 on
The Early Show as is the standard practice. So, I turned on TV as I was heading out the door to my day job only to hear them say that Julie Chen has the day off today. Huh? I didn't bother recording as they didn't mention
BB9 at all.
But there they were -- taped after the finale last night. I found
the video of the interview on the CBS website. It's not embeddable, but if you follow me after the jump, I'll bring up some of the main points ... or, at least the ones I found interesting!
Continue reading Big Brother 9 winners talk to Julie Chen
Posted Apr 13th 2008 11:03AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Watercooler Talk, Contestants
Yes America, I share in your shock and outrage. Not only did I enjoy Michael Johns' singing, but let's face it; he is very easy to look at.
AOL TV has an interview up with the prematurely ousted soul rocker, and it is typical Michael Johns. Polite, honest, humble and grateful. But what if Johns did an interview and, oh, I don't know, channeled his millions of fans? What would he say then?
"Yeah, I was surprised to be voted off. Did you hear me hit that falsetto at the end of 'Dream On'? Stephen Tyler would have been proud."
Or maybe ...
"Yeah, I was surprised to be voted off. My best three performances were in the last three weeks, and honestly, I look so good that I really don't even have to sing to stay in this competition."
Even still ...
"Yeah America, you are right. I am delicious eye candy with a voice like butter and you'll miss my unique (if not slightly strange) Jim Morrison / Wilson Pickett cross."
The AOL interview doesn't go quite like that, but fans of Johns, you know what I am talking about. Shame on all of us who got lazy and didn't vote -- don't we learn this hard lesson every year when a favorite gets prematurely voted off?
Idol won't be the same next week, and KLC's performance will be like a knife through the heart.
Posted Mar 10th 2008 11:02AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, Interviews
Considering that MTV seems to cater to nothing but teenagers, how did two thirtysomethings and a very mature 25 year-old end up making one of the network's most popular shows?
By being funny. Damn funny, in fact.
Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari, and Paul Scheer (l-r), otherwise known as
Human Giant, are entering
their second season on the cable network, starting tomorrow night at 11 PM ET. I spoke to the guys by telephone last week as they were doing a round of promotion for their second season, as well as
the DVD of the first season, which was released on March 4.
Tidbits from the interview, and audio clips, are after the jump.
Continue reading Human Giant: The TV Squad Interview - AUDIO
Posted Nov 19th 2007 11:40AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Industry, Programming, WGA Strike
There's hope after all for an American television landscape with more than reruns and reality shows in 2008. As reported
here on TV Squad earlier, while the strike continues, the Writer's Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have agreed to return to the negotiating table come November 26, after the Thanksgiving holiday. We at TV Squad, who let's face it make our livings off the written word, decided that the main focus of this whole strike has been lost in all the hype over picketing celebrities, reruns and layoffs. So we gathered half a dozen of the top television writers and offered them the chance to speak anonymously, openly and honestly about how this experience has impacted them and their families.
Continue reading WGA Strike: The writers "speak"
Posted Oct 16th 2007 9:59AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: The Shield, Interviews, Celebrities, Damages
FX is either really worried or supremely confident about the final two episodes of Damages. First they offered up a conference call with Tate Donovan last Friday and then over the weekend, I found out that I'd have the same opportunity with Glenn Close. When a network starts offering up press opportunities with its biggest stars, either they're not afraid of what they'll say or it's quite the opposite and they're being offered up because something needs to be said. After speaking with Close yesterday afternoon, I think the former more accurately describes what's going on with Damages. Close is thrilled about working on the show and doesn't seem worried one bit about FX scrapping the drama after only one season.
Continue reading Glenn Close on Damages, The Shield, and Cruella De Vil
Posted Oct 12th 2007 6:01PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Interviews, Celebrities, Damages
OK... well not really. But that definitely grabs your attention more than "Conference Call with Tate Donovan," right? Well anyway, now that you're reading this, stick with me.
I was fortunate enough to be selected along with numerous other dignitaries, world leaders, and very famous people (again... not really) to participate in a Q&A with the Damages star earlier today and I must say: I wasn't excited about the last two episodes of the season but I am now. Either Donovan is just as full of it as his character Tom Shayes, or we are in for one hell of an ending.
Continue reading Me 'n Tate Donovan are BFF 4EVA!
Next Page >
NBC's Kings panel - Comic-Con Report
The Dharma Initiative wants you - VIDEO - Comic-Con Report
Forget the Knight Rider movie, say the series creators - TCA Report
