Posts with tag jane doe
Posted Apr 28th 2008 3:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free
So what did you do yesterday? I spent the entire Sunday watching detective movies on The Hallmark Channel. Of course, when I say "detective movies" it sounds like I was watching old film noir flicks from the 40s and 50s. Actually, I was watching Murder, She Wrote, Perry Mason movies, and Matlock.
Yes, I have the social life of a 70 year-old woman.
I've always been a sucker for these shows, going back to the NBC Mystery Movie and Columbo and McMillan and Wife. Those shows were probably better produced and written than the stuff you see on Hallmark Channel, but I think the new shows are quite entertaining and fun, and it's good to see favorite familiar faces on TV again: the McBride movies with John Larroquette, the Murder 101 movies with Dick Van Dyke, and the TV movie series I'd like to talk about, Jane Doe.
To put it simply, I'm worried about Jane Doe.
Continue reading I'm worried about Jane Doe
Posted Mar 25th 2008 10:20AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Cable/Satellite, Casting
She's been a vamp, a vixen, a medicine woman, royalty and she's even tried
Dancing with the Stars. Now she will solve crimes. The Hallmark Channel has greenlit
Dear Prudence, a Jane Seymour crime-solving Martha Stewart-type celebrity. They're calling this a backdoor pilot because Hallmark doesn't do series TV; however, if the movie were to be successful, it could become one of a rotation of star-driven mystery movies that Hallmark currently presents.
Continue reading Jane Seymour, TV detective
Posted Mar 8th 2007 8:42AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Medium
(S03E15) The folks over at
Medium are on something of a guest star roll. After a nice turn last week by Eric Stoltz, this week they treat us to Peri Gilpin (
Frasier) as Allison's mother Diane Benoit. That wasn't the only piece of nice casting here. Given the ratings of their former shows, I'm sure that Kyle Gallner (
Veronica Mars) isn't as recognizable as Gilpin, but it was nice to see him again.
For her part, Gilpin was terrific. Diane certainly had her issues, but considering what we know about Allison, I don't think anyone was expecting June Cleaver. The booze and the parenting with pills were a little disturbing, but in her own crazy way I got the feeling that she really was trying to do what she thought was best for Allison. While she seems to have avoided some of the mistakes Diane made, Allison does share that trait with her mother.
Continue reading Medium: The Boy Next Door
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