jason ritter-related stories
Posted Jun 8th 2007 2:02PM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Interviews, Celebrities, The Office (BBC)
Jason Ritter is best known to television audiences for his role as Kevin Girardi in the CBS drama
Joan of Arcadia. His other television credits include
Hack,
Law & Order and
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as a role in the movie
The Dreamer of Oz. Ritter is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He is the son of actors Nancy Morgan and the late John Ritter and the grandson of famed film cowboy Tex Ritter.
1. Where were you born?
Los Angeles, California.
2. How many siblings do you have?
Three. Carly, Tyler, and Stella.
4. Do you have any pets?
I had a lot growing up! My apartment doesn't allow pets. I want a dog though! I love dogs. Thelma and Louise were our two dogs growing up. We also over the years had a bunch of cats. First we had Pippi, who my sister named (The Pippi Longstocking movie had just come out), and Pippi had two kittens, that my brother and I each got to name. I named mine "Fluffy," because I'm sooo creative, and my brother named his "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Ghostbuster," who was also known to the rest of us as "patches."
Continue reading 20 questions with Jason Ritter
Posted Nov 7th 2006 12:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class
(S01E07) Maybe the writers of
The Class are getting the hint and following what seems to be a pretty obvious suggestion: take out storylines! Let the characters breathe! Get rid of the high-strung socialite and the husband she doesn't realize is gay! This episode managed to do all of that; we don't see Holly and Kyle (and Holly's Paul Lynde sound-alike husband) at all, and Duncan and Nicole get some time to interact without Yonk in the way, and take Lina and Richie along for the ride. And, of course, Kat and Ethan do their goofy stuff, this time in a bar (notice most of the episodes have been named for the Kat/Ethan story of the week? I just figured that out tonight... I'm slow, I guess).
So, now that things are a bit smoother and less cluttered, there'd be more room for the funny right? Well, that's what you might think, but you'd be wrong.
Continue reading The Class: The Class Goes to a Bar
Posted Oct 23rd 2006 10:44PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class
(S01E06) For a fleeting second, I thought
The Class was just going to concentrate on two stories this week. For the first act, it looked like all we'd see was Richie, Duncan and Yonk in Atlantic City and Holly's adventures at the petting zoo. Yes, one of the storylines would be a Holly storyline, but I was glad that the writers decided to smarten up and rotate out one storyline per week, leaving more room for silly things like effective jokes and character development.
But then I saw Lina in an FDR costume and Kat being Kat, and I just went, "oh crap."
Continue reading The Class: The Class Goes Trick or Treating
Posted Oct 16th 2006 11:31PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class
(S01E05) This review is not going to be pretty, boys and girls, because I'm starting to lose my patience with
The Class. There's too many stories and not enough laughs. Right now, the only storyline that has any redeeming qualities, the constant efforts of Kat to bring Ethan out of his nice guy shell, really is just being used as a goofy side-story to all of the other, more emotional stories. But the problem is, those stories are becoming less entertaining by the week, and the "complications" that the writers are throwing in are just distractions.
Continue reading The Class: The Class Gets Frozen Yogurt
Posted Oct 9th 2006 10:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class
(S01E04) This show is really shaping up to be a soap opera, isn't it? I mean, even the structure is the same: we spend a few minutes with one group, then we switch to another group. After a couple of more minutes we switch to another, and so on. It gets to the point where we see scenes during each of the four storylines during each act of the show. I'm not really sure this really works here, though; in this episode, we only get glimpses of each story, but not much else. Things don't move along as quickly as they should, and when you really want to follow one storyline -- like anything involving Richie -- an annoying storyline comes up and kills the momentum -- like anything involving Holly.
Continue reading The Class: The Class Blows the Whistle
Posted Oct 9th 2006 11:04AM by Brett Love
Filed under: OpEd, Web, Celebrities
There is an odd list over at MSN where they pick
Fall TV's Hottest Hotties. It's strange because of the haphazard way they go about the list. Apparently 25 wasn't enough slots, so they have the entire cast of
Studio 60, and the cast of
Prison Break on the list. Now, I'll give you Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, but when you say the "cast of
Prison Break" you are including Robert Knepper (T-Bag) and Peter Stormare (Abruzzi). They are both great in their parts, but hotties?
Another oddity is that David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel from
Bones are lumped together in the list. It's strange not only because she is the third hottest woman on that show, but also because later Jason Ritter and Lizzy Caplan from
The Class take up two separate spots.
As with every list like this, someone always gets left off. I would have liked to see Adrianne Palicki (Tyra on
Friday Night Lights) in there somewhere. She's cute and that show can use all the help in can get right now. And it is hard to argue with Anya from
Deal or No Deal. Unless you bring up that her only line on the show is "Hi Howie." Who is your favorite Fall Hottie?
Posted Oct 3rd 2006 7:35AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class
(S01E03) I saw a rough-cut version of this episode about a week ago; it was so rough that the video time stamp was sitting not only in the corner of the screen, but in the corner of the TV picture Kyle and Aaron were watching. But no matter; the jokes were the same. It's sort of ironic that, in this episode, the storyline that had the least amount of plot -- Kyle and Aaron watching Holly do one of those "poor schmuck reporter in a hurricane" reports -- had the most laughs. I mean, who
didn't laugh when Holly got knocked cold by a stop sign?
Anyway, the rest of the episode shows that
The Class is going in a funny direction. It also shows that it's willing to take some time and figure out which stories work and which don't.
Continue reading The Class: The Class Learns About Hurricanes
Posted Sep 25th 2006 8:32PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, The Class
(S01E02) For those of you who were trying to figure out how eight relative strangers, thrown together in a kind of a convoluted fashion, was going to constitute a sitcom, this episode shows you what the formula is going to be.
And what is that formula? Three parallel storylines that are not designed to intersect for some time in the future. You've got sappy Ethan's brewing friendship with the cynical Kat and Richie's accident-prone flirtation with Kat's twin Lina (how convenient is it that Kat and Lina are twins? That ensures that two of the pairs of strangers will stay connected); you have Nicole and Duncan's affair; and you have Kyle and Holly, who are still rebuilding their friendship after he came out of the closet at their prom ten years ago.
Continue reading The Class: The Class Visits a Hospital
Posted Sep 18th 2006 8:36PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Programming, OpEd, The Class
(S01E01) I'm not going to put a full review of
The Class's pilot
here, since I did one last week in an
"early look" post. But I'll just tell you one thing: hold on. Like I said in the early review, the pilot is underwhelming, mainly because trying to establish relationships between eight unrelated characters in the span of 22 minutes is next to impossible. But based on the second and thrid episodes, these relationships will get stronger (and they won't try to intermix all eight people for now; individual storylines will develop, which you can see happening in the pilot); I genuinely laughed out loud a number of times during the second and third episodes, which is the hallmark of a comedy I'll stick with.
Anwyay, if you want more info on the show, look at the early review. Full reviews will return starting with episode two.
Posted Sep 12th 2006 11:32AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Programming, OpEd, The Class
When I previewed rough-cut pilot of
The Class (premieres Monday, Sept. 18 at 8 PM ET)
back in June, I had my doubts about whether the loose association of the characters in the show would be able to withstand the rigors of a long-term series. The finished pilot didn't change my mind. But CBS was nice enough to include the second episode on the same screener as the pilot, and I'll tell you this: the show has potential. It seems an especially good companion for
How I Met Your Mother, which it will preceed on Mondays, since both cater to the same late-20s crowd. But
The Class does so without the cutsiness that can sometimes seep into
HIMYM.
Continue reading The Class - an early look
Posted Feb 8th 2006 7:23PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, CBS, Celebrities
Andrea Anders can take a hint. The actress co-stars
as Matt LeBlanc's neighbor on
Joey, which is not-so-mysteriously absent from NBC's post-Olympics schedule. It
is widely speculated that the lame
Friends spin-off isn't going to get a third season, and Anders isn't
waiting around to find out. She just signed on to join a new CBS comedy,
The Class, which hinges on the
premise that a 27-year-old man (
Jason Ritter) holds a party to reunite
six of his childhood friends who have lost touch. Anders plays one of the schoolmates, as does Jay Bernthal and
Heather Goldenhersh.
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