jeremy sisto-related stories
Posted Oct 25th 2009 11:06AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Law and Order, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
I started watching
Law & Order during the Briscoe and Green days, so I don't know a whole lot about Detective Rey Curtis, Briscoe's former partner from '94-'99. What I do know is that
Benjamin Bratt is
pulling a Chris Noth and returning to the show that gave him his big break.
Bratt, whose A&E series,
The Cleaner, was just canceled, is
reprising his role as Detective Rey Curtis on the original
Law & Order. However, it doesn't look like the current crime-fighting duo of Lupo (
Jeremy Sisto) and Bernard (
Anthony Anderson) have anything to worry about: Bratt is only signed up for one episode.
Continue reading Benjamin Bratt back on the beat at Law & Order
Posted Jun 4th 2009 8:08AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Law and Order, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
I haven't warmed up to Jeremy Sisto and Anthony Anderson, but I still like the second half of the
Law and Order team. This season finale was ... convoluted. I was lost about 20 minutes into it, even after McCoy went to the board and literally drew a graphic for the audience to explain what was going on. In short, an S&M murder case led back to Tom Everett Scott's governor character and his wife, and hinted at an interesting race next season (which will see the show on at a new day and time, Friday at 8 PM).
What did everyone else think?
Posted Jul 18th 2007 1:01AM by Michael Maloney
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Law and Order, TCA Press Tour, Casting
NBC's got
a lot of new shows this fall. The panels have been non-stop and swag-free today -- and not without a bit of controversy.
First up was
Law & Order creator Dick Wolf and new
Law & Order cast members Alicia Witt (
CI), Adam Beach
(SVU), and Jeremy Sisto
(Law & Order).
Sisto's character on
L&O comes with emotional baggage that makes the angst he carried around as Rachel Griffith's brother on
Six Feet Under seem like a birthday party, which is interesting since Wolf is no fan of serial drama.
Continue reading Law & Order's new faces; Bionic producer defends Washington casting - TCA report
Posted Jun 4th 2007 11:04AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd
When I was asked to review the DVD of the series
Kidnapped, I eagerly jumped at the chance. After all, I've been a fan of the show since before it even aired:
I visited the set,
I went to the premiere,
I reviewed the pilot, I was among the throngs at TVS and elsewhere
that reported that the show was cancelled, and now I get to review the "thanks for everything, fans!" DVD. I feel like I witnessed the show's birth and death, and now I'm attending its funeral.
Despite the show's quality, it never had a chance; saddled with a bad time slot (Wednesdays at 10), NBC showed four episodes, then told the producers to stop at 13, shuttled the show to the Saturday death slot, then canned it after one Saturday airing.
Continue reading DVD Review: Kidnapped: The Complete Series
Posted Jun 1st 2007 11:24AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Law and Order, Celebrities
Jeremy Sisto will replace Milena Govich as a detective on the original version of
Law & Order. Sisto was on NBC last season in the failed series,
Kidnapped, and is perhaps best known for his role as Brenda's crazy brother, Billy, on
Six Feet Under.I'm not sure how they're going to write his character into the show, considering the actor guest-starred on the season finale last month as a defense attorney. I didn't see that episode (apparently my Jeremy Sisto radar was turned off) so I don't know if he had any sort of background as a detective, or if
L&O will just ignore the fact that he guest-starred and recast him as a detective by a different name.
It's a bittersweet announcement, really. Jeremy Sisto is a terrific (and super hot) actor, yet he has taken a role on a show that has dropped in the ratings and
almost wasn't renewed this season.
Posted Feb 8th 2007 9:08AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, TV on DVD
We've had a couple of stories here about the possibility of a Kidnapped DVD set in '07, and today Sony made it official. The Complete Series will be released on April 24. That's 13 episodes. No word on extras yet.
I actually liked this show, from the handful of episodes that NBC showed before dumping it on Saturday nights and then pulling it from the schedule altogether. But you know what? When the show went online only, I didn't even watch the remaining episodes. I'm not sure why. I was interested in the plot and what the outcome was going to be, but I just never took the time to watch the rest. Of course, I'm not sure I want to buy the show on DVD either, so maybe I'll watch them online after all (if they're still available, that is).
Posted Jan 29th 2007 12:25PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Industry, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting story about the five "hottest" television actors who are looking for plum roles. And by "hottest", the publication means they're most in demand (plus, they're good-looking).
The five actors that all the networks are trying to scoop up are: Jeremy Sisto, Paul Rudd, Peter Krause, Simon Baker and Gabriel Macht. Honorable mentions include Christian Slater, Steve Zahn, and Michael Vartan, who just took a role in an untitled ABC drama. A look at their profiles on IMDB show that most of these guys (except Slater & Zahn) currently have a break in their schedules.
Continue reading Who are the hottest guys in television?
Posted Nov 7th 2006 3:27PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, TV on DVD
Kidnapped fans were upset when the show was canceled, but given 13 episodes to wrap up the plot. Then they were more upset when the show was taken off of Wednesday night and put on Saturday nights. And then they were absolutely ticked off when NBC pulled the show from Saturday nights because of low ratings (gee, low ratings on a Saturday night...what did they expect?). But now, fans can at least rejoice in the news that there might be a box DVD set of the show coming in 2007.
Continue reading Kidnapped DVD set coming in 2007?
Posted Nov 1st 2006 8:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Industry, Programming, Web, Ratings
Anna
told you earlier today about NBC pulling
Kidnapped off of the Saturday schedule (wow, how bad do ratings have to be to have that happen twice in a matter of weeks?), and
now comes word over at TV Guide that the remaining eight episodes of the drama will be shown on NBC's web site.
The show is being pulled and will not be seen again on the small screen after sweeps (we're at the start of the all-important sweeps period right now), but will be shown on your even smaller screen, your computer.
The show is filming its 13th episode even as you read this. Oh well. At least fans won't have to wait and see what's going to happen to the show and will be able to see the kidnapping plot reach its conclusion and not left hanging.
Posted Nov 1st 2006 9:42AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Cancellations
Ratings are so poor for NBC's
Kidnapped that it's being pulled from its crappy Saturday time slot. The show was sent there
earlier this month from its Wednesday night time slot, where it was also tanking. Previously, NBC had ordered the show to
stop production after 13 episodes, which is why we dubbed it the
first canceled show of the Fall 2006 season.
Last Saturday,
Kidnapped got only about 3.7 million viewers, making it the lowest-watched program on television that night. Only five episodes of
Kidnapped have aired so far and there's no word from NBC on whether it will even play out the rest of the 'season'. Starting this Saturday, reruns of
Law & Order: Criminal Intent will play instead of
Kidnapped.
Continue reading NBC pulls Kidnapped from Saturday slot
Posted Oct 1st 2006 11:21AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Industry, Programming
Interesting piece in The Boston Globe (via Reuters) about NBC Universal CEO Bob Wright. He says that a recent story in the
New York Post (owned by News Corp, which also owns FOX) saying that he was going to be replaced are completely untrue. The sources in the story were unnamed, and Wright says that the reason they are unnamed is because the paper made them up.
Now, that's kind of an interesting, in an insider baseball, industry sort of way. But Wright says something in the piece that got my attention. Wright told reporters that he's pleased with the start of the new season, especially the ratings for
Heroes. He then adds:
"
Kidnapped is clearly a bit of a disappointment. I think we probably just had a show that was maybe too difficult a concept."
Now, that's an intriguing statement. If the CEO of NBC is saying that a new show is too difficult for viewers (and talking about it as if it was in the past tense), I would say that's not good news for
Kidnapped fans.
And I'm one of them. Though I'm not sure that the concept of the show is too difficult. I would say it's just because people are overdosing right now on shows that have one continuing story for the whole season, and also don't want to invest time in them if they fear they might be canceled.
Posted Sep 20th 2006 10:15PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Programming, OpEd
(S01E01) If there's one thing you need to know about
Kidnapped, it's this: nothing is as it seems. All we know after the opening episode is over is that Leopold Cain (Will Denton), the erudite son of wealthy Manhattan couple Conrad and Ellie Cain (Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany), has been kidnapped. We don't know why, and we don't know by whom. We also know that Cain has hired private investigator Knapp (Jeremy Sisto), who has a shady past but knows how to get people back to their families. His partner in investigation is Turner (Carmen Ejogo). We also know that Special Agent Lattimer King (Delroy Lindo) has been dragged into the case via his associtation with a bodyguard named Virgil (Mykelti Williamson). He and Knapp know each other, and they both know that they'll have to work together, whether they like it or not.
Everything else? It's completely up in the air. But that's what makes this show interesting.
Continue reading Kidnapped: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Sep 19th 2006 11:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Talent, Industry, OpEd, Celebrities
When a New York-based PR firm sent Keith an invitation to a press day for the new NBC drama
Kidnapped, which premieres on Wednesday at 10, he asked me if I wanted to do it, since I live reasonably close to the show's Queens studios. I paused to think about it for two seconds before I responded, "Damn skippy!"
Why not? Set visits have always intrigued me: will the sets look as good up close as they do on TV? How do they pull off some of the visual aspects of a show? Is the craft services table as good as they say? I was able to answer all those questions on August 30, when a group of reporters and I visited the
Kidnapped set. We also got to have roundtable interviews with stars Dana Delany, Timothy Hutton, Delroy Lindo, and Jeremy Sisto, which was an experience, but not for the reasons you think. So, after the jump, here's the visual story of my morning on the
Kidnapped set, complete with the requisite wise-ass remarks:
Continue reading Joel's morning on the set of Kidnapped
Posted Sep 13th 2006 11:50AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Talent, Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, NYTVF
Folks, I never got into this job to be a red carpet/party reporter. I'm not good in noisy crowds of people I don't know, and I'm especially not good at fighting other people to be heard in a group. But when I found myself on the press side of the red carpet for the premiere of NBC's
Kidnapped last night, I tried to do my best.
The red carpet consists of whatever stars are coming to the premiere slowly walking down a procession of press people: first they pose for photographers, then they talk to television and other video outlets, then they answer questions from lowly print outlets like us. I decided to hang out at the end of the line and catch what I could, since I'd also be going to the screening and the afterparty (which also doubled as the NYTVF launch party). And since I was on the
Kidnapped set a few weeks ago (that post is in the works), there wasn't much more to ask the principals that I hadn't already. But it was still an interesting evening. After the jump, a few pictures of my night.
Continue reading NYTVF: Photos of the Kidnapped premiere and party
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