Posts with tag milena govich
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 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
Posted May 13th 2006 8:46PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order
(S01E11) Didn't Stephanie March have shorter hair last week?
This week we have another instance of Nick Potter (Jordan Bridges) wrestling with his demons. He's trying to save a reformed gang member from jail and he goes over ADA Jessica Rossi's (Milena Govich) head to Bureau Chief Alexandra Cabot (March), who recommends a lesser sentence. I thought we got over Nick's psychological problems with his mugging last week, but this episode may be out of order. On a side note, we get to see very little of Rossi this week. Her only storyline is to establish that she's not a high-class gal because she doesn't know what 'Cocktail Attire' means or what Foie Gras is.
Continue reading Conviction: Indescretion
Posted May 6th 2006 6:07PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Law and Order
(S01E10) I really wanted to like this show, but I just don't. I'm going to finish out the season (please, God make it end soon) and then it's being deleted from my TiVo Season Pass. I don't like it because of the multiple storylines in each episode. It goes from story to story so quickly that I still don't feel invested in any of the characters. Plus, it's hard to follow the stories when they're so fragmented and there are so many of them.
Continue reading Conviction: Deliverance
Posted Apr 29th 2006 7:07PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd
(S01E09) I totally hated the judge on ADA
Steele's case. He made my blood boil as he kept ruling against Steele and pushing for a lesser charge against a high
school kid who killed a classmate. I know I wouldn't have kept my cool the way Steele did. But, was he right to
continue with the murder charges? The judge's original offer for a lesser charge was for 1-3 years in jail. Steele
refused to reduce the charge, got his conviction (no thanks to the judge), and then the judge reduced the charge anyway
and put the kid on probation. Steele had to know that the judge had the ability to do this. He had to see it coming,
right? Or is he just so stubborn and self-absorbed that he can't see past his own nose? He didn't seem to be fighting
for the victim, rather for himself.
Continue reading Conviction: The Wall
Posted Apr 15th 2006 2:51PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Law and Order
(S01E08) So... the
beginning of
Conviction was cut off here in Portland because the Trailblazers/Lakers game ran long (Surprise,
surprise: the Blazers lost 99-110). If there were any good, steamy sex scenes to kick off the episode like there were
last week, I missed 'em.
Let me just
say outright, what I don't like about this show is the way that Alexandra Cabot has become such a bitch. While on
SVU, she was unorthodox, but passionate. Now her priorities are her career and she seems to have forgotten
what it was like to live and breathe for a victim.
Continue reading Conviction: Downhill
Posted Apr 12th 2006 9:28AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd
(S01E07) Surpise! Did everybody's TiVos or DVRs catch
Conviction last night? Mine didn't!
Luckily, I was flipping through the channels and I saw that it was on. TiVo is currently in a time out.
So,
NBC put
Conviction on a Tuesday night where
Law & Order: SVU usually airs. This is obviously a
ploy to get the
SVU crowd interested in Dick Wolf's new ADA lovefest (seriously, the guy is in love with
prosecuting attorneys). The problem is, it's very different than the procedural drama that we know as
Law &
Order. Could you imagine tuning in last night for the first time and wondering who on earth all these people are?
Sheesh.
Continue reading Conviction: True Love
Posted Mar 18th 2006 5:11PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd
I thought this week's episode of
Conviction was
much, much better than last week's episode. I still think that there are too many storylines in each episode, making it
hard to care too much for any particular character. But, the multiple storyline thing seems to be the M.O. for this
show. So be it.
Continue reading Conviction: Breakup
Posted Mar 11th 2006 12:38PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd
Is anybody else wondering where this show is
going? It's trying to balance a procedural drama, which is Dick Wolf's cup of tea, with a bunch of personal storylines,
which are usually not included in Dick Wolf shows. It seems clumsy, fragmented, and packed with too much information. I
still don't know any of the characters' names and I feel like I'm not getting any time to get to know them because the
show jumps from character to character so quickly.
Continue reading Conviction: Denial
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