peri gilpin-related stories
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 3:22PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Casting, Reality-Free
We all watched her grow up on
Full House and then we watched her disappear from our television screens, seemingly forever. I don't know if I'll go so far as to say Candace Cameron was to the early '90s what Alyssa Milano was to the late '80s, but that's because I'll be forever loyal to my boyhood crush on Samantha Micelli. But while Milano has been on the airwaves virtually every season since the question of
Who's the Boss? was answered when the network canceled it, not so for Cameron.
She got married and went off to raise her kids for ten years, giving us only a few appearances in that time. Now 33 and ready to get back to work full time, Candace Cameron Bure will be one of the stars in
ABC Family's gymnastic-themed Make It or Break It, premiering tonight at 9pm ET.
Continue reading Candace Cameron (Bure) returning to television on Make It or Break It tonight
Posted Apr 14th 2007 1:05PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Commercials, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
Sometimes, when I'm bored and my WiFi router is broken, I like to play "guess the celebrity commercial voice over." Most of the time, I usually get things right, as advertisers are using more familiar voices than ever before. But sometimes I wonder if a company uses a particular voice for more reasons than they're available, recognizable, and like cashing large checks for very little work.
Case in point is a recent set of Hyundai ads starring the voice of Kelsey Grammer. In the ads, Grammer compares the attributes of the Korean car company's Santa Fe SUV with a much more expensive Land Rover. Of course, this being a Hyundai ad, the Santa Fe comes out favorably, matching the Land Rover in every category except cup holders.
Continue reading Hyundai goes for irony with Kelsey Grammer
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
Posted Dec 10th 2006 7:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV Royalty, Industry, OpEd, Web
I have to thank my fellow Squadder Bob Sassone for turning me on to Ken Levine's
fantastic blog; not only is Levine funny when he writes about random stuff, but he gives advice about what to do and what not to do when writing a sitcom script. The man knows what he talking about; he's written for many classic sitcoms, including
M*A*S*H, Cheers, and
Frasier.But it's his behind-the-scenes anecdotes that are my favorties. And this past week, he gave us some doozy, and he didn't even write them: he let his friend Peter Casey, one of the co-creators of
Frasier, do a three-part series on how the show was created.
Continue reading How Frasier was created
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