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Posted Oct 5th 2009 9:00AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Early Looks, Reality-Free
Sherri, premiering tonight on Lifetime, is a very confusing show. It has flashes of genius, with several lines that made me laugh out loud ("Screw me once, shame on you. Screw a white woman -- we done"). At other times, however, it's bogged down with over-the-top dialogue and atrocious acting.
The premise behind
Sherri is basically
Sherri Shepherd's actual life. Both the real and fictional Sherri has held down jobs at a law office while working as a comedian and an actress, with bit parts on television shows. They both got married and had a son, only to find out that their husband was cheating on them.
Continue reading Sherri -- An early look
Posted Apr 27th 2009 6:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.Question: how many freakin' versions of the original
Star Trek are there on DVD? It seems like there's a new released every six months. And the funny thing? I bet hardcore
Trek fans will buy all of them.
(Note: the
Frost/Nixon set is not the Ron Howard movie, it's the original interviews between the two men.)
- American Dad - Vol. 4
- Fallen Angel - Compete Miniseries
- Frost/Nixon - Complete Interviews
Continue reading New TV on DVD releases this week
Posted Nov 3rd 2008 6:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.I'm getting that deja vu feeling. Didn't I already list season two of
Route 66 and both the
Get Smart and
Starlost complete series DVDs before? Yup, I did. For some reason the
Route 66 and
Starlost DVDs were delayed. As for
Get Smart, Time-Life had a complete series set, but this one is from HBO Home Video.
To confuse things even further, there is another
Get Smart complete series set, only it's for the short-lived 90s series with Andy Dick.
- Batman: The Animated Series - Complete Series
- Chowder - Vol. 1
- Fraggle Rock - Complete Series
- Futurama - Bender's Game
- Get Smart - Complete Series Gift Set
- Home Movies - 10th Anniversary
- Howdy Doody - 40 Episodes and Best Of
- JAG - Season 7
- Popeye - Vol. 3
- Primeval - Seasons 1 and 2
- Project Runway - Season 4
- Reaper - Season 1
- Route 66 - Season 2
- Spider-Man - Villains Showdown
- Spin City - Season 1
- The Starlost - Complete Series
- The Wild, Wild West - Complete Series
Posted Jul 8th 2008 2:01PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: TV Royalty, Programming, Rescue Me, Casting, Emmys, Reality-Free
With
Rescue Me's fifth season finally (kinda, sorta) getting closer, we're getting more and more news about what's in store for Tommy and the gang. In addition to the
minisodes, we've also got some exciting potential casting news:
Michael J. Fox may be joining
Rescue Me for a multi-episode arc. Fox is set to play a love interest for Tommy's (Dennis Leary) on-again/off-again ex, Janet (Andrea Roth).
Rescue Me may seem like an odd show for the former
Spin City and
Family Ties star to pop up on, but Fox and Leary are longtime friends. This friendship means that even though the deal isn't completely finalized, there's very good chance that Fox will be seen on the FX drama next summer.
Continue reading Michael J. Fox to guest star on Rescue Me
Posted Apr 2nd 2008 11:23AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Law and Order, How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
New York, New York -- a place so big that had to name it twice. Isn't that what they say about the Big Apple? Recently, movie critic Leonard Maltin, host of the
ReelzChannel original series
Secret's Out named his picks for the
15 greatest New York scenes in movie history. That got me thinking about the television shows that are intimately tied to New York, series that are inextricably New York shows. Whether they are -- or were -- filmed in the city, here's 15 absolutely, positively New York TV shows (in the order in which they debuted!). You don't have to agree with me -- and I may have overlooked one or two (which I urge you to comment and let me know) -- but I have good reasons for every one of my choices!
Continue reading Fifteen great New York TV shows
Posted Apr 16th 2007 12:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Friday Night Lights
How can a woman play one gorgeous, mature, intelligent and down-to-earth woman after another for so long and
not get more attention?
That's what I keep thinking any time I see Connie Britton on screen. On
Friday Night Lights, Britton plays the Tami Taylor, the sexy, no-nonsense wife of Dillon Panthers coach Eric Taylor. In episode after episode, she showed that she is not only a loving mother and a caring school counselor, but that after years of marriage, she still has passion for her husband. But she also knew that she owns her life; in the next-to-last episode of the season, she told Eric that she wasn't going to follow him to a new job in Austin because she liked her job in Dillon.
Of course, this isn't the first time Britton's played the strong, willowy type. Remember
Spin City?Continue reading My TV Crush: Connie Britton
Posted Feb 22nd 2007 10:01AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Medium
(S03E13) One thing you can say about
Medium, they don't fall in to the trap of being a formulaic show. These last few weeks the shows have been all over the map with the structure and format. It's one of the things that makes the show so enjoyable.
I missed the very beginning of the episode because right as the show started my cable box decided that was the perfect time to shut itself off. So I scrambled to get all my junk flipped over to straight cable and came back in the middle of the scene with grown-up Ariel and Marie. It left me a little confused until old Joe and Allison turned up. I haven't decided yet whether Allison is just going to be a really hot 50+ woman or if the makeup to age Patricia Arquette just wasn't very well done. Old Joe looked good though.
Continue reading Medium: Second Opinion
Posted Feb 3rd 2006 8:59AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
After eleven years of marriage to Bon Jovi guitarist
Richie Sambora, Heather Locklear has filed for divorce. Heather and Richie have a beautiful 8-year-old daughter
together, Ava Elizabeth. Heather is asking for joint custody of their daughter and she has requested the judge honor
the pre-nuptial agreement the two signed before they got married.
This will be Heather's second divorce from
a rock star. She split with Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee in 1993 after seven years of marriage. Which long-haired rock
star do you think is on her radar this time?
Posted Jan 4th 2006 2:10PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd
Carla
Gugino is moving past the unfortunate cancellation of
Threshold, and going back into the movie business. She's
currently in negotiations to star opposite Ben Stiller in
A Night at the Museum. Stiller plays a goofy security
guard who accidentally awakens an old curse that causes everything in the natural history museum to come alive at night.
Not sure what character Gugino is up for, but since it's listed as "opposite" of Ben Stiller, I'd guess she's
some sort of expert on the relics in the museum. Gugino, of course, is no stranger to film. Her list of credits include
Sin City, the
Spy Kids series, and
Snake Eyes. Television credits include
Karen
Sisco and
Spin City. It's good to see that Gugino is still in demand as an actress, because she is
definitely very good. The cancellation of
Threshold definitely can't be blamed on her... in fact, I'm not sure
exactly what it was about the show that made it a flop. It was a cool premise with good actors, but something just
didn't click.
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