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Posted Jun 16th 2008 5:20PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free

Emmy and Grammy award winner Harry Connick, Jr. will star in the
Lifetime original movie called Living Proof. The movie, currently being filmed in Connick's hometown of New Orleans, is produced by Renee Zellweger, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron who all worked on
Chicago together. The film is about Dr. Dennis Slamon, the UCLA doctor who developed a drug for breast cancer.
Living Proof tells the true story of this doctor's struggle to keep the drug trials going and save the lives of thousands of women.
Harry Connick, Jr. is joined by Amanda Bynes (
Hairspray), Angie Harmon (
Women's Murder Club), Swoosie Kurtz (
Pushing Daisies), Bernadette Peters (
Boston Legal), Jennifer Coolidge (
American Pie), Regina King (
Ray), Tammy Blanchard (
Life with Judy Garland: Me and my Shadows), John Benjamin Hickey (
Flags of Our Fathers), Paula Cale (
Providence) and Trudie Styler (
Empire).
The film will air in October as Lifetime's centerpiece for the network's annual awareness campaign
Stop Breast Cancer for Life.Posted Dec 12th 2007 11:02PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E09) "There is an unpleasant chill in the air." - The NarratorAnd we have arrived: this week's episode was the last completed-before-the-strike episode of ABC's
Pushing Daisies. The quote I put under the picture may not have been the most important one said in the episode (the bombshell quote is a tad too shocking to put up front) but it does highlight the mood and tone of the episode: chilly. "Corpsicle" is not my favorite
Pushing Daisies episode but it offered good reveals, some fantastic lines from Emerson and Olive, and it finally gave the aunts (at least one of them) a real purpose in the series.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Corpsicle
Posted Nov 28th 2007 11:26PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E08) "Am I your boyfriend?" - Ned
"Yes." - ChuckIt was
announced about two months ago that Molly Shannon would guest star on ABC's
Pushing Daisies and the day, err... evening, has come. I've read a lot of comments from fans saying that they were somewhat scared after hearing she would guest star mostly because they thought her acting wasn't good enough for the show. In retrospect, her acting wasn't that great but it wasn't that bad either since
Daisies is over the top at times.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Bitter Sweets
Posted Nov 21st 2007 11:57PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E07) "The mere smell of it made him feel, if only for an hour, exactly like he wanted to feel: safe and warm and loved, which is why he became the pie maker." - NarratorABC lost a good and fun opportunity to offer
Pushing Daisies viewers a chance to get up close and really personal with the show and maybe attract new people who would have been interested in a scratch 'n' sniff event! Yes, it would have been pretty much a copy of what
NBC did last year with My Name Is Earl, but having a scratch 'n' sniff card to use throughout this olfactory episode would have been just as magical as the episode itself! Okay, maybe the smell of the sock and the sewer would have been terrible but it would have been interesting to smell Ned, Emerson, and "honey and death" (aka Chuck). Okay, maybe that would have been a bad idea. Let's move on to the episode instead.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Smell of Success
Posted Feb 27th 2007 10:45AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, NBC, FOX, Industry

It's that time of the year. People are being cast in pilots left and right and some interesting stuff has
been announced. At ABC, Christopher Titus (
Titus) has landed one of the lead roles in an untitled project from Warner Bros. The show focuses on CEOs and also stars Dylan McDermott (
The Practice) and Michael Vartan (
Alias). McDermott and Vartan as CEOs is an easy sell. But Christopher Titus, Senior VP Harvard graduate? That's different, and something I look forward to checking out.
Carrie-Anne Moss (
The Matrix) is set to star in ABC's
Suspect. The show is a procedural that will solve crimes by tracking suspects through a lineup. She's joined by Eric Palladino (
ER) and Kathleen Munroe (
Beautiful People). The ABC track record for procedurals is less than impressive, but the addition of Guy Ritchie (
Snatch) as director is intriguing enough to give this one a look.
Continue reading Casting News: Christopher Titus, Carrie Ann Moss, Billy Baldwin, more
Posted Apr 13th 2006 10:28AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Premium Cable, Talent, Interviews, Celebrities, Huff

Only three
episodes into the new season and Huff creator/executive producer Bob Lowry is already back for more. After speaking with Ryan last
week, I had the opportunity to pick Bob's brain a second time. We chatted about this Sunday's new episode
("Sweet Release") as well as some other things to expect before season two comes to a close. A heads-up to
our readers though: the interview contains a few spoilers, fair warning. However, there is one thing that all
Huff fans should be excited to know. Bob let me in on a little secret. They'll know on May 2 if the show is
going to come back for a third season, so everyone keep your fingers crossed.
OK, let's get to it. Here's what
went down between myself and Bob Lowry on Wednesday morning:
Jonathan Toomey: Bob Lowry! Good sir, how
are you?
Bob Lowry: My new best friend! Thanks for calling.
Continue reading Huff's Bob Lowry, Round Two: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Apr 2nd 2006 11:13PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Showtime, Premium Cable, OpEd, Huff
Easily the most unique. Definitely one of the most entertaining. And arguably the
only show on TV right now that can successfully make you feel like bawling your eyes out and then laughing hysterically
within a ten second span. Season two of Huff, from creator Bob Lowry, picks up just a
few weeks after the events that finished out season one. Teddy is still on the run, reeling from his mother's neglect.
Huff isn't on speaking terms with Russell, following the discovery that Russell and Izzy were sleeping together. For
those who missed last season's finale, Izzy is Huff's mother. Now you see why he no longer speaks with his best friend?
Beth and Huff continue to move away from each other as Beth deals with her mother's spinal cancer. Byrd doesn't seem to
be around too much, but he has developed a liking for scotch and he hasn't attended anymore rainbow parties. After everyone's current status was revealed,
tonight's premiere took off and didn't look back.
Continue reading Huff: Maps Don't Talk
Posted Feb 26th 2006 2:14PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, FOX, CBS, Talent

Now that pilot season is wrapping up,
it's casting season in L.A., where mega-stars or yet-to-be-discovered actors sign on to all sorts of new shows in hopes
that the networks will pick them up for the fall line-up. There are a lot of big names this time around. Check it
out:
- Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal) and Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under)
will star in the ABC drama pilot Brothers & Sisters, a soap-style drama about adult siblings.
- Heather Locklear is in negotiations for a leading role in the ABC comedy pilot, Women of a Certain Age.
Locklear would play a recently widowed woman who starts a new life with her two best friends.
- Ron
Livingston (Sex and the City, Office Space) is one of two leads in a FOX drama called
Primary, which is about a male and a female hostage negotiator who balance their love lives with their
jobs.
- Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos) has agreed to star in CBS' Waterfront, as the
charismatic and "ethically-challenged" mayor of Providence, R.I.
- Steven Culp, previously known
as Rex Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives, will appear in the ABC drama, Traveler, about three Yale
graduate students who become a national security risk when one of them frames the other two for an art museum
bombing.
- Swoosie Kurtz will take on a supporting role in the CBS comedy, Play Nice, which stars
Timm Sharp and Sara Rue (Less Than Perfect) as a brother and sister who run a toy company.
- Jonah
Lotan, who has been playing Spenser Wolff this season on 24, will take on a role on the FOX thriller,
Beyond, which is about the space race.
[Via
The
Hollywood Reporter]