waterfront-related stories
Posted May 16th 2006 8:42AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, CBS, Programming, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Congratulations to Julia Louis-Dreyfus! CBS just signed on for a second season of
The New Adventures of Old Christine. Maybe now everybody can stop talking about that 'Seinfeld curse' that she parodied on SNL last week. I watch the show and I think it has some funny moments, but it's not great like
The Office or
My Name is Earl or
Scrubs. Doesn't even come close. Also renewed by CBS is
Close to Home and renewal of
The Unit is still up in the air. The network ordered 13 episodes of
The King of Queens (that's still on?) because Kevin James is shooting a movie with Adam Sandler this year.
Also, CBS picked up five new dramas:
Continue reading Old Christine, Close to Home get renewed
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]
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