• Rumor Patrol: Britney Spears nearing deal to judge THE X FACTOR.
• DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES major character death revealed! Read an interview with the star!
• Real Game Changers: Casting the GOP primary.
• DESPERATE Star Goes Dark: Neal McDonough to Star in TNT’s Frank Darabont drama L.A. NOIR.
• Fighting For Their Future! TERRA NOVA Co-Star Stephen Lang calls Fox’s decision to cancel series “Myopic.”
• Proof That Nice Gals Don’t Finish Last: Julie Benz gets female lead In Syfy series DEFIANCE.
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Morning Static: COMMUNITY, TERRA NOVA, FELICITY & More!
• Trailer Park: COMMUNITY returns.
• Netflix is the New Syfy, with rumors swirling that the broadband entertainment gianting is considering picking up TERRA NOVA for a second season.
• Felicity Goes Rogue! Keri Russell to play an ’80’s KGB spy on FX.
• The Doctor is In: Anthony Edwards is finally checking back into TV.
• REAL Interview: Bill Maher on Drugs, Death Threats and Dropping $1 Million on Obama.
• Mark Your Calendars: NBC squeezes VOICE to make room for TALENT.
Bubble Watch: We Speculate If the Odds of Your Favorite Show’s Survival Are Forever In Your Favor!
The one thing that the 2011-2012 television season will be best remembered for is: it was the year that more of the new shows will be canceled than were picked up for a second season.
Viewers has shown that they are not just unwilling to check out new TV shows, they are unwilling to stick around beyond an episode or two. This may be a pattern that is typical of television viewers, but never before has it been so prevalent across the television landscape. Viewers just shrugged their shoulders and kept watching their “tried-and-true” shows or opted to check out fare off-network. This has left the “Big 5” networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and The CW) scrambling to figure out how to attract viewers. If the 2011-2012 season’s shotgun approach to trying to find anything that would lure viewers did not work, what could the 2012-2013 season hope to offer that the previous year did not? [Read more…]
Paley Festival 2012 Live Blog: PARKS AND RECREATION
7:34PM: Joining the jam-packed house at the legendary Saban Theater in Hollywood are executive producers Dean Holland, Dan Goor, co-creator Michael Schur, Retta (Donna Meagle), Jim O’Heir (Jerry Gergish), Chris Pratt (Andy Dwyer) and Amy Poehler (Leslie Knope). Also joining members of the cast and creative team are cardboard cutouts of cast members missing in action, including Aziz Ansari, Rob Lowe, Aubrey Plaza, and Adam Scott. Not included was Nick Offerman, who hoped to make it despite shooting a movie in nearby Burbank (He didn’t!).
7:35PM: “I think that Ben is the love of Leslie’s life,” says Amy Poehler with regards to her on screen love life. “And I think this season was really great because Mike [Schur] and all the writers did such a good job of exquisitely torturing us by pulling them apart and pushing them together. It was really great to get to play really big comedic moments and then really small lovely moments.”
7:36PM: Apparently, one of the working titles for the show when Greg Daniels and Michael Schur were tossing around ideas was THE EDUCATION OF LESLIE KNOPE. “The idea was that you’d follow Leslie’s professional and personal growth as a human with the original pitch being that Leslie would have a series of relationships with different kinds of guys,” says Schur. “But then we brought Adam Scott on board and we couldn’t break them up, they’re so good together and their backgrounds compliment each other perfectly.”
7:38PM: With so much of art and literature focusing on ‘making it in the big city,’ Amy Poehler believes there is something really sweet and moving about people deciding to be in love with their own small town. [Read more…]
Morning Static: POLITICAL ANIMALS, TERRA NOVA, JUSTIFIED & More!
• Pilot Watch: Torchwood’s John Barrowman to star in ABC’s GILDED LILYS.
• Watch out Washington! Sigourney Weaver to star in Greg Berlanti’s USA Network Ssries POLITICAL ANIMALS.
• The Demise of TERRA NOVA: Why big movie-style budgets don’t work on television.
• FNL FTW! Connie Britton to topline ABC’s NASHVILLE.
• “Duh” of the Day: FX picks up JUSTIFIED for a 13-episode season 4.
• The MAD MEN Season That Almost Wasn’t: An interview with Matthew Weiner, Part 1
A Candid Conversation with SWITCHED AT BIRTH Star Sean Berdy
In accordance with our recent obsession with SWITCHED AT BIRTH, ABC Family’s remarkable newish series chronicling the story of two teen girls (Daphne and Bay) who discover that they were accidentally, as the title suggests, you know what, theTVaddict.com recently had the pleasure of taking part in a conference call with one of the show’s many breakout stars, actor Sean Berdy.
As Emmett Bledsoe, best friend to Daphne (Katie Leclerc) and current love interest to Bay (Vanessa Marano), Berdy isn’t just winning legions of fans with his winning portrayal of what the ASL (American Sign Language) community has cleverly characterized as their James Dean, he’s become a positive role model and spokesperson in the process. Or at least that was our takeaway from this incredibly interesting and candid interview in which the actor touches on the rocky road ahead for Emmett and Bays’ relationship, the challenges that comes with bringing this character to life on SWITCHED AT BIRTH, and his upcoming “Signin’ in the Streets” event at Downtown Disney. [Read more…]
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Questions with THE RIVER Star Paul Blackthorne
Having recently landed two high profile gigs that include an upcoming guest spot on CSI and a pivotal role in the CW’s much-anticipated ARROW re-imagination, there’s no denying that the talented Paul Blackthorne has quite an exciting few months ahead of him. Unfortunately, there’s also no denying that before the actor can tackle any of those roles, he still has to survive his most challenging one to date, that of reality television producer/explorer Clark Quietly on THE RIVER. So just how does he plan on doing that? Well, we recently had the pleasure of catching up with the talented UK import to find out just that, alongside what terrifying plot developments await fans of the mysterious ABC series. See for yourself, after the jump. [Read more…]
We Preview Tonight’s Shocking Season Finale of THE LYING GAME with Star Adrian Pasdar
In any drama, the story is only as good as its heroes and villains, and in ABC Family’s THE LYING GAME, the best villain so far is Alec Rybak – a shady District Attorney who may or may not have committed murder to cover up a decades old mystery. In a recent conference call with press, star Adrian Pasdar shared what his character Alec is really up to and hinted that there may be trouble in paradise with the pending nuptials of Alec and Rebecca (fantastically portrayed by Charisma Carpenter). [Read more…]
Morning Static: THE SIMPSONS, MODERN FAMILY, THE WALKING DEAD & More!
• Best Couch Gag Ever! Watch THE SIMPSONS amazing GAME OF THRONES intro.
• MODERN FAMILY FTW! DVRs and streaming prompt a shift in the Top-Rated TV Shows.
• Pilot Watch: Twilight Dad joins JJ. Abrams’ REVOLUTION.
• Mark You Calendar: COMMUNITY gets Animated.
• THE WALKING DEAD Post-Mortem: EP Robert Kirkman talks about Sunday’s Shocking [Spoiler Alert!]
Weekend Static: GAME OF THRONES, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, COMMUNITY & More!
• Trailer Park: GAME OF THRONES Season 2.
• PaleyFest Scoop: AMERICAN HORROR STORY’s Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson to return for season 2.
• Making Us Feel Better About Our Addiction to TV Comes, this LOST Superfan.
• Pilot Watch: GIFTED Man Star Leads CBS Drama, LUX Alum Back at CW in CARRIE DIARIES and more.
• COMMUNITY Chatter: Boss ‘confident’ about season 4 chances, plus more scoop from Paleyfest!
• Byrd Flies the Cul-De-Sac, as COUGAR TOWN’s Dan Byrd jumps on board new CBS comedy.