• Flash sideways, to THE BIG BANG THEORY pilot that you didn’t see.
• Nanny nightmare? Maria Doyle Kennedy joins DEXTER.
• Today in making us feel better about our addiction to television are the FLASHFORWARD fandom’s 12 remaining members… who deserve props for creatively staging their very own blackout in protest of the show’s cancelation.
• Because who doesn’t love FREE TV! Download the PRETTY LITTLE LIARS pilot for free on iTunes.
• Profiles in Emmy Hopefuls: Courteney Cox, Jack McBrayer, John Noble, and Timothy Olyphant talk to the LA Times.
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First Look: AMC’s RUBICON
Good News: Just how confident is AMC, the network that brought us MAD MEN and BREAKING BAD when it comes to their next scripted series? So much so that they’re offering up a sneak preview of the one-hour RUBICON pilot, a conspiracy thriller starring James Badge Dale (HBO’s THE PACIFIC) this Sunday at 11PM following the third season finale of BREAKING BAD. Bad News: To find out what happens next, you’ll have to wait until August 1st at 8PM when the show returns in its regular timeslot with a two-hour premiere event.
The CW to Emmy Voters: We Exist!
By: Vlada Gelman
I’d like to thank my mom for always believing in and my manager and the entire cast and crew, who work tirelessly, and the CW…
Yeah, you’re probably not going to hear that at the Primetime Emmy Awards this year, but that hasn’t stopped the CW from mounting its first ever Emmy campaign. Earlier this week, Deadline Hollywood Daily posted about the network’s OMFG FYC campaign, which consists of an insert in the new issue of Emmy magazine (more photos of which can be found here). Although the OMFG slogan is associated with GOSSIP GIRL — they considered the slogan, “Beautiful people deserve Emmys too,” according to DHD – the insert also features THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, ONE TREE HILL, SMALLVILLE and SUPERNATURAL. All the featured shows are produced by campaign brainchild Warner Bros. TV, which explains the absence of the CBS Television Studios’ 90210 and LIFE UNEXPECTED, the latter of which I think is more worthy than some of the WBTV shows.
Must Read TV: TORCHWOOD, HARD TIMES OF RJ BERGER, GENERAL HOSPITAL & More!
• She’s Back… Vanessa Marcil returns to GENERAL HOSPITAL.
• America saves Britian’s behind once again, with cabler Starz swooping in to rescue TORCHWOOD.
• Oh to be a fly on this wall, Ted Danson, Neil Patrick Harris, Ty Burrell, Ed Helms, Jim Parsons and Aziz Ansar walk into a bar.
• Because who doesn’t love free TV, download the surprisingly entertaining HARD TIMES OF RJ BERGER pilot for free on iTunes.
• Andy Whitfield FTW! SPARTACUS star officially cancer free.
Fall Preview ‘10: LONESTAR
You’ve seen the commercials. You’ve heard the hype. Now there’s only one thing you want to know: Which of the new fall shows are worth watching and which should be avoided at all costs? In this continuing series, we give you the scoop on some of the most highly-anticipated shows of the season. Up next, we shine the spotlight deep in the heart of Texas by offering up our first look at FOX’s LONESTAR.
The Boilerplate: Since these pilot presentations may go through numerous rewrites and casting changes prior to premiere, this by no means should be considered an official review. Rather a preview of what one can expect come Fall.
The Elevator Pitch: DALLAS: THE NEXT GENERATION.
Fall Preview ‘10: MIKE & MOLLY
You’ve seen the commercials. You’ve heard the hype. Now there’s only one thing you want to know: Which of the new fall shows are worth watching and which should be avoided at all costs? In this continuing series, we give you the scoop on some of the most highly-anticipated shows of the season. On the menu today is another serving of CBS staple Chuck Lorre who executive produces MIKE & MOLLY.
The Boilerplate: Since these pilot presentations may go through numerous rewrites and casting changes prior to premiere, this by no means should be considered an official review. Rather a preview of what one can expect come Fall.
The Elevator Pitch: MAD ABOUT YOU FOOD.
Fall Preview ’10: OUTSOURCED
You’ve seen the commercials. You’ve heard the hype. Now there’s only one thing you want to know: Which of the new fall shows are worth watching and which should be avoided at all costs? In this continuing series, we give you the scoop on some of the most highly-anticipated shows of the season. Starting with the reason we won’t be seeing PARKS AND RECREATION until 2011, NBC’s OUTSOURCED.
The Boilerplate: Since these pilot presentations may go through numerous rewrites and casting changes prior to premiere, this by no means should be considered an official review. Rather a preview of what one might expect come Fall.
The Elevator Pitch: OUTSOURCED is THE OFFICE meets the Bad News Bears.
Ask the Addict: Spoilers for TRUE BLOOD, GLEE, LIE TO ME & More!
Because waiting until the June 13 premiere, for lack of a better word SUCKS, I’m gonna need some TRUE BLOOD scoop! — Marlee
The TV Addict: Okay, here’s the deal. Despite having already had the pleasure of sinking our teeth into the first three episodes of the new season, we are not the least bit interested in spoiling one of the summer’s true delights that is BLOOD’s trademark oh-no-they-didn’t-just-do-that moments by revealing, say… the circumstances surrounding Eric and Sookie’s first face-to-face of the season! What we will say is that creator Alan Ball may have spent a little too much time during his hiatus online because one particular scene from the premiere reads as if it was ripped directly from some very dirty wishful fan fiction.
As an enormous fan of the books, I’m counting down the days until the premiere of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS. Have you seen the pilot? And if so, what did you think? — Madison
The TV Addict: ABC’s Family’s newest summer offering is GOSSIP GIRL, meets Cruel Intentions with a dash of I Know What You Did Last Summer thrown in for good measure. Better still, complete with scantily clad teenagers, sexy British imports, and copious amounts of scandal (You would not believe what PRIVILEGED alum Lucy Hale does with a teacher. Seriously. JoAnna Garcia would not approve!), PRETTY LITTLE LIARS — which premieres June 8 at 8PM — is well on its way to becoming our official choice for this summer’s guiltiest pleasure.
Good News, Bad News: Charlie Sheen, J.J. Abrams & Jerry Seinfeld
Good News: Charlie Sheen is going to jail! Bad News: His 30 day sentence, which is expected to be reduced to 15-17 days for good behaviour, will in no way interrupt production of the upcoming season of TWO AND A HALF MEN. [Source]
Good News: The first twenty pages of J.J. Abrams highly-anticipated new NBC series UNDERCOVERS has been spotted online. Bad News: We can’t read Italian. [Source]
Good News: Jerry Seinfeld is headed to Broadway. Bad News: Make that off-Broadway, were he’ll not so much perform, but to direct Colin Quinn’s one man show. [Source]
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Questions with THE GOOD GUYS Creator Matt Nix
BURN NOTICE and the USA network in general are (excuse the pun) on fire right now. Do you think there’s something of a national mood that wants to see these funny cops versus more serious procedural dramas?
Matt Nix: Let me say I certainly hope so. I think that both kinds of shows have a place and there’s certainly room in the entertainment universe for cop shows that do more of a kind of dire, dramatic or even horror-filled kind of crime-solving. That said, in talking to people who respond to the kind of thing that I’m doing, a lot of people respond to the fact they they’re essentially upbeat shows. That’s an unintentional pun, but it’s true of BURN NOTICE as well. It’s a good-guys-win show. Whatever narrative twists there are at work, there might be a sympathetic bad guy you’re sort of rooting for, whatever interesting twists we’re throwing in or things that are unusual, at the end of the day, you’re coming out of that show feeling good about what happened.
One of the things that really surprised me about BURN NOTICE and I would hope for with THE GOOD GUYS as well, they turned into kind of family shows. I didn’t really think of it that way, but as it turned out, it’s something that people feel comfortable watching with their kids because it’s essentially upbeat. At the end of the days there’s nothing to explain to the children, that there’s not a profound shaking of worldview. I think there’s room for that.