• CBS greenlights a HAWAII FIVE-O remake, O how we wish we could spill who CBS has in mind for the lead.
• Nice work if you can get it, 7 months of work is expected to net Conan a paycheck of 30 – 40 million.
• Sarah Silverman comes out… as a member of Team Conan.
• Get LOST! In this just released third LOST promo image.
• Another guest star checks into MERCY, NBC serial-guest star Alison Sweeney.
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Exclusive: Amy Acker on Friday’s DOLLHOUSE Shocker
Friendship with Joss Whedon has its privileges. Just ask actress Amy Acker who is as surprised as anyone to have played such an integral role in what’s shaping up to be a pretty epic final season of DOLLHOUSE.
“The day before they started shooting the pilot, Joss [Whedon] called me up and said ‘We’ve got this part, she was supposed to be this 55 year old woman, but I’m thinking that you should do it’,” revealed Acker at yesterday’s Television Critics Associaiton Press Tour in Pasadena while promoting her upcoming ABC small town thriller HAPPY TOWN. “I didn’t know if I was just going to be in the pilot and of course I had no idea I would end up as a Doll and all this stuff would unfold.”
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Things You Didn’t Know About PARENTHOOD
Ron Howard was apprehensive about another PARENTHOOD television show.
“Parenthood (The movie) was a project I cherish and is probably the most personal film I’ve ever been involved with,” explained executive producer Ron Howard when asked why he was initially hesitant to take a PARENTHOOD pitch from FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS showrunner Jason Katims. “[But] as a creative person, it’s unbelievable gratifying to see an idea that we were all so proud of twenty years ago quite frankly evolve into something so entertaining, so impactful and so beautifully executed.”
Lauren Graham is as surprised as anyone to be starring in another network TV show.
“I wasn’t expecting to be doing a show right now,” exclaimed the former GILMORE GIRL. “I’ve read so many scripts over the past two and half, three years and it [PARENTHOOD] was so moving, so beautiful and I was so impressed by the pedigree of the people involved, after talking to Jason [Katims] I thought it could be a really collaborative, really positive experience and it has exceeded all of my expectations. It’s just the most fun day at work.”
NBC Announces Big Changes and We’ve Got Your Good, Bad & Ugly
It’s official: Jay Leno’s 10PM reign of terror is over.
“I can confirm that starting February 12 THE JAY LENO SHOW will no longer air at 10PM,” said Jeff Gaspin, NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman at this morning’s NBCU Executive Session from the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena. “While it was performing at exceptional levels for the network, it didn’t meet our affiliates needs.”
As for the future of Jay, Conan, and Jimmy respectively, Gaspin was far less specific. Only going as far as to state that his goal is for NBC to keep all three talented funny-men at the network, with Leno opening the night at 11:35PM, Conan taking THE TONIGHT SHOW to 12:05AM and Jimmy Fallon starting LATE NIGHT even later, at 1:05AM.
Unfortunately, “As much as I’d like to tell you we have a done deal, that’s not true,” said Gaspin. “The talks are ongoing. But I hope and expect, before the Olymics begin, we will have everything set.”
Gaspin further went on to call all parties involved “incredibly gracious and professional.” Noting that more information will more than likely begin to trickle out next week with Jay, Conan and Jimmy being given the weekend to mull their options.
So just where does that leave NBC you ask? Our take after the jump.
TCA Press Tour Live Blog: LIFE UNEXPECTED
4:10PM: The inspiration for LIFE UNEXPECTED came from showrunner (and real-life adoptee) Liz Tigelaar’s childhood belief that her actual birth mother was Nancy Reagan.
4:15PM: Attention teenagers who aren’t happy at home, Tigelaar doesn’t want a baby at 30, but she would love if a teenager showed up on her doorstep. Related note: How cool would it be to be adopted by a TV showrunner? I wonder how Tigelaar feels about adopting thirty-something TV Addicts?
4:18PM: Ryan’s role (Kerr Smith) will continue to grow throughout the season thanks in part to Tigerlaar’s belief that Kerr Smith is the epitome of a man. Suck it Dawson Leery.
4:20PM: File this under stuff that won’t mean anything to you until you see the fantastic first three episodes of the show, but Tigelaar reveals that they’ve just cast seven-year old versions of Lux and her friend Tasha for a flashback (or two!)
We Recap the HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER 100th Episode Celebration
1 sleepless night courtesy of pre-flight anxiety jitters.
2 hours of waiting in line to check my bag.
5 really awkward minutes getting getting searched a little-too-thoroughly by airport security.
6 hours of flying next to a ‘loud talker’.
An evening spent at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills (Zip Code, actually 90210!) with the cast of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER celebrating 100 legendary episodes: Totally worth it! See for yourself after the jump.
Christine Baranski Talks THE GOOD WIFE
Thanks to memorable turns on screens both big (Cruel Intentions, The Birdcage, Mamma Mia!) and small (CYBILL, THE BIG BANG THEORY, UGLY BETTY), actress Christine Baranski has made a career of making audiences laugh for the better part of two decades now. Which is why we couldn’t help but wonder why the talented comedian would let herself be tied down to THE GOOD WIFE, a dramatic CBS procedural that is an odds-on bet to last for the better part of the next decade?
“I’ll tell you why,” she explained during a recent chat with the TV Addict. “I had no trepidation because I’ve already had a career where I’ve done plenty of hopping across all three mediums. It’s not like I’m thinking, ‘God I still haven’t done a play,’ or ‘Gosh I’m going to be tied up for years!’ I should be so lucky to be on the show for seven years!”
We don’t know about the next seven years, but it looks as if WIFE will most definitely keep Baranski busy in the foreseeable future, what with CBS having picked up the series for a full season and many experts speculating that it is all-but-assured a renewal come fall.
Games THE BACHELOR Plays
By: CouchTater
The final rose handed out at the end of last night’s premiere of THE BACHELOR tells you everything you need to know about not only the latest cycle of that show but, in a larger sense, the current state of reality television. Despite the painfully obvious fact that the wild-eyed, tearful contestant named Michelle is clearly unbalanced, Jake — against the unusually sound advice of former BACHELORETTE Jillian and her beau Ed — handed the loon a rose. More importantly, he made sure that — for full dramatic effect — hers was the last rose, allowing for endless shots of Michelle glaring at those whose names were called first.
In other words, there was absolutely nothing “real” about the moment at all, as producers had obviously pushed pilot-turned-love seeker Jake to keep Michelle… and do so in the most dramatic way possible.
Morning Static: CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, CHUCK, MERCY & More!
• What do Summer Sanders, Maria Kanellis, Curtis Stone and Selita Ebanks have in common? Well, aside from us having no idea who they are, turns out they’re all part of the cast of the upcoming season of NBC’s so-called CELEBRITY APPRENTICE.
• Fan of GARY UNMARRIED? Then you’ll love ADAM UNMARRIED! NBC green-lights the untitled Adam Carolla project that has the funny-man starring as a contractor trying to rebuild his life after a divorce.
• Dawson Leery checks into MERCY, as James Van Der Beek signs on to the popular NBC series in a recurring capacity.
• Our Hero! Jeff Miller sets a couch potato record.
• Looking to join Chuck Bartowski’s Nerd Herd? There’s an App for that.
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Big Small Screen Predictions for 2010
Jay Leno will get downsized.
NO, unfortunately we are not calling for the end of the unmitigated disaster that is THE JAY LENO SHOW. Well, at least not yet. Rather, we predict that after successfully taking the pressure off NBC for the 2009/10 development season, the band-aid that is Jay Leno’s 10PM talk show will slowly begin to be peeled off. Allowing for the Peacock Network to commence the long and arduous process of reclaiming their dignity starting with Thursday nights at 10PM, which will return to the realm of scripted fare in Fall 2010.
Simon Cowell will remain on American IDOL.
Much to the chagrin of competing networks, Simon Cowell will not be throwing in his trademark V-neck T-shirt. Forget the rumours, reports and speculation,because the facts are these: There is absolutely no way FOX is going to allow their golden goose to simply fly the coop. Seriously. Whether it requires Rupert Murdoch to personally back up the proverbial Brinks Truck and in the process make Cowell the highest paid personality in television history, or completely tailor IDOL’s schedule to allow him the time he needs to properly import his UK hit THE X FACTOR to America, you can take this to the bank; Cowell will be back.