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19 articles from 2009
Matthew Perry talks about his new sitcom deal, riffs on a 'Friends' reunion scenario
26 October 2009 2:01 PM, PDT | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »
Is ABC getting Friend-lier or what? Matthew Perry has signed a deal with the network that airs Courteney Cox’s Cougar Town to star in, executive produce, and co-write a potential comedy series about a self-consumed 40-year-old manager of a second-rate sports arena who's reluctantly learning to be a nicer guy. “We’re trying to do a show that’s really, really funny and can slow down and play some heartfelt moments,” Perry tells EW.com. “All of this stuff originally came from watching a lot of Alan Partridge and the British Office, and just wanting to go be funny again. »
- Dan Snierson
Please, Give These Stars a New Show!
21 October 2009 6:07 PM, PDT | Getback - TV | See recent Getback - TV news »
We're not ashamed to admit that we haven't been able to fill the hole in our hearts that was ripped open when "The Gilmore Girls" was canceled in 2007. We miss the snappy banter between Lorelai and Rory, the wacky locals of Stars Hollow, and all the spot-on pop culture references. But most of all, we miss Lauren Graham and her soul-tugging performance as the mom who loved her daughter/best friend more than anything in the world. No show since has been able to fill the void.
Every season we hang our hopes on a new series, hoping that it might help ease the pain. This year, we thought that the upcoming TV version of Ron Howard's film "Parenthood" might do the trick. But then the show was put on hold when actress Maura Tierney had to drop out for health reasons. We were apprehensive when we learned that »
- AmyandNancy
Exclusive: 'Gilmore' girl Lauren Graham on her big TV comeback
16 October 2009 5:34 AM, PDT | EW - Ausiello Files | See recent EW.com - The Ausiello Files news »
Sometimes the way the TV biz works leaves me scratching my head, going, "Huh?" Other times, I get it... it's fate. This is definitely one of those. Because although ABC passed on Lauren Graham's comedy pilot, she's still returning to the tube this season, on NBC's buzzy Parenthood series. And here, in her first interview since agreeing to step in for Maura Tierney as single mom Sarah, the Gilmore Girls gabber explains why she decided to join the all-star ensemble, why her new character is nothing like Lorelai, and what her new gig means for that much-discussed-by-me Gilmore movie. »
- Michael Ausiello
The Flickcast – Episode 28: Book of Shadows
14 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
This week on The Flickcast the band, um, team is back together as Christina rejoins Chris and Matt for the show. This time around, the trio talk about even more cool and interesting topics including the recent troubles with Apple’s Snow Leopard and “Guest” account, the T-Mobile Sidekick’s data loss and the marketing strategy, merits, and box office success of Paranormal Activity. Plus, Joss Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods being converted to 3-D, Chuck coming back to TV sooner, Bryan Singer returning to the X-Men franchise, the ending that Zombieland could have had and a whole lot more.
The team also made some great picks, as they always do. This week its Christina’s pick of the FX comedy Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Matt’s pick of Jim Henson’s 1986 film Labyrinth and Chris’ pick of Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which »
- Joe Gillis
Matthew Perry to produce and star in new sitcom
13 October 2009 10:33 AM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
I was looking forward to Matthew Perry's new Showtime show The End of Steve, a drama about a radio talk show host. Unfortunately, Showtime wasn't looking forward to it as much as I was and didn't pick up the show.
Instead, Perry is going to produce, co-write, and star in a new comedy about a sports arena manager who finds himself thinking about where his life is at after he turns 40. Fans of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The West Wing (two other shows that Perry was in) will be interested to know that Thomas Schlamme will be involved in the show too as director and co-producer.
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- Bob Sassone
Matthew Perry: Is this comedy his TV comeback?
13 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Matthew Perry is shopping a new single-camera comedy to the broadcast networks this week. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he plans to star in, co-write, and executive produce the untitled show about "a self-involved manager of a second-rate sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday." Perry, who recently turned 40, conceived the idea. (Which also explains why he was drawn to the Zac Efron do-over comedy 17 Again?) Does this sound like a pilot a network should greenlight? Before we take it to a vote after the jump, let's break it down. He'll pen the pilot script »
- Mandi Bierly
Could We Be Any More Excited for Matthew Perry?
12 October 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
He always said he'd be there for you. Matthew Perry has a new TV comedy in the works, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The as-yet-unnamed series finds the erstwhile Chandler Bing as the fortysomething manager of a sports arena. The actor, most recently seen in 17 Again, plans to star and cowrite, as well as executive produce with Thomas Schlamme and Jamie Tarses, who were both involved in Perry's last series, Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Like fellow Friends Courteney Cox as a divorced mom looking for love (or a younger guy) on Cougar Town and Matt LeBlanc on the upcoming Showtime series Episodes (in which he plays "Matt LeBlanc"), Perry's new project sounds... »
Could We Be Any More Excited for Matthew Perry?
12 October 2009 8:30 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
He always said he'd be there for you. Matthew Perry has a new TV comedy in the works, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The as-yet-unnamed series finds the erstwhile Chandler Bing as the fortysomething manager of a sports arena. The actor, most recently seen in 17 Again, plans to star and cowrite, as well as executive produce with Thomas Schlamme and Jamie Tarses, who were both involved in Perry's last series, Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Like fellow Friends Courteney Cox as a divorced mom looking for love (or a younger guy) on Cougar Town and Matt LeBlanc on the upcoming Showtime series Episodes (in which he plays "Matt LeBlanc"), Perry's new project sounds... »
Update: Matthew Perry Developing Single-Camera Comedy for ABC
12 October 2009 7:45 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Friends alum Matthew Perry is developing an untitled single-camera comedy in which he will star, co-write and executive produce for Sony Pictures TV.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Perry conceived the comedy in which he will play a self-involved manager of a second-rate sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday.
After meeting with a number of writers, Perry teamed with Sony-based Alex Barnow and Mark Firek, who will pen the script with him and exec produce.
Thomas Schlamme, who worked with Perry on Friends, The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, is on board to direct and exec produce.
The project is being pitched to networks this week.
Update: 10/14/09 9:15 Am Pst The Hollywood Reporter is now reporting that ABC won a bidding war that was sparked by Perry's new sitcom, beating out NBC for the rights to the show.
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30 Rock Season 3 DVD Review
2 October 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
After having finished watching the entirety of season 3of 30 Rock, two things came to me. One is that 30 Rock - especially among its niche following - is the most quotable show around these days. From Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) doing her Muppet walk or saying “what the what?”to “I want to go there” to Baldwin paying homage to Malice, without having seen this season of 30 Rock at all, much of it was familiar by remembering tweets and things people said. My Review after the jump.
The second thing that sprang to mind was that the pilot of 30 Rock was obscenely terrible. Oh, there were moments, but I remember when the show debuted, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip came out around the same time and seemed like it might be something awesome. Both shows were about taking SNL down a bit or at least tweaking it, with 30 Rock the home team, »
- Andre Dellamorte
'Diva' Producers Secure Two Projects
30 September 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By the Hollywood Reporter
On the heels of the early renewal of their freshman Lifetime series "Drop Dead Diva," producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have set up hourlong projects at Fox and NBC.
At Fox, the duo has teamed with writer Dana Calvo ("Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip") for "Laney Sparrow," a character-driven legal drama to be produced by 20th Century Fox TV.
Zadan, Meron and Calvo are executive producing.
At NBC, the "Hairspray" producers have "Inside Mary Baxter," a dramedy set in a women's prison. Maria Maggenti ("Without a Tra... »
- Lisa Horowitz
Aaron Sorkin: Talker, walk with me
6 September 2009 5:06 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
This week, EW University takes a look at the people who helped shape the modern TV landscape. Today’s TV auteur is Aaron Sorkin, whose distinct voice pushed network comedies out of the ‘90s and network dramas into the White House. Class is now in session! When Sports Night premiered in 1998, it was met with critical praise, fanatical devotion on the part of its 10 million or so viewers (which at the time made it the 45th most-watched show), and a revived conversation about the future of the laughtrack for network comedies. Sports Night debuted with canned laughs, but it was so out of place that ABC couldn’t help but eventually side with Sorkin and the show’s fans. Out went the laughtrack, and in came an era where the differences between multicamera and single-camera comedies became normal TV fan knowledge, not just inside-baseball musings. Sports Night’s contemporaries were »
- Margaret Lyons
TV Review: Mad Men 3.3 – My Old Kentucky Home
31 August 2009 3:20 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Mad Men Airs Sunday Nights at 10/9c on AMC Synopsis: Peggy and Paul are staying in the office through the weekend to work out a new campaign for Bacardi. Joan and her husband are throwing a party for her husband's co-workers, while most of the Sterling Cooper gang is at Roger and Jane's for a Kentucky Derby garden party. Grandpa Gene is missing $5. Review: You can tell a great show is great by how they spend "off" episodes. Nothing that happened in last night's "Mad Men" was Earth-shattering or really very consequential. And that's fine. Some shows try to make drama where drama has no business. "24" is a show that always needs to be moving forward, so instead of building tighter relationships between it's core characters, they usually throw some curveball like season one's "Terri gets amnesia" plotline or this past season's "the Presiden't daughter is a schemer" situation. Some shows have been killed by trying to »
- Josh Radde
Review: 'Leverage' Season One on DVD
22 July 2009 7:28 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
There are only so many hours one can devote to television watching so a show has to garner some excellent buzz in order to get sampled in my household. I was initially tempted by TNT’s Leverage last winter but something or other kept us from trying it but as it aired, people started chiming in about how cool it was. Thanks to Paramount Home Video, the first season was released last week and my wife and I blitzed through the 13 episodes to see what the buzz was all about.
There’s little original about the premise since it’s been heavily compared with the Oceans movie or television’s A-Team. The latter is more apt as is a comparison with Mission: Impossible without the federal angle. In fact, in watching Timothy Hutton’s Nate Ford, he really is a modern day George Peppard, blending his insurance investigator Banacek with his A-Team Hannibal Smith. »
- Robert Greenberger
Jane Kaczmarek & Bradley Whitford Call It Quits
20 June 2009 9:01 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
After 16 years of marriage, Hollywood couple Jane Kaczmarek and Bradley Whitford have split. The actors, who married in August 1992, filed for divorce in Los Angeles on Friday, People has confirmed. Whitford's rep released a statement on his client's behalf, saying: "He hopes the media will respect their wish for privacy as they focus on their children." The Malcolm in the Middle mom and former West Wing and Studio 60 star have three children together, Frances Genevieve, 12, George Edward, 9, and Mary Louisa, 6. Kaczmarek can currently be seen on the TNT hit Raising the Bar, which premiered its second season earlier this month, while Whitford just wrapped filming the upcoming horror flick... »
DVD Review: ‘Sports Night’ – The Complete Series 10th Anniversary Edition
17 June 2009 12:40 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
There are few television shows that hold my interest past the pilot episode. When they do, they usually get cancelled because most networks can’t seem to identify quality programs without the help of their woefully misguided Neilsen system. In rare instances, such as the Family Guy and Futurama resurrections, a fantastic show gets canceled, then does so well on DVD, the network is forced to place it’s tail squarely between its legs and bring the show back to life. Sports Night was not one of these shows.
The year is 1998. ABC has Home Improvement, NYPD Blue, Ellen, Dharma and Drew. On Tuesday September 22, they premiere a little show-within-a-show called Sports Night. The ensemble cast includes a few heavyweights, and several actors who earned their street cred long after Sports Night was running on Comedy Central at 3am.
The show centers around the cast and crew of a sports »
- Heather Toshiko
D.L. Hughley Breaks the News: CNN Show Cancelled After Controversial Comment
9 March 2009 1:05 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
CNN has announced that they are ending the D.L. Hughley Breaks The News show after a short run of only a few months. The looming question is if it's truly just a matter of logistics, or whether the news network got more than what they bargained for with the controversial host.
D.L. Hughley has been a popular comic for the past decade and recently co-starred on NBC's ill-fated Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. Breaks the News debuted on CNN on October 25, 2008 as a comedy news show, shown weekly on Saturday nights. The self-described "news junkie" wanted to let everyone know that "This ain't your daddy's CNN." He interviewed a typical assortment of newsmakers, pundits, and ordinary people but with his own personal spin. The results were quite different than what you'd find elsewhere on the news network.
While Hughley's show was anything but dull, it may have been a little too cutting-edge for CNN. »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up - Feb. 05, 2009
5 February 2009 7:51 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
It’s time for another Mid Week Movie News Wrap Up.
This week:
John Carpenter chooses yet another project; Clooney and Sorkin like a good Challenge; Bill Murray decides to Get Low; Bloom and Kurylenko get Cross and Nottingham wants an accountant.
1. It looks like John Carpenter just can’t make his mind up! First it appeared that L.A Gothic would be the follow-up to Ghosts of Mars, and then it looked like Scared Straight (or Riot as it was renamed) starring Nicolas Cage would be his next film. Wrong on both counts.
It now looks like The Master of Horror’s next film will be The Ward with Amber Heard.
According to Variety:
“Heard will star as a haunted woman in a mental institution.”
Sounds like anything could happen - but I’ll believe this to be Carpenter’s next movie when I see the first still. I »
- Niall Browne
Whedon keeps Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins in a Cabin In The Woods -- And what he does in his spare time is his business
21 January 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
My memory is apparently garabge. I totally forgot that Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard were working on a horror film called "Cabin in the Woods". I won't take full responsibility, however, since those dudes were being so secretive. But like Goddard help twist the monster movie with "Cloverfield", Whedon and Goddard will be twisting the kids-in-a-haunted-cabin movie by making them white-collar, middle-aged guys played by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins. And just like that, "Cabin in the Woods" jumps to one of my most anticipated films of 2010. Whitford's been a little scarce ever since "Studio 60" ended but Jenkins just had a helluva year with "The Visitor", "Step-Brothers", and "Burn After Reading" so to have these two guys star in a film written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, two guys who are pretty talented already, making a ... »
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