July 21, 2008
Edie Falco's pilot, Nurse Jackie, has been picked up by Showtime and will air in 2009. This is amazing news for those of us who've felt actual pangs of longing for Edie ever since The Sopranos went off the air. It's also good news for fans of House, M.D., because it sounds exactly like that. But who cares! Edie's coming back:
Edie Falco stars as the title character Jackie O'Hurley, a strong-willed and brilliant -- but very flawed -- emergency room nurse in a complicated New York City hospital. A lapsed Catholic with an occasional weakness for Vicodin and Adderall to get her through the days, Jackie keeps the hospital balanced with her own kind of justice.
I can't wait to see an Adderall-pumped Edie Falco use her own kind of justice. She could play a lapsed Catholic who reads the phone book and I would want her to be my older sister. Edie Falco for president.
Posted by Lindsay at 3:55 PM in
Tags: Edie Falco | The Sopranos
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July 10, 2008
Via CC Insider, Comedy Central has put up the first ten minutes of its new reality TV parody Reality Bites Back, where comedians compete for 50k real dollars by undertaking a series of challenges based on reality show cliches. Yes, it's kind of a muddled premise, but the first ten minutes of the show, in which the comedians say extremely raunchy things in a dark room and then find out their mothers are there, looks promising:
"Hi, I'm Michael Ian Black. Very famous." I hate when people say they hate MIB because he's "smug." MIB knows he's smug. He's trying to be smug. That's his whole entire thing.
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June 5, 2008
Sordid Lives is a new soap opera/comedy/drama premiering on Logo on July 23. It's based on a cult 1996 play of the same name, and stars Rue McClanahan, Caroline Rhea, Sparkle Motion choreographer Beth Grant, Olivia Newton-John, like 50 other people, and a gun. It looks sort of like Desperate Housewives meets Steel Magnolias meets a John Waters movie. This trailer for the series makes it look like a combination of every campy device or character known to pop culture.
Continue reading Is Sordid Lives Going To Be Awesome, Terrible, Or Awesomely Terrible?...
Posted by Lindsay at 5:34 PM in
Tags: Beth Grant | Carson Kressly | Margaret Cho | Olivia Newton John | Rue McClanahan
May 15, 2008
Perusing this gallery of preview clips (so far) from the new fall TV season, only two shows jumped out at me as watchable. One of them is a heartwarming family reality game show produced by Ashton Kutcher, and the other seems like a straight-up ripoff of Meet The Parents. What the hell is going on here?
Continue reading So Far Next Fall's Best New Show Looks Like...Opportunity Knocks?...
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Tags: Ashton Kutcher | Opportunity Knocks | Worst Week
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