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TV Dramas Packed With Comedy
13 June 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Watching TV is seldom a communal experience. So it’s always interesting in the spring — when networks and studios mount panels to promote their shows for Emmy awards consideration — to hear an unexpected sound during screenings of some of our finest dramas: Laughter.
It’s not new, naturally, but labels can have a way of muddling conversations, so it’s worth noting: Many dramas are flat-out funny. At the same time, a new breed of half-hour has sprung up that is, oftentimes, more dramatic than amusing.
Actually, the abundance of humor in what are generally referred to as “dramas” is a testament to the richness and diversity of the current TV landscape. And while awards like the Emmys can perhaps be forgiven for adhering to old labels, any avid viewer would recognize it’s difficult to neatly categorize such fare into a couple of columns.
Sure, we might lump “Nurse Jackie »
- Brian Lowry
'The Sopranos' and 'Seinfeld' top WGA's 'TV 101' list of best-written series ever
3 June 2013 6:36 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
The Sopranos was named the best-written show in television history by the Writers Guild of America, edging out an eclectic collection of some of the most beloved and admired series. Members of the Writers Guild of America, West (Wgaw) and the Writers Guild of America, East (Wgae) voted online for the 101 Best Written TV Series, with David Chase’s iconic “family” drama topping Seinfeld, The Twilight Zone, All in the Family, and M*A*S*H*.
“At their core, all of these wonderful series began with the words of the writers who created them and were sustained by the writers »
- Jeff Labrecque
‘The Sopranos’ Leads WGA List of Top TV Series
2 June 2013 11:51 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
The Writers Guild of America on Sunday unveiled its list of the “101 Best Written TV Series of All Time,” topped by HBO’s “The Sopranos.”
The mob drama created by David Chase (pictured above right with “Sopranos” star James Gandolfini) led the list over such perennial faves as “Seinfeld” (which ranked No. 2), “All in the Family” (No. 4), “Mash” (No. 5) and “The Wire” (No. 9).
On the other end of the list was a three-way tie between the original NBC “Late Night with David Letterman,” FX’s “Louie” and HBO’s intense prison drama “Oz.”
The list, the results of online voting by members of the WGA West and WGA East, immediately spurred debates over the rankings and omissions. The TV tally was a follow-up to the WGA’s “101 Greatest Screenplays” member survey conducted in 2006.
The WGA’s complete list of TV series follows:
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HBO
Created by David Chase
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Seinfeld »
- Cynthia Littleton
Updated: Why Is TV Guide Sponsoring WGA’s 101 Best-Written TV Series?
1 June 2013 1:26 PM, PDT | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
Saturday Update: Who in the world at the WGA thought it was a good idea to let TV Guide sponsor this? And why didn’t more of the union’s scribes know about this online Wgaw and Wgae member vote on both coasts? How could the WGA diminish the value of its name and integrity in exchange for a lame Red Carpet event? Deciding what 101 shows are the best written TV series of all time should be serious business for the Writers Guild and all its membership. Especially since this special tribute event at the Writers Guild Theater and exclusive live webcast will be presented on WGA.org on June 2nd at 7 Pm Pt. But already it’s being called into question especially with TV Guide celebrating its 60th anniversary with all kinds of lists. Will this WGA-affiliated event just represent what’s convenient for the media outlet in terms »
- NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief
Updated: Why Is TV Guide Sponsoring WGA’s 101 Best-Written TV Series?
1 June 2013 1:26 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Saturday Update: Who in the world at the WGA thought it was a good idea to let TV Guide sponsor this? And why didn’t more of the union’s scribes know about this online Wgaw and Wgae member vote on both coasts? How could the WGA diminish the value of its name and integrity in exchange for a lame Red Carpet event? Deciding what 101 shows are the best written TV series of all time should be serious business for the Writers Guild and all its membership. Especially since this special tribute event at the Writers Guild Theater and exclusive live webcast will be presented on WGA.org on June 2nd at 7 Pm Pt. But already it’s being called into question especially with TV Guide celebrating its 60th anniversary with all kinds of lists. Will this WGA-affiliated event just represent what’s convenient for the media outlet in terms »
- NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief
NBC schedules Oklahoma Tornado benefit concert; 'Cult' returns to CW schedule
24 May 2013 4:09 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
NBC has announced an air date for the relief benefit concert for victims of the Oklahoma tornado on which they've partnered with Blake Shelton.
"Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert," to be headlined by Shelton, will air live on NBC at 9 p.m. Et on May 29, the network announced Friday (May 24). Shelton will be joined by Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire and Vince Gill, though additional musical guests will be announced at a later date. The concert, raising funds for the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund, will also air on Style, G4, Bravo, E! and Cmt on either a live or delayed basis.
More TV news and notes:
- The CW hopes you'll rejoin "Cult" when it returns to the air June 28, with the six remaining unaired episodes set to run in two-hour blocks from 8-10 p.m. on three Fridays. Actually, considering that it was »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Ian Anthony Dale Joins TNT’s ‘Murder’, Aaron Hill Added To ABC Family’s ‘Twisted’
24 May 2013 11:53 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Ian Anthony Dale (The Hangover, NBC’s The Event) has joined the cast of TNT’s drama pilot Murder In The First as a series regular. Co-created by Steven Bochco and Eric Lodal, the project is a murder mystery that centers on San Fransisco Pd homicide detectives Terry Seagrave (Taye Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson), as they take on a case that seems more like a maze. Dale will play Lieutenant Jim Koto, a no-nonsense homicide police lieutenant with movie star good looks who is Hildy and Terry’s superior. The actor, repped by A Management, Kohner Agency and Derek Kroeger, is recurring on CBS’ a Hawaii Five-o as Adam Noshimuri, son to head of the Yakuza and boyfriend of Five-o officer Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park). Greek alum Aaron Hill has landed a recurring role on ABC Family’s new mystery drama series Twisted, centered on a charismatic 16-year-old »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
TNT’s ‘Murder In The First’ And ABC Family’s ‘Ravenswood’ Add Regulars
10 May 2013 3:47 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon A Time) has joined the cast of TNT’s drama Murder In The First as a series regular. Co-created by Steven Bochco and Eric Lodal, Murder In The First is a murder mystery set in contemporary San Francisco that centers on two Sfpd homicide detectives, Terry Seagrave (Taye Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson), as they take on a case that seems more like a maze. Sbarge plays police inspector David Molk, who works alongside Seagrave. Sbarge, repped by Main Title and Domain, will be recurring on USA’s Necessary Roughness this summer. Nicole Gale Anderson has been added to the cast of ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars spinoff Ravenswood as series regular Miranda, a foster kid who relies on her wits to cover emotional scars. The spinoff takes place in Ravenswood, a town near Liars‘ hometown of Rosewood Pa, and revolves around five strangers »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Dallas Season 2 Finale Recap: The J.R. Mystery Is Solved (Twice) — Plus: Did Pam Ewing Return?
15 April 2013 8:32 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Warning: The following contains Texas-sized spoilers from the Season 2 finale of TNT’s Dallas.
TNT’s Dallas on Monday night sewed up its sophomore run with a pair of episodes that alternately shed light on the Pam Ewing mystery and revealed J.R. Ewing’s killer, twice.
Related | TNT Sets Summer Premieres for Falling Skies, Rizzoli & Isles, King & Maxwell and More
How I Didn’T Meet My Mother | Following leads to Zurich, where his mother presumably was drawing from a savings account, Christopher instead found Bernard from Lost, who ultimately confessed that Pamela Ewing Barnes was, in fact, dead. Bernard, »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
TVLine Items: Paul Reubens Hops to Once Upon a Time Spin-Off, Sing-Off Judge Exits and More!
5 April 2013 12:21 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland‘s White Rabbit has found his voice.
Paul Reubens, aka Pee-Wee Herman, will bring the CG character to life in the potential spin-off, our sister site Deadline reports.
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The pilot presentation is told through the point of view of Alice (played by Sophie Lowe), who has a generous heart scarred by a hard life. Other characters featured in the project are Alice’s love interest Cyrus (Peter Gadiot), sardonic adventurer the Knave of Hearts (Being Human‘s Michael Socha) and the »
- Vlada Gelman
‘Murder In The First’ & ‘Surgeon General’ Add To Casts, ‘Lucky 7′ Recasts Actor
1 April 2013 2:07 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Bess Rous (Beth Henley’s play The Jacksonian) has joined the cast of Murder In The First, TNT’s drama pilot co-created by Steven Bochco and Eric Lodal. It is a murder mystery set in contemporary San Francisco that centers on two Sfpd homicide detectives, Terry Seagrave (Taye Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson), as they take on a case that seems more like a maze. Rous, repped by Greene & Associates and The Coronel Group, plays Wexler, a techy that is Erich Blount’s brilliant Cto and head of R&D. Christopher Thornton has booked a role in the CBS drama pilot The Surgeon General, which centers on Dr. John Sherman (Jason Isaacs), the most powerful doctor in the nation who has 315 million patients. Thornton will play a funny wheelchair-bound Russian computer scientist and master researcher with a 4.0 from MIT who has developed a life-changing algorithm. Confined to a wheelchair in real life, »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Flashback - James Earl Jones As TV's 'Paris' (1979) And Louis Gossett, Jr. In 'The Lazarus Syndrome' (1978)
28 March 2013 5:59 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Not too long ago, Sergio reminded us of the 1973 NBC Mystery Movie series Tenafly, which featured a black actor, James McEachin, as its lead. In his post on the experimental-for-its-time monthly program, Sergio remarked, "Maybe it's my imagination [but], compared to what we have today, there seemed to be a lot more black TV series back in the day." Sergio went on to say, "And there was a diversity in them too, from sitcoms to dramas. Not all of them were great (not even remotely) or were hits, but at least they were there." That got me wondering about what other forgotten TV shows there are out there that many of us have forgotten, or never saw, and may never have a chance to see again. Before famed TV show creator Steven Bochco gave us TV classics such as Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, he created a police drama series in 1979 for CBS called Paris, »
- Emmanuel Akitobi
TNT Sets Summer Premieres for Falling Skies, Rizzoli & Isles, King & Maxwell and More
21 March 2013 11:54 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
TNT has unveiled its summer slate, which includes the returns of Falling Skies, Major Crimes and Rizzoli & Isles, as well as the debut of new drama King & Maxwell.
Related | Taye Diggs, Kathleen Robertson to Investigate Murder in Steven Bochco Pilot for TNT
Season 3 of Falling Skies launches Sunday, June 9 at 9/8c before moving to its regular 10pm timeslot.
The following Monday, June 10, Major Crimes begins its second season at 9 pm. It will lead into the series premiere of King & Maxwell, starring Jon Tenney (The Closer) and Rebecca Romijn (X-Men) as author David Baldacci’s popular P.I. characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell. »
- Vlada Gelman
Taye Diggs Books Starring Role On Steven Bochco TNT Murdey/Mystery Pilot
15 March 2013 8:06 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Taye Diggs has booked a starring role on TNT's Steven Bochco murder mystery pilot, Murder in the First. The drama revolves two seemingly unrelated high-profile murder cases and the subsequent police investigation, arrest and trial, offering viewers a window into the inner-workings of modern justice in an increasingly complex world. Diggs will play Terry Seagrave, said to be a homicide detective who is dealing with his wife's terminal illness. For Terry, being a cop is his one chance to live right and "do good," and the job keeps him focused and off the sadness that tends to preoccupy his thoughts. Bochco, who's had a few hit crime drama TV series on his resume, will pen the pilot with Eric Lodal (Lawless) and executive produce. Diggs lands this role just as ABC's Shonda Rhimes medical drama Private Practice, ended its run in January. He's also part of an ensemble cast in »
- Tambay A. Obenson
Taye Diggs Books Starring Role On Steven Bochco TNT Murdey/Mystery Pilot
15 March 2013 8:06 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
Taye Diggs has booked a starring role on TNT's Steven Bochco murder mystery pilot, Murder in the First. The drama revolves two seemingly unrelated high-profile murder cases and the subsequent police investigation, arrest and trial, offering viewers a window into the inner-workings of modern justice in an increasingly complex world. Diggs will play Terry Seagrave, said to be a homicide detective who is dealing with his wife's terminal illness. For Terry, being a cop is his one chance to live right and "do good," and the job keeps him focused and off the sadness that tends to preoccupy his thoughts. Bochco, who's had a few hit crime drama TV series on his resume, will pen the »
- Tambay A. Obenson
TV on Tap: Chris Hayes Moves to MSNBC's Prime Time, "Pushing Daisies" Considers Turning to Kickstarter and Chris Meloni, Taye Digs Get Pilot Roles
15 March 2013 4:53 AM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Aw, see you next season violent, con man Banshee sheriff.
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...aaaand the new MSNBC primetime host is Chris Hayes. I'll admit, I've mixed feelings about the development. I'm not thrilled about giving up Hayes' weekend show, Up, but I do love the idea of combining Hayes with Rachel Maddow. The combination of Hayes and Maddow as the majority of MSNBC's prime time slot could end up making a strong argument that it is possible for cable news to offer programming that's informative, instead of the ridiculous gimmicks, opinionated bluster and scandal-chasing that's found too often elsewhere.
One of the things I enjoy about Up with Chris Hayes is that Hayes uses the forum to function as an example of what other shows could accomplish if they cared, like the way Up is much more diverse than other Sunday shows.
Elsewhere at NBC News, The Today Show is struggling to »
- LyleMasaki
Taye Diggs, Kathleen Robertson Sign On for Steven Bochco's TNT Pilot
14 March 2013 9:58 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson's next gig is going to be "Murder" on them. "Private Practice" actor Diggs and "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum Robertson have been cast in "NYPD Blue" creator Steven Bochco's TNT pilot "Murder in the First," a spokesperson for the network told TheWrap. Also read: Bochco's Law: Forget Emmys, Just Get Invited Back The pilot revolves around a pair of homicide detectives for the San Francisco Police Department who investigate the murders of a Silicon Valley businessman and others who are involved in a high-profile case. »
- Tim Kenneally
Taye Diggs, Kathleen Robertson return to TV in Steven Bochco's 'Murder in the First'
14 March 2013 9:25 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson are rebounding together from recently canceled shows with the TNT drama pilot "Murder in the First" from executive producer Steven Bochco.
Diggs ("Private Practice") and Robertson ("Boss") will play San Francisco homicide detectives attempting to get to the bottom of a particularly baffling investigation.
TV veteran Bochco ("NYPD Blue," "L.A. Law") co-created the show with Eric Lodal. Bochco's last series, legal drama "Raising the Bar," also aired on TNT. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Taye Diggs, Kathleen Robertson to Investigate Murder in Steven Bochco Pilot for TNT
14 March 2013 7:28 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Fresh off their respective runs on ABC’s Private Practice and Starz’s Boss, Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson have been recruited to investigate Murder in the First as the stars of a new TNT drama pilot from Steven Bochco.
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As reported by our sister site Deadline, the project is set in San Francisco and follows homicide detectives Terry Seagrave (Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Robertson) as they work a The Killing-esque case that grows more and more labyrinthine the more they dig into it.
Related | TNT »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Kathleen Robertson & Taye Diggs Topline Steven Bochco’s TNT Pilot ‘Murder In The First’
14 March 2013 6:15 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Boss‘ Kathleen Robertson and Private Practice‘s Taye Diggs have been tapped as the leads in Murder In The First, TNT’s drama from NYPD Blue co-creator Steven Bochco. Co-created by Bochco and Eric Lodal, Murder In The First is a murder mystery set in contemporary San Francisco. Said to be in the vein of The Killing, it centers on two Sfpd homicide detectives, Terry Seagrave (Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Robertson), as they take on a case that seems more like a maze. Both Robertson, repped by Innovative and Untitled, and Diggs, repped by ICM Partners, fielded interest from multiple pilots following the recent ends of their series, Starz’ Boss and ABC’s Private Practice, respectively. »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
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