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'The Crazy Ones' preview: Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar team up in new CBS comedy
15 May 2013 5:14 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Working in advertising is tough. Working with your dad? Also tough. Working with your dad when your dad is Robin Williams? Tougher still. Welcome to "The Crazy Ones."
The new fall CBS comedy, from executive producer David E. Kelly, boasts two of the 2013-14 season's most impressive casting achievements in the form of Williams, returning to series TV for the first time since "Mork and Mindy," and Sarah Michelle Gellar, giving comedy a try after her first attempt at a post-"Buffy" comeback, The CW's "Ringer," proved a flop.
"The Crazy Ones," one of CBS' forays into the world of single-camera comedies this fall, centers around the father-daughter duo of Simon Roberts (Williams) and Sydney (Gellar). Simon, the head of a powerful advertising agency, is unorthodox, unpredictable, larger-than-life ... basically, he's Robin Williams. Sydney is his exact opposite, often finding herself playing the parent in the relationship. The cast is rounded »
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Why They Went 'Crazy'
15 May 2013 4:32 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"The Crazy Ones" marks Robin Williams' return to series TV, his first regular gig since "Mork & Mindy" in the late 1970s. The new CBS series also marks Sarah Michelle Gellar's first half-hour TV comedy. The two are joined by co-stars James Wolk, Hamish Linklater, Amanda Setton and Kelly Clarkson appears in the pilot episode.
"The girl can act," Gellar said of Clarkson on CBS's Upfront 2013 red carpet.
"The group of people we have on this show is pretty wild ... They can go one-on-one so it's not like all you riffing. There's a lot of people doing great stuff backing it up. The writing is really great," Williams said.
In the series from David E. Kelley ("Chicago Hope," "The Practice" & "Ally McBeal"), Williams plays ad executive Simon Roberts, who's known for his unique way of thinking. Gellar plays his daughter, Sydney, a fellow executive at the firm.
What drew »
- Chris Harnick
New 2013 TV Season Breakdown: CBS
15 May 2013 11:55 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
The Fall TV Season presentations for all the new network shows take place this week with the fourth announced today. Here's a full breakdown of which concepts have made the final list over on CBS.
The king of the networks easily remains in charge despite "Elementary" being their only fresh hit of last season's new shows. The network's line-up remains fairly stable with only a few key moves such as Thursday being expanded to include two hours of comedy programming, and "Hawaii Five-0" moving to Fridays.
Several other pilots didn't make the cut this week including the series sequel to the "Beverly Hills Cop" movies, a TV version of the comedy "Bad Teacher", the "NCIS" mobile spin-off "NCIS: Red," a procedural based on Leif G.W. Persson's literary homicide detective Everett Backstrom, the Frank Marshall-produced political thriller "The Ordained" about a priest turned lawyer trying to save his sister from assassination, »
- Garth Franklin
TV News: CBS Fall Schedule Includes New Nights For Big Hits, Five New Shows
15 May 2013 6:40 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – When you’re the #1 network on TV, it must be tempting to stay the course. However, CBS always shakes things up a bit and this year is no different. The 2013-14 schedule, announced this morning, features four new comedies (including a new comedy block in one of their most successful time slots) and one drama, along with new time slots for big hits “Person of Interest,” “Two and a Half Men,” and “Hawaii Five-0.” The five new shows feature a stunning degree of star power with lead roles taken by Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Margo Martindale, Tony Shalhoub, Toni Collette, Will Arnett, Tate Donovan, Allison Janney, and more. It must be nice to be #1.
Full schedule below with new show descriptions under that. Come back for more news, reviews, and previews of the 2013-14 Fall schedule.
*-new show
Monday
7pm “How I Met Your Mother”
7:30pm “We Are Men »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
CBS fall schedule revealed: 2 hours of Thursday comedies
15 May 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
CBS just announced its fall schedule, which includes two hours of Thursday comedies (which includes the new Robin Williams comedy The Crazy Ones), a new night for Hawaii 5-0, and back-to-back new dramas on Mondays at 10 to avoid airing repeats throughout the season.
Here is is:
Here are the descriptions of the new shows:
We Are Men is a single-camera comedy about four single guys living in a short-term apartment complex who unexpectedly find camaraderie over their many missteps in love. Carter (Chris Smith), the youngest and most recent addition to the group, moved in after being ditched at the altar mid-ceremony, »
- Lynette Rice
CBS orders 6 new series for Fall 2013: Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Josh Holloway and more
10 May 2013 4:23 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
CBS has entered the pilot pickup mayhem, adding six new shows to the network's already-crowded roster. And what shows!
The four comedy pilots going forward are "Crazy Ones" (starring Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar), "The Millers" (with Will Arnett), "Mom" from Chuck Lorre and "We Are Men" (with Jerry O'Connell and Tony Shalhoub).
On the drama side, "Intelligence," starring Josh Holloway and Marg Helgenberger is joined by "Hostages" from Jerry Bruckheimer.
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"Crazy Ones"
Executive producer: David E. Kelley
Starring: Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Wolk, Hamish Linklater and Amanda Setton
What it is: Set in the world of advertising, this comedy focuses on the relationship between a father and daughter
"We Are Men"
Executive producer: Rob Greenberg
Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Tony Shalhoub, Kal Penn and Chris Smith
What it is: After being dumped at or near the altar, »
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Fall TV Scoop: CBS Picks Up Six Series, Including Sarah Michelle Gellar's Crazy Comedy, Josh Holloway's Intelligence and Chuck Lorre's Mom
10 May 2013 2:29 PM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
CBS has ordered six new series for the 2013-14 season, including the Robin Williams-Sarah Michelle Gellar comedy Crazy Ones and the Josh Holloway-Marg Helgenberger drama Intelligence.
Also getting a green light are Jerry Bruckheimer’s conspiracy thriller Hostages and the sitcoms Mom (Anna Faris!), The Millers (Will Arnett!) and We Are Men (Monk!).
Related | Fall TV Preview: Your Guide to What’s New
Among the noteworthy pilots not getting the go-ahead from CBS — at least not at the moment: Hart Hanson’s Backstrom, adaptations of Beverly Hills Cop and Bad Teacher and a spin-off of NCIS: La. »
- Michael Ausiello
Box Office Results: 42 No. 1 Domestically, Oblivion Big Overseas
14 April 2013 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office. Brian Helgeland's Jackie Robinson biopic 42 opened in first place domestically with an estimated $27 million from 3,003 theaters, an average of $9,074 per location. The drama, starring Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Andre Holland, Lucas Black, Hamish Linklater, Ryan Merriman and T.R. Knight, was made for about $38 million. The Warner Bros. release received an excellent A+ CinemaScore from audiences. Internationally, Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi thriller Oblivion , starring Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga »
Will 42 Boast the Best Weekend Debut for a Movie About Baseball?
13 April 2013 11:04 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Will the just-released 42 have the most successful opening weekend for a baseball movie? Writer-director Brian Helgeland's 42, which features Chadwick Boseman as baseball player Jackie Robinson and veteran Harrison Ford, whose credits range from The Conversation and Star Wars in the 1970s to the more recent Cowboys & Aliens, debuted with an estimated $9.1 million at 3,003 locations this past Friday, April 12, as per studio figures found on the web site Box Office Mojo. (Almost) undeboutedly, 42 will end up grossing between $25 million and $26 million by Sunday evening. If that does indeed happen, the film will boast the best debut weekend ever for a movie about baseball -- well, sort of. Pictured above: Ford, looking remarkably different under heavy makeup, plays Brooklyn Dodgers' team executive Branch Rickey in Helgeland's movie. Well, if you dwell on a planet where inflation is as real as the plots of Hollywood films -- including those based on real-life events, »
- Zac Gille
Baseball Biopic Overperforming: Will Easily Top Domestic Weekend B.O. Chart
13 April 2013 2:28 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Baseball Biopic Surpassing Expectations: Will Easily Top Domestic B.O. Chart This Weekend Written and directed by Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential screenwriter), and starring Chadwick Boseman as pioneering black baseball player Jackie Robinson and veteran Harrison Ford as the Brooklyn Dodgers' team executive Branch Rickey, the biopic 42 was the no. 1 movie at Friday's domestic box office; it'll surely be the weekend's top film, too. As per early, rough estimates found on the web site Deadline.com, the period drama will be the only movie grossing more than $20 million at the domestic box office. (See below more information about Scary Movie 5 and last weekend's holdovers.) (Pictured above are an unrecognizable Ford as the Brooklyn Dodgers' team executive Branch Rickey and Boseman wearing Robinson's baseball uniform.) The 42 movie brought in an estiamted $8.5 million at 3,003 U.S. and Canada venues on Friday (April 12) and by Sunday evening may possibly »
- Zac Gille
42 – The Review
12 April 2013 10:53 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and it’s time to crack open the windows after so many long months. Ah, springtime, when a young man’s (and many not so young) thoughts turn to … baseball. Well, it turns out that many in Hollywood have the old “horse-hide” on the brain too. This favorite American pastime has graced the big screen many times from light comedies such as Alibi Ike and Major League to heavy dramas like Bang The Drum Slowly. One classic flick, The Natural, could be classified a Fantasy allegory while another, Bull Durham, is a sexy bedroom romp. Of course, film makers have chosen to tell several real-life stories of the diamond with Pride Of The Yankees (Lou Gehrig’s tale), a couple of Babe Ruth biopics, and the lady players of World War II in A League Of Their Own. Now Brian Helgeland (The Order »
- Jim Batts
An All-Star Team Of Baseball Movies
12 April 2013 7:16 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The new Jackie Robinson movie, "42," brings big-screen life to such baseball legends as Pee Wee Reese (played by Lucas Black), Ralph Branca (played by Hamish Linklater), Robinson himself (played by Chadwick Boseman) and other members of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers. Yet how would Dem Bums fare against an all-star team featuring the likes of Crash Davis, Jimmy Dugan and Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez?
Unfortunately, we'll never know. If Hollywood is involved, however, the end result would likely include a slow-motion home run trot and some triumphant music cue from deceased composer Jerry Goldsmith.
With "42" out in theaters on Friday, HuffPost Entertainment decide to compile the best fictional baseball characters, by position, in film history. Root for the home team in the comments below (or give these choices the Bronx cheer).
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- The Huffington Post
'42' Review: 10 Things You Should Know
11 April 2013 3:23 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
This weekend, "42," the harrowing real-life story of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player to play in the whites-only baseball league, slides into theaters. It's certainly a huge, important story (42 is the only number retired from the whole of Major League Baseball, and once a year every player on every team wears the number), and carries a certain amount of inherent drama, whether you're a baseball fan or not. The question, of course, is whether or not the historical drama translates to the big screen. Because, as has been proven time and time again, fascinating bits of real-life drama can also become dull and inert once they hit theaters (even real-life drama that makes you want to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" while eating a hot dog of questionable origin). With that in mind, we run down the 10 things you should know about "42." 1.) It's About Groundbreaking Baseball Player Jackie Robinson, »
- Drew Taylor
'42' review: Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford hit a historical homer with Jackie Robinson story
11 April 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Earnest, righteous, historically accurate and often entertaining, writer-director Brian Helgeland's "42" is pretty much all you could hope for in a Jackie Robinson film biography.
Minus the excitement, which given how well-known Robinson's story is to baseball fans, is no cardinal sin. And the cast is more adequate than thrilling.
It's the sort of story that you find yourself hoping they don't screw up -- that the baseball will be convincing, that the racism isn't watered down, that the actor playing Jackie (Chadwick Boseman) comes off as a human being, not an icon. And in those regards, "42" scores.
A brief history lesson -- the narrated-over-newsreel footage context of the end of World War II -- is followed by a much longer one, as we see Robinson selected to integrate baseball by the cagey old Brooklyn Dodgers general manager and president, Branch Rickey. It's shocking to see Harrison Ford take on »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Mork & Buffy Film CBS Comedy Pilot
5 April 2013 1:59 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar are easily one of the most bizarre, yet highly-anticipated duos potentially coming to TV in the 2013-2014 season. And now, we have a glimpse at the actors in action.
The "Mork & Mindy" alum and "Buffy" herself star in "Crazy Ones," CBS's half-hour comedy pilot, produced by David E. Kelley, which centers on a father (Williams) and his daughter (Gellar), who are co-owners of an ad agency.
Hopefully, Williams' recent Twitter photo below is not indicative of how the father-daughter duo behaves on screen.
It's a blast!#thecrazyones twitter.com/robinwilliams/…
— Robin Williams (@robinwilliams) April 5, 2013
Williams also tweeted a photo of his dog on set with the show's logo in the background.
On the set with Leonard. twitter.com/robinwilliams/…
— Robin Williams (@robinwilliams) March 27, 2013
In addition to Williams and Gellar, the "Crazy Ones" pilot -- which is directed by "Modern Family's" Jason Winer -- »
- The Huffington Post
New Images From 42 Reveal More About The Film
23 March 2013 1:37 PM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
“42,” the long-awaited (at least for me) biopic about baseball legend Jackie Robinson, will be in theaters very soon and in anticipation of the release, we’ve got some new pictures to show you! Check them out below the post! “42″ is directed by Brian Helgeland, produced by Thomas Tull and executive produced by Dick Cook, Jon Jashni, Jason Clark. Chadwick Boseman stars as Jackie Robinson. Also starring in the film are Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Andre Holland, Lucas Black, Hamish Linklater, Ryan Merriman and T.R. Knight. “Hero is a word we hear often in sports, but heroism is not always about achievements on the field of play. ’42′ [ Read More ]
The post New Images From 42 Reveal More About The Film appeared first on Shockya.com. »
- monique
Watch Clips from 42 Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford
23 March 2013 9:19 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Warner Bros.' 42 has new clips. The baseball drama directed by Brian Helgeland stars Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, and opens on April 12, 2013. Also in the cast are Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Andre Holland, Lucas Black, Hamish Linklater, Ryan Merriman and T.R. Knight. Hero is a word we hear often in sports, but heroism is not always about achievements on the field of play. "42" tells the story of two men—the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers Gm Branch Rickey—whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) put himself at the forefront of history when he signed Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to the team, breaking Major League Baseball's infamous »
Watch Clips from 42 Starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford
23 March 2013 9:19 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Warner Bros.' 42 has new clips. The baseball drama directed by Brian Helgeland stars Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, and opens on April 12, 2013. Also in the cast are Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Andre Holland, Lucas Black, Hamish Linklater, Ryan Merriman and T.R. Knight. Hero is a word we hear often in sports, but heroism is not always about achievements on the field of play. "42" tells the story of two men—the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers Gm Branch Rickey—whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) put himself at the forefront of history when he signed Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to the team, breaking Major League Baseball's infamous »
“42″ The True Story of An American Legend
22 March 2013 11:34 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
Hero is a word we hear often in sports, but heroism is not always about achievements on the field of play. “42″ tells the story of two men—the great Jackie Robinson and trailblazing Brooklyn Dodgers Gm Branch Rickey—whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. From Academy Award® winner Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential”) comes the real-life drama “42,” starring Chadwick Boseman (“The Express”) as Jackie Robinson and Oscar® nominee Harrison Ford (“Witness”) as Branch Rickey. In 1947, Branch Rickey put himself at the forefront of history when he signed Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking Major League Baseball’s infamous color line. But the deal also put both Robinson and Rickey in the firing line of the public, the press and other players. Facing blatant racism from every side, even his own team, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and restraint by not reacting in kind, »
- Josh Abraham
'The Office' that could have been: Adam Scott as Jim, Mary-Lynn Rajskub as Pam
19 March 2013 6:40 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Now that "The Office" has wrapped production, Rainn Wilson has offered up a tantalizing look at what the show could have been, had casting for the show way back in 2003 gone very differently.
Wilson posted a photo on his Facebook page Tuesday (March 19) of the sign-in sheet from the first day of auditions for the show on Nov. 6, 2003. The show's casting director, Allison Jones, kept the document and gave it to Wilson when filming ended last week, he says.
Wilson, who at the time was recurring on HBO's "Six Feet Under," was the first person to audition and signed in as auditioning for either Dwight, the role he'd end up getting, or Michael, eventually played by Steve Carell (who came aboard in early 2004). Others auditioning to play Dwight included Matt Besser ("Walk Hard"), Matt Price ("Men of a Certain Age") and Jarrett Grode ("Undeclared").
Price would end up guesting on »
- editorial@zap2it.com
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