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20 April 2012 1:39 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

"Friends" star Matthew Perry will return to NBC in a comedy for next season called "Go On."

The show, in which he plays a sportscaster who attends a grief support group, has received a pickup for the 2012-13 season, an NBC rep confirms to Zap2it (Deadline first reported the pickup). It's the first pilot this season to get a series order (not counting direct-to-series projects like NBC's "Hannibal" and ABC's "Mistresses").

"Go On" also has a behind-the-scenes "Friends" connection: It was created by Scott Silveri, a long-time writer and producer for the show who also co-created its spinoff "Joey."

Perry starred in "Mr. Sunshine" for ABC last season and has guested on "The Good Wife" this year. He'll also be a co-executive producer of "Go On"; Silveri and director Todd Holland are executive producing with Karey Burke.

"Go On" also stars Laura Benanti ("The Playboy Club"), Allison Miller ("Terra Nova »

- editorial@zap2it.com

8 April 2012 6:12 AM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »

Though largely regarded as humorists, directors Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the finest crime movies ever committed to film.  Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, and their adaptation of No Country for Old Men are straight-ahead crime movies enriched with the Coens’ visual style and lip-smacking dialogue.  Even Fargo, though the thick Minnesota dialect draws huge laughs, couldn’t be more of a crime movie.

The Coens, though, have diverted from their crime path here and there, not that you’re going to hear me complaining.  But lighter comedies like their remake of The Ladykillers or their more darkly comical A Serious Man hover around the crime genre like eyewitnesses.  However, their current effort, which began shooting this past February, Inside Llewyn Davis, is an examination of the folk music scene in 1960s Greenwich Village.  This subject matter itself would severely test my enthusiasm if it was anyone but the Coens making it. »

- Jimmy Callaway

16 February 2012 11:05 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »

The Coen brothers only just kicked off shooting on their latest, Inside Llewyn Davis, but thanks to the internet and all the magic of photo uploading it grants, we already have some photos from the East Village set. You won’t be getting any shots of Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake or, much as it saddens me to say, John Goodman, but the Coen freak in me got pretty jazzed (folked?) at the mere sight of the duo working on another project; those who feel likewise about the siblings will probably have a similar reaction. (And don’t even get me started on the sight of The Gaslight.)

So, yes, most of what you’re getting here is interstitial and dependent entirely upon the locations — yet, all the same, who cares when it looks so pretty and bears so much cinematic promise? Speaking of promise, expectations, and what-not, I »

- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)

17 January 2012 3:30 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

They light up the small screen, but have seen relatively little exposure in the movies. Here’s James’ of TV stars we’d love to see on the big screen…

Straddling the fine line between success and failure in Hollywood is like walking a tightrope of future career persecution and retrospective judgement.

Success on the TV screen is not always amply rewarded with a success on the big screen. There are a few ways to make the cut – reinvent your career through TV (Keifer Sutherland style), take the path less trodden with a series of slow-burning support roles (Jk Simmons) or have a huge hit on TV simply too large to ignore (Ricky Gervais).

Hollywood is a bit like an elitist private members club – once you’re in, you’re in, but cracking it has proven far too difficult for this list of talented actors in the past. We, the people, »

4 items from 2012