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Promo & Photos – ABC's "Happy Town"
15 December 2009 4:22 PM, PST
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ABC's new midseason show, Happy Town, is set to premiere in 2010, although I'm not yet sure of the exact date. However, ABC has released some information for us, including a long promo, a description of the show, and several photos (presumably from the pilot episode).
The show looks a bit like Twin Peeks – a show about a small town with weird characters and even weirder circumstances.
Haplin, Minnesota, "Happy Town," has enjoyed an uneasy peace for five years, but all that is about to change. Still haunted by a number of unsolved kidnappings, the small town now faces a dark new crime that brings all its unresolved fears to the surface. Has the elusive "Magic Man" – who many believe is responsible for the bizarre abductions — returned to claim another victim? As Haplin's mysteries are revealed, many of its prominent citizens' motives come under scrutiny as their own secrets and personalities
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'Happy Town' first look: Preview ABC's midseason mystery
15 December 2009 2:21 PM, PST
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ABC hasn't put "Happy Town" on its midseason schedule yet, but you can get a taste of the small-town mystery right now.
The show, which comes from the "Life on Mars"/"October Road" brain trust of Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg, tells the story of an outwardly idyllic small town in Minnesota that's rocked by the presumed return of a kidnapper who terrorized the town in the past. A new crime causes a bunch of secrets to bubble to the surface ...
Sound a little familiar? Others have been describing the show as a latter-day "Twin Peaks" for months now, and ABC has jumped on the bandwagon too -- the "Happy Town" trailer mentions David Lynch's 1990 sensation in the first five seconds. So, you know, no pressure there.
That could be both a blessing -- "Twin Peaks" is fondly remembered (and rightfully so) for being a blast of
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Michael Imperioli Video Interview The Lovely Bones
11 December 2009 3:48 PM, PST
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Opening today in New York and Los Angeles is director Peter Jackson’s latest film The Lovely Bones. Based on the Novel by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is about a 14-year old girl named Susie Salmon who is murdered on her way home from school. From heaven, Susie keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her killer and the detective working on her case. The film stars Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Saoirse Ronan.
To help promote the film, our partners at Omelete were invited to the international press day and they sent me. But rather than wait till Christmas Day when the film will be playing in a lot more of the country, I’ve decided to slowly post the video interviews with the cast over the next few weeks, with Michael Imperioli up first. In the film,
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Extended Promo – Life UneXpected
1 December 2009 4:32 PM, PST
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TheCW's new midseason show – Life UneXpected – will be premiering on January 18th and the network is ramping up the publicity train for it. Witness another new extended promo for the episode. I think the girl who plays the daughter is cute and likable, so I'm going to give this show a chance beyond just the pilot. Check out the promo below and don't forgot to view the longer featurette/sneak peek we posted earlier.
After spending all of her 15 years bouncing from one foster family to another in Portland, Oregon, Lux (Britt Robertson, “Swingtown”) has decided it’s time to take control of her life and become an emancipated minor. Her journey through the legal maze of emancipation leads Lux to her biological father, thirty-something Nate “Baze” Bazile (Kristoffer Polaha, ”Mad Men”), who is astonished to learn that he has a teenage daughter. Baze owns a bar and still lives
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Sneak Peek / Featurette – Life UneXpected
19 November 2009 4:48 PM, PST
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As previously announced, theCW would be premiering the new series, Life UneXpected, on January 18th. The network has now created a nearly 5 minute featurette that's primarily a sneak peek and contains scenes from the pilot episode, as well as introducing you to all of the characters.
As mentioned, I've watched the pilot episode and liked it, but Shiri Appleby doesn't look like she could be the mother of a 15 year old. She looks like she's perpetually 25 years old, which she is most definitely going to appreciate when she grows older. The newer cast photo below shows her with a shorter cut that makes her look older, so let's see whether the rest of you are convinced that she could be this young girl's mother.
After spending all of her 15 years bouncing from one foster family to another in Portland, Oregon, Lux (Britt Robertson, “Swingtown”) has decided it’s time to
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Channel Surfing: Jason Lee Mired in "Delta Blues," Fred Willard Drops By "Modern Family," Gretchen Mol Strolls on HBO's "Boardwalk," and More
18 November 2009 7:53 AM, PST
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Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing.
Jason Lee (My Name is Earl) has been cast as the lead in TNT drama pilot Delta Blues, where he will play Dwight Hendricks, a Memphis cop who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator and lives with his mother. Pilot, from Warner Horizon and Smokehouse Pictures, is written by Liz M. Garcia and Joshua Harto and will be directed by Clark Johnson, who will executive produce with George Clooney and Grant Heslov. (Hollywood Reporter)
Proving that the series' casting directors have inherited the comedy casting mantle from Arrested Development and 30 Rock, Fred Willard (Back to You) has signed on to guest star on an upcoming episode of ABC's Modern Family, where he will play the father to Ty Burrell's Phil. [Editor: look for Willard to turn up, oh, before the end of the calendar year.] (Fancast)
Gretchen Mol (Life on Mars) has joined the cast of HBO's upcoming period drama Boardwalk Empire in the recurring role of Gillian,
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CW's Life UneXpected to Premiere in January
10 November 2009 7:50 AM, PST
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I watched (and enjoyed) the pilot episode for this show back in the summer (when it used to be called "Parental Discretion" and now theCW has annouced a premiere date for the rebranded Life UneXpected: January 18, 2010 (likely at 9:00 p.m.).
In an effort to air only new episodes on Monday nights, theCW will slot in Life when Gossip Girl goes on hiatus for several weeks in the new year. When Gossip Girl returns, Life will air at 8:00 p.m. while One Tree Hill goes on hiatus.
After spending all of her 15 years bouncing from one foster family to another in Portland, Oregon, Lux (Britt Robertson, “Swingtown”) has decided it’s time to take control of her life and become an emancipated minor. Her journey through the legal maze of emancipation leads Lux to her biological father, thirty-something Nate “Baze” Bazile (Kristoffer Polaha, ”Mad Men”), who is astonished
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Life On Mars: The Complete Series DVD Review
31 October 2009 8:20 AM, PDT
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I long ago realized that my loving a series usually means that it’s doomed. The magic worked again with last season’s Life on Mars. It was, to my way of thinking, one of the best and most intelligent shows on TV at that time. Of course, it didn’t hurt that the series was set — sort of — in 1973. An American version of a BBC hit, the series chronicled the adventures of New York police detective Sam Tyler (Jason O’Mara), who having survived a car accident in 2008, somehow woke up over thirty years before. Each week, Tyler’s “enlightened” views on police and societal affairs were pitted against the “archaic” mores of his fellow cops, especially Lt. Gene Hunt (Harvey Keitel). Sam’s only ally is Policewoman Annie Norris (Gretchen Mol).
But that was only one motif. In with and under his struggles with the past, and attempts
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- Charles A. Coulombe
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Is there still any life left on Mars?
10 October 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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The original version of Life On Mars revolved around a very strong idea, and fortunately the relocation from bleak Blighty to the sunny States hasn't caused the central premise to be lost in translation. There are plenty of commendable creative decisions in this opening episode, which has just received its UK debut on the FX channel, and the story is remarkably faithful to the show that spawned it. However, one major casting choice makes a terrible first impression. With so much depending on the chemistry between time-jumping coma victim Sam Tyler and the brash bullyboy copper Gene Hunt, the casting of Harvey Keitel as the latter appears to be nothing short of lunacy. The guy has delivered some mesmerising performances over the years, but he is totally lacking the physical presence and stature to do the role justice, especially given his advancing years. Watching Keitel as (more)
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- By Ben Rawson-Jones
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[TV] Life on Mars: The Complete Series
8 October 2009 4:28 PM, PDT
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This review contains spoilers.
Life On Mars starts out rather promisingly. Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) plays a present-day New York detective whose partner-slash-girlfriend Maya (Lisa Bonet) is abducted from a park one day. In the haze of his grief, he wanders into the road and gets struck by a car. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a version of 1973 where every dude looks like Paul Rudd's character in Anchorman. He is still Sam Tyler, he still lives in New York City, and he's still a police officer, only it's 1973 and everyone he has ever met is either really young or hasn't been born yet.
Naturally, Sam panics, resisting his fate madly for an entire episode, though he does manage to solve a case in the process. After the initial existential hysteria, Sam semi-reluctantly resigns into his new life, partially due to his meeting Annie (Gretchen Mol), a
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- Inna Mkrtycheva
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TV on DVD Round Up, Oct. 8, 2009: ‘Primeval,’ ‘Life on Mars,’ ‘Mister Ed’
8 October 2009 12:16 PM, PDT
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Chicago – The Round-Up returns with a special TV on DVD edition of our regular, informational column. Why is it special? Because this is the most diverse collection of TV that the Round-Up staff has ever seen. From classics like “Mister Ed” to recent shows like “Life on Mars,” this edition truly has something for everyone. And something remarkable for “Spongebob Squarepants” fans.
“Primeval: Volume Two” was released on September 15th, 2009.
“Brotherhood: The Final Season” and “Spongebob Squarepants: The First 100 Episodes” were released on September 22nd, 2009.
“Life on Mars: The Complete Series” and “The Patty Duke Show: Season One” were released on September 29th, 2009.
“Mister Ed: Season One” was released on October 6th, 2009.
“Brotherhood: The Final Season”
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Synopsis: “This 2-Disc set includes all 8 dramatic final season episode of this critically acclaimed, superbly acted and explosive blue-collar drama. Will Tommy live up
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DVD Giveaway: Life on Mars The Complete Series
6 October 2009 8:40 AM, PDT
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ABC's short lived but highly praised Life on Mars television series is now available on DVD and I have two sets up for grabs in this contest.
Fill out and send in the completed entry form below for a chance to win Life on Mars: The Complete Series on DVD. If you'd like, return any or every day thereafter to enter again and increase the odds of winning each time.
Immerse yourself in the groundbreaking series that captivated fans and critics from coast to coast. With an irresistible soundtrack and one of the most celebrated casts on television, including Jason O'Mara, Michael Imperioli, Gretchen Mol and Harvey Keitel, Life On Mars is smart, suspenseful drama with a finish that will blow you away. "It's one of those endings I believe will make you watch the series again," says Executive Producer Josh Appelbaum. There's a fine line between delusion and reality.
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SyFy’s ‘Riverworld’ Trailer
29 September 2009 4:52 PM, PDT
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Earlier this week, Rhi Entertainment release a trailer for their new SyFy channel miniseries, Riverworld, staring Tahmoh Penikett (Dollhouse), Laura Vandervoort (Smallville), Mark Deklin (Life on Mars), Peter Wingfield (Highlander) and Alan Cumming (X-Men 2).
Riverworld focuses on a journalist named Matt (Penikett) and his fiancée Jessie (Vandervoort), who were both killed in an explosion, but soon awake to find themselves on some strange planet covered with rivers. The planet is populated by everyone from earth who has died. They soon team up with Mark Twain and other resurrected souls to travel upstream in an attempt to find what who or what is behind this.
This will mark the second time SyFy has attempted to develop a project based on the Riverworld books by Philip José Farmer. In 2003 SyFy (then Sci-Fi) aired a feature-length backdoor series pilot for Riverworld. The airing didn’t garner a large enough audience to continue production on a the series.
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SyFy Channel’s Riverworld Mini-Series Trailer
28 September 2009 8:41 PM, PDT
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Rhi Entertainment recently put a full trailer for their “Riverworld” mini-series that is set to be released as a backdoor pilot on the SyFy Channel sometime in 2010 on YouTube. This is actually they second time the cable channel has tried to adapt Philip José Farmer’s story on the screen.
Matt, an American journalist, and his fiancée, Jessie, are killed in an explosion, but reawaken in a very unusual afterlife—a mysterious planet with an endless river terrain. Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been resurrected simultaneously in this strange new world. Determined to find Jessie, Matt joins forces with an intrepid crew including a 13th century female warrior and Riverboat captain Mark Twain. Embarking upriver, their adventure begins, all the while tracked by the watchful eye of a mysterious alien force.
The mini-series stars Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica), Laura Vandervoort (Smallville), Mark Deklin (Life on Mars), Peter Wingfield
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'Twilight's' Rachelle Lefevre: Fans Carried Me Through
18 September 2009 1:48 PM, PDT
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"New Moon" vampire Rachelle Lefevre tells "Extra" that despite being replaced in the series, she hopes to impress during her final run as Victoria.
"I'm very, very excited," Rachelle says of her work as bloodthirsty Victoria. "They wrote a lot of fun stuff for me from 'Twilight' to 'New Moon.' In the book, Victoria is not that present and they really did their best. Melissa Rosenberg, our screenwriter, told me that she loved writing
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J.J. Abrams hires 'M:i 4' writers
7 August 2009 1:58 AM, PDT
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J.J. Abrams and Tom Cruise have hired two writers for Mission: Impossible 4. Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec, who teamed with Abrams on four seasons of his TV series Alias, have been brought in for the project. The pair's other credits include ABC series Happy Town and the Us version of Life On Mars. "I've been looking forward to working with Josh and Andre (more)
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Two writers are hired for Mission: Impossible IV
6 August 2009 11:52 PM, PDT
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Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the screenplay for Mission: Impossible IV, according to trade paper Variety. Paramount Pictures and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams hired the duo, who have worked on a bunch of Abrams' TV shows, to pen the script for the fourth film in the highly-popular series, which stars Cruise as Ethan Hunt.
Applebaum and Nemec are responsible for writing on shows like October Road and the Us version of the BBC show Life On Mars.
M:i IV is set for release in 2011.
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Resident Evil: Afterlife set to shoot
16 July 2009 11:26 PM, PDT
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Resident Evil: Afterlife (which we last mentioned here) has a start date.
Production Weekly reports via Twitter that the fourth chapter in the cinematic Resident Evil franchise will begin principal photography on September 28th at CineSpace Studios in Toronto.
The 8-week shoot will see star Milla Jovovich (Alice) reunited with writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson (Death Race) who previously helmed the first film in addition to handling writing duties on the series.
IMDb has "rumored" cast set to include Jensen Ackles (Supernatural, My Blood Valentine 3-D) as Leon S. Kennedy, Jason O'Mara (Life On Mars) reprising his role as Albert Wesker, soap actor Austin Peck (Days Of Our Lives, As The World Turns) as Kevin Ryman, with Johnny Messner (Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid) as Chris Redfield. We'll get the full details on confirmed cast when it becomes available.
Look for more on Resident Evil: Afterlife here on Fangoria.
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Life on Mars: Was There a Mistake in the Last Episode?
9 April 2009 4:05 PM, PDT
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Last week, we said goodbye to ABC's Life on Mars after a too-short run of 17 episodes. Love or hate the ending, most people are happy that the show's executive producers -- Josh Appelbaum, Scott Rosenberg, and André Nemec -- had a chance to wrap things up before the TV show ended.
As those who tuned in found out, Sam (Jason O'Mara) was not actually a cop from 2008 as we'd been led to believe. He was actually an astronaut from the year 2035 who had been placed in a state of deep sleep for a long trip to Mars. In his dream state, he was supposed to be living out a fantasy about living as a 2008 detective. His spaceship was hit some turbulence which caused the program to malfunction, sending his fantasy persona back to 1973. Elements of his 2035 life and versions of his fellow space travelers (Michael Imperioli, Gretchen Mol, Jonathan Murphy,
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Life on Mars: Series Finale Shocker -- A Great Ending or a Terrible Finish?
1 April 2009 10:26 PM, PDT
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ABC's Life on Mars didn't catch on with enough viewers and was unfortunately cancelled after one brief season. Sadly, tonight we had to say goodnight to the outstanding cast of Jason O'Mara, Michael Imperioli, Gretchen Mol, Harvey Keitel, and Jonathan Murphy.
Thankfully, the show's creators were given enough time to craft a true series finale. Executive producer Scott Rosenberg told Scifiwire, "Basically, this episode was always going to be the season finale, so we just switched things up towards the end. But we always wanted it to culminate with him and his parents... Amongst our favorite things that we did was always with his father and his mother. Every time we went to that well, it really worked for us. You'll realize when you see it Wednesday night at 11:00, you'll see that the whole theme of the entire 17 hours was all leading up to this. It was all about
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