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'True Blood' scoop: The search for Alcide begins!
11 December 2009 2:50 PM, PST
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True Blood's wolf hunt has officially begun!
Although Alan Ball confirmed to me over the summer that werewolf Alcide would take a big bite out of the drama's upcoming third season, the search for an actor to play the pivotal part formally got underway today with the release of the following casting notice:
Alcide: Good-looking, rough-around-the-edges, articulate, heroic, and decent, but not what he seems. He gets along well with Sookie. There's even an attraction between the two. Very strong recurring.
True Blood is also searching for a fortysomething African-American actor to play Hollis, a bouncer in a bar.
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- Michael Ausiello
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Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on '24,' 'Grey's,' 'Castle,' 'Dexter,' 'Bones,' and more!
9 December 2009 8:56 PM, PST
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Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Just want to say hi? You can send any/all of the above to ausielloscoop@ew.com
Question: Stop beating around the bush about Mark and Addison. What exactly goes on between them during the Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice crossover next month? —Carrie
Ausiello: Ever heard of the phrase, "Knocking boots 'til the cows come home"?
Question: Can we get some Mark and Lexie scoop? Seriously, we've heard everything about everyone on Grey's except them. —Sophie
Ausiello: Ever heard of the phrase, "Deep doo-doo"? That's pretty much where their relationship is headed.
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- Michael Ausiello
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Kristin Chenoweth to Host 15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards!
9 December 2009 4:51 PM, PST
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The Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca) has announced that Emmy and Tony Award winning actress Kristin Chenoweth will be hosting the 15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards gala on Friday, January 15, 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium.
I'm a proud voting member of the Bfca and I honestly believe that the Critics' Choice is a much, much better barometer of the Oscars than the Golden Globes.
Chenoweth became popular for her star-making turn as Glinda in "Wicked" and her show-stealing, Tony Award winning performance in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown."
Recently, Chenoweth received the 2009 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her memorable performance in the ABC series "Pushing Daisies."
The 15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards gala will air live for the third straight year on VH1 on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 9:00 Pm*.
The awards are bestowed annually by the Bfca to honor the finest in cinematic achievement.
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Anna Friel Has Been Seen lip-Kissing With A Co-star
7 December 2009 4:35 AM, PST
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The actress, who is currently starring as Holly Golightly in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ in London’s West End, was photographed sharing a lingering kiss with John Cross, 23, at a London bar on Saturday night (05.12.09), days after they enjoyed an evening out with her partner David Thewlis.
An onlooker said: “They have a great chemistry on stage and are obviously close friends off it. But I was still surprised when I saw Anna plant him with a kiss on the lips.”
However, despite their kiss, pals of the 33-year-old British beauty insist there is nothing romantic going on between her and John.
A pal said: “Anna is queen of touchy feely – but they’re just good friends.”
Anna – who has a four-year-old daughter Gracie with David – has previously spoken about how much she likes showing affection to her co-stars, including ‘Lee Pace’, who she starred opposite in Us TV drama
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Friel Wants More Stage Roles
4 December 2009 11:16 AM, PST
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TV actress Anna Friel is eyeing a stage career after falling in love with theatre work during her acclaimed West End run in Breakfast At Tiffany's.
The former Pushing Daisies star has received rave reviews for her role as Holly Golightly in the London stage version of the classic 1961 movie.
And the Brit is now considering turning her back on TV and film work in favour of more plays - because she was shocked by her own reaction to the role.
She tells London's Evening Standard, "When my agent asked me what I wanted to do next, I said, 'I want to keep doing plays.' I never thought I'd say that in the middle of a very hard run, but I absolutely love it. It's almost shocking to me that there are so many different facets to Holly. Every night can be a completely different performance... That's the excitement of theatre."
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Theo Alexander Cast as Talbot on Season Three of True Blood
2 December 2009 5:34 PM, PST
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A few weeks ago, Denis O'Hare was cast in the critical role of the King of Mississippi on season three of True Blood.
We know who will be by this character's side: Theo Alexander has landed the role of Talbot, the blood-thirsty lover of King Russell Edgington.
Alexander has guest-starred on CSI: NY, Pushing Daisies and Chuck.
He joins a growing list of recurring characters on the upcoming season of True Blood. Others actors/roles recently announced include:
Grant Bowler as a werewolf named Coot;
Marshall Allman as Sam's brother;
Shannon Lucio as Bill's first wife.
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- matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)
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Breaking: 'Ugly Betty' hunk joins 'True Blood'
2 December 2009 4:04 PM, PST
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Where True Blood is concerned, people make an awful lotta jokes about fresh meat. But this time it seems unusually apropos: The HBO hit's just added two slabs of beefcake to its season 3 lineup.
Grant Bowler (pictured, right), fondly remembered as Wilhelmina's lamster lover Connor Owens on Ugly Betty, has been tapped to play Coot, the leader of a pack of werewolf bikers. And Theo Alexander (left), an up-and-comer whose resume is already full of guest appearances (Chuck, Pushing Daisies… ), has been cast as Talbot, the fanged significant other of Denis O'Hare's Mississippi vampire king, Russell Edgington.
Opinions? You've got 'em.
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'True Blood' casts new vampire and werewolf via 'Ugly Betty'
2 December 2009 2:36 PM, PST
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On the heels of yesterday's "True Blood" casting news -- "Prison Break"'s Marshall Allman and Shannon Lucio have joined the family -- comes word of two more being turned.
HBO confirms to Zap2it that Grant Bowler -- Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa William)'s once-boyfriend Connor Owens on "Ugly Betty" -- will play a werewolf, the ringleader of a biker gang.
The network says actor Theo Alexander -- whom you may recognize from small roles on "Pushing Daisies," "Chuck" and "CSI: New York" -- has also been hired. He will play the love interest of Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare), aka the vampire king of Mississippi.
Both characters will reportedly pack a little bite... apart from, you know, any actual biting...
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''True Blood' wins Breakthrough award at the Emmys. Whazzat?
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Barry Sonnenfield to Direct and Exec. Produce Funny In Farsi for ABC
30 November 2009 11:30 AM, PST
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Producer-Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Pushing Daisies) is set to direct and executive produce the pilot of Funny in Farsi. The single-camera comedy is being developed for ABC about growing up Iranian American in 1970s Newport Beach, based on Firoozeh Dumas’ memoir of the same name.
According to THR, ABC ordered a pilot script last season, but the director they had in mind pulled out and the project got shelved. The pilot has been adapted from the book by Jeffrey Hodes and Nastaran Dibai (who worked together on the three-camera According to Jim), and Sonnenfeld is helming the show in conjunction with another show, likely a drama, both in a deal with ABC.
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- Michael Sullivan
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TV Bites: Fox Buys McConaughey's Rooster
30 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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· Fox has landed an animated TV comedy from Matthew McConaughey, based on the life of the Sahara actor's brother. Rooster Tales charts the adventures of "a beer-swilling, redneck sheriff who marries a much younger woman from Mexico. The man soon realizes, however, that he's gained not only a wife but an entire clan -- 114 members and counting." McConaughey, who will executive produce the show through his J.K. Livin' Prods. banner, said, "My brother's life is so unbelievable, we had to animate it." [Variety]
Barry Sonnenfeld finds life after Pushing Daisies, Lifetime Movie Network taps the Amish, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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Sci-Fi Viewership Down 17 Percent
29 November 2009 1:17 AM, PST
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We remember the kinds of shows that were out last season that didn't draw the viewers they expected. Programs like "Knight Rider" on NBC, "Pushing Daisies" on ABC, even "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" on Fox.
While those shows might be fading into distant memory by now, there was one positive about that fateful season: More viewers were turning out for genre shows in the first part of the 2008-09 season than they are now.
An Airlock Alpha analysis of the two seasons through the end of November sweeps shows viewership among genre shows to be down nearly 17.1 percent. The drop is actually being led by returning shows, none of which are showing anywhere near a stable audience from the year before, let alone an increase.
"Heroes" on NBC is the biggest surprise. That show is ...
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New Human Target Promo Trailer
26 November 2009 11:55 PM, PST
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Fox has aired this new promo trailer for Human Target starring Mark Valley (Fringe) and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), the television series adaptation of the DC Comics Vertigo-label comic. Watch it now after the jump.
The new event drama, Human Target, premieres with a special preview Sunday, Jan. 17 (8:00-9:00 Pm Et/Pt) following the Nfc Divisional Playoff game. Human Target is a full-throttle, action-packed thrill ride from executive producers McG ("Terminator Salvation") and Simon West ("Con Air," "Tomb Raider"). Based on the popular DC Comics graphic novel and starring Mark Valley (Fringe), Chi McBride ("Pushing Daisies") and Academy Award nominee Jackie Earle Haley ("Watchmen"), the series follows Christopher Chance (Valley), a unique private contractor who will stop at nothing even if it means becoming a human target to keep his clients alive.
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Eastwick | Cable Girl
23 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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Find Desperate Housewives a bit too highbrow? Try Eastwick – it's very simple, rather sweet, and the mountie from Due South plays the Devil
For the days when a walk down Wisteria Lane seems far too much like hard work, there is now the delightful New England town of Eastwick. This new comedy-drama from ABC (showing on the Sci Fi channel from tonight) makes Desperate Housewives look like the German epic Heimat. But as the pulverising madness that is Christmas, end-of-year tax returns, and more Christmas descends, I find myself grateful rather than dismayed that something of such sweet simplicity is to be found anywhere.
Doubtless you know the story, from either John Irving's original book or the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick. Three bored, frustrated and/or lonely women (in the small-screen version, they're nurse and mother-of-five Kat; artist Roxie; and pathologically shy reporter Joanna) befriend each other. Then,
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- Lucy Mangan
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What’s Next for "Ugly Betty" (Gay-wise)? And Would There be a "Glee" Without "Betty"?
20 November 2009 10:32 AM, PST
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Warning: The following article contains general plot spoilers about the upcoming season of Ugly Betty.
Last week, Ugly Betty aired “Backseat Betty,” a touching episode involving Betty’s 15-year-old nephew, Justin. Over the course of the episode, we saw the friendship that is developing between Justin and Marc, an out gay man. But at the end of the episode, Justin announced, to everyone’s surprise, “I’m not gay” – although it was written in a very open-ended way.
We were curious about the future of Justin, Marc, and Ugly Betty in general, so we asked Silvio Horta, the out gay man who is the creator and executive producer for the series, and executive producers Jon Kinnally, who is also an out gay man, and Tracy Poust, who wrote last week’s episode.
What exactly did it mean when Justin claimed he wasn’t gay after being named homecoming queen by his classmates?
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Ellis's 'Frequency' headed to The CW?
18 November 2009 5:07 PM, PST
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The CW is planning to adapt the Warren Ellis-penned comic book Global Frequency. Pushing Daisies scribe Scott Nimerfo has been tapped to write the pilot, reports Production Weekly. "I haven't been cleared to comment yet, so I can't really add anything to this. I've spoken briefly to Scott Nimerfro - by which I mean I threatened to have him stabbed, and he thanked me and told me a funny story about how he's had worse threats - and (more)
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'Global Frequency' back to TV?
18 November 2009 4:25 AM, PST
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Global Frequency, the DC/Wildstorm comic, might be back in play as a TV series.
You may remember that in 2005, Mark Burnett (producer of Survivor) and John Rogers (who would go on to write the comic Blue Beetle and create the show Leverage) created a pilot for the WB. The pilot wasn't picked up; however, it got leaked to the Interwebs and became the most watched pilot that never got picked up.
Now the industry magazine Production Weekly has just posted the following on Twitter: The CW will again try to adapt Warren Ellis' comic book "Global Frequency," this time Scott Nimerfro will script the pilot. Scott Nimerfro has written for Star Trek: Voyager, Tales From The Crypt, Perversions Of Science, The Outer Limits, Stargate: Atlantis, and Pushing Daisies, and was an associate producer on the X-Men movie.
Warren Ellis, creator of Global Frequency, sent out an email with
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Orlando Jones to Clash With Foreman on House
16 November 2009 5:19 PM, PST
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House viewers have heard a lot about Foreman's past, but fans are about to actually meet one person from it.
Sources confirm to Michael Ausiello that Orlando Jones has been cast as Foreman’s estranged (and currently imprisoned) brother, Marcus.
The episode with Marcus has already been shot and will air in February. It will find the the siblings reconnecting, on the eve of Marcus’ parole hearing, but only briefly.
A disagreement will ensue and a major development will take place as a result.
On the small screen, Jones has appeared most recently on Pushing Daisies, Rules of Engagement and Ghost Whisperer.
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As Dollhouse disappears from TV, what other hitmakers' shows have been axed?
10 November 2009 11:12 AM, PST
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Joss Whedon show has been taken off air – for now at least – and looks unlikely to be back for a third season
Usually we'd have an episode-by-episode review of Dollhouse up at this point in the week. But not today – because it's disappeared from both UK and Us the schedules.
The fact that the latest show from Joss Whedon - who has Buffy, Angel and, Firefly among his credits - is missing comes as a disappointment (if not a shock) to its most ardent fans. While Dollhouse will have the chance to finish its Us TV run in December, and presumably its UK run not long after, that still asks a lot of viewers.
Problems with the show came after Fox in the Us decided the audience figures weren't strong enough - it has been in a notoriously difficult Friday night slot - and so for the duration of November
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Ask the Flying Monkey! (November 09, 2009)
8 November 2009 10:15 PM, PST
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Have a question about gay male entertainment? Send it to aftereltonflyingmonkey@yahoo.com! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)
Q: I recently watched
a new series from USA Network titled White Collar, and I was stunned by the gorgeousness of the lead character, Neal, played by the beautiful Matthew
Bomer. I can't
seem to find much info about him. Mind to fill in more? -- rcLoy, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Matthew Bomer in White Collar
A: Bomer is from Houston
where his father was a Dallas Cowboy. He was a high school (and, later, acting
school) classmate of Pushing Daisies’
Lee Pace. He started on soaps, almost played Superman in the latest Superman movie, and co-starred on the TV
show Tru Calling (with Eliza Dushku)
and in the movie Flight Plan (with
Jodie Foster), and also had a reoccurring role on Chuck.
And, oh yeah, a week and a half ago,
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Anna Friel 'sang while fan vomited'
6 November 2009 2:06 AM, PST
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Anna Friel has admitted that she struggled to maintain her composure on stage in Breakfast At Tiffany's as a theatre-goer was sick during her performance. The former Pushing Daisies actress told Smooth Radio that an audience member threw up over the upper balcony, causing six people below to be splattered with vomit. Revealing how the incident happened during a musical number, Friel explained: "I thought it was latecomers who shouldn't have been allowed in - but it turned out someone had vomited from (more)
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