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Is Modern Family one of the ten best shows of the decade?
17 hours ago | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
Next month, everyone here at TV Squad will be giving their picks for the best TV shows of the '00s (zeros? aughts?). One critic has the jump on us and has picked his ten, and ABC's new sitcom Modern Family is one of them.
I'm not sure how this can be. I mean, I like it Ok, but has it been around long enough to put it on the list of the best TV shows of the past ten years? To be fair, he picks some shows I definitely think should be in the running, including The West Wing, Mad Men, 30 Rock, Lost, and The Sopranos, but I think there are a lot of shows we could pick to go in the number ten spot where Modern Family sits.
Last month I did a post on how a lot of critics think the show is one of the ten best of the year, »
- Bob Sassone
Sneak Peek: Watch three minutes of tonight's House
21 hours ago | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
Ooh, the tables are turned in tonight's House, and Wilson is the one with the medical mystery on his hands. On a hunting trip, his buddy, played by The West Wing star Josh Malina, has a physical meltdown, and Wilson has to figure out what's going on.
Earlier this year, executive producer Katie Jacobs said, "We have this upcoming episode where House is to Wilson as Wilson is usually to House. Like he'll be in the middle of something and House will drop by, or he'll go see House in the middle of a differential diagnosis meeting, and we'll never even know what they were working on. I'm excited about it."
And, of course, I always love the episodes where Hugh Laurie gets to display his musical talents, even if it Is in a House-centric way. In fact, I'm loving House this season. How about you? Join in our spirited »
- Jane Boursaw
See the First Three Minutes of House's Wilson-Centric Ep!
24 November 2009 6:34 PM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Fox's hit medical-mysteries series House is mixing it up next week, and you Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) fans are going to love the twist! Instead of Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) being the lead investigator on a health crisis, sidekick James "Jim" Wilson is the man at the center of the show, and Celebrity Jeopardy! standout/The West Wing star Josh Malina plays the patient who Wilson must save. As executive producer Katie Jacobs told us earlier this year, "We have this upcoming episode where House is to Wilson as Wilson is usually to House. Like he'll be in the middle of something and House will drop by, or he'll go see House in the middle of a differential diagnosis meeting, and... »
President Bartlet pardons a turkey (and teaches us a little about stuffing)
24 November 2009 2:02 PM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
One of favorite aspects of Thanksgiving, besides the turkey and the stuffing and the pie, is that I get to watch the Thanksgiving episodes of The West Wing. Yeah, I guess I could watch the episodes any time of year since I own them on DVD, but that's not how I roll.
Here are two classic scenes from the show. The first is from the episode "Shibboleth" where President Bartlet pardons a turkey, and the second, after the jump, is from "The Indians in the Lobby," the scene where he calls the Butterball hotline.
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- Bob Sassone
Aaron Sorkin Returning to TV
23 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
There’s a lot of great writers in Hollywood and Aaron Sorkin is definitely one of them. Responsible for such great shows as Sports Night, The West Wing, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Sorkin has brought us some incredible television. While his last series, Studio 60 was unfortunately canceled in its first season it thankfully hasn’t deterred Sorkin from returning to television.
So what is Sorkin’s new series going to be about? Well, television seems like a natural choice, “It’s going to be what turns out to be the third in the trilogy of TV shows that take place behind the scenes of a TV show, but this will be a different kind of TV show. That’s all I can let out of the bag right now.”
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m fully on board for anything Sorkin is doing but »
- Bob Starr
Aaron Sorkin Returning to TV?
19 November 2009 4:23 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
While busy completing the script for David Fincher’s Facebook biopic The Social Network it seems Aaron Sorkin is returning to the small screen for his next venture.
He tells TV Guide (via Total FIlm)
“I’m going to be starting on a new TV series when filming is done on the upcoming movie The Social Network,.. It’s going to be what turns out to be the third in the trilogy of TV shows that take place behind the scenes of a TV show, but this will be a different kind of TV show. That’s all I can let out of the bag right now.”
This is great, great news, TV has missed Sorkin and since his SNL inspired Studio 60 was canceled Sorkin has worked on Charlie Wilson’s War before his current project with Fincher. While his work in film, particularly his adaptataion of his stage play A Few Good Men, »
- Jon Lyus
TV Tidbits: Aaron Sorkin Returns to Form, Gretchen Mol Joins Scorsese’s Boardwalk Empire, Jason Lee to Star in TNT’s Delta Blues, Emmys Come Early
19 November 2009 1:27 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
In TV news tonight: It looks like Aaron Sorkin is finally heading back to television after the failure of Studio 60, and you wouldn't believe what he's got planned according to TV Guide: I'm going to be starting on a new TV series. It's going to be what turns out to be the third in the trilogy of TV shows that take place behind the scenes of a TV show, but this will be a different kind of TV show. That's all I can let out of the bag right now. I'm actually not opposed to Sorkin revisiting a genre he knows so well. Let's not forget that The West Wing, perhaps his best show, was also a behind the scenes look at the White House. Sorkin also said he hopes to reunite with some of his former series actors, and will definitely be working with longtime collaborator/director Thomas Schlamme. »
- Devindra Hardawar
National Treasure director to make Greenpeace film
17 November 2009 8:50 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jon Turteltaub signs up to direct a film about the birth of the campaigning group, with Jerry 'Naked Gun' Zucker producing
It started in 1971, when a ramshackle fishing vessel with a ragtag crew of anti-war protesters sailed to a remote island north of Alaska in the hope of disrupting Us nuclear weapons tests. Taking its name from the rechristened boat, Greenpeace grew into an environmental movement that is still grabbing the headlines almost four decades on. Now Hollywood plans to put that story on the big screen, with Greenpeace's blessing, and hired the director of National Treasure and the producer of the Airplane and Naked Gun films to do it.
According to Variety, Jon Turteltaub, whose CV also includes Cool Runnings and While You Were Sleeping, has signed to direct, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. The trade paper also reports that The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has been approached to write the script. »
- Chai Hong Lim
Turtletaub Making Greenpeace Movie
12 November 2009 11:32 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Jon Turteltaub, director of the National Treasure movies and most recently another Nicolas Cage vehicle with The Sorceror's Apprentice, is set to tackle some rather more realistic events, with the news that he's developing a story about the founders of the Greenpeace movement.Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, for it was they, turned a disparate group of pacificists, environmentalists, scientists, sailors, musicians and teachers into the anti-nuclear, anti-whaling group that we all know today. And helpfully they've both written books about it, which will form the basis of this film: Weyler's 'Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World' and Hunter's Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement.Turteltaub and his producers are currently looking for writers, and rather excitingly are in early discussions with West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. He, of course, recently wrote the much talked-about script for the Facebook movie The Social Network, »
Exclusive Video: Hal Holbrook Stands in That Evening Sun
12 November 2009 6:38 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Actor Hal Holbrook has had a long and distinguished career. Best known for his legendary role as the Watergate conspiracy lynchpin Deep Throat in All the President's Men, the actor was introduced to an all new audience in 2007 when he was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in Sean Penn's Into the Wild. A veteran of over one-hundred and twenty film and television projects, the actor has appeared in such movies as John Carpenter's The Fog, Capricorn One, The Star Chamber, Wall Street, Fletch Lives and The Firm, not to mention countless performances on popular television programs like Evening Shade, The West Wing and The Sopranos. It's safe to say that at age eighty-four, Holbrook shows no signs of slowing down as he is currently getting rave reviews for his performance as a Tennessee farm owner dealing with being forced off his farm and into a retirement home in That Evening Sun, »
Jon Bon Jovi 'rules out return to acting'
10 November 2009 4:48 PM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Jon Bon Jovi has claimed that he will never act again because he finds the audition process too tough. The singer has starred in several films, including Pay It Forward and U-571, and has also made guest appearances on TV shows The West Wing, Sex and the City and Ally McBeal. The star was recently lined up to appear in police drama Criminal Minds, but later turned the project down and his role was handed to Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale. (more) »
- By Oli Simpson
As Dollhouse disappears from TV, what other hitmakers' shows have been axed?
10 November 2009 11:12 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
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 »
- Anna Pickard
Zakes Mokae obituary
10 November 2009 10:45 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
South African actor who helped break the taboos of apartheid
On a steamy evening in a rundown Johannesburg club in September 1961, two actors premiered The Blood Knot, a play about brothers with different fathers, both men black but one light enough to enter white society. For each of them, the black actor Zakes Mokae, who has died aged 75, and the white playwright Athol Fugard, the night launched their careers. Fugard's play toured South Africa for six months, and although he travelled first-class on the train while Mokae travelled third, the two had broken a taboo by being the first black and white actors to appear on a public stage in apartheid South Africa. The success of The Blood Knot brought Fugard to international attention and kickstarted Mokae's long and varied career in theatre, film and television.
Mokae was born and grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, the son of a policeman and a housemaid. »
Is Cast Offs good news for disabled actors?
9 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The C4 mockumentary promises to show a new side to disability, but will it mean programme-makers create better roles for actors like me?
Imagine if we stuck a paper bag on the head of Al Pacino and scrawled the word "disability" on it. Would Pacino have chosen to become an actor under such conditions? Yet this is the predicament faced by myself and the rest of the burgeoning number of disabled people who are choosing to pursue acting careers. We, too, dream of our nuanced, subtle and sexy performances garnering Baftas and Oscars. As a young actor, I would read biographies of Olivier and Burton and be transported into reveries of my imminent Hollywood Career. Foolishly, I hadn't noticed the paper bag.
In 1992, I auditioned for drama school. The first school reassured me afterwards that, had I not been disabled, I would definitely have been given a place. The second »
Helen Mirren joins Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman in Red
6 November 2009 7:44 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren has joined the cast of Red, the film adaptation of the comic book miniseries written by Warren Ellis and published by Wildstorm.
The movie, starring Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman, begins filming on January 11 and is set for release on November 19, 2010, with Robert Schwentke (Flightplan, The Time Traveler's Wife) directing.
Willis will be playing retired CIA agent Paul Moses who is targeted by assassins sent by the new leader of the CIA (Freeman) who wants to dispose of former agents who know too much.
Mirren, 64, whose casting was revealed by ScreenDaily and is now confirmed by Variety, is speculated to be playing the previous CIA boss who has stayed in touch with Moses.
In addition, John C. Reilly (The Aviator, Gangs of New York) and Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds, Angels in America, The West Wing) are in talks to join the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. »
- David Bentley
‘Southland’ Gets Saved by TNT
3 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Listen up all you disgruntled Southland fans, TNT is your new favorite network. The acclaimed police drama has risen from the ashes of cancellation and will be returning to television on a new network:
“TNT has picked up the critically acclaimed series “Southland,” closing a deal with Warner Bros. Television that will bring the drama from Emmy-winning producer John Wells (”ER,” “The West Wing”) to the network in January.
TNT has obtained exclusive rights to air all six episodes that have been shot for the second season, as well as the seven episodes from the series’ first season. “Southland” will air on TNT Tuesdays at 10 p.m. (Et/Pt), beginning with the first episode of the series on Jan. 12.”
This is great news for the series especially given the somewhat surprising cancellation by NBC before the show even returned for a second season. Honestly, they brought back Heroes but not Southland? »
- Bob Starr
TV Review: HBO's 'By the People: The Election of Barack Obama'
2 November 2009 11:40 AM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It's not popular to say, because it was one of the post-Aaron Sorkin years, but the sixth season of "The West Wing" is one of my favorites. Perhaps no season of "The West Wing" was more process-oriented, as the writers took us through the rise of young, untested Democrat Matthew Santos (Jimmy Smits) and maverick, outspoken Republican Arnold Vinick (Alan Alda) as they went through the primaries to secure their parties' respective nominations for President. Just because the writing rarely sparkled as it did in the Sorkin years didn't mean that Season Six of "The West Wing" wasn't the savviest the... »
- Daniel Fienberg
TNT Picks Up ‘Southland’
2 November 2009 7:40 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Fans can rejoice as new life has been given into their favorite police drama, Southland, with TNT announcing this morning that they’ve closed the deal to pick up the popular series recently canceled by NBC for being too dark and inappropriate for their 9pm time slot.
TNT has picked up the critically acclaimed series Southland, closing a deal with Warner Bros. Television that will bring the drama from Emmy®-winning producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing) to the network in January. TNT has obtained exclusive rights to air all six episodes that have been shot for the second season, as well as the seven episodes from the series’ first season. Southland will air on TNT Tuesdays at 10 p.m. (Et/Pt), beginning with the first episode of the series on Jan. 12.
We recently reported that there were rumors about TNT picking up the series, but nothing was substantiated »
- Anthony Ocasio
Southland Officially Picked Up by TNT
2 November 2009 6:32 AM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
In early October we reported that NBC had canceled Southland and pulled the plug on airing the six episodes that had already been produced. Rumors soon started swirling that TNT would pick up the critically-acclaimed show.
We now have official confirmation that TNT has indeed picked up Southland:
TNT has picked up the critically acclaimed series Southland, closing a deal with Warner Bros. Television that will bring the drama from Emmy®-winning producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing) to the network in January. TNT has obtained exclusive rights to air all six episodes that have been shot for the second season, as well as the seven episodes from the series’ first season. Southland will air on TNT Tuesdays at 10 p.m. (Et/Pt), beginning with the first episode of the series on Jan. 12.
“This is a great win for fans of Southland and a perfect opportunity to introduce the series to new viewers, »
- Clarissa
TNT Picks Up Acclaimed Drama Southland
2 November 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
TNT has picked up the critically acclaimed series "Southland," closing a deal with Warner Bros. Television that will bring the drama from Emmy-winning producer John Wells ("ER," "The West Wing") to the network in January. TNT has obtained exclusive rights to air all six episodes that have been shot for the second season, as well as the seven episodes from the series' first season. "Southland" will air on TNT Tuesdays at 10 p.m. (Et/Pt), beginning with the first episode of the series on Jan. 12. "This is a great win for fans of 'Southland' and a perfect opportunity to introduce the series to new viewers," said Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks. "It's also another outstanding example of how TNT has... »
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