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Deconstructing the Decade from 'The West Wing' and beyond: Zap2it Andrea's favorite episodes
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Here comes round no. 3 of favorite episodes. My esteemed colleagues Rick and Hanh have picked their favorites and they each took considerable time preparing their list. I laughed at that -- until I sat down to do mine and it became a four-days-long project.
Here were my personal parameters for the list: 1. Each show could only have one episode on the list. 2. I would not repeat my colleagues' choices, which was particularly hard with "Buffy" and "Veronica Mars," as my top picks have been spoken for. 3. A two-parter counts as one slot on my list. My list, my rules. 4. There was a limit of 10.
Why a limit? Because my initial list had 22 entries and I realized I was basically just listing my favorite shows and then picking good episodes. I had to be more disciplined! The 12 I took off (for a variety of reasons) became "honorable mentions" of a sort.
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Today's holiday TV picks: 'West Wing,' 'Deadliest Catch,' 'Gavin & Stacey'
24 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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Okay, we've had our general discussion of how useful TV marathons can be during the holidays.
So now let's move onto today's top picks:
Bravo is showing all five of The West Wing Christmas episodes -- they started at 8 a.m. Who better to spend Christmas Eve with than President Bartlet, Cj, Toby, and Leo?
Discovery has Deadliest Catch airing from 9 a.m. to midnight -- perfect to distract that cranky uncle as you prepare the feast of the seven fishes (does crab count?)
BBC America has my own personal obsession, Gavin & Stacey, returning with their Christmas Special at 10 p.
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Cast Photos – Damages Season 3
23 December 2009 9:31 AM, PST
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Season 3 of Damages will be premiering on January 25, 2010 and several new cast members will be joining the cast (see when your other favorite shows will be returning in 2010). FX has released several photos in anticipation of the season 3 premiere. Damages is a great, dramatic show with solid performances, even if the quality did dip a bit in season 2. If you don't watch it, you still have time to catch up on seasons 1 and 2, before season 3 premieres.
Check out the cast photos below. It's all very dark and mysterious.
Campbell Scott and Martin Short Sign On as Series Regulars and Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine Take on Guest Starring Roles
FX’s award-winning legal thriller Damages is adding four superior actors to its cast with Campbell Scott and Martin Short signing on as series regulars, and Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine joining as special guest stars for the upcoming season premiering in January.
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'We3' Producer Extends Option On 'The Forgotten' Adaptation
21 December 2009 3:01 PM, PST
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Back in April, Jareth Grealish and Evan Young’s “The Forgotten” was picked up by Don Murphy and John Wells as a potential feature film. And while details have since been scarce, Murphy and Wells have extended their option.
"A well established screenwriter is now attached to the project,” Grealish told Mania.com. “While we're not at liberty to disclose his name, I can assure you the guy has some very impressive credentials, The take that he and our producers have on 'The Forgotten' is top-notch. Evan and I are very excited about where they are taking it."
“The Forgotten” was originally published by Fintan Studios as a four-issue miniseries back in 2002 that was co-written by Grealish and Young with artist John Forcucci. The story follows a mysterious man with the ability to make those around him forget that he ever existed as he attempts to unravel a murder mystery
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Sundance Photo Preview: John Wells’ The Company Men
21 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST
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John Wells' The Company Men will screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Premieres category. The film tells the story of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company, and how that affects them, their families and communities over the course of one year. The film stars Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper, Maria Bello, Craig T Nelson, and Rosemarie DeWitt.
This is the feature directorial debut of Wells, who is best known for writing and producing hundreds of episodes of both ER and The West Wing. A lot of people are interested to see what he will be able to do with a feature film. It's also worth mentioning that eight-time Academy Award nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins shot the film.
Here is the official description from Sundance:
One of the first casualties of a corporate downsize is Bobby Walker,
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TV's Best of the Decade: No. 11 - 'The West Wing'
21 December 2009 12:44 PM, PST
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Has history been a bit unkind to "The West Wing"? We're talking about a show that won the decade's first four Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series and probably even deserved two or three of those wins. Yet "The West Wing" has been missing from many of my favorite critics' Best of the Decade lists, or pushed down towards the bottom in favor of sexier, edgier, cable-ier alternatives. This list obviously isn't immune, as I had "The West Wing" in my Top 10 for a long time before talking myself out of it at the last second. The greatest
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In Plain Sight: Season 2 Comes to DVD on March 9th
21 December 2009 12:39 PM, PST
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You can bring home the adventures of your favorite Witsec agents on DVD this March. In Plain Sight: Season 2 will be released on DVD on March 9, 2010. We don't have any pricing details as of yet, but this will be a three-disc set and you can look at the cover art below. The series stars Mary McCormack, Frederick Weller, Leslie Ann Warren and Paul Ben-Victor. For Mary, living a double life is all in day's work. Mary McCormack (The West Wing) returns as Mary Shannon, a U.S. Marshal with the highly secretive Federal Witness Protection Program (Witsec), in Season Two of the suspenseful and quirky hit series In Plain Sight. For Mary, living a double life and getting shot at on a regular basis are all in day's work. So are teaming up with her trusted partner, Marshall Mann (Frederick Weller), to protect Federal Witnesses who relocate to Albuquerque
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My ten years as a TV critic by Kathryn Flett | Feature
19 December 2009 4:40 PM, PST
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For 10 years, Kathryn Flett held her dream job: watching the box… and being paid for it, too. Now she has written her last dispatch from the sofa. Here she presses the rewind button…
I didn't plan it this way, honest, but the very last word of the final sentence of the review that turned out to be my last as the Observer's TV critic was "Cowell", and as he currently occupies a metaphorical throne at the centre of primetime TV (though technically, of course, Simon is always on the far right of the screen, next to Cheryl) it feels as though the c-word is a fitting pay-off after frittering away 10 years of my life in front of the telly.
But indulge me while I rewind to the summer of 1999, not only a previous century and a technological aeon ago (when I used to watch the bulk of TV programmes on Vcr,
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Channel Surfing: CBS Bites Into Chuck Lorre's "Mike and Molly," Three Get "Shameless" for Showtime, Fox Tosses "Cube," and More
17 December 2009 7:37 AM, PST
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Welcome to your Thursday morning television briefing.
More Chuck Lorre on the way... CBS has given a pilot order to multi-camera comedy Mike and Molly, written by Mark Roberts (Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory) and executive produced by Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men). Project, from Warner Bros. Television, will center on a couple who are overeaters and meet at an Overeaters Anonymous support group. (Variety, Hollywood Reporter)
Emmy Rossum (Dragonball Evolution), Allison Janney (The West Wing), and Justin Chatwin (Dragonball Evolution) have been cast in Showtime drama pilot Shameless, a Us adaptation of Paul Abbot's UK skein that will star William H. Macy. Rossum will play Fiona, the 18-year-old daughter of an alcoholic (Macy) whose wife has gone missing and who must raise her five younger brothers. Janney will play a potential love interest for Macy's character, while Chatwin will play a
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Emmy Rossum to appear with William H Macy in Chicago TV tale, Shameless
17 December 2009 4:00 AM, PST
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Emmy Rossum has joined William H Macy in Shameless, a Showtime drama pilot. The plot revolves around a working-class Chicago family hit with the recession and is based on the hit UK series of the same name. Rossum, 23, will play the family's daughter, Fiona, who is 18. She is described as smart and unpredictable. She has five younger siblings on her watch. Allison Janney of The West Wing fame will play a character that becomes a love interest for the intriguing Macy. Rossum appeared in The Phantom of the Opera and with Chatwin in Dragonball: Evolution.
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- Philippa Bourke
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Case 39
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the
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Bioware Releases Impressive Cast List for Mass Effect 2
14 December 2009 11:27 PM, PST
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Bioware is one company that takes its voiceover work seriously. For Star Wars: The Old Republic, Bioware hired over 100 actors to voice over 40 novels worth of written material. And now Bioware has announced that it has hired several top-notch voice actors for the heavily-anticipated sci-fi sequel, Mass Effect 2.
Dr. Ray Muzyka, co-founder of Bioware and Group General Manager of the RPG/Mmo Group of EA, reasoned that,
“[e]motionally engaging narrative is a key design pillar for Bioware, and the top-notch voice talent in Mass Effect 2 helps drive this goal. Credible, powerful personalities are vital to delivering a compelling story experience in Bioware’s games, and we have assembled an amazing ensemble cast that surpasses the very high bar set in the original Mass Effect!”
Martin Sheen (The West Wing, Apocalypse Now) stars as the mysterious Illusive Man who commands Cerberus, a secretive paramilitary organization dedicated to protecting human interests in the galaxy.
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Review of the decade: Television
9 December 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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David Brent danced, Big Brother was born, Doctor Who was reborn – and reality TV became an unstoppable force. It was the era of viewer-power, scandal and wannabes
British television has always favoured the Orwellian term "controller" – rather than director or editor – when it comes to the job description for those who commission and filter content. But in the first 10 years of the 21st century, control has been progressively surrendered to the viewers – first deliberately, then involuntarily.
The rise of reality TV created a new genre of drama, containing names listed not in Equity but in local telephone directories. And these programmes – joined later by reality talent shows – gave viewers, through phone-voting, an unprecedented degree of say over the outcome. By 2009, having already taken over many of the duties of casting directors, viewers had also become distributors: posting their favourite material for free online, to the despair of copyright lawyers and DVD publishers.
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Promo Videos for 'Parenthood'
9 December 2009 7:59 AM, PST
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March may seem like a long ways off, but its closer than you think, and it's when NBC will finally roll out their new dramedy Parenthood which stars Craig T Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Lauren Graham, and funnyman Dax Shepherd, just to name a few. Below is an overview of Parenthood as well as some new promotional clips of the show.
"Parenthood" is a one-hour drama inspired by the box-office comedy hit of the same name. This re-imagined and updated NBC Universal Media Studios/Imagine Television production introduces audiences to the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
The dynamic star-studded cast includes Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Craig T. Nelson, Dax Shepard, Bonnie Bedelia, Monica Potter and Erika Christensen.
Sarah Braverman (Lauren Graham, "Gilmore Girls"), a financially strapped single mother, brings us into the fold of her parents and siblings who will make us laugh and cry, and on occasion,
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Shonda Rhimes explains why Arizona got the girl
8 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST
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Love it or hate it, Grey’s Anatomy changed television.
That may seem an overstatement, since Grey’s isn’t in the category of the dramas usually referred to as transformational — The Sopranos, Mad Men or Six Feet Under, for example. But in terms of pop culture, the influence of the show is obvious every time someone says, “Seriously?” or refers to an essential part of the body as the “va-jay-jay.”
Sure, Grey’s often is infuriating, but that’s just proof that we have an emotional investment in the characters and their stories. And for that, we have to thank Shonda Rhimes, who was chosen as one of TV Guide’s “Players” — the people who made the decade’s best TV.
Rhimes takes her place among J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Fringe), Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), Dick Wolf (Law & Order, ad infinitum) and
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The potential of the upcoming Facebook movie
8 December 2009 3:06 AM, PST
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Pictures appeared last week of Justin Timberlake on the set for upcoming movie The Social Network, a movie about the founding of popular social networking site, Facebook. Yes, they're actually doing it.So once you've stopped laughing at the idea that they could make a movie about Facebook, think about this for a second. The Social Network is going to be directed by David Fincher, who also worked on last year's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Fight Club. The script is by Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the script for A Few Good Men and for television shows The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Maybe by now you're a little puzzled. A high profile director and script writer? Justin Timberlake in one of the roles, with N*Sync style curls? This seems like serious business and I suppose the next question is whether the movie
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Sundance 2010: First Images from John Wells’ The Company Men
7 December 2009 12:17 PM, PST
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The first images from The Company Men have come online in advance of the film’s premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by John Wells, the drama revolves around three company men attempt to survive a round of corporate downsizing while trying to fend off its effects on their families and their identities. The description from All Movie Guide [via Fandango] gets slightly more specific by saying that Ben Affleck stars as a businessman whose life is thrown into ruin when he’s affected by company layoffs and has to work at his brother-in-law’s (Kevin Costner) construction site. Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper also star. For those who don’t know, John Wells was the co-creator of ER and The West Wing and took full control of the latter after Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme left at the end of the fourth season.
Check out the images after the jump.
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The Humanist: Shonda Rhimes Hones In on Ethical, Moral Grey Areas
7 December 2009 12:06 PM, PST
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Shonda Rhimes wants her characters to feel like human beings — even if it makes them less likable. Rhimes revels in her characters' moral and ethical gray areas. In the first episode of Grey's Anatomy, the title character (Ellen Pompeo) goes binge-drinking before enjoying a one-night stand with a strange man. It didn't necessarily make her lovable, but it made her feel real. We spoke to Rhimes, who is among the influential television industry players interviewed for TVGuide.com's Best of the Decade section, about how The West Wing and Buffy inspired her, her race-blind approach to casting and what she's learned about portraying lesbians on television.
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The Humanist: Shonda Rhimes Hones In on Ethical, Moral Grey Areas
7 December 2009 12:06 PM, PST
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Shonda Rhimes wants her characters to feel like human beings — even if it makes them less likable. Rhimes revels in her characters' moral and ethical gray areas. In the first episode of Grey's Anatomy, the title character (Ellen Pompeo) goes binge-drinking before enjoying a one-night stand with a strange man. It didn't necessarily make her lovable, but it made her feel real. We spoke to Rhimes, who is among the influential television industry players interviewed for TVGuide.com's Best of the Decade section, about how The West Wing and Buffy inspired her, her race-blind approach to casting and what she's learned about portraying lesbians on television.
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The Humanist: Shonda Rhimes Hones In on Ethical, Moral Grey Areas
7 December 2009 12:06 PM, PST
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Shonda Rhimes wants her characters to feel like human beings — even if it makes them less likable. Rhimes revels in her characters' moral and ethical gray areas. In the first episode of Grey's Anatomy, the title character (Ellen Pompeo) goes binge-drinking before enjoying a one-night stand with a strange man. It didn't necessarily make her lovable, but it made her feel real. TVGuide.com spoke to Rhimes about how The West Wing and Buffy inspired her, her race-blind approach to casting and what she's learned about portraying lesbians on television.
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