Tony Shalhoub will really need to use his gray matter — even if it’s just as an alien’s breakfast — for his latest role.
RelatedThe Good Wife‘s Archie Panjabi to Star in ABC Drama Pilot The Jury
The three-time Emmy winner (Monk, Nurse Jackie) has landed a lead role in BrainDead, CBS’ comic thriller from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King.
Shalhoub will play Red Wheatus, described by the network as “a hard-drinking, fun-loving Republican senator who has spent decades in Washington making deals, until a radical transformation turns him into a health-conscious extremist who would...
RelatedThe Good Wife‘s Archie Panjabi to Star in ABC Drama Pilot The Jury
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Shalhoub will play Red Wheatus, described by the network as “a hard-drinking, fun-loving Republican senator who has spent decades in Washington making deals, until a radical transformation turns him into a health-conscious extremist who would...
- 2/4/2016
- TVLine.com
London -- Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell have joined Oscar-winning scribe William Monahan's directorial debut, "London Boulevard," which begins filming in the British capital this week.
The duo join David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Ben Chaplin and Ray Winstone in the film, which Monahan adapted from author Ken Bruen's novel.
The movie centers on a London criminal newly released from prison who becomes involved with a reclusive young actress.
"Boulevard" is produced by Graham King under his Gk Films banner alongside Monahan, former MGM executive Quentin Curtis and Tim Headington.
Monahan and King, who won Oscars after teaming on Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," most recently worked together on the thriller "Edge of Darkness" starring Mel Gibson.
Curtis, former MGM vp production, has a number of films in development, including "The Jury," to be directed by Marc Forster for Fox 2000, and "Getty," with Peter Berg attached to helm for Universal.
The duo join David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Ben Chaplin and Ray Winstone in the film, which Monahan adapted from author Ken Bruen's novel.
The movie centers on a London criminal newly released from prison who becomes involved with a reclusive young actress.
"Boulevard" is produced by Graham King under his Gk Films banner alongside Monahan, former MGM executive Quentin Curtis and Tim Headington.
Monahan and King, who won Oscars after teaming on Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," most recently worked together on the thriller "Edge of Darkness" starring Mel Gibson.
Curtis, former MGM vp production, has a number of films in development, including "The Jury," to be directed by Marc Forster for Fox 2000, and "Getty," with Peter Berg attached to helm for Universal.
- 6/10/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What if the current financial crisis in the U.S. becomes so severe that Americans start to flee the country?
Welcome to "Americatown," a Chinatown-like enclave of U.S. immigrants in cities around the world.
HBO is developing the futuristic drama series project, which hails from writer Bradford Winters and producers Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy.
Set 25-40 years into the future when the precipitous decline of the U.S. leads to a mass exodus of its citizens, "Americatown" takes place in a cluster of newly arrived American immigrants in a big foreign city.
"By presenting Americans as immigrants in the near future, as both underdog and hero in the drama of global dislocation, we substitute a mirror for the rancor that informs much of the partisan debates on immigration," Winters said.
The deal at HBO caps a decade-long development process for Winters, who at different...
Welcome to "Americatown," a Chinatown-like enclave of U.S. immigrants in cities around the world.
HBO is developing the futuristic drama series project, which hails from writer Bradford Winters and producers Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy.
Set 25-40 years into the future when the precipitous decline of the U.S. leads to a mass exodus of its citizens, "Americatown" takes place in a cluster of newly arrived American immigrants in a big foreign city.
"By presenting Americans as immigrants in the near future, as both underdog and hero in the drama of global dislocation, we substitute a mirror for the rancor that informs much of the partisan debates on immigration," Winters said.
The deal at HBO caps a decade-long development process for Winters, who at different...
- 9/29/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Emmy-winning writer-producer Tom Fontana has inked a premium two-script deal with Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, Fontana will pen two drama pilot scripts for the studio targeted for the next development cycle, a procedural and a character-driven one-hour. This development season, Fontana co-wrote with Julie Martin The Bedford Diaries, an ensemble college-themed drama pilot for the WB Network starring Matthew Modine, Audra McDonald and Milo Ventimiglia. Fontana is executive producing the HBO Independent Prods./Warner Bros. TV project, which is contention for fall, with his producing partner Barry Levinson, Martin and Jim Finnerty. Last season, Fontana, Levinson, Finnerty and James Yoshimura executive produced Fox's well-received but short-lived legal drama The Jury. Fontana has won three writing Emmys, for penning an episode of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street in 1993 and for co-writing episodes of NBC's St. Elsewhere in 1984 and 1986. This year, he was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors. Fontana is repped by UTA.
- 4/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The case of Fox's new series The Jury moved closer to a dismissal Thursday when the network scaled down the struggling legal drama's airings and the producing studio, 20th Century Fox TV, released the cast and notified the producers that no more original episodes will be produced at this time. On Fox's summer schedule, original episodes of The Jury ran in the Tuesday 9 p.m. slot, with encores airing at 9 p.m. Fridays. Beginning next week, the series will air only in the Friday slot, with all five remaining original episodes slated to run. In the next three weeks, Fox will air reruns of The Bernie Mac Show and Method & Red, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game and repeats of That '70s Show and Quintuplets in the Tuesday 9 p.m. period. While the return of The Jury to Fox's November schedule is highly unlikely, a spokesman for the network stressed that Fox's late-fall launch provides a long enough hiatus to allow for the show to resume production should it show ratings improvements in the next few weeks.
CBS sang all the way to the top of the ratings Tuesday with the three-hour special AFI's 100 Years 100 Songs. The network averaged 12.3 million viewers and a 3.0 rating/9 share for the night, according to preliminary ratings data from Nielsen Media Research. With the preliminary rounds of NBC's Last Comic Standing 2 over, the reality show (8.4 million, 3.9/11) took a dip but still ranked as the top program of the night among adults 18-49 and led NBC (7.5 million, 3.0/9) to a tie with CBS for the nightly honors in 18-49. Fox saw an encouraging 100% demo lead retention for a rerun of its new comedy Method & Red (4.5 million, 2.1/7), which aired at 8:30 p.m., behind an original episode of The Bernie Mac Show (4.6 million, 2.1/7). At 9 p.m., Fox's new drama The Jury (4.3 million, 1.6/5) ran neck-and-neck in the demo with the WB Network's summer series Summerland (3.8 million, 1.5/4). At 10 p.m., ABC's new reality series NYPD 24/7 (7.0 million, 2.7/7) got off to an OK start, but finished third in the hour behind CBS' AFI special and a rerun of NBC's Law & Order (9.0 million, 3.1/8). For the night, ABC (5.8 million, 2.3/7) was third, followed by Fox (4.4 million, 1.9/6).
- 6/24/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The NBA Finals were hot again for ABC on Tuesday as the network easily took the night thanks to a Los Angeles Lakers overtime victory over the Detroit Pistons in Game 2 of the championship series. It was much slower going for Fox on the opening night of its much-talked-about new summer season with back-to-back episodes of the new drama The Jury. The WB Network, meanwhile, had encouraging results from the second outing of its summer drama Summerland. The Lakers-Pistons game, which ran from 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m. ET, drew an average of 16.1 million viewers and a 7.0 rating/21 share in the key 18-49 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research.
- 6/10/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The future begins tonight for Fox Broadcasting Co. as the network officially moves to a year-round programming cycle with the premiere of new drama series The Jury, followed by five more new series during the next two weeks. Fox entertainment president Gail Berman spoke with The Hollywood Reporter deputy editor Cynthia Littleton on Monday about the thought process behind its June season launch.
The future begins tonight for Fox Broadcasting Co. as the network officially moves to a year-round programming cycle with the premiere of new drama series The Jury, followed by five more new series during the next two weeks. Fox entertainment president Gail Berman spoke with The Hollywood Reporter deputy editor Cynthia Littleton on Monday about the thought process behind its June season launch.
An unconventional programming strategy calls for an unconventional marketing campaign, and that's what Fox Broadcasting Co. has on tap to support next week's launch of new primetime series as the network seeks to break out of the traditional September-May television season cycle. Fox is employing an array of grassroots and alternative marketing tactics from driving the hot pink pickup truck and Airstream trailer from The Simple Life 2: Road Trip around the country to setting up coffee carts outside local courthouses to promote the debut of its new Barry Levinson-Tom Fontana drama The Jury. "Our focus is trying to get content out there in interesting ways to really drive sampling for these shows, to get people excited about these shows and hopefully to get good ratings for our premieres," Fox executive vp marketing Roberta Mell said.
CBS will introduce five new shows in the fall, all toplined by familiar faces, while Fox has added to its slate of series for next season. CBS has picked up the coming-of-age drama Clubhouse, which co-stars Mare Winningham and Dean Cain; the Rob Lowe/Joe Pantoliano-starring drama Dr. Vegas; the previously announced spinoff CSI: N.Y., which boasts Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakaredes as the leads; the comedy Center of the Universe, starring John Goodman; and the untitled Tony Kornheiser sitcom toplined by Jason Alexander. The eye network unveils its 2004-05 schedule Wednesday in New York. Fox, which gave early orders to four series set to launch next month -- The North Shore, The Jury, Method & Red and Quintuplets -- also has picked up the dramas Jonny Zero, The Inside and House as well as the comedy Related by Family, featuring Amy Yasbeck and Matthew Glave as members of a blended family.
- 5/18/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fox Broadcasting Co. is forging ahead with its master plan to shift to a year-round programming schedule, announcing June 8 as the start date for its rollout of six new comedy, drama and unscripted series to run during the summer months. The first new series on tap is drama The Jury, executive produced by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, which bows at 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, preceded from 8-9 p.m. by back-to-back original episodes of The Bernie Mac Show, Fox entertainment president Gail Berman said Monday. Two more freshmen, the hotel drama North Shore and reality series The Casino, follow from 8-10 p.m. on Monday, June 14. Wednesday, June 16, will see the 8 p.m. premiere of The Simple Life 2, the second round of unscripted adventures by "celebutants" Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, followed at 8:30 p.m. by the new Andy Richter comedy Quintuplets, a second Simple Life 2 episode at 9 p.m. and the debut of the comedy Method & Red at 9:30 p.m.
- 4/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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