We open in the distant past, a time when children could still freely eat toxic, non-organic sugar cereal, and listened to music on enormous plastic bricks with smaller spinning-wheel rectangle devices inside. We’re seeing 12-year-old Liv, eating breakfast and happily highlighting her dog-eared copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People: Teen Edition!
Then in comes … Mama Pope! And sadly she is not Diahann Carroll (h/t snicks), but she is Khandi Alexander, which is pretty great. She kisses Liv good-bye, all, “I’m about to get on a plane to London, and nothing can possibly go wrong. But just in case, I made casseroles for the next 10 years.” Then she leaves.
Buh-bye Kandi Alexander! See you next in that episode where it turns out you’re still alive.
Back in the present, adult Liv (Kerry Washington) has just heard the news about Fitz’s role in the...
Then in comes … Mama Pope! And sadly she is not Diahann Carroll (h/t snicks), but she is Khandi Alexander, which is pretty great. She kisses Liv good-bye, all, “I’m about to get on a plane to London, and nothing can possibly go wrong. But just in case, I made casseroles for the next 10 years.” Then she leaves.
Buh-bye Kandi Alexander! See you next in that episode where it turns out you’re still alive.
Back in the present, adult Liv (Kerry Washington) has just heard the news about Fitz’s role in the...
- 11/8/2013
- by Steven Frank
- The Backlot
Kunta Kinte lives.
The cable network History is planning a new version of the iconic 1977 miniseries Roots, our sister site Deadline reports.
Related | NBC Eyes Murder, She Wrote Reboot Starring Oscar Winner Octavia Spencer
The highly rated, award-winning original TV event, which aired on ABC, was based on Alex Haley’s book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family and starred LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte, an African man captured in the 1700s and sold into slavery.
Haley’s work tells the story of the man and his descendants, one of whom allegedly was Haley himself.
History has obtained...
The cable network History is planning a new version of the iconic 1977 miniseries Roots, our sister site Deadline reports.
Related | NBC Eyes Murder, She Wrote Reboot Starring Oscar Winner Octavia Spencer
The highly rated, award-winning original TV event, which aired on ABC, was based on Alex Haley’s book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family and starred LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte, an African man captured in the 1700s and sold into slavery.
Haley’s work tells the story of the man and his descendants, one of whom allegedly was Haley himself.
History has obtained...
- 11/5/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
They’re the Unlucky 7: New broadcast shows that have tanked in the ratings. They’re not the only freshman flops this fall, but these are the seven with the most creatively intriguing face-plants. Most are still on the air and could improve — perhaps even go on to lead long healthy lives. Yet none are currently delivering numbers that are likely to earn a second season. From NBC’s The Michael J. Fox Show to ABC’s Betrayal, here’s our list of seven deadly snores. Starting with …
Ironside (NBC)
Why it might have worked: Cop shows are TV’s most popular drama genre.
Ironside (NBC)
Why it might have worked: Cop shows are TV’s most popular drama genre.
- 11/1/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Here's a mystery that needs solving - why are the Hollywood executives of today so keen to plunder the detective shows of yesteryear?
Whether it's Oscar winner Octavia Spencer in the newly-announced Murder She Wrote remake, or NBC's ill-fated Ironside reboot, or the upcoming Remington Steele sequel... many of TV's top cops are having a revival.
But which other classic 'tecs are ripe for reinvention? Here's five cold cases we'd like to see revisited...
Moonlighting
Forget Remington Steele, the 'Will they / Won't they' crime series to beat is Moonlighting. Every procedural-with-sexual-tension from Bones to Castle has drawn inspiration from ABC's '80s hit.
The challenge here would be to find two stars who could replicate the chemistry of the original show's leads. Could any young buck hope to match the charisma and wit of Bruce Willis?
That's vintage Willis, not grumpy-old-fart-in-a-dressing-gown Willis.
The Avengers
No, not that comic book lot...
Whether it's Oscar winner Octavia Spencer in the newly-announced Murder She Wrote remake, or NBC's ill-fated Ironside reboot, or the upcoming Remington Steele sequel... many of TV's top cops are having a revival.
But which other classic 'tecs are ripe for reinvention? Here's five cold cases we'd like to see revisited...
Moonlighting
Forget Remington Steele, the 'Will they / Won't they' crime series to beat is Moonlighting. Every procedural-with-sexual-tension from Bones to Castle has drawn inspiration from ABC's '80s hit.
The challenge here would be to find two stars who could replicate the chemistry of the original show's leads. Could any young buck hope to match the charisma and wit of Bruce Willis?
That's vintage Willis, not grumpy-old-fart-in-a-dressing-gown Willis.
The Avengers
No, not that comic book lot...
- 10/25/2013
- Digital Spy
Television has been following an unfortunate trend from feature films lately: the reboot. Instead of continuing the much-lauded "Golden Age of Television" with new ideas and properties, TV executives seem to be -- in increasing numbers -- looking to existing shows for their "inspiration."
This is not necessarily the best idea. A quick peek into the world of TV reboots of recent years shows that bringing back the old isn't always the best way to get new viewers. Just ask "Ironside."
With the networks going on a full-throttle reboot binge this development season -- everything from a "Broadchurch" adaptation to a reboot of "Murder, She Wrote" is in the works -- it's worth asking whether reboots are dooming both themselves and all of television.
To reboot or not to reboot?
What makes for a good reboot? It's not so much the name recognition as much as it is an original...
This is not necessarily the best idea. A quick peek into the world of TV reboots of recent years shows that bringing back the old isn't always the best way to get new viewers. Just ask "Ironside."
With the networks going on a full-throttle reboot binge this development season -- everything from a "Broadchurch" adaptation to a reboot of "Murder, She Wrote" is in the works -- it's worth asking whether reboots are dooming both themselves and all of television.
To reboot or not to reboot?
What makes for a good reboot? It's not so much the name recognition as much as it is an original...
- 10/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Thrilled by the rave reviews for its reboot of Ironside it hears inside its head, where everything is much nicer, NBC has ordered another revival of a classic show about a detective whose talents go unappreciated—much like a certain network, who similarly always enjoys imaginary victory. Now joining that Remington Steele sequel is Murder, She Wrote, a remake of the Angela Lansbury-starring CBS series about a detective whose chief disability was being a very nice old lady, which caused her to be repeatedly underestimated by all the thousands of murderers who were drawn to Maine’s beautiful harbors, which ...
- 10/24/2013
- avclub.com
When it comes to supporting her child’s writing career, Susan Sarandon is putting her career where her mouth is.
The Academy Award-winning actress is set to star in Growing Ivy, a single-camera comedy pilot for NBC, conceived, co-written by and co-starring her daughter Eva Amurri Martino, and executive-produced by Parks and Recreation favorite Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (the latter who will co-write with Martino).
Related | Meg Ryan to Star in New NBC Comedy
Growing Ivy finds Martino in the lead role of Ivy Davis, a Type A career woman with a flailing personal life who invites her freewheeling,...
The Academy Award-winning actress is set to star in Growing Ivy, a single-camera comedy pilot for NBC, conceived, co-written by and co-starring her daughter Eva Amurri Martino, and executive-produced by Parks and Recreation favorite Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (the latter who will co-write with Martino).
Related | Meg Ryan to Star in New NBC Comedy
Growing Ivy finds Martino in the lead role of Ivy Davis, a Type A career woman with a flailing personal life who invites her freewheeling,...
- 10/14/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Meg Ryan is planning a return to the winsome, well-intentioned kind of role for which she became famous – but this time, it’s on TV instead of in the movies.
The When Harry Met Sally star is looking to return to television as the star of an NBC comedy, our sister site Deadline reports.
Related | NBC Plans Comedic Remington Steele Sequel
In the single-camera project, now being developed by the network and Universal TV, Ryan would play a pleasant, dotty mom who finds herself working for her former intern at a New York publishing house.
As our heroine tries to please her new boss,...
The When Harry Met Sally star is looking to return to television as the star of an NBC comedy, our sister site Deadline reports.
Related | NBC Plans Comedic Remington Steele Sequel
In the single-camera project, now being developed by the network and Universal TV, Ryan would play a pleasant, dotty mom who finds herself working for her former intern at a New York publishing house.
As our heroine tries to please her new boss,...
- 10/11/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Birthday shoutouts go to Brandon Routh (above), who is 34, Pj Harvey is 44, Guillermo del Toro is 49, Scott Bakula is 59, and Sharon Osbourne is 61.
Lea Michele talks about losing both Cory and Finn.
In ratings news, Supernatural had its highest rated season premiere since 2010. All hail Castiel!
Citing Russian Homophobia, NYC Shutters Moscow Tourism Office
Brant Daugherty finally listened to all of us, and on Monday night’s Dancing With The Stars, he gave us some shirtless salsa perfection (no matter what those two judges think).
In a great interview with Out, Josh Hutcherson talks about how guys of his generation are more ambiguous about sexuality than older generations. “Maybe I could say right now I’m 100% straight,” he says. “But who knows? In a f*cking year, I could meet a guy and be like, Whoa, I’m attracted to this person.” Oh, and he doesn’t deny that the...
Lea Michele talks about losing both Cory and Finn.
In ratings news, Supernatural had its highest rated season premiere since 2010. All hail Castiel!
Citing Russian Homophobia, NYC Shutters Moscow Tourism Office
Brant Daugherty finally listened to all of us, and on Monday night’s Dancing With The Stars, he gave us some shirtless salsa perfection (no matter what those two judges think).
In a great interview with Out, Josh Hutcherson talks about how guys of his generation are more ambiguous about sexuality than older generations. “Maybe I could say right now I’m 100% straight,” he says. “But who knows? In a f*cking year, I could meet a guy and be like, Whoa, I’m attracted to this person.” Oh, and he doesn’t deny that the...
- 10/9/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
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