“It’s six rooms. Each one is scarier than the last.” After traveling to Candle Cove in season 1 of Channel Zero, showrunner Nick Antosca and company will enter a new kind of haunted house in next season’s No-End House (based on Kris Straub’s creepypasta), and another cast member for the show has now been revealed.
According to Deadline, Aisha Dee (Sweet/Vicious, Chasing Life, Dead Gorgeous) plays a key role in Channel Zero: No-End House. Dee portrays Jules, the “stubbornly independent” best friend of Amy Forsyth’s character, Margot Sleator.
When Daily Dead and several other journalists spoke with Channel Zero showrunner Nick Antosca back in November, he had this to say about the second season, which will differ from Candle Cove in style:
“It’s very different stylistically. Candle Cove is an almost pastoral style. It’s very restrained. It’s very composed and there is...
According to Deadline, Aisha Dee (Sweet/Vicious, Chasing Life, Dead Gorgeous) plays a key role in Channel Zero: No-End House. Dee portrays Jules, the “stubbornly independent” best friend of Amy Forsyth’s character, Margot Sleator.
When Daily Dead and several other journalists spoke with Channel Zero showrunner Nick Antosca back in November, he had this to say about the second season, which will differ from Candle Cove in style:
“It’s very different stylistically. Candle Cove is an almost pastoral style. It’s very restrained. It’s very composed and there is...
- 1/26/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Spliced together from interviews, establishing shots, and dramatic reenactments, its subjects’ homegrown aphorisms set against the forceful tinkling of the score, “The Eye Doesn’t Lie” might’ve been made by Errol Morris himself.
Inspired by “The Thin Blue Line,” the fourth episode of IFC’s inventive, erudite “Documentary Now!” — from the frenzied imaginations of director Rhys Thomas and “Saturday Night Live” alumni Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers — mimics the filmmaker’s work so precisely that it comes to resemble an X-ray, showing the bone structure of his distinctive style while (gently) poking fun at it. In this sense, to describe “Documentary Now!” as a parody is to undersell: It’s a wildly funny act of criticism, deconstructing the mechanics of nonfiction in an age defined by the slippage between “reality” and the real.
Starring Armisen and Hader in an ever-changing series of roles—in a pungent send-up of Vice Media, they even play three indistinguishable pairs of plaid-clad, ne’er-do-well correspondents on the trail of a Mexican drug kingpin — “Documentary Now!” is designed with an in-depth knowledge of the form, down to the title sequence. A clever nod to public television, replete with evolving logo, synthesized theme music, and Helen Mirren’s refined introductions, the homage to the likes of “Pov,” “Frontline,” and “Independent Lens” is telling. Though tough, at times, on the familiar tropes of Morris and the Maysles, the creators’ treatment of documentaries is affectionate; their approach is closer to Christopher Guest’s warm, playful comedies, from “Waiting for Guffman” to “For Your Consideration,” than to the sharp satire of “Drop Dead Gorgeous” or “Tanner ’88.”
This is born, it seems, of their interest in the power of nonfiction narratives, and in the process by which such stories take shape. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, “Documentary Now!” is lavish in its praise — Hader’s version of Little Edie Beale, in the series’ tribute to “Grey Gardens,” replicates several memorable moments in the film almost exactly — but it’s when the series turns toward exaggeration and hyperbole that its understanding of the form’s fakery is on fullest display. Against the “direct cinema” aesthetic of the Maysles, “Documentary Now!” depicts the siblings, here known as the Feins, eliciting performances from their subjects, searching the shadows of “Sandy Passage” for the most compelling variant of the truth. (It comes back to bite them, in a way that acknowledges the elements of Gothic horror in “Grey Gardens” by blowing the original to bits.)
Understanding documentaries as a set of narrative techniques, and not simply as a reflection of “the facts,” “Documentary Now!” is at its most astute in the first season’s “Kunuk Uncovered.” Based on 1988’s “Nanook Revisited,” itself an investigation of the stagecraft in Robert Flaherty’s 1922 silent, “Nanook of the North,” “Kunuk” renders explicit the series’ animating principle: “Was the first documentary a documentary at all,” the narrator intones, “or was it something else?” As William H. Sebastian (John Slattery) attempts to mold his subject, Pipilok (Armisen), into the “Eskimo” of his ethnocentric assumptions, mounting dog sledding and spear fishing scenes, he loses control of the project to its central figure. “Kunuk” becomes an artful farce, part Hollywood excess and part careful craft.
Pipilok first demands compensation, securing the managerial services of a local pimp, and then displaces Sebastian altogether, transforming into a tortured auteur. (At one point, he curses out the cast in his native tongue, a true diva of the directing chair.) His aesthetic innovations — recording sound, building sets, developing “point of view” and new forms of movement — are those, roughly speaking, of realism, and “Kunuk” is, in essence, a reminder that the style that doesn’t seem like a style is no less fabricated for convincing us otherwise. In “Documentary Now!” nonfiction is always “something else”: A performance, a manipulation, a construction, adjacent to “the real” but not a mirror image of it.
In fashioning a new short film for each installment—with the exception of the two-part “Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee” — the series is an outlier in the Emmys’ nascent Variety Sketch category. Last year’s inaugural field featured five nominees on the traditional “sketch” model, including “Saturday Night Live” and winner “Inside Amy Schumer,” and all, including the final season of the excellent “Key & Peele,” are among this year’s twenty eligible series (up from 17). But given the TV Academy’s tendency to settle into firm patterns, to the point that one might call them ruts, it would behoove voters to honor the heterodox, learned, distinctly non-topical comedy of “Documentary Now!” while the contours of the category are still in flux.
If there’s one aspect of the series we know Academy members can appreciate, it’s the brilliant impression: Schumer and Ryan McFaul were nominated last year for directing the dead solid perfect satire “12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer” as if inhabited by the spirit of Sidney Lumet, a feat “Documentary Now!” manages many times over, and in myriad registers. Its sketches succeed, in the end, because they’re not sketchy at all, but rather fully realized, remarkably savvy reconsiderations of their subject, which is the creative, sometimes-deceptive act of documentary filmmaking itself.
“The Eye Doesn’t Lie” recalls not only “The Thin Blue Line,” then, but also, by dint of its title, the filmmaker’s examination of visible evidence in “Standard Operating Procedure.” “The pictures spoke a thousand words,” as Army Special Agent Brent Pack says in the latter of photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, launching into the kind of Morris-esque paradox that IFC’s series so beautifully distills. “But unless you know what day and time they were taken, you wouldn’t know what story they were telling.” The eye does lie, of course, and the brilliant “Documentary Now!” is always catching it red-handed.
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Inspired by “The Thin Blue Line,” the fourth episode of IFC’s inventive, erudite “Documentary Now!” — from the frenzied imaginations of director Rhys Thomas and “Saturday Night Live” alumni Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers — mimics the filmmaker’s work so precisely that it comes to resemble an X-ray, showing the bone structure of his distinctive style while (gently) poking fun at it. In this sense, to describe “Documentary Now!” as a parody is to undersell: It’s a wildly funny act of criticism, deconstructing the mechanics of nonfiction in an age defined by the slippage between “reality” and the real.
Starring Armisen and Hader in an ever-changing series of roles—in a pungent send-up of Vice Media, they even play three indistinguishable pairs of plaid-clad, ne’er-do-well correspondents on the trail of a Mexican drug kingpin — “Documentary Now!” is designed with an in-depth knowledge of the form, down to the title sequence. A clever nod to public television, replete with evolving logo, synthesized theme music, and Helen Mirren’s refined introductions, the homage to the likes of “Pov,” “Frontline,” and “Independent Lens” is telling. Though tough, at times, on the familiar tropes of Morris and the Maysles, the creators’ treatment of documentaries is affectionate; their approach is closer to Christopher Guest’s warm, playful comedies, from “Waiting for Guffman” to “For Your Consideration,” than to the sharp satire of “Drop Dead Gorgeous” or “Tanner ’88.”
This is born, it seems, of their interest in the power of nonfiction narratives, and in the process by which such stories take shape. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, “Documentary Now!” is lavish in its praise — Hader’s version of Little Edie Beale, in the series’ tribute to “Grey Gardens,” replicates several memorable moments in the film almost exactly — but it’s when the series turns toward exaggeration and hyperbole that its understanding of the form’s fakery is on fullest display. Against the “direct cinema” aesthetic of the Maysles, “Documentary Now!” depicts the siblings, here known as the Feins, eliciting performances from their subjects, searching the shadows of “Sandy Passage” for the most compelling variant of the truth. (It comes back to bite them, in a way that acknowledges the elements of Gothic horror in “Grey Gardens” by blowing the original to bits.)
Understanding documentaries as a set of narrative techniques, and not simply as a reflection of “the facts,” “Documentary Now!” is at its most astute in the first season’s “Kunuk Uncovered.” Based on 1988’s “Nanook Revisited,” itself an investigation of the stagecraft in Robert Flaherty’s 1922 silent, “Nanook of the North,” “Kunuk” renders explicit the series’ animating principle: “Was the first documentary a documentary at all,” the narrator intones, “or was it something else?” As William H. Sebastian (John Slattery) attempts to mold his subject, Pipilok (Armisen), into the “Eskimo” of his ethnocentric assumptions, mounting dog sledding and spear fishing scenes, he loses control of the project to its central figure. “Kunuk” becomes an artful farce, part Hollywood excess and part careful craft.
Pipilok first demands compensation, securing the managerial services of a local pimp, and then displaces Sebastian altogether, transforming into a tortured auteur. (At one point, he curses out the cast in his native tongue, a true diva of the directing chair.) His aesthetic innovations — recording sound, building sets, developing “point of view” and new forms of movement — are those, roughly speaking, of realism, and “Kunuk” is, in essence, a reminder that the style that doesn’t seem like a style is no less fabricated for convincing us otherwise. In “Documentary Now!” nonfiction is always “something else”: A performance, a manipulation, a construction, adjacent to “the real” but not a mirror image of it.
In fashioning a new short film for each installment—with the exception of the two-part “Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee” — the series is an outlier in the Emmys’ nascent Variety Sketch category. Last year’s inaugural field featured five nominees on the traditional “sketch” model, including “Saturday Night Live” and winner “Inside Amy Schumer,” and all, including the final season of the excellent “Key & Peele,” are among this year’s twenty eligible series (up from 17). But given the TV Academy’s tendency to settle into firm patterns, to the point that one might call them ruts, it would behoove voters to honor the heterodox, learned, distinctly non-topical comedy of “Documentary Now!” while the contours of the category are still in flux.
If there’s one aspect of the series we know Academy members can appreciate, it’s the brilliant impression: Schumer and Ryan McFaul were nominated last year for directing the dead solid perfect satire “12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer” as if inhabited by the spirit of Sidney Lumet, a feat “Documentary Now!” manages many times over, and in myriad registers. Its sketches succeed, in the end, because they’re not sketchy at all, but rather fully realized, remarkably savvy reconsiderations of their subject, which is the creative, sometimes-deceptive act of documentary filmmaking itself.
“The Eye Doesn’t Lie” recalls not only “The Thin Blue Line,” then, but also, by dint of its title, the filmmaker’s examination of visible evidence in “Standard Operating Procedure.” “The pictures spoke a thousand words,” as Army Special Agent Brent Pack says in the latter of photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, launching into the kind of Morris-esque paradox that IFC’s series so beautifully distills. “But unless you know what day and time they were taken, you wouldn’t know what story they were telling.” The eye does lie, of course, and the brilliant “Documentary Now!” is always catching it red-handed.
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- 6/15/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
The Secret Life Of Boys is a brand new interactive comedy drama which launches on the Cbbc website and Cbbc channel this November.
In the series 11 year old Ginger flies from Australia to the UK to spend the summer with four cousins she's never met before - how will she manage in a foreign country, with a new family?
Melbourne-based Erica Brown (represented by Gilchrist Managment in Australia) flew to Ireland to film the lead role of Ginger Boxwell, marking her TV drama debut.
Her cousins are played by 19 year old Neil Reynolds, who has previously appeared in comedy series The T-Boy Show.
15 year old Reece Buttery (represented by A&J Management), who starred in BBC Christmas drama Gangsta Granny, and plays Mo in Cbbc's The Dumping Ground, plays Robbie.
12 year old Gene Gurie (represented by The Young Actors Theatre) plays Ethan in his first TV role.
And Joel Guy...
In the series 11 year old Ginger flies from Australia to the UK to spend the summer with four cousins she's never met before - how will she manage in a foreign country, with a new family?
Melbourne-based Erica Brown (represented by Gilchrist Managment in Australia) flew to Ireland to film the lead role of Ginger Boxwell, marking her TV drama debut.
Her cousins are played by 19 year old Neil Reynolds, who has previously appeared in comedy series The T-Boy Show.
15 year old Reece Buttery (represented by A&J Management), who starred in BBC Christmas drama Gangsta Granny, and plays Mo in Cbbc's The Dumping Ground, plays Robbie.
12 year old Gene Gurie (represented by The Young Actors Theatre) plays Ethan in his first TV role.
And Joel Guy...
- 10/16/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
19 year old Poppy Lee Friar has landed the lead role in new Cbbc sci-fi series Eve, announced last year, which has just completed filming in Glasgow.
Eve is a 13 episode science fiction series which follows the adventures of a robot living with a family in suburbia and trying to make sense of human life as a teenage girl.
Poppy (represented by Curtis Brown) plays Eve, a highly-sentient robot living with a family in modern-day suburban Britain. She will star alongside Jane Asher who plays Mary Douglas, described as “a maverick genius scientist”.
Poppy, was a pupil at Sylvia Young Theatre School, and previously starred as one of the ghostly sisters, Sophie in the Cbbc series Dead Gorgeous, as well as playing Rosalie Selfridge in the first two series of Mr Selfridge on ITV.
Joining her in the cast is 16 year old Oliver Woollford (represented by Curtis Brown) from Newark as Will.
Eve is a 13 episode science fiction series which follows the adventures of a robot living with a family in suburbia and trying to make sense of human life as a teenage girl.
Poppy (represented by Curtis Brown) plays Eve, a highly-sentient robot living with a family in modern-day suburban Britain. She will star alongside Jane Asher who plays Mary Douglas, described as “a maverick genius scientist”.
Poppy, was a pupil at Sylvia Young Theatre School, and previously starred as one of the ghostly sisters, Sophie in the Cbbc series Dead Gorgeous, as well as playing Rosalie Selfridge in the first two series of Mr Selfridge on ITV.
Joining her in the cast is 16 year old Oliver Woollford (represented by Curtis Brown) from Newark as Will.
- 10/18/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
A couple of years ago a friend of filmmaker Tony Ayres gave him a tantalising .what if. proposition: What if there was a small country town in Victoria where people who had been dead for up to 200 years came back to life?
That sparked an idea which he developed with writer Louise Fox and has evolved into Glitch, a six-part supernatural drama for the ABC. Screen Australia has agreed to co-fund the Matchbox Pictures production, which is due to start shooting in October.
The key character is the town.s cop, James, whose wife died from breast cancer two years earlier and reappears. Each episode will introduce a succession of undead characters. No director has yet been announced.
.We don.t often do high-concept supernatural drama in Australia,. Ayres tells If. .It.s my favourite genre. It will be a very Australian spin on the genre. We are looking for emotional truth.
That sparked an idea which he developed with writer Louise Fox and has evolved into Glitch, a six-part supernatural drama for the ABC. Screen Australia has agreed to co-fund the Matchbox Pictures production, which is due to start shooting in October.
The key character is the town.s cop, James, whose wife died from breast cancer two years earlier and reappears. Each episode will introduce a succession of undead characters. No director has yet been announced.
.We don.t often do high-concept supernatural drama in Australia,. Ayres tells If. .It.s my favourite genre. It will be a very Australian spin on the genre. We are looking for emotional truth.
- 5/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
On Oscar Sunday's Countdown to the Red Carpet, Giuliana Rancic, George Kotsiopoulos and Kelly Osbourne will be playing a game called Crop Dead Gorgeous (you might remember it from the Golden Globes) where they show a celebrity photo with black boxes covering key identifying elements. Then, it's up to you to guess which star is hiding behind the boxes! If you've been following the red carpet fashion coverage, you might be able to guess some of the celebs just by getting a glimpse of their gown. Some of the others, however, they've made a little bit more difficult! Just in case you didn't catch the game the first time around—or you want some more practice...
- 2/22/2013
- E! Online
Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven leads the cast as American entrepreneur, Harry Gordon Selfridge, in ITV's new drama Mr Selfridge, about the life of the flamboyant and visionary American entrepreneur.
Harry Gordon Selfridge moved to London with his wife Rose (played by Frances O'Connor), their four children and his mother Lois (Kika Markham) in 1906 to build and open the most ambitious and ground-breaking department store the world had ever seen.
The four Selfridge children are:
Rosalie, Harry’s eldest and slightly impressionable daughter, who gets help from Lady Mae to bed into London society, is played by 17 year old Poppy Lee Friar. Poppy (represented by Curtis Brown) from London, was a pupil at Sylvia Young Theatre School, and starred in the Cbbc comedy drama series Dead Gorgeous which was filmed in Australia.
13 year old Adam Wilson plays Gordon, Harry’s only son, and the heir to the Selfridge Empire. Gordon is...
Harry Gordon Selfridge moved to London with his wife Rose (played by Frances O'Connor), their four children and his mother Lois (Kika Markham) in 1906 to build and open the most ambitious and ground-breaking department store the world had ever seen.
The four Selfridge children are:
Rosalie, Harry’s eldest and slightly impressionable daughter, who gets help from Lady Mae to bed into London society, is played by 17 year old Poppy Lee Friar. Poppy (represented by Curtis Brown) from London, was a pupil at Sylvia Young Theatre School, and starred in the Cbbc comedy drama series Dead Gorgeous which was filmed in Australia.
13 year old Adam Wilson plays Gordon, Harry’s only son, and the heir to the Selfridge Empire. Gordon is...
- 12/21/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Yes, "Anna Karenina," Leo Tolstoy's beloved mega-novel of love and revolution, is being adapted once again (by our count this is the twelfth big-screen version), this time by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard and big-time director Joe Wright. Here, Keira Knightley stars in the title role, with Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Kelly Macdonald tagging along for support. So is there anything new and fresh that can be brought to this property, or will you be having violent flashbacks of falling asleep in your Russian literature class in college? Below, we happily give you the answer. Pro: It's Drop-Dead Gorgeous The first thing you should know about this version of "Anna Karenina" is that it looks like a play. Wright, taken with the theatrical nature of the material (and the potentially cost-prohibitive nature of the story's scope), decided to set the film on a stage, literally (almost the...
- 11/14/2012
- by Drew Taylor
- Moviefone
ABC Children’s TV announced its biggest budget children’s live action series at $14m would take up residency at the South Australia Film Corporation’s new Adelaide Studios, opened today.
Resistance, a co-production between Australia’s Persistence Productions and Canada’s Shaftesbury Films, the 26×30 minute series will screen on ABC3 in Australia and Ytv in Canada in late 2012. Shooting will begin in September 2011, for 23 weeks.
Resistance is the story of the fate of humankind in the hands of a small group of brilliant teenage resistance fighters. Armed with technology, beyond the cutting edge, and trained by mysterious young billionaire, they’re our last line of defence against an alien invasion.
Produced by Andrew Dillon and Lesley Parker, it is executive produced by Gary Kurtz who has Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back among his producing credits.
Kim Dalton, Director of ABC TV said in a statement, “Resistance will...
Resistance, a co-production between Australia’s Persistence Productions and Canada’s Shaftesbury Films, the 26×30 minute series will screen on ABC3 in Australia and Ytv in Canada in late 2012. Shooting will begin in September 2011, for 23 weeks.
Resistance is the story of the fate of humankind in the hands of a small group of brilliant teenage resistance fighters. Armed with technology, beyond the cutting edge, and trained by mysterious young billionaire, they’re our last line of defence against an alien invasion.
Produced by Andrew Dillon and Lesley Parker, it is executive produced by Gary Kurtz who has Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back among his producing credits.
Kim Dalton, Director of ABC TV said in a statement, “Resistance will...
- 8/16/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
For the second consecutive year, Encore has chosen a select group of screen professionals who have achieved new heights in 2010/2011, whose decisions influence and shape Australia’s audiovisual industry, and whose work has stood out from the crowd. These are our Power 50.
1. Emile Sherman – Producer
Last February, Sherman became the first Australian producer to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside his See-Saw Films partner Iain Canning, and Bedlam Productions’ Gareth Unwin. It also won at the BAFTAs and the Producers Guild of America, in addition to the many other honours for its cast and crew.
While technically a UK production, the Australianness of the film is undeniable – and so is its success; with a modest U$15m budget, The King’s Speech has grossed more than $405m worldwide – one of the most successful independent films of all time. Read Emile Sherman interview
2. Baz Luhrmann – Director, writer, producer
There...
1. Emile Sherman – Producer
Last February, Sherman became the first Australian producer to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture, alongside his See-Saw Films partner Iain Canning, and Bedlam Productions’ Gareth Unwin. It also won at the BAFTAs and the Producers Guild of America, in addition to the many other honours for its cast and crew.
While technically a UK production, the Australianness of the film is undeniable – and so is its success; with a modest U$15m budget, The King’s Speech has grossed more than $405m worldwide – one of the most successful independent films of all time. Read Emile Sherman interview
2. Baz Luhrmann – Director, writer, producer
There...
- 6/9/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Fox has released all the upcoming video previews for their new shows that will air this fall. If you’d like to know when they are on then check out our previous article with all the 2011-2012 TV shows that will hit later this year. You can also see where your favorite returning shows will be.
When San Francisco Police Department Det. Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones, “Sons of Anarchy”) is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to a shocking suspect: Jack Sylvane (guest star Jeffrey Pierce, “The Nine”), a former Alcatraz inmate who died decades ago. Given her family history – both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, Ray Archer (Robert Forster, “Jackie Brown”), were guards at the prison – Madsen’s interest is immediately piqued, and once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill, “Jurassic Park”) tries to impede her investigation, she’s doggedly committed. Madsen...
When San Francisco Police Department Det. Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones, “Sons of Anarchy”) is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to a shocking suspect: Jack Sylvane (guest star Jeffrey Pierce, “The Nine”), a former Alcatraz inmate who died decades ago. Given her family history – both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, Ray Archer (Robert Forster, “Jackie Brown”), were guards at the prison – Madsen’s interest is immediately piqued, and once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill, “Jurassic Park”) tries to impede her investigation, she’s doggedly committed. Madsen...
- 5/17/2011
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Fox enters the ring on the new year schedules, and they have a few interesting items on the agenda. Check out all the info below.
Launching this fall is the highly anticipated singing competition series The X Factor, which marks the return of Simon Cowell to Fox. Cowell, along with Antonio “L.A.” Reid, Cheryl Cole and Paula Abdul, will judge the U.S. version of the international television phenomenon that will award an unprecedented $5 million recording contract with Syco/Sony Music to the next global superstar or breakout music group.
Epic family adventure series Terra Nova, executive-produced by Steven Spielberg (“Saving Private Ryan,” “Jurassic Park”), Peter Chernin, René Echevarria (“Castle,” “The 4400”) and Brannon Braga (“24”) and starring Jason O’Mara (“Life On Mars”) and Stephen Lang (“Avatar”), premieres in the fall. The ambitious series follows an ordinary family on an extraordinary journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as...
Launching this fall is the highly anticipated singing competition series The X Factor, which marks the return of Simon Cowell to Fox. Cowell, along with Antonio “L.A.” Reid, Cheryl Cole and Paula Abdul, will judge the U.S. version of the international television phenomenon that will award an unprecedented $5 million recording contract with Syco/Sony Music to the next global superstar or breakout music group.
Epic family adventure series Terra Nova, executive-produced by Steven Spielberg (“Saving Private Ryan,” “Jurassic Park”), Peter Chernin, René Echevarria (“Castle,” “The 4400”) and Brannon Braga (“24”) and starring Jason O’Mara (“Life On Mars”) and Stephen Lang (“Avatar”), premieres in the fall. The ambitious series follows an ordinary family on an extraordinary journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as...
- 5/17/2011
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Fox has release it's full primetime schedule for Fall 2011-12. This includes new shows such as Terra Nova, New Girl, The X-Factor, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, the animated Napoleon Dynamite series and J.J. Abrams Alcatraz which is my most anticipated of all the new series. Below you will find the full schedule along with a synopsis for each new TV series. Check it out and tell us what shows you are most looking forward to.
Fox Fall 2011 Primetime Schedule
(All Times Et/Pt)
Monday
8:00-9:00 Pm Terra Nova (new)
9:00-10:00 Pm House
Tuesday
8:00-9:00 Pm Glee
9:00-9:30 Pm New Girl (wt) (new)
9:30-10:00 Pm Raising Hope
Wednesday
8:00-9:30 Pm The X Factor Performance Show (new)
9:30-10:00 Pm I Hate My Teenage Daughter (wt) (new)
Thursday
8:00-9:00 Pm The X Factor Results Show (new...
Fox Fall 2011 Primetime Schedule
(All Times Et/Pt)
Monday
8:00-9:00 Pm Terra Nova (new)
9:00-10:00 Pm House
Tuesday
8:00-9:00 Pm Glee
9:00-9:30 Pm New Girl (wt) (new)
9:30-10:00 Pm Raising Hope
Wednesday
8:00-9:30 Pm The X Factor Performance Show (new)
9:30-10:00 Pm I Hate My Teenage Daughter (wt) (new)
Thursday
8:00-9:00 Pm The X Factor Results Show (new...
- 5/16/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Chicago – Fox made their Fall schedule official this morning, putting to rest any lingering hope for fans of “The Chicago Code” (or the other four canceled bubble programs) and detailing what will air when.
Allen Gregory
Photo credit: Fox
With aggressive new programs on three nights of the week, Fox isn’t rocking the boat with their renewals — “House” will air on Mondays, “Glee” & “Raising Hope” on Tuesdays, “Bones” on Thursdays, and “Fringe” on Friday.
In the Fall, “Terra Nova,” “New Girl,” “The X Factor,” “Allen Gregory,” and “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” will premiere on Fox. Show descriptions are below.
Canceled programs include “The Chicago Code,” “Traffic Light,” “Breaking In,” “Lie to Me,” and “Human Target.”
Mondays will feature “Terra Nova” and “House.”
Tuesdays start with “Glee,” followed by new comedy “New Girl” and “Raising Hope.”
Wednesdays features “The X Factor” and comedy “I Hate My Teenage Daughter.”
Thursdays...
Allen Gregory
Photo credit: Fox
With aggressive new programs on three nights of the week, Fox isn’t rocking the boat with their renewals — “House” will air on Mondays, “Glee” & “Raising Hope” on Tuesdays, “Bones” on Thursdays, and “Fringe” on Friday.
In the Fall, “Terra Nova,” “New Girl,” “The X Factor,” “Allen Gregory,” and “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” will premiere on Fox. Show descriptions are below.
Canceled programs include “The Chicago Code,” “Traffic Light,” “Breaking In,” “Lie to Me,” and “Human Target.”
Mondays will feature “Terra Nova” and “House.”
Tuesdays start with “Glee,” followed by new comedy “New Girl” and “Raising Hope.”
Wednesdays features “The X Factor” and comedy “I Hate My Teenage Daughter.”
Thursdays...
- 5/16/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Monday-saurus!
Fox revealed its fall and midseason schedule this morning which includes Steven Spielberg’s dino-drama Terra Nova on Mondays and The X-Factor taking over the American Idol slots on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Glee will continue to rule Tuesdays, leading into freshman comedy New Girl starring Zooey Deschanel and the return of Raising Hope. New comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter will have a Factor lead-in on Wednesday while Bones will continue to have a singing competition opening act on Thursdays. All told, four new comedies and three dramas will join Fox next season, replacing cancelled titles like Human Target and Lie to Me.
Fox revealed its fall and midseason schedule this morning which includes Steven Spielberg’s dino-drama Terra Nova on Mondays and The X-Factor taking over the American Idol slots on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Glee will continue to rule Tuesdays, leading into freshman comedy New Girl starring Zooey Deschanel and the return of Raising Hope. New comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter will have a Factor lead-in on Wednesday while Bones will continue to have a singing competition opening act on Thursdays. All told, four new comedies and three dramas will join Fox next season, replacing cancelled titles like Human Target and Lie to Me.
- 5/16/2011
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Actor /director Wayne Blair was awarded the $10,000 Bob Maza Fellowship, last night at the opening of the Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival in Sydney.
“Screen Australia pays tribute to Bob Maza’s passion and commitment to the film and entertainment industry. Wayne is an exceptional talent in the local industry and we wish him the best of luck in using the opportunity this fellowship offers to further his international career,” said the head of Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department, Erica Glynn.
The Bob Maza Fellowship was established to allow an Indigenous actor or filmmaker expand his/her career opportunities and professional development.
Blair, a Butjala man from Queensland, made his acting debut in 200′s Mullet. He’s starred in films such as Blessed, as well as plays with the major state theatre companies in the country. He’s also made the short films Jubulj and The Djarn Djarns (Crystal Bear...
“Screen Australia pays tribute to Bob Maza’s passion and commitment to the film and entertainment industry. Wayne is an exceptional talent in the local industry and we wish him the best of luck in using the opportunity this fellowship offers to further his international career,” said the head of Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department, Erica Glynn.
The Bob Maza Fellowship was established to allow an Indigenous actor or filmmaker expand his/her career opportunities and professional development.
Blair, a Butjala man from Queensland, made his acting debut in 200′s Mullet. He’s starred in films such as Blessed, as well as plays with the major state theatre companies in the country. He’s also made the short films Jubulj and The Djarn Djarns (Crystal Bear...
- 5/12/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Remember that one year (2001) when the list-happy AFI (American Film Institute) decided to compete with the Globes and the Oscars in year end prizes? No, that didn't last long. But there's another AFI, The Australian Film Institute, that has been around for a long time and is in no such danger of being a one-off. This year, they're all about the amazing family crime drama Animal Kingdom which they awarded with a record breaking 18 nominations. Sure, the film is in danger of being way overhyped for people who are coming to it late (which is just about everyone given the sorry state of international distribution for dramas of virtually any kind) but for those who can slough off the "omg" raves, I guarantee you'll think it at least an insinuating and well executed crime drama.
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
AFI Favorites with multiple nominations
Its main competition for the coveted prizes, if you go by nomination counts,...
- 10/29/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Animal Kingdom received 18 nominations for this year’s Australian Film Institute Awards, followed by Beneath Hill 60 (12), Bright Star (11), Tomorrow, When the War Began (8), The Tree, Bran Nue Dae (7 each) and The Boys Are Back (4)
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
The Best Film category will see Animal Kingdom competing against Beneath Hill 60, Bright Star, Bran Nue Dae, The Tree and Tomorrow, When the War Began.
Australia’s top rated drama productions – Packed to the Rafters and Underbellly: The Golden Mile – were both absent from the main Television categories (except for Underbelly‘s two acting nods).
The winners will be revealed on December 10 (Industry Awards) and 11 (main Awards Ceremony) in Melbourne.
This is the full list of nominees:
AFI Members’ Choice Award
Animal Kingdom. Liz Watts. Beneath Hill 60. Bill Leimbach. Bran Nue Dae. Robyn Kershaw, Graeme Isaac. Bright Star. Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt. The Boys Are Back. Greg Brenman, Tim White. Tomorrow When The War Began.
- 10/27/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Our pick of the best shows on Aussie screens this week.
Dead Gorgeous
This Australian-British co-production is one for kids who enjoy a bit of ghostly fun. Three teenage sisters from 1861 find themselves living in the present day, and their old family estate is now a private school. The performances are big with lots of silly faces as the girls adjust to their world of new fashions, hot boys, computers, television and a stuffy principal played by Gerry Connolly. Also features Tangle's More >>...
Dead Gorgeous
This Australian-British co-production is one for kids who enjoy a bit of ghostly fun. Three teenage sisters from 1861 find themselves living in the present day, and their old family estate is now a private school. The performances are big with lots of silly faces as the girls adjust to their world of new fashions, hot boys, computers, television and a stuffy principal played by Gerry Connolly. Also features Tangle's More >>...
- 4/4/2010
- by David Knox
- TV.com
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