Monthly Archives: July 2010

Jesse Metcalfe has left the lawnmowers behind, put on a shirt and has become a part of the Jerry Bruckheimer produced action series “Chase,” premiering this fall on NBC. The former breakout star on “Desperate Housewives” who grew up in Waterford has kept busy acting since the fling with Gabrielle Solis on “Housewives” catapulted his [...]

Broadcast TV goes back to the day of live TV when “30 Rock” takes a stab at an episode live from studio 8H on Oct. 14. The cast will actually perform the episode twice – once at 8:30 p.m. eastern time for the East Coast audience and then at 11:30 p.m. (eastern), for the West [...]

They’re calling the remake of “Hawaii Five-0” this fall more of a reboot. “It’s not a
remake. We’re not kind of picking up where they left
off,” says Alex O’Loughlin, who plays the 21st century Steve McGarrett. “It’s a reboot, and the characters are very
different. “I love Jack Lord’s McGarrett. I
love Jack Lord’s hair. I love Jack [...]

Reality TV is not just taking over airwaves; it’s influencing the scripted shows as well. This fall’s example is “The Defenders,” which was based on a pilot for a proposed docu-series with the same name. Filmmakers Harry and Joe Gantz (“Taxicab Confessions”) proposed a series on a pair of real life attorneys Michael Cristalli and [...]

CBS is hailing its impending comedy “$#@! My Dad Says” as the first to have been inspired by a Twitter feed. But its big name star is not one to tweet. “I don’t Twitter. I can’t even 
remember my password name,” Shatner says. “I have problems 
with electronics. So what I’ve done is I’ve hired [...]

Not since “McCloud” has an iconic leading man with a mustache made the move to become lawman in New York City. But Tom Selleck is going to do just that, move east to shoot the new CBS fall cop drama, “Blue Bloods.” “I’m relocating,” says Selleck, “as are many of the cast. And
we’re doing it [...]

“Mike & Molly” is a sweet new sitcom on CBS about a pair of people who almost never get to lead their shows – men and women who are plus-sized, clearly a topic so foreign to TV, the critics gathered on the first morning of press conferences at the TV Critics Association summer press tour [...]

Chuck Lorre may be the busiest reigning sitcom creator on TV, with two hit shows in “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory” and a third comedy coming this fall in “Mike & Molly.” But Lorre, who was also behind “Dharma & Greg,” Roseanne” and “Grace Under Fire,” lives in fear that [...]