Sunday, September 20, 2009

Seinfeld reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm

This is shaping up to be the highlight of this upcoming fall season: the Seinfeld reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's been 11-years in the making and now for the first time since Seinfeld went off-the-air in 1998 all the original cast members are back on one screen for a multi-episode-arc on the 10-episode season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
For more coverage:
http://www.hollywoodtelevision.tv/frame/index-CurbYourEnthusiasm.html

ABC Fall

ABC is conducting a major facelift to its schedule in the fall adding a bunch of new shows. The network has left only its power house shows on the schedule like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters and of course Dancing with the Stars as it added new ones with big names like Kelsey Grammer, Courtney Cox, Ed O'Neal, Joseph Finnes and Patricia Heating to it's line-up
For full coverage:
http://www.hollywoodtelevision.tv/frame/index-abcfall.html

CBS Fall

CBS is the network that has the least new shows as traditionally their shows do consistently well in the ratings. Among the new faces of the fall will be Jenna Elfman, Julianna Margulies, Chris O'Donell and Patricia Arquette (who is jumping ship from NBC).
For full coverage:
http://www.hollywoodtelevision.tv/frame/index-cbsfall.html

NBC Fall

NBC's new schedule has less shows on prime-time as the network has decided to give Jay Leno the 10pm time-slot 5-night-a-week. As a result they only have 2-hours of scripted programming per night like the CW and Fox rather than CBS and ABC who continue with airing shows between 8pm-11pm.
With the Vancouver Winter Olympics commencing in February NBC also decided to divide its schedule into two.
Here is the full coverage of NBC's fall schedule:
http://www.hollywoodtelevision.tv/frame/index-nbcfall.html

Friday, September 4, 2009

All About Steve Premiere

Sandra Bullock is back to the big screen (for the second time this summer) in a romantic comedy that she not only stars in but also produces. In The Proposal she was a vicious publisher, this time in All About Steve she is a obsessive crossword puzzl...e writer who runs half-way across the country to be with who she thinks is the love of her life... Bradley Cooper and Thomas Haden Church co-star and add some very comedic twists to the movie.
I attended the premiere at the Chinese Theatre and here is what the stars had to tell me about their new movie...
For full coverage:
http://hollywoodtelevision.tv/frame/index-allaboutsteve.html

Thursday, September 3, 2009

The CW fall line-up is full of surprises...

The CW is the first network to launch its Fall Schedule next week and it has quite a few high profile shows up its sleeves... From the re-launching of Melrose Place to The Beautiful Life (with the dude from HSM and the gal from The OC) to The Vampire... Diaries that is going to tap onto that audience who is so patiently waiting for Twilight 2: New Moon. Plus The CW is bringing back Gossip Girl, Smallville, One Tree Hill, Supernatural and America's Next Top Model amongst others for another season...
For full coverage go here:
http://www.hollywoodtelevision.tv/index-cwfall.html

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Thirtysomething coming back... on DVD...

It's been 18-years since Thirtysomething has been off-the-air and still the show is been referred to as one of the most influential shows on television.
For many years rights issues have stopped the show from coming to DVD (mostly music rights),... however this week it is finally here. I don't use this phrase a lot but this is a must-have.
Btw it was fascinating to see Ken Olin on Thirtysomething who looks like Jon Ham's ("Mad Men") long lost brother...
Here's the link for the full coverage of the premiere event:
http://www.hollywoodtelevision.tv/index-thirtysomething.html

Sons of Anarchy getting ready for Season 2 & DVD...

Sons of Anarchy is quickly filling into the void that The Sopranos has left behind when it left the airwaves. A stellar cast that includes British hunk, Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman and Katey Sagal (who is also married to the executive producer of the show) bring this modern day Shakespearean tragedy spun into the world of the vicious motorcycle gangs.
Next week FX is launching season 2 of the show as the DVD of season 1 is released this week. The cast got together on the Paramount lot to celebrate both occasions and I got to talk to them on the red carpet before they got too drunk to know what they were talking about at the after-party...
Full coverage at this link:
http://hollywoodtelevision.tv/frame/index-sonsofanarchy.html

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Shorts is hitting theaters...

Two-years-ago Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were collaborating on the same project, Grind House.This weekend the two genius directors are fighting it out at the box-office each with his own project, Rodriguez with Shorts and Tarantino with Inglourious Basterds.
Warner Bros. created a mini fair for the premiere of Shorts in front of the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and I was of course there... check it out...
http://www.hollywoodtelevision.tv/index-shorts.html

Monday, August 17, 2009

Spread with Ashton Kutcher

If you are looking for an alternative movie this weekend to District 9, check out Spread, starring and produced by Ashton Kutcher, about a guy in LA who is basically sleeping his way to the top and then karma come to bite him in the ass... Ashton looks great and does a really nice job in the flick...
Check out my premiere coverage for more about Spread.

Monday, August 3, 2009

World's Greatest Dad

Whenever anyone mentions the name Bobcat Goldthwait, the one thing coming to your mind is: MESHUGGINA (crazy in Yiddish for all you gentiles)... He's "Zed" from the Police Academy franchise (yes, I know I am dating myself for remembering) or the guy who lit up Jay Leno's couch in the middle of an interview... but yet he is also the guy who has written and directed this sensitive and touching new dark comedy, World's Greatest Dad, starring Oscar winner, Robin Williams.
The movie tells the story of Lance Clayton, a father who has to deal with the fact that his extremely unpleasant son has died under very auspicious circumstances. Now he is trying to make this death go down in vane, mean something to him and the world and unintentionally creates something way bigger than himself.
This is a well acted, witty written and directed in a very real-to-life yet sensitive way. It is a movie that deals with death but more importantly it is a social criticism about the state of our society and who would have believed that the crazy guy from Police Academy is behind all this...
I give it a definite thumbs up...