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The Grey’s Anatomy spin-off centered on Kate Walsh’s neonatal surgeon Addison Montgomery is shaping up with the addition of two television vets – Paul Adelstein and Tim Daly. Daly, best known for Wings and not being able to catch a break with a successful… Continue reading
Casino is one of my favorite Martin Scorsese movies, and one of the reasons is because of the behind-the-scenes look into Vegas, baby, Vegas that the Academy Award winner gives us. Now, Scorsese is re-teaming with his Departed star Mark Wahlberg to give… Continue reading
Zach Braff, who made his generation’s version of The Graduate (read: an okay movie that will become beloved because of the people who love it), has re-upped his contract to star as Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian on the NBC comedy Scrubs, reports CNN.com. Braff will… Continue reading
Sports Illustrated reports that two-time Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning will celebrate his thirty-first birthday by hosting Saturday Night Live. Manning will be the fourth quarterback, the seventh football player, and the twenty-fifth sports figure in SNL’s… Continue reading
If you were a pre-teen in the eighties or nineties, you know the name Alvin Schwartz. Next to Stephen King, he's probably responsible for warping more fragile little minds than any other author – between 1981 and 1991, he collected and retold tales of… Continue reading
I guess her marriage to Tom Cruise made Nicole Kidman a fan of fakery, because she’s guest-starring on the fifth season of Nip/Tuck. The Oscar-winning Kidman, who met Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy on the set of their film Need, asked the (warden) pope of… Continue reading
The cop drama that’s really about the decline of the American city The Wire has always been the redheaded stepchild of HBO. A brilliant redheaded stepchild matched only by the greatness of Deadwood, but still, the Baltimore-set series gets all the critical… Continue reading
Michael Mann staple and “Hey! It’s That Guy!” Bruce McGill has joined the cast of the Area 52 pilot, reports Zap2it.com. The Animal House star will play a general in the NBC comedy set at a secret government installation, where he’ll be telling co-star… Continue reading
Even if you hated the shit out of American Beauty and its script by Alan Ball, there’s no denying that Ball’s cable series Six Feet Under helped turn HBO into the critical and awards powerhouse it is today. As previously reported in our THUD pilot roundup,… Continue reading
On the Lot, the reality show that’s had aspiring filmmakers buzzing for months and would-be-writers getting asked “why don’t you enter that there contest?” by their out-of-touch relatives who don’t get the difference between a director and a screenwriter for… Continue reading
Whether you love it, hate it, hate how much you love it (like me), or embarrassed to admit that you watch it, there’s no denying that the hospital primetime soap Grey’s Anatomy is one of the biggest shows on TV. It’s also the only show to consistently… Continue reading
House lost me this season with the weak-ass way they ended out of the David Morse storyline, which took months of pressure, tension (“Good thing you failed to become a mom, because you suck at it!” never gets old) and the possibility of real change for Greg… Continue reading
