WHO: Corbin Bleu, Elle Macpherson, Sara Paxton, and exec producers Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg, and Karey Burke. MIA: Mischa Barton.
PREMISE: America’s Next Top Model: The Drama.
10:08 am/PST: The male lead is not based on Kutcher’s own Iowa-to-New York story. “There are similarities, but my story is actually closer to [the female lead] Raina’s,” he says.
10:13 am: Kutcher claims that when he was approached to become a model he didn’t even know there was such a thing as male modeling. “I thought the Marlboro Man was a real guy.”
10:15 am: New drinking game: Take a shot every time someone on the panel uses the phrase “fish-out-of-water.”
10:16 am: Corbin Bleu just referred to Elle Macpherson as an “amazon.” Um, awkward.
10:18 am: No casting changes, save for some new characters being introduced. “We’re not making any casting changes at all,” insists Kutcher. “The cast is the cast.”
10:21 am: Kutcher fields the first Barton query. He insists her recent medical woes have not negatively impacted the show. “Mischa’s in New York working today on the show,” he says. “She was never unavailable for a day of work.”
10:29 am: Bleu is very serious about his “craft.”
10:30 am: Recalling the day he was discovered, Kutcher says he was approached by a woman in a bar at the University of Iowa and… I lost interest.
10:35 am: Barton will be “very prominent” on the show, says Kutcher.
10:38 am: Panel ends, rather anti-climactically.
Someone should have asked what they will do the next time Barton goes on a coke-binge
And asked if they hide all the sharp objects everytime Mischa is filming a scene
You guys are being really mean. The worst thing to do after someone tries to kill themselves is to make fun of them. Grow up!
But is it good? Honestly, at first blush, I don’t want to watch a show about over-indulged beautiful people who make beaucoup bucks by sitting and looking pretty. Yeah, yeah, modeling is work. Tell that to all the coal miner’s in Kentucky.
OMG. That cast photo is so hilarious. I love the way the guy on the left, that cazy Barton-chick and the girl in the white t-shirt are all leaning the same way like they are being blown backwards by strong wind.
Ha ha ha, true story!!!
Be nice Michael – I heart Corbin Bleu. Its probably the first time his lines weren’t prepared for him in advanced by the Mouse
Why is everyone in the cast picture slanted to one side, like they’re posing on a sinking ship? Oh, I guess I answered my own question.
LMAO! Seriously, who told them to stand like that? They really do look like they’re sinking cuz they’re on a slant.
hahha Peter. Yeah, I don’t see this show lasting very long. I don’t think Barton is a very good actress, she’s pretty but she’s just playing herself in everything she’s in; this crazy, neurotic self-destructive chick. The preview looked interesting with the male model angle but then he punched the guy who was hitting on him. Now if you showed male models showing their agents for a job I’d believe that, that’s the funny part, I bet you they will make all the male models straight guys…male models are notoriously bisexual.
oops I meant blowing not showing
Posed cast photos get more silly and more stereotyped every year, especially with these ridiculous shows aimed at teenagers.
A show about models…how not interested I am. A show where the main character(two actually) are sort of based off Ashton Kutcher, now I just want the show to be canceled in an episode.
Seriously how did this show get chosen over body of politics? Oh that’s right the CW want to promote bulimic, druggie, insecure, b.itchy skanks instead of smart, young people.
Remember the days when the WB had intelligent shows…yay, don’t you miss that?
DIDNT ASHTON SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO MODELS INC AND CPW…EVEN PAPER DOLLS…THESE SCRIPTED MODEL SHOWS DONT WORK…THE AUDIENCE CANT CONNECT TO THE CHARACTERS…THEREFORE LOSE INTEREST.
Maybe they’re all posed in those positions like ANTM so they can be easily photoshopped out of the picture?