Jackson Rathbone may be best known as Jasper in the Twilight films, but he’s taking on a new role in Aim High, Warner Bros.’s new web series produced by McG (Chuck) that premieres Aug. 1 on Facebook. Rathbone will play a high schooler, Nick Green, who moonlights as a U.S. spy when he’s not hitting the books. EW has the exclusive trailer for the series below, as well as some more details from Rathbone about the series.
Archive: June 2011 (79-91 of 274)
Jun 23
2011
12:00 AM ET
'The Voice': What you didn't see on TV
Image Credit: Lewis Jacobs/NBC
It has been four years since Sanjaya, err, graced the stage of American Idol, but he’s still apparently one of the greatest punch lines for the comics warming up the crowds at reality show singing competitions. Take last night at the live, semi-finals round of NBC’s The Voice, where warm-up comic Bill was pumping up the crowd before the competition. “Cee Lo is performing tonight!” he roared to the crowds inside Stage 16 on Warner Bros.’s Burbank lot, in an attempt to get the masses enthusiastic.
And then he added: “Sanjaya is performing! No, I wouldn’t do that to you…” When he said that, I found myself flashing back to the multiple times during my evenings in the American Idol studio, when the warm-up comic for Fox’s karaoke behemoth would use the very same joke. Ba-domp-ching! Sanjaya! To that I say: C’mon, give Sanjaya a break, folks! It has been four years — get a new joke!
But alas, Sanjaya was far from the only excitement inside The Voice dome last night, as the top eight contestants were whittled down to just four — one from the team of coaches Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, and Blake Shelton. What else happened on the inside that you might not have seen on screen? Well, since it was only an hour-long show, it was a short evening, but here’s what I spied for you all:
Jun 22
2011
06:55 PM ET
A bucket of 'True Blood' season 4 clips!
If you’re jonesing for the fourth season of True Blood we have a treat for you. HBO has released eight clips from the upcoming season. Here you go, we won’t bother you for awhile. (Oh, and “your blood tastes like freedom, Sookie”): READ FULL STORY »
Jun 22
2011
06:07 PM ET
Busted! Fox's 'MasterChef' faked crowd scene -- PHOTO
Fox’s MasterChef cooked up a hilarious blunder by doctoring a scene that shows hordes of people trying out for the show.
In the opening sequence of Gordon Ramsay’s latest cooking competition, there’s an American Idol-style shot of an excited crowd waiting to audition. The voiceover claims “thousands upon thousands lined up” to try out for the show’s second season.
Except if you look closely, producers replicated portions of the crowd to make the group appear larger than it really was. Here’s a screen shot and an exclusive response from the producers, below. Notice the circled areas show the same clusters of people used twice (including a very obvious woman in a bright orange hoodie):
Jun 22
2011
04:35 PM ET
Jason Patric speaks out on FX's 'Powers' role
Jason Patric has signed on to star in FX’s comic adaptation of Powers.
Patric, who stole the show in the recent movie The Losers and, of course, appeared in films such as Rush, will star as a homicide detective devoted solely to cases that involve people with superpowers. The pilot was penned by Charles H. Eglee (The Shield).
The move marks the actor’s first regular TV series gig. Patric says he switched his focus from movies and theater to television because he’s drawn to strong storytelling.
“In my movies I’ve always tried to find compelling stories and primal characters that will carry you through them,” Patric tells EW exclusively. “It has been become increasingly more difficult to tell stories via movies these days; studios are more interested in selling a weekend than telling a story. Powers is unlike anything I’ve ever seen and FX is up to the challenge.” READ FULL STORY »
Jun 22
2011
02:42 PM ET
'Dexter': Exec producer Scott Buck reveals details about season 6 -- EXCLUSIVE
Image Credit: Randy Tepper/Showtime
Dexter doesn’t return to Showtime until early fall, but it’s never too early to peek behind the clear polyethylene curtain and see what the hit serial-killer drama is plotting for season 6. Exec producer and new showrunner Scott Buck gives Entertainment Weekly an exclusive preview of the new season, which will feature a return to the confident Dexter of years past, as well as a few high-profile additions like Edward James Olmos, Colin Hanks, and Mos.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What’s the overriding theme of season 6?
SCOTT BUCK: What does it mean when a serial killer goes on a spiritual search? Dexter (Michael C. Hall) has always known what he doesn’t want to pass onto his son — his “dark passenger” — but now he’s beginning to ask what he does want to pass on. So that’s forcing him to look around to see what else there is in life. READ FULL STORY »
Jun 22
2011
01:36 PM ET
'The Voice' strong in ratings, ABC's 'Game Show' starts modest
NBC’s The Voice continued to dominate this summer’s broadcast ratings on Tuesday, while ABC’s latest game show experiment got off to a modest start.
Voice (11.8 million viewers, 4.3 preliminary adults 18-49 demo rating) crushed the competition as usual, with America’s Got Talent (12 million, 3.2) providing a strong lead-in, though both shows dipped slightly from last week. (Here’s what you didn’t see on The Voice last night).
ABC’s goofy new 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show (1.9) matched the debut performance of Downfall in that slot last summer. The quiz show has contestants who are eliminated from the competition exiting in over-the-top ways (see pic). This is not a good rating, but in the summer, it’s not a terrible one either. ABC’s new medical documentary Combat Hospital (1.2) was lifeless at 10 p.m. ABC also had Wipeout (5.3 million, 1.7).
Fox’s steady Masterchef (4.1 million, 1.8), meanwhile, had Gordon Ramsay and company steady at 8 p.m.
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‘The Voice’ recap: The Penultimate Peril
Jun 22
2011
12:40 PM ET
'Glee' scoop: Ryan Murphy reveals season 3 secrets, talks 'The Glee Project' winner
It’s only been a little over a month since Glee‘s season 2 has ended. But co-creator Ryan Murphy and his team, which now includes a brand-spankin’-new writing staff including Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Marti Noxon, have already begun thinking about the third season of the Fox hit. “Officially, we start on Monday, but we’ve broken a lot already,” says Murphy. “We know where we’re headed. We know what some of the arcs are.” One definite plot point this coming season will be the introduction of the winner of Oxygen’s The Glee Project, which airs Sundays at 9 p.m., and boasts Murphy as a judge and executive producer. “The person that we found is so perfect,” reveals Murphy. “I think the person is going to be a huge star in the tradition of Lea Michele and Darren Criss and Chris Colfer.” EW pressed Murphy for more details on what would happen in Glee‘s third season, who Sue will target next, and what graduation day means for the characters.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Your comments to Ryan Seacrest about the New Directions teens graduating created quite a stir.
RYAN MURPHY: Which I find strange because I’ve been saying it for years. Maybe because the moment has come and people are like, “Wait! No!”
So the ENTIRE class will graduate by the end? READ FULL STORY »
Jun 22
2011
12:26 PM ET
Rejected pilot 'Locke & Key' to screen at Comic-Con
Joe Hill’s comic series Locke & Key isn’t about zombies, but its pilot is has become the living dead in the months since Fox passed on the show.
After Fox declined the project, Locke was shopped to other networks, including Syfy and The CW, which likewise passed. Now the stylish and ambitious project will screen at Comic-Con next month alongside a panel for the comic book upon which it’s based. The team behind the pilot, including writer Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), likely hopes the screening will generate renewed interest in the show (expect a camera to capture the crowd’s reaction when the lights come up), or at least bolster sales for the comic series (its publisher IDW is holding the event).
Locke is about a family who move into a Massachusetts mansion that has a tangle of supernatural mysteries. One review of the pilot called it creepy and spooky, but with “a little too much weirdness” for a mainstream TV show and better suited to a miniseries. On his Web site, Hill praised the pilot as “scary, and lean, and emotionally authentic, and has a similar feel to Super 8; it very much has a kind of early ’80s scary-Spielberg vibe.”
Read more:
‘Chuck,’ ‘Supernatural,’ ‘Alcatraz’ are going to Comic-Con
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Jun 22
2011
10:00 AM ET
Outstanding Reality Competition Series: Why it's Emmys' most predictable category
Image Credit: NBC
Every year, when watching the Emmys, is there a point where you find yourself overwhelmed by feelings of déjà vu? It’s understandable if you do. After all, since 2007, the Outstanding Reality Competition Program has nominated the same five series — The Amazing Race, American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, Project Runway, and Top Chef – each and every year.
After hearing the names of the five nominated shows, you may find yourself overcome with a different feeling: frustration. Where’s the love for So You Think You Can Dance? Shark Tank? The Next Food Network Star? How is it that one category has remained so staunchly unchanged when the reality landscape is becoming much more vast and acclaimed?
Blame, for one, the ratings game. “It’s tough for the lower-rated shows to have a chance,” says Tom Forman, CEO of RelativityREAL and creator of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which has won two Emmys in a different reality category, Outstanding Reality Program. READ FULL STORY »
Jun 22
2011
09:49 AM ET
Vicci Martinez says Cee Lo Green apologized for 'gay' tweet
Image Credit: Lewis Jacobs/NBC The Voice
Martinez, who’s on Team Cee Lo, told SheWired.com that “right away, he messaged us and was like, ‘I just want you guys to know that this just came out and that’s not how I feel. They are totally messing it up, blowing it up, and I just want to apologize to you guys first.’ He was like, ‘so, if you start hearing stuff, just know that I love you and that’s just sometimes what happens in the business.’ ” READ FULL STORY »
Jun 22
2011
02:50 AM ET
'Pretty Little Liars': Will we find out who 'A' is this season? We have your answer!
Image Credit: Adam Rose/ABC Family
The second episode of Pretty Little Liars‘ already rapturously juicy second season aired last night, and it seems that we’re no closer to figuring out the series’ central mystery concerning the identity of the elusive “A,” the mysterious “shim” that has been terrorizing the foursome at the center of the show via text and email since it launched last summer.
Such a drawn-out mystery begs the bigger questions: Just when can we expect to learn who “A” is? Will we ever? Could it possibly be this season? EW talked to series creator Marlene King and executive producer Oliver Goldstick, who both dished on when they think that the identity of “A” will come out. Read on for all those details.
Jun 22
2011
01:28 AM ET
'The Voice': What you didn't see on TV
Image Credit: Lewis Jacobs/NBC
A full hour before The Voice even began its live broadcast last night, the roof on Stage 16 — where the show is shot on Warner Bros.’s Burbank lot — was already about to blow off from sheer fan excitement. Why all the buzz so, so early? Turns out that “live” performance of “Moves Like Jagger” that the Adam Levine-fronted Maroon 5 did with judge Christina Aguilera was being pre-taped. It’s a common practice on these types of shows, mostly because of the complexity of doing so many performances, one after another, in a two hour time period. And sometimes it’s just easier if they can knock one of the more complicated ones out before the show begins and insert a tape during the show. Or, you know, they want to get the performance taped, up, and available on iTunes as soon as possible. Who knows. READ FULL STORY »
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