Archive: November 2011 (235-247 of 321)

Nov 7 2011 08:15 PM ET

'Castle': Tamala Jones on what's next for Lanie and Esposito. Plus, dish on January's 'phenomenal' wedding episode!

Categories: Castle, Television, TV Scoop
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When Lanie and Esposito (Jon Huertas) broke off their relationship last month, it became clear, as Castle‘s Tamala Jones puts it, that the “honeymoon phase is over” between the two once-smitten lovers. But there’s hope on the horizon for the pair, she says.

“She’s got a wall up but I think that Esposito is breaking her down at this point, and you’re going to see a little bit of that [this] week,” says Jones. “She’s going to come clean about how she truly feels about him…but I definitely don’t think Laney is done with Esposito.”

And while full reconciliation might be an extended process, Jones says it will all come to a head in a January episode, which is being filmed now, that will center around Ryan’s (Seamus Dever) wedding to Jenny (played by Dever’s real-life wife Juliana Dever). “Oh my God, that is going to be the episode,” she teases. “I mean, Castle episodes are all good but this one, the wedding episode, I think it’s going to be phenomenal.”  READ FULL STORY »

Nov 7 2011 08:05 PM ET

Robert DeNiro signs on to play Bernie Madoff in potential HBO movie

Categories: Television, TV Biz
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The face of real-life financial evil may very well be portrayed on the small screen by an Academy Award winner: Robert DeNiro. HBO confirmed today to EW that it’s developing project, which would be produced by DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal under DeNiro’s Tribeca Productions company.

DeNiro would play Madoff, the infamous money manager who embezzled billions of dollars from his clients and is currently serving a 150-year prison sentence, in a made-for TV movie written by novelist Jonathan Burnham Schwartz (Reservation Road) and based partially on the books The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust and Truth and Consequences: Life Inside The Madoff Family. (The New York Times first reported the story.)

Nov 7 2011 07:27 PM ET

'Glee' casting scoop: Chord Overstreet's mom is... -- EXCLUSIVE

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Time to meet another parent on Glee!

Now that Chord Overstreet is reprising his role as Sam on the Fox drama, fans will be introduced to his mom Mary Evans, played by Tanya Clarke (Guiding Light). EW has learned exclusively that Clarke, who has also appeared on shows like The Defenders and NCIS: Los Angeles, will show up in the Dec. 6 episode and may recur.

It’s already been revealed that John Schneider (Smallville) will play Sam’s dad. Hey, the tow-headed teen had to get that blond hair somewhere!

Overstreet signed up for a multi-episode/recurring arc on the show, and will reunite with kids of McKinley High in December. Sam’s departure was explained in the season 3 premiere by his father getting a job in another town.

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For more on Glee:

Why this week’s sex-themed episode is a game changer
Damian McGinty’s ‘Glee’ debut: So how’d he do?
‘Glee’ recap: Big Trouble in Little Lima

Nov 7 2011 05:31 PM ET

'Chuck': The lowest-rated show in primetime?

Categories: Chuck, Television, TV Ratings
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Oof, some ratings hit hard, and the ones for Chuck are no exception: The comedy’s second episode earned a mere .9 rating/3 share on Friday, making it the least watched show of the night, according to final national ratings released today. The good news: Zachary Levi’s beloved character (at least among TV critics) isn’t THE lowest rated show on broadcast television. That distinction belongs to Nikita on the CW, which is averaging an anemic .7/3. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 7 2011 03:36 PM ET

'Hell on Wheels' rolls out big ratings for AMC

Categories: TV Ratings
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AMC’s new Western drama delivered the network’s second biggest premiere audience ever.

Hell on Wheels had 4.4 million viewers Sunday night. The post-Civil War drama had a fairly strong 2.4 million in the adult demo — that’s particularly good news since Westerns tend to draw an older crowd. The success is tempered somewhat by the fact Wheels had an even bigger lead in from The Walking Dead (6.3 million), but that’s sort of a weak complaint — Your big TV show rating wasn’t as big as your other big TV show rating. This is actually the first time AMC has been able to use its highest rated show to fuel another series.

The Walking Dead has some positive news too — the zombie drama rose for the first time this second season, reversing its trend to rise slightly. Even with its large overall audience, those weekly drops in the wake of showrunner Frank Darabont’s departure had to have been getting a tad worrisome …

Nov 7 2011 02:56 PM ET

'NCIS': Guess who'll play Jimmy Palmer's dad? -- EXCLUSIVE

Categories: Casting, Casting Scoops, NCIS

Man, we are digging this ongoing trend on NCIS to meet the parents (and grandparents, and occasional sibling).

So who’s the latest actor to play a father figure on the popular CBS show? READ FULL STORY »

Nov 7 2011 02:48 PM ET

'Hannibal' TV series from 'Pushing Daisies' creator bought by NBC

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Can bringing the Silence of the Lambs franchise to TV help rescue NBC?

Sources confirm the network has just made a deal with Pushing Daisies creator and former Heroes writer Bryan Fuller to create a broadcast series take on Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The deal calls for a straight-to-series order (no pilot) if NBC likes the script.

But can the extremely dark franchise based on Thomas Harris’ series of bestselling novels really work in primetime? Perhaps. While there are no details about the adaptation yet, we’re presumably looking at a police procedural here that’s not entirely unlike a twisted version of The Mentalist — a hero solving weekly crimes while a legendary serial killer remains at large. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 7 2011 02:47 PM ET

'Community' scoop: Yvette Nicole Brown says Christmas episode will be 'musical'

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Community‘s stop-motion episode last season was one of the series’ finest, but this year, the comedy is taking a more musical approach to their holiday episode.

“We really go all out,” says Yvette Nicole Brown, who plays Shirley on the show. “We all sing, but I don’t know if it’s a musical. But there’s music. It’s not lines of dialogue that are sung, but we sing.” READ FULL STORY »

Nov 7 2011 02:05 PM ET

'House': Jesse Spencer on possible new flames, Chase's 'best season' yet

Categories: House, Television, TV Scoop
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Chase’s absence from the first four episodes of House’s new season have been painful for fans of the Aussie doc, but luckily, he and fellow veteran team member Taub (Peter Jacobson) are back on tonight’s new episode. But, as Jesse Spencer tells EW, their transition back to a team, which has seen the addition of two doctors (Odette Annable’s Jessica Adams and Charlyne Yi’s Chi Park), won’t be seamless.

“They have their disagreements [with the new team], obviously,” he says. “They have different clashes and different ways of doing things, but there is also a sort of nurturing — for lack of a better term. The [returning] characters give hints to the new characters about why House might be doing what he’s doing or which direction we think we should be going.”

There will, particularly, be some interesting interaction between Chase and new doc Adams. “There’s flirting that goes on,” he teases. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 7 2011 02:04 PM ET

'Spartacus' renewed for season 3!

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Whoa — Starz just renewed Spartacus for a third season.

The timing is a surprise, even if the news is not: Two months before Sparty is set to return for a second season, Starz has decided to pick up the franchise for a third round (the season numbers don’t include the six-episode prequel, Gods of the Arena). The move shows confidence in both the strength of the series and in new star Liam McIntyre, who took on the lead role of Spartacus after star Andy Whitfield withdrew from the series to resume “aggressive treatment” for non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Whitfield passed away from the disease in September.

The show premieres as Spartacus: Vengeance on Jan. 27. Here’s a look at the poster and some behind-the-scenes video.

Read more:
‘Spartacus: Vengeance’ return date, poster, video revealed! — EXCLUSIVE
First full-length ‘Spartacus: Vengeance’ trailer is here
Starz, Lucy Lawless on Andy Whitfield’s death: He was ‘a champion’

Nov 7 2011 01:47 PM ET

Roger Ebert: 'At the Movies' in danger of cancellation

Categories: Movies, TV Biz

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert says his revamped version of At the Movies is in danger of going off the air. The syndicated program Ebert Presents At The Movies needs more investor funding to survive, the critic writes.

“Unless we find an angel, our television program will go off the air at the end of its current season,” Ebert wrote this weekend, noting the ratings for the show have been strong. “There. I’ve said it. Usually in television, people use evasive language. Not me. We’ll be gone. I want to be honest about why this is. We can’t afford to finance it any longer.”

Ebert co-hosted the original At the Movies for decades until he was stricken by thyroid cancer. The new review program is produced by Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert and debuted in January. Christy Lemire of the Associated Press and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of the Chicago Reader co-host the show.

Nov 7 2011 01:26 PM ET

FX orders extra episode of 'Sons of Anarchy'

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Those motorcycle engines on Sons of Anarchy will run a little longer: FX just announced that it ordered a 14th episode of the show that will air Dec. 6. The drama from Kurt Sutter is in its fourth season and has already been picked up for a fifth.

This is the highest-rated season of SOA, thanks to the high-octane story line about aging club leader Clay (Ron Perlman) and his controversial decision to get the Sons in the drug trade. The 10th episode airs tomorrow.

“Creatively, this has been SONs best and biggest season ever,” said Nick Grad, Exec VP of Original Programming, in a statement. “Kurt asked us to consider adding an extra episode to fully close this current chapter of the SONs saga. By adding the extra episode, it wraps up a magnificent season in an extraordinary fashion. This is a real bonus for fans of the series.”

Sutter told EW that Clay is in full-on panic mode this season. “Clay is seeing his power and his manhood slowly slip away from him and really wanting to go out with as big a piece of the pie as he possibly can,” says Sutter, who started out at FX as a scribe on The Shield. “Clay is that sort of militaristic personality where he sort of locks into a goal, and he compartmentalizes, and he’s just like a bulldog.  He doesn’t let go.  He’s not unlike, interestingly enough, Vic Mackey in a lot of ways. He’s really a guy that’s focused on a goal and runs towards it and really is able to sort of justify or compartmentalize the things that he does.”

For more about Sutter, pick up the current issue of EW.

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Nov 7 2011 12:54 PM ET

'Once Upon' still strong, 'Allen Gregory' slips

Categories: TV Ratings

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Once Upon a Time was once again strong in the ratings. Though the third episode of ABC’s fantasy series slipped a slight 5 percent compared to last week, it still tied a football-overrun-boosted Simpsons episode to lead the night among entertainment shows.

NBC won the night with Sunday Night Football, the Ravens-Steelers game hitting a 14.2 overnight household rating, up 9 percent from last week. Fox was second with some football overrun fueling The Simpsons (8 million viewers, 3.7 adults 18-49 rating), which featured guest star Jane Lynch. The second episode of new animated comedy Allen Gregory (4.3 million, 2.1) fell 13 percent to rank as the lowest-rated entry on Fox’s block. Family Guy (5.7 million, 3.0) and American Dad (4.8 million, 2.5) were down slightly. READ FULL STORY »

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