Amanda Peet
Amanda Peet is set to guest-star on How I Met Your Mother, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
No details have been released on who Peet will play. Her episode will air sometime in...
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Question: Is the actress NBC has in mind for The Office 2.0 Amanda Peet?
Answer: Y*s! C*ng*at*lati*ns!
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Amanda Peet by Steve Granitz/ WireImage.com, Xzibit by Denise Truscello/WireImage.com
Rapper Xzibit, Amanda Peet (Studio 60) and Billy Connolly have joined the cast of the new X-Files film. Everything is hush-hush, but the Reporter hears that Xzibit and Peet will play fellow FBI agents of Mulder and Scully…. Friday Night Lights’ Zach Gilford is in talks to play Alexis Bledel’s would-be beau in the The Post-Grad Survival Guide.... Jamie Chung (ABC Family's upcoming Samurai Girl) has joined the live-action adaptation of Dragonball, playing the love interest of Justin Chatwin’s Goku…. Christopher Mintz-Plasse, aka Superbad’s McLovin, is reuniting with producer Judd Apatow for Year One, a comedy set in biblical times.
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Jason Bateman, The Ex
When compared to good ol' Michael Bluth, the character Jason Bateman plays in The Ex (a comedy hitting theaters today) is a real... stinker. The creative whiz at a small ad agency, Chip Sanders licks his chops when his high-school flame (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Amanda Peet) returns to town with her smart-mouthed husband (Scrubs' Zach Braff) in tow. That's right, Bateman, Braff and Peet, the veritable Underappreciated TV Show All-star Team — minus, of course, Nathan Fillion.
Soon the stage is set for Bateman-versus-Braff imbroglios, with the former
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Amanda Peet by Art Streiber/NBC
As previously reported, NBC is bringing back Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, albeit on Thursday, May 24, the day after sweeps ends. Still, if all goes well, steadfast fans of 30 Rock's more serious big brother will get to see the first season's five unaired episodes.Pondering the surprising fate of a show with such a solid pedigree — crafted by Aaron Sorkin, and populated by the likes of proven TV draws Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford — Amanda Peet shrugs off talk that S60 tried to be too smart for the room. "It was definitely very ambitious," she tells TVGuide.com, "but a part of me wonders if, had it been an unknown writer-creator instead of Aaron Sorkin, we would have had more time to find our tone and focus. Because we were under a microscope from the moment we arrived, it was very difficult for the creators to feel free to follow the strengths of the show and see that through."Peet can next be seen starring alongside two other members of the Underappreciated TV Show...
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Per Variety, several studios are battling over dibs on a remake of John Carpenter's Escape from New York, to headline Gerard Butler (300) as one-eyed convict Snake Plissken.... Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid, Justin Long and Chris Evans have joined the voice cast of Terra, a CG-animated pic about interplanetary conflict.... DreamWorks Animation plans to produce all of its films in 3-D starting in 2009, beginning with the summer release Monsters vs. Aliens.
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Amanda Peet had planned to attend a Hollywood luncheon on Wednesday, but instead decided to order one baby girl, to go, the New York Post's Page Six reports. It's the first child for Peet and screenwriter hubby David Benioff. In related news, The Black Donnellys is now pregnant.... Father of the Bride's daughter is a mother. Kimberly Williams-Paisley (According to Jim) welcomed her and husband Brad Paisley's first child, a son, on Thursday, says People.... Nick Cannon wedded on a whim Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks last weekend in Las Vegas, says Us.
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Question: With the fall season coming to a close and the Golden Globes just around the corner, I figured I'd ask what the chances are that Studio 60 will get some nominations? Even if ratings aren't great, the critics still seem to enjoy it, and I think Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, Sarah Paulson and Amanda Peet all deserve consideration. Do you think the show will earn any nods?
Answer: Truly, there's no figuring out the Golden Globes process, but in Studio 60's favor is its pedigree, due to both Aaron Sorkin and the cast. A year ago, Commander in Chief was a show already in worse disarray, and Geena Davis got a key nomination and even won. So it's possible that Matthew Perry, and possibly others, could get nominated, and maybe the show itself. But I wouldn't be surprised or disappointed if it were passed over. This year, there are much better and more consistent dramas to honor, even the final season of The West Wing, for that matter (which is beyond a long shot at this point) ...
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Question: I don't understand why Studio 60's ratings aren't better, considering how celebrity-obsessed our society is these days. Entire magazines are dedicated to describing in great detail what stars are wearing, dating, eating, etc. I really love TV, and I enjoy knowing about the behind-the-scenes workings of my favorite shows. It seems like there are a lot of people who feel the same way. So why can't a show about a show find an audience?
Answer: Gossip is popular, true, but Studio 60 takes the world of entertainment all a bit more seriously. Maybe too much so, as it addresses aspects of the culture wars and the corporate entertainment world with a growing sense of self-importance and at times (especially this week) with a self-righteousness that muddies what could be a very enjoyable workplace-relationship show. Aaron Sorkin never writes ordinary TV, which is great. And there's much about Studio 60 that still dazzles me. But Tyler's comments below may help shed more light on
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Question: Even with all the hype, do you think Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip will survive? I ask because while Matthew Perry is pitch-perfect, proving my instincts right (he was the most talented and underutilized Friends cast member), and while the dialogue is a little bit of heaven, after the second episode, am I the only one seeing some serious cracks in the foundation? I'm having a very hard time believing any of these characters. D.L. Hughley is the only person who even remotely seems like he would be on a Saturday Night Live-style show. Everyone else lacks the spark of genius I would expect of comedians on a show on par with SNL. Amanda Peet as the president of the network, coming in with the résumé she supposedly has? Not buying it. Bradley Whitford, who was on fire in The West Wing, barely shows a spark in this show (maybe he needed a longer break before going back to series television). And would anyone really expect to see the second episode's supposed "cold open" on SNL or ...
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