Blair Underwood

Pilot Season: NBC Picks Up Ironside Remake with Blair Underwood

• Feb 5, 2013 10:09 AM ET
• by Sadie Gennis

NBC has ordered a remake of the 1960s drama Ironside, TVGuide.com has learned. This time around, Blair Underwood will star in the role made famous by Raymond Burr, Entertainment Weekly reports. read more

Will SyFy Resurrect The Event as a Miniseries?

• Jun 1, 2011 06:12 PM ET
• by Kate Stanhope

Is there hope for The Event? More than two weeks after NBC pulled the plug on the ratings-challenged sci-fi drama, Entertainment Weekly reports that sister channel SyFy is considering turning Season 2 into a miniseries.

However, Craig Engler, senior vice president and general manager of SyFy Digital, rebuffed the report on Twitter shortly after the story was published Wednesday. "To answer some questions I've been getting, at this time we have... read more

The Doctor Is Out: HBO Cancels In Treatment

• Mar 30, 2011 09:44 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

In Treatment will not return for a fourth season, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

"It's true that we have no plans to continue with In Treatment as previously formatted," the network said in a statement. "However,  we are... read more

Cheers & Jeers: A Series of Unfortunate Events

• Mar 15, 2011 12:07 PM ET
• by Bruce Fretts

Jeers to NBC for airing The Event despite troubling parallels to tragic real-life events.

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As news continued to break of a potential nuclear catastrophe in Japan, the network's ill-fated sci-fi series unveiled an episode that invoked containment domes, fallout zones and a possible meltdown at a nuclear power plant. It seems the aliens use uranium to create portals to bring in more of their own, which was the real reason behind the Chernobyl disaster (there was even a deformed alien survivor of the 1986 calamity in the Ukraine). President Martinez (Blair Underwood) juggled a visit from the Japanese prime minister with the decision to remove uranium rods from a nuclear facility ...
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Blair Underwood on The Event's Guest Stars, Hiatus, and — Finally! &mdash the Big Event

• Dec 15, 2010 09:39 AM ET
• by Carita Rizzo

On the morning that the Golden Globe nominations are announced, at 5:38 am PT, most people await the good news in their pajamas. But The Event's Blair Underwood woke up long before dawn to bring an early Christmas present to this year's nominees. Before he headed back to bed, TV Guide Magazine caught up with the fictional president about what's coming up when his show returns next spring.