Speaking of casting... although Office writer-producer Larry Wilmore has landed an acting gig in CBS' untitled Christine Baranski/Ed O'Neill sitcom, even if the pilot gets picked up, the Hollywood Reporter hints that he may be able to continue on as a consultant for my favorite NBC laffer. What? Am I not allowed to play favorites?
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The CW network has gotten serious about its Flirt, picking up the sitcom that casts Wayne Brady as a women's magazine's only male employee — or, for short, rare beef.... L.A. Law alum Susan Ruttan is returning to series TV — or at least trying to. She's going to work on NBC's untitled comedy about a couple of brothers boarding together. She will not be playing either man.... A role is being developed for America's Next Top Model diva Eva Pigford on Fox's proposed The Wedding Album drama, which stars Nip/Tuck's Bruno Campos. Sixties babe Connie Stevens has also come aboard.... Strong Medicine's Rosa Blasi has affixed herself to NBC's Inseparable pilot starring Christine Baranski and Ed O'Neill.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Emmy winner Hector Elizondo has come onboard CBS' Paul Reiser-penned sitcom pilot set in a car dealership.... Ed O'Neill and Christine Baranski will play in-laws on an untitled CBS comedy about a young couple who moves to the wife's hometown.... Josh Cooke is the groom in ABC's wedding-day-preparation comedy A Day in the Life.... Bryan Greenberg has the lead and Tom Berenger will costar in ABC's October Road.... Jason Behr and Peter Strauss have landed leads in The Way, a CBS drama about a New England clan that uses witchcraft to further the family business.
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Clockwise from top left: David Faustino, Christina Applegate, Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Married... with Children
Question: The other night my boyfriend and I were talking about that housewife who used to complain about Married... with Children and other shows she thought were dirty. As we remembered it, she got a lot of attention and made a lot of progress. But TV isn't any cleaner today. Did she actually do anything? Thank you.
Answer: Looking back, what suburban Detroit housewife Terry Rakolta actually did was create much ado about nothing, which was still a pretty notable effort for a total outsider who started by banging out letters from home. For those who don't remember the dust-up, during the 1988-89 season, mother Rakolta turned on her TV to find MWC's Peg Bundy (Katey Sagal) in search of a new bra. The episode, typical for the raunchy, standards-torturing show, was called "Her Cups Runneth Over" and its content apparen
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After an eight-year separation, Married... With Children costars Katey Sagal and Ed O'Neill are reunited on tonight's "Old Flame" episode of 8 Simple Rules (8 pm/ET on ABC).
According to exec producer John Peaslee, Sagal's Cate dated O'Neill's character, Matt, back in college. "In the show's back story, [Cate and her late husband Paul] broke up one year and she had sort of a wild year where she dated a lot of people," he explains. "[Matt] was one of the guys she went out with that year."
Natch, Matt's an "Al Bundy-esque" guy whom Cate remembers fondly. She e-mails him "purely for nostalgic reasons, not for anything else," Peaslee notes. "What happens is, he gets the e-mail from her, and he's a man who's ready for a midlife crisis. He basically just dumps his wife, buys a Harley and shows up at her door assuming that they're going to pick up where they left off, and that's not what she had in mind at all."
While the
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