Tom Wilkinson, Pirates of the Carribean's Bill Nighy, The Riches' Eddie Izzard and classically trained theater vet Carice Van Houten (as Tom Cruise's love interest) have joined the cast of Bryan Singer's Valkyrie, a fact-based account of German generals' plot to assassinate Hitler during WWII.... Jack Black is a schoolteacher who discovers he has witchlike abilities, then (unwittingly) joins an all-girls coven in Man-Witch.... Wild Hogs director Walt Becker is at work on a sequel to the wildly successful comedy.
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Minnie Driver, The Riches
As Louisiana fireball Dahlia Malloy, Minnie Driver offers a beguiling mix of grace, grit and good old-fashioned star power to FX's The Riches (Mondays at 10 pm/ET). The native Brit chatted with us recently about the show.
TV Guide: How does Dahlia juggle it all, being a wife, mother, con artist, addict?Minnie Driver: I don't think it's a conscious thing. Dahlia doesn't want to go back to jail and that's the best incentive that she has. That's what she brings to her day, a desire to stay out of jail, to stay alive and to stay with her family.
TV Guide: Do you think you'd make a good con artist? Driver: No, no. I'm a horrible liar.
TV Guide: For a Brit, you do a terrific Dixie accent. How did you learn it? Driver: I had a couple of sessions with a dialect coach, and
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Question: A while back, you responded to someone who disagreed with your lukewarm review of The Riches. You said you found it "intriguing" but not "compelling." You also mentioned that you planned to continue reviewing the series in depth as it continued. Now that a few more episodes have aired, I would like to hear what you think. I believe the show is an absolute gem, totally original and fabulously enjoyable. The acting (particularly from Eddie Izzard, Minnie Driver and the wonderful Margo Martindale) is outstanding, as you noted. I also think the two newest episodes have been the best yet, with a perfect blend of comedy and drama as Doug tries to phone it in as a lawyer, and Dahlia struggles with her pill addiction and the sheer boredom of being a housewife. How did you like the recent episodes, and how are you feeling about the series as a whole at this point? I really believe that this is one of the best shows on TV right now.
Answer: I wish I could agree with you on this one, but
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Eddie Izzard, The Riches
FX's new series The Riches (Mondays at 10 pm/ET) stars comic Eddie Izzard as Wayne Malloy, the silver-tongued patriarch of itinerant grifters who appropriate the identity of a dead couple, always living one step away from getting caught. Izzard talked to TV Guide about this unusual TV clan, his comedy and the art of the con.
TV Guide: Do you see a moral ambiguity in The Riches' setup, since the Malloys are appropriating a dead man's life? Eddie Izzard: Yeah, well, I don't find it so morally ambiguous in the fact that [the deceased] wasn't using it. [Wayne and his wife Dahlia, played by Minnie Driver] are jackals, they are scavengers, so it is a criminal waste to waste all that stuff that's in the car; someone else is only gonna get it. And from that
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Laura Prepon, October Road
Calling all Donna Pinciotti fans! OK, so it's not exactly the same redhead from That '70s Show, but Laura Prepon is back on the small screen with a lighter 'do and a big role — playing Mom on the new ABC drama October Road, which airs a new episode tonight at 10 pm/ET. While she's no Kitty Forman, her 28-year-old character, Hannah, does balance a job, a relationship and parent-teacher meetings. But her biggest struggle is her high-school sweetheart (played by Bryan Greenberg) rolling back into town after a decade's absence and dragging the past along with him. TVGuide.com talked to the fun, enthusiastic Prepon about her "awesome" character, grand gestures and her Jersey upbringing that bri
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Question: Hm. I think you got it wrong with your lukewarm review of The Riches. I read your review of The Riches in this week's TV Guide, and decided not to watch the show as a result. I don't have time to waste on a show that "is hard to believe and not much easier to embrace." Fortunately, the "new episode" choices that night were the shows What About Brian and The Black Donnellys. Yawn. So we flipped on The Riches. Wow. Real actors. Good actors. What a refreshing concept. The characters they portray? Believable. The premise? The "have-nots" almost magically step into the lives of "the haves." It's the American Dream. And I cannot wait to find out more about how this fish-out-of-water family struggles to hold onto their dream. This is a very good show with tons of potential to be great.
Answer: Hm. I thought maybe I got it wrong, too, after reading raves from many fellow critics whom I respect. I've got to say, that was the hardest review I've had to write so far this year, in part
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You always want to give FX bonus points for originality. Having delivered bold new twists on the crime drama (The Shield), the medical drama (Nip/Tuck) and the firefighter-hero drama (Rescue Me), this maverick network now sets its sights on the family drama. The results are mixed, but you'd never confuse the Riches of The Riches (Monday, March 12, at 10 pm/ET) for a typical TV family. They're not even really the Riches, wherein lies the setup.
British actors Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver are Wayne and Dahlia Malloy, Louisiana grifters from a secret Gypsy Traveller society. They have three kids who act as accomplices on their circuit of nomadic thieving. Life changes forever for the Malloys when they steal from the clan's coffers and go on the l
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FX has announced a March 12 premiere for The Riches, a drama starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as grifters from rural Louisiana who assume the identity of a wealthy family and move into the posh suburbs.... Also per Variety, feature film producers Randall Emmett and George Furla (Home of the Brave, 16 Blocks), along with Playboy Playmate Stephanie Heinrich and Miami Dolphin Jason Taylor, are shopping around The Real Deal, a sports-themed reality show in which NFL stars are forced to confront their fears. Like math.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, film cutie Minnie Driver will star opposite Eddie Izzard in the FX drama Lowlife, in which they will play traveling husband-and-wife con artists who decide to settle down in suburbia with their three kids.... Current How I Met Your Mother guest star Ashley Williams will play an over-the-hill rock star's manager's assistant in the ABC comedy Him and Us.... Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin is developing a "Jack Benny-style" variety show for TBS, says Variety.... Joan of Arcadia creator Barbara Hall has earned the green light from CBS for the comic-book adaptation Ultra, about a single-gal superhero.
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The fall 2006 TV season seems just around the corner, as nets OK more pilots. Getting the green light in recent days: Hollis and Rae, an ABC drama about two female best friends, a cop and a prosecutor, from Steven Bochco and Thelma & Louise screenwriter Callie Khouri; an as-yet-untitled Fox sitcom about the current state of male-female relationships, from Sledge Hammer! creator Alan Spencer; and two FX dramas — Low Life, starring Brit comedian Eddie Izzard as the father of a clan of con artists, and Dirt, a damning look at the world of tabloid journalism executive-produced by Courteney Cox and David Arquette.
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