Jennifer Westfeldt, Kiefer Sutherland
Despite reports that time ran out on the project over scheduling and budget disputes, the clock is still ticking for a 24 feature film to finally get made, says executive producer Howard Gordon.
Gordon tells TV Guide Magazine that plans are definitely moving forward on the long-awaited movie version of the popular Fox series, which would give Jack Bauer a mere two hours or so to save the world. The film had been expected to begin production in May, but recent ...
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Awake
In many ways, Awake is an even riskier bet for NBC than the showtune-happy Smash. The show follows a detective whose reality has splintered following a fatal car accident: one day, he wakes up to comfort his grieving wife because their son has died; in the next, he's a widower living with his son who survived. During one of his mandated therapy sessions, he lays it out: One of these existences might not be real — but he'd rather go on living in both.
More ambitious and certainly more challenging than most network dramas, Awake is not nearly as complicated as traversing through Inception, a comparison some critics have already made. Instead, think of it as a cop drama with a twist, albeit a very ambitious twist
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Kevin Weisman
Former Alias star Kevin Weisman is heading to NBC's new drama Awake, Entertainment Weekly reports.
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Edie Falco, Laura Linney
Nurse Jackie, The Big C, and The Borgias will kick off new seasons on April 8, Showtime Entertainment President David Nevins announced Thursday at the winter TV previews.
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Nurse Jackie's fourth season premiere kicks off the night at 9/8c, followed by The Big C at 9:30/8:30c and The Borgias at 10/9c.
The new season of Nurse Jackie finds its titular character (Emmy winner Edie Falco) facing consequences as she attempts to confront her painkiller addiction ....
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Damian Lewis, Claire Danes
[SPOILER WARNING: This story reveals key plot elements from Sunday's season finale. Read at your own risk.]
Homeland's first season finale posed the question: Would traitorous Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) actually carry out a suicide bombing directed at the vice president of the United States?
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The answer...
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Jason Isaacs
NBC has temporarily halted production on its midseason supernatural drama Awake to allow extra time to work on the scripts, Vulture reports.
The series stars Jason Isaacs as a man who — after a car accident — lives in two very different realities: One where his wife died in the accident but his son survived, and the other where...
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Homeland
In Homeland, terrorist plots aren't dismantled in 24 hours and the hero doesn't save the day by slaughtering suspects. Ten years after the horror of 9/11, good and evil are sometimes far from black-and-white.
"This is not 24, which had a muscular response to what happened on 9/11," says British actor Damian Lewis, who plays Sgt. Nicholas Brody, the Marine who's become a hero after eight years of imprisonment by Al Qaeda, on the set near Charlotte. "It was a show for its time. Now we live in a world where people are divided about the best way to wage war on terror."
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Homeland
Is Showtime's Homeland the first post-post-9/11 TV show?
In a word, yes, according to Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, the former 24 producers who developed the show.
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"If you look at 24, it was a response to the towers coming down. It was about America taking action against enemies," Gansa tells TVGuide.com. "This is very much a response to Osama bin Laden's death. It's a psychological exploration of what this war on terror has meant to the United States and meant to the individuals that are involved in it."
Adds Gordon: "It's really about what we have to fear now that all the boogeymen of the last 10 years...
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Homeland
Showtime's political and psychological thriller Homeland asks the question: What's the price of 9/11 to this country?
But according to the executive producer Howard Gordon, the fact that the show is airing just weeks after the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks and months after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces is somewhat dumb luck.
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"The timing is significant, accidental and fortuitous," Gordon said at the Television Critics Association fall TV previews. "It is just a confluence of events. It turns out to be quite fortuitous, as are a number of other things that seem to affect the way this show is going to be viewed. Osama bin Laden was killed when were shooting Episode 2, eerily like the scene of [star Damian Lewis'] rescue."
Lewis plays....
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Jason Isaacs, Amber Heard
NBC has ordered new dramas The Playboy Club, Grimm and Awake for the network's 2011-12 fall lineup. They join this week's earlier pick-ups, which include a comedy starring Christina Applegate and a musical from executive producer Steven Spielberg.
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