J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias, Felicity, Lost and Fringe, will slide back into the director's chair for Undercovers, a new NBC pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
NBC wins bidding war for J.J. Abrams' new series
Abrams, who is also executive-producing the married spies project, hasn't directed a TV pilot since the blockbuster, two-hour opening salvo of Lost in 2004. About a year later, he segued into directing such films as Mission: Impossible III and the Star Trek reboot.
Abrams' other TV directing credits include a 2007 episode of The Office and an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2006...
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J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams is bringing a second show to life next season, this time on NBC, according to Variety.
After Fox bought Abrams' script for a half-hour medical comedy, a bidding war between ABC, NBC and CBS raged for his new action-adventure series. Wednesday night, NBC came out the victor.
J.J. Abrams going for laughs with Fox sitcom
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J.J. Abrams
Lost and Fringe mastermind J.J. Abrams will next take a stab at comedy with a half-hour sitcom for Fox, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
As with all Abrams projects, details of the as-yet-untitled series, described as ...
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Bruce Greenwood, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Zachary Quinto
If you can't wait until Star Trek's May 8 premiere, TV Guide Network has you covered.
Our cameras were on the red carpet for the film's Hollywood premiere, and you can catch all the action on TV Guide Network's Big Movie Premiere: Star Trek (Thursday, May 7 at 8 pm/ET). The one-hour special features interviews with the cast and creative team and loads of behind-the-scenes footage and secrets from the set.
The film, directed by Lost and Fringe creator J.J. Abrams, reboots the nerd-adored franchise as a young James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Commander Spock (Heroes' Zachary Quinto) take the U.S.S. Enterprise on its maiden voyage to stop the evil Nero (Eric Bana) from destroying mankind.
The special also includes sit-downs with
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Star Trek
J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot won't be seen until May 8, but Paramount is already rounding up Abrams' sci-fi friends for the sequel.
Abrams' Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof will join Fringe producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman — who penned the upcoming release — to write the screenplay for the follow-up, according to Variety. Abrams will return to produce the next installment, but no decision has been made about whether he'll also direct.
Lindelof said he hopes fans don't think he and his colleagues are getting ahead of themselves. "There's obviously a lot of hubris involved in signing on to write a sequel of a movie that hasn't even come out yet," he said. "But we're so excited about the first one that we wanted to proceed."
Kurtzman is eager to get fan reaction before deciding which way to go, but the trio hopes to deliver a script by Christmas for what could be a summer 2011 release.
Orzi and Kurtzman ...
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Joshua Jackson and Anna Torv, Fringe
"We've survived," J.J. Abrams noted as TVGuide.com reconnected with the Fringe executive producer at Fox's winter TCA soiree. (We had last touched base with him at the summer edition of the semi-annual press event.) "What I love is that Fox has been incredibly supportive."
Out of the gate, Fringe built a sizeable following and garnered strong enough numbers to secure a quick back-nine pick-up. When the series returns this Tuesday, Abrams promises immense satisfaction for ...
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Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford is giving his Indiana Jones adventures a rest long enough to star in J.J. Abrams' latest project, Morning Glory.
Far from Abrams' signature thrillers, Glory is a comedy about an ailing morning news show in chaos. Rachel McAdams is in talks to sign on as an aspiring producer who tries to temper the storm of feuding anchors and set the show straight. Ford will play...
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J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams' take on Star Trek isn't due out until 2009, but that isn't stopping him from expounding on his upcoming opus, or predicting what he hopes audiences will take away from the experience.
First, Trek fans should be warned that Abrams was always a Star Wars guy, because it was more "visceral" than Captain Kirk's scene.
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Evangeline Lilly by Art Streiber/ABC, Anna Torv by Michael Lavine/Fox
J.J. Abrams stresses the differences between Lost and his brand-new Fringe, but he’s not the only thing the two shows have in common. Here are a few similarities we’ve noticed — and these don’t even include tortured relationships with dad, scary corporations, and nice-looking casts: Plane disasters: Lost’s Flight 815 crashes. Fringe’s plane lands after the passengers turn to gelatin. Which is worse? Tough call.Misplaced animals: Lost has a polar bear on a tropical island. Fringe has a cow in a lab. Weirdly, the polar bear feels less out-of-place than the cow.Lance Reddick: On Lost he plays a mystery man with inside knowledge about Flight 815. On Fringe he’s a mystery man with inside knowledge about Agent Olivia Dunham. Not a mystery: whether he was awesome on The Wire. The living dead: Lost has flashbacks and ghosts (possibly including Reddick’s Matthew Abbadon). Fringe has… Clones? Zombies? Stay tuned. An institution: Hurley’s just ...
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Mark Valley and Anna Torv by Ben Mark Holzberg/Fox
Fringe creator JJ Abrams talked to TVGuidecom about the genesis of his new dont-call-it-sci-fi show premieres Tuesday Sept 9 8 pmET Anna Torv stars as a tough FBI agent who teams up with a mad scientist Dr Walter Bishop John Noble and his con man son Peter Joshua Jackson to investigate strange events Mickey OConnor1 You heard it here first folks JJ Abrams says that Fringe will jump the shark in the pilot episodeWhen we did the pilot for Lost we had the monster appear at the end of first act We did that very consciously we wanted to tell the audience Were jumping the shark now were doing crazy sh-- now Similarly on Fringe we did a preposterous out-there far-fetched story point to announce the shows intention to the audience2 Peter and Olivia Joshua Jackson and Anna Torv will probably eventually hook up but be patientNo doubt there is going to be a slow-burn relationship I dont think its going to happen the way you think I
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