Chris Noth, John Corbett
Might Carrie Bradshaw (Preston?) turn to an ex should her marriage turn into a mess?
Rumors are swirling that the big-screen Sex and the City sequel will revolve around a major bump in Carrie and Big's romance. That would set the stage nicely for an encore by Aidan, the woodworker who could never quite nail down carefree Carrie.
John Corbett, who currently calls Toni Collette wife on Showtime's United States of Tara, says ...
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Diablo Cody by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com
Showtime has picked up 12 episodes of The United States of Tara, to begin filming this summer. Penned by Oscar winner Diablo Cody (Juno), the series centers on a wife and mother with a multiple personality disorder, to be played by Little Miss Sunshine's Toni Collette.As previously reported, John Corbett will costar as Collette's husband. Steven Spielberg will produce. Will Cody successfully segue into writing for television? Can she move from portraying teen angst to that of adults? Showtime, luckily, is giving us the chance to find out. — Anna DimondUse our Online Video Guide to see some of Diablo Cody.Related:• John Corbett Allies with United States of Tara• Toni Collette's Got Personalities in Spielberg Series • Multiple-personality Series Seeks Singular "Extraordinary" Star
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John Corbett by Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com
Sex and the City alum John Corbett has signed on to star opposite Toni Collette in The United States of Tara, the Showtime comedy pilot featuring Little Miss Sunshine's mom as a woman battling multiple personality disorder. Corbett, says the Reporter, will play Tara's husband, Max, "a ruggedly handsome contractor who... tries to read as much as he can about his wife's condition." In the meantime, I reckon, he gets the thrill of having three-ways, minus the usual complications.
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Nora Roberts' Angels Falls comes to life.
As a writer, I work alone. And I like it. When creating my books, I'm not only the writer, I'm the director, the costume and set designer, I'm hair and makeup. And I'm the entire cast. The wrap parties are pretty quiet, but I get all the champagne and pizza. It's a great job, and not nearly as schizophrenic as it sounds. Really.
When a book's being adapted into a movie, the writer turns all those other fun jobs over to the movie experts. If the writer's lucky, those experts may want her input.
I'm really lucky.
My first stroke of luck was in having producers like Mandalay and Stephanie Germain Productions interested in adapting four of my romantic-suspense novels for TV [airing Mondays beginning Jan. 29; see complete schedule below]. The second, having Lifetime showcase those films, slammed it out of the park.
It was fascinating for me to read each draft of the scripts. The translations keyed into the heart of the stories. As casting progressed, my del
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Sex and the City alum John Corbett has joined the cast of Manchild, a Showtime comedy pilot based on a BBC series and concerning four male friends mired in midlife crises. Corbett will play a former Deadhead who still smokes pot — the superpopular "MILF weed," perhaps? — and tends to sabotage his work and romantic lives.
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Producer Tony Krantz (24) and writers Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and Erik Jendresen (Band of Brothers) have a pilot commitment to adapt Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, a 1974 thriller starring Gene Hackman, into a weekly series for ABC.... Also per Variety: David O. Russell (Three Kings) is teaming with Josh Lieb (The Simpsons) on an hourlong FX dramedy envisioned as a sort of Upstairs, Downstairs set in a Los Angeles country club.... John Corbett, Charlotte Ross, Ashley Williams and Diane Ladd will star in Montana Sky, a Lifetime movie based on the best seller by the amazing Nora Roberts.
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Andrea Roth, Rescue Me
FX's Rescue Me (Tuesdays at 10pm/ET) is only three episodes into its third season, but if current story lines are any indication, the boys of Ladder 62 are in for a doozy of a ride as the episodes rage on. As Tommy Gavin's no-nonsense ex-wife, Janet, Andrea Roth has made her mark as one of the few females who can show the firehouse crew who's boss. On a recent break from filming, Andrea clued in TVGuide.com on future shakeups, breakups and makeups, and spills the beans about her upcoming film role opposite Jason "He's So Sexy!" Statham.
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Looks like the next Peloponesian War is to be waged on American TV! The tube version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding — which has grossed over $228 million domestically — debuts Feb. 24 on CBS. Star Nia Vardalos has tweaked the title to My Big Fat Greek Life, and that's not the only change she and executive producer Rita Wilson are making. Still, the indie movie's feisty family feuding remains the same. "I really do have 27 first cousins and a loud, always-eating Greek family that loved me to the point of suffocation," Vardalos joked to reporters at the Television Critics Press Tour in Hollywood. "On a scale of one to 10, let's say I just kind of turn it up to 11." Here's the rest of the scoop on these souvlaki servers ...
First off, Nia Vardalo
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