Jonny Lee Miller and his wife, actress Michele Hicks, have welcomed a baby boy into their lives.
Buster Timothy Miller was born Wednesday, weighing in at 9 lbs. He's their first child.
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Eli Stone is going to be a daddy — in real life.Jonny Lee Miller and his wife, actress Michele Hicks, are expecting their first child together, People reports.The couple wed earlier this year and held a baby shower over the weekend in Los Angeles with family and friends, according to the magazine.No word yet on when the little one will arrive, but Miller will have ways to go before catching ex-wife Angelina Jolie's count of six kiddies. — Joyce EngWatch full episodes of Eli Stone in our Online Video Guide.
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If you get deja view looking at ABC’s not-so-new fall lineup, there’s a reason for that. Much of the schedule is a redo from last fall, with a number of promising shows returning that were cut short by the writers’ strike—most notably the Wednesday lineup of Pushing Daisies, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money.“Our Wednesday night was to us an unbelievable success and we’re very excited to get back to that,” ABC entertainment president Steve McPherson said during a session with critics at the TCA press tour Wednesday morning. “We have kind of the advantage going in that we felt we had a dominant fall and a real strong core schedule and we didn’t need that much new programming.”In recent seasons, ABC has tended to single out just a few new shows for massive fall promotion, and this season it's planning to embrace a few old favorites. “We can actually prioritize returning shows,” says McPherson. One in particular: Desperate...
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I’ve been going on and on lately about how much ABC’s Eli Stone has grown on me, especially in the last few weeks—ironically, the show finding its truest voice around the time it lost new episodes of Lost as a lead-in, par for the course in this frustrating strike-warped midseason. Tonight, Eli signs off after its 13-episode tryout, and if you can watch it unmoved, maybe this really isn’t the show for you.Last week, Eli (the charming Jonny Lee Miller) shook everyone’s world by correctly predicting an earthquake. This week, his own world is shaken when he decides to risk dangerous surgery to remove his aneurism (which could be the cause of his quirky and often musical visions). Eli isn’t so much worried about living or dying. “The something in-between is what scares me,” he says, and he’s not talking about the show being on the proverbial “bubble” for renewal. (I’m glad my pal Michael Ausiello shares my high hopes of the sho...
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Jonny Lee Miller of "Eli Stone" by Gale Adler/ABC
Ever wondered what a Fox reality show would look like on NBC? Watch, and revel in, the glimpses we’re shown of the fictional (at least for now) reality spoof "MILF Island" in tonight’s first episode back of 30 Rock. Everyone from Alec Baldwin’s deliciously malicious network boss Jack Donaghy to a certain other vice president who should have better things to do are glued to the season finale of "Island," which is what Survivor would look like if populated by cougar moms and adolescent boys. It’s a hilarious backdrop to an episode that, as is often the case, is at its best when Jack and beleaguered Liz Lemon (the terrific Tina Fey) tangle and tango over the sad state of the business we call show. A business where a breakout reality star can be judged on her appeal to the key demographics of “soccer moms, Nascar dads, white-collar pervs and the obese.” How many ways do I love 30 Rock?Liz, the clay-footed hero of this brilliant satire, is naturally appalled...
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Jonny Lee Miller, Eli Stone
The British actor plays an attorney who has visions of George Michael on tonight's premiere of Eli Stone (10 pm/ET, ABC).
"I used to be able to fill places like this!" shouts George Michael as he looks out at the middling crowd inside the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. In fact, there's not a single paying customer in the house: The people here are extras, crew members on the new ABC series Eli Stone and connected folks who've wrangled an invite. (Yep, that's Bo Derek sitting in a chair by the railing.)
But this afternoon's shoot, one of several appearances Michael will make during the season, centers less on the singer on stage than the guy in a dark suit who sits at a table watching him. Eli Stone, played by British actor Jonny Lee Miller, is an ethically challenged San Francisco lawyer who's told he has a brai
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Jonny Lee Miller, Eli Stone
Question: Based on the previews, Eli Stone appears to be nothing more than a male version of Ally McBeal. Courtroom drama, production numbers, fantasies, even a famous singer (George Michael instead of Al Green) whom only the lead can see. How does Stone hold up against the Emmy-winning McBeal? Also, a completely unrelated observation: Have you noticed that in the new Lost promos, when the word "Lost" comes on-screen at the end, we get our normal greenish view of the island, but if you look in the reflection of the water, you can actually see a city skyline?! Quite cool.
Answer: This is the danger of basing a first impression solely on network teasers. Yes, superficial comparisons can be made to Ally McBeal, but as I note in my review of Eli Stone, which premieres this Thursday after Lost (at last! and yes, that is a cool image in the promos), I see Eli as being a little closer to the Pushing Daisies model, in the way that it imposes life-affirming fantasy onto a shopworn genre (here,
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ABC's gotta have faith, faith, faith in George Michael. The network has inked a deal with the '80s pop icon turned courtroom staple to appear in two additional episodes of its buzzworthy midseason entry Eli Stone. The spiritually-\ tinged legal drama revolves around an attorney (played by Jonny Lee Miller) who, after a string of bizarre hallucinations, thinks he might be a prophet. In the pilot, Eli keeps hearing the sound of "Faith" in his head, and at one point has a vision of George Michael performing the song in his office. For his return engagement, GM will show off more than just his singing chops."Having George and his music in the pilot was great because it really set the tone for the entire show," says executive producer Marc Guggenheim, who cocreated Eli with Greg Berlanti. "But if there's anything better, it's having him in the series for two episodes singing and acting. He's such a talented and smart guy and amazingly collaborative."Eli's guardian angel will pop up again...
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Lifetime has ordered an 18-episode run of Gay, Straight or Taken?, a dating show from the eerily omnipresent Endemol USA (Deal or No Deal, Show Me the Money). The premise, per Variety: A woman goes on a date with three men (see title), and then has to pick out the single, straight dude. If she's wrong, the guy she incorrectly chose wins the grand prize instead.... Dawn Stern (Viper) has landed the lead in the ABC Family pilot Nobody, playing a mother who is erased from the memories of her loved ones, all to save the life of her daughter.... Two-time Tony nominee Laura Benanti has joined the cast of Eli Stone, ABC's drama pilot starring Jonny Lee Miller.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Jonny Lee Miller, a regular on CBS' short-lived Smith, has scored the title role in Eli Stone, an ABC drama pilot about a lawyer who discovers he might be a prophet (this probably bumps his hourly up 25 percent). Everwood's Greg Berlanti penned the series with former attorney Marc Guggenheim (The Practice).... Variety reports that rapper-actor Chris "Ludacris" Bridges has inked a deal to exec-produce for The N a weekly drama titled Halls of Fame, with the emphasis on Fame — the half-hour series revolves around students at a performing-arts high school.... TBS has ordered a pilot for a family comedy fronted by Blue Collar Comedy Tour vet Bill Engvall.
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