Josh Hopkins, Private Practice
This Thursday at 10 pm/ET, ABC's Private Practice returns with the penultimate episode of its second season. Will Addison act on her urges with the married Noah? As his wife endures a difficult pregnancy? Josh Hopkins shared a look at the torrid twists ahead. Plus: What does he not miss about his Swingtown days?
TVGuide.com: Call me old fashioned, but I'm not really feeling the romance here in the Addison-Noah story. So sell me on it. Should I be rooting for this illicit hook-up?
Josh Hopkins: I don't know that you should be rooting for it or not, but it makes for interesting TV. It's just such a real-life situation where someone has the very best intentions, but ...
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Madchen Amick, Rebecca Romijn
Ugly Betty alum Rebecca Romijn has lined up a pretty cool new role, playing the lead sorceress in ABC's Eastwick pilot.
Based on the John Updike novel/1987 film The Witches of Eastwick, ABC's take will star Romijn as ...
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Swingtown by Andrew Macpherson/CBS
Bursting with sex drugs sex open collars sex Farrah hair and sex the sure-to-be controversial Swingtown evokes the milieu of the Me Decade with a refreshing lack of retro camp We really wanted to make it feel like it was a lived-in 70s explains executive producer Alan PoulIn keeping with that claimed verisimilitude couples swap partners like theyre recipes no pair more enthusiastically than Grant Show and Lana Parrillas Tom and Trina Decker Molly Parker and Jack Davenport join in the debauchery as their curious new friends Susan and Bruce Miller whose previous neighbors were the straitlaced Thompsons Josh Hopkins Miriam Shor What keeps the show alive is not the titillation Poul says Its about three marriages that [each] have a different set of rules All were trying to do is be true to the times GJ Donnelly
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CBS announced on Wednesday that Swingtown, which, until the strike hit, was supposed to launch midseason, now will get a summer debut. The nontraditional launch time for a scripted series, executive producer Carol Barbee tells the Reporter, actually "is perfect for Swingtown since the pilot takes place on the Bicentennial Fourth of July." Ahh, memories of me donning knickers for a Rogers Elementary School play....Swingtown, for those who can't remember back to last May's upfronts (when it was first brandished), follows couples experimenting with sexual and social mores in 1970s Chicago. It's like The Ice Storm minus the nympho Christina Ricci. It does star, however, Grant Show, Josh Hopkins (Brothers & Sisters), Miriam Shor (The West Wing), Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean), Molly Parker (Deadwood) and Lana Parrilla (Boomtown).
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The latest pilot-casting bits, from our friends at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:• Crossing Jordan's Jerry O'Connell, along with Fred Goss (Sons & Daughters) and stand-up comic Jerry Minor, are among ABC's Carpoolers.• Scott Wolf (The Nine Party of Five) has landed the lead in an untitled ABC comedy about a top law firm.• Two-time Six Feet Under Emmy nominee Lauren Ambrose has been cast as Parker Posey's younger sister in Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Return of Jezebel James.• "Varsity Blues: The Later Years"? James Van Der Beek is a rookie in ABC's Football Wives.• Hey, Dean Wormer, get a load of this: Tim Matheson is the head of the university in Barnes, the CW's dramedy about crime-solving college students.• OK, this time I got it right: Jayma Mays, aka Heroes' ill-fated waitress, has come on board the ABC workplace comedy Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office.• Josh Hopkins (pre-Rob Lowe Brothers & Sisters) and Molly Parker (Deadwoo...
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It was nice of Jonathan to give the brothers and sisters some friendly business advice, although I got the impression from his final conversation with Kitty that he might not be that optimistic about the future of the family business. I actually felt kind of bad for him when he and Kitty were breaking up, even though Jonathan often comes off as arrogant and I never really liked him for Kitty. He appeared to be genuinely sad, and he also apparently knew Kitty better than she thought, as he seemed aware that she hadn’t fully let him in.But tonight was really all about Nora and Kitty for me. Sally Field was great as usual, especially when Nora realized her “date” with David the contractor wasn’t really a date. How awful, and it only seemed worse when Nora tried to salvage it with jokes about her “comedic timing” being off. It was good to see Treat Williams (Everwood) back on TV again as David, even though things ended awkwardly between him and Nora. Kitty ...
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Josh Hopkins is reteaming with his former Ally McBeal costar Calista Flockhart on her upcoming ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, a well-placed source confirms. Pepper Dennis' ex will play a liberal pundit who locks horns — and lips — with Flockhart's conservative radio host. (Picture Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala with even more sexual tension.) I'm guessing Hopkins will juggle his Brothers & Sisters gig — which, at this point, is for seven episodes — with his series-regular duties on Fox's new thriller Vanished. Hey, if Peter MacNicol can do it, so can he.
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