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Benjamin Bratt Returns to TV as The Cleaner | TV Show Previews | 7/14/2008
Benjamin Bratt returns to series TV (finally!) with the gritty, hopeful drama The Cleaner (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET, A&E), which follows a recovering addict in charge of a crew of "extreme interventionists" who'll stop at nothing to help others find treatment. We hit him up for a quick fix. — Damian HolbrookTV Guide: Just as you come back to TV, Chris Noth leaves another Law & Order. Did Dick Wolf call and offer you your old badge? Benjamin Bratt: Not this time. [Laughs]TV Guide: Why... read more
Episode Recap: Burn Baby Burn II | Medium | 3/18/2008
There’s only one thing worse than the sound of nails on a blackboard - the dentist drill. That has got to be one of the worse sounds in the entire universe. And we were all lucky enough to hear it in the opening sequence of Medium.For the second half of a two-part arch, this was a rather lackluster Medium and a let down from the excitement of last week’s episode. I knew last week that Graham hadn’t killed his wife. So why drag it out here? Besides, aren’t most crimes... read more
Episode Recap: Burn Baby Burn | Medium | 3/11/2008
The folks over at Medium have done it again with the knock-out opening. It was a cheery choice of music playing as Ariel watched her classmate, Owen, wave good-bye to his mother. The mother is none other than Journeyman’s, Gretchen Egolf. It’s good to see she’s working even if her show is not slated to come back next fall. (Sadness.) But it was hard to watch her pour gasoline all over herself and then light the match. And then Ariel woke up. I would be torn apart if I knew my... read more
Movie News: Naomi Watts Is for The Birds, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 10/19/2007
Naomi Watts will star in a big-screen reimagining of the Daphne du Maurier short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Martin Campbell is in talks to direct, and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes shingle will produce.... Also per Variety, Ricky Bobby hottie Leslie Bibb is Miss Nobody in an indie comedy about a mild-mannered secretary who learns she has a knack for knocking people off. Adam Goldberg, Missy Pyle and Kathy Baker will also star.... Simon Baker has the lead role as a bank... read more
Death Becomes Kumar's Harold, More Casting News | Today's News: Our Take | 8/7/2007
John Cho will guest-star as a private-school principal who squares off with Eddie Kaye Thomas' public school veep in three episodes of Fox's 'Til Death this coming season. With Kal Penn now on House, both Harold and Kumar should have plenty of cash for future White Castle runs. Also per the Hollywood Reporter, Jessalyn Gilsig, aka the mom of Heroes' Claire, has joined the cast of NBC's Backyards & Bullets pilot, playing Mathew St. Patrick's wife.... Camryn Manheim (Ghost Whisperer), Leslie... read more
Fall 2007: Kathy Baker Enters Killer Fields | Today's News: Our Take | 3/19/2007
Who's doing what this pilot season, says the Reporter and Variety:• Kathy Baker (Picket Fences) is Amber Tamblyn's mother in CBS' Babylon Fields, where the two of them must again contend with the resurrected abusive husband/father whom they killed with an ax. Awk.Ward.• Get-ready-to-feel-old alert: Kelly Rutherford plays mom to the lead girl (Blake Lively) in the CW's Gossip Girl. Also on board for the pilot is Florencia Lozano (One Life to Live).• Jaime Ray Newman (Veronica... read more
At the Movies: Buffy Alum Joins Book Club | Today's News: Our Take | 11/3/2006
Per Variety, Marc Blucas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and a recent candidate to play Sam's new love interest on ER), Lynn Redgrave and Kathy Baker have joined the big-screen adaptation of The Jane Austen Book Club. Already on board are the likes of Maria Bello, Amy Brenneman, Maggie Grace and Jimmy Smits.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Project Greenlight's Chris Moore is making his directing debut with Killers, a horror-action flick about a group of friends forced into a game where they have to... read more
Julian McMahon in a Nip/Tuck Shocker | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 10/17/2005
We're only four weeks into Season 3 of FX's Nip/Tuck (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET) and already Dr. Christian Troy has been slashed and raped by "the Carver," lost and regained his mojo, proposed to girlfriend Kimber and had a three-way and a four-way. If seems like there's nothing left to happen to, for or with the doc, you'd be guessing wrong, as his popular portrayer, Julian McMahon, recently revealed us. TV Guide: What else can possibly happen to Christian now? Julian McMahon: This week Christian... read more
The Watercooler | 3/8/2004
SUNDAY The Sopranos Proof positive that Tony Soprano is a far tougher man than I: He can sit through The Prince of T read more
Ask Matt | 10/28/2002
Question: David Kelley's shows are great. It is sad to see that Ally McBeal went off the air (though it lost its charm a read more
Roush Review | 12/31/2001
In keeping with this issue's "jeers" theme, I top my own worst-of-the-year list with NBC's degrading, panderin read more
Roush Review | 12/3/2001
Far be it from me to stand in the way of romance, but I can't imagine a TV couple any ickier than Boston Public's pathet read more