Having graced two of the blockbusteriest trilogies of all time, Orlando Bloom is out to prove his acting chops by making his West End debut in a revival of the 1969 drama Celebration, says Variety, to bow as early as July.... The epic staging of Lord of the Rings — a flop in Toronto last year — inexplicably begins previews in London on May 19, says Playbill.com. Hey, if things don't work out for Bloom's other project.... Per London's Daily Mail, ITV hopes to cast a staging of Saturday Night Fever via a reality series.... Jerry "The Beav" Mathers is the patriarch in Broadway's Hairspray starting June 5. — Reporting by Raven Snook
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According to a poll conducted by AOL's teen site and Your Prom (which apparently is some sort magazine), 49 percent (of girls, I assume) chose Orlando Bloom as their dream corsage-giver, as Jake and Justin placed a distant second and third. Jessica Simpson was the top choice to style gals for their big night of peer-pressured sex and porcelain bus-driving.... The endless penguin movie and The Good Shepherd last week topped the DVD sales and rental charts, respectively.... Which upcoming reality-TV finale are you most looking forward to? Vote in today's poll!
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The season premiere of Extras opens on a promised star, Orlando Bloom, in a scene that looks a lot like a British version of The War of the Roses.When the astonishingly good-looking, or so he thinks, Orlando Bloom finds out that Maggie doesn’t think he is all that, he sets out to prove how attractive he is, and in the meantime dishes on Johnny Depp. Orlando’s best line? “Willie Wonka — Johnny Wanker”.Andy has a crisis of identity when he realizes that the sitcom he wrote is not turning out the way he had expected. He is a man surrounded by complete idiots. His agent, Darren Lamb, the incomparable Stephen Merchant, spends more time trying to get his protégé Barry, whose sense of dignity gets called into question, into Andy’s role in the show than he does working with his other client. His friend Maggie doesn’t remember that his show begins shooting that night, and his producers think big glasses are funny. The agent reminds me very much of...
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I was asked to write an article about television — American television, the best TV in the world. I felt I had nothing to offer, no insight of any value; the prospect was too daunting. So I decided to plug the second season of my HBO comedy series Extras, about struggling actors trying to make it big. Here's how I made it.
Work on Season 2 of Extras [premiering Sunday at 10 pm/ET]started straight after Season 1 finished in August 2005. I moved to new up-market offices in central London, and after decking it out (which included building a recording studio for our podcast) and putting up some pictures, cowriter and costar Stephen Merchant and I started chatting about plotlines, scenarios and characters.
Despite numerous trips to America, several awards ceremonies, and the fact that I only work between the hours of
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Ricky Gervais brings his popular new comedy, Extras, back to the small screen Sunday in the premiere episode of the second season. This season will pack a powerful punch as HBO has cast quite a line-up of superstars including Bowie, Orlando Bloom and Sir Ian McKlellan. Even little Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, shows up playing a very naughty boy.
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