Question: As to your recent question about the multi-season potential of Reunion, I am curious why it's so wrong for a show to last only one season by creative design rather than network decision. Why can't a show just set out to tell one story and accomplish it in one year? There are numerous examples of shows that would've been best served if they'd only lasted one year, with Dawson's Creek being the best example. The show could have and should have ended with Joey/Dawson's kiss; everything after that (five seasons' worth) was just plot twist for the sake of plot twist.
Answer: True enough, but what country do you live in? This is U.S. television we're talking about, and while it would be very cool for certain sorts of shows to last a single season (think Murder One or Twin Peaks), the networks are in the long-term, not short-run, business. The economic model doesn't smile kindly on a show that lasts just one season, being neither miniseries nor actual series. The pitch for a show
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The road to maturity is littered with dead frogs. One in particular: Michigan J. Frog, formerly the corporate mascot of the WB network. "Dead and buried" is how WB's chairman Garth Ancier put it late last week.
Seems the cartoon amphibian projected too much of the "young teen feel" that the network is trying to move away from, in hopes that the industry will see WB as something other than a destination for teens only (well, toss in a handful of older cult followers). Projecting a more mature front could bring in a broader demographic, and maybe (wishful thinking) less condescension from TV insiders, with the hopes of at least a few Emmy nominations in years to come.
To that effect, the new fall schedule includes among its stars a few veterans like Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith — thankfully, given their unhappy romantic history, in separate vehicles.
Johnson's show, the legal comedy-drama Just Legal
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V-Day is upon us, kids, and it's time for romantic reminiscing. And while we're sure you'll adore TV Guide's fun-filled list of TV's 20 Hottest Kisses of All Time, we at TV Guide Online thought you'd like to double your pleasure with our very own Top 20 list of TV's most memorable same-sex kisses. Some were hot, some were not, but all set off sparks on America's pop-culture radar.
1. Willow and Tara, Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2001Wiccan witches Willow and Tara had been platonically chanting, lighting candles and holding hands to save the world — until the day Buffy's mom unexpectedly dies. That's when Tara takes the grieving Willow's head in her hands, kisses her forehead, then finally, tenderly and lingeringly lands one right on the lips. Covens of Buffy fans around the country sang hallelujah. "I told them, 'You guys will kiss and it will be when nobody's expecting it and nobody's look
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Dawson's Creek graduate Kerr Smith, 32, is a bona fide hit on Charmed (Sundays, 8 pm/PT on WB). In his recurring role as Agent Kyle Brody, he's won over the witchfest's devoted fans by splitting his time between probing occult mysteries and cuddling Rose McGowan's Paige Halliwell. Will this temp go perm and stay long-term? A setside source tells TV Guide Online that Smith's expected to say buh-bye in early 2005. Let's see what the studlet himself has to say....TV Guide Online: Kerr, you've signed up for 10 episodes of Charmed. [The sixth one airs this Sunday.] Any chance you'll stay as a series regular?Kerr Smith: They've actually asked me. It's something I would entertain. I love the group and it's a good show. On the other hand, it'd take me out of pilot season; that is usually January through April. It's a very difficult decision because you want to try and get your own show, but then, working on a show as good as thei
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For six seasons on Dawson's Creek, Katie Holmes played doe-eyed dreamer Joey Potter — and became America's sweetheart in the process. Since the teen sudser's swan song last year, the 25-year-old brunet's been focused on the big screen.
She's had her hits and misses: There's the critically acclaimed Pieces of April, the recently bombed First Daughter and the upcoming Batman Begins. Still, despite all the fame and fanfare, she considers herself that "girl next door" we all knew and loved on the Creek.
"I've been in North Carolina for six years, so I was pretty far removed from any spotlights," Holmes says. "Also, I have a very influential father who constantly reminds me how much more I could do for the world and it puts it all in perspective. Whenever he thinks that perhaps I might be getting a little excited about myself, he pulls me back. So I go about my day and don't worry."
The down-to-earth Holmes
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