Leisha Hailey by Naomi Kaltman/Showtime
As The L Word approaches the start of its sixth and final season, Showtime confirmed to TVGuide.com that the show's spin-off will star series vet Leisha Hailey.Hailey has played L Word's Alice since 2004. Apart from her casting, few details are being revealed yet about specific plans for the spin-off, but a rep for show suggested that it will pick up where The L Word leaves off after its finale. Creator Ilene Chaiken will write and produce the new pilot, which will start shooting in December. Now that Alice will be anchoring the new show, who else would you want to see along with her, carrying the proverbial series torch? — Anna DimondRelated:• Showtime Announces L Word Spin-Off
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Katherine Moennig, Laurel Holloman and Leisha Hailey in The L Word by Paul Michaud/Showtime
At Friday's executive session, Showtime chairman and CEO Matthew C. Blank announced a spin-off of The L Word, the cable net's lesbians-in-love soap opera.Though the spin-off is in very preliminary stages, Blank confirmed that series creator Ilene Chaiken is working on a new series that will star one of the current cast members. Further, he said that the series finale of The L Word will feature an open-ended storyline that will continue in some online iteration until the spin-off begins airing, and then will become part of the spin-off's narrative.The L Word's final season is scheduled to air in early 2009. Until then, let's chat. Which lady of L would you like to see front and center on the spin-off? — Mickey O'Connor
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Charmed by Andrew Macpherson/The WB
New releases announced today, June 23:Alvin and the Chipmunks - The ALVINNN!!! Edition will be coming out September 9 The Beverly Hillbillies - The 2nd Season will be coming out October 7 Brotherhood - The Complete 2nd Season will be coming out October 7 Charmed - The Complete Series and Charmed - The Complete Series: Limited Deluxe Edition will be coming out October 21 C.S.I.: Miami - The Complete 6th Season will be coming out September 9 C.S.I.: NY - The Complete 4th Season will be coming out September 23 Dynasty - Season 3, Volume 2 will be coming out October 21 Lil' Bush: Resident of the United States - Season 2 will be coming out October 14 The L Word - The Complete 5th Season will be coming out October 21 Mission: Impossible - The Complete 5th Season will be coming out October 7 The Naked Brothers Band - Season 2 will be coming out October 7 Nash Bridges - The 1st Season will be coming out October 14 The Sarah Silverman Program - Season 2 will be coming out October 14 Visit T...
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Brad Rowe courtesy Regent Releasing, Joanna Lumley courtesy BBC, Reichen
Between the apparent pick-up appeal of airport bathrooms, Christian Siriano and his hot tranny messes, California’s same-sex marriage ruling and the new “Sex and the City” movie, it’s been a very interesting year for the GLBT scene. And I mean interesting in a cool way. Like somehow the whole “all men created equal” stuff may start meaning something. So I figured, with gay being the new bitch, which was the new black last Spring (thank you, Tina Fey), and June being Gay Pride Month, I thought it was only appropriate to devote a little time to shows on DVD that are as fabulous as the fans who make them must-see...Dante’s Cove — Season Three just hit stores and lemme tell you, when I first heard that Amazing Race fame-seeker Reichen Lemkuhl was joining the cast, it was not a good day. The show is campy fun with its mix of island passion and occulty plotlines (and lord alive is there flesh for all walks of life to enjoy), but did it need a realit...
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Elizabeth Keener by Jordan Strauss/WireImage.com
The L Word's Elizabeth Keener has signed on to star in a new crime drama for here! that is described as a cross between Silence of the Lambs and Twin Peaks.The as-yet-untitled drama has Keener playing a lesbian FBI agent on an undercover assignment in a small town, who has to juggle her personal demons with the demands of the investigation. In addition to starring, Keener will also have a hand in the development of the series. — J.R. Whalen
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The L Word
When the fifth season of Showtime's The L Word comes to a tumultuous close Sunday night at 9 pm/ET, many fans will be left lingering. Here, the show's groundbreaking creator, writer and producer, Ilene Chaiken, dishes on why the next (and final) season will be worth the wait, describes her appreciation of the stiletto and discusses the fine art of cable sex scenes.
TVGuide.com: Now that Season 5 is coming to a close, what can we look forward to in the sixth and final season of The L Word?Ilene Chaiken: I can tell you that all of the core cast who are remaining at the end of Season 5 are coming back. I can't tell you if Carmen is coming back or if I can find some crazy way to bring Dana back, the things fans ask for. I just know that we are going to try to do a great final season that is full of dram
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The L Word by Paul Michaud/Showtime
Showtime has ordered a sixth — and final — season of The L Word, to start production this summer for an early 2009 run. Versus previous 12- and 13-episode seasons, this final salvo will last just eight weeks, an abbreviated stretch yet sufficient to wrap up the groundbreaking series. "We are enormously proud of the legacy of The L Word," says Showtime president of entertainment Robert Greenblatt. "The title of the show became part of the lexicon, and the breadth and reach of the characters and storylines are a testament to the talent of Ilene Chaiken and her incredible cast."What's your take? Would you prefer the lezcapades to continue? Is the timing just right? Or had the show's novelty already worn off?
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Paris Hilton by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/ WireImage.com
TV Guide has the definite word on the rumor heard round the world that Paris Hilton will showcase her talents on The L Word. And the word is... maybe. We're told that when Hilton showed up at the Sapphic series' Season 5 premiere, she told exec producer Ilene Chaiken that she'd love to be one of the L Word's lusty ladies. Chaiken in turn told her, "When we find out about a sixth season, we will consider you." In a Q&A with Parade.com, Hilton sort of ran with that polite semi-promise. "It was very nice of Paris to go up to Ilene," someone close to the show tells us, "but really, it was a very casual conversation." Showtime has not yet picked up the show for another cycle, but we hear the ratings are doing well enough that it's a likely bet. Sources also tell us that Hilton has been seen at more than one of the L Word-hosted, mostly lesbian Sunday soirees held at L.A.'s Falcon Bar. Now that's politicking for a role! — Ileane RudolphRelated:• Today's Top Videos; Paris H...
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Jennifer Beals, The L Word
Now in its fifth season, Showtime's The L Word is back (Sunday at 9 pm/ET) with its latest forays into the girlfriends' loves, lusts and career problems, not to mention a women-behind-bars side story, a "Don't ask, don't tell" crisis and a starlet-on-the-make chronicle of Jenny's movie about sapphic life in L.A. We talked to Jennifer Beals (we've loved her since Flashdance), who plays the starchy though smashingly sensual art-school dean Bette Porter, about her character's romantic dilemma, going nude and, yes, playing a dancing welder back in the day.
TV Guide: What are the big themes on The L Word this season?Jennifer Beals: For my character, it's loyalty and truthfulness.
TV Guide: Which is a problem, since Bette bounces between two lovers — Jodi (Marlee Matlin) and, secretly, Tina (Laurel Holloma
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Glenn Close by Craig Blankenhorn/Sony Pictures TV, Jonathan Rhys Meyers by Jonathan Hession/Showtime, Jennifer Beals by Paul Michaud/Showtime
Three good things about the writers' strike:1) No more Bionic Woman to disappoint us.2) Pepito the Wonder Chihuahua gets more "me" time.3) More chances to catch up on kick-ass cable shows on DVD!And let me tell you, that last one is a biggie, considering that a few cable shows I had to skip out on because of too many TiVo conflicts have just hit the shelves. One of them being FX's stellar, chilling Damages, which features quite possibly the single greatest performance of the last season. Is Golden Globe winner Glenn Close's Manhattan litigator Patty Hewes ingenious or pure evil? I'm not sure yet, but she is delicious nonetheless and I am having a hoot finding out.Centered around an Enron-type class-action suit against billionaire Arthur Frobisher — played with demonic menace by Ted Danson — the show should be about the case, since nobody does trial-angst better than Close (see Jagged Edge). But instead of courtrooms, we get boardrooms and some seriously twisted detours, co...
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