Are we about to meet Rousseau's never-before-seen daughter, Alex, on Lost? I'm thinking yes since 17-year-old actress Tania Raymonde has just joined the cast. You may remember Raymonde as Frankie Muniz's on-again off-again crush on Malcolm in the Middle. Or maybe not.
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Bryan Cranston and Frankie Muniz, Malcolm in the Middle
Friday, Jan. 13, turned out to be a truly bad-luck day for Malcolm in the Middle. That's when the cast members learned that the Fox sitcom, now in its seventh season, had gotten the ax.
"There was some sadness," Bryan Cranston, aka Malcolm's bumbling dad, Hal, tells TVGuide.com, adding that he and his TV wife, Jane Kaczmarek, shared an embrace and a few tears upon learning their fate. "We realized it's about how much fun you have along the way," philosophizes the actor, who felt that Malcolm could have easily gone on creatively for another year. "But I can't complain. We'll have done 151 episodes. It's been fantastic. It's going to be good
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That '70s Show
The '70s are over and Malcolm is no longer in the middle, but nearing the end. That's the word from Fox, which announced on Tuesday that it's bidding adieu to two long-running comedies. That '70s Show will air its series finale (and 200th episode) on May 18, while Malcolm in the Middle (rejoining the Sunday lineup starting Jan. 29) will serve up its swan song-150th eppy on May 14. Also from Fox: Prison Break (yeah, I almost forgot about it, too) will return March 13 with a much-needed recap show, then deliver nine consecutive new episodes starting March 20; The Bernie Mac Show starts offering double-episodes on Jan. 20; Bones moves to Wednesdays-at-8 as of March 8; and the ne
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Malcolm in the Middle's Justin Berfield, aka Reese, has purchased the Calabasas, Calif., home (as featured on Newlyweds) of the soon-to-be-divorced Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. Oh, if those walls could talk... they'd say a lot of inane things.
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Campus Ladies' Christen Sussin, Carrie Aizley and (inset) Cheryl Hines
Curb Your Enthusiasm player Cheryl Hines is going back to school — the fictional University of the Midwest — as executive producer of Oxygen's new improvised comedy series, Campus Ladies (premiering Jan. 8 at 10 pm/ET). Starring Carrie Aizley and Christen Sussin as Joan and Barri, two middle-aged housewives in search of the wild college years they missed the first time around, Campus Ladies represents one of Oxygen's most daring endeavors ever. TVGuide.com spoke with Hines about the series' origins, May-December sex and whether Curb fan
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Question: Now that Fox has all but canceled Arrested Development, and Kitchen Confidential looks like it's headed down the same road, does this open room for Prison Break to air Mondays with 24, or is American Idol taking up the spots?
Answer: It's not entirely clear how Idol will be scheduled at mid-season, but the original plan (which still stands for now) is for House to move to Monday as a lead-in to 24, although I'm sure there will be occasional Idol Monday-night specials; Fox would probably just as soon air an Idol element every night of the week if they thought they could get away with it. Tuesdays will pair Idol with Bones, moved an hour later. There is a chance, I guess, that if Stacked continues to tank (we can only hope), then either Arrested or Kitchen will get some shots at a Wednesday slot, in and around Idol episodes. And there are always the graveyards of Thursdays and Fridays (where The Bernie Mac Show and Malcolm in the Middle are now buried). All in all, not a hopefu ...
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Everybody Hates Chris
Question: The only new show of the season I watch and love is Everybody Hates Chris. Tichina Arnold is awesome as Chris' mother and the soundtrack completes the show. My question is: How is the show doing in the ratings? I know the first week it did great and the following week they went down, but how are things going now? What do you think of the show?
Answer: Consider the time period, one of the week's most competitive. Then consider the UPN network, one of the industry's least competitive (most nights). By those standards, Everybody Hates Chris is a huge success. The show was never meant to win the time period or some such miracle, but for UPN, it's a home run. The show hasn't sustained the early breakthrough numbers (a result of the preseason hype, since viewing habits like Survivor are hard to break), but Chris still does so much better than any of the comedies that follow it, plus it has great media buzz. And it put UPN in the game on Thursday nights, which is easier said than
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Alias
I can't believe I just had to look up how to spell Eurythmics. Blame the Santa Ana winds or the L.A. fires, accuse me of Valley Fever, it doesn't matter — I'm disappointed, and this week's soundtrack is only the beginning. Observe: — I only laughed once.— I was bored enough to start looking for "clues," like the apple on the teacher's desk. (Does anyone have a screengrab?)— I thought the actual Chris Rock would play a bigger part in the show.— I'm thinking of watching the East Coast broadcast from now on, which would sort of free up my Thursday nights.— I now feel it's OK to point out that I thought Chris had darker skin.
With that said, let me attempt to save face, as this is only the third episode and a whole season is still ahead of us. Chris can't always be funny, and the jocks saved him this time. His comeback to the school bully — "Good luck finding an ax to go with that shirt" — is honestly my fa
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Question: I've been curious about the new Fox sitcom The War at Home, with Michael Rapaport. My hope is that it will be the type of irreverent family sitcom that Malcolm in the Middle used to be. Have you seen it yet? Will it be like the early Malcolm seasons, or merely another Quintuplets?
Answer: Closer to the latter, although my faint memory of Quintuplets was of negligible mediocrity while The War at Home is actively, gratingly annoying. Classic Malcolm may have been manic, but there were so many appealing characters and actors on that show. War at Home lacks any charm whatsoever. It seems to me that it's aiming more for a Married... with Children tone, anyway, . If you're looking for a new Malcolm, check out UPN's Everybody Hates Chris. That's the real deal ...
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After last week's episode with the reality crew, I was about toss this show into the muck, but this week's renewed my faith like a pair of pocket aces. It epitomized what this show is all about — a bizarre mix of celebs who have good senses of humor and gambling. If I just wanted to watch people playing cards, I'd tune in to the World Series of Poker — OK, I do spend my weekends watching that, too. Anyway the rowdy all-guy crew was made up of Stephen Collins (aka the dad from 7th Heaven), Bryan Cranston (aka the dad from Malcolm in the Middle), Howie Mandel (who is being a Public Nuisance), Peter Dinklage (the star of The Station Agent and that new Threshold series) and Meat Loaf (who is, well, Meat Loaf), and they just call him Meat which cracked me up. Aside from Howie, they all seemed to know how to play the game and could tell when they had a straight or a flush, unlike som
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