Exclusive: Grey's Anatomy Enlists Big Love Alum Patrick Fabian for Recurring Role
Big Love
- Metascore73
- 2006-2011
- 5 seasons
- HBO
- Drama
- TV-MA
Bill Paxton stars as Bill Henrickson, a polygamist who faces a myriad of challenges in meeting the emotional, romantic and financial needs of his three wives and seven children in suburban Salt Lake City.
- Metascore73
- 2006-2011
- 5 seasons
- HBO
- Drama
- TV-MA
Bill Paxton stars as Bill Henrickson, a polygamist who faces a myriad of challenges in meeting the emotional, romantic and financial needs of his three wives and seven children in suburban Salt Lake City.
Sissy Spacek Joins Netflix Drama as Kyle Chandler's Mom
Sissy Spacek has joined the untitled Netflix drama starring Kyle Chandler and Linda Cardellini, TVLine reports. The Oscar-winning actress will play Chandler and Cardellini's mother in the thriller from Damages creators Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler.
First Look: Chloë Sevigny Goes in for the Kill
From Big Love's sister-wife to American Horror Story: Asylum's nymphomaniac mental patient, Chloë Sevigny is known for her quirky roles.
Exclusive: Zeljko Ivanek Joins Revolution
Zeljko Ivanek will guest-star on Revolution this season, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.The Argo star will play ...
The Mindy Project Casts American Horror Story Alum as Danny's Ex-Wife
There's nothing scarier than an ex-wife. Unless that ex-wife also once played the resident nymphomaniac on American Horror Story. Chloe Sevigny has been cast on The Mindy Project for a multi-episode arc as Danny's ex-wife, Christina, TVLine reports. TV Scorecard: What's renewed? What's canceled? Christina is described as a...
General Hospital's John Ingle Dies at 84
John Ingle, who played Edward Quartermaine on General Hospital for nearly two decades, died Sunday, according to a post on Facebook. He was 84.
Chloe Sevigny Joins Portlandia
If you thought Chloe Sevigny's living situation on Big Love was weird, just imagine living with Portlandia's Fred and Carrie!Entertainment Weekly reports that Sevigny will join Portlandia's third season playing Amanda, a new roommate of Fred and Carrie (played by stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein).
Exclusive: True Blood, Veronica Mars Alum Tina Majorino Lands a Grey's Gig
As one door closes, another opens. Tina Majorino has landed a guest-starring role on the upcoming season of Grey's Anatomy, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Grey's Anatomy: Will Arizona Robbins and Mark Sloan die? Details on Majorino's role...
Chloë Sevigny Transitions to the U.K. Miniseries Hit & Miss
From her Oscar-nominated performance in the transgender-themed true-crime story Boys Don't Cry to her stint as a "sister-wife" on HBO's Big Love, Chloë Sevigny has never shied away from provocative roles. Her work as an Irish contract killer who's in transition from male to female in the six-part British series Hit & Miss (airing on DirecTV's Audience Network) may be her most controversial turn yet. Not that she planned it that way. "This fell into my lap," says the actress. "And it's such a juicy part." Here, she discusses Hit & Miss as well as gigs on Law & Order: SVU and American Horror Story...
Jeanne Tripplehorn Joins Criminal Minds as Series Regular
Jeanne Tripplehorn is joining Criminal Minds as a series regular, CBS announced Thursday.The Big Love alum will replace Paget Brewster, who left the series this spring.
Chloe Sevigny in Talks for American Horror Story Season 2
Watch out, Jessica Lange! A new blonde may be haunting American Horror Story.
Showtime Developing Dark Drama
Showtime is developing a new drama based on the upcoming novel, The Angry Buddhist, according to Deadline. The book, written by Big Love's Seth Greenland, is about three brothers: a cop studying Buddhism, a criminal and a scheming U.S. Congressman running for his third term.
New Girl Casts Jeanne Tripplehorn As Ex of Jess' New Man
New girl, meet the ex-girl. Big Love alum Jeanne Tripplehorn has booked a recurring role on New Girl as the former wife of Jess' upcoming new love interest, played by Dermot Mulroney, according to The Hollywood Reporter. When things heat up between Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and...
Exclusive: Law & Order: SVU Books Big Love's Chloe Sevigny
Former Big Love star Chloe Sevigny is returning to TV with a guest role on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Law & Order: SVU: Will Benson's new relationship last?Sources tell us that Sevigny will play a stay-at-home mom who is attacked and kidnapped while video-chatting with her husband, who's halfway around the world. She is slated to start shooting the episode next week...
New DVD Releases: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011
Highlights from this week's DVD releases:The Simpsons: Season 14 This four-disc (three-disc Blu-ray) set includes all 22 episodes, plus tons of bonus material. Commentary tracks, after being absent from previous releases, are back. Executive producers Al Jean and Mike Scully can be heard on every track, along with various writers, producers and directors. Also included are original sketches, deleted scenes, an animation showcase, and a special 300th episode featurette...
Tom Hanks Reunites with HBO for New Comedy
Tom Hanks is developing a comedy about the lives of college athletes for HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled Players, the half-hour series reunites Hanks and his long-time producing partner Gary Goetzman with the network, with which they made Big Love and the Emmy-winning miniseries John Adams, The Pacific and Band of Brothers.
Bill Paxton to Star As Kevin Costner's Hatfields and McCoys Enemy
Big Love's Bill Paxton will soon trade love for hate. The actor has been cast as Randall McCoy in History's new miniseries, The Hatfields and McCoys: An American Vendetta, the network announced Tuesday. He joins Kevin Costner, who will play "Devil" Anse Hatfield.
Melrose Place Alum Grant Show's Wife Files for Divorce
Grant Show will soon follow in his Melrose Place character's footsteps and become a divorcee. The actor's wife, actress Pollyanna McIntosh, filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences, People reports.
Why Cloris Leachman Is Nominated as a Guest Star, and Other Emmy Oddities
Cloris Leachman appeared in almost every Raising Hope last season, while Joan Cusack could be seen in virtually every episode of Shameless. And yet, both scored Emmy nominations Thursday in the guest star category...
Glee Adds Buffy, Chuck Scribes to Writing Staff
Glee's writing staff is tripling in size just in time for Season 3, Deadline reports. The six writers joining the team are Allison Adler, Marti Noxon, Michael Hitchcock, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Matt Hodgson and Ross Maxwell. They, along with Glee executive producers Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, will begin crafting...
Animal Kingdom Wins the Kentucky Derby
Animal Kingdom, who was 20-1 on the morning line, won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. Shackleford kept a commanding lead throughout the race, but Animal Kingdom, ridden by John Velazquez and trained by H. Motion, overtook his competitors on the homestretch to win the 137th Kentucky Derby. Velazquez, who was initially set to ride Uncle Mo before the horse was scratched, replaced jockey Robby Albarado after an injury. Shackleford only placed fourth.
Bones Exclusive: Veronica Mars Star Puts Booth in the Line of Fire
Former Veronica Mars actress Tina Majorino will guest-star in an upcoming episode of Bones, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.Check out photos of the Bones castMajorino will play Special Agent Genny Shaw, who, as we previously reported, will assist Booth (David Boreanaz) in his search for vigilante sniper Jacob Broadsky (Arnold Vosloo). Agent Shaw's inexperience, however, will quickly become apparent when her cover is blown by Broadsky during a stakeout. Ultimately, her mistake will put both her and Booth in Broadsky's crosshairs...
Roush Review: Big Love Finale
If HBO were to do a sequel to Big Love, it would have to be called something like The Three Sister-Wives. Not exactly Chekhov, but I'd probably watch. Barb, Margene and Nicki carrying on without Bill: That's already a home plus. I had drifted a while ago from the flock of followers of this weird and lately quite preachy series about polygamy and family and faith, but did a marathon catch-up over the last week in time to watch the final chapter, which aimed for transcendence and at times achieved it. The hour-plus finale thankfully shucked much of the grotesque Utah-Mormon-Gothic melodrama (murderously mad prophet Alby was taken care of last week, shot down but not killed when he tried to storm the statehouse with the Henricksons inside) and stressed the themes of an unorthodox family and marriage unit fighting for acceptance and survival in a judgmental and often violently unforgiving world. (If you want to see this as a metaphor for the ongoing fight for gay marriage equality, I won't stop you.)
Big Love: A Series Finale Postmortem with Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer
SPOILER ALERT! This story reveals key plot details of Big Love's series finale. Don't read any further if you haven't watched yet. At the end of Big Love, Bill Henrickson got his wish: His trio of wives remained a cohesive and loving family unit despite attacks on several fronts.
Big Love Star Ginnifer Goodwin's Surprise Name Change
Ginnifer Goodwin is officially changing her name to... Ginnifer. Turns out the Big Love star was born actually born "Jennifer Michelle Goodwin." She now wants to make her professional name, "Ginnifer," the real deal, TMZ reports.
Grant Show Goes from Big Love to Burn Notice
Grant Show will be heading to Miami as a recurring guest star on USA's Burn Notice, EW reports. Show will play a CIA operative named Max opposite Jeffrey Donovan's Michael Westen. He'll appear in the fifth season premiere, titled "Company Man," as well as in two more episodes.
Everlasting Love
Over its five seasons, HBO's Big Love masterfully divided story lines between its polygamous foursome — Bill (Bill Paxton), Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloë Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin). But cocreator Will Scheffer points out, "This is Jeanne's year. Barb has been utterly transcendent." Her journey, and all the reunited Henricksons' (Amanda Seyfried is back as daughter Sarah), comes to a close in Sunday's emotional series finale as Barb is finally able to embrace her life as an independent woman/wife/mother... and priesthood holder.
Matt's Weekend Picks: March 18-20
Give It Up For Greg Giraldo (Friday, 11:30/10:30c, Comedy Central)Celebrity roasts just won't be same without him. In this affectionate tribute special profiling Greg Giraldo, the comedian who died last September at 44, Comedy Central celebrates one of its most familiar faces and voices, as comedy contemporaries including Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman and Colin Quinn remember a good friend and colleagues. Lots of clips from career highs — and a few lows (including the short-lived sitcom Common Law). The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway (Saturday, 10/9c, HBO)The magic word is "FUN!" Feel free to scream along with the Broadway audience as...
Ginnifer Goodwin to Play Snow White in ABC's Once Upon a Time Pilot
Ginnifer Goodwin has joined the cast of ABC's Once Upon a Time, TVGuide.com has confirmed. From Lost writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, the series follows a woman who is drawn into a town where the world of fairy tales may be real. Goodwin, 32, will play...
AMC Sets Two-Hour Premiere for The Killing
AMC will unveil its newest series, The Killing, with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, April 3, the network announced Thursday. Based on the Danish TV series Forbrydelsen, the show focuses on the murder of a young Seattle girl, Rosie Larsen, and the subsequent police investigation. Production on the 13-episode first season started in December in Vancouver. AMC begins production on The Killing The series stars ...
Video Exclusive: Ginnifer Goodwin Dives into SpongeBob SquarePants
Ginnifer Goodwin is taking a trip underwater for a guest spot on SpongeBob SquarePants' upcoming special "Legends of Bikini Bottom." In the clip, the Big Love actress, 32, lends her voice to a teenage mermaid who steals from others through Bikini Bottom's version of the Bermuda Triangle. Watch more videos from SpongeBob SquarePants "Welcome to Bikini Bottom Triangle" is one of four new...
Big Love Illness Revealed
Spoiler alert! The Henricksons just can't catch a break. During the final season of polygamist drama Big Love, the biggest problem the family should be facing is the fallout of bringing their secret life into the open. But that would be far too easy. TV Guide Magazine has learned that Bill's mother, Lois (played to perfection by Grace Zabriskie), is going to add a little drama to an already stressful situation when a case of...
Keck's Exclusives: Big Love Finale Shockers
As HBO's Big Love nears its March series finale, what happens in the last three episodes "is astonishing," teases creator Mark Olsen. "We really went there!" Pressed for a few hints, Olsen and cocreator Will Scheffer warn us to expect an "ultimate and final showdown" pitting Bill against Alby....
Big Shocks in Big Love's Final Season
The cat's out of the bag in the fifth and final season of Big Love: Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), Utah's newly elected State Senator, has announced that he and his family are polygamists — and it's not sitting well with everyone. "I don't think Bill regrets [the announcement], although I think he has underestimated the amount of animosity and persecution he faces," Paxton said at the Los Angeles premiere on January 12. "But he has to try to reform the image of plural marriage and polygamy, otherwise it will be left to guys like Alby (Matt Ross) to promote." Bill's three wives struggle to come to terms with living out in the open for a ...
Keck's Exclusives: Amanda Seyfried and Aaron Paul Return for Big Love Series Finale
With Amanda Seyfried hitting it big on the big-screen with roles in Mamma Mia!, Dear John, Letters to Juliet and the upcoming Red Riding Hood, and Aaron Paul raking in awards for his high-profile leading role on AMC's Breaking Bad, the young actors have had little time left for...
AMC Begins Production on The Killing
AMC has started production on its newest original series, The Killing, the network announced Thursday.Based on the Danish TV series Forbrydelsen, the show focuses on the murder of a young Seattle girl, Rosie Larsen, and the ...
J.J. Abrams' Alcatraz Pilot Casts Female Lead
Sons of Anarchy's Sarah Jones has been cast as the lead in J.J. Abrams' Fox pilot Alcatraz, Deadline reports. Take today's poll The project focuses on a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear ...
Mega Buzz: Another Grey's Wedding, a New Vampire and CSI's Bloody Aftermath
Every week, senior editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to megascoop@tvguide.com. Any more hints about the couple getting married on Grey's Anatomy? — JanelleADAM: You'll find out soon enough. In the meantime, the second episode of the season will feature a near-proposal involving another fan-favorite couple (one half of which may or may not be pictured above). Before you reach for your Kleenex, though, ask yourself: Does this guy really want to get married?Stefan seemed different in the Vampire Diaries finale. Where is he heading? — KatherineMICKEY: Interestingly, it's Katherine's arrival that awakens something in Stefan...
Red Carpet Scoop from the Creative Arts Emmy Awards: Glee, V, Mad Men and More!
Gregory Itzin, nominated for his guest stint as former President Logan on 24, told TV Guide Magazine he's joining Big Love as a senator who's trying to suss out Bill Henrickson. "I've only worked with Bill Paxton and that may be the case throughout," says the actor, who's so far committed to five episodes as Paxton's nemesis. "By saying 'I'm a polygamist' [Henrickson] gums up the works — it's inappropriate behavior. It's also irresponsible because he didn't say it before he ran. So I call him to task about that."Want more Emmy scoop? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Elizabeth Mitchell, who was attempting to stay cool on the carpet ...
AMC Picks Up Untitled Project From Cold Case Producer
AMC has given a full series order for the untitled Veena Sud pilot formerly called The Killing, the network announced Wednesday. Based on a Danish TV series titled Forbrydelsen, the show centers on the investigation into a young girl's murder, as well as the...
Mega Buzz: Cristina's Grey's Breakdown, Mitchell's Hidden Past, and CSI: NY's New Face
Every week, senior editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to megascoop@tvguide.com.What's Cristina up to when Grey's Anatomy returns? — JenniADAM: She won't be great. While Cristina is usually the rock the other docs lean on, her reaction to the traumatic season finale rampage takes longer to sort out than some of the other surgeons. In fact, when she is finally cleared to go back into surgery, an accident in the OR freaks her out so much that she collapses into a sobbing mess on the floor.Can we get some more Modern Family scoop? — RustyMICKEY: If you were as tickled as we were to discover that Mitchell and Claire were once an figure-skating duo named Fire and Ice, you're going to love the next nugget...
CSI Finale: A Tale of Two Serial Killers
CSI's season-long hunt for Dr. Jekyll will finally come to a close, thanks to another serial murderer, Nate Haskell, aka The Dick and Jane Killer (Bill Irwin).Check out photos of the CSI castAt the end of last week's episode, Haskell told Dr. Ray Langtson (Laurence Fishburne) that he knows Dr. Jekyll's true identity. The finale (Thursday at 9/8c on CBS) features Haskell as the Hannibal Lecter to Langston's Agent Starling in a Silence of the Lambs­-­esque cat-and-mouse game."How much of what Haskell is giving them is truth?" executive producer Carol Mendelsohn tells TVGuide.com, noting that Captain Brass will be furious that the team is trusting a convicted killer to help. "Langston believes that in the lies are some truths, and that the truths that Haskell is spinning will actually help in the investigation. And little by little, they do get closer to Dr. Jekyll."Finale Preview: Get scoop on 31 must-watch season-endersBut the show...
Big Love's Chloe Sevigny Apologizes for Calling Recent Season "Awful"
Is Chloe Sevigny pulling a Katherine Heigl? Sevigny has apologized for her recent comments in which she called Big Love's fourth season "awful." "I feel pretty terrible," Sevigny told Entertainment Weekly about her criticisms. "I feel like what I said was taken out of context, and ...
Heroes Star Heads to Hallmark Channel
Heroes star Jack Coleman is up for more father-daughter drama. Heroes star signs on to USA series The actor has joined the Hallmark movie Rock the House, in which he'll play ...
James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow Collaborate on Third-Best Video Ever
Before she whupped him for the best directing Oscar, eventual exes Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron collaborated on the third-best music best video of all time. (The best, obviously, is Michael Jackson's "Thriller." The second best is this.)*The very 1988 clip (first dug up by Movieline) is for a Western-themed track called...
Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010
Winter Olympics7/6c NBC With the Opening Ceremony 17 days full of winter sports ago, the athletes, 55,000 spectators and billions of TV viewers return to BC Place to close out the Games with all the traditional trappings. Those hoping for more frenetic fiddling, swimming whales or k.d. lang may be disappointed; but if the Feb. 12 festivities were any indication, tonight's event will be chock-full of Canadian culture and bonhomie. Of course, it will also include a last look at the athletes as they parade into the venue and the handoff of the Olympic flag to the representatives of Sochi, Russia, the site of the 2014 Winter Games. Competition concludes in the afternoon with the highly anticipated men's hockey final between the United States and Canada; and the 50-km race in men's cross country, in which many of the favorites are in their upper 30s. "People who know the sport know it takes years and years to become world class," says 29-year-old U.S. hopeful Kris Freeman.Read on for previews of Big Love, Desperate Housewives, Cold Case and Masterpiece Classic.
Big Love Renewed for Fifth Season
HBO has renewed Big Love for a fifth season, TVGuide.com has confirmed. The series — starring Bill Paxton as practicing polygamist Bill Henrickson and Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin as his three wives — attracted...
Mega Buzz: Scoop on NCIS: Los Angeles, Glee, Grey's Anatomy and More!
Every week, editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant answer your burning questions. Want some TV scoop? Please send all questions to megascoop@tvguide.com.Any big surprises coming up on NCIS: Los Angeles? — OliviaADAM: Get ready for some role reversal for G. Callen and Sam Hanna. "Usually it's Sam protecting Callen, but this turns the other way," executive producer Shane Brennan tells me about an emotional episode that explores Sam's relationship with a family in the Sudan, which dates back to his days as a Navy SEAL. "Callen has to watch Sam's back because he's really out on a limb." Brennan also teases a "heart-wrenching" episode that delves back into Callen's personal life, including a love interest. "It's only the beginning of something that will be resolved later in the season," Brennan says.Are any of those rumors about Idina Menzel playing Lea Michele's birth mother on Glee true? — CaseyKMICKEY: Not yet. Ryan Murphy tells us that Menzel will be playing the ethics-free coach of Vocal Adrenaline. But might the two story lines converge? Murphy isn't ruling it out. He's also not ruling out Jennifer Lopez...
Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010
The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3D! On Ice!8:30/7:30c Fox Director Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) is the ringmaster for this celebration of two decades of America's first family of animated dysfunction, featuring comments from auteur Matt Groening; executive producer James L. Brooks; writers Conan O'Brien, David Cross and Dana Gould; and voice artists Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner, Hank Azaria and Yeardley Smith. Also weighing in are pop-culture icons John Waters, Sting, Jimmy Kimmel, Moby, Jerry Springer and Dr. Ruth.Read on for previews of Chuck, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, Big Love and Masterpiece Classic.
Golden Globes: Who Do You Want to Win TV Drama Actor?
With defending champ Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment) missing from the Golden Globe field of drama actor nominees, this year's prize is up for grabs.Glee scores four Golden Globe nominationsHugh Laurie (House) and Jon Hamm (Mad Men) are the past winners ...
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