Jack & Bobby

2004-2005
1 season
The WB Television Network
Comedy, Drama
TV-14

Faux-documentary series from 2049 about Bobby McCallister, the US president elected eight years earlier, and his older brother Jack. Talking-head interviews with Bobby's staff are combined with reenactment footage of the McCallisters' teenage years dealing with a pot-smoking mother and typical high-school drama. Also explored is Jack's tentative romance with Courtney Benedict.

2004-2005
1 season
The WB Television Network
Comedy, Drama
TV-14

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Thu, Nov 15, 2018

Pilot Season: Christine Lahti Joins CBS' Beverly Hills Cop

Christine Lahti's Hawaii Five-0 days may be numbered: The actress has joined the cast of CBS' Beverly Hills Cop pilot, TVGuide.com has learned. In the pilot, a sequel to the movie franchise, Axel Foley's (Eddie Murphy) police officer son Aaron (Brandon T. Jackson) patrols the rich and famous of Beverly Hills. Lahti will play Helen, the captain of the Beverly Hills Police Department who is respected by her detectives, though she worries Aaron's penchant for being a renegade will one day embarrass her.

Mon, Feb 25, 2013

Pilot Season: Christine Lahti Joins CBS' Beverly Hills Cop

Christine Lahti Cast as McGarrett's Mom on Hawaii Five-0

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Tue, Jul 3, 2012

Christine Lahti Cast as McGarrett's Mom on Hawaii Five-0

Cougar Town Enlists Edwin Hodge As Laurie's New Boyfriend

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Tue, Dec 20, 2011

Cougar Town Enlists Edwin Hodge As Laurie's New Boyfriend

The WB Is Back, with Gilmore Girls and More!

Two years after signing off the airwaves, the WB is returning with new programming  as well as some of its most memorable series  but not on TV. According to an article in the Hollywood Reporter, the Warner Bros. Television Group is reviving the network as a website, where viewers will be able to watch free streaming episodes of Gilmore Girls, What I Like About You and Everwood, as well as all other WB-produced shows. (The site's "working title," wb.com, currently jumps to a general Warner Bros. Studios roundup of movies, TV, DVDs, etc.)The WB, which merged with UPN in 2006 to become the bastion of twentysomething programming that is the CW, aired a string of fan-favorite shows in its 10-year existence, including Dawson's Creek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It's not clear yet whether non-Warner Bros. shows will be available on the site, but new Web-minisodes are reportedly in the works, with series aimed at the WB's core audience.Warner Bros. hasn't confirmed the ...

Sun, Mar 9, 2008

The WB Is Back, with Gilmore Girls and More!

Chicago Hope Diva's New Gig

Poor Christine Lahti. You'd think being married to a former executive producer of The West Wing would guarantee her a role in any of his future projects. Not necessarily. According to the Emmy-winning actress, her husband, Thomas Schlamme, didn't initially see a part for her in Jack & Bobby (debuting Sunday). That's his new WB drama about a conflicted single mom raising two boys — one of whom is destined to be president of the United States. Here, the 54-year-old Chicago Hope alumna talks about her role as future first mother Grace McCallister, and how she persuaded her husband to keep it all in the family. TV Guide Online: In the pilot episode, Grace smokes pot. Any reservations about playing a professor, a woman of influence, who uses marijuana?Christine Lahti: It's probably not good for her. Certainly not for the kids. No, [I don't have any] reservations. In fact, one of the things I loved about her the most is that she'

Fri, Sep 10, 2004

Press Tour Diary: Day Five

We're at the midway point of press tour and that can only mean three things: At least half of the journalists here have started recycling their underwear; the backlash against the host hotel has reached a fever pitch; and folks are starting to place bets on which shows are going to be axed first. (My pick? CBS's ghastly John Goodman sitcom Center of the Universe.) Helping TCA members celebrate Hump Day is WB, which previewed its fall schedule Wednesday for the increasingly cranky press corps. Here's a rundown of all the day's memorable moments.WELCOMING REMARKS9:10 Keith Marder, WB's joyfully antagonistic communications director, kicks off the day with his traditional press-tour comedy routine. First up is a joke about former WB chief Jordan Levin, who Marder says left the network to figure out who starred "in the reality version of Crossing Jordan." It bombs, but he assures us, "It will get better." 9:11

Thu, Jul 15, 2004