Laura Prepon May Be Returning to Orange Is the New Black for More Episodes
October Road
- Metascore23
- 2007-2008
- 2 seasons
- ABC
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-PG
A popular author returns home after 10 years.
- Metascore23
- 2007-2008
- 2 seasons
- ABC
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-PG
A popular author returns home after 10 years.
Is Laura Prepon Leaving Orange Is the New Black?
Is Laura Prepon breaking out of the clink early? According to a Buzzfeed report, Prepon will not be returning for the full upcoming second season of Orange Is the New Black. Instead, Prepon, who plays...
Lifetime's The Client List Adds Colin Egglesfield, Rebecca Field
Don't worry, Colin Egglesfield and Rebecca Field are on the list. The Client List, that is. The former Melrose Place 2.0 and October Road residents, respectively, have joined the Lifetime series, according to Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter. The show stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as a single mom in Texas who winds up co-running a prostitution business. Lifetime turning The Client List into a TV series The upcoming series, which Lifetime ordered in August, is based on...
Castle Exclusive: Meet Castle and Beckett's New Captain!
There's a new bosslady on ABC's Castle.Former 24 and The Larry Sanders Show star Penny Johnson Jerald will join the cast as the new captain of the 12th Precinct, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Jerald will play Victoria Gates, a career-minded cop who spent much of her early career in Internal Affairs. As we previously reported, she will initially be more interested in getting noticed by her superiors and climbing the NYPD's ranks than doing any real police work.Exclusive Castle postmortem: Creator on [SPOILER!]'s death and Castle and Beckett's futureKnown as "Iron Gates," she's alo going to be a bit tougher on our team...
Laura Prepon to Play Chelsea Handler
Laura Prepon has landed the lead in Chelsea Handler's NBC comedy pilot Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, TV Line reports. Check out photos of Laura PreponBased on Handler's best-selling book of the same name and inspired by her life, the project follows a group of twentysomethings living and working together. Prepon will play Chelsea Hanson, a single and opinionated cocktail ...
Bones Spin-off Casts Geoff Stults as Its "Locator"
Geoff Stults has been tapped to star in the upcoming Bones spinoff, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Stults, who starred in October Road, Happy Town and 7th Heaven, will play...
FX Sets Justified Season 2 Return Date
Get ready for another season of gunslinging: Justified will return for its sophomore season on Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 10/9c, FX announced Tuesday. See photos from Justified
Exclusive: Erin Karpluk on U.S. Being Erica Adaptation: Do Being Eric!
Being Erica, the Canadian dramedy about a time-traveling therapy patient, is the latest import to be adapted for American audiences. ABC is developing a U.S. version, which will be written by Eastwick's Maggie Friedman. It's executive-produced by David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg of Temple Street Productions, who also produce the original. Being Erica airs on the CBC in Canada and SOAPnet in America. The third season of the series will premiere in the U.S. on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Being Erica returns for Season 3 in January The original Erica stars Erin Karpluk as a therapy patient who travels back in time to fix her past mistakes. The show averages around half a million viewers in Canada. The series is a hot commodity across the globe, airing in more than 160 countries, including the U.K. and Spain. Karpluk told TVGuide.com on Thursday that she was initially nervous about someone else playing Erica Strange. "Hold on! There's only one Erica, here," the actress recalls saying during format pitch meetings. Still, if the story line and formatting turn out great, Karpluk says...
Castle Exclusive: Gilles Marini Books Magical Guest Role
Is ABC staging a Castle-Brothers & Sisters crossover? Not quite, but Castle is borrowing B&S hunk Gilles Marini for a guest spot, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.Check out photos of the Castle castMarini will play Tobias Strange, a world-famous magician, who is one of the key suspects in the murder of a New York City magic-shop owner. His episode, titled "Poof, You're Dead," is scheduled to air in early 2011...
How Bryan Greenberg Made it to How to Make it in America
Viewers may recognize him from more lighthearted fare like One Tree Hill and October Road, but these days Bryan Greenberg is hustling as a fashion-school dropout on HBO's new series How to Make it in America (Sun, 10/9c). Greenberg, who calls the series "very timely with the economy," talked to TVGuide.com about why he responded to the project and how his musical background affects his roles. TVGuide.com: How did you get involved in the show?Bryan Greenberg: I actually knew Ian Edelman, the creator of the show, through basketball and a mutual friend, but I had no idea he was...
Series Finale Preview: Life on Mars' Sam Runs Out of Time!
In a rare instance of mutual forethought and cooperation between producers and a network, ABC's Life on Mars will wrap up its abbreviated freshman run this Wednesday at 10 pm/ET with a proper series finale, bringing to a close Detective Sam Tyler's time-tripping odyssey. Here, executive producers Scott Rosenberg and Josh Appelbaum reflect on their Mars journey, reveal the one song that done them wrong, preview the "straight-out scary" follow-up they have planned, and promise closure for fans of their previous project, October Road. TVGuide.com: The episode airing this Wednesday, is it more or less what you had envisioned the series finale as being? Or is it slightly different, if only because you had less time to build up to it?Josh Appelbaum: We always knew that the season finale was going to be this episode, and we always knew what our series finale would be. Basically we went to [ABC] and said, "Our ratings are grim. We want to ...
Mars Rookie Jonathan Murphy Learning Tricks of the Trade
"October" has always been good to Jonathan Murphy. The actor got his big break on the now-defunct October Road, and his latest TV foray, Life on Mars (Thursdays at 10 pm/ET, ABC), debuted Oct. 9 and showed, well, life. Murphy plays clean-cut newbie Det. Chris Skelton on the decade-warping BBC remake and took time out of the busy New York '70s streets to chat with TVGuide.com about the show forging its own path, how he prepared for the role and why Luke Perry better watch out. Oh, and for all you Roadies out there, get an update on the series' mini-epilogue. TVGuide.com: The show is based on a British series. How would you describe it to American viewers? Jonathan Murphy: I would describe it as ... See Murphy's answer and full interview after the jump.
October Road Bosses to Wrap Up "Epic Love" Story
When October Road reached its end last spring, fans weren't the only ones who had a hard time letting go. Co-creator Scott Rosenberg was determined to conclude the series the right way. "We had a small audience, but they genuinely fell in love with these characters, and I feel we owe it not only to them, but also to the cast [to tie up loose ends]," Rosenberg tells TV Guide. So he and co-creators Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec wrote a 15-minute finale called "Don't Look Back: An Epilogue for an Epic Love." The story will start at the wedding of Hannah (Laura Prepon) and Big Cat (Warren Christie), and then flash forward seven years, where fans will receive answers to most of their remaining questions. The plan is to include the epilogue on the second-season DVD and possibly online. After two seasons on the Road, even the cast wants closure. "I don't know who Sam's father is, so I am just as excited to find out as the fans are," says Bryan Greenberg (Nick). And although the shoot...
Eli Renewed! October Road Axed! Moonlight Dead?
Renewals and cancellations are flying fast and furious on this, the first official day of "upfront" week. Here's the latest:• Eli Stone has been renewed for a second season. (Woo-hoo!)• October Road has been canceled. (Boo-hoo!) Ditto Women's Murder Club. • CBS is expected to bring The Unit back, and may slot it on Fridays at 9 pm. What does that mean for Moonlight? Good question.• Also at CBS, How I Met Your Mother is a shoo-in to return for a fourth season, although Old Christine remains a question mark. ABC, however, is almost certain to scoop it up should Les Moonves pass. More updates to come. Keep checking back. And be sure to bookmark our Fall TV Grid, which clearly displays what is on when, and against what. More Fall TV news:• Reaper Inching Closer to Renewal• CW's Game for The Game, Tyra Banks' Stylista• More Boston Legal Suits ABC• CW Officially Picks Up 90210 • 'Til Death Lives On, Back to You Won't Be Back• Fox's New Ams...
What's the scoop on October ...
Question: What's the scoop on October Road? Will it be back next season? Answer: Nothing official from ABC, but all indications are the show is toast. And I would like to think I was at least partially responsible. Oh, who am I kidding — it was all me.
October Road Cast Has Burning Questions!
The fiercely loyal fans of October Road are probably dying to find out if Nick really is Sam's dad, or if Janet and Eddie will get back together. And can that wedding be stopped?! "We just don't know anything," Rebecca Field told TV Guide with a shrug, at a Wednesday event for the Young Storytellers Foundation. In fact, the cast and crew are still anticipating word on whether or not the show will receive a third season pickup. "We find out in May," said Laura Prepon. The March 10 season finale left the audience with a lot of questions, but should they remain unanswered, Slade Pearce (aka Sam) has a plan. "If we don't get another season, we're going to go barrage the writers and make them tell us everything. I know they know [who my father is], but they won't tell me. It's evil and cruel." (Prepon's take on the paternity puzzler: "I would think it's Nick, because ultimately I think people want it to be Nick.") TV Guide caught up with the cast at The Big Show, an event where the actor...
Trees Won't Grow on Lifetime
Lifetime has dared to burst ABC's bubble. The Alphabet net, sources tell the Reporter, courted the cabler to air either or both Men in Trees and October Road. Lifetime execs, however, reportedly declined to pick up either. October Road pretty much sealed its fate with a low-rated season finale, while Men in Trees — despite having like a zillion episodes in the can — is still considered to be "on the fence" as it averages fewer than six million weekly viewers.
Guest Columnist Scott Rosenberg on October Road's True Story
You can check out new episodes of Scott Rosenberg's October Road on Mondays at 10 pm/ET on ABC. It was one of the worst winters in New England and I had retreated to the house I grew up in, some 20 miles outside of Boston, to lick my wounds over the dissolution of a seven-year relationship with my girlfriend, Trish. I had decided to write a script. I would call it Beautiful Girls, and I would base it entirely on my friends from home. These guys, my high school crew, had largely remained in our hometown, and most of them were landscapers, snowplow drivers and construction workers. I went so far as to use their actual nicknames. I was hoping my chums would see the movie as a valentine to them; to their myriad struggles; to their noble work ethic; to their histories, with all of their Springsteenian flourishes. And they di
Casting News: Dancing Star Hits the Road, and More
Dancing with the Stars alumna Stacy Keibler will guest-star on the March 10 episode of ABC's October Road. Keibler and her 45-inch gams will play Rory, an ex of Eddie's who broke his heart years ago and now wants reconnect with him.... Extra is reporting that Jason Gedrick will return to Desperate Housewives this spring as the former pizzeria cutie who cooked up trouble for Lynette and Tom. (If I recall correctly, he nearly held her anchovies.)
You are an idiot! October ...
Question: You are an idiot! October Road is a great show and we are sick of hearing you trash it!Answer: OK, I'll stop — but only because you were such a class act about it.
Yay! The strike is over!
Question: Yay! The strike is over! Answer: Woo-hoo! You know what this means, right? I no longer have to make up questions for this column! We can stop watching October Road!
Why don't you like October ...
Question: Why don't you like October Road? Everyone I know loves it, and we are dying to find out who Sam's father is. Any hints? Answer: I don't like October Road for the same reason I don't like getting an air-conditioner dropped on my head: It's painful. Having said that, we're in the middle of a strike and I'm desperate, so here's a hint about Sam's daddy: While we'll learn more about his paternity in these final episodes, don't expect the mystery to be solved until Season 3. [Shudder]
October Road, Nicole Kidman and More News Briefs
ABC.com has launched "Meet Me on October Road," a microsite where fans can share their own stories of "lost loves and friendships" and wan ratings.... Nicole Kidman: The E! True Hollywood Story premieres Saturday at 6 pm/ET.... The Bronx Is Burning: World-Championship Limited-edition DVD streets Dec. 18. Reggie! bar not included.... Reese, Natalie, Cameron, Beyoncé and many other celebs have created personalized lunchbox art for an online auction benefiting Food Bank for New York City and The Lunchbox Fund of South Africa. Go to CharityFolks.com for details.
Ratings: Samantha Misses Dancing's Lift
8 pmWith ABC's Charlie Brown Christmas encore topping the hour (at 9.3 million total viewers), Chuck placed second with 8.36 mil, a 120K increase from last week's impressive outing. Everything else was repeats, with House (8.3 mil) nipping at Chuck's heels and delivering the best demos.9 pmWithout the Dancing stars to give her a lift, Samantha Who? is missing her certain something, this week dropping 40 percent to 7.52 mil. Similarly, Notes from the Underbelly (5.5 mil) shed 33 percent. Heroes' ersatz "season finale" fell just shy of 11 mil, dipping 860 thou week-to-week.10 pmA CSI: Miami repeat was No. 1 with 10.1 mil, followed by Life (6.6 mil, 420K better than Journeyman's most-recent journey) and October Road (5.25 mil, down 750K).
Ratings: Dancing's Big Jump, Chuck's In Luck
This Monday's ratings:8 pm/ETDancing with the Stars drew 24.74 million total viewers, a week-to-week increase of 1.65 mil and a 25 percent improvement over last season's final performance night. Chuck placed second with 8.36 mil, its largest audience since Oct. 1 and its best demos since the series premiere. How I Met Your Mother (8.07 mil) dipped 480K. The CW's Chris (2.28 mil, +130K) and Aliens (1.89 mil, +520K) each saw gains.9 pmCBS' Men (15.3 mil) was up 840 thou, while lead-out Rules (11.6 mil) dropped 570K. Samantha Who? (12.63 mil) was down 18 percent, and new lead-out Notes from the Underbelly only held onto 8.25 mil. Delivering 11.86 mil, Heroes soared 11 percent to an eight-week high. Girlfriends (2.28 mil, +480K) and The Game (2.8 mil, +430K) both were up.10 pmCSI: Miami was on top with 15.45 mil, a 770K drop. Journeyman (6.18 mil) edged out October Road (six mil), which shed 360 thou from last Thursday's season premiere.
Thanks for giving us the news ...
Question: Thanks for giving us the news about October Road's return. I know it couldn't have been easy for you. But since you seem to be on a selfless streak, can you give us some more Road scoop? Answer: OK, but this is my last trip down this particular Road for a while — that's how rumors get started. Sources confirm that Kevin Weisman has booked a multi-episode arc playing a rival professor at the school where Nick (Bryan Greenberg) teaches.
If I promised we could be ...
Question: If I promised we could be BFs, would you give me some October Road scoop? I'll bring the muffins!Answer: Even though you left an F out of BFFs, I'm a sucker for muffins and, in fact, almost anything with frosting on it (don't judge me), so I will tell you this: Rod Lurie muse Julie Ann Emery (Line of Fire, Commander in Chief) has been cast in the recurring role of Ray's ex, a bitch and a half who'll trade insults - and blows - with Hannah. You may also remember Emery from The Riches, where she played Hugh's wife, the stripper. Now that that's out of the way, did I mention that I'm partial to sprinkles?
Casting Changes and Season 2 Scoop for October Road
Fans of October Road can look forward to two new additions in Knights Ridge this fall. TVGuide.com recently learned that the ABC drama, about best-selling novelist Nick Garrett who returns home a decade after abandoning his friends and family, has promoted recurring characters Janet (Rebecca Field) and Pizza Girl (Lindy Booth) to series regulars for Season 2.“I love writing for these two,” says executive producer Scott Rosenberg. “They so capture the voice and spirit of the show. The thought of not being able to write for them sickened me so I called the studio and said, ‘I want to make them regulars.’”Field, who plays Hannah’s (Laura Prepon) bartender pal Janet, will be wooed by high-school beefcake Eddie this year. Meanwhile, Booth will lure lovable recluse Physical Phil (Jay Paulson) outside of his house for the first time since 9/11. Fans may recognize Field from her guest-starring stints on ER and Monk, while Booth had recurring roles on The 4...
Weekend Update: The Latest Pickups and Passes
The latest pre-upfronts news:ABCDrama pickups: Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone (both from Everwood's Greg Berlanti); the Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice, the Sex and the City-esque Cashmere Mafia; Pushing Daisies, Women's Murder Club; Big Shots (Dylan McDermott, Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus and Joshua Malina as CEOs/wannabes). Comedies: Cavemen; Sam I Am (Christina Applegate as an amnesiac); Carpoolers. Other notes: October Road and Notes from the Underbelly will return mid-season with 13-episode runs. (Today's News)FOXDrama pick-ups: The Terminator-inspired sci-fi-er The Sarah Connor Chronicles; K-Ville (concerning cops in post-Katrina New Orleans); New Amsterdam (about an immortal homicide detective). Comedies: Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton's Back to You (FKA Action News); Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Return of Jezebel James (starring Parker Posey); The Rules of Starting Over (courtesy of the Farrelly Brothers) (Today's News).NBCDrama pick-up...
Is October Road coming back ...
Question: Is October Road coming back next season?Answer: It's with great sadness and deep regret that I tell you, probably.
October Road Brother: "Fans Could Be Thrown for a Loop"
Despite shaky reviews, ABC's October Road (Thursdays at 10 pm/ET) stepped into a prime-time spot behind Grey's Anatomy and held its own in its first few weeks. But will viewers get attached enough to invite Bryan Greenberg's Nick Garrett and his small-town friends back for more? TVGuide.com spoke to Jonathan Murphy — aka Nick's kid brother, Ronnie — about why he was drawn to the series and how it will survive among peers that are exploding with high ratings. Murphy also gives us the scoop on the coming season of ABC Family's Wildfire. TVGuide.com: So, a pretty good viewer response to October Road
Any good Heroes scoop? The ...
Question: Any good Heroes scoop? The break is killing me.Answer: Yeah, I've got something, but I'm gonna take a page from Ryan Seacrest's bag of tricks and delay the big reveal until the end of the show.
That '70s Girl Grows Up with '07's October Road
Calling all Donna Pinciotti fans! OK, so it's not exactly the same redhead from That '70s Show, but Laura Prepon is back on the small screen with a lighter 'do and a big role — playing Mom on the new ABC drama October Road, which airs a new episode tonight at 10 pm/ET. While she's no Kitty Forman, her 28-year-old character, Hannah, does balance a job, a relationship and parent-teacher meetings. But her biggest struggle is her high-school sweetheart (played by Bryan Greenberg) rolling back into town after a decade's absence and dragging the past along with him. TVGuide.com talked to the fun, enthusiastic Prepon about her "awesome" character, grand gestures and her Jersey upbringing that bri
What do you think of October ...
Question: What do you think of October Road?Answer: It made me want to gouge my eyes out with a metal fork.
I watched the first episode ...
Question: I watched the first episode of October Road and I didn't hate it.Answer: There's a ringing endorsement if ever I heard one.
I didn't hate October Road.
Question: I didn't hate October Road.Answer: It's unanimous: Audiences aren't hating October Road! Sure, they're not loving it, but they're not hating it, either! (Wait till they see Episode 2.) OK, my work is done here for now, so let's cut to the housekeeping notes: Head on over to the Ask Ausiello Discussion Thread to debate the merits of this week's AA, check out the latest installment of my Ausiello Report vodcast, send questions/tips/cash to askausiello@tvguide.com, and keep close tabs on the Ausiello Report throughout the week for breaking tube news, blind items and other stuff. Then come
Ratings: Six Appeal Rouses Winchester Boys
This Thursday's ratings rundown:8 pmOpposite NCCA basketball coverage, Ugly Betty (10.76 mil) dropped 2.4 million total viewers from its last fresh outing to deliver its smallest audience since Nov. 23. Fox's 5th Grader (12.18 mil) won the hour, while Smallville (4.58 mil) slipped 500 thou from its last new episode.9 pmGrey's Anatomy (22.4 million) came out on top with 4.8 mil fewer heads than its boffo Feb. 23 outing, but the key demos race wasn't even close. Scrubs (6.37 mil) was up 470,000 and Andy Barker, P.I. (5.85 mil) debuted to an audience 650K larger than the most recent 30 Rock. The big story, though, is that Supernatural, which only recently hit a season low, came through with its best numbers since Oct. 26: 3.54 mil.10 pmIn the battle of the newbies, ABC's October Road bested NBC's Raines, 14.3 million to 10.3 mil. October Road did three mil better than the latest Men in Trees, while Jeff Goldblum was up just 420,000 from ER.
Will Grey's Pave the Way for October Road?
Bryan Greenberg has nothing to complain about. First, he snuggled up to Hilarie Burton on One Tree Hill, then he was all over Uma Thurman in Prime, and now he's smooching That '70s gal Laura Prepon in the new ABC drama October Road, debuting tonight at 10 pm/ET. Returning to his hometown after 10 years, Greenberg's author Nick Garrett is welcomed back with hesitation by those who feel betrayed by his first novel, and that's where the story really begins: The on-screen romances are just a
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