As America celebrates its 200th birthday, two generations of friends and neighbors in a Chicago suburb explore new freedoms and seek connections with each other in the midst of the socio/sexual revolution.
As America celebrates its 200th birthday, two generations of friends and neighbors in a Chicago suburb explore new freedoms and seek connections with each other in the midst of the socio/sexual revolution.
Downton Abbey transformed PBS from a sometimes stodgy channel into a destination network, drawing 5.4 million viewers for its second-season finale (doubling PBS' primetime average). Now, Downton creator Julian Fellowes has signed with NBC to create The Gilded Age, his first series for American broadcast TV. NBC is betting that the drama will attract the same audience for its depiction of New York's moguls of...
Watch your back, Jules! Josh Hopkins, best known for playing the newly engaged Grayson on Cougar Town, will romance Mary on In Plain Sight, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Hopkins, 41, will guest-star in two episodes as Kenny, a fellow single parent who...
"This is not a story of forgiveness." But it is a story of fabulousness. Last night, ABC unleashed its Revenge and this season's dishiest drama is already serving up the hotness. Glamorous, gorgeous and soapy as sin, this thing has all the makings of a must-see escapist thrill. By casting...
Eric Stoltz has been cast as the lead in Lifetime's dramedy pilot Modern Love, Deadline.com reports. The series, from Sex and the City's Jenny Bicks, is based on a series of columns published in The New York Times. Stoltz will star as...
Law & Order's Sam Waterston has joined the cast of Aaron Sorkin's HBO pilot, TVLine.com reports. Olivia Munn, Alison Pill sign on for Aaron Sorkin's HBO pilot The series stars Jeff Daniels as the co-anchor of a cable news show who must deal with a new team after his fellow host jumps ship for another job and takes most of the staff with him. Waterston will play...
Olivia Munn and Alison Pill have joined Aaron Sorkin's HBO pilot about a fictional cable news network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Munn, 30, and Pill, 25, join Jeff Daniels, who will play Will, the co-anchor of a cable news show who must...
Lifetime has ordered the pilot Modern Love, based on a series of columns published in The New York Times. The project centers on newspaper science editor Simon McElvane, who must balance his collapsing marriage while raising an adopted 15-year-old daughter. He's then given the job of editor of the newspaper's "Modern Love" column, giving him the opportunity to learn more about life and love.The show will weave in stories...
Despite the title Miami Medical, creator and executive producer Jeffrey Lieber never had ambitions to create a medical procedural. "We never intended to do a medical show; we never intended to do a show set in Miami," Lieber tells TVGuide.com. "It just sort of happened." Lieber found his inspiration in his wife's near-death experience 10 years ago, when she was admitted to the Cedars-Sinai trauma unit in a coma with a 107 fever. He became interested in the doctors that saved her life.
This Thursday at 10 pm/ET, ABC's Private Practice returns with the penultimate episode of its second season. Will Addison act on her urges with the married Noah? As his wife endures a difficult pregnancy? Josh Hopkins shared a look at the torrid twists ahead. Plus: What does he not miss about his Swingtown days? TVGuide.com: Call me old fashioned, but I'm not really feeling the romance here in the Addison-Noah story. So sell me on it. Should I be rooting for this illicit hook-up?Josh Hopkins: I don't know that you should be rooting for it or not, but it makes for interesting TV. It's just such a real-life situation where someone has the very best intentions, but ...
This week on ABC's Private Practice (Wednesdays at 9 pm/ET), Addison feels the brotherly love when Grant Show begins a stint as her studly sib. In this TVGuide.com Q&A, Show previews Archer Montgomery's first Oceanside Wellness hook-up, ponders why Swingtown couldn't keep it up, and reveals whether Jake Hanson might turn up on the CW's "new" Melrose Place. TVGuide.com: What brings about this surprise visit from Archer?Grant Show: I come into town because I miss Addison. When she was living in New York we were real tight, so I try to get her to come back to New York with me. In the meantime, I start a little somethin'-somethin' with Naomi — just to piss off my sister, I think! [Laughs] TVGuide.com: What is the dynamic between Addison and Archer?Show: I don't know if you've ever hung out with rich siblings, but they have very strange relationships. Almost incestuous ...
Swingtown has a new town network to call home — sort of.Bravo has secured cable syndication rights to the critically acclaimed 13-episode drama. The CBS series, which chronicles partner-swapping couples in the sexually liberated 1970s, aired to modest ratings over the summer. The Eye has remained mum over the show's future, but the future's not looking bright as the deal is a "straight acquisition," a source tells THR, meaning Bravo, or any network, will not produce new eps.Bravo will begin airing Swingtown in the fall, along with Law & Order: Criminal Intent and The West Wing. — Joyce Eng
Senior editors Matt Mitovich and Mickey OConnor answer your questionsTell me that Hart Hanson is not seriously thinking of having Booths brother Jared and Bones get into a relationship with each other SharonMatt Relationship can be such a nasty word Brennan most certainly will be attracted to the upstanding Navy officer I am assured and he to her But really how en fuego can these two get in just the two episodes Brendan Fehr is signed on for I need at least four outings to get my own mojo workingNow that we know the paper NCIS Vance shredded is important Im curious does its significance relate to the content of the document actually shredded on screen it can be read in large part if you pause on it on HD or will it relate to something different MicheleMatt In this video from TV Guides after-Emmys party Rocky Carroll confirms that the doc contained top-secret information that could be incriminating for Vance He decided that if hes going to
Every Wednesday, senior editors Matt Webb Mitovich and Mickey O'Connor answer your questions!In what capacity we will be seeing Desmond and his constant, Penny, next season on Lost? Any word on that? – MajaMatt: Maja, this is an excellent question. I even rewatched the season finale to confirm my own POV: "Why would we ever see Dez again?" I mean, he and Penny reconnected just before sendind the Oceanic Six on their (actually not-so-)merry way. However... I have it on good authority that Henry Ian Cusick is still a part of the cast, and that Sonya Walger is likely to resurface as well. As one setsider reminds me, "Just like when people die on Lost and you see them again, just because everyone reunited doesn’t mean you've seen the last of them."I was wondering what fans of CSI could look forward to for some of the other characters? There's been a lot of talk about Grissom and Sara but nothing about, say, Catherine or Nick. – JocelynMatt: The good news, if you did not g...
Grant Show — presumably minus the '70s 'stache — will be paying a visit to ABC's Private Practice early in the new season, playing a "charming and flirtatious" doctor with ties to one of the Oceanside Wellness regulars. Show is booked for just one episode, says EW's Ausiello, and the implications of his extracurricular work as they relate to Swingtown are unclear. Show's CBS series has been struggling to gain a foothold in the ratings, yet certainly has not been lacking for buzz or headlines. — Matt MitovichRelated:• Exclusive: Private Practice Landos Billy Dee Williams • VIDEO: Does Private Practice's Naomi Have Designs on Del?
Molly Parker likes playing pioneering women. On the mean streets of Deadwood (circa 1876), she was headstrong Alma Garret, and now on Swingtown (circa 1976), she's open-minded suburbanite Susan Miller. Parker talked with us about the buzz surrounding her new series — and no, it wasn't generated by that wacky '70s weed. (Swingtown airs Thursdays at 10 pm/ET, CBS.) TV Guide: Swingtown is creating a stir.Molly Parker: It's interesting. Clearly the show doesn't shy away from sexual subject matter. But it's not a show about sex, it's a show about the inside of these marriages. TV Guide: Any '70s memories? Parker: My memories are those of a child. I grew up in Canada on a farm. I remember the music, the clothes... it was a much freer time. I have no memory of swin
Looks like CBS is pulling a switcheroo with two of their freshman series. Starting July 24, the risk-taking cops of Flashpoint will be finding a new home in CBS' 10 pm/ET Thursday slot (putting '70s series Swingtown in its former Friday at 10 pm/ET time period). The journey through the lives of the specialized police unit in Flashpoint won its time period in all key measures in both of its Friday broadcasts averaging about 7.6 million viewers. — Gina DiNunno
Viewers were definitely not afraid to see the doctor. Thursday's premiere of Hopkins on ABC registered 5.8 million viewers for the net, and built upon on its lead-in by 2.4 million sets of eyeballs. Good enough to win its 10 pm/ET time slot.TVNewser.com reports Hopkins, a six-week series examining life inside Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital, eeked out the win over CBS's Swingtown by just 100,000 viewers.For ABC, it was the best summertime, non-sports, 10 pm perfomance in two years. — J.R. Whalen
All the sex, that is? Clad in my '70s-feel Adidas track jacket and ringer tee, I asked Grant Show and Molly Parker about their saucy new series, and whether the rumor is true that CBS is toning down Swingtown's tawdrier content. Grab a friend (...or two) and enjoy the video!
The latest show added to the CBS roster isn't what you expect. No cops, judges or even lawyers are the focal point of this one. Instead, Swingtown, takes you back to the self-indulgent era of the '70s when Quaaludes and trading spouses with your neighbors was in style. And the best part is Grant Show plays his famed manwhore role just like back in the good ole days of Melrose Place (except with a serious stache goin' on).Watch it now! | More online videos
Grant Show, along with castmates Jack Davenport, Miriam Shor, Molly Parker and Josh Hopkins, partied like it was 1976 Tuesday night at the CBS Lot in Studio City. The "Swingtown Block Party" served up plenty of disco, cheese fondue and high-cholesterol foods like doughnuts and french fries.The ex-Melrose Place hunk is eager for his CBS series to premiere, so he can finally tell people why he's grown a 'stache worthy of Burt Reynolds. "I can't wait for this to come out so people know why I have this thing on my face!" he laughs. "It's kinda not cool in this era." On the series, Show plays an airline pilot who's one half of the swingingest couple among a set of sexy Chicago-suburb swingers.Show is digging the vintage duds, but says, "I've spent more time in [this] wardrobe than the rest of my career, put together! At the end of the day, that stuff is like taking off ski boots. It's so friggin' tight. And back then, people were smaller, so it fits me in the waist, but it doesn't fit me...
Question: Any idea when/if CBS' Swingtown will be seeing the light of day? Answer: Good news: I'm hearing that the show, which only produced two pre-strike episodes and was in danger of being shut down permanently, has been given the unofficial green light to complete its order once the strike is settled.
When the promos for CBS’ new fall reality show Kid Nation come on, you can’t look away. Forty kids. No adult supervision. Watch how they build their own civilization in a ghost town in New Mexico. You immediately want to know: Which one is going to be Piggy from Lord of the Flies? But when pressed by reporters at the Television Critics Association — stirred by a report in Television Week that the kids were performing on camera for 14 hours a day, making their own meals and missing school days — the show’s executive producer Tom Forman was forced to repeat a far less provocative message: “I don’t know that it's different than what goes on at an Eagle Scout camp,” he said. As reporter questions chipped away at the show’s artifice, Forman noted that there was a large “adult safety net” on the set... er, in the town, which included a pediatrician, a child psychologist and even an animal wrangler.But doesn’t calming everybody do...
It isn't enough for CBS to be the most-watched network. At the presentation of its new fall schedule, network execs announced they want their shows to be talked about, too.It's a new version of an old tune. For years, CBS has had the largest number of viewers, but many of them were old and not as desirable to advertisers. Recently, the network has gotten much more competitive for the 18-to-49-year-old crowd that Madison Avenue pays most for. Yet shows such as ABC's Ugly Betty get a lot more ink and watercooler chatter than the higher-rated Two and a Half Men or Survivor (CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler drove the point home to the audience at Carnegie Hall by citing how Betty's ratings have dropped 40 percent since its premiere).With a solid foundation of dependable hits, Tassler says this is the year she can afford to take a few programming risks to improve her share of buzz. Even if CBS' new shows fail, its regular program lineup will deliver ratings close to what it did t...