Jim Parrack is set to guest star on Fox’s new show “Alcatraz,” a J.J. Abrams-produced drama focuses on the mysterious occurrences at the infamous prison almost half a century after the inmates’ disappearances. Jim will play one of the first guards to “return” back to island named Guy Hastings. Check out the promo and a sneak peek (under the cut – beware of ad autoplay) of Jim’s episode that will air Monday, Feb. 6, at 9/8 p.m. C. Read More »
Sam Trammell is lending his acting chops and funny bone to a new orginal mockumentary called Paul The Male Matchmaker that will be exclusively shown on Hulu.
Best-selling author, writer and executive producer Liz Tuccillo (He’s Just Not That Into You, How to Be Single, Sex and the City) and actor/writer Paul Bartholomew (Mad Men; Yes, Dear) have teamed up to create Paul the Male Matchmaker, a new, original series from Warner Bros. Television Group’s digital venture Studio 2.0. The 10-episode no-holds-barred comedy series about a hopeless male matchmaker who has little to no affection for women, yet is determined to help them find a soul mate, debuts Monday, February 13, just in time for Valentine’s Day, exclusively on Hulu.
Starring Bartholomew as Paul, Paul the Male Matchmaker also features an accomplished cast of actors, including Janeane Garofalo (The Larry Sanders Show), Lisa Edelstein (House, The Good Wife), Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Chuck), Sam Trammell (True Blood), David Eigenberg (Sex and the City), Jonathan Silverman (The Single Guy), Nadia Dajani (The Big C), and Darcy Sheen (Van Wilder), among other guest stars. The series also features prominent relationship experts — including The Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger and authors John Gray (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus), Ellen Fein and Sherri Schneider (The Rules), and Mireille Guiliano (French Women Don’t Get Fat) — whom Paul interviews when he feels his business is not thriving as it should.
“Hopefully, everyone will understand our intention,” Tuccillo continued. “By making Paul so mean, and such a buffoon, we’re trying to underline how much single women still have to put up with, even in 2012.”
The trailer for Ryan Kwanten’s new thriller “7500″ has been released. This does look like a good thriller, no? I wonder if it will be the movie I think about every time I board a plane? (Like how I think of “Jaws” every time I step into a big body of water.) What do you think? Will you go see it?
Joe Manganiello & Matt Bomer - Photo by David Giesbrecht/USA Network
Joe Manganiello will be guest appearing in an episode of “White Collar” airing tomorrow night on USA Network at 10:00 p.m. (ET). The show stars his former classmate Matt Bomer.
“The producers brought it up to me, and I said I would love for Joe to do it,” Mr. Bomer said in an interview earlier this month. “We reached out to him, and being an old friend, he was excited to come and he did a great job.”
Mr. Bomer stars on “White Collar” (10 p.m. Tuesday) as Neal Caffrey, a charming con artist who partners with a straightforward FBI agent, Peter Burke (Tim DeKay), to catch criminals. In this week’s episode, Burke’s wife (Tiffani Thiessen) suspects a new neighbor (Mr. Manganiello) is up to no good.
“I have to go undercover and suss out what he’s up to,” Mr. Bomer said, noting he and Mr. Manganiello have stayed in touch since their CMU days. “We were always bumping into each other at things and we’d check in, and this past year has really brought us back together in so many ways.”
The video is by Rob Owen of Joe & Matt’s hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. You can view it here.
Adam Vary & Carrie Preston (PC: Entertainment Weekly)
Carrie Preston was interviewed by Adam Vary about her movie about friendship called “That’s What She Said.” The movie was featured at the Sundance Film Festival last week. She also talks about True Blood and The Good Wife in the second video. (Check out her cute hat in the videos!)
From EW.com:
Most fans of Carrie Preston know her best as the high-strung Arlene on HBO’s True Blood, or her recurring role as the brilliantly ditzy lawyer Elsbeth on CBS’ The Good Wife. But she was at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her work behind the camera, as the director of the distaff sex comedy That’s What She Said. It isn’t her directorial debut — that was the 2005 indie 29th and Gay — but it is her first time at Sundance as a filmmaker. So to commemorate the occasion, we took to the skies, riding a gondola at the Canyons Resort high above Park City, Utah. As I struggled to overcome my fear of heights, Preston gamely talked about her film, her hilariously harrowing trip to the annual Sundance C directors brunch, and what to expect from both True Blood‘s Arlene (more Scott Foley!) and The Good Wife‘s Elsbeth (is Will’s grand jury case over?).
Cinemax has ordered the “True Blood” creator’s latest project, “Banshee,” to series, and tapped a director for the maiden episode.
The series will center on an ex-con who arrives in a tiny town in Pennsylvania Amish country and poses as a murdered sheriff in order to inflict his own twisted form of justice.
Greg Yaitanes, veteran director of “House M.D.,” “Lost” and “Heroes,”‘ will sit behind the camera for the first episode.
Anna Paquin shared the Best Actress prize with Meryl Streep for her work in Margaret at the London Film Critics Awards. The Best Actress tie is a first in the London Critics Awards’ twenty-year history. Also nominated were Tilda Swinton, Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams.
The London Film Critics’ Circle Awards 2012 was held at the BFI Southbank on thursday 19th in London.
Congrats Anna! What a great recognition!
Update: we’ve added the review of Margaret from Peter Travers at Rolling Stone. They gave Margaret 3 1/2 stars and says Anna gives a “stellar performance”. (February 2, 2012 issue)
Jim Parrack is set to guest star on Fox’s new show “Alcatraz,” a J.J. Abrams-produced drama focuses on the mysterious occurrences at the infamous prison almost half a century after the inmates’ disappearances. Jim will play one of the first guards to “return” back to island named Guy Hastings. Check out the promo and a sneak peek (under the cut – beware of ad autoplay) of Jim’s episode that will air Monday, Feb. 6, at 9/8 p.m. C. Read More »
Cinemax has ordered the “True Blood” creator’s latest project, “Banshee,” to series, and tapped a director for the maiden episode.
Anna Paquin shared the Best Actress prize with Meryl Streep for her work in Margaret at the London Film Critics Awards. The Best Actress tie is a first in the London Critics Awards’ twenty-year history. Also nominated were Tilda Swinton, Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams.
