Archives for October 2010
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Questions with SMALLVILLE Star Keri Lynn Pratt
As regular readers of theTVaddict.com know all too well, there are two topics we never tire of talking about: The CW’s unceremonious cancellation of EVERWOOD (Yup, still bitter) and the demise of JACK & BOBBY (Ditto!). So when our good friends at the Network offered up the opportunity to interview Keri Lynn Pratt (RIP Missy Belknap), who will be dropping by tonight’s SMALLVILLE in the first of two planned guest appearances as Clark’s new partner Cat Grant, we jumped at the chance. Here’s what she had to say about what it’s like being one of Hollywood’s busiest actresses, her latest role on SMALLVILLE and the most unexpected FAMILY GUY guest appearance ever.
Between JACK & BOBBY, BROTHERS & SISTERS and VERONICA MARS you’ve guest starred in more of our favorite shows that we can count. What’s it like being a serial guest star in Hollywood and is it a challenge continuously having to jump from set to set?
Keri Lynn Pratt: [Laughs] I think there was a year that I did 11 guest starring roles. And you know, sometimes it’s hard and sometimes it’s not. Really, it’s like being a kid that moves around a lot, you kind of learn how to adapt quickly and nine out of ten times everyone’s really welcoming and great. SMALLVILLE was quite an exception. They were all just so welcoming and great to work with and it probably was one of my best experiences as an actor.
Blogger Beat Down: AOL TV says LONE STAR’s demise a “symptom of everything that has gone wrong at the broadcast networks”
The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… AOLTV’s Mo Ryan, who in a post earlier in the week asserted that FOX’s swift cancellation of LONE STAR is a “symptom of everything that has gone wrong at the broadcast networks.”
Our Take: As much as it pains us to say this to the usually spot-on Mo Ryan fresh off her recent inclusion to the Peabody Awards Board (Seriously folks, if you’re not familiar with her work, she’s kind of a big deal), blaming the “broadcast networks” for the cancellation of LONE STAR is the TV critic equivalent of spinning-off LAW & ORDER yet again (Read: the easy way out!) If anything, FOX’s attempt to think differently by offering up a procedural-free hour-long drama starring a morally dubious protagonist should be applauded. It was a risky gamble that failed to pay off, big time.
TV Ratings: Thursday September 30, 2010 (Nobody is talking ’bout MY GENERATION)
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
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8PM | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 13.32 | 3.0/8 |
FOX | Bones | 9.56 | 2.5/8 | |
NBC | Community | 4.51 | 1.9/6 | |
ABC | My Generation | 3.94 | 1.1/3 | |
CW | The Vampire Diaries | 3.19 | 1.5/5 | |
8:30PM | CBS | $#*! My Dad Says | 10.44 | 3.2/10 |
NBC | 30 Rock | 5.69 | 2.6/8 | |
9PM | CBS | CSI | 13.32 | 3.0/8 |
ABC | Grey’s Anatomy | 12.23 | 4.4/12 | |
NBC | The Office | 7.30 | 3.7/10 | |
FOX | Fringe | 5.44 | 1.9/5 | |
CW | Nikita | 2.74 | 1.0/3 | |
9:30PM | NBC | Outsourced | 5.80 | 2.8/7 |
10PM | CBS | The Mentalist | 14.55 | 3.0/9 |
ABC | Private Practice | 8.03 | 2.9/8 | |
NBC | The Apprentice | 3.69 | 1.4/4 |
COMMUNITY + Chloroform = Our LOL Moment of the Week™
Post Your Favorite TV Quotes of the Week
It’s Friday and if you’re a frequent visitor to theTVaddict.com — you know what that means! Time to post your FAVORITE TV QUOTES OF THE WEEK! New to theTVaddict.com? No idea what I’m talking about? Simply post your favorite quotes of the week in the comments below and check back Sunday to see the winners. Odds are they’ll look something like this.
Must Read TV: FRINGE, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, GLEE & More!
• LONE STAR loves you, even from the grave.
• Groan! CW plans a new reality show combining elements of BIG BROTHER, THE AMAZING RACE and the now-defunct Fox Reality Channel series SOLITARY.
• GLEEK OUT! Ryan Murphy dishes on GLEE’s Biggest Guest Star Ever—and the Answer on Kurt’s Boyfriend!
• From the department of it’s never too late to jump on the FRINGE bandwagon, these are the episodes you need to watch.
• It’s always sunny in San Diego, which is probably why Comic-Con International has just announced plans to remain at the San Diego Convention Center through 2015.
• Probably not the mother, Kyle MacLachlan to guest on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.