Even though the seemingly endless casting announcements with regards to original series stars has us a little concerned about the CW’s last great hope 90210 re-boot. This TV Addict isn’t ashamed to admit that these just released photos of future love triangle Annie/Ethan/Naomi [see above] and Brandon/Brenda re-incarnate Annie and Dixon [after the jump] already have me humming in my head, dadada-dadada-fist pump-fist pump-luke perry eyebrow.
Archives for July 2008
10 Reasons The TV Addict Loved THE BIG BANG THEORY Panel at Comic Con
1. With the exception of the adorable Kaley Cuoco, the men of THE BIG BANG THEORY are actually kind of nerdy: Kunal Nayyar [Rajnesh] grew up in India playing amateur Badminton. Which it turns out isn’t nearly as cool in America. Simon Helberg’s [Wolowitz] response to what geeky about your real life was, “you can’t tell by looking at me!” Jim Parson [Sheldon] thinks the timber of his voice is a bit geeky, but he’s okay with it since it got him the job. Johnny Galecki grew up doing theatre which sounds cool on the West coast, but apparently just got him beat up in Chicago! While Co-creator Bill Prady revealed that he was 24 before he ever asked a woman out. ‘Nuff said!
2. Free Dating Advice: Bill Prady enlightened the audience on Wolowitz’s rules for dating. Proposition every woman, have no standards. Good to know.
3. Season Two Scoop: Co-Creator Chuck Lorre revealed that since THE BIG BANG THEORY is a comedy, odds are good that the Leonard/Penny relationship that was set up in the first season finale isn’t going to go well. Translation: Prepare for seven plus years of Ross and Rachel Part II.
Comic Con 2008 Video: KINGS
Had I known the showrunner of NBC’s mid-season drama KINGS was Michael Green, whose credits include such TV Addict favorites as JACK & BOBBY, EVERWOOD and HEROES, I probably would have made the effort to check out the KINGS Panel yesterday morning. So special thanks to NBC for getting all web savvy and posting the entire Greg Grunberg [HEROES] hosted panel online. So enjoy!
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Comic Con Live Blog: DEXTER
5:54PM: This afternoon’s DEXTER panel is hosted by the show’s number one fan, E! Online’s Kristin, who swears her love of the show is genuine and that she’s not on Showtime’s payroll. The panel starts off with a chilling trailer for season three, which you can check out by clicking here and with Michael C. Hall discussing our new Assistant District Attorney, and possible future victim of Dexter’s, Miguel Prado. Played by Jimmy Smitts, Prado is a man“committed to family values, committed to cleaning up the streets.” And more importanatly, may be Dexter’s first real ‘friend.’
6:01PM: Executive Producers Melissa Rosenberg and Clyde Phillips reveal that season three will focus on Dexter taking “Harry’s Code” and turning it into his own. Rosenberg and Phillips also reveal that Lundy won’t be back and Deb will be back on the market.
6:03PM: Apparently Deb will have a normal relationship but not with whom you expect. Translation, this TV Addict’s going to go out on a limb and guess that Deb will be switching teams this season. I mean can you blame her. The second to last guy she dated tried to kill her!
6:05PM: Ex-BUFFY/ANGEL star Julie Benz would love to work on Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE. Shocker! Julie asks us to start an internet rumor. Which on a totally unrelated note reminds me…. anyone else hearing that Julie Benz has been offered a guest spot on Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE?
Comic Con Live Blog: TRUE BLOOD
4:26PM: T-Minus four, wait, now three minutes until HBO’s TRUE BLOOD panel. Or as I like to call it, the only way to guarantee our seats for the DEXTER panel that follows immediately thereafter.
4:32PM: Since theTVaddict.com doesn’t endorse illegal downloading, I finally got a first look at TRUE BLOOD courtesy of a trailer HBO produced exclusively for Comic Con. It’s pretty much X-MEN, but with really sexy Vampires. Oh, and fellow Canadian Anna Paquin.
4:44PM:Creator Alan Ball [SIX FEET UNDER] promises to avoid the big three Vampire clichés: Blue light, Contact lenses and Opera music. Which is all well and good, but if you ask me, the big thing Ball should concentrate on avoiding is cancellation! Moment of silence for MOONLIGHT…
4:49PM: Because Anna Paquin’s protagonist Sookie Stackhouse is telepathic, she has remained a virgin. Take that ABC Family’s SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER.
Now & Then: The Dynasty Factor
By: Couch Tater
When ABC’s DIRTY SEXY MONEY debuted last season, nobody wanted to love it more than I did. After all, some of my favorite shows of the past few decades have been the grand, glorious primetime sudsers of yore: DYNASTY, DALLAS and of course, my all-time favorite, KNOTS LANDING. The kind of wonderful, layered after-dark soaps we just don’t get any more.
To say MONEY was a disappointment would be akin to saying John McCain is middle-aged.
Now comes word that ABC is basically re-inventing MONEY, so with that in mind, I’d ask the new execs (as well as anyone in the industry looking to reinvigorate the practically dead genre of primetime soaps) to do what I did today: Go back and watch the first episode of DYNASTY.
Because it’s all right there.
Comic Con 2008: Let the Madness Begin!
Following two days of white water rafting, sleeping under the stars, and communing with the outdoors, this TV Addict is now officially rejuvenated and more importantly, both mentally and physically ready to tackle a challenge of an entirely different nature.
Yup, it’s that time again. Those magical four days in July when the city of San Diego is overrun by Trekkies and Hobbits and Cylons [Oh My!]. It’s the 2008 San Diego Comic Con and your very own TV Addict can’t wait for the madness to begin.
Stay Tuned.
The TV Addict Goes on Hiatus
The TV Addict overlooking Sequoia National Park
Are you ready to find an ulterior method of procrastination during your work/school day? Because theTVaddict.com is going on hiatus.
After two and half years of virtually daily postings [with the exception of weekends and that dark period following EVERWOOD’s cancellation] this TV Addict has finally decided to take some of his mother’s childhood advice to heart, shut off that damn “idiot box” and head outside.
For the next two days I’ll be hurtling down Sequoia National Park’s Kern River on a White Water Rafting Adventure. The great outdoors, here’s hoping they live up to the hype!
First Look: CAPRICA Teaser
Direct from the 2008 Television Critics Press Tour, theTVaddict.com is thrilled to offer up a first look at the the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA prequel CAPRICA.
Related Links:
TCA 2008: CAPRICA Panel
TheTVaddict.com Has the Scoop on the CAPRICA Script