Ray in New York: Rumor has it that the most beautiful woman in the world, Aishwarya Rai, is doing an eight-episode stint on Heroes next season. I'll believe it when I hear it from you.
Don't believe it. According to studio sources, it's just not true.
Source : Kristin
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Monday, 25 June 2007
Desperate Housewives: Eddie is not dead
Question: I was in stunned silence after the finale of Desperate Housewives! Are they really killing off Edie?— Heather
Ausiello: (Spoiler alert) Nicollette Sheridan is not leaving Desperate Housewives.
Source: TVGUIDE
Ausiello: (Spoiler alert) Nicollette Sheridan is not leaving Desperate Housewives.
Source: TVGUIDE
Prison Break: Westmoreland's money...
We were all curious as to what happens to Westmoreland's money which Bill Kim kicked into the water calling it "Pocket Change". It is yet unknown as to what happens to the money, but it will be brought up briefly in the first episode (Orientaction) of Season 3...
Source: The Man
Source: The Man
Prison Break: T-bag Gets MEANER...
A new interview of Robert Knepper (TBAG)...
Robert Knepper is a very happy man. After years as a struggling actor, the 47-year-old has finally found fame and fortune playing one of the best bad guys on television, Prison Break’s T-Bag, aka Teddy Bagwell, who will kill in the blink of an eye.
“There’s that old saying, you can never have a good show without a good villain, but I always say it’s just down to good old-fashioned storytelling,” Knepper says at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
“You can’t have a good hero unless every step of the way somebody’s in his way and especially for the first season T-Bag was always in Michael’s way.”
Although the seemingly indestructible psychopath has earned the scorn of series hero Michael Schofield (Wentworth Miller), T-Bag, unlike other mean-minded escapees who met their deaths on the run this season, seems here to stay.
Knepper is about to shoot the third series and says his snarling, lip-licking rapist and murderer is about to become even meaner, given his disappointment at being unable to have the family he so desired. At one point Knepper thought T-Bag’s tears may have engendered audience sympathy, but then he killed his psychiatrist.
“I call the writers and asked, ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ They said, ‘You thought you saw Teddy being a madman before, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet’.”
It now seems likely that in season three the former inmates may hook up in a prison far bleaker than Fox River, for a story of pure survival. But nobody really knows, says the actor, who has signed up for seven seasons but who could also be killed off at any time.
“The writers have their jobs cut out for them to make third season interesting,” he says.
Today the affable, talkative, decidedly handsome Knepper hardly resembles his television character. In fact, in his early years he had been a minor member of the Brat Pack of Hollywood good-lookers and worked on late 80s movies such as Wild Thing, Made in Heaven, D.O.A. and Young Guns II.
“People want to typecast you right away. Initially when I went to Hollywood I got to play the pretty boy when I wanted to play the hero, the smart guy. Then people said I reminded them of Jimmy Woods and I thought ‘err, ugly pockmarked face and all this stuff’ but they were talking about his acting. I didn’t want to play that edgy guy. So for years I would turn down a lot of parts.”
Just before Prison Break came along Knepper was considering becoming a park ranger, to support his wife and young son.
“I was doing these great projects like Carnivale on HBO and (George) Clooney’s film Good Night, and Good Luck, but they weren’t paying a lot of money and I was broke. For the first time in 25 years I thought I might have to get another job.”
Understandably, he was keen to be cast in Prison Break. Knepper was able to bring years of acting experience to T-Bag, who initially was conceived as big and monstrous, rather than the small and snarling killer Knepper has created. The licking of his lips has become his signature.
“When I first read the script, I thought that they’re never going to cast me because I don’t have tattoos and I was afraid I didn’t look tough enough. So I grew a goatee and I kept playing with it because I’m not gay, and I was trying to find ways to play him (T-Bag had his way with pretty young men in the prison). So I would look at them like a piece of steak and that would make my mouth water and that’s when my tongue started twirling over the lip. So now they write ‘T-Bag does that thing with his tongue’ — it’s official.”
These days Prison Break’s surprise scene-stealer cannot walk the streets without receiving strange looks. But Knepper wouldn’t have it any other way.
“It’s amazing, even little kids come up to me and go, ‘I love T-Bag!’
“‘You love T-Bag? What’s wrong with you? Where were your parents?’ ”
Why do kids like it so much?
“It’s escapist entertainment with people on the run, moving fast. You’re trying to follow this hero and you know he’s always going to be in trouble. It’s like a bad dream, it’s like, please let me out of the bad dream, but don’t really because I want to watch next week.
“It digs down deep and has a lot of archetypical characters. In history there are only a few stories you can tell and it’s just another version of good versus evil and redemption. You know what’s going to happen; it’s how you get there that keeps you watching.”
Having just completed the action movie Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) and Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives, Mission Impossible II), Knepper admits he is on a roll. “Now I don’t care if it’s the good guy or the bad guy, I just don’t want to play the third guy on the left.”
Source: The West Australian
Robert Knepper is a very happy man. After years as a struggling actor, the 47-year-old has finally found fame and fortune playing one of the best bad guys on television, Prison Break’s T-Bag, aka Teddy Bagwell, who will kill in the blink of an eye.
“There’s that old saying, you can never have a good show without a good villain, but I always say it’s just down to good old-fashioned storytelling,” Knepper says at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
“You can’t have a good hero unless every step of the way somebody’s in his way and especially for the first season T-Bag was always in Michael’s way.”
Although the seemingly indestructible psychopath has earned the scorn of series hero Michael Schofield (Wentworth Miller), T-Bag, unlike other mean-minded escapees who met their deaths on the run this season, seems here to stay.
Knepper is about to shoot the third series and says his snarling, lip-licking rapist and murderer is about to become even meaner, given his disappointment at being unable to have the family he so desired. At one point Knepper thought T-Bag’s tears may have engendered audience sympathy, but then he killed his psychiatrist.
“I call the writers and asked, ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ They said, ‘You thought you saw Teddy being a madman before, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet’.”
It now seems likely that in season three the former inmates may hook up in a prison far bleaker than Fox River, for a story of pure survival. But nobody really knows, says the actor, who has signed up for seven seasons but who could also be killed off at any time.
“The writers have their jobs cut out for them to make third season interesting,” he says.
Today the affable, talkative, decidedly handsome Knepper hardly resembles his television character. In fact, in his early years he had been a minor member of the Brat Pack of Hollywood good-lookers and worked on late 80s movies such as Wild Thing, Made in Heaven, D.O.A. and Young Guns II.
“People want to typecast you right away. Initially when I went to Hollywood I got to play the pretty boy when I wanted to play the hero, the smart guy. Then people said I reminded them of Jimmy Woods and I thought ‘err, ugly pockmarked face and all this stuff’ but they were talking about his acting. I didn’t want to play that edgy guy. So for years I would turn down a lot of parts.”
Just before Prison Break came along Knepper was considering becoming a park ranger, to support his wife and young son.
“I was doing these great projects like Carnivale on HBO and (George) Clooney’s film Good Night, and Good Luck, but they weren’t paying a lot of money and I was broke. For the first time in 25 years I thought I might have to get another job.”
Understandably, he was keen to be cast in Prison Break. Knepper was able to bring years of acting experience to T-Bag, who initially was conceived as big and monstrous, rather than the small and snarling killer Knepper has created. The licking of his lips has become his signature.
“When I first read the script, I thought that they’re never going to cast me because I don’t have tattoos and I was afraid I didn’t look tough enough. So I grew a goatee and I kept playing with it because I’m not gay, and I was trying to find ways to play him (T-Bag had his way with pretty young men in the prison). So I would look at them like a piece of steak and that would make my mouth water and that’s when my tongue started twirling over the lip. So now they write ‘T-Bag does that thing with his tongue’ — it’s official.”
These days Prison Break’s surprise scene-stealer cannot walk the streets without receiving strange looks. But Knepper wouldn’t have it any other way.
“It’s amazing, even little kids come up to me and go, ‘I love T-Bag!’
“‘You love T-Bag? What’s wrong with you? Where were your parents?’ ”
Why do kids like it so much?
“It’s escapist entertainment with people on the run, moving fast. You’re trying to follow this hero and you know he’s always going to be in trouble. It’s like a bad dream, it’s like, please let me out of the bad dream, but don’t really because I want to watch next week.
“It digs down deep and has a lot of archetypical characters. In history there are only a few stories you can tell and it’s just another version of good versus evil and redemption. You know what’s going to happen; it’s how you get there that keeps you watching.”
Having just completed the action movie Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) and Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives, Mission Impossible II), Knepper admits he is on a roll. “Now I don’t care if it’s the good guy or the bad guy, I just don’t want to play the third guy on the left.”
Source: The West Australian
Heroes: Tim Kring Interview...
Tim Kring attended a Press conference to promote Season 1 DVD and took time to answer questions about Heroes Season 2 and also that Season 2 will have 3 volumes...
Full Interview:
Did you find you had more money going into the second season?
Tim Kring: One would think that... there is a natural bump in every budget, every year because of contracts and cost of living and all that stuff. We've been held to the standards... the good news about a second season is that you learn a tremendous amount. You learn how to get more efficient. You move faster. For us, the number of days of shooting has always been our day to push it. That usually centers around how many pages we can print. On a show like Heroes you have to remember the visual look of the show in every scene, or every other scene, there's usually an angle or shot that you don't usually see on television.
Are you doing anything to make sure that fans that didn't watch last season can get caught up?
Tim Kring: That's a big part of what we're doing. One of the things that I learned in the first season was we called Season 1, Volume 1. It was entitled "Genesis." It just happened to be 23 episodes long. Volume 2 is entitled "Generations" and it by no means has to be a whole season long. In fact, we're looking at Volume 2 to end in the middle of the season. Which allows us to wrap up certain stories, which allows us to have new stories begin so you don't get a sense that if you jump on the train, you're aggressively being pushed off the train because you don't know what's going on.
Will the Second Season be two big arcs or do you not know yet?
Tim Kring: It's designed to be three.
How far along would you say Heroes is with its story arcs?
Tim Kring: We're taking it, obviously, one season at a time. I have, sort of, some big ideas of the tent-pole ideas you'll be seeing, but this season, we started with we knew where we were going in terms of the themes and ideas behind it; but it's 10 writers in a room for 10,000 hours talking to each other.
Have you thought of any other historical periods you'd like to visit?
Tim Kring: Not as of now, no.
You said the Second Season will begin 4 months later does that mean that Hiro (Masi Oka) will be in feudal Japan for 4 months?
Tim Kring: No, Hiro's story is the only one that picks up exactly, immediately. He's existing in a time frame outside the rest of our cast.
Will Kaito Nakamura (George Takei) be back next season?
Tim Kring: Yes, George Takei is in the first episode.
Expanding on the "Generations" title, will we see more about the Petrelli's Mom (Cristine Rose) and George Takei's character?
Tim Kring: The idea of "Generations" is that last year we set up this sort of sense that there was this other generation. Represented by the Linderman (Malcolm McDowell) character and the Petrelli's mom... all of these characters set off this idea that there was another generation that had secrets of their own. This Season, one of the themes we're gonna talk about is the sins of parents being visited upon the children.
Where is Ando (James Kyson Lee) right now?
Tim Kring: Ando is pining away for his time to return.
Is there any chance of getting a big star to play one of the Heroes?
Tim Kring: That's one of the interesting things about the idea of being an anthology, people don't have to commit to an entire series. Some of the hopes of that is to entice actors, writers or directors that might not normally be attracted to the workload of a series.
You brought a lot of the ensemble together at the end of Season One, do you foresee splitting them up again?
Tim Kring: Yes, we start with them apart again. That's always been the fun, I felt about the show, the guessing and the predicting and the discussions about how these characters find their way back to each other's lives. I think that's a big chunk of what this show's success is.
Will we see characters like Claire's Mom (Ashley Crow) come back again?
Tim Kring: Yes. Absolutely. The smaller characters you saw along the way can have a greater significance in the second season.
If the Second Season has three Volumes will you be doing three finales for each?
Tim Kring: The idea is actually to do small finales. So you don't have to carry the burden of having every single character come together to do this great ending. It will build to certain mysteries that seem like they're solved and other ones will sort of straggle along. As with many volumes of books and comic books.
Did doing commentary tracks for the DVDs cause you to have any insights about the episodes that you didn't already have?
Tim Kring: I personally only did one commentary.
Did that give you any more perspective?
Tim Kring: Yes, because it was a commentary of the original pilot. I have to tell you, I was really struck by, I was very please by watching it again after as many months. I really thought that we held very closely and very purely to the original look and feel and tone of the show. I was actually pretty amazed by it. I was also struck by how far characters had come, yet, you could see the kernel of all of them in the pilot.
Source: Movie Web
Full Interview:
Did you find you had more money going into the second season?
Tim Kring: One would think that... there is a natural bump in every budget, every year because of contracts and cost of living and all that stuff. We've been held to the standards... the good news about a second season is that you learn a tremendous amount. You learn how to get more efficient. You move faster. For us, the number of days of shooting has always been our day to push it. That usually centers around how many pages we can print. On a show like Heroes you have to remember the visual look of the show in every scene, or every other scene, there's usually an angle or shot that you don't usually see on television.
Are you doing anything to make sure that fans that didn't watch last season can get caught up?
Tim Kring: That's a big part of what we're doing. One of the things that I learned in the first season was we called Season 1, Volume 1. It was entitled "Genesis." It just happened to be 23 episodes long. Volume 2 is entitled "Generations" and it by no means has to be a whole season long. In fact, we're looking at Volume 2 to end in the middle of the season. Which allows us to wrap up certain stories, which allows us to have new stories begin so you don't get a sense that if you jump on the train, you're aggressively being pushed off the train because you don't know what's going on.
Will the Second Season be two big arcs or do you not know yet?
Tim Kring: It's designed to be three.
How far along would you say Heroes is with its story arcs?
Tim Kring: We're taking it, obviously, one season at a time. I have, sort of, some big ideas of the tent-pole ideas you'll be seeing, but this season, we started with we knew where we were going in terms of the themes and ideas behind it; but it's 10 writers in a room for 10,000 hours talking to each other.
Have you thought of any other historical periods you'd like to visit?
Tim Kring: Not as of now, no.
You said the Second Season will begin 4 months later does that mean that Hiro (Masi Oka) will be in feudal Japan for 4 months?
Tim Kring: No, Hiro's story is the only one that picks up exactly, immediately. He's existing in a time frame outside the rest of our cast.
Will Kaito Nakamura (George Takei) be back next season?
Tim Kring: Yes, George Takei is in the first episode.
Expanding on the "Generations" title, will we see more about the Petrelli's Mom (Cristine Rose) and George Takei's character?
Tim Kring: The idea of "Generations" is that last year we set up this sort of sense that there was this other generation. Represented by the Linderman (Malcolm McDowell) character and the Petrelli's mom... all of these characters set off this idea that there was another generation that had secrets of their own. This Season, one of the themes we're gonna talk about is the sins of parents being visited upon the children.
Where is Ando (James Kyson Lee) right now?
Tim Kring: Ando is pining away for his time to return.
Is there any chance of getting a big star to play one of the Heroes?
Tim Kring: That's one of the interesting things about the idea of being an anthology, people don't have to commit to an entire series. Some of the hopes of that is to entice actors, writers or directors that might not normally be attracted to the workload of a series.
You brought a lot of the ensemble together at the end of Season One, do you foresee splitting them up again?
Tim Kring: Yes, we start with them apart again. That's always been the fun, I felt about the show, the guessing and the predicting and the discussions about how these characters find their way back to each other's lives. I think that's a big chunk of what this show's success is.
Will we see characters like Claire's Mom (Ashley Crow) come back again?
Tim Kring: Yes. Absolutely. The smaller characters you saw along the way can have a greater significance in the second season.
If the Second Season has three Volumes will you be doing three finales for each?
Tim Kring: The idea is actually to do small finales. So you don't have to carry the burden of having every single character come together to do this great ending. It will build to certain mysteries that seem like they're solved and other ones will sort of straggle along. As with many volumes of books and comic books.
Did doing commentary tracks for the DVDs cause you to have any insights about the episodes that you didn't already have?
Tim Kring: I personally only did one commentary.
Did that give you any more perspective?
Tim Kring: Yes, because it was a commentary of the original pilot. I have to tell you, I was really struck by, I was very please by watching it again after as many months. I really thought that we held very closely and very purely to the original look and feel and tone of the show. I was actually pretty amazed by it. I was also struck by how far characters had come, yet, you could see the kernel of all of them in the pilot.
Source: Movie Web
Heroes: Cast in Season 2...
The press conference that took place on the 21st June 2007 confirmed the addition of the following new cast members for Heroes Season 2.
David Anders: ‘Kensei’ (1,000 years old warrior)
Nicholas D’Agosto: ‘West’ (Claire’s boyfriend)
Dania Ramirez: ‘Maya’
Barry Shabaka Henley: ‘NYPD Det. Fuller’
Holt McCallany: ‘Ricky’ (a mobster of Irish origins)
Lyndsy Fonseca: ‘April’ (a ’sweet’ Californian cheerleader)
Dianna Agron: ‘Debbie’ (a ‘mean’ Californian cheerleader)
As well, it is rumored that Claire will be moving to Southern California (which is probably where she'll be meeting up with April and Debbie.
David Anders: ‘Kensei’ (1,000 years old warrior)
Eriko Tamura: ‘Japanese princess’
Nicholas D’Agosto: ‘West’ (Claire’s boyfriend)
Dania Ramirez: ‘Maya’
Barry Shabaka Henley: ‘NYPD Det. Fuller’
Holt McCallany: ‘Ricky’ (a mobster of Irish origins)
Lyndsy Fonseca: ‘April’ (a ’sweet’ Californian cheerleader)
Dianna Agron: ‘Debbie’ (a ‘mean’ Californian cheerleader)
As well, it is rumored that Claire will be moving to Southern California (which is probably where she'll be meeting up with April and Debbie.
Grey's Anatomy: Sara Remirez Returns for Next Season...
Many were hoping and wanting Sara Remirez to leave this season so that Izzie could have her shot at George, I am sorry to say that she is coming back for the next season...
Grey's Anatomy: "T.R. Knight should have been fired instead" says Isaiah Washington
Apparently Isaiah Washington doesn’t know when it’s better to keep his mouth shut. His contract wasn’t renewed, so he wasn’t “fired”. But with most of the viewing public siding with T.R. Knight in the whole T.R. versus Isaiah Washington scandal, you’d think Isaiah would be smarter than to come out with guns blazing and saying that they really should have fired T.R. Knight instead of him. Pul-eeeze.In his most explicit interview yet regarding his firing from Grey’s Anatomy, the former Dr. Preston Burke insists, “They fired the wrong guy.”
“I have to clear my name. I’ll start from the beginning. I’m telling everything. So here’s the truth,” Washington tells his hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, in Friday’s edition.
The truth, as Washington sees it, is that he was made the patsy and costar T.R. Knight should have been fired.
Washington claims that the much reported on-set argument between himself and costar Patrick Dempsey that supposedly ended with Washington referring to Knight as a “faggot” was nothing more than “a lie.”
But wait, there is more. He decides to attack T.R. Knight again, leaving no doubt that Isaiah will find it extremely hard to get any work in a town where no one will want to work with him after this whole incident.
To the Chronicle, Washington says he believed Knight’s comments were a calculated move.
“I feel all of this was about him getting a raise and getting his character to stop being perceived as a dopey, kooky kind of character,” Washington says in an audio clip posted on the newspaper’s Website. “He perceives himself as a leading man. That’s why you could see the change this past season. That was his whole impetus behind this. And I was used and I was exploited…to raise T.R.’s profile. I may be wrong, but that’s how I feel about it.”
Well, if there was even the tiniest chance that Isaiah might have been brought back to the show at a later date when the whole brouhaha was mostly forgotten, his chances just went sailing out the window.
I am so sick of Isaiah’s poor-old-me routine even before his latest cranky whining. I will be happy if I never see his face on the big or little screen again.
Source: Yahoo News!
Grey's Anatomy: New Male Doctor to Replace Burke...
Looks like Grey’s Anatomy will be looking for a new doc to replace the newly departed Burke, since ABC did not renew Isaiah Washington’s contract (surprise!). But doesn’t look like Brooke Smith will be the one returning to the show, unfortunately.
I really enjoyed Brooke on the show and am sad to hear they won’t be making room for her next season… although all the sexual tension between her character and Burke would now be out the window.
Source: Ask Ausiello
You wrote in the Ausiello Report about Brooke Smith doing a four-episode arc on Weeds. Is there any chance of her returning to Grey’s Anatomy next season? After all, Seattle Grace has a spot open for a cardiothoracic surgeon.— Laura
Ausiello: I hear they’re looking for a guy to fill that particular void.
I really enjoyed Brooke on the show and am sad to hear they won’t be making room for her next season… although all the sexual tension between her character and Burke would now be out the window.
Source: Ask Ausiello
Sunday, 17 June 2007
Dr.Who Season Finale...
Only 2 episodes remain before Dr.Who Season 3 comes to an end...
The Sound of Drums ......... 23rd June 2007
Last of The Time Lords ....... 30th June 2007 (Season Finale)...
The Sound of Drums ......... 23rd June 2007
Last of The Time Lords ....... 30th June 2007 (Season Finale)...
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Prison Break Season 3...
Prison Break Season 3 premieres on Monday, 29th August 2007. The First episode is called "Orientacion".
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
Heroes Season 2...
Heroes Season 2 premieres on Monday, 24th September and there will be new heroes and new entries to the cast.
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