Once upon a time there was a network that turned this (at the time) mid-to-late 20-something into a 14 year old girl. It made me laugh, it made me cry and at times it made me feel dirty… THE WB!
I was abso-obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Roswell, Felicity, Dawson’s Creek, Everwood, Popular and other to the point that it was almost embarassing.
Tomorrow, August 27th at 11am PST TheWB.com will launch and while not all of my oldies will be there, it’s a great place to spend your lunch break or a rainy afternoon. Catching up with old friends…
Check out the teaser for the launch:
Buffy, Angel, Veronica Mars, Everwood, Roswell, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., Smallville, Friends and some new shows… what more could you ask for (well besides Felicity and Popular)?
The WGA Strike is about to take away television but before that happens, there’s plenty for GMMR and I to talk about!
Dan and Kath are back for TV Podcast #16, and it’s all about the shows! It’s not about the strike, it’s just us talking about what we’ve loved and hated about television over the past couple weeks. I’m going to warn you now, it’s an hour long podcast. We haven’t talked in a while so sit back, relax, and listen to us in 2 sittings if that makes it easier. Thanks for sticking with us!
We tackle each day’s best and worst starting with Monday and working our way all the way to the lazy nights of Sunday. Chuck, HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, Prison Break, Heroes, House, Bones, Reaper, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, Private Practice, The Office, Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Supernatural, Moonlight, Friday Night Lights, Torchwood, The Amazing Race, Brothers & Sisters, Dexter, and more. Phew, who’s tired already?
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Tate Donovan is an actor that has been around for over 20 years. That’s long enough for me to have had a little boy crush on Tate back in the day… the SPACE CAMP day! Loved him more than words and it’s been fun to follow his career since. A few years back he nailed the role of Jimmy Cooper on The OC and currently he’s doing some of his best work on FX’s dramatic thriller DAMAGES.
Here is the interview from earlier in the week with Tate, and it saddens me that I didn’t get to ask about SPACE CAMP, working with super hot Kelly Preston, young Joaquin Phoenix, and Mrs. Steven Spielberg. Alas, he was fun and I hope you enjoy the interview.
Question: How has starring in a high-profile series with super popular Glenn Close rubbed off on you? Has it affected your life and/or career in unexpected ways?
T. Donovan: Working with Glenn Close is a fantastic experience. You have to bring your A game when you work with Ms. Close. She’s really well prepared. It’s actually really a joy, because she asks the director and the producers the best questions. Every time, she’s sort of like, “Well, hold on a second. Why is this?” She was asking about the plot, because it’s very confusing to everybody, exactly what’s going on in the case, since we’re not really lawyers. She’s very inspiring in terms of just the questions she asks, and you’re always going, “Geez, I wish I had asked that question,” like “Why does Frobisher do da, da, da, da, da?” Yes, she’s wonderful, a total inspiration.
Question: The writing, the characters are so nuanced in Damages. There is no clear-cut bad or good, just all sorts of shades of gray and in between. Your character, Tom, is for the most part, an on-the-level guy, but are you hopeful that the character will veer into the dark side more or stay more above the fray and above all the machinations that Patty has up her sleeve?
T. Donovan: What’s kind of exciting about Tom is that he, like all of us, we’re just trying to do the best we can and we’re trying to succeed and trying to do well. I think he lacks that killer instinct. Patty has it in state. She’s a genius. She knows exactly how to go in for the kill. Tom, I think he wants people to like him more. Patty doesn’t care; she just wants to win.
Somebody who wants everyone to like him generally gets into trouble, so I imagine Tom, like everyone else, like every other character, he has his moments of selfishness and his moments of greed. It’s funny; a lot of people are like, “I can’t believe, you’re the worst kind of evil. Your character is the worst, because he’s a nice guy and he’s evil.” I don’t particularly see him as evil. I see him as just a guy who is trying to survive in a pretty cut-throat environment. (more…)
I was a busy boy last week and didn’t have time to watch the premiere of Hidden Palms because I was at GMMR’s hour doing our TV Podcast #8 and watching my summer obsession So You Think You Can Dance. I also missed last week’s episode of ABC’s Traveler but I’m happy to report that a stomach virus later I’m all caught up!
I’ve read a lot of mixed reviews of Hidden Palms but I have to say that I kind of enjoyed the hell out of it. I don’t know if there was much clear direction or purpose set up in the pilot but I found the characters compelling and like the twisted side of the pretty rich bitch town they’re living.
Oliver (oh that much hated Oliver aka Taylor Handley) from The O.C. plays lead character Johnny who witnesses his Father blowing his brains out, hits rock bottom himself, enters rehab, leaves rehab, moves to Palm Springs with his Mother and her new boytoy and discovers that the shiny vinear on the palms is covering some dark secrets we’ve yet to discover.
There are some obviously cheesy moments in Hidden Palms that will turn people off but I thought it had a promising premise and some of the performances by the cast will keep me coming back to see where they go and grow with it. Taylor Handley was excellent in the lead and very much troubled role. Amber Heard had a couple moments in the pilot that were absolutely beautifully acted with so much pain and torment within her hell cat bravado she puts out there that I was instantly reminded of Kate Walsh and Erika Christensen (in her better roles). It was great to see Michael Cassidy (Zach the wet noodle from The O.C.) in quite the scary role. How much you wanna bet that there was more than friendship between Cliff and his now dead (mystery #1) best friend Eddie.
Oh yeah, and Eddie and Amber Heard’s character were an item and there’s some major scary tension between Eddie’s two surviving friends. Did Cliff kill Eddie in a jealous gay rage? Did Greta have something to do with it and that’s why she’s such a tormented and lost soul?
How much fun is the girl in the garage who’s stalking Johnny? Love a tomboy with a set of goggles and a geek complex.
The issues? Been there, done that. It’s not original. It’s not groundbreaking and its not so amazingly written that you feel like you can’t miss it. Some genuine moments are there (mostly on Greta’s interaction with Johnny) and like I said before these are the moments that made it worth watching and what will bring me back. What did you think?
I just popped on to JustJared and he’s reporting that Fox has officially canceled THE O.C. after 3.5 years. Is anyone surprised? I loved me some OC back in the day but unfortch it’s run its course. Seth Cohen, Capt. Oats, Summer, Sandy and Kirsten, and lastly Julie Cooper you’ll be missed.
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