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Three Rivers
If you’re going to get youself an organ transplant, pray you wind up at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers hospital.
It’s the Hilton of hospitals.
This place is so decked out you even get 1000 channels on the TV in your private room. They might all be tuned to CBS, but hey don’t let that put you off.
In this most shiny of television hospitals the transplant wing of Three Rivers has it all. Big screen monitors, lots of glass, wood panelling and more lights than a Christmas tree. When it isn’t attending to medical patients …
Airdate: Three Rivers
TEN will fastrack the new CBS medical drama Three Rivers starring Australia’s Alex O’Loughlin as a famous transplant surgeon.
The series which premieres in the US on October 4th, will screen on TEN at 9:30pm on Wednesday October 14th.
With Celebrity MasterChef and NCIS: Los Angeles in place, the show is set for a 9:30pm timeslot.
It also stars The L Word’s Kathering Moennig and former Desperate Housewives resident Alfre Woodward.
But the series already has some history with the pilot being re-shot. This week CBS announced a further change with plans to move the …
Grey Gardens
They were so eccentric they have been referenced across pop culture television and music. From Gilmore Girls, The L Word, Rugrats, Will & Grace, and Tales of the City to music from Rufus Wainwright to magazine shoots in Harper’s Bazaar. They have even spawned a stage play and a musical.
They were “Big Edie” and “Little Edie”, two New York socialites who were aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The mother and daughter lived in squalor in their ‘Grey Gardens’ mansion in The Hamptons, in upstate New York. Across the …
Airdate: Movie: Spectacular!
Tammin Sursok’s telemovie Spectacular! will air on TEN next month.
Sursok, who graduated from Home and Away to The Young and the Restless, stars in the tween musical film with Nolan Gerard Funk, who has enjoyed guest roles in Supernatural, Smallville and The L Word.
Motivated by the success of High School Musical and Camp Rock, it follows an up and coming teen rocker who has big ambitions to conquer the world with his band, Alloy.
The movie, which was filmed in Canada, has already aired here on Nickelodeon.
It airs 8:30pm Friday September 18th …
And which set it this?
Feast your eyes on the sparkly look of Three Rivers, the new medical drama from CBS, due to screen on TEN later this year.
Starring our very own Alex O’Loughlin and The L Word’s Katherine Moennig, the set for Three Rivers Regional Medical Center is so big they cut holes in the wall between Paramount stages 19 and 20 just to accommodate it.
It looks so sleek you could almost be forgiven for thinking it was straight out of Lie to Me or some sort of Newsroom. But this ultra mod room …
Amanda Keller fronts Electric Dreams
The success of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation continues to prove to be a revelation for Network TEN. Now regular panellist Amanda Keller is to have her own 3-part series, looking at technology.
Keller, who previously fronted Beyond 2000 and Mondo Thingo, will present a short-run series later this year that will look at how developments in technology have affected lifestyles in the past 40 years.
Electric Dreams will follow one family as their home is “renovated” to the standard of a typical house in 1970 and then fast-forwarded at the rate of a …
ABC buys more BBC content
The ABC has picked up a bunch of documentaries, and the third instalment of Robin Hood, from the BBC.
Life (10 x 50) is a natural history blockbuster, shot in HD, exploring the diversity of life on Earth.FFilmed on every continent and in every habitat across the world, each episode is entirely dedicated to one of the planet’s ten most important wildlife groups.
Yellowstone (3 x 50) follows the intertwining stories of the inhabitants of one of the world’s last and most spectacular wildernesses. This BBC/Animal Planet and Discovery co-production reveals the grandeur …
Alex O’Loughlin series for CBS
Alex O’Loughlin’s new US series Three Rivers will screen on CBS in the US Fall season.
Together with Simon Baker, he becomes another Aussie lead in a primetime series on CBS next Fall -effectively filling the gap left by Anthony LaPaglia’s cancelled Without a Trace. The series about organ transplants also features The L Word’s Katherine Moennig. Each story is told from the point of view of a doctor, recipient and donor.
The show will go head to head with Desperate Housewives, amongst others.
CBS also officially picks up Medium.
“If Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs …
Showtime rejects Tim Robbins pilot
A drama pilot written and directed by Tim Robbins Possible Side Effects has been rejected by the Showtime channel.
The move comes despite the attachment of Ellen Burstyn, Josh Lucas and Tim Blake Nelson.
Commentators believe the drama, which is said to have tested very high, was at odds with Showtime’s parent company CBS. Possible Side Effects takes a scathing look at the pharmaceutical drug industry, focusing on a dysfunctional family behind a major drug concern. Pharmaceutical companies are among the top advertisers on CBS.
The rejection of the series is the fourth turned …
US casting update
More US castings will see new roles for Jennifer Beals, Mary McDonnell, Chris Noth, Eric McCormack and Grant Show.
EW reports former Battlestar lead McDonnell is joining TNT’s The Closer for a multi-episode arc as a police captain who butts heads with Kyra Sedgwick. McDonnell’s alter ego, Capt. Christina Hatcher, runs the department’s Force Investigation Division and is slated to debut early into The Closer’s forthcoming fifth season in the US. McDonnell can currently be seen on Grey’s Anatomy in Australia.
In late April former L Word star Jennifer Beals begins a multi-episode …
Meet Tammin Sur-o-sok, the Canadian.
The Young and the Restless’ Tammin Sursok sure has come a long waysince Summer Bay.
But darned if American hosts can quite get their teeth around the pronounciation of her surname. Appearing on the US Today show to promote her new musical telemovie, Spectacular, she was almost introduced as Tammin “Sur-o-sok” with a rescue at the last minute.
The same host went on to describe her as ‘Canadian,’ again correcting herself thereafter.
And as a lead in the High School Musical-style film for Nickelodeon, she was also described as having had a hit album …
Kelsey Grammer to direct Cybill Shepherd
Kelsey Grammer will direct Cybill Shepherd in a new comedy pilot Alligator Point.
It will be produced by Grammer’s production company, which already co-produces Medium.
The comedy centres around an eccentric group of Florida residents who find refuge in the Southern hospitality of an Oyster Bar run by her character, Mae. Their lives change when a Yankee (Stamile) becomes part of their disjointed family.
The pilot was originally developed for NBC in 2002 with another cast.
Shepherd, who has recently appeared in The L Word and Psych, will also have an upcoming guest role in …