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Industry endorses Dance with an extra prize
So You Think You Can Dance Australia has added to its 2010 prize package with the choice of three professional dance contracts being available to the winner.
The first to be revealed is the chance to join the Australian Dance Theatre’s 2010 season of “Ignition,” with a season at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
As well as performing in the showcase by Artistic Director, Garry Stewart, the winner lands the standard $200,000 cash prize.
Two more contracts are yet to be revealed.
The additional prize is no doubt a ‘win / win.’ The show was famously …
Pilot approvals: FOX, ABC, NBC, AMC, Warners.
There have been a number of Pilots recently approved in the US.
They are as follows:
FOX
-Traffic Light from The Wedding Crashers co-writer Bob Fisher (Married with Children, The Trouble with Normal) revolves around three male friends in different stages of relationships.
- Breakout Kings from writers/executive producers Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora (Prison Break), a closed-ended procedural about a team of marshals and ex-cons who work together to apprehend criminals who break out of prison.
- Strange Brew, from Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick is set at a family-owned brewery.
- …
In defence of Two and a Half Men
It seems even in America there are those who just don’t get Two and a Half Men. Despite the fact it is the country’s #1 comedy, it is frowned upon by many critics and “TV snobs.”
In Australia it’s not much different. The show continues to pull a surprisingly big audience, despite Nine’s best attempts to run it into the ground. Yet it’s hard to find much love for it amongst reviewers (I’d certainly fall into that grouping too).
Save for Chuck Lorre’s output, the traditional 3-cam live-audience show is bit of a …
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 …
Sneak Peek: Wentworth Miller on SVU
And here’s a peek at Wentworth Miller on the set of Law and Order: SVU.
As previously reported, Miller is a guest in the first ep of the new season, shooting once more since signing Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay on the dotted line.
Looks like he is slowly sporting a bit more of a mop now that his days of ‘incarceration (or escape)’ are over.
In other casting news, Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) will appear as a (straight) sugar daddy in the second episode of the season….
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 …
Returning: The Big Bang Theory
Nine is bringing the sitcom The Big Bang Theory back to screen this month, despite it being dropped from the schedule earlier this year.
It will move into 8pm Wednesday from November 19th, replacing Two and a Half Men. It returns with episode five “The Hamburger Postulate.”
The slot has recently been Nine’s biggest audience for the week, so this time the show has every opportunity to find a following.
The comedy about a bunch of geeks rooming across the hall from an attractive blonde is directed by the legendary James Burrows, responsible for …
111 Hits will target 24-54’s.
111 HITS, which launches on November 1st will be aimed squarely at the lucrative advertiser-friendly 25-54 demographic, as a move to compete with the new standard definition digital channels by commercial networks.
It will program US hits primarily from the Warner Bros, Disney and 20th Century Fox studios, including Friends, Will & Grace, Ally McBeal, The Wonder Years, That 70s Show, ER, Murphy Brown, Alf, Lost, 24 and Baywatch.
The schedule from 6.30pm each weeknight begins with Murphy Brown, The King of Queens, That 70s Show, Dharma & Greg, Friends and Will & …