Archive for July, 2010
Comic Con is not the only platform that “Dexter” made use of to explain the aftermath of shocking season 4 ending. At the Showtime press conference for Television Critics Association tour, the producers explained the theme of season 5 and how this would be different from the last four seasons in terms of the villains.
“This season is about atonement and illuminated and dramatized over the course of the year,” said executive producer John Goldwyn. His working partner Sara Colleton added, “The form Dexter takes to achieve atonement, is not in a form that is conventional in any means.”
Regarding the villain, Colleton said, “We’re taking a break this year from what has been in how we’ve plotted out seasons in the past few years. There won’t be a season long adversary for Dexter. As he’s going through different stages of his grief really, without knowing what he’s feeling, that it takes him through different stages and there will be different characters who will come in and interact. The through-line is Dexter’s atonement and different people help him along the way in different capacities.”
“Dexter” returns September 26 on Showtime.
The CW happened to hold its presentation on the same day (Thursday, July 29). One interesting fact that the network share was, the search for a new superhero series which will replace “Smallville“. CW Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff said, “We have started to talk about if there are other DC comic book adaptations. We haven’t picked anything else up to develop yet, so we would like to see something on the air, so we’re going to work on it.”
She added that the possibility is endless, be it a new DC Comics character or a “Smallville” spin-off. “We are talking about everything,” Ostroff said. “The characters are there. We’re looking at the DC library. There are different parts of the puzzle. At the end of the day, I would love to be able to say now that ‘Smallville’ is going off the air and now we have something else is coming on.”
The tenth and final season of “Smallville” airs September 24 on The CW.
President Barack Obama is set to make another history, this time in television world. It was announced on Monday, July 26 that the U.S. leader will appear on ABC’s “The View“, meaning he is the first sitting U.S. president to visit a daytime talk show.
The episode is scheduled to air on Thursday, July 29 but the President would tape it first a day prior. In his appearance, he would talk about heavy issues like the oil spill in Gulf of Mexico, jobs and the economy. However, he will also be asked about his family life and what it’s like to live inside the White House.
To mark the occasion, Barbara Walters will also return to her seat as a host after months in recuperation of an open heart surgery. “We are so pleased and honored that President Obama will be a guest on ‘The View.’ …This shows that both the president and first lady feel that our show is an influential and important source of information and news,” Walters said.
This is not the first visit of Obama to “The View”. Together with his wife Michelle, the President was campaigning for U.S. presidency in March 2008 through the talk show.
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“The Vampire Diaries” proves to be a show with growing number of fans judging from the crowd at San Diego Comic Con 2010 panel compared to last year’s. Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Michael Trevino, and Matthew Davis joined the executive producers of the show to present a sneak peek to the second season as well as some spoilers.
Katherine becomes the center of the clip with her return to Mystic Falls. She attacks Bonnie and pretty much everyone else who stands in her way. Damon also confesses to Stefan to have kissed Elena but he gets a bitter truth after Katherine tells him that she was never in love with him. Instead, Katherine tells Stefan she came back for him but he says he hates her and a duel begins immediately. The clip is not yet officially released, but a fan at the con taped it for bootleg version.
The Q & A session was kicked off with Dobrev saying how cool it is to portray Katherine. On the other hand, Somerhalder confessed he’s not too keen on portraying a nice Damon. “The nice Damon freaks me out. We went through that scene together with the kiss on the porch and I was miserable. I didn’t know what to do,” he said.
Then came the big bomb about what kind of creature the Lockwoods are. As expected, they are of werewolf descendant which will be explored in the new season. “We don’t want anything to look corny, and we don’t want to copy any other movies or television shows,” Trevino said about the transformation. Wesley teased, “He’s going to look like Michael J. Fox in ‘Teen Wolf’.”
Regarding the fate of Jeremy, exec producer Julie Plec said, “He’s either going to wake up alive of he’s going to wake up dead. But he is going to wake up.” Meanwhile, her partner Kevin Williamson hinted, “I don’t kill people just to kill people. But yes, people are going to die,” adding also there’s “another part of the story we haven’t shown you” about Katherine’s background story.
“The Vampire Diaries” returns September 9.
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Supergirl will pay her homage to the final season of “Smallville“. It has just been confirmed that Laura Vandervoort which is now starring in ABC’s “V” as an alien, will reprise her role as Clark Kent’s cousin who, after the destruction of planet Krypton, was also sent to Earth in a ship that arrived at the same time as baby Kal-El’s.
Supergirl aka Kara was last seen in the eighth season briefly but her story ended at the end of season 7. In this tenth and final season of “Smallville” she will return for an episode that tentatively airs in October. No idea yet how she would incorporate to the story, but this may be explained in the “Smallville” panel at the San Diego Comic Con which is held on Sunday, July 25.
Kara is not the only relative of Clark who will return to the show. It was confirmed earlier that John Schneider would reprise his role as Clark’s adoptive father for at least one episode.
“Smallville” season 10 premieres Friday, September 24 on The CW.
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Showtime has picked up British series Secret Diary Of Call Girl for its fourth and final season. Lead actress Billie Piper will once again reprise her role as Belle/Hannah, a high-end call girl leading a double life.
Production of the fourth season will start in London this August. Season four, which will be comprised of eight, half-hour episodes, will follow Belle (Billie Piper), an internationally successful author, torn between her career and her feelings for her best friend Ben (Iddo Goldberg). Additionally, season four will feature a storyline where the high-end London call girl visits New York City.
Synopsis: Based on “The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl” by Belle De Jour, Secret Diary of a Call Girl is an eye-opening look into the world of a high-end call girl leading a double life. To her friends and family she is “Hannah,” a legal secretary clocking in regular hours and enjoying a “normal” life. To her clients, she is “Belle,” the answer to all of their fantasies. Her challenge is to keep her two lives separate, yet inevitably, they begin to blur.
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THE LIGHTMAN GROUP INVESTIGATES A DEATH AT A POLITICAL RALLY ON AN ALL-NEW “LIE TO ME” MONDAY, JULY 26, ON FOX
Melissa George (“Grey’s Anatomy“) and Richard Burgi (“Desperate Housewives“) Guest-Star
After a young woman dies at a gubernatorial campaign rally in Virginia, The Lightman Group is hired to assess whether the case is a failed assassination attempt or a well-disguised murder plot in the all-new “Bullet Bump” episode of LIE TO ME airing Monday, July 26 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (LTM-216) (TV-14 D, L, V)
Cast: Tim Roth as Cal Lightman; Kelli Williams as Gillian Foster; Monica Raymund as Ria Torres; Brendan Hines as Eli Loker; Mekhi Phifer as Agent Ben Reynolds; Hayley McFarland as Emily Lightman
Guest Cast: Melissa George as Clara Musso; Richard Burgi as Governor Charles Brooks; Sheryl Lee as Janet Brooks; Todd Grinnell as Trevor Addison; Kenneth Mitchell as Duane Corey; Laura Kenley as Michelle Daly; Jerrika Hinton as Robin; Mark Colson as Angry Man; Lisa Breckenridge as Reporter.
“The Secret Life of the American Teenager” returns Monday, July 12 with the episode “She Went That A’way”. Adrian’s choice about her pregnancy goes around and it seems Amy is the only one who still doesn’t know.
Several clips from the episode have been released. The first one sees Amy’s parents arguing over “real food” before Ricky walks in with his baby. Ricky has agreed to live with the Juergens to take care of John while Amy is away on a music camp.
The second clip is about Adrian’s meeting with Ricky’s foster mom who later finds out that the baby she is carrying is not Ricky’s. Adrian goes with the decision to abort it and goes to the clinic alone. The third and last clip is a conversation between Madison and Jack about him staying in the Bowman’s guest house with Tom. She complains of Grace’s presence in their relationship.
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TORRES REVISITS HER TROUBLED PAST ON AN ALL-NEW “LIE TO ME” MONDAY, JULY 19, ON FOX
Alyssa Diaz (“Southland”) Guest-Stars
Torres’ half-sister, Ava (guest star Diaz), who is incarcerated in a juvenile corrections facility, mysteriously re-enters Torres’ life when a fellow inmate vanishes. Meanwhile, the Lightman Group becomes embroiled in a case that forces the sisters to revisit their troubled upbringing in the all-new “Delinquent” episode of LIE TO ME airing Monday, July 19 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (LTM-214) (TV-14 D, L, V)
Cast: Tim Roth as Cal Lightman; Kelli Williams as Gillian Foster; Monica Raymund as Ria Torres; Brendan Hines as Eli Loker Mekhi Phifer as Agent Ben Reynolds; Hayley McFarland as Emily Lightman
Guest Cast: Alyssa Diaz as Ava Torres; Jessica Tuck as Deputy Warden Lane; Max Martini as Dr. Dave Burns; Manny Montana as Dax; Hope Olaide Wilson as Amber; Maestro Harrell as Tyrel; Anna Marie Kenoyer as Marly; Quinton Medina as Maurice; Jon Briddell as Richard Grange; Jamie Anderson as Peg Grange
LIFE FOR THE LIARS, AS THEY KNOW IT, IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN IN AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF “PRETTY LITTLE LIARS,” PREMIERING TUESDAY, JULY 20 ON ABC FAMILY
“Pretty Little Liars” Author Sara Shepard Makes a Cameo!
Burbank, CA (July 1, 2010) – The girls deal with the repercussions of what happened at the homecoming dance in “The Homecoming Hangover,” an all-new episode of ABC Family’s original series “Pretty Little Liars,” premiering Tuesday, July 20 (8:00 – 9:00 PM ET/PT).
In the aftermath of the disastrous homecoming dance, the girls try to sort out the devastation that is left behind. Parents, boyfriends (secret ones, possible ones and current ones), siblings and friends are all in flux, and if the little liars don’t act fast, the situation could go from bad to worse. And to top it off, the girls are sitting on some killer information about Toby that some people would die to get their hands on.
Meanwhile, “A” isn’t the only one sending Aria text messages as tensions rise in the Montgomery household.
Best-selling author Sara Shepard (“Pretty Little Liars”) enters into the world she created as she makes a cameo appearance as a substitute teacher at Rosewood High School.
“Pretty Little Liars” is produced by Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Horizon Television and is executive produced by I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, Leslie Morgenstein and Bob Levy. The series stars Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Holly Marie Combs, Lucy Hale, Ian Harding, Bianca Lawson, Laura Leighton, Chad Lowe, Shay Mitchell and Sasha Pieterse.
