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A recent article from Collider has claimed Ridley Scott will be taking on television in directing the pilot for The Vatican, a new series set to air on Showtime.
While Ridley Scott has already picked up the Cormac McCarthy written screenplay for The Counselor — casting the likes of Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Michael Fassbender along the way – the seasoned director will first try his hand at television before moving ahead with another feature film. | Full Story
Despite NBC’s plans to remove her from the Today show, host Ann Curry still clocked in as if it was a normal morning.
According to several reports, the network has begun making secret preparations to oust Curry from the morning news show, a year after she joined the program and dedicated her ‘dream job’ to her deceased parents.
“When I heard that this was my job, as I stood up I could feel the last bit of sadness that I’d been carrying around after losing my parents fall to the ground, I could feel their pride, it pushed everything out. | Full Story
Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino has responded to the criticism she and ABC received last week from Grey’s Anatomy creator, Shonda Rhimes.
In the controversial tweet that sparked a plethora of polarized views, Rhimes expressed her discontent with the the ABC family show having no person of color as part of the cast.
“Hey @abcfbunheads: really? You couldn’t cast even ONE young dancer of color so I could feel good about my kid watching this show? | Full Story
The Hatfields and McCoys had a family feud that proved to be great for TV and the the History channel.
The miniseries about the two warring families shattered basic cable ratings records, according to Nielsen Company figures that History released Thursday. After three nights of clan clashing, Hatfields & McCoys reigned supreme as the top-rated entertainment telecast ever for ad-supported basic cable.
Parts one and two of the post civil war drama were at the top of the ratings charts with 13.9 million and 13.1 million viewers, respectively. | Full Story
Hatfields and McCoys weren’t the only things being shot down last night on the History channel. Records were falling like clay targets at a shooting range when History’s three-part miniseries Hatfields & McCoys broke almost all of them with its first installment on Monday night.
With a gigantic 13.9 million total viewers, according to Nielsen, the post civil clan war show pulled in more total viewers than any other non-sports telecast on ad-supported cable in the history of the format. | Full Story
Hatfields and McCoys is a winner for the History Channel.
It’s very rare to hear The History Channel and “must watch TV” mentioned in the same sentence. However, The History Channel’s epic miniseries Hatfields and McCoys, is not the cable network’s normal everyday kind of programming.
The three-part post Civil War movie stars Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton. The film uses themes of crime, passion, vengeance, courage, and sacrifice to chronicle how America’s greatest family feud unfolds between the Hatfields and McCoys. | Full Story
TV series House signed off last night after airing the final episode, which was interestingly titled “Everybody Dies.”
The title, a spin on House’s veritable catch-phrase, “Everybody lies,” caused a lot of speculation that House might die during series finale. Everybody who watched the House finale last night discovered there was a death, and a funeral, but it wasn’t what anybody expected.
The first hour delivered a sort of retrospective of the series to date. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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