Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The Good Wife Star talk about Game Of Thrones Red Wedding

The Good Wife Season 5 premieres Sunday, Sept. 29 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS. The Good Wife australia is amping up the drama for Season 5.

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Series star Graham Phillips -- Zach Florrick on the CBS series -- took to Twitter to share his thoughts on the fifth episode of The Good Wife Season 5 and compared the episode to the "Red Wedding" episode of HBO's "Game Of Thrones."

"The Good Wife" ended Season 4 with Alicia agreeing to leave Lockhart/Gardner and start a new law firm with Cary. In April, Margulies told The Huffington Post that Season 5 was going to be big. "The next 15 episodes of the next season are mapped out quite well," she said. "I can't go into it because I think Season 5 may be more exciting than any of the seasons we've seen."

The Good Wife dvd bosses have teased major changes for the CBS legal drama. "Usually, it's a little bit of PR bulls*** when you say, 'Oh, next year will be the year when everything explodes.' Well, it's not really PR bulls for us to say that. This can't end happily for them. Once Alicia says 'I'm in' to Cary, all the characters are going to be at each other's throats. You know what I'm most excited about? I think Matt Czuchry probably has not been as well served by our show as his talents deserve. Next year, obviously you're going to see Matt more at the center of what's going on," "Good Wife" co-creator Robert King told The Daily Beast.

Shameless is the best show on television currently

I've recently decided that Shameless is the best show on television currently. It's the kind of series that's so fast-moving, so well acted and written, that you can watch it over and over again and notice new quirks each time. Some people would probably call the show's lack of shame tasteless. To me, it's exciting. You truly don't know what's going to happen next!

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The second season started out a little slow, but once Frank's mother ("Grammy") shows up, things really kick into gear. Played with utter relish by the great Louise Fletcher, Grammy's a force of nature. And let's just say, her character arc ends in quite a... shocking way.

Season Two also sees the return of Chloe Webb as Monica Gallagher, Frank's estranged wife and altogether crazy, sad character. Her episodes are such a great, gritty depiction of mental illness. I'm always amazed with how this show manages to be both fall out of your seat funny and completely heartbreaking... sometimes at the same time.

As with the first season, the ensemble cast is extraordinary, led by William H Macy and Emmy Rossum (where is the awards show love for these two? Especially Rossum!). Joan Cusack continues to steal every single scene she's in, and has a few really, really funny ones towards the middle of the season. And finally, the kids manage to be totally unaffected and charming. You really feel like you're a part of this crazy, dysfunctional family -- for better or worse!

Monday, September 9, 2013

Weeds Series Recap Guide

Season 8 of "Weeds" premieres Sunday, July 1 at 10 p.m. ET on Showtime.
Just like in sports, it's always nice to see shows go out on top. "Seinfeld" did it, "The Sopranos" did it and so did Michael Jordan. Showtime's pot comedy "buy Weeds," on the other hand, has hung around for too long. As it meandered through seven seasons, it gradually lost viewers, as well as the cultural cache it had in its early days.

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But with the final season of "Weeds" premiering Sunday (July 1 at 10 p.m. ET on Showtime), now is a good time to check back in with a series that started out strong, but saw its high wear off along the way.

To help you catch up, HuffPost TV has recapped all the important developments that happened over the the past three seasons of "Weeds australia" ... when you may or may not have been watching.

HBO's prestige piece Luck was anticipated dramas

HBO's prestige piece "Luck" was easily one of the year's most anticipated dramas. Its creator David Milch had been responsible for some groundbreaking shows including "NYPD Blue" and "Deadwood." Film legend Michael Mann (director of Heat among many other great pictures) was also a driving force behind the scenes. And with Dustin Hoffman (not to mention Nick Nolte) stepping into television to take a leading role, expectations were through the roof with this pedigree of talent. The real life story of "Luck," however, made more of a noise than the actual program. Though the show opened to generally favorable, but cautious, press--the viewership numbers didn't exactly ignite a ratings maelstrom. Juggling dozens of peripheral characters, "Luck" was best appreciated by an adult audience with patience and fortitude. Its methodical pacing was a challenge to some and as various plot threads wound around each other, the early episodes seemed to lack a dramatic imperative. HBO backed Milch and Hoffman with an immediate second season approval, however, and yet this sophomore season was scrapped even as its filming was underway.

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As "Luck" begins, Hoffman as Chester "Ace" Bernstein is being released from prison. The generally underrated Dennis Farina plays his right hand man, and the two have concocted a scheme where Farina would buy a prize winning horse as a front for his boss. This leads our pair to the stables where we meet a plethora of supporting players. There is a quartet of lovable losers led by inveterate gambler Jason Gedrick, a driven trainer with questionable tactics with his lady love and vet, a grizzled owner, several jockeys, a comical agent (Richard Kind), and any number of other personalities. It truly is a lot to juggle and not everyone is as developed to the degree necessary to maintain equal interest in the sideline plots. Some of the disparate threads overlap, some intersect, and some seem to exist in a completely separate world. While I was genuinely amused by Kind as well as our band of four low level gamblers, I was less impressed by other stories.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is right around the corner

As everyone knows, the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is right around the corner. The 12th Doctor is on the way, we are getting more and more information and everyone is thinking about the possible changes that the show could face. That is why I chose to undergo a 4-hour drive down to Cardiff Bay recently to finally check out The buy Doctor Who australia Experience before we get taken in a new exciting direction.

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If you go down into Cardiff Bay you’re sure of a big surprise. That’s right, from the moment you approach the building you can be sure this is a place for fans of old and new alike. One of the first things you will see is a small blue TARDIS perched over the dock to the right, Cardiff sure is proud of its DW heritage. As you enter the main reception you may be shocked to see Bessie just sat there establishing that fans of all eras are welcome. This is where it gets interesting. After entering the doors in a group of about 30 people you are taken into a dark room and shown a video. Now while it seems to just be a trailer for DW in general, I guess it gives uninterested parents who have been dragged along an idea of what is going on. In all fairness it was a beautiful sum up of Smith’s Doctor Who series, using his best speeches and the sublime sounds of Murray Gold. During the whole video, the screen seems to be broken and scratched, but at the end of the video this lines up with the crack from Amy’s wall, and you literally step through a crack in time and space.

You step into a fairly messy room full of artefacts from the show going back to not only 2005, but also 1963. As a few are presented to you in a dull and lifeless fashion by a saved personality from the library’s moon database it is tame and pleasant… until he arrives. You a rudely interrupted by the Doctor by accident while he is looking to contact Amy. He annoyingly refers to you as “Shoppers” which may be true for some but most of us want to go there for the experience, not just be passing through. At this point all the hairs stood on end and my heart fluttered as that moment we all wish for at night happens, the sound fills the room and everybody is frantically looking around for answers, and there it is. As if from thin air the TARDIS materialises right in front of you and the Doctor insists we all cram into the strange blue box.

What a cast Nashville boasts

In a media obsessed world, networks rival each other in hopes to come up with the "best" new drama when the new television season rolls around and this year, one of ABC's most promoted dramas was this soapy tale of two rival country music stars. It has a unique voice - surprisingly, that will capture any music lover but ratings will tell if that alone is enough.


From the outside, the Conrad / Jaymes clan looks like any other all-American family. They live in a beautiful home and are a two-parent, two-child family that is seemingly happy. But they aren't normal nor are things all that rosy. It wasn't long ago that Rayna James was the future of country music but that was before two kids, marriage and a home that she cannot afford to keep unless she continues to work. Her husband, Teddy is working very little so the responsibility to keep their life intact falls to Rayna. She doesn't mind since her work is something she loves but in preparing to go out on yet another tour promoting the new album, her studio falls under new leadership, and they want her to pair up on tour with their newest sensation, the young Juliette Barnes. Rayna is appalled at the suggestion after twenty-one years at the record label she feels like they owe her more than this ultimatum and she isn't about to degrade herself by coupling with Juliette, implying she believes the girl possesses any talent. If she doesn't open for Juliette, the label will no longer support her album, leaving Rayna with very few options.

Her decisions become less about music and more about the complications of family when her wealthy, power hungry father vets her husband for mayor, a choice that leaves Rayna upset knowing that her father wants something from Teddy - something that will indebt him to the father-in-law he doesn't really know. This puts Rayna in a difficult position being friends with the man who would be her husband's competition. Rivalries are born - in more than one sphere of Rayna's life and juggling them be not be something she can handle without falling.

While watching the ABC network, I saw so many promo spots for Nashville that by the time its Wednesday night premiere rolled around, I commented that I felt like I'd seen the entire episode. This seemed "the" show the network relentlessly promoted. Given that it had the "look" of being a trashy nighttime soap opera, I was a bit taken aback that it has some talent in front of the camera and skilled writer's - or that is what the pilot reveals. If you suspected or expected this to be nothing but a music industry tug-of-war and rivalry between a fictional Martina McBride and Taylor Swift, you'd be very much mistaken. There is a lot going on in just episode one - from politics to horrible secrets - and yet, through it all, everything is set up nicely.

What a cast Nashville boasts. Not only did I delight in seeing Close in something again, supporting role or not but we also see familiar television veterans in Robert Wisdom, Charles Esten, Burgess Jenkins and of course, the lovely star, Connie Britton who is well known to fans of a certain NBC teen drama. Each of the actors put in a fabulous performance including convincing southern drawls if not the best of musical voices to go along with though none is more compelling than Britton. In this first hour, writers inundate us with characters but each is set up to become an important piece to the puzzle without being overwhelming. Lest you think this is going to be an uncomplicated show, think again. Already there are hints of bad blood in families, former flames that have never gotten over heartbreak, out-of-wedlock children and oh-so-many secrets. In addition to that, the whiny, pampered Juliette didn't come from privilege but she sure doesn't know how to be a class act - she sleeps with anyone who will benefit her purposes and then moves on. More than anything, it's a sad scenario because we do feel for her. She'd hurting in places she lets no one breach. The better qualities in Rayna are what we watch for because at the heart of the show, I think she will be what draws in viewers. First, the show has to survive its own rivalries.

Friday, September 6, 2013

The Vampire Diaries characters relations

Creator Julie Plec chatted with TVLine.com about the upcoming episodes, dishing the goods on the epic love triangle between Damon, Stefan and Elena, Tyler's grief after his mother's death and Jeremy's new profession as a vampire hunter.

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Now that season 4 of "buy The Vampire Diaries dvd australia" is at its halfway point, what's next for residents of Mystic Falls? More drama, of course.

"Damon was a little bit late in his realization that he was being selfish and needed to do the right thing by Stefan," Plec explains to TVLine.com, adding that Damon waited too long to tell Elena about the sire bond, in Stefan's mind. "The jig is up as far as Stefan’s awareness of what Elena and Damon have been up to. It’s not going to be pretty."

"Stefan is heartbroken. He feels incredibly betrayed and angry," she continues. "We’re going to see a lot of his point of view as we move forward."

But Stefan's not just angry at Damon -- Elena is also on his bad side at the moment.

Haven woman has disappeared under mysterious circumstances

At the end of last season we were left with Audrey mysteriously abducted and the ambiguity of Duke's character split even further with the knowledge that he is meant to kill Audrey and that his gift/truble works by taking on the talents of others through exposure to their blood. But Duke swears that he isn't his father and means no harm to Audrey.

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Duke and Nathan team up to search for Audrey but they trust each other even less than usual and it seems another Haven woman has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, though her son believes that the evidence points to alien abduction. His grandfather was an alien abduction historian and taught the grandson everything he knows.

Sorting out the aliens from the troubled and finding Audrey takes up the bulk of the episode and very little is added to the long-standing arcs except that the mysterious Colorado Kid who was so central during the last cycle of the troubles may be even more mysterious than he first appeared.

A good but not great opening to the season, but I love Haven and believe that the writers are holding back on major revelations in order to dish them out over the entire season. Finding out who or what Audrey is and how Duke will cope with his destiny and whether Audrey and Nathan will overcome the star-crossed nature of their relationship and what the truth about the two newspaper brothers and previous incarnations of Audrey is....just so many great plot arcs and I will be tuned in on Fridays to see how it all plays out. If you are new to Haven I recommend starting with Seasons 1 and 2 and entering the troubled world of Haven at your earliest possible convenience.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

The Walking Dead Season 4 Filled With Shocking Twists

In a new behind-the-scenes video, "The Walking Dead" cast and crew preview what shocking twists lie ahead. In the time since buy The Walking Dead dvd in australia finale, the prison that Rick Grimes and co. call home has evolved to tackle the threat of the multiplying undead. There's farming, new defenses and consolidation.

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"The Walking Dead" Season 4 is filled with more zombies than ever.

"We're making everything look different and new and unique for this season. I think there's going to be some really cool new elements thrown in that will shock you," comic co-creator and series executive producer Robert Kirkman says about "The Walking Dead" Season 4.

 "The Walking Dead" premieres Sunday, Oct. 13 at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.

Nurse Jackie just keeps getting better and better

"Nurse Jackie" just keeps getting better and better. Season Four of the show is by far the best season to date, and that's saying a lot. This season, Jackie (Edie Falco) is reeling from her breakup with Kevin and her self-admission of being a drug addict. She finally (albeit grudgingly) begins taking responsibility for her past behavior and enters rehab while fighting to retain custody of her two kids. Meanwhile, big changes are underway over at All Saints as Bobby Cannavale joins the cast as the high-strung control freak Dr. Mike Cruz, the new head of the hospital who shakes up the E.R. and becomes a major thorn in everyone's side, especially Jackie's. The supporting cast members all enjoy great storylines as well. O'Hara and Zoe make big decisions about their personal lives, Gloria and Eddie are forced to make some big changes of their own, and Thor is has some of the funniest one-liners of the season and never fails to steal the show whenever he's on screen. Perhaps the one shortcoming of the season is the show's under-utilization of Coop, who doesn't have much of a storyline this time around. Still, the other fabulous elements of this season compensate for that, in my opinion.

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The final episode of the season is the most shocking and moving episode of the show that we've ever seen. The final few moments are something that I didn't see coming, and it's unknown how everything will pan out for everyone in Season 5.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

HBO's Lorne Michaels Pilot Adds Criminal Minds actor

HBO's Lorne Michaels comedy project is filling out its cast. Siena Goines has joined the cast of the untitled half-hour pilot produced by the Saturday Night Live veteran, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

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Riddle and Salahuddin, former writers and performers on NBC's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, are EPs alongside Late Night EP Michaels and showrunner Dave Flebotte. The pilot is set to shoot in Atlanta in September, with Jamie Babbit helming.

Goines, whose credits include Passions, Chase, buy Criminal Minds dvd australia, Castle and Necessary Roughness, is repped by Stone Manners Salners and Shelter Entertainment. She next appears in the Nina Simone biopic starring Zoe Saldana.

Gossip Girl series finale

This show ended right before it jumped the shark, IMO. When all the characters were in high school, all the scheming and conniving seemed very slick and somehow mature. It fit in with the characters. It even worked when they were all in their first years of college, but then it just got old. I'm all for the willing suspension of disbelief, but I find it hard to believe that out of a group of 5 super privileged children, not a one of them finished college, but they all managed to get amazing jobs. Heck I found it a little hard to believe that any of them got into college, since they appeared to spend about 10 minutes a day in school. The show had lost its mojo and found it again a little with the Blair and the Prince storyline, but then lost it pretty quick.

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However, the series finale was worth it. And what a shocker the identity of gossip girl was.....I have to say it was something I never in a million years saw coming. That alone was worth the $1.99 to watch the series finale. Too many series finales leave everything open (Sopranos), or make it completely confusing (Lost) and that just feels wrong, the Gossip Girl series finale did a great job of wrapping it all up with a nice little bow and I loved it. And they did something else I love, which was to sort of do an epilouge type thing where you get to catch up with the characters five years late. I haven't seen that done often, but I do love it, especially in a show like this one.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Shep Smith expect True Blood Cameo

Last year, Smith was also discussing the allegations against Lance Armstrong when he decided he wanted to talk about "True Blood series" instead.

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As viewers may know, Shep Smith is a huge fan of "True Blood." The Fox News host has turned discussions of Lance Armstrong's doping scandal and the royal baby's birth into spontaneous chats about the HBO show.

On Tuesday, the Fox News host issued his latest declaration of his love for the show, and made a pitch for a cameo. After sharing news of "True Blood" star Evan Rachel Wood's new baby, he said, "I really want to be on that show. I feel like I can play a reporter in there, like, a cameo next year."

Smith recently compared the royal baby, whose name had not yet been announced, to Sheriff Balfour's fairy daughters, saying that the surviving fairy baby wasn't named Adeline Braylon Charlene Danika until episode six of this season. "Something tells me that will not be the name of His Majesty, the baby," he said.

Cult favorite "Forever Knight"

In its third season, cult favorite "Forever Knight" continues a fine tradition of excellent, even thought-provoking storytelling while concluding the saga of Nick Knight, 13th Century vampire and 20th Century Toronto homicide detective.

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In the opening double episode of the season, "Black Buddha", a deranged bomber destroys an airliner leaving Toronto, precipitating a major shakeup in the cast of "Forever Knight." Knight's partner and his precinct captain are killed in the crash. Knight's new partner is Tracy Vetter, an inexperienced and often impulsive detective whose father happens to be police commissioner. Her arrival allows an interesting plot twist. Tracy falls in love with the boyishly charming vampire Vashon, but remains unaware that Nick is also a vampire, leading to a series of humorously ironic situations, notably in the episode "My Boyfriend is a Vampire.".

Season Three continues the themes of the series. Nick hungers for redemption and struggles with the guilt of 800 years of killing. He continues to work through a complicated relationship with police coroner and close confidant Natalie Lambert. Their love for each other will come to drive several episodes and the ending of the series.

As in Seasons One and Two, actions relentlessly have consequences; Nick's life is repeatedly made complex by his struggle to balance his vampire nature against his instinct to act for good. Nick's tendency to resort to his vampire abilities to solve crime sometimes complicates the cases or threatens the intended moral outcome.

Nick's vampire mentor LaCroix plays a large role, continuing his delicate wrestling match with Natalie for Nick's soul while sometimes bailing Nick out of trouble. Nick will try to return the favor when LaCroix faces his own long estranged and vengeful vampire mentor in "Ashes to Ashes".

Jeanette, Nick's fellow vampire and sometime lover from the first two seasons, has "moved on" but resurfaces in "The Human Factor" to validate Nick's search for his lost humanity and to offer a seeming alternate pathway back to it.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Mad Men Finale season: Shocking Revelations

For Mad Men six seasons, we've seen Don blow deadlines, alienate or fire clients, hobo out to California on a whim and spend entire days in movie theaters and bars. He chews out underlings -- the ones he actually notices -- in a cavalier fashion and he often treats his partners as annoying encumbrances.

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Sure, he's often brilliant enough to make his pain-in-the-ass qualities bearable, but he's erratic as hell. He's been known to intimidate colleagues and even family members into putting up with his worst antics. He has a memorable glare.

None of Don's usual strategies and tactics worked in the fantastic season finale of Mad Men dvd australia. In a short but effective scene, the partners of SC&P finally sent him to bed without supper. No cookie for you, Don Draper!

"The Firm" is certainly a well made show

NBC was banking that there was an audience clamoring to catch up with the characters from the wildly popular John Grisham novel and Tom Cruise movie "The Firm." Just one hitch, the movie came out 12 years ago. And while glitzy, polished, and fun, it is hardly a genre classic that feels particular relevant today. TV audiences did not flock to the 2012 "The Firm" and so the show was shuffled around as it burnt out its run during the summer season. To truly embrace the series, it helps to have a strong memory and a working knowledge of the material from a dozen years ago. This picks up roughly ten years after the conclusion of that story. The show has the good fortune to have cast Josh Lucas (my choice for one of our more underrated actors) in the Mitch McDeere role with the always appealing Molly Parker as his wife Abby. The couple has struggled after bringing down the mob-fronted law firm of the original, and the show begins with them stepping away from Federal Witness Protection to try for a more normal life. But these expectations are thwarted as past enemies have not forgotten the pair and new intrigue is just around the bend.

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Combining elements of mystery with courtroom drama with adventure, "The Firm" is certainly a well made show. At 22 episodes, though, it faces the unenviable task of filling up too many hours and so its plotting becomes wildly uneven. As a more concise mini-series, the show would have benefited greatly by focusing its story to the strongest elements possible. And it might have made a terrifically entertaining short series. As is though, it can be convoluted and meandering. Just when the episodes reach a peek, the story will veer off on a less successful tangent. All in all, "The Firm" is well constructed and well cast. I just don't know that it is as compelling as it might have been. It's easy enough to watch and to like, it just doesn't seem quite as fresh as some of the edgier fare (with similar themes) that can now be found all over cable networks.