Since Friday, NBC has picked up four more scripted series – two dramas and two comedies: Jerry Bruckheimer’s Chase [pictured], The Event, Outsourced and Love Bites. Details from the press releases follow the jump.
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Bruckheimer goes French, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey to star in new Pirates Movie!
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey has been selected by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall to star in the key role of Syrena, a beautiful and alluring young mermaid, in Walt Disney Pictures’/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ epic adventure “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” the fourth in the blockbuster series of films. Bergès -Frisbey joins Johnny Depp, […]
TELEVISION: What Now, for NBC? Lotsa New Stuff! Like The Rockford Files!!!
Now that NBC has given up trying to reinvent television by trying to cram late-night programming down the throats of its primetime audience, whatever will they do next? Well, one idea might be to hustle a bunch of new scripted series [The Rockford Files is new?] through development and onto the screens of their now […]
TELEVISION REVIEW: the forgotten is a Procedural of a Different Kind!
While ABC’s the forgotten [Tuesdays, 10/9C] is definitely a procedural, it’s not a glossy police show with all kinds of cool tools and the crème de la crème of forensics talent. Instead, it’s about a group of part-time volunteers who take on John and Jane Doe cases after the talented guys with the cool toys […]
National Treasure: Book of Secrets – Clever Puzzle, Not So Clever Movie!
The writers of National Treasure: Book of Secrets clearly spent more time on the film’s puzzle and action sequences than on character development. True, the puzzle and action sequences are worth seeing, but even the Indiana Jones pictures [which are a huge influence here] had more character.