When I recently chatted with Jim Triplett, Location Manager for Hawaii Five-0, I found that finding locations for the series is not all peaches ‘n cream – or pineapples ‘n spam – or well, you get the picture. Life Is Not A Beach One of the things I discovered was that you don’t always get what you want in the land of make believe. Triplett told me about a snag he encountered prior to the shooting of episode 2.22 of
Some people are simply “gifted” in their craft. There’s no other way to describe them. Nora Kirkpatrick is one of those people. Enter The Office I recently spoke with Kirkpatrick about her role in the last season of The Office, on which she plays Dwight’s new love interest, Esther. Kirkpatrick told me she found out about the job through her agent and thought the addition of the character was a twist in the series to perhaps provide a bit of
Just outside Pittsburgh lies the town of Hemlock Grove – in the fictional world of Netflix, that is. And Laurie Fortier is excited to be a part of that world. A New Opportunity When I recently had the chance to chat with her, Fortier told me, “Being on Netflix gave the producers and writers of Hemlock Grove a freedom that radiated down through them to us, the crew. Moreover, as an actor, being on Netflix gave me permission to twist
We all know Leah Remini – from a sassy no-nonsense second in command at a summer resort called Malibu Sands to almost a decade married to the KING OF QUEENS, she’s been a constant presence on our TV sets over the years. Tonight on ABC, we get to see her latest jump into the comedy waters. Her latest show, FAMILY TOOLS (8:30c/7:30c), follows a handy-man (JK Simmons) with a successful home improvement company that finds himself passing the reins over
Tonight, nestled between THE MIDDLE and MODERN FAMILY (8:30/7:30c), check out the premiere of FAMILY TOOLS. The story of a handy-man who has a heart attack and decides to let his former-seminary-school-attending son take over the family business stars Kyle Bornheimer, JK Simmons, Leah Remini, and Edi Gathegi – it’s a great look at family and I found myself laughing a bit more with each episode. I spent some time chatting with Kyle and Edi about what’s coming up tonight
You remember David Faustino. He played Bud Bundy in Married with Children. Nowadays, Faustino is playing a new character with similar traits, something he calls “Bud Bundy-esque” qualities, for Netflix. Bud Bundy II? The character’s name is Dax Wendell, the series Bad Samaritans. Wendell resembles Bundy on several fronts. Says Faustino, “Bud Bundy was obviously a character who wanted to be loved and wanted to be respected, and never was. And the same goes for Dax Wendell. I think there
On tonight’s all new episode of GREY’S ANATOMY (Season 9, Episode 21 – can you believe we’re almost to Season 10??), Bailey becomes the focus of a CDC investigation when several of her patients die. It becomes a tricky situation when her friends, her former students, need to act as board members first and foremost. I recently spent some time chatting with Bailey (the incomparable Chandra Wilson) about what’s coming up tonight, what’s happening in the super-scary-sounding Season finale, and
In tonight’s episode of HOW TO LIVE WITH YOUR PARENTS (FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE), an episode that series star Brad Garrett calls “an episode about guilt,” Elaine pushes Max to confront his dying aunt, while Natalie convinces everyone that she’s getting picked on by an imaginary bully, as a way of dealing with her parents’ divorce. With each week, I enjoy the show more, and to celebrate what sounds like a somber yet hilarious episode, I spent time
Tonight on ABC Family at 8/7c, Sara Paxton, Jane Seymour, Chelsea Kane, and Drew Seeley star in a musical movie called LOVESTRUCK: THE MUSICAL, a story about a dancer, Mirabella, who wants to leave the dancing world behind when she gets married, and the mother, a former dancer herself, who will do whatever she can to make sure that doesn’t happen. When something a little crazy happens between the start of her trip and her arrival in Italy, Mom (Jane
Sunday night on ABC, Zachary Levi (CHUCK) and Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore, GILMORE GIRLS) star opposite each other in the latest Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, REMEMBER SUNDAY. Zac stars as Gus, a man with no short term memory, who finds himself drawn to Alexis’ go-with-the-flow Molly. Together, the find out what it can be like to fall in love with someone every single day. The movie is uplifting, the story is intriguing, and the chemistry between Zac and Alexis