Wednesday, April 8, 2009

News Round-up: Cady McClain, ITV, iPhone

Cady McClain on her first day back at ATWT and the cancellation of GL
"Well I had just the sweetest time at JC Studios. Everyone couldn’t have been nicer and I just love the 'new' Rosanna and her story line. I can’t give anything away, but lets just say- my how things have changed!

I’m very sad about the cancellation of GUIDING LIGHT. That was a venerable show and I am sure will be sorely missed. It seemed to have lost it’s way a bit in trying to re-invent itself, but I did see some shows that were very intriguing, and I am sure that there were the best of intentions by all involved.

The scripts I have read look like a lot of fun, and it’s great to re-visit with the cast and crew. There are a lot of good people there."

Van Hansis on gay marriage (which has been legalized in Iowa and Vermont in the past week)
“I think a lot of people will realize what they’re doing is wrong. I think if people honestly ask themselves and don’t try to hide behind religion about what they really do believe and does it really affect them – no it doesn’t. I think as Obama says, ‘The right side of history will show itself.’”

Grade's ITV is in a classic lose-lose situation
This week's news that ITV (home of CORONATION STREET and EMMERDALE) is in serious financial trouble is not surprising. ITV, like so many media businesses, is in the middle of a perfect storm. The television company was already in trouble because of structural changes caused by the digital revolution, when suddenly it got blown totally off course by the biggest recession in advertising we have seen for many years.

It is easy for ITV's management to blame their current ills - 600 jobs to be cut, £135 million to be slashed from its budget over the next couple of years - totally on the recession. But they cannot escape responsibility; short-term leadership over the past decade has played a big part in ITV's failure to respond to new competition.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: 50 Actors We'd Watch in Anything
Former soap stars Julianne Moore and Tommy Lee Jones made the list.

Amber Tamblyn leaves Pants behind for crime-fighting role in THE UNUSUALS
“I’m sure that there have been roles in movies that I was up for and people were like, ‘Oh, she looks so young.’ Because I do have a baby face. But it never really has mattered to me because I don’t mind (what age I play),” Tamblyn said in an interview from the Universal Hilton in Los Angeles. “It’s all about the character, the script and whether or not it’s good.”

iPhone Application Overload?
Television networks, Web shows and movie studios alike are rushing to develop iPhone applications, but could we be approaching app burnout?

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