Saturday, December 5, 2009

NEWS: Chappell, Bloom, Arquette, Comcast, Franco

PHOTO: James Franco’s Port Charles ‘Mug Shot’
The Port Charles Police Department has released a the mug shot of artist Franco (played by occasional movie star James Franco), who is accused of a serious crime in the fictional city featured on GENERAL HOSPITAL. Reps for the show confirm that the mystery surrounding Franco’s graffiti tag CO77X will be revealed in an upcoming episode, airing Dec. 11.

INTERVIEW: VENICE creator/star Crystal Chappell
"I was completely invested in Otalia and always will be. I couldn’t quite let it go. It didn’t feel right. I had so many people writing to me telling me some of the terrible things that happened to them being gay, and also the really joyful things. So I went to my friend Kimmy [Turrisi], who is a writer, and said, 'I wanna do a web soap about a gay woman. She’s out and proud of who she is, so it won’t be about her struggling with her sexuality and I want it to not just be about her, but about her community and family.'"

GLEE music supervisor PJ Bloom plays key role for hit series
"We had this uphill battle of trying to license some of the biggest songs in the world by the biggest artists in the world for an episodic musical that nobody had ever seen. And this type of show has failed miserably."

Nailing the rights for Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" was a struggle, but its appearance in the pilot episode helped produce the show's best-selling iTunes track to date.

Five questions looming over the Comcast-NBC Universal deal
Will Comcast dump Jeff Zucker, Conan, Leno?

Rosanna Arquette to Guest-Star on PRIVATE PRACTICE
Arquette will be playing the bohemian mother of Dink (Stephen Lunsford), who happens to be Maya Bennett's new boyfriend. Maya is the daughter of Sam (Taye Diggs) and Naomi (Audra McDonald).

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