Wednesday, August 3, 2011

NEWS ROUNDUP: Jason Katims on the FNL Movie, TV for Women, Kyle Lowder's New Business

Jason Katims says a FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS movie would start with a considerable time jump. Damon Lindelof does not appreciate Doug Hutchison being referred to as a LOST actor. BREAKING BAD is likely to stay put on AMC. Tom Wlaschiha joins the cast of GAME OF THRONES. Y&R's Jeff Branson excited to be back and working with Tricia Cast. Esta TerBlanche's return to ALL MY CHILDREN confirmed by ABC. TV for women is at a crossroads. Women still watch considerably more television than men -- by almost 16 hours per month.

FRIDAY NIGHT NIGHTS exec producer Jason Katims talks plans for a(nother) big-screen movie
Nothing is set in stone, cautions Katims, but the movie would probably “start with a time jump from when we ended the series, and quite possibly a considerable time jump.”

“Even though the series just finished its run on NBC, it was close to a year ago that we finished production, so I’ve actually had some time to reflect on it,” says Katims, who’s also the exec producer of the Peacock drama PARENTHOOD. “One of the things that’s most exciting for me is to be able to go back into that world through writing the story.”

Damon Lindelof does not appreciate Doug Hutchison being referred to as a LOST actor
"Okay, gang... Let's start referring to him as 'Jailbait-Marrying Actor' as that's what he's MORE famous for now. Cool?"

FX approached on AMC's hit BREAKING BAD
The show is likely to stay put, in part because negotiations seem to be improving between Sony Pictures Television, which produces the show, and AMC.

GAME OF THRONES casts assassin Jaqen H’gar
German actor Tom Wlaschiha has landed the role of Jaqen.

TV for women at a crossroads
Television for women is a strange term for starters, since the vast majority of primetime TV aims squarely at them. Nevertheless, traditional formats, personalities and niche channels geared to women find themselves at a perplexing crossroads.

Women still watch considerably more television than men -- by almost 16 hours per month, according to the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform Report. Yet how they allocate video time keeps shifting, as the daytime soap opera -- a genre more uniquely linked to women than perhaps any other -- is slowly disappearing, just as the made-for-TV movie has been seriously diminished.

PHOTOS: THE REAL WORLD's Danny Roberts and NOAH ARC's Darryl Stephens Get Steamy in Shots from New Untitled TV Series
Towleroad has obtained some exclusive stills from an as-yet-untitled new gay scripted series created by Larry Kennar, Executive Producer of THE L WORD, about a group of friends in downtown L.A.

Kyle Lowder on his new business venture with Arianne Zucker
"At the risk of sounding cliché, when you are given to in life, you should give back. We are very blessed to be able to do what we love to do for a living, and to have the platform to reach a large sum of people. Arianne spends most of her spare time with various charities such as Habitat for Humanity and The St. Bernard Project, to name a couple. She is also in the midst of developing a project that focuses on changing the lives of young adults (www.lifechangetheshow.com). When presented with the opportunity to create an entrepreneurial business together, it just seemed so right and natural, and it is."

Y&R's Jeff Branson excited to be back and working with Tricia Cast
"She completely blows my hair back," Branson raves. "She is inspiring. She looks right through me. She gets me welled up and she gets those butterflies moving around inside me. She's that kind of actress. She's honest."

Esta TerBlanche return to ALL MY CHILDREN confirmed by ABC
ABC confirms TerBlanche will return to the role of Gillian Andrassy Lavery, the Hungarian princess who presumably left Ryan a widower in 2001.

1 comment:

  1. I thought this was the last season of Breaking Bad?

    Also, why don't people refer to Breaking Bad as a night time serial or action soap?

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