Friday, August 14, 2009

News Round-up: Grantham, Weiner, DEGRASSI

MAD MEN creator Matthew Weiner is not an elitist
"I'm not an elitist. I'm an entertainer. I get criticized that it's ONE LIFE TO LIVE half the time and that it's elitist the other half of the time. (Mad Men viewers) are people who are open and not afraid of new things. … It's not because they're smarter or more artistically sophisticated."

Soaps: All Washed Up?
Chicago Now's Kyra Kyles writes: "Maybe you think only your mother (and for sure, my mother) care that soap operas are almost extinct. Perhaps you think it's about time we phased out programming that centers on secret twins, eye patch-wearing villains, repeated resurrections and dramatic fight scenes where hair is never mussed. But even my most pitiless of peers must realize that many of the shows and movies we love today owe their essence to soaps."

PHOTOS: Ex-EASTENDERS star escapes blaze
Former soap star Leslie Grantham, who is best known as "Dirty" Den Watts in EASTENDERS, had a real-life drama of his own when he became trapped in a Swansea apartment after it caught fire.

SAVING GRACE will wrap next summer
TNT wanted full fourth season, but the studio declined.

ST. ELMO'S FIREheaded to TV
ABC has the hots for ST. ELMO'S FIRE, a contemporary take on the 1985 movie that launched the filmmaking career of Joel Schumacher. After strong interest from multiple networks, ABC landed the dramedy series project, exec produced by Schumacher, Topher Grace, Dan Bucatinsky and Jamie Tarses and to be written by Bucatinsky.

DeGrassi goes to Hollywood a ho-hum trip to L.A.
Going from Toronto to Hollywood in a yellow school bus turns out to be too long a journey even for the resilient and likable DEGRASSI family.

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