Saturday, May 10, 2014

NEWS: Rick Springfield Gets Star on Hollywood Walk Of Fame; 'Revenge' Finale; 500 People Had to Keep 'Good Wife' Secret; Chris Carmack Revisits the Past

Rick Springfield. Photo Credit: Getty Images
Former 'General Hospital' actor Rick Springfield gets star on Hollywood Walk Of Fame
Springfield now finds himself among other musical icons along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Springfield received his Walk of Fame star along Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Live Nation building Friday. GH's Jason Thompson (Patrick) and Y&R's Doug Davidson (Paul) were among those in attendance.

The "Jessie's Girl" singer says he owes the fans for his career in show business. He said he walked along the Walk of Fame as a youngster and hoped to one day be successful enough to merit a star. He also dedicated his star in the memory of his father, who Springfield said unfortunately passed away just as Springfield's career was taking off.

CBS Remains The Broadcaster To Beat In An Ever-Changing Media Landscape
Ed Martin writes: "CBS has also experienced uncommon growth in daytime (especially with The Young and the Restless and The Talk)and remains a vital player (and one that continues to demand much attention) in late night. (In addition, it is entering the summer programming arena with great gusto, not by filling it with cheap reality shows and Canadian pick-ups, but by producing scripted series such as “Under the Dome” and “Extant” that are custom designed for escapist summer viewing."

Soap stars get Sapphic in web series 'Beacon Hill'
Alicia Minshew: "The difference is the budget for one. The TV studios have more money. However, I am proud of how high end and beautiful Beacon Hill looks! Another difference is that we are on location, which gives it more of a film feel instead of being in a studio like on TV. The pace is the same…QUICK!"

CBS Soap Stars Share Their Mom Moments
In honor of Mother's Day, two CBS Daytime TV veterans Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman, The Young and the Restless) and Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan, The Bold and the Beautiful) are sharing photos from some of the "Mom" moments their characters have endured over the years.

'Revenge' Boss Sunil Nayar: The Finale Will Pay Off All Three Seasons
"We really refocus on the fact that the Graysons are just bad people, wonderfully bad people, and we wanted to get back to the core of the show so that when we culminate at the end of the story, we not only pay off the second half of the season, but three seasons of the show for the audience."

How 'The Good Wife' Accomplished the Impossible—and the One Secret That Will Never Be Revealed
"First of all, we are blessed with the nature of everyone that works on the show. It's not just us keeping the secret; it's us plus 500 people keeping the secret. It was the entire crew, obviously the cast, writers and editors and everyone in post [production]. Plus, all the extras coming through," Good Wife co-creator Michelle King told E! News. "We asked them specifically. Letters were written, we did what we could and then we were relying on them caring enough about the show to not tell their loved ones."

Meet the cast of new FOX drama 'Empire'
Set to an original soundtrack written and produced by Timbaland, the Lyon family, seen below, is populated by (L to R) Trai Byers (90210) as Andre, Taraji P. Henson as Cookie, Terrence Howard as Lucious, Jussie Smollett as Jamal and Bryshere Gray (aka rapper Yazz the Greatest) as Hakeem.

'Nashville' star Chris Carmack navigates celebrity after his days as 'The O.C.'-Abercrombie stud
“You know how most kids look back at college and go, ‘I could have gotten a lot more out of that?’ That’s kind of what The O.C. was for me,” Carmack says about his first brush with fame. It’s a Sunday night in May and he’s backstage in his dressing room at D.C.’s Lincoln Theatre. In a few hours he’ll take the stage for the second show of Nashville’s inaugural cast concert tour. “Sometimes I look back and I’ll be like, ‘God, Chris, you were such a damn idiot.’ Just ’cause I didn’t know enough to really drink it in for everything it was worth.”

'Mad Men's' true legacy: Bringing high art to the TV masses
The modern notion of television as high art may have begun on HBO with The Sopranos (and on the comedic side, Sex and the City), but "Mad Men" launched the popular revolution by bringing that art to the masses.

Seven years ago, the idea that fusty old AMC was getting into the original content business seemed like a joke.

Big Week for Black TV Stars
Comedy Central's Friday announcement that Larry Wilmore would take over the time slot previously occupied by Stephen Colbert with his new Minority Report caps a major week for black leads on the small screen.

The emergence of black leads was one of the earliest trends to emerge from the wave of broadcast network pickups this week.

Check out the cast photo from FOX's 'Gotham'
Ben McKenzie — who plays a young Jim Gordon in the Batman-universe drama — tweeted the first official cast photo.

Vera Farmiga Kisses and Tells About 'Bates Motel's' Season Finale
If you caught the season-two finale of Bates Motel, you might still be recovering from that disturbing kiss between Norma (Vera Farmiga) and her teenage son Norman (Freddie Highmore), after she tries to convince him he didn't commit yet another murder and just before he has to take a police polygraph test.

"From my perspective, it's pure desperation," Farmiga told Vulture. "Norma already has a skewed perspective of affection. And it's the kiss that seals the deal. It's a kiss of promise, 'I will be by your side every step of the way.' It's this Athena/Minerva level of protection as a mother warrior. She had to plant something meaningful on this kid, and it happens in a kiss."

L.A.'s Answer to HBO's Gay Dramedy Looking? Funny or Die's Not Looking

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