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Buzz News Roundup, 7/29
- Bryce Dallas Howard will be replacing Rachelle Lefevre in the role of Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. — ComingSoon
- FX has officially ordered the drama series Lawman starring Timothy Olyphant. — The Futon Critic
- Charlize Theron will produce and star in an adaptation of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel Florence of Arabia.
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to my selections below you can also add Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail, Everwood: Season Two, and The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Season Two to your queue.
TV Tonight: Burn Notice and Royal Pains on USA
A lot of action is going down on USA tonight, where one of the shows on my Summer TV top 10 makes its season premiere — and a brand new series debuts right after.
The first is Burn Notice, the slick, Miami-set spy show that's become a big hit for USA over the past couple of years. This season finds super-spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) breaking free of the people who burned him, trying to negotiate the world on his own terms again — and, undoubtedly, causing a little trouble along the way.
Buzz News Roundup, 10/10
- USA has renewed Burn Notice and Psych. — Entertainment Weekly
- Seth Rogen will co-write a comedy with Will Reiser titled I'm With Cancer that will tell Reiser's autobiographical tale of a 25-year-old who finds out he has the disease. — The Hollywood Reporter
- This is Your Life is the latest classic TV show to be revived.
Buzz News Roundup, 10/3
- Frasier's John Mahoney is joining the cast of Burn Notice. — Entertainment Weekly
- Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt will play a couple in a troubled marriage in the upcoming drama Every Day. — Variety
- David Strathairn and Catherine O'Hara are among the new additions to HBO's Temple Grandin film, which already stars Claire Danes.
Link Time! 7/10
- Popwatch wonders: Which actors need to be rescued from their sub-par TV roles?
- Cinematical tells us of a place to go if you're not so informed about comic books and don't want to be ridiculed for it.
- TV Squad has put together an insanely comprehensive guide to reality TV.
- E!'s Ben Lyons visited the set of the "bromantic comedy" I Love You, Man and chatted up Paul Rudd, Jason Segel and Jon Favreau, among others.
- The TV Addict talks with Gabrielle Anwar about Burn Notice ahead of tonight's premiere.
- Meanwhile, Vulture just keeps interviewing those Hellboy folks; today it's Ron Perlman's turn.
- FilmExperience is none too pleased with the news that Elfquest will be adapted for the big screen.
- Pop Candy brings word that Sub Pop Records is relaunching its singles club.
TV Tonight: Burn Notice
Mad Men has the critical buzz, but Burn Notice — another cable show entering its second season — had the viewers last Summer. The USA series brought in 4 million viewers for its premiere and stayed close to that level all season, jumping up to 5 million viewers when DVR-watching was factored in. That's pretty striking for a cable show.
Are You Watching "Burn Notice"?
A while back, I told you about "Burn Notice," the new USA show about an exposed spy trying to figure out who let his name be known, starring Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell. It got a commercial-free premiere after the final episode of "The Starter Wife" and ended up pulling in 4 million viewers, even more than the "Starter Wife" finale.
It's normal for a show to drop some viewers after its premiere, but not "Burn Notice."
Buzz News Roundup, 7/2
- Jaime Foxx has been cast in the lead part of a racially charged drama titled Blood on the Leaves, says Hollywood Reporter.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has become Amazon's most pre-ordered book of all time, with 1.6 million copies already ordered worldwide ahead of the book's July 21 release, Reuters reports.
- The LA Times looks at the challenges of playing God on screen.
- Megan Fox, the "hot girl" in Transformers, will join Kristen Dunst and Simon Pegg in the film adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Zap2It reports.
- Speaking of Transformers General Motors is hoping the movie — in which, according to the company, the cars "are the heroes" — will boost their auto sales, the AP states.
- The final "Drive" episodes will air Friday, July 13 instead of July 4 as originally scheduled, Zap2it reports.
- P.J. Harvey is readying a new album for fall release, with songs based more on the piano than the guitar, Billboard reports.
- The premiere of "Burn Notice" actually got better ratings than "The Starter Wife" finale, drawing about 4 million viewers, Variety reports.
TV Tonight: "The Starter Wife" and "Burn Notice"
This summer's first fizzy TV pleasure draws to a close tonight, as "The Starter Wife" airs its sixth and final episode. I've been surprised at how much I've enjoyed getting to know Molly, Joan, Rodney and the rest of the Malibu crowd, and I'm curious to see how it all wraps up tonight (hopefully not with Molly in the arms of the judgmental, cheesy, annoying Sam, but we'll see). While not every episode of this series has been a winner, it's had some great one-liners, some funny self-referential Hollywood references, and a ton of great moments from Debra Messing, who's shown charm and range in a role that could have been two-dimensional.
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