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TV Tonight: The Series Premiere of TNT's HawthoRNe
Tonight Jada Pinkett Smith returns to the small screen for the first time in years. She stars in the new TNT drama, HawthoRNe. Like another new show, Showtime's Nurse Jackie, HawthoRNe follows the personal and professional tribulations of a nurse.
First Look: Hawthorne
Nurses: so hot on TV right now? That seems to be the case. In addition to the nursing series called Mercy that NBC just picked up, this June will bring two new tough nurses to the TV scene: Nurse Jackie (Edie Falco) on Showtime and Christina Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith) of TNT's Hawthorne.
TV News Tidbits: Amy Sedaris, Jada Pinkett Smith, and More
It's that time again! The twice-yearly Television Critics Association press tour kicked off in Los Angeles this week, which means the TV news is going to flow fast and furious for the next week or so. PBS and cable take the stage this week, and then the network portion kicks in early next week, when Molly and I will be flying down to LA to blog and Twitter this tour ourselves!
Jada Pinkett Smith Makes Time For TNT Series
More proof that TNT is the official network of strong women: it's lured Jada Pinkett Smith back to television. She'll be starring in — and executive-producing — the network's new drama pilot called Time Heals.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the show "centers on Nancy Hawthorne (Pinkett Smith), a strong but caring director of nursing at Charlotte Mercy Hospital in North Carolina, a single mother who always puts the pain of others first."
The Women: Not Fizzy, Just Empty
Philosophically, the very existence of The Women is something that makes me cheer. As its title suggests, it's a movie full of only women — and many of them "women of a certain age," at that. Director and screenwriter Diane English spent years trying to steer her remake of George Cukor's 1939 classic to the screen, and I respect and admire her determination.
Movie Preview: The Women Starring. . . Lots of Women
I was interested in this remake of the 1939 film The Women when there was initial casting news about it (Debra Messing, Annette Bening, Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith, Eva Mendes, Candace Bergen, etc. etc.), but after the incredible success of the Sex and the City movie, I'm even more excited about the opportunities for movies directed at a female audience. If nothing else the SATC movie might have indicated to filmmakers and studios that (hello!) it's possible to actually have a female-centric film do well at the box office.
Buzz News Roundup, 11/14
- Variety has news on the sequel to the Thomas Crown Affair, which will again star Pierce Brosnan, though Rene Russo will not reprise her role.
- The Los Angeles Times reports that Steven Spielberg will receive the Cecil B. DeMille award at this year's Golden Globes, while Rumer Willis has been named Miss Golden Globe.
- ComingSoon reports that Kate Bush will write a song titled "Lyra" for the closing credits of The Golden Compass.
- Jay-Z jumped over the Eagles and Britney to obtain the No. 1 spot with his American Gangster album, writes Billboard.
- Variety reports that Jada Pinkett Smith will be making her directorial debut with the drama The Human Contract, which she also wrote.
- Speaking of Star Trek today, according to ComingSoon, two more have joined the JJ Abrams project: Chris Hemsworth and Clifton Collins Jr.
- According to NME, there will soon be a Gorillaz documentary called — what else?
Look at All The Women!
In the second piece of recent movie news that features the year 1939, screenwriter Diane English is finally close to securing a large cast of ladies for a remake of the 1939 classic The Women after working for many years to get the project going. Variety has the scoop:
Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra Messing and Candice Bergen have either signed or are near committing to star in a contemporized version of the George Cukor-directed film, which Picturehouse will distribute domestically next year.
The bitchy tone of the Clare Boothe Luce play lent itself perfectly to a 1939 original film that starred Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and others.
Reign Over Me: More Than Just A Buddy Movie
You may think Reign Over Me is a movie about a friendship between two men: one of whom has a flimsy grasp on reality after suffering great tragedy and the other needing to appreciate the fullness of his life. This is only partially true. At its core, Reign Over Me is about grief — how people grieve differently and how we deem only certain kinds of grief appropriate.
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