Jan 16, 2009 -
- Metallica and Run-D.M.C. are among this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. — E!
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Nov 17, 2008 -
- Monk has been renewed for an eighth — and final — season. — Variety
- ABC's official midseason schedule adds Scrubs and The Unusuals to Wednesdays — and drops Life on Mars and Pushing Daisies. — The Futon Critic
- Aaron Eckhart will star in the action film Battle: Los Angeles.
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Nov 03, 2008 -
We won't be forgetting about Samantha Who? or Kath and Kim anytime soon. Both comedies are sticking around for the remainder of the season.
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Oct 16, 2008 -
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and tonight, NBC's Kath and Kim is getting into the act. The mother-daughter team at the heart of the comedy has hooked up with Ford's Warriors in Pink campaign to help promote awareness of the disease in tonight's episode.
Anyone who tunes into the show tonight will have a chance to win a Ford Warriors in Pink Mustang (which will also be Kim's car for the duration of the season — huh, who knew she had a license?).
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Oct 09, 2008 -
I've been curious for a while now to see NBC's Kath and Kim, an adaptation of an Australian comedy series about a dysfunctional mother and daughter starring Molly Shannon and Selma Blair. I thought the first clips were pretty hilarious, but the show's switched directors since then, and the tone of the premiere episode is pretty different from what I was expecting.
You'll get to see it for yourself tonight at 8:30 p.m., and I'm wondering if it's one you're planning to check out — or one you'll skip altogether.
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Jul 23, 2008 -
Most of the cast of Kath and Kim is best known for comedy: Molly Shannon had all those years on Saturday Night Live, John Michael Higgins is one of Christopher Guest's regular players, and Mikey Day is a Groundlings grad who's also dipped a toe into Internet comedy. So how on earth does Selma Blair fit in?
Pretty well, actually, if her appearance at the TCA press tour is any indication.
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Jul 09, 2008 -
It was almost a year ago that I first caught wind of Kath and Kim, NBC's remake of the hit Australian comedy. Since then, Molly Shannon and Selma Blair have been cast in the leads as a dysfunctional mother-daughter team, and NBC has picked the show to anchor its Thursday night comedy lineup. I started seeing promos for the show over the weekend, and so far, I'm finding them completely delightful.
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Apr 02, 2008 -
NBC started off this year's Upfronts more than a month early this afternoon, kicking off the frenzy of Fall TV announcements with its no-frills presentation (which took the form of either a PowerPoint presentation or a conference call, depending on where you were). While the format of the announcements wasn't thrilling, the content will give us much to speculate about over the next few months. Here are some of my initial thoughts:
- I think Save Friday Night Lights said this one best: Touchdown!
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Feb 06, 2008 -
- Reuters has an appreciation of Beatles spiritual mentor Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who died overnight.
- Brittany Murphy may be Lindsay Lohan's replacement in the dark comedy Poor Things, writes Hollywood Reporter.
- Billboard has news that Metallica, Pearl Jam, and Kanye West will headline Bonnaroo this year — and not Led Zeppelin, as some sources erroneously reported.
- ComingSoon reports that Josh Brolin may go from playing George W. Bush to playing the new Terminator.
- Debra Messing has nabbed a role in the family dramedy Humboldt Park, Variety reports.
- Zap2It has the news that Casey Affleck is attached to star in a film adaptation of Tom Epperson's period noir drama The Kind One.
- The Selma Blair/Molly Shannon show Kath and Kim has been given a series order by NBC, writes Hollywood Reporter.
- According to ComingSoon, Emilio Estevez's directorial follow-up to Bobby will be a social drama titled The Public, which will be set in a library.
- Late-night host (and new citizen) Craig Ferguson will host the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, Variety reports.
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Jan 22, 2008 -
Selma Blair has been focusing on her film career for years, but now she's headed back to the small screen. After a long search, NBC has tapped her to play opposite Molly Shannon in the comedy Kath and Kim.
The show, based on an award-winning Australian series, focuses on the dysfunctional relationship between a mother, Kath (Shannon), and her daughter, Kim (Blair).
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