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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 Jessica Biel's Powder Blue to your queue, along with the first season of Designing Women.
TV Tonight: Amy Sedaris Takes on The Closer
I can't quite explain it, but there's something just completely adorable to me about imagining Kyra Sedgwick and Amy Sedaris in a room together. I think the two would have hilarious conversations. And tonight, we get to find out what it's like when they're acting side-by-side, as Sedaris shows up on the first of two episodes of The Closer.
TV Tonight: The Closer and Saving Grace
A while ago, I speculated that TNT was becoming the official network of strong women. Tonight, two of the shows that have made it that way return for new seasons: The Closer begins its fourth season at 9 p.m. EDT and PDT, while Saving Grace starts its second immediately after.
TNT and TBS: The Official Networks of Strong Women?
I got a promotional e-mail today touting the Summer programming lineups on TNT and TBS. As I scrolled through looking for a return date for The Closer (July) and a start date for Raising the Bar (September), a banner at the bottom caught my eye:
"Kyra Sedgwick, Holly Hunter, Laura San Giacomo, Jordana Spiro, Nancy Travis, Jane Kaczmarek, and Gloria Reuben are just a few of the strong women coming to TNT and TBS this summer."
And they have good reason to spotlight that: Of the five series featured in the e-mail, only one (The Bill Engvall Show on TBS) has a male character in the lead.
The Closer Returns with a Christmas Special
The Closer is going home for the holidays. Tonight, TNT will air a special two-hour version of the show called "Next of Kin."
The special finds Krya Sedwick's Brenda heading home to Georgia over Christmas — but she's there on business, not family matters, at least at first.
Buzz News Roundup, 9/12
- Rolling Stone reports that the White Stripes have canceled their fall tour on account of Meg's "acute anxiety."
- According to the BBC, Ang Lee has cut out 30 minutes of his sexy espionage thriller Lust, Caution for audiences in China.
- Variety reports that if you have On Demand service, you can watch all of NBC's pilots for free right now.
- Former "Saturday Night Live" star Chris Parnell has joined the cast of the ABC comedy "Miss/Guided," Zap2it reports.
- Variety reports that Run, Fat Boy, Run is the No. 1 movie in the U.K.
- Led Zepplin is reforming for one night only, at a tribute show for the late Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, Billboard reports.
- "The Closer" broke its own cable ratings record for its season finale on Monday, writes the Hollywood Reporter, drawing 9.2 million viewers.
- Things weren't as rosy for "Tell Me You Love Me" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," both of which had disappointingly low ratings for their premieres, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
- Paul Morrison will direct Little Ashes, a movie about the young life and loves of Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, says Variety.
- Hollywood Reporter has news that Naomi Campbell will star in a film adaptation of the novel Bad Love.
- Don Cheadle will star in a live-action film version of the 1971 children's book Hotel for Dogs, Variety reports.
- Meanwhile, ComingSoon reports that Adam Brody and Josh Lucas have been cast in the drama Death in Love.
Buzz News Roundup, 8/1
- "The Closer" has been renewed for a fourth season, and the Futon Critic has all the details.
- Meanwhile, ABC Family has ordered 10 more episodes of "Greek," Zap2it reports.
- According to Hollywood Reporter, there will be a live-action Jack and the Beanstalk movie, starring Christopher Lloyd, Chevy Chase and Gilbert Gottfried.
- Elvis's Graceland is getting even more over the top, writes Billboard.
- ComingSoon reports that Ricky Gervais is set to star in a comedy titled Early Retirement about a workaholic who quits his job to spend more time with his family.
- Kanye West has asked Peter, Bjorn and John to be his backing band when he plays in Sweden this month, Pitchfork reports.
- Blair Underwood will join the cast of "Dirty Sexy Money," playing the nemesis to the wealthy Darling family, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
- Variety reports that David Wain, "The Simpsons"' Harry Shearer and Rob Barrett are launching their own comedy site similar to FunnyOrDie called MyDamnChannel.
- "Idol" finalists Sabrina Sloan and Sundance Head will record duets together for the Universal Motown label, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Buzz News Roundup, 6/20
- Monday's season premiere of "The Closer" broke the series' own record to become basic cable's all-time most-viewed episode of a series, Broadcasting & Cable reports.
- Meanwhile, Lifetime's "Army Wives" has gotten more viewers every week, says the Futon Critic.
- Children's series The Sisters Grimm, about orphaned girls Daphne and Sabrina Grimm (descendants of the Brothers Grimm), is being developed for the big screen with hopes to become "a huge family adventure franchise," Variety reports.
- According to Pitchfork, we'll have to wait until 2008 for a new Magnetic Fields album, but on the bright side, Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem are touring together.
- A "Speed Racer" cartoon is planned for Nicktoons and should launch around the same time as the Speed Racer movie, though the two projects technically aren't related, Variety reports.
- Jack Black has been cast in Man-Witch as a man who realizes he is a witch but when he goes to witch school, he’s the only guy there, Zap2It says.
- Toby Keith's new album, Big Dog Daddy, lives up to its name by landing at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
- Paula Marshall, recently of "Veronica Mars," will join the cast of "Nip/Tuck" when the new season begins, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
- NME reports that the Black Crowes, Andrew Bird, and John Mellencamp are among the artists contributing to the Song of America tribute album conceived by Janet Reno.
- Marc Foster, director of Finding Neverland and Monster's Ball, will direct the next James Bond film, Bond 22, says Reuters.
TNT Brings Us "The Closer," "Heartland" Tonight
Much of this season's best TV is on cable, and tonight TNT premieres its first round of summer shows: the third season of "The Closer" and the first of "Heartland."
I rarely go out of my way to watch "The Closer," but when I do catch it, I'm never disappointed. As cop dramas go, it's pretty by-the-books, with decent (if not groundbreaking) cases for Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) and her team to solve.
TBS, TNT to Put Shows Online This Summer
TBS and TNT are getting into the online-TV act with their summer series. Much like ABC and NBC, the networks will be making each new episode of several original series available online at 3 a.m. the day after they air.
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