Meet Your Washingtoniennes: HBO Casts Its Leading Ladies

BuzzSugar — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:30:53 -0700

HBO has some interesting projects in the works these days, and one I'm definitely following is the adaptation of The Washingtonienne, which is being executive-produced by none other than Sarah Jessica Parker. The network has just picked its leading ladies, so let's meet the women who will soon be cavorting around Washington:

Rachael Taylor (left, best known for Transformers) will play Jackie, the central character who comes to DC from New York to work as a speechwriter but starts out as a lowly intern.
Bitsie Tulloch (center, best known for Quarterlife) will play April, a college friend of Jackie's and now her Capitol Hill mentor. She's living "a prematurely middle-age lifestyle" with her boyfriend, an aide to a high-powered senator.
Amanda Walsh (right, best known for Sons and Daughters and Disturbia) rounds out the trio as small-town girl Laura, a workaholic with conservative views that she's constantly having to defend.

Fans of the book, does any of this sound familiar? And whether you've read the book or not, do these sound like 20-somethings you'd want to get to know?

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TCA Tidbits: SJP's New HBO Project, Clone Wars, and More

BuzzSugar — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:38:57 -0700

Just a couple more days till I head out to the TCA press tour in Los Angeles! I hit the ground on Monday, and I'll give you some more scoop then about what's coming up for the next week or so. But for now, here are a few more tidbits from the cable sessions this week:

In addition to the new David Simon show set in New Orleans, HBO has ordered two other high-profile pilots. One, called The Washingtonienne, is based on Jessica Cutler's book of the same name about a party girl who takes on Capitol Hill, and it counts Sarah Jessica Parker among its producers. The other, which is as yet untitled, is based on a book about Atlantic City and has Martin Scorsese behind it.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is probably returning for a seventh season, most likely in late 2009.
On an interesting HBO note, True Blood's Alan Ball has never seen Buffy or Angel.

Over on TNT, Raising the Bar, starring a long-haired Mark-Paul Gosselaar, will be the first of three new network series hitting the air this Fall. It premieres on Sept. 1, followed by Trust Me, an advertising show formerly called Truth in Advertising and starring Eric McCormack, and Leverage, which stars Timothy Hutton as a justice-seeker working outside the law.

A couple of other tidbits, so read more.

Critics got a first look at Star Wars: The Clone Wars from Cartoon Network. At least one was unimpressed but says the kids will probably love it.
CasaSugar fans, take note: TLC has two more home shows on the way.
The Planet Green series Leonardo DiCaprio produces, Greensburg, will get six more episodes.

I'll have lots more coming your way next week, so stay tuned!

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