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Link Time! 4/2

BuzzSugar — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:30:59 -0700

Aww, a fond farewell to the Woz on Dancing With the Stars. - geeksugar
Fifteen years after his death, former Sassy editor Christine Kelly opens up about the interview she did with Kurt Cobain for the April '92 issue. - I Heart Daily
A video tribute to Barney and Robin's "BRo Love" on How I Met Your Mother. - Give Me My Remote
I gotta admit, I think this picture of a giant Transformer at this year's ShoWest is pretty awesome. - MTV Movies Blog
Speaking of Transformers, find out what a cereal commercial would look like if directed by Michael Bay. - Cinematical
Wow, this Life on Mars ending sounds . . . a little ridiculous. - TV Filter
The 10 best "one crazy Summer . . . " movies of all time. - Vulture
A bold prediction for the upcoming death of a House character. - CliqueClack TV

Buzz News Roundup, 3/4

BuzzSugar — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:30:27 -0800

Director Zack Snyder has tapped Amanda Seyfried to lead the all-female cast of his movie Sucker Punch. - Zap2It
It's the neverending musical: High School Musical 4 will come to the Disney Channel in 2010. - Billboard
Woody Allen's latest film, Whatever Works, starring Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood will kick off this year's Tribeca Film Festival in April. - Variety
The finale of the ABC version of Life on Mars will air April 1. - The Futon Critic
Megan Fox is lining up more projects: She'll star opposite Josh Brolin and John Malkovich in Jonah Hex, and she's attached to star and develop Fathom, Fox Atomic's comic book-based underwater adventure. - The Hollywood Reporter
Alice Braga, Mickey Rourke and Vincent Cassel are set to star in 11 Minutes, an adaptation of the Paulo Coehlo novel. - ComingSoon
Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis will team up for Kevin Smith's next directorial venture, A Couple of Cops. - Zap2It
The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men are on the verge of being renewed for several more seasons. - Variety
Alfred Molina will play the villain in Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. - ComingSoon

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Link Time! 2/26

BuzzSugar — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:30:50 -0800

Is there gender inequality in Pixar films? - Cinematical
The story behind United States of Tara's cool opening credits. - Pop Candy
Stevie Wonder is the secret to the Obamas' marriage. - CitizenSugar
I could just kiss this post about a kissing reality show. - Popwatch
Whoa, that wrestling video game from The Wrestler is real! - Vulture
Can't wait till Tuesday? Go download one of the new Neko Case tracks. - Stereogum
Dear Life on Mars: You're getting boring. - Clique Clack TV
Could One Tree Hill go on without Lucas and Peyton? - Korbi TV

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First Look: Life on Mars

BuzzSugar — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:30:48 -0700

So far, we haven't seen too much of ABCs remake of Life on Mars. The show, which will begin airing after Grey's Anatomy on Oct. 9, had a pretty tricky road to TV, with nearly every actor being recast except for leading man Jason O'Mara. The cast now includes Michael Imperioli, Gretchen Mol, and Harvey Keitel, who are finally starting to show up in promos and clips.

The show, based on a British series, finds O'Mara's character - a New York City cop named Sam Tyler- mysteriously transported back to the 1970s. Keitel plays an older detective, Gene Hunt, who doesn't always follow protocol, while Imperioli plays another officer and Mol plays a woman trying to prove she deserves a shot at police work.

One clip of Sam and Gene meeting in a bar surfaced recently, and now there's a brief ABC promo showing shots of Imperioli and Mol as well. Still no pilot, but I'm hoping that will appear before too long. I enjoyed the British version of the show, but all the trouble this adaptation has run into has left me feeling wary. At least it's good to see some proof that there will be a show after all! To watch the new promo, just read more.

Buzz News Roundup, 8/1

BuzzSugar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:29:57 -0700

Lisa Bonet has joined the cast of Life on Mars as the main character's girlfriend, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Colin Firth is joining the next film version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
ComingSoon reports that Mike Myers is writing the fourth Austin Powers movie.
Billboard has details about the first album from The Verve in more than a decade.
Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is working on another project about lawyers for NBC, Zap2it reports.
The action-fantasy film Prince of Persia, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, has been pushed back a year and will now open Memorial Day weekend 2010, Variety writes.
The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter will team up for prison thriller Scared Straight.
According to ComingSoon, the script for the dramedy Ivy Chronicles, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is being written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada.

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Buzz News Roundup, 7/28

BuzzSugar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:49 -0700

Citing a lack of stories to tell in a second season, HBO won't be bringing back Tell Me You Love Me after all, Zap2it reports.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Ridley Scott's Nottingham movie (starring Russell Crowe as Sheriff of Nottingham and Sienna Miller as Maid Marion) has been "indefinitely postponed."
Alexis Bledel and Scott Porter are joining Julio DePietro's romantic comedy The Good Guy, ComingSoon reports.
Harvey Keitel will play a detective in ABC's Life on Mars, marking the first time he's taken a regular TV role, the New York Times reports.
Billboard has the news that Coldplay's album Viva la Vida climbed back to the top spot on the U.K. charts.
Showtime is developing a drama about Studio 54 called Studio, writes Hollywood Reporter.
Ellen Barkin, Ving Rhames and Rob Corddry will star in the indie comedy Rogues Gallery, Variety writes.
Family Guy showrunner David A. Goodman will adapt Blatant Comics's Last Blood into a horror film, according to ComingSoon.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Nelly will guest-star on CSI: NY as a club owner.

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Buzz News Roundup, 7/2

BuzzSugar — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:32:44 -0700

According to Variety, Josh Hartnett will be starring in a London stage production of the movie Rain Man, taking on the role originally played by Tom Cruise.
Rapper Young Jeezy will join the cast of Ice Cube's comedy Janky Promoters, Billboard writes.
Michael Imperioli will join the cast of ABC's Life on Mars, Variety reports.
Four more actors have joined the cast of the Night at the Museum sequel, including Christopher Guest, ComingSoon reports.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Criminal Minds looks like the next CBS show to get a spinoff.
Billboard writes that at a private concert this week, Pearl Jam helped raise $3 million for the poverty-fighting charity the Robin Hood Foundation.
TNT will remake the British series Cracker, about an abrasive and heavy-drinking detective, with Robert Duvall as an executive producer, Zap2it reports.
A lost interview with the Beatles has been aired on BBC radio, the Associated Press reports.

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Buzz News Roundup, 6/2

BuzzSugar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:33:11 -0700

According to ComingSoon, Dawson's Creek's Kerr Smith will join the cast of the 3-D remake of My Bloody Valentine.
Rock legend Bo Diddley died today at the age of 79, writes Billboard.
ABC's Life on Mars adaptation is looking pretty troubled already, according to the LA Times, though it's the network's only new drama for the Fall.
The Hollywood Reporter announced that Bryce Dallas Howard will replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in the fourth Terminator installment.
American Idol winner David Cook's recording deal is official, and he's still setting all kinds of iTunes records, USA Today reports.

Variety reports that Family Guy will compete as a regular comedy at the Emmys - not just an animated one - for the first time.
Katharine McPhee and Wes Bentley are set to star together in the indie psychological drama The Storyteller, reports ComingSoon.

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ABC's Fall Schedule: My Take (With Video!)

BuzzSugar — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:30:24 -0700

I just finished watching ABC's upfront presentation to advertisers, where the network's executives went over the schedule that was announced this morning and showed clips of the new shows - including Life on Mars, pictured above. The presentation gave me some insight into what ABC's thinking with its schedule, which only includes two new shows for the Fall:

Basically, Fall 2007 was so nice, ABC wants to do it twice. "By far, we had the best Fall in decades," entertainment president Stephen McPherson said, "and then came the lovely strike." So the network is mostly doing it over, bringing back the majority of the new shows from last year.
That doesn't mean ABC isn't actively developing shows for later in the year: They've picked up 20 pilots, split pretty evenly between comedy and drama.
McPherson promoted a few of those shows in his presentation, including Four Play, the new comedy from Will and Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. If the show is as funny as those two were just talking about it, we'll be in for a treat.
Also funny: clips from ABC's remake of the Web series In the Motherhood. It reminded me a bit of Bravo's Significant Others if all the characters were moms battling bratty children.
On the downside, the presentation ended with clips from Wipeout, the game show with people falling and running into things. The voiceover dared me not to laugh. I didn't laugh.

To see what I thought of the new shows - Life on Mars, reality show Opportunity Knocks, and animated series The Goode Family - and see clips and pictures of them for yourself, just read more.

Life on Mars
I was pleasantly surprised at how faithful the trailer for this BBC remake seemed to the original - and maybe I'm warming to Jason O'Mara as time-traveling detective Sam Tyler after all. Here's a video and pictures:

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Opportunity Knocks
This traveling game show seems family-friendly almost to a fault. It definitely reminded me of the Saturday morning game shows of my childhood. I see it as more a companion to America's Funniest Home Videos, though, not necessarily anchoring Tuesday night.

The Goode Family
This animated series about a family of vegan, politically correct, recycle-happy folks from King of the Hill's Mike Judge could either be hilarious or unbearable. From the clip, I was actually leaning toward unbearable. What's your take?

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Oh, and here's a Scrubs-on-ABC promo, just because:

ABC's Fall Schedule: Like 2007 All Over Again

BuzzSugar — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:30:02 -0700

ABC revealed its Fall TV schedule at the 2008 upfronts this morning, and, well, it looks pretty familiar. The network is bringing back many of the new shows it introduced last Fall, plus renewing a large number of its other series.

Only two new shows will be on the schedule come Fall: The adaptation of British series Life on Mars and a reality show called Opportunity Knocks, a sort of mobile game show produced by Ashton Kutcher. Among last year's shows, Eli Stone is indeed returning, while Women's Murder Club, Cavemen, Miss Guided, Cashmere Mafia, and Carpoolers said farewell.

ABC has a couple of other shows ready to go for midseason, including an animated series called The Goode Family from Mike Judge and yet another Kutcher-produced reality project, this one a beauty pageant that has Tyra Banks on board as well. And then there's Scrubs, relocated from NBC, which will also premiere at midseason.

Here's ABC's official press release, and to check out the full schedule and descriptions of the new shows, just read more.

All caps = new show
** = new timeslot

MONDAY
8 p.m. Dancing with the Stars
9:30 p.m. Samantha Who?
10 p.m. Boston Legal**

TUESDAY
8 p.m. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
9 p.m. Dancing with the Stars results show
10 p.m. Eli Stone**

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. Pushing Daisies
9 p.m. Private Practice
10 p.m. Dirty Sexy Money

THURSDAY
8 p.m. Ugly Betty
9 p.m. Grey's Anatomy
10 p.m. LIFE ON MARS

FRIDAY
8 p.m. Wife Swap**
9 p.m. Supernanny**
10 p.m. 20/20

SATURDAY
8 p.m. College football coverage

SUNDAY
7 p.m. America's Funniest Home Videos
8 p.m. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
9 p.m. Desperate Housewives
10 p.m. Brothers and Sisters

Midseason: Lost, Scrubs, The Goode Family, According to Jim, The Bachelor, Primetime: What Would You Do? and the Kutcher/Banks reality project.

Here's how ABC describes the new shows:

Life on Mars
Life on Mars is based on the BBC series created by Matthew Graham, Tony Jordan and Ashley Pharoah. The series revolves around Sam Tyler, a modern-day police detective who, after a car crash, mysteriously finds himself transported back to 1973 and still working as a detective.

Life on Mars stars Jason O' Mara as Sam Tyler, Rachelle LeFevre as Annie Cartwright, Colm Meaney as Gene Hunt, Stephanie Jacobsen as Maya, Lenny Clarke as George Randall, Patrick Wenk-Wolff as Colin Raimes and Richard Benjamin as Milton Kornboll.

Opportunity Knocks
Opportunity Knocks is a new show that breaks the mold of typical game and reality shows. We will be showing up on America's doorstep and testing how well they know their family. Our mobile team will arrive at "Anywhere, America" in a semi-truck that is full of flat screen TVs, new furniture and big cash prizes that the family can win right there. We will take the action of a game show directly into our contestants' homes, setting up shop in a family's front lawn. The instant our host, JD Roth, knocks on the front door, the game will begin. Hollywood will invade a suburban neighborhood, and each week one lucky family will play the game of a lifetime in front of all their friends and neighbors.

The host poses trivia questions to family members based directly on their lives, each other and articles found in and around their home. If they're able to prove they know their family inside and out, they'll win the prizes of their dreams.

The Goode Family
A new animated series from Mike Judge, creator of King of the Hill. The Goode Family is obsessed with doing the "right" thing, whether it's environmentally, politically or socially. Unfortunately their efforts often have unintended comic consequences.

"The Goode Family" is voiced by Mike Judge as Gerald, Nancy Carell as Helen, Dave Herman as Ubuntu and Abby Elliot as Bliss.

Untitled Ashton Kutcher/Tyra Banks Reality Project
A beauty pageant unlike any you've ever seen, from executive producers Ashton Kutcher and Tyra Banks.