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CBS Begins Overhauling 'Harper's Island'
Zap2It.comIs "Harper's Island" the new "Moonlight"? Last spring, CBS picked up "Moonlight" based on a presentation and proceeded to hire a new showrunner and recast the entire pilot with the exception of leading man Alex O'Loughlin. Despite that overhauling, the... -
CBS Picks Up Six for 2008-09
Zap2It.comCBS has reportedly ordered six new shows for the 2008-09 season. According to the industry trade papers, CBS has ordered two new comedies -- "Project Gary" and "Worst Week" -- plus four new dramas -- "The Mentalist," "Harper's Island," "The Ex List"...Tags: Literature, Rufus Sewell, CBS Corp., Theater, Television
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Mr. 'Fantastic' Makes Smart Pilot Choice
Zap2It.comIoan Gruffudd will take the male lead in CBS' romantic drama pilot "The Meant to Be's," appearing opposite Amy Smart. Produced by Glenn Gordon Caron ("Moonlighting"), "The Meant to Be's" stars Smart as a recently deceased woman stuck in a limbo where she...Tags: Ioan Gruffudd, Century City
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'Treasure' Squandered in an Aimless Sequel
Zap2It.comThe most suspenseful sequence in "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" has the American treasure hunter played by Nicolas Cage masquerading as a local and haranguing a London bobby in Buckingham Palace. Your breathing becomes very rapid and your knuckles...Tags: Jon Voight, Liberty Bell, The White House, Wisconsin, Ed Harris
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Spying proves irresistibly seductive to agent
Despite strong competition from "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Days of Glory," Germany's "The Lives of Others," which arrives Tuesday on DVD, won the Oscar this year for foreign language film. The gripping dramatic thriller marked the film debut of writer-...Tags: Diseases, Death and Dying, Joely Fisher, Robert Zemeckis, Culture
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'Jericho's' Struggle to Survive Continues
Zap2It.comThe wind is whipping hard in the San Fernando Valley on this late-November day. Clouds threaten for a while, and then the sun comes out. And yet, the pavement in Jericho, Kan., is, as always, wet. "Reads better on camera," explains a crew member on the...Tags: San Fernando, Van Nuys, CBS Corp., Los Angeles, Television
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'Jericho' Producers Promise Several Answers
Zap2It.comAlthough CBS decided that TV critics needed only a small panel discussion with the "Jericho" team, a room overflowing with reporters turned up to hear what's coming up on the post-apocalyptic drama. Amidst a mushroom cloud of mystery, "Jericho" went...Tags: CBS Corp., Skeet Ulrich
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Review: 'Jericho'
Zap2It.comFor its first 10 minutes, CBS' "Jericho" is the most banal of prodigal son returns stories, as 32-year-old Jake (Skeet Ulrich) journeys back home to Jericho, Kansas to make amends and collect his inheritance. Things go a little bit haywire when...Tags: Television Industry, CBS Corp., Pamela Reed, Kansas, Sprague
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They're just one big nuclear family
Newsday Staff WriterJust one thing weird about Wednesday's otherwise enthralling pilot episode of CBS' new post-nuke family drama "Jericho." How does an entire Kansas small town face the possible end of the world, or at least civilization as we know it, without somebody...Tags: Family, Literature, Baseball, CBS Corp., Pamela Reed
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Oscar week's house of style
Special to The TimesLast week, interior designer Amanda Masters alighted, ever so briefly, on an Ultrasuede banquette built into the circular sunken living room in a 1990s Mt. Olympus McBachelor Pad. The clock was ticking relentlessly. Masters had just six more days and a...Tags: Furniture, Hotels and Accommodations, Celebrity, Sade, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Movie review: 'National Treasure'
3 stars (out of 4) Nicolas Cage can't make up his mind. Action hero or Academy darling? Ken doll or Coppola? With his off-kilter delivery and unconventional physical appeal, Cage travels seamlessly between drastically different genres, carving out an...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Travolta, John Adams, Sean Bean
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'National Treasure'
Times Staff WriterIs it even possible anymore to make a Jerry Bruckheimer-style movie with a straight face? Can we absorb another army-of-one rogue hero, another blindingly beautiful blond love interest with a PhD, another pile-driving musical score accompanied by...Tags: Family, Freemasonry, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Verizon Communications
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