Action series ‘Aaron Stone' leads off new Disney XD lineup
McClatchy Newspapers
2/12/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - A teenage action hero has been selected to lead the way in the transformation of the cable channel Toon Disney into Disney XD. "Aaron Stone" is the first original series for the channel's new focus: young male TV viewers. The redesigned Disney XD will be unveiled ...
‘Terminator's' petite Summer Glau can kick tail with the best of them
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2/12/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Pound for pound, Summer Glau is one of the toughest stars in the action film and television world. That she stands a mere 5-feet-6 and weighs about as much as a Boston Terrier has not stopped the Texas native from being the muscle on TV shows like "Firefly" and ...
John Francis Daley is making his ‘Bones' on Fox series
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2/11/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - When baby-faced actor John Francis Daley joined the cast of "Bones" to play psychologist Lance Sweets, he expected to be at the receiving end of some sharp barbs about his youthful looks. He just wants to deflect enough of those witty remarks so the viewers respect the ...
Jay Leno's next go-round will mix familiar, ‘fresh'
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2/11/2009, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Just what will Jay Leno's new 10 p.m. EST Monday-Friday show look like next fall? The host and NBC Universal sent contradictory messages in Orlando recently.
"You can look for an even longer monologue," said Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal president and CEO. "Clearly, that ...
‘Fringe' benefits: Chemistry between characters surprises Joshua Jackson
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2/6/2009, by Ellen Gray
Philadelphia Daily News (MCT) - For some fans, sci-fi's always been as much about the relationships as about the little green men and displaced polar bears. "The X-Files'" Mulder and Scully. "Lost's" Kate and Jack. (And, OK, Kate and Sawyer.) "Battlestar Galactica's" Adama and Roslin.
They're all ...
‘ER' shoots final Chicago scenes
McClatchy Newspapers
2/4/2009, by Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Actor David Lyons stomps his feet under the "L" in Uptown, trying to keep warm. He's here as Dr. Simon Brenner, clad in a thin black coat over a white doctor's coat, to shoot scenes for the final few episodes of "ER."
Even though the NBC drama is wrapping its 15th season of ...
Super Bowl ads: More gems than clunkers
McClatchy Newspapers
2/2/2009, by Steve Johnson
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Not much was expected of the Super Bowl ads this year. Recession. A national mood of hyper-rational un-exuberance potentially rendering the usual collection of bathroom and frat-boy humor inappropriate. Advertisers' plans changing at the last minute to accommodate the dark ...
Super Bowl commercials still pouring it on
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1/29/2009, by Rick Kushman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - There is good news and bad news about being a Super Bowl advertiser. The good part: People actually watch your ad. And the bad? People watch the ad. If you think there's pressure on the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Arizona Cardinals in Sunday's Super Bowl, well, actually ...
‘Battlestar Galactica' nears the finish line
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1/29/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Ron Moore helped take a rather cheesy old TV series called "Battlestar Galactica" (1978-79) and make it something special. As co-executive producer and writer of the current series on the Sci Fi Channel, he gave the show depth through a rich and often complicated ...
Pastor Ted, in trouble again, on HBO again
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1/28/2009, by Aaron Barnhart
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The premise for the first one was strange enough: Alexandra Pelosi, filmmaker, daughter of the Speaker of the House, not much of a believer by her own admission, palling around with fundagelicals while making a HBO documentary about them called "Friends of God." Her ...
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