Thesp has signed on to shoot a pilot presentation for the pay cabler.
Ilene Chaiken, creator and exec producer of "The L Word," will write and produce the pilot. Shooting is skedded for December.
Since 2004, Hailey has played Alice on "The L Word," a series about a group of gay and straight women living in a trendy Los Angeles neighborhood. The sixth and final season of the Showtime-produced skein is slated to run in January.
in Variety.com - Home Ent.
Sticking absurdly close to the same formula as the original, down to the opening theme and the filming style, the new version lacks that same sense of wonder and awe that Beverly Hills decadence and excesses once held over viewers. Thanks to Paris Hilton and reality TV, not much of what happens at the fictional West Beverly Hills High School seems all that shocking. As it is, the show coasts by mainly on a wave of nostalgia and stunt casting.
The two-hour premiere, a combination of the first and second episodes, sets the stage for plenty of drama for Kansas natives Annie Wilson (Shenae Grimes) and her adopted brother Dixon (Tristan Wilds) as they navigate their way among the brazen bloggers and posh cliques of their new school. Making matters worse, their dad, Harry Wilson (Rob Estes) is the new principal.
in Variety.com - TV Show Reviews
Bernie Mac, a stand-up comic who played evil-tongued but lovable rogues in films like “Bad Santa” and “Mr. 3000” and combined menace and sentiment as a reluctant foster father on “The Bernie Mac Show” on Fox, died on Saturday in Chicago. He was 50 and lived near the city.
The cause was complications from pneumonia, his publicist, Danica Smith, said.Mr. Mac, an angry stage presence with a line of scabrous insults, parlayed his success as a stand-up comedian onto the big screen in a string of comedies that usually cast him as wily con men like Pastor Clever in “Friday” (1995) and Gin, the store detective in “Bad Santa” (2003). He also excelled playing short-tempered misanthropes, notably in his starring role as Stan Ross, the nation’s most hated baseball player, in “Mr. 3000” (2004).
in The New York Times - TelevisionOS ANDRADES