By Stacey Harrison When discussing her role as executive producer on her new show, Laura Linney could just as easily be talking about the character she plays. “What it basically allows me to do, in a nutshell, is that I don’t have to keep my mouth shut if I have an opinion about something,” says [...]
By Stacey Harrison Do we need another take on the La Femme Nikita story, which started out as a 1990 French film, was remade for American audiences in 1993 as Point of No Return, and then was the subject of a long-running series on the USA Network? Absolutely not. But if we must have one, [...]
By Stacey Harrison Later this week, I’ll be neck-deep in what is often called the Super Bowl of geekdom: Comic-Con 2010. An expected 125,000 rabid fans of all things pop culture will crowd the San Diego Convention Center eager to see glimpses of the movies, TV shows, video games and, yes, even comic books that [...]
By Stacey Harrison South Florida isn’t an unusual place to set a detective show, especially one with a dark sense of humor. It isn’t often, however, that most of the action is set outside the bright lights and sexy beaches of Miami. But that’s exactly what the creators of The Glades, premiering Sunday on A&E, [...]
By Stacey Harrison Everybody understands that TV shows can be canceled. It’s the risk you take in investing your energy into an intricately plotted drama like Lost or even an affable comedy like The Office, whose viewers are among the most loyal anywhere. Each episode is not a triumph of creativity so much as a [...]
By Stacey Harrison and Karl J. Paloucek Karl: I’ve never been a terribly big Tom Cruise fan. Yes, he has done some good work, and I have enjoyed at least a couple of his films over the years, but neither he nor Cameron Diaz — whose relative success has admittedly puzzled me since her There’s [...]
By Stacey Harrison There’s not much shock value these days in a TV show that opens with scantily clad teenagers prancing about in the sun. But the teens in Huge aren’t the sort you usually see flaunting their physiques. Set at a weight-loss camp, the ABC Family comedy/drama based on the novel by Sasha Paley [...]
By Stacey Harrison Back in 2005, when Jeff VanVonderen agreed to take part in a documentary series that would chronicle interventions for addicts, he did so hoping to raise awareness about a method of treatment many people did not know was an option. It’s succeeded far beyond what he or anyone else could have imagined, [...]
By Stacey Harrison Just when you thought there was nothing new to learn about Jaws, The Bio Channel brings forth a new documentary that takes a deeper look at the movie that many say created the summer blockbuster as we know it. Just in time for the film’s 35th anniversary, Jaws: The Inside Story premieres [...]
By Stacey Harrison Today is a huge day for fans of Pretty Little Liars. The eighth and final book (Wanted) in Sara Shepard’s popular teen saga comes to bookstores, and the TV series based on the books premieres on ABC Family. The twisty drama follows four popular high-school friends — Aria, Emily, Hannah and Spencer [...]
