| TBS moving to national TV schedule
DON'T click to ESPN if you're looking for baseball playoff coverage next week. The early postseason has moved to TBS. This means, among other things, you'll get commentary from actress Alyssa Milano instead of venerable scribe Peter Gammons. Charmed, I'm sure. It is a brave new world for baseball on TBS, and part of it means that next season, it won't be a Braves' world anymore on the "superstation" former Atlanta club owner Ted Turner started as WTBS. After 31 seasons with a Braves' schedule, TBS baseball will go to a national Sunday afternoon schedule in 2008. The 2007 playoffs are the start of this new telecast deal. TBS will air all of the division series games, starting with a tripleheader Wednesday (with any conflicts in game coverage landing on sister network TNT).
Alyssa Milano to join 'Earl' cast this fall
Former "Charmed" star Alyssa Milano will bewitch a certain incarcerated, mustachioed do-gooder this fall. Milano has landed a recurring part on NBC's "My Name Is Earl," playing a woman whose path in life starts to parallel that of the karma-seeking Earl Hickey (Jason Lee). Her first appearance, along with that of fellow guest star Michael Rapaport ("The War at Home"), will come in early October. "We have two very strong actresses (Jaime Pressly and Nadine Velazquez) on the show, so when we were going to bring in a third for a few episodes, we knew we had to get someone with some real presence," series creator Greg Garcia says. "Alyssa is a popular TV star, and we're delighted to have her join us for what will be a great storyline." Milano will play Billie, the girlfriend of Earl's old acquaintance and fellow jail inmate Frank (Rapaport).
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You may not remember the men behind this 1970s pop-rock band but you definitely would the infectious tunes they came up with. WHAT I like about you, you really know how to dance / When you go up, down, jump around, think about true romance�. Remember those lines? I bet you do. Now, how about this one? �I hear the secrets that you keep, when you�re talking in your sleep�. What I Like About You and Talking in Your Sleep are two songs that most of us have in our heads, but I�ll bet that the names Wally Palmar, Mike Skill and Jimmy Marinos mean nothing to you. Well, those guys (along with first Rich Cole, and then Coz Canler) were the songwriters/performers behind the little-known but rather influential New Wave band The Romantics. Formed in early 1977 (there�s an urban legend attributing the band�s name to a formation date on Valentine�s Day, but I�ve thought that reeked of some bored promotions executive trying to spice up the band�s bio), The Romantics came along at just the right time.
Mirren, McAdams join 'State of Play' cast
Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams and Robin Wright Penn have joined the cast of "State of Play," a Hollywood film version of the acclaimed British miniseries. The political thriller will be directed by "The Last King of Scotland" director Kevin Macdonald and co-stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Jason Bateman. It is about a newspaper’s investigation into the death of the girlfriend of a popular U.S. congressman. McAdams will play a reporter, while Mirren will play the newspaper's tough-as-nails editor and Wright Penn will play the congressman's estranged wife, Variety.com reported Tuesday. // Copyright 2007 by United Press International
Publication date: 26 September 2007 Source: Archive .
Robert Cuffley walking the Walk
Through no fault of our own, my conversation with Robert Cuffley turns to Jessica Alba. These things happen when two or more men are in a room. Specifically, the Calgary-based filmmaker is marvelling at the marketing for Good Luck Chuck -- and the campaign's signature image of Alba dreamily cradling a melting ice cream cone. "It has an awesome movie poster," Cuffley says. "It wasn't garbled with text or eight faces. It was just Jessica Alba. They did a series (of posters) too. I wish we had the budget for that." This isn't the sort of commercial-minded admission you expect from a Canadian filmmaker. Nor is his desire to have his films seen by the masses. Yet Cuffley makes no apologies. "I'm a very proud Albertan and Canadian, but you can't just think about what people in Nova Scotia are going to think (of the movie) -- you need to think about Detroit and Denmark.
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