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10 July 2008 8:15 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Don't eat the mushrooms! They're petrified!

Photo: Warner Bros./New Line Cinema I can't say I was surprised I enjoyed Journey to the Center of the Earth, and no, it wasn't because of the gimmicky 3-D vision. It's because it's a relatively fun film. The 3-D does give you a bit of a jump here and there, I'll admit I jumped at a bunch of bouncing balls and I'll be damned if those fish don't give you a start, regardless of whether you are watching it with your horn-rimmed 3-D goggles or not. Yeah, you can catch this one in 3-D or traditional old 2-d and I don't think you will mind one way or another. The point of it all is that you should have a pretty good time either way. The premise is simple; you know the Jules Vern novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth"? Well,

Brad Brevet

27 June 2008 10:32 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

In an apparent effort to avoid last year's embarrassment when the titles of the "short lists" of Emmy contenders leaked out on the Internet, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences made the unprecedented decision on Thursday to itself reveal the full lists. The lists -- ten shows in the best-comedy category; ten in the best-drama -- are determined by the votes of all members of the academy. A "blue ribbon" panel then winnows the lists down to the five official nominees in each category, which this year are due to be announced on July 17. (This year's Emmy awards show is scheduled for Sept. 21.) The ten drama finalists include: Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, House, Lost, Mad Men, The Tudors and The Wire. The ten comedy finalists include: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, The Office, Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, Two and a Half Men, Ugly Betty and Weeds.

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26 June 2008 6:36 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Desperate Housewives and Heroes have been snubbed for Emmy Awards a year after making the top 10 finalists lists for Best Comedy and Drama.

Instead, Emmy first timer Family Guy and critics' favourite Mad Men will take their place.

Announcing the finalist lists for the upcoming TV awards a day early, website GoldDerby.com reveals Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Flight of The Conchords, The Office, Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Two and a Half Men and Weeds will compete for Best Comedy Series.

Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, House, Lost, Mad Men, The Tudors and The Wire have been named the top 10 Drama Series finalists.

The awards will be handed out on 6 September.

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6 June 2008 1:42 PM, PDT | From Brothers and Sisters-TV | See recent Brothers and Sisters-TV news

I got this article in an email and highlighted the B&S mentions. No mention of the guys or Emily. Here's the link to the site The Envelope

Propects for Emmy acting awards

From drama, comedy and miniseries, these actors are up for the part.

By Tom O'Neil, The Envelope

June 4, 2008

Emmy's winners for acting are chosen in a three-tier system by actors who belong to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. During the first two weeks of June, they participate in a popular vote that determines a Top 10 runoff in each race. Finalists submit a sample episode of their best work to judges, whose scores are combined by accountants in a 50-50 mix with results of the original popular vote. The five nominees in each category are then announced July 17. Winners are decided based on judges' scores of the sample episodes and are revealed at the awards ceremony to

22 May 2008 2:04 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Too many biopics simplify their subjects' lives down to the point where it seems like great people never suffer through false starts: From childhood on, they aim themselves, arrow-like, at their goals. Which makes for good mythmaking, but a lousy portrayal of real life. The Children Of Huang Shi, a portrait of British journalist George Hogg, is romanticized in some respects, with enough lit-fic gloss that it resembles a respectable film adaptation of a Somerset Maugham novel. But at least it gets across the way Hogg stumbled into his life's work unintentionally: Even great lives don't always work out as intended. Opening in 1937 with the Japanese occupation of China, Huang Shi follows Hogg (played with bristling energy by The Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers) as he cockily infiltrates a dangerous contested area, eager to scoop his competition. When he witnesses a mass execution of Chinese civilians—part of the...

Tasha Robinson

28 March 2008 11:26 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

One of Princess Diana's most famous lines is to feature in the upcoming second season of TV hit The Tudors after producer Michael Hirst insisted on putting it in the mouth of Henry Viii's mistress-turned-second wife Anne Boleyn.

Hirst was so excited when he realised Henry's love triangle with Boleyn and his first wife Catherine of Aragon mirrored that of Prince Charles, Diana and Camilla Parker-Bowles, he insisted on making subtle links.

And when Boleyn scolds Henry, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, raging, "You can't have three people in a marriage," Hirst admits the words are lifted straight from Diana.

He tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper, "I was very naughty. I had Anne Boleyn say it because it was an extraordinarily similar situation.

"I like the fact that I can put in these contemporary references, just to point out that things don't change that much."

The second season of the hit period drama debuts on Sunday in America.

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27 March 2008 10:16 PM, PDT | From Watcher | See recent Watcher news

Not every historical drama has to be as deep and serious as HBO’s “John Adams,” which is admirable and engaging but not exactly escapist viewing.

Sometimes you  just want to escape into the world of frock coats and palaces and corsets, and there’s a great tradition of costume dramas that seek to entertain more than they educate.

“Sense and Sensibility,” a two-part Pbs remake of the classic Jane Austen  novel (9 p.m. Sunday, Wttw-Ch. 11 ) does a credible job of telling the tale of the Dashwood sisters, despite some unnecessary melodramatic flourishes and an inconsistent tone. Yet by focusing on the characters within those Regency costumes, it manages to find the emotional truths that have kept Austen’s books in print for 200 years.

“The Tudors,” which returns for its second season Sunday (8 p.m., Showtime),  gets the pomp-and-circumstance part right, but is consistently disappointing in several other areas. Chief

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7 articles from 2008