Month: March 2019

At the time, this seemed like Hollywood whimsy
.For an episode that airs Thursday, “Superstore” shot a blizzard in Los Angeles. “People were bringing their kids to … see snow for the first time,” said Colton Dunn, who plays Garrett.
It seemed especially odd, because the show is set in St. Louis, which barely averages 15 inches of snow a year.
And then? In January – after that episode was shot – a storm hit. St. Louis had 8-12 inches; parts of Missouri had 20. Read more…

Patricia Arquette was busy un-transforming.
She was returning to her old self, after being Tilly in “Escape to Dannemora.” Then she found Dee Dee and “The Act.”
I started losing weight after ‘Dannemora,’“ Arquette sid. “Then I stopped for this.”
It’s another true story, another troubled soul, another transformation — this time holding back a tad. Read more…

TV sometimes has idealized worlds, where people know and care for every neighbor.It’s had Mayberry and Walton’s Mountain and Smurfs Village and such. And now, it has … well, a chunk of New York City.Lorraine Toussaint, who stars, says that’s believable. “’The Village’ is not at all foreign to me,” she said. “It’s an old New York that I knew.” Read more…

In its long lifetime, “Project Runway” has kept bouncing around.It’s gone from Bravo to Lifetime and back to Bravo.
It’s escaped the ownership of Harvey Weinstein. It’s changed hosts and mentors and more.It even dumped the original producers … then put them back in charge. “We keep saying, ‘It’s like getting your baby back,” Jane Lipsitz said.
Except, of course, that babies are never the same after 14 years and 17 TV seasons. Read more…

We used to think scams were just for rubes and suckers. Slick grifters cheated the unsuspecting.That was before Bernie Madoff bilked the wealthy. It was before Elizabeth Holmes.Her company, Theranos, drew prominent backers. “Rupert Murdoch, I think, invested $125 million,” said Alex Gibney, whose HBO documentary is Monday … three days after one on ABC. Read more…

Fiction, it seems, is way more fun than real life. That’s because you can rewrite the ending.
Marcia Clark disliked the real ending of the O.J. Simpson murder trial: She lost; he won.
But now she’s helping write and produce a fictional tale that sounds familiar, with a twist. Read more…