I think this has to do more about the stalker .Wasn't she having problems getting a restraining order? And also probably the reason she's looking for a new apartment.JenRox wrote:She has talked about it several times before. ^^ It's probably scary for her, too, with that other guy running around. It surprised me when she moved there because it is a super high foot traffic location, as well.
That video sucks, poor Jen. :( Thank you, Luka!
I was in NYC recently and went past her house...it does have major foot traffic and is opposite a really stunning beautiful park that is a very popular tourist spot with Shake Shack right in the middleJenRox wrote:She has talked about it several times before. ^^ It's probably scary for her, too, with that other guy running around. It surprised me when she moved there because it is a super high foot traffic location, as well.
That video sucks, poor Jen. :( Thank you, Luka!
Her apartment building sits in the middle of two high rise buildings that over look her balcony...so for privacy levels it's not the most ideal however, we are talking about NYC here.
Every building is interconnected and complete privacy is unheard of....paps in an ideal world should however respect her and not shoot outside her apartment but by Jen screaming get away from my house she has just told the world it's her house...for anyone watching or looking at the pics she is simply entering a building like she did all day but she changed that by yelling at the paps and making it a moment...a moment the paps love and crave for. :( :(
Jennifer Lopez takes a stand against the paparazzi
On Wednesday, several photos of Jennifer Lopez making her way to and from press events hit the wires. In one—the best one—Lopez is taking a selfie or checking her makeup in a $6,795 fur coat while two men shielded her from the rain with umbrellas. She looks gorgeous and like a diva in the classic 1990s definition of the term.
Later, at the premiere of the second season Shades of Blue at Manhattan’s Roxy Hotel she gave W.W.D. an overarching statement regarding the paparazzi (It sounds as though she hadn’t seen that particular picture or any of the others taken while she was on the promotional circuit this week).
“Were they were outside my house? They upset me,” she said. “I really feel like I play so fair with the media all the time and I’m super gracious with everybody and all I ask is them to stay away from my kids and that one little— like when I got home, just let me go home. It’s disrespectful. I don’t want people around my kids like that, in that way.”
She added, “I don’t know what you saw, but it was in a moment that was not happy for me today because everything’s so wonderful in my life and we’re having such a great day.”
Lopez joins the ranks of celebrities speaking out against pap-stalking, especially when it comes to their kids. Jennifer Garner,, Kristen Bell, and Halle Berry were advocates for passing a paparazzi law in California that increased fines and could include potential jail time for violators. J. Lo also reportedly included an anti-paparazzi clause in her divorce documents with Marc Anthony. Jennifer
On Wednesday, several photos of Jennifer Lopez making her way to and from press events hit the wires. In one—the best one—Lopez is taking a selfie or checking her makeup in a $6,795 fur coat while two men shielded her from the rain with umbrellas. She looks gorgeous and like a diva in the classic 1990s definition of the term.
Later, at the premiere of the second season Shades of Blue at Manhattan’s Roxy Hotel she gave W.W.D. an overarching statement regarding the paparazzi (It sounds as though she hadn’t seen that particular picture or any of the others taken while she was on the promotional circuit this week).
“Were they were outside my house? They upset me,” she said. “I really feel like I play so fair with the media all the time and I’m super gracious with everybody and all I ask is them to stay away from my kids and that one little— like when I got home, just let me go home. It’s disrespectful. I don’t want people around my kids like that, in that way.”
She added, “I don’t know what you saw, but it was in a moment that was not happy for me today because everything’s so wonderful in my life and we’re having such a great day.”
Lopez joins the ranks of celebrities speaking out against pap-stalking, especially when it comes to their kids. Jennifer Garner,, Kristen Bell, and Halle Berry were advocates for passing a paparazzi law in California that increased fines and could include potential jail time for violators. J. Lo also reportedly included an anti-paparazzi clause in her divorce documents with Marc Anthony. Jennifer
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Bennifer again :D where do they get this shit? is it legal to just make stuff up? (serious question) I mean they have to have some proof or stuff?
Bennifer again :D where do they get this shit? is it legal to just make stuff up? (serious question) I mean they have to have some proof or stuff?
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I hope It's true. He is more mature now and he was the love of her life.sarahs wrote:http://radaronline.com/videos/ben-affle ... ner-split/
Bennifer again :D where do they get this shit? is it legal to just make stuff up? (serious question) I mean they have to have some proof or stuff?
sarahs wrote:http://radaronline.com/videos/ben-affle ... ner-split/
Bennifer again :D where do they get this shit? is it legal to just make stuff up? (serious question) I mean they have to have some proof or stuff?
I love telenovelas.Meanwhile, the insider claimed Affleck’s been desperate to reconnect and tried to cast Lopez in his most recent flop, Live by Night —an idea that was vetoed, the source said, by Garner.
“Jen was always paranoid about JLo and it looks like she was right,” the insider claimed.
Now, it’s all systems go.
Said the source, “Ben and Jen have been meeting in secret, and tongues are wagging that they’re serious about making it work this time!”
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American press writes the best fanfics ever.sarahs wrote:http://radaronline.com/videos/ben-affle ... ner-split/
Bennifer again :D where do they get this shit? is it legal to just make stuff up? (serious question) I mean they have to have some proof or stuff?
Just heard Jen and Alex A Rod are dating. God I hope not!
Jennifer Lopez and Drake’s winter fling is definitely over.
We here at lovebscott.com can exclusively report that Jennifer has been spending some good quality time with former baseball superstar and new FOX sports analyst Alex Rodriguez — aka A-Rod.
A source tells lovebscott.com exclusively:
J. Lo’s new man is A-Rod. They’ve been quietly dating for a couple months. Her thing w/ Drake ended after TMZ reported he hooked up with French booty model /porn star Rosee Divine in Amsterdam back in January. This was after Drake spent Christmas with J. Lo and her family! She promptly kicked him to the curb. [She and A-Rod] haven’t gone public yet, but I can confirm this is absolutely true.
The source adds:
He was with her in Vegas during this latest leg of her Planet Hollywood Vegas show. They were all coupled up behind the scenes, not public, but absolutely not hiding their relationship around close friends and family. It is definitely for real.
A-Rod, 41, has two kids — 12-year-old Natasha and 8-year-old Ella — from his marriage to Cynthia Scurtis. They divorced in 2008. He’s since dated Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz, Torrie Wilson, and Anne Wojcicki.
So — is it too early to start calling Jennifer and Alex “J-Rod”?
http://www.lovebscott.com/news/exclusiv ... -rodriguez
We here at lovebscott.com can exclusively report that Jennifer has been spending some good quality time with former baseball superstar and new FOX sports analyst Alex Rodriguez — aka A-Rod.
A source tells lovebscott.com exclusively:
J. Lo’s new man is A-Rod. They’ve been quietly dating for a couple months. Her thing w/ Drake ended after TMZ reported he hooked up with French booty model /porn star Rosee Divine in Amsterdam back in January. This was after Drake spent Christmas with J. Lo and her family! She promptly kicked him to the curb. [She and A-Rod] haven’t gone public yet, but I can confirm this is absolutely true.
The source adds:
He was with her in Vegas during this latest leg of her Planet Hollywood Vegas show. They were all coupled up behind the scenes, not public, but absolutely not hiding their relationship around close friends and family. It is definitely for real.
A-Rod, 41, has two kids — 12-year-old Natasha and 8-year-old Ella — from his marriage to Cynthia Scurtis. They divorced in 2008. He’s since dated Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz, Torrie Wilson, and Anne Wojcicki.
So — is it too early to start calling Jennifer and Alex “J-Rod”?
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I'm here for it! DOMINICANS IN DA HOUSE!!!! Alex is a man I can see Jennifer finding stability with. He is successful and grown and understands her business. Plus he has kids and knows what that is like. Go Jennifer.
But i agree with her point, she is so gracious with the media, she always stops talks photos, speaks with everyone so is it too much to ask that she be left alone at her home? i think its fair, she is way more accommodating then a lot of other stars.. #teamjlo with this one :)JenRox wrote:I'm sure she always hates it, because that is one of the few things she has complained about. She was probably over it after a super long day.daisylo wrote:yeah but there is many pictures of her leaving her apartment when she was filming Shades, maybe something else happened or they were too close this time.JenRox wrote:She has talked about it several times before. ^^ It's probably scary for her, too, with that other guy running around. It surprised me when she moved there because it is a super high foot traffic location, as well.
That video sucks, poor Jen. :( Thank you, Luka!
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Leading Ladies: A Look at Women's No. 1 Success in the Hot 100's History (Billboard article)
http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... -100-chart
2000s Leaderboard: Beyonce, Rihanna (5 No. 1s each during the decade), Mariah Carey (4)
Key Stat: Kelly Clarkson makes the biggest leap to No. 1 in Hot 100 history, vaulting 97-1 with "My Life Would Suck Without You" in 2009.
Percentage of No. 1s by women: 40 percent
With a new millennium came a fresh wave of female pop and R&B superstars, who combined to lead the Hot 100 with 40 percent of all No. 1s in the century's opening frame (down from 49 percent for the '90s, but still nearly double women's showings in the '60s and '70s).
Beyonce – like Diana Ross decades before – stepped out from her group for a blockbuster solo career, as the former Destiny Child's frontwoman turned in five No. 1s throughout the decade, with each logging at least one month atop the Hot 100.
As three of Beyonce's No. 1s ("Crazy in Love," featuring Jay Z; "Baby Boy," featuring Sean Paul; and "Check On It," featuring Slim Thug) proved, the popularity of rap/sung collaborations also aided women in reaching the top of the Hot 100. Besides Beyonce, the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys and Nelly Furtado topped the Hot 100 with accompanied rappers.
In addition, certified legends defied previous expectations of career longevity, with Janet Jackson, Madonna and Mariah Carey plugging additional No. 1 hits more than 15 years into their careers. Just weeks after one another in 2000, Jackson and Madonna became the first artists to score No. 1 hits in the '80s, '90s and '00s.
Plus, the 2002 arrival of American Idol proved a new showcase for female talent, especially. Led by original queen Kelly Clarkson and 2005 winner Carrie Underwood, six songs by Idol champs or finalists topped the Hot 100 in the '00s, four of them by women.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... -100-chart
2000s Leaderboard: Beyonce, Rihanna (5 No. 1s each during the decade), Mariah Carey (4)
Key Stat: Kelly Clarkson makes the biggest leap to No. 1 in Hot 100 history, vaulting 97-1 with "My Life Would Suck Without You" in 2009.
Percentage of No. 1s by women: 40 percent
With a new millennium came a fresh wave of female pop and R&B superstars, who combined to lead the Hot 100 with 40 percent of all No. 1s in the century's opening frame (down from 49 percent for the '90s, but still nearly double women's showings in the '60s and '70s).
Beyonce – like Diana Ross decades before – stepped out from her group for a blockbuster solo career, as the former Destiny Child's frontwoman turned in five No. 1s throughout the decade, with each logging at least one month atop the Hot 100.
As three of Beyonce's No. 1s ("Crazy in Love," featuring Jay Z; "Baby Boy," featuring Sean Paul; and "Check On It," featuring Slim Thug) proved, the popularity of rap/sung collaborations also aided women in reaching the top of the Hot 100. Besides Beyonce, the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys and Nelly Furtado topped the Hot 100 with accompanied rappers.
In addition, certified legends defied previous expectations of career longevity, with Janet Jackson, Madonna and Mariah Carey plugging additional No. 1 hits more than 15 years into their careers. Just weeks after one another in 2000, Jackson and Madonna became the first artists to score No. 1 hits in the '80s, '90s and '00s.
Plus, the 2002 arrival of American Idol proved a new showcase for female talent, especially. Led by original queen Kelly Clarkson and 2005 winner Carrie Underwood, six songs by Idol champs or finalists topped the Hot 100 in the '00s, four of them by women.
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A-Rod is a disgrace and a douche but he fine as hell. A man like him would suite her well
US Weekly is reporting it, so it might be real.
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-new ... rt-w471157
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-new ... rt-w471157
US Weekly is no more reliable than any other gossip rag lol. Their source is still B Scott who is unreliable and liking of Instagram posts. Not saying it's not true but US weekly reporting it definitely doesn't mean it is.
Alex Rodriguez's face = Marc Anthony + Casper Smart :ROFL:
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It didn’t take long for the Oscar awards season to end (with a bang) and for Emmy season to kick off. Just as #Envelopegate and the Best Picture debacle at the 89th annual Academy Awards signaled a bittersweet finale for movie contenders after a six-month trek from Telluride to the Dolby, NBC and Universal Television threw a lunch Monday at Ysabel to unofficially launch the six-month trek to the Microsoft Theatre for Emmy hopefuls.
The invite simply promised “an intimate private lunch with showrunners and actors from NBC and Universal Television’s current series to provide access and help trigger ideas for your Emmy coverage.” And that it did as the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, the gang from This Is Us, Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, Derek Hough and others mingled with awards pundits and other journalists.
I sat down with Lopez and her Shades Of Blue producers Jack Orman and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and seemed to immediately astound them with the news I had actually watched their Season 2 premiere Sunday night while it was on. Goldsmith-Thomas noted most people watch TV in other than that good-old-fashioned way, and that in its first season Blue did exceptionally well in ratings taking into account delayed DVR watching.
Lopez could not be busier with this series; her live Las Vegas shows; another NBC reality series World Of Dance, which she produces and on which she will serve as a judge; and the next live NBC musical Bye Bye Birdie coming in December. She told me the role of Harlee in Shades Of Blue is exactly the kind of acting she wants to do now and notes TV has provided such great opportunities, even though she is developing a couple of big-screen features at the same time. The trio were already talking about what the third season of the NBC show will look like.
I also asked Lopez what she knew about reports that NBC, not Fox, is planning to bring back American Idol even though it hasn’t even been a year since its grand so-called finale. She said she heard that, and thought it was interesting, but didn’t know anything further at this point. Lopez’s plate is so full I don’t know where she would fit it in if asked to come back as a judge again. She’s especially excited about doing Birdie, and said she has included a key number from the show, “A Lot Of Livin’ To Do” since starting her Vegas act. She will play Rose, the role Chita Rivera created on Broadway and Janet Leigh did in the movie version, and this TV version (the second time it has been attempted on network television) will include tunes from the original show that weren’t in the movie.
This was all her idea as NBC’s Bob Greenblatt told me when I visited the set of their last musical, Hairspray, in December. “She said, ‘I’ve fallen in love with Bye Bye Birdie and I want to do it with you guys,’ ” he said at the time. “We were already doing Shades Of Blue with her, and so I thought OK, this is perfect because it’s a family show, it’s got nostalgia, it’s got a great score. It’s funny when we announced it, I’ve not gotten the kind of reaction from any of the other shows we’ve done that we got for Birdie.” Among the shows showcased during the NBCUniversal lunch was indeed that live production of Hairspray, and one of its stars Derek Hough was there.
I also chatted with Carol Kane who plays Lillian in Universal and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She was in a nostalgic mood as we talked about her Oscar-nominated Best Actress performance in 1975’s Hester Street, working with Woody Allen in Annie Hall and James L. Brooks and Ed. Weinberger on Taxi which earned her two Emmys in the early ’80s. She compares working with writing mavens Robert Carlock and Tina Fey on Kimmy Schmidt to that kind of quality and loves doing the show, which has become an Emmy fixture in its first couple of seasons (the next one starts May 19).
I missed talking with Danson and Bell, stars of the new NBC series The Good Place (which just got a renewal), who were tucked in a corner of the restaurant. But I caught up with Paul and Monaghan of Hulu and Universal’s riveting drama series The Path, which is now in its second season, as well as Ferrera and Feldman who just wrapped their second season of the NBC sitcom Superstore and were hanging out with creator Justin Spitzer.
All of these shows seem to be hitting their stride as they move into their early seasons, but Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin, creators of Universal’s Psycho-tinged Bates Motel, are saying goodbye to that A&E staple after the fifth and final season which launched last month. Cuse says this season really will have echoes of Hitchcock’s original in more ways than before with no less than Rihanna showing up as Marion Crane, the infamous role Janet Leigh (again) made famous in that 1960 classic. Cuse is really making an Emmy pitch, particularly for star Vera Farmiga as Norma, Norman Bates’ mother in this prequel to the series of movies with Tony Perkins. He notes she was nominated in 2013, but feels Emmy voters really need to take another look at her as well as co-star Freddie Highmore who plays Norman. The series hasn’t gotten a lot of Emmy action, but Cuse is hoping that can change with this swan song of a season. He knows from finales — people are still debating that ending of his show Lost.
It is always tough for veteran series to get the kind of attention the new kids on the block get, and that has never been more evident than in the success of NBC’s breakout hit This Is Us, which wraps its first season next week. I had a good time talking the success of the show with stars Milo Ventimiglia (there with a cast on his right arm after surgery for a tendon), Justin Hartley, Chris Sullivan and Ron Cephas Jones whose highly emotional death episode recently left no dry eyes in living rooms all over America.
Jones, who plays William, the biological father of Sterling K. Brown’s Randall Pearson, told me he is hoping for some Emmy attention for the role especially considering the impact that particular episode has had. He said he is proud to have been part of the show’s phenomenal first season, but doesn’t know what category he might be considered for. “It depends on where Sterling goes,” he said, referring to the question of whether the recent Emmy winner (for The People Vs O.J. Simpson miniseries) is considered a lead or support. Jones could be in Guest Actor in a Drama Series if he has been in five or fewer episodes overall. It will be interesting to see where the cast members of this truly ensemble series get placed category-wise.
At any rate, This Is Us stands the best chance of any of the Big 4 broadcast networks to make a dent in what has become the cable- and streamer-dominated Best Drama Series category. Certainly Greenblatt knows it and hopes for the best as he told me when we spoke in December. “Network television gets kind of put on the back burner, because there’s always some great Netflix show, or some great FX show, or some great cable show, or Westworld,” he said. “There’s so many things, and people go, ‘Oh broadcast, you’re fine, we know what you do,’ but [This Is Us] is a show that really cuts through the clutter.’ There’s no big kind of crazy concept, or it’s not dark and twisted. It’s not sexual. It’s just a good-old-fashioned heart-tugging family show beautifully acted and beautifully written.”
Also there was Katie Hockmeyer, producer of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. We compared notes as it turns out we both started out as NBC pages (I was in Burbank, she in New York) and clearly it worked out nicely for her as she has been associated with Fallon even since his Saturday Night Live days. She was able to make the trip to L.A. because the show is dark this week. With Stephen Colbert nipping at Fallon’s heels (and even leading in total viewers again this week), and Jimmy Kimmel getting a nice bump off the Oscar gig, I wondered how the “late-night wars” might be going and got a simple answer. “What late night wars?” she laughed, indicating each one of the hosts does their own thing their own way. NBC is certainly hoping Fallon’s Tonight Show lands another Emmy nomination this year. Last year, Colbert’s show was overlooked as a nominee, but with his well-publicized resurgence because of all things Donald Trump, it’s a good bet he will be in contention this year especially as he is also hosting the show which airs September 17 on CBS. Looks like another fight in the Variety Talk Series category.
So the Emmy race is off and running, at least as far as NBCUniversal is concerned. But actually I have to say FX really got the jump on things by being the first (and so far only) studio/network to send out a For Your Consideration Emmy DVD screener — and they did it in early January (!) with a “Happy New Year” greeting as most minds were only tuned to Oscar nomination campaigns.
In an interesting choice FX made its long-running sitcom, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the recipient of my annual award for First Emmy Screener this year. But the packaging and the disc itself (which simply advertised “For Your Emmy Consideration”) did not even say the name of the show — anywhere. You had to put the
DVD on to discover four of this season’s episodes of the series, a show that premiered on FX back in 2005 and has yet to see any Emmy recognition except for three consecutive nods for Stunt Coordination in a Comedy or Variety Series between 2013 and 2015. The blind pitch on the inside of package asked for attention to what they noted was “one of the longest running live-action comedies” and that “it’s not too late, especially to vote for it for Outstanding Comedy Series and in all other categories.” The show, which stars Danny DeVito and Charlie Day among others, is hoping to finally gain notice by having already fired the opening shot of the 2017 Emmy season.
Let the games begin.
It didn’t take long for the Oscar awards season to end (with a bang) and for Emmy season to kick off. Just as #Envelopegate and the Best Picture debacle at the 89th annual Academy Awards signaled a bittersweet finale for movie contenders after a six-month trek from Telluride to the Dolby, NBC and Universal Television threw a lunch Monday at Ysabel to unofficially launch the six-month trek to the Microsoft Theatre for Emmy hopefuls.
The invite simply promised “an intimate private lunch with showrunners and actors from NBC and Universal Television’s current series to provide access and help trigger ideas for your Emmy coverage.” And that it did as the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, the gang from This Is Us, Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, Derek Hough and others mingled with awards pundits and other journalists.
I sat down with Lopez and her Shades Of Blue producers Jack Orman and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and seemed to immediately astound them with the news I had actually watched their Season 2 premiere Sunday night while it was on. Goldsmith-Thomas noted most people watch TV in other than that good-old-fashioned way, and that in its first season Blue did exceptionally well in ratings taking into account delayed DVR watching.
Lopez could not be busier with this series; her live Las Vegas shows; another NBC reality series World Of Dance, which she produces and on which she will serve as a judge; and the next live NBC musical Bye Bye Birdie coming in December. She told me the role of Harlee in Shades Of Blue is exactly the kind of acting she wants to do now and notes TV has provided such great opportunities, even though she is developing a couple of big-screen features at the same time. The trio were already talking about what the third season of the NBC show will look like.
I also asked Lopez what she knew about reports that NBC, not Fox, is planning to bring back American Idol even though it hasn’t even been a year since its grand so-called finale. She said she heard that, and thought it was interesting, but didn’t know anything further at this point. Lopez’s plate is so full I don’t know where she would fit it in if asked to come back as a judge again. She’s especially excited about doing Birdie, and said she has included a key number from the show, “A Lot Of Livin’ To Do” since starting her Vegas act. She will play Rose, the role Chita Rivera created on Broadway and Janet Leigh did in the movie version, and this TV version (the second time it has been attempted on network television) will include tunes from the original show that weren’t in the movie.
This was all her idea as NBC’s Bob Greenblatt told me when I visited the set of their last musical, Hairspray, in December. “She said, ‘I’ve fallen in love with Bye Bye Birdie and I want to do it with you guys,’ ” he said at the time. “We were already doing Shades Of Blue with her, and so I thought OK, this is perfect because it’s a family show, it’s got nostalgia, it’s got a great score. It’s funny when we announced it, I’ve not gotten the kind of reaction from any of the other shows we’ve done that we got for Birdie.” Among the shows showcased during the NBCUniversal lunch was indeed that live production of Hairspray, and one of its stars Derek Hough was there.
I also chatted with Carol Kane who plays Lillian in Universal and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She was in a nostalgic mood as we talked about her Oscar-nominated Best Actress performance in 1975’s Hester Street, working with Woody Allen in Annie Hall and James L. Brooks and Ed. Weinberger on Taxi which earned her two Emmys in the early ’80s. She compares working with writing mavens Robert Carlock and Tina Fey on Kimmy Schmidt to that kind of quality and loves doing the show, which has become an Emmy fixture in its first couple of seasons (the next one starts May 19).
I missed talking with Danson and Bell, stars of the new NBC series The Good Place (which just got a renewal), who were tucked in a corner of the restaurant. But I caught up with Paul and Monaghan of Hulu and Universal’s riveting drama series The Path, which is now in its second season, as well as Ferrera and Feldman who just wrapped their second season of the NBC sitcom Superstore and were hanging out with creator Justin Spitzer.
All of these shows seem to be hitting their stride as they move into their early seasons, but Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin, creators of Universal’s Psycho-tinged Bates Motel, are saying goodbye to that A&E staple after the fifth and final season which launched last month. Cuse says this season really will have echoes of Hitchcock’s original in more ways than before with no less than Rihanna showing up as Marion Crane, the infamous role Janet Leigh (again) made famous in that 1960 classic. Cuse is really making an Emmy pitch, particularly for star Vera Farmiga as Norma, Norman Bates’ mother in this prequel to the series of movies with Tony Perkins. He notes she was nominated in 2013, but feels Emmy voters really need to take another look at her as well as co-star Freddie Highmore who plays Norman. The series hasn’t gotten a lot of Emmy action, but Cuse is hoping that can change with this swan song of a season. He knows from finales — people are still debating that ending of his show Lost.
It is always tough for veteran series to get the kind of attention the new kids on the block get, and that has never been more evident than in the success of NBC’s breakout hit This Is Us, which wraps its first season next week. I had a good time talking the success of the show with stars Milo Ventimiglia (there with a cast on his right arm after surgery for a tendon), Justin Hartley, Chris Sullivan and Ron Cephas Jones whose highly emotional death episode recently left no dry eyes in living rooms all over America.
Jones, who plays William, the biological father of Sterling K. Brown’s Randall Pearson, told me he is hoping for some Emmy attention for the role especially considering the impact that particular episode has had. He said he is proud to have been part of the show’s phenomenal first season, but doesn’t know what category he might be considered for. “It depends on where Sterling goes,” he said, referring to the question of whether the recent Emmy winner (for The People Vs O.J. Simpson miniseries) is considered a lead or support. Jones could be in Guest Actor in a Drama Series if he has been in five or fewer episodes overall. It will be interesting to see where the cast members of this truly ensemble series get placed category-wise.
At any rate, This Is Us stands the best chance of any of the Big 4 broadcast networks to make a dent in what has become the cable- and streamer-dominated Best Drama Series category. Certainly Greenblatt knows it and hopes for the best as he told me when we spoke in December. “Network television gets kind of put on the back burner, because there’s always some great Netflix show, or some great FX show, or some great cable show, or Westworld,” he said. “There’s so many things, and people go, ‘Oh broadcast, you’re fine, we know what you do,’ but [This Is Us] is a show that really cuts through the clutter.’ There’s no big kind of crazy concept, or it’s not dark and twisted. It’s not sexual. It’s just a good-old-fashioned heart-tugging family show beautifully acted and beautifully written.”
Also there was Katie Hockmeyer, producer of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. We compared notes as it turns out we both started out as NBC pages (I was in Burbank, she in New York) and clearly it worked out nicely for her as she has been associated with Fallon even since his Saturday Night Live days. She was able to make the trip to L.A. because the show is dark this week. With Stephen Colbert nipping at Fallon’s heels (and even leading in total viewers again this week), and Jimmy Kimmel getting a nice bump off the Oscar gig, I wondered how the “late-night wars” might be going and got a simple answer. “What late night wars?” she laughed, indicating each one of the hosts does their own thing their own way. NBC is certainly hoping Fallon’s Tonight Show lands another Emmy nomination this year. Last year, Colbert’s show was overlooked as a nominee, but with his well-publicized resurgence because of all things Donald Trump, it’s a good bet he will be in contention this year especially as he is also hosting the show which airs September 17 on CBS. Looks like another fight in the Variety Talk Series category.
So the Emmy race is off and running, at least as far as NBCUniversal is concerned. But actually I have to say FX really got the jump on things by being the first (and so far only) studio/network to send out a For Your Consideration Emmy DVD screener — and they did it in early January (!) with a “Happy New Year” greeting as most minds were only tuned to Oscar nomination campaigns.
In an interesting choice FX made its long-running sitcom, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, the recipient of my annual award for First Emmy Screener this year. But the packaging and the disc itself (which simply advertised “For Your Emmy Consideration”) did not even say the name of the show — anywhere. You had to put the
DVD on to discover four of this season’s episodes of the series, a show that premiered on FX back in 2005 and has yet to see any Emmy recognition except for three consecutive nods for Stunt Coordination in a Comedy or Variety Series between 2013 and 2015. The blind pitch on the inside of package asked for attention to what they noted was “one of the longest running live-action comedies” and that “it’s not too late, especially to vote for it for Outstanding Comedy Series and in all other categories.” The show, which stars Danny DeVito and Charlie Day among others, is hoping to finally gain notice by having already fired the opening shot of the 2017 Emmy season.
Let the games begin.
^Thx
I guess she will star in one of those big screen features.
I guess she will star in one of those big screen features.
:IswearShe told me the role of Harlee in Shades Of Blue is exactly the kind of acting she wants to do now and notes TV has provided such great opportunities, even though she is developing a couple of big-screen features at the same time.
But her Las Vegas show,she's not have so much to do movies.
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She's probably talking about "MILFs" and "Griselda" LOL
