ABC has rewarded the four stars of Desperate Housewives – Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria – with $250,000 bonuses as a thank-you for saving the network, USA Today reports. Slightly lesser players Nicollette Sheridan and James Denton will reportedly be rewarded with slightly less hefty pay hikes.
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Sir Elton John has unveiled his latest celebrity choice to star in one of his music videos – Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher.The sexy 40-year-old actress shot scenes in top secret for the music clip in Los Angeles, and was thrilled with the experience.
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Desperate Housewives diva Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp) is denying rampant web rumors that she’s about to come out of the closet. (As if a single woman in Hollywood has to be gay.)
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America Online is joining forces with ABC to post online recaps of Desperate Housewives the morning after each episode of the red-hot black comedy airs.
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Congrats to the cast and crew of Desperate Housewives and actress Teri Hatcher on receiving SAG Awards.
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Ryan Merriman has been a busy guy. He now has two movies to show for it and a featurette for the re-release of The Ring on DVD. Ryan got to do a mini-feature for the new DVD which will lead into The Ring Two hitting theartre’s March 18th!
The story picks up six months after the horrifying events that terrorized Rachel Keller and her son Aidan (David Dorfman) in Seattle. To escape her haunting memories, Rachel takes Aidan and moves to the small coastal community of Astoria, Oregon, to start fresh. However, Rachel’s resolve quickly turns to dread when evidence at a local crime scene-including an unmarked videotape-seems eerily familiar. Rachel realizes that the vengeful Samara is back and more determined than ever to continue her relentless cycle of terror and death.
Ryan’s second movie is Spin which will be coming to the Hallmark channel sometime this year.
Okay don’t panic. I was checking out TV Shows On DVD.com and I noticed they had The Pretender listed as arriving on March 22nd rather than March 15th. I checked out Amazon and they also have it listed for March 22nd. So it will only be delayed by one week! Scared ya huh?
Nick Chinlund has landed a recurring role on ABC’s hit new drama Desperate Housewives. He will play Detective Sullivan, who is investigating the death of Martha Huber (Christine Estabrook). Chinlund, who has appeared in such features as The Chronicles of Riddick, Training Day, Con Air and Lethal Weapon 3, next appears on the big screen in Legend of Zorro, opposite Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and in the futuristic thriller Ultraviolet.
There’s more dirty laundry headed ABC’s way: As reported in next week’s TV Guide magazine, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry has had informal talks with ABC about giving his monster hit a sister soap. “The network has saved an area [on the schedule] for me when I’m ready to write it,” he reveals. “But it’s going to take me a couple of seasons before I have the energy-slash-time.” So what will the show be about? Fetch yourself a copy of the new TV Guide (on sale Thursday) for all the scoop!
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Patrick’s been up to a lot!
Jamie’s on Oprah today! I totally missed it!
Don’t worry if you did too… on Friday night, Jamie will be a guest starring on REBA. Jamie will be appearing on LENO Friday as well. On Saturday night, he will be one of the presenters (along with Teri Hatcher) at the SAG AWARDS. As always, check your local listings for times and channels. Set your VCR’s, DVR’s, PVR’s or whatever R’s you’ve got.
The entire cast, along with Marc Cherry, will be interviewed Thursday night at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC’s Primetime Live. More parts will air on Good Morning America on ABC the following morning, on Feb. 4.
Eva Longoria will be on The Late Show with David Letterman on Monday, February 7. James Denton will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday, February 4. The ladies will each co-host a day of The View the week of February 7 on ABC.
ABC’s Sunday smash Desperate Housewives has emerged as one of the TV season’s bona fide phenomena, a bracingly original water-cooler show that has been embraced by critics and viewers across the country. All the ensuing hoopla is great fun, says Desperate cast member James Denton, but it pales next to something else every actor craves — job security. “To tell the truth, it’s more relief than anything else,” says the 42-year-old actor, who plays hunky Wisteria Lane plumber Mike Delfino on the tongue-in-cheek soap.
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For the past couple of weeks, a story has floated around the Internet that Pamela Anderson, she of Baywatch and Playboy fame, was regretting turning down a part in ABC’s hit series Desperate Housewives. Some reports have also noted that Heather Locklear, who starred in this season’s short-lived “LAX” on NBC, was also considered for one of women of Wisteria Lane — although Locklear herself has never said so, as best we can tell. Both accounts, however, elicit a raised eyebrow from “Housewives” creator Marc Cherry.
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On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, during the Oprah show, a commercial advertised that Oprah Winfrey would become the newest Desperate Housewife. The Oprah show will be airing behind the scenes features and information will be shown on February 3, 2005. Stay tuned for more information.
As TiVo and even VCR users know, the phrase “hour-long drama” doesn’t mean what it used to in the television universe. All season long, fans of several hit ABC dramas — Lost and Desperate Housewives in particular — have complained that because their favorite shows have been known to end at a minute or two past the hour, they’ve missed crucial information, or at least crucial closing credit sequences. At ABC’s Television Critics Association press tour sessions over the weekend, it became clear that there are myriad reasons behind those minor overages which cause such frustration for so many. “You know, sometimes it’s based on creative and sometimes it’s based on strategic,” says ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson. “Sometimes the shows just run longer and it’s hard to edit them down and we give the producers a minute or two. Sometimes it’s to bridge… the commercial gap there and be a little more strategic with our schedule. [W]e don’t do it on every show, there are opportunities where we think it makes sense.”
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Marc Cherry, creator of ABC’s hit comedy-drama Desperate Housewives, told SCI FI Wire that he’s hoping to bring back actress Sheryl Lee (Twin Peaks) for a guest role, since Lee’s role in the pilot was recast for the series. Lee played the character of Mary Alice, who kills herself, then provides the voice-over narration for the show from beyond the grave. When the series was picked up, Lee was replaced with Brenda Strong because producers decided they needed a warmer narrator, Cherry said.
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She may have been snubbed by the Golden Globes, but Eva Longoria ain’t complaining these days. Her insta-breakout role as suburban adulteress Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives has made this 29-year-old Young & the Restless alumna one of TV’s hottest (in every sense of the word) young actresses. Here, Longoria dishes with TV Guide Online about her show’s best-comedy Globe, her desire to defeat CSI and her 90210 memories…
She may have been snubbed by the Golden Globes, but Eva Longoria ain’t complaining these days. Her insta-breakout role as suburban adulteress Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives has made this 29-year-old Young & the Restless alumna one of TV’s hottest (in every sense of the word) young actresses. Here, Longoria dishes with TV Guide Online about her show’s best-comedy Globe, her desire to defeat CSI and her 90210 memories…
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