If you want to return to Storybrooke, Maine, wish granted! ABC has renewed Once Upon a Time for a second season.
Also welcome, but not too surprising, are renewals for popular Wetpaint Entertainment shows including Dancing With the Stars, The Bachelor, Grey’s Anatomy, Revenge and Castle.
A familiar face from Desperate Housewives andThe Event is coming to the Hamptons.
Actor Roger Bart has just been cast in a “guest lead” role for an upcoming episode of ABC’sRevenge.
Bart will play the scenery-chewing role of Mason Treadwell, a rich, pretentious journalist who’s written a tell-all book about Long Island high society. Treadwell considers himself a literary journalist and his home is filled with mementos of the famous celebrities he’s interviewed.
Source: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/11/16/revenge-roger-bart/
Confession No. 1: We’re obsessed with ABC’s Revenge. Like beyond obsessed…to the point where revenge has become a verb for us and we threaten people with red Sharpies if they piss us off. (Hey, we all have our faults.)
Confession No. 2: We’re also obsessed with Gabriel Mann, the breakout star of Revenge, who plays internet billionaire Nolan Ross.
So you could imagine our excitement when we got the chance to speak with The Mann (pun fully intended) himself and he spilled some juicy info on a potential romance between Nolan and Emily (Emily VanCamp) and the “terrible things” in store for Nolan…
“I know, I’m like the Revenge slut or something!” Mann says with a laugh when he point out that he has chemistry with every single person on the show—male and female.
“It’s like, since he’s a three on the Kinsey Scale, he could potentially be with anybody on the show and he’s a very lonely guy so all anyone has to do is be kind of nice to him,” he explains. “It’s great because it opens up a world of possibilities that this character is able to go in any direction at any time and we are going to take full advantage of that and that will be really fun for you guys to see how that plays out.”
As for Nolan and Tyler’s hookup in the last episode, it shocked Mann just as much as it shocked viewers. “That was really exciting because neither Ashton nor I knew that was coming,” he says. “One of the most amazing things was the only negative comment, at least as far as I know is was that they didn’t show more. People wanted to see more of that kiss and I thought, ‘Wow, it really is 2011!’ This is a different discussion than people would have been having 10 years ago.”
Mann assures us that there is “much more Tyler and Nolan to come.” Ooh la la!
It’s no secret that a lot of fans are rooting for Nolan to hook up with our main revenge-stress Emily/Amanda and we had to know if Mann was down for the two characters hooking up or sees Nolan as more of her annoying little brother begging to be invited to the cool kids’ party.
“I love playing with both of those conventions because there clearly is a lot of energy between the two of us and I think that can go in a lot of directions. Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something,” he explains. “So I wouldn’t say there is a dose of hate there it’s more like they’re constantly pushing each other’s buttons and seeing how far we can go and expect the unexpected because it can go in both of those directions.”
One thing Nolan has over Jack (Nick Wechsler) and Daniel (Joshua Bowman)? The fact that he’s the only person in the Hamptons who knows who Emily really is. “I think there is something really interesting about the way she can let down her character, her public persona, when she is around him and be a little bit more rough-edged and tough because that it a little closer to what her real personality is considering the history that she has come through before she got to the Hamptons.”
Finally, Mann told us something during the interview that caused our hearts to race and palms to sweat: “Terrible things happen to Nolan, I’d love to tease those even a little bit further, but yeah, there is a lot in store for Nolan coming up.” Prayer circle for our beloved Nolan Ross in the Watch with Kristin offices after tonight’s episode. Rocking two polos with the collars popped as a show of your support is preferred.
Source: http://ca.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/revenge_star_gabriel_mann_teases/275470
We find Victoria and Conrad posing in their living room for the Style & Leisure section of The New York Times in honor of the 25th anniversary of their wedding, a union built on “trust and respect” according to Conrad, though we know better and so does Victoria—who recoils at that explanation—but it’s time for the reporter to meet the kids, except Daniel is late because he isn’t back from sleeping off his drug-induced hangover yet, but Tyler is there with his stitches on his forehead (from when he hit his head against the pole last week, remember?) to introduce himself and also get invited to the Graysons’ anniversary dinner with Ashley, a.k.a. Convenient Party-Planning Friend, as his date, all while Emily pays Nolan a visit at his house to see if he’s still on board with this whole revenge thing after Frank threatened him—and it turns out not so much, but he is willing to do some behind-the-scenes recon, which includes hacking into the hospital network to confirm that Lydia is still in her coma (she is), before heading over to the Graysons’, where she finds Daniel just now returning home from the bar and Tyler explaining that Daniel bashed his head into a wall at the mention of Emily’s name (not quite), and then Daniel is off to talk with the reporter, but not before Emily asks him not to bring her up, which Tyler hears because he’s SPYING on them, so naturally he tells the reporter where to find Emily (which she does), but when Emily returns home she finds Frank (former F.B.I. agent turned recently fired Grayson dirty-work doer) in her house, with her gun and her sealed juvenile-detention files—which is alarming and means he’s on to her, so off he goes to find Victoria (’cause remember, he’s kind of in love with her) at Lydia’s bedside to promise that he’s going to redeem himself with her or die trying (spoiler: it’s the latter, but more on that later), and Emily calls the juvenile-detention-center warden to warn her that Frank is coming (from a special phone she keeps in her box of revenge stuff! Under the floorboards! For occasions just like this one!) and also gets Nolan on the case of digging up dirt about Tyler, because he is really becoming a pesky distraction, and still has time to uncover the place that printed Conrad and Victoria’s wedding invitations and frame one as a gift, because now it’s time for the anniversary dinner that Charlotte brings Declan to without ever telling anyone, and from which Tyler is absent, also without telling anyone, because he’s over at Nolan’s conducting negotiations regarding the aforementioned dirt Nolan dug up, which is that Tyler is actually broke and has been getting his bills paid by working as a gay hustler (or, more accurately, according to Tyler, “gay maybe, hustler, sure”)—but dinner goes poorly even without Tyler’s sabotaging presence, which means that Victoria is available to take Frank’s call from a strip club, where he’s gone to find Amanda Clarke—after breaking into the warden’s office and discovering that Amanda Clarke and Emily Thorne were cellmates and switched places—but just as he’s about to fill in Victoria, Amanda (née Emily) attacks him with a crowbar and dumps him in the bushes underneath a bridge before setting off to find Emily (née Amanda).
Every new television season comes with an unexpected development, but this fall’s big surprise is a true stunner: Powered by the strength of ABC’sRevenge and The CW’s Ringer, primetime serials are enjoying a surge of renewed popularity. The healthy ratings for the first two episodes of ABC’s fancifulOnce Upon a Time, the most unique (and most complex) serial to come along since Lost, further clarify the desires of many television viewers for the kinds of ongoing stories in which they want to invest.
Some would say this support for serials should come as no surprise at all, because people have always loved good serialized storytelling, from comic strips to movie serials to radio dramas to television soap operas of the daytime and primetime varieties. The key to audience support for serials is strong stories from writers who understand the form, a sub-set of the current television writing pool that is in seemingly short supply. Regardless, given all the bashing that serialized storytelling has suffered at the hands of broadcast network executives in recent years this possible trend in the making is indeed exciting. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people in charge of primetime programming proclaim that a scripted series can survive in this ever-expanding media environment only if the narrative in each of its episodes is largely self-contained. (Obviously this hasn’t been an issue for basic cable, where serialized shows like FX’s Sons of Anarchy, ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and AMC’s The Walking Dead rule.) As for daytime, we all know what networks have been doing in recent years to their soap operas, the last genre that is truly exclusive to broadcast television.
Revenge and Ringer aren’t the only broadcast serials to catch on in recent years, but they do deserve a certain distinction, because they are spinning stories about highly specific character-driven relationships without benefit of medical traumas, court-room battles or paranormal activity. Yes, I’m referring to three shows that could be described as super-soaps: ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, CBS’ The Good Wife and The CW’s The Vampire Diaries, respectively. Grey‘s has kept its blend of romantic and relationship turmoil at full boil for an impressive eight seasons, but it has those absorbing weekly medical plotlines in its mix, just as Wife – currently the best soap opera for adults on broadcast television — draws great strength from its high octane court cases.
Diaries, meantime, is the only youth-ensemble serial of recent vintage that is enjoying the same pop-culture impact that the original Beverly Hills 90210, the original Melrose Place and Dawson’s Creek fired up in the Nineties. It can be argued that Diaries has an unfair advantage, in that it is riding the new-millennial obsession with vampires, werewolves and all things supernatural, but I’m going to cut it some slack, because it virtually spins around the tortured romance of two ferociously flawed characters the likes of which are essential to the durability of any successful soap. (I’m talking about Elena, a love-struck teenager who enables the murder and madness around her, and Stefan, a blood-drinking monster.)
The most exciting of these new serialized successes is Revenge, a show that, like Dallas andDynasty (and unlike The Good Wife and Grey’s Anatomy), seeks only to offer mindless escapism. Creator Mike Kelly and his team clearly want their audience to have simple, easy fun — a refreshing attribute in this time of frequently overwrought earnestness in entertainment. After suffering through too many serialized primetime dramas in which viewers were meant to root for wealthy people who often bought their way out of their problems, it is wonderful indeed to once again watch a serial in which the rich and powerful suffer for being their awful selves. Revenge isn’t just the most consistently entertaining new drama of the season — it’s the feel good television treat of the year!
Ringer, on the other hand, is often dark and dreary, so much so that I thought its first few episodes might turn out to be its last. But then it started serving up those awesome weekly cliffhangers, and now I’m hooked. This is another show that delights in the suffering of the rich and the rotten. UnlikeRevenge, which has a wealthy and powerful (and long-suffering) young woman at its center, Ringerrevolves around a young woman with no money or power at all who is suddenly thrust into a hornet’s nest of rich and powerful people. (She’s in good company. Think of Pamela Barnes Ewing on Dallas, Krystle Jennings Carrington on Dynasty, Valene Clements Ewing on Knots Landing and Maggie Gioberti Channing on Falcon Crest.) Granted, Bridget (a recovering addict) is passing herself off (to hide from the mob) as her wealthy twin sister Siobhan (a scheming, self-centered bitch), but that’s a very intriguing twist.
Come to think of it, Emily Thorne on Revenge is also passing herself off as someone else (the character’s real name is Amanda Clarke). In both cases, this twist keeps multiple plots turning. That’s a great example of taking a new approach to an old genre and making it feel fresh again. Let’s hope the producers of TNT’s upcoming continuation of Dallas are paying attention. We wouldn’t want it to end up like the new 90210.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-martin/have-revenge-and-ringer-m_b_1067910.html
Sorry, Revenge fans. Following the most exciting episode yet of this new ABC series, you won’t have much time to catch your breath.
On the November 2 installment, “something very, very big and very permanent will happen to one of our core cast members,” producer Mike Kelley teases to EW. “It’s going to really push the show up a level in the stakes.”
Kelley offered two more spoilers related to two other characters, as well:
Read more: http://www.tvfanatic.com/2011/10/revenge-spoilers-love-triangle-major-episode-ahead/#ixzz1c99vaNKH
Auds appear to be looking for something fresh in the drama form this fall, and the best example may be in the Wednesday 10 o’clock hour, where an ABC newcomer is taking on primetime’s two longest-running scripted hours.
In an intriguing battle, sudser “Revenge,” starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily Van Camp, has held its own against “CSI,” the CBS forensics drama now in its 12th season, and NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU,” which is in its 13th.
“CSI,” on a new night and featuring new lead Ted Danson, tops the hour in demos and total viewers — with its 18-49 average (3.6 rating/9 share) on par with its year-ago average and a healthy gain for CBS over last year’s “The Defenders.”
It has clearly gotten the better of “SVU,” whose 18-49 average (2.7/7) is off 15% from last season.
Of course, “CSI” enjoys a considerable advantage in that its lead-in (“Criminal Minds”) is both compatible and the night’s highest-rated drama. “SVU,” on the other hand, has been saddled with the low-rated “Harry’s Law” as its lead-in, meaning the Peacock’s 10 p.m. series must recruit a whole new audience to the hour.
ABC’s “Revenge” has fallen in the middle of the 18-49 ratings pack, narrowly winning on two occasions while prevailing every time among the 18-34 crowd. It caps a good night for the net (“Modern Family” airs at 9) and is a significant improvement over last year’s dud “The Whole Truth.”
Even a competitive finish here can be seen as a victory for ABC, which has struggled mightily in Wednesday’s final hour. In addition to “Whole Truth,” the slot has housed such short-lived recent series as “Cashmere Mafia,” “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Eastwick.”
The early perf of “Revenge” also may be a victory for the primetime soap, which aside from ABC’s comedic “Desperate Housewives” hasn’t seen a real success since Fox’s “Melrose Place” in the ’90s.
Shows like this can generate buzz that procedurals can’t, but can be hard to pull off.
But based on interest in “Revenge” and the frequent use of the word “soap” in loglines for next season’s drama development, net execs probably think it’s worth the risk.
Hiroyuki Sanada, who appeared in the final season of Lost, has booked a recurring role on ABC’s Revenge, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Sanada, who portrayed one of the Others, Dogen, will play Kioshi Takeda, a Japanese businessman with ties to Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp). Also known for his starring role inThe Last Samurai opposite Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe, the actor will first appear in Episode 9.
Executive-produced by Mike Kelley, the contemporary take on The Count of Monte Cristo debuted to 10.15 million viewers. Its latest outing on Wednesday drew 7.9 million viewers, prompting ABC to pick up the freshman series for a full season.
Source: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Revenge-ABC-Hiroyuki-Sanada-1038787.aspx
An Other is coming to the Hamptons.
EW has learned exclusively that Hiroyuki Sanada — best known for playing Dogen, a member of the Others on Lost — will recur on ABC’s Revenge this season.
Sanada will play Kioshi Takeda, a Japanese business man with mysterious ties to Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp). He’ll show up in episode 9.
On Lost, Sanada’s character preferred to communicate in Japanese so he required a translator. He was the only one who could keep the Man in Black out of the Temple, but then Sayid drowned him to death, so Titus Welliver’s alter-ego came in as a pillar of smoke and massacred the Others and … but, hey, look at us digressing!
Last week, ABC ordered nine more episodes of Revenge, which brought its total order to 22 for this first season. The show averaged 7.9 million viewers and a 2.7 rating in the adult demographic on Wednesday, just barely edging out CSI to win the 10 p.m. hour.
Source: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/17/revenge-scoop-an-other-from-lost-to-star-exclusive/
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