DESIREFree | Video Detective
Length: 01:20
Posted: 3/17/2008
Desire movie trailer - starring Deborah Shelton, Kate Hodge, Martin Kemp. Genre: Mystery-Suspense
Rating: R watch
Robert Redford never meant for it to be this way. On April 27 the inaugural Howard Stern Film Festival — no need to adjust your morning coffee, you read that right — will culminate with the radio shock jock and arbiter of dubious taste anointing one "lucky" moviemaker a torchbearer for "lowbrow, high-quality entertainment." The following day the winning flick, along with other festival standouts, will be screened on Howard TV on Demand.read more
After axing its short-lived serial Rituals in 1985, it seemed that Fox was out of the soap game for good. Now comes news that Twentieth Television will bring Latin America's telenovela style of limited-run sudsers to U.S. viewers in the form of a syndicated English-language franchise entitled Desire. They'll start off with three 65-episode telenovelas, spanning 13 weeks each. These sudsy remakes of shows from Cuba, Colombia and elsewhere will be "Americanized without destroying the integrity of the story," Twentieth chief Bob Cook tells The Associated Press.
Desire is expected to air in afternoon or late night time slots on Fox's stations, which represent 45 percent of the nation's TV markets. As far as ideas to revitalize American soaps go, this one sounds
muy caliente!
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