Jane Seymour, In Case of Emergency
Michaela "Mike" Quinn is playing doctor again, though this time she is a far cry from the Wild West and she'll have temperatures rising in a very different way. In a three-episode arc starting tonight on ABC's In Case of Emergency (Wednesdays at 9:30 pm/ET), Jane Seymour plays the hot-to-trot mother of David Arquette's Jason and the ardent pursuer of Jonathan Silverman's Harry. TVGuide.com spent a few minutes with the Brit beauty and Wedding Crashers cougar to discuss her bawdy new bits.
TVGuide.com: So, is there love in the air for Jason's mother? Or at least some lust? Jane
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Wendell Pierce and Michael K. Williams, The Wire
Question: I saw a promo on HBO last night, and it looks like they're planning to move their movie night to Sunday. Any idea why? What about those great original shows? What will happen to them?
Answer: There are couple of reasons for this temporary shift — which HBO says will only continue through the end of the year, when movie premieres will return to Saturdays, and multiple series, including Rome, will begin on Sundays starting Jan. 7. First off, though HBO would never admit it, the pay giant has lost the Sunday-night watercooler battle to ABC. (We’ll have to see if Desperate Housewives can truly rebound in the fall, and Brothers & Sisters is still a sight-unseen question mark.) Plus, NBC is going all out with prime-time Sunday-night NFL games. Second, HBO’s marquee drama on Sundays this fall is the ratings-challenged, but powerfully good, The Wire, and HBO figures that the best way to make some noise during the fall will be to turn the night over to high-profile first-run
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Owen Wilson (Wedding Crashers), Larry Charles and record mogul Rick Rubin will pen and exec-produce for HBO Bert & Dickie, a new half-hour series about a struggling stand-up comedy team, reports Variety. Charles, already an executive producer for both HBO's Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm, has exited his position on the former, while his status on Curb remains to be determined.
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B.J. Novak
Previously, on B.J. Novak's blog…
— "Have you ever seen that show The Office on NBC? The place where I work is just like that."— "I work on the NBC show The Office. I play Ryan the temp, and I'm also one of nine writers who come up with ideas for the show and then take turns turning them into scripts."
— "Like many people who work in offices, I am going to start keeping a blog — in my case, for TVGuide.com."
— "Don't open the hatch!"
This week's episode of The Office is entitled "Sexual Harassment." First, let me say that I like it when things have very straightforward titles, so that the audience knows exactly what they're going to get.
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I have new respect for Bradley Cooper as an actor. He was superannoying as Will on Alias, and then this summer he was a total jackass in Wedding Crashers. So the fact that he doesn't drive me crazy on this show, based on Anthony Bourdain's book of the same name, is a significant accomplishment. Cooper plays Jack (Bourdain), a chef who's given a chance to redeem himself after hitting rock bottom. In a very short time he has to put together a reputable kitchen staff for a new, trendy restaurant. And you know what that means, dontcha? Yeah, cue the Ocean's 11 music!
Weird coincidence of the night: This show has Nicholas Brendon from Buffy and John Francis Daley from Freaks and Geeks; meanwhile, How I Met Your Mother has Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel, who are — here it comes — from Buffy and Freaks and Geeks, respectively. Did you just get chills? No? Oh. Well, how about now? Still no? Wh
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
The return of the "hard R" big-screen comedy continues this weekend when Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo hits theaters on Friday. While there is bound to be some "reaction" to the sequel's outrageous sexual euphemisms and unspeakable sight gags, you can thank such bawdy box-office entries as Wedding Crashers and Bad News Bears for softening the blow a bit.
"I'm glad that Wedding Crashers did well because all the comedies I loved when I was a kid were [rated] R," Deuce star Rob Schneider tells TVGuide.com. "I had Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Monty Python... [starring in] all these funny movies. So I feel like our children — um, I mean the 13- t
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