Don't Look Back- Actors After Escaping ME

[urnofosiris]

I'd love to see Charisma on Veronica Mars, but I could do without the tiresome Buffy comparisons it will inspire yet again. Comparing the two is an insult to Veronica Mars. Other than that both leading actresses are blond, beautiful and their characters being in high school I do not see what these shows have in common.

[emma peel]

As long as none of any of the former ME writers are involved, maybe Charisma and Nick have a chance with these 2 shows.
Just my two cents.

[sam7777]

emma peel: Yep. Veronica Mars gives us the best of both worlds: actors like Charisma and Aly without the jerks from the ME writing staff involved. The ME writers are all stuck in a loop repeating the shite from season sux and severed.

I'd love to see Charisma on Veronica Mars, but I could do without the tiresome Buffy comparisons it will inspire yet again.

DrG: Yeah, I want to stay far away from anything that ME sychophants embrace. Hopefully, such comparisons will be few if the show takes off or not long lasting if it doesn't. Still VM simply does not give most of the typical ME zombies what they really want: "genius" josswad or whinear and an actual continuation of the buffyverse.

[gspiggott]

There was a great quote from someone at UPN about Veronica Mars, and how puzzled all the network brass were because they weren't used to getting such critical praise. It made me snigger.

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SMG
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/comm ... 31,00.html
Buffy's naked ambition
By Justine Parker
21jul05
SEXY Sarah Michelle Gellar wants to strip off on the big screen in a bid to be taken seriously around Tinseltown.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer babe reportedly wants go in the buff before she hits 30 so fans can see her before gravity starts to hit.
The 28-year-old is trying to ditch her teen idol image and apparently thinks she'll score better roles if she bares all on-screen.
"I am approaching 30 and I need a change," UK website femalefirst.co.uk quoted her as saying.
"The sort of roles I would like are not being offered, so this ... might just shock people into choosing me."
Gellar is just the latest star to confess her naked ambition.
Hollywood it-girl Scarlett Johansson had to be forced to keep her underwear on while filming action thriller The Island.
While many starlets may baulk at having to strip down, The Island director Michael Bay was shocked when Scarlett confronted him on set and insisted on going naked for the film.
"She's standing there and she says, 'I'm not wearing this cheap ... bra. I'm going naked,"' Bay said.
"I said, 'It's PG-13, you have to wear the bra."'
Meanwhile, Gellar fans may have to wait a while for her daring debut.
She is set to star in Southland Tales, the follow-up release for Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, with rumours she will play a porn star.
She has also just signed on for the lead in Alice, a psychological thriller with a modern spin on the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland - a role unlikely to require too many revealing moments.

MT
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Insider/200 ... nsider.htm
Consider it a new dawn for the career of Michelle Trachtenberg — who played Buffy's kid sister, Dawn, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer — for the goth drama's final three seasons. Since bidding Sunnydale adieu, Trachtenberg has sought out a wide variety of new roles to play: a devil-may-care, accidentally incestuous teen in the raucous EuroTrip, a math-turned-skating prodigy in Disney's Ice Princess, the best friend of a rent boy in the dark indie Mysterious Skin. Now, she's back on television in The Dive from Clausen's Pier (premiering Monday at 9pm/ET), Lifetime's take on the novel about the impossible decisions a young woman named Carrie must make when her fiancé is paralyzed in a swimming accident.
Assessing Carrie's predicament, Trachtenberg tells TVGuide.com, "It's a difficult situation for her because she had decided to break off their engagement just as this tragedy happens. So she is caught between what she was going to do and what she should do now."
Carrie's choice won't please Tammy Wynette. Rather than stand by her man, she makes her own needs her top priority and runs off to New York, where she has an affair with an older man (Firefly's Sean Maher). "That's why I find her so inspiring," Trachtenberg explains. "She actually listens to herself as opposed to everyone around her. She stops to say, 'What will benefit me? What will make my life better?'
"Sometimes it's necessary to be selfish," the actress adds, acknowledging Carrie's possibly unpopular decision. "You can't always be responsible. You sometimes have to think about what's better for you."
Playing Carrie's fiancé is Will Estes (American Dreams), whom Trachtenberg actually has known for years, albeit in a very different context. "We did a failed sitcom together, where he played my brother — so that made the [Clausen's Pier] sex scenes nice and awkward," she says with a laugh. "As if they aren't awkward enough to begin with!"
Trachtenberg won't back down from a challenge, hence the sometimes daring acting choices she has been making. "Obviously when you're younger you do roles that are exciting and fun, but now that I'm getting older I want things that are more realistic and that I find value in. Dive and Mysterious Skin were my first steps in that direction. I start my next independent movie, Four Corners, at the end of the month, and that's also in the vein of Mysterious Skin."
So, for the time being at least, no EuroTrip 2 ("Although I know it would be a stoner's dream!" Trachtenberg chuckles) and no Buffy reunion movie.
"I have friends who are writers and directors who went to Comic-Con last weekend, and when they came back they said, 'Oh, my god, everyone was still talking about Buffy!'" she relates. "That's all very nice and flattering, but once I do a character and it's a success, I'm like, 'That's awesome, thank you. Watch my next one.' I get bored way too easily. I don't have time to stop and remember what I did before just to do it again."

[Culzean]

Not to diss SMG, but it seems MT is finding challenging, mature roles without having to take her clothes off.

[sam7777]

"I have friends who are writers and directors who went to Comic-Con last weekend, and when they came back they said, 'Oh, my god, everyone was still talking about Buffy!'"

Maybe at Comic-Con but nowhere else and certainly not in the mainstream. ME is in a rapidly decreasing niche.

[Sheridan]

Not to diss SMG, but it seems MT is finding challenging, mature roles without having to take her clothes off.

Well she threatened to in Eurotrip and had a somewhat raunchy scene in 'Six Feet Under'. Plus factor in the age difference, in Hollywood terms SMG is getting old, she needs to do something that will make the studios think of her for heavy duty roles. Also what exactly is this thing that seems to find an actress taking her clothes off somehow demeaning? Its another Hollywood thing it seems to me, you can shoot, blast, and skewer as many people as you like on screen but god forbid they go naked...

[aceivan]

'Oh, my god, everyone was still talking about Buffy!'

Well I very much doubt it was everyone. Its a convention and most people don't go to conventions.

[Culzean]

Hi Sheridan:

I don't have a problem with nudity. I grew up in the anything-goes-70's. And I agree with you 100% about the whole violence good, sex bad issue.

But I do find it sad that so many women feel they have to surgically alter their bodies and take their clothes off in order to gain acceptance (or work, in the case of an actress). Male actors are getting hit by the ageism issue in Hollywood as well, but not to the same degree as women.

From a practical standpoint, it's true that if a woman is young and pretty (and sometimes naked) she'll get more work in Hollywood. But it is also still possible to get attention and acclaim by taking a low paying, meaty role in an independent film. MT did this in Mysterious Skin. The film was not widely seen, but I read good reviews for her. Charlize Theron moved up to the A list only after her role in Monster.

Again, not to insult SMG, I only wish her luck in her career. I just find it sad, in general, that she feels she needs to go out of her way to find a project that will require nudity.

[Hemiola]

Actually, the most appalling thing for me that someone SMG's age should be thought of as "aging".

Mah Gawd, I suppose that someone my age would be thought of as a member of the walking dead.

[urnofosiris]

Hee, good one Hemiola.

"I have friends who are writers and directors who went to Comic-Con last weekend, and when they came back they said, 'Oh, my god, everyone was still talking about Buffy!'" she relates. "That's all very nice and flattering, but once I do a character and it's a success, I'm like, 'That's awesome, thank you. Watch my next one.'

MT amuses me, yet again she makes it clear that she has put that show behind her. So has our senior citizen SMG, I don´t hear her reminiscing about it much either. Go girls. As for that nudity thing, if that quote is actually hers it may have been taken out of context, for all we know she was being sarcastic, it would be a bit sad if that is what it takes to get noticed and get the good parts. If she meant it, fine as well. I don´t see a problem with actors doing nudity either. There seem to be a few people who have been sanctifying Amber Benson for not doing nudity on screen when at the same time some of them were salivating at the thought of her maybe playing a murderer on that Inside show. I wonder whether if in future she does go naked they´d think less of her.

[sam7777]

There seem to be a few people who have been sanctifying Amber Benson for not doing nudity on screen when at the same time some of them were salivating at the thought of her maybe playing a murderer on that Inside show. I wonder whether if in future she does go naked they´d think less of her.

Prolly. I wonder about the dichotomy in the US between sex and violence. I think nudity and sex is much less damaging than incessant images of violence. As a result, too often love is classified as obscene in the US while bloody violence is praised to the extremes. The classic example is Gibson's Passion which warped the loving message of Christ into a sadistic bloody gorefest and was praised to the moon by the American taliban while "The Last Temptation of Christ" was pilloried for implying that Christ might have loved Mary Magdelan. Aaaarrrggghh!!!

"The Inside" is also a disgusting gorefest and I would not watch it to see Amber (or anyone else) play a grotesque serial killer (or victim) in a pornography of violence. It helps restore my faith in the US TV audince when shite like "The Inside" is getting low ratings.

[Warduke]

From AICN...

Learn Which Major DC Comics Character BUFFY’s James Marsters Will Play On SMALLVILLE!!

Brainiac!!
Look! A press release!

JAMES MARSTERS VISITS “SMALLVILLE” AS THE EVIL BRAINIAC AND TOM WOPAT REUNITES WITH SERIES STAR JOHN SCHNEIDER

Burbank, CA July 22, 2005

James Marsters sinks his teeth into another juicy role for The WB when he joins the cast of SMALLVILLE for multiple episodes. Marsters will portray Brainiac, a classic DC Comics villain and one of the Man-of-Steel's most formidable enemies. Additionally, one episode this season will reunite series star John Schneider with his former “Dukes of Hazzard” co-star, Tom Wopat.

Marsters plays college professor Milton Fine, alter ego of the uber-villain Brainiac. Possessed of a vast, superior knowledge limited only by his hubris and emotions, Brainiac comes to earth armed with a secret about Clark's biological family and the truth about Krypton's demise. Brainiac's presence in Smallville will have a devastating effect on Clark and Lex's already deteriorating friendship.

Marsters first appeared on The WB in the critically acclaimed hit series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” as Spike, the vampire who first tries to kill Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), but ultimately falls in love with her. After five seasons on the show and Spike's untimely demise, Marsters' character was reborn as a ghost on the series spin-off Angel starring David Boreanaz.

Marsters began his professional career in the theater, performing in stage productions including “The Tempest” and “Red Noses” at Chicago's renowned Goodman Theatre. In addition, Marsters revisited the stage in Los Angeles with a starring role in an original play produced by Noah Wyle, titled “The Why.” Additional television roles include a guest appearance on “Northern Exposure” and the series “Strange Frequency” for VH1, as well as on Gene Roddenberry's “Andromeda.”

Brainiac is the latest DC Comics character to appear in SMALLVILLE. The Flash, Mxyzptlk and Perry White have all made appearances during the series run. Last season, Lois Lane (Erica Durance) joined the cast.

Also this season on SMALLVILLE, veteran actor and Broadway star Tom Wopat will portray a state senator who was a boyhood friend of Jonathan Kent (Schneider). In addition to his role co-starring with Schneider on the hit television series “The Dukes of Hazzard,” Wopat starred in the popular sitcom “Cybill,” with Cybill Shepherd, and in the daytime drama “All My Children.” He was also nominated for Broadway's 1999 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for his role opposite Bernadette Peters in the revival of “Annie Get Your Gun.”

Reinterpreting the Superman mythology from its roots, “Smallville” was developed for television by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (“Shanghai Noon,” “Spiderman 2”), based on the DC Comics characters. Gough and Millar serve as executive producers, along with Greg Beeman, Ken Horton, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola. The series is produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.

[aceivan]

I wonder about the dichotomy in the US between sex and violence. I think nudity and sex is much less damaging than incessant images of violence. As a result, too often love is classified as obscene in the US while bloody violence is praised to the extremes.

I've just started listening to the commentary track on the 'Relax ... It's Just Sex' DVD and heard Lori Petty say "In America the only thing that a man is supposed to put in another man is a bullet."

It's not quite as bad in the UK, although based on the criticism the BBC received about Willow and Tara kissing in Seeing Red but nothing being said about the death of Tara or attempted rape, it's bad enough.

[Sheridan]

Actually, the most appalling thing for me that someone SMG's age should be thought of as "aging".

It is kind of pathetic, I remember an interview where SMG said she saw some article saying they had brought in MT to provide 'young blood' fo Buffy.

I wonder about the dichotomy in the US between sex and violence. I think nudity and sex is much less damaging than incessant images of violence. As a result, too often love is classified as obscene in the US while bloody violence is praised to the extremes.

I certainly think its possible that SMG was being sarcastic and having a dig at Hollywood attitudes but Sam hits the nail on the head. I thought 'Sin City' was a classic example, filled with what I thought was some of the most graphic violence I've seen in a mainstream movie but Nancy pole dances practically fully dressed. I don't believe in gratuitous sex in a movie but it irritates me when a film that splatters blood and gore across the screen then decorously fades to black when two characters are having sex. Seeing Red is another example, we come into the story after W/T have made love, and suddenly feel the need to pull the becclothes up, but we're spared nothing when it comes to the death of Tara.

[emma peel]

Hemiola wrote:
"Mah Gawd, I suppose that someone my age would be thought of as a member of the walking dead. "
I'm right up there with you, Hemiola.

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The classic example is Gibson's Passion which warped the loving message of Christ into a sadistic bloody gorefest and was praised to the moon by the American taliban while "The Last Temptation of Christ" was pilloried for implying that Christ might have loved Mary Magdelan. Aaaarrrggghh!!!

too true - and sad to say - the fact that Christ's real message - to forgive others and not take reprisal - was lost in either case. I'll never understand how supposed 'christians' can use these vehicles to fire up their followers for "battle" - when it was Christ himself who replaced an "eye for an eye" with "a new law - to love one another." Christ made it clear that we were to break the cycle of vengeance and hate if we were to follow him - to bad all these supposed "christians" haven't figured that out - guess they are too busy taking up their swords to smite those who don't conform to their standards - even as they ignore Gods word/standards


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ASH

Former star returning to Doctor Who
A former companion of the Time Lord will return in the next series of 'Doctor Who' it has been announced.The BBC says that Sarah Jane Smith, played by Elisabeth Sladen, will join new 'Doctor Who' actor David Tennant in the 13-part series, but that Billie Piper's Rose will remain as the Doctor's full-time assistant.Sladen originally starred in the show between 1973 and 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker as the Time Lord, before starring in a spin-off show, 'K9 and Company'.
'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' actor Anthony Head will also appear in the new series, an episode of which is to be written by comic Stephen Fry.


and


http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94207.html
Richard E. Grant to Bring Simon Gray’s Otherwise Engaged Back to London
By James Inverne
26 Jul 2005
Simon Gray’s 1975 comedy, Otherwise Engaged, is gearing up for a starry West End run.
Richard E. Grant, Anthony Head and David Bamber will headline Simon Curtis’ production, which will open at the Criterion Theatre on Oct. 31 (previews begin Oct. 25) after a five-week regional tour.
Grant is one of Britain’s most recognizable actors, having acquired a large following when he played the hard-drinking title role in the cult movie “Withnail and I.” All together he’s appeared in more than 60 films, including “The Player,” “Gosford Park” and “Bright Young Things.” His stage credits include The Importance of Being Earnest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Anthony Head, while not so famous a name in Britain, is also ultra recognizable thanks to his long-running role as Rupert Giles in TV’s “Buffy The Vampire Slayer.” However, his varied resume includes Chess and The Rocky Horror Show in the West End, and “Manchild” and “Little Britain” on television.
David Bamber has notched up a successful theatre record. Hit stage roles include Antonio in Trevor Nunn’s National Theatre staging of The Merchant of Venice and the lead in the Royal Court’s My Night With Reg.
Otherwise Engaged depicts a sophisticated and selfish publisher (played by Grant, taking a part created by Alan Bates) who seems to have it all until one morning a stream of visitors brings life crashing down around him.
Simon Gray was awarded the CBE in the 2005 Queen’s New Years Honours List. His plays include The Common Pursuit, Butley, Japes, Cell Mates and — recently seen in the West End — The Old Masters. Shortly before The Old Masters proved a success, another Gray play, The Holy Terror with Simon Callow in the lead, was a Theatreland short-runner. Last year saw the publication of Gray’s journal, “The Smoking Diaries.”
Simon Higlett will design Otherwise Engaged. Lighting will be by Tim Mitchell, with Mark Rubinstein, Sonia Friedman, Lee Menzies and TEG producing it in the West End. The show will open at Bath’s Theatre Royal on Sept. 21, and proceed to Oxford, Milton Keynes and Woking, and finally London

SMG

http://www.filmjerk.com/new/article-1370--0-0.html
Southland Tales, starring Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock), Seann William Scott ("American Pie," "Dukes of Hazzard") Sarah Michelle Gellar ("The Grudge," Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Kevin Smith ("Chasing Amy," "Clerks"), is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of 2008 Los Angeles, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros (Johnson) is an action star stricken with amnesia whose life intertwines with Krysta Now (Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and David Clark (Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. The film is slated to begin principal photography on August 15, 2005.

Sean McKittrick will produce "Southland Tales" under the Darko Entertainment banner alongside Cherry Road principals Bo Hyde and Kendall Morgan. Executive producers are Matthew Rhodes and Judd Payne of Persistent Entertainment, Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel of Inferno Distribution, and Oliver Hengst of Academy Film Gmbh.

For additional information on the film and to view the titles of the six graphic novels, please visit the film's official website, Southland Tales.

[sam7777]

As if we need more evidence that Sarah is done with Buffy:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=31830

Freddy Prinze, Jr., who is married to Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar, told reporters at the Television Critics Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., that the series likely won't be revived in film or on television. "Not with Sarah," Prinze said in a panel for his new sitcom, Freddie. "I've never heard of it coming back whatsoever. I think Joss is on the movie train right now, and it hasn't stopped yet. So I think he'll be on that for a while."

As far as a feature film goes, Prinze said that failure of the original 1992 film should preclude any attempt to put Buffy on the big screen again. "They already made one," he said. "It didn't work. That's why [they] made the TV series. It worked much, much better as a TV series. My wife and I were in Bali and our taxi driver went, 'Buffy.' It worked so well as a TV show, I don't think Sarah would want to invest in something that's already failed once." Gellar's next project is the futuristic SF thriller Southland Tales, written and directed by Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly.

Oh yeah. Sarah has moved on on on. The Buffyveres is DEAD.

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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a ... ERTAINMENT
“Bones," which also stars David Boreanaz, appears to be one of the best of the latest crop of law-enforcement series.
Boreanaz also is part of another group of returning favorites. The former "Angel" star, whose character was launched on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is just one of a number of former "Buffyverse" denizens who'll be working this fall.
Alyson Hannigan, who played Willow, is co-starring in CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," while Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia, is joining the cast of UPN's "Veronica Mars."
Nicholas Brendon, who was Buffy's friend Xander, will be dealing with diners in Fox's "Kitchen Confidential," while James "Spike" Marsters will show up as a completely different kind of bad guy in the WB's "Smallville."
Seth Green, who since his stint as Willow's werewolf boyfriend Oz has worked steadily, will settle down in a slightly more conventional role in ABC's buddy sitcom "Four Kings."

Nice pic of Charisma here http://www.ifmagazine.com/new.asp?article=2297

http://www.dailypress.com/features/life ... ealthylife

The news from the Buffyverse just keeps getting better and better. We already have Charisma Carpenter on "Veronica Mars" (yay) (Wednesdays, UPN) and now James Marsters will be on "Smallville" (Wednesdays, WB). He'll play the oh-so-evil Brainiac. And if that wasn't reason enough to get me to watch the college-freshman-of-steel, Tom Wopat will reunite with fellow former "Dukes of Hazzard" star John Schneider when he plays one of Jonathan's childhood friends.

Melinda Clarke, the oh-so-fabulous Julie Cooper on "The O.C." (Thursdays, FOX), will soon play herself in an upcoming episode of "Entourage" (Sundays, HBO) and she is hoping to reprise her oh-so-fabulous role of Lady Heather on "CSI" (Thursdays, CBS) next season.

[sam7777]

The news from the Buffyverse just keeps getting better and better.

Certainly the news FROM the Buffyverse actors just keeps getting better and better but the news FOR the Buffyverse just keeps getting WORSE and WORSE as the actors move on.

[Culzean]

From TV Guide, 8/21-8/27/05 issue:

David Boreanaz's first meeting with Hart Hanson, executive producer of his new Fox drama Bones, didn't go well because, he says, his future boss "started talking about Angel...and I really was not into talking about that."


Coincidentally, they were filming a scene from Bones on my campus last week. That was kind of fun.

[sam7777]

I'm not a David Boreanaz fan (I was mostly bored with Angel). I didn't care for his criticism of Sarah for the same type of stuff he is saying now and for not doing the end of Angel (it was Josswad who dumped her for the finale, SMG was willing to do that). That said, I am happy to see him move on. Without David or Sarah the STARS of the Buffyverse, the Buffyverse is dead as far as movies and TV. Sure they can do comics, cartoons (when hell freezes over) and books but no live action which is what their fans really want. Neither James Marsters nor the guy who plays Andrew are big enough draws to get the WB or anyone to pony up for Buffyverse shite. It's over.

[Sheridan]

It's been over for some time, even if the actors were willing where's the demand? Anbgel finsished because not enough people were watching and there's no reason to imagine that the potential audience has grown since, they couldn't even sustain separate Buffy and Angel magazines, contrast that with Doctor Who magazine which managed two decades without any new material on screen.

[Hemiola]

Caught Jewel Staite (Kaylee from "Firefly") on the Stargate: Atlantis series last night playing a "wraith" who was raised by a human.

She gave an excellent performance, but it's a pity her beautiful face was hidden by the grotesque "wraith" make-up .It's always a good sign, though, when actors can turn in a believable performance even when their features are obscured.

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GG's and Bones open tonight
looks like WB is hoping to do with supernatural what they did with superman as leadout from GG's


from media week
On The Air Tonight:
Primetime Programming Options
Tuesday 9/13/05

According To Jim (R), Rodney (R), World Music Awards 2005
NCIS (R), Big Brother 6, Rock Star: INXS
The Biggest Loser (season premiere, 90-minutes), Tommy Lee Goes To College (series finale), Law & Order: SVU (R)
Bones (premiere), House (season premiere)
Girlfriends (R), Half & Half (R), R U the Girl With T-Boz & Chilli
Gilmore Girls (season premiere), Supernatural (premiere)

-The Scoop on Bones:
Inspired by real-life forensics anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs, a female forensic anthropologist (Emily Deschanel) is called in to help solve crimes when the remains of the victims are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless. Former Angel star David Boreanaz co-stars.

Although airing a drama of this magnitude is certainly not a typical 8-9 p.m. fit, unless Bones collapses Fox is planning on moving it to Tuesday at 9 p.m. out of American Idol in January. With Idol as its lead-in, Bones has a good chance of finding an audience in January. Without it, don't expect too much in fourth quarter.

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-The Scoop on Supernatural:
Jared Padalecki (Gilmore Girls) and Jensen Ackles (Smallville) play two young brothers who carry on their missing father's quest to seek out justice and silence the supernatural forces responsible for their mother's murder 20 years earlier. While this may not sound like the ideal fit out of the female oriented Gilmore Girls, neither was former occupant Smallville, which turned into a big hit for the WB.

[xita]

I really loved seeing Aly on the Emmy arrivals show, she was really nervous because she'd never been to the prime time Emmys. That means that all those years on Buffy did nothing for her. Her CBS show isn't even on and she got invited. Joss who?

[urnofosiris]

It was great that they interviewed her and not a peep about that show. Lovely.

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why?????


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds24738.html
Amy Acker has confirmed that she may be reprising her Angel role of Illyria in Joss Whedon's Buffy spin-off TV movie.

The project will focus on Spike and will feature currently unconfirmed characters from the Buffy and Angel universe.

Acker told E! Online: "I talked to (Joss Whedon) a couple weeks ago and said that I had heard that Tim Minear was gonna write and direct the Spike movie, the Spike-Illyria movie, so he said that they want to do that still."

The actress can also be seen in at least three episodes of the upcoming fifth season of Alias alongside fellow newcomer Rachel Nichols. She explained: "I don't know what's gonna happen, but what we did so far, we're friends who work at this agency together. I think the Shed is what they were [calling it]. She's a rookie agent, and I have a little more experience than her, but we're best friends."

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SMG in the Buff

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2001892005
Sarah Michelle Gellar is set to get naked for her new role as a porn star.

The Buffy The Vampire Slayer actress is set to ditch her good girl image - and her clothes - in a new film that looks at the seedy world of X-rated movies.Rumour has it Sarah will play a busty blonde in the new film, Southland Tales.It is due for release next year.
Other familiar faces rumoured for the cast list include Seann William Scott, Justin Timberlake, Kevin Smith and Mandy Moore.
Southland Tales is set in Los Angeles, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.
The film co-stars The Rock as an action star who's stricken with amnesia.
Geller's character, Krysta Now, is an adult film star developing her own reality television project.
The plot is thought to revolve around a conspiracy.