Another Multi-Character Series To Follow "Union" In 2010
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NURSE JACKIE RETURNS EARLY TO SHOWTIME MARCH 22 PAIRED WITH EMMY®-WINNING UNITED STATES OF TARA
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NURSE JACKIE RETURNS EARLY TO SHOWTIME MARCH 22 PAIRED WITH EMMY-WINNING UNITED STATES OF TARA
TWILIGHT TO PREMIERE JANUARY 23; FINAL SEASON OF THE TUDORS AND OTHER SERIES PREMIERE DATES ANNOUNCED
SHOWTIME has announced the air dates for some its highly-anticipated programming for first and second quarter 2010. Highlighting the new schedule will be a Monday comedy block pairing of the second season of SHOWTIME's acclaimed Nurse Jackie starring Emmy award-winner Edie Falco leading into the second season of United States of Tara showcasing Toni Collette in her Emmy award-winning title role. Nurse Jackie will premiere on Monday, March 22 at 10:00 PM ET/PT followed by United States of Tara at 10:30 PM ET/PT.
Additionally, the fourth and final season of SHOWTIME's award-winning period drama The Tudors starring Golden Globe award-winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers will premiere on Sunday, April 11 at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
The movie event of the New Year will be the television premiere of blockbuster feature film TWILIGHT on Saturday, January 23. Original comedy series will also populate the network from January through March with Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, and the debut of British comedy sensation Marc Wootton's new La La Land -- in which he plays three different characters in real situations with unsuspecting real Los Angelenos all premiering Monday, January 25.
Here's what Showtime looks like in the months ahead:
2010 UPCOMING PREMIERES:
DATE TIME SERIES/MOVIE SEASON
Saturday, January 23rd TBD Twilight Film
Monday, January 25th 10:00 PM ET/PT Secret Diary of a Call Girl 3rd
Monday, January 25th 10:30 PM ET/PT Tracey Ullman's State of the Union 3rd
Monday, January 25th 11:00 PM ET/PT La La Land 1st
Monday, March 22nd 10:00 PM ET/PT Nurse Jackie 2nd
Monday, March 22nd 10:30 PM ET/PT United States of Tara 2nd
Sunday, April 11th 9:00 PM ET/PT The Tudors 4th
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Brief Review of "State of the Union" Series 1 and 2 DVDs
0 Comments Published by expat on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:06 PM.
one.
Season 2 has a nice documentary and interview with Tracey and Bruce Wagner. The
DVD also comes with outtakes and deleted scenes -- Celine Dion's singing went on and
on and on. 4 sing-alongs are also included. It's a really nice set, including
packaging.
ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, put out the DVD, so I don't know how
much the American DVD, once released, will differ from the Australian. I doubt
it'll be much.
If you're in Australia and would like to purchase the set, or you own a region-less DVD player that can play a DVD from any territory, buy it here!
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Also coming is the Season 2 DVD set for "State of the Union" released by Eagle Rock Entertainment. The second season will also be made available through iTunes. Any additional info we can get, we'll be sure to post it!
Here is a behind-the-scenes pic from the set of "State of the Union". You can see the pharmacist character, Padma Perkesh's Bollywood pharmacy set.
Labels: DVD, Exclusives, Pictures, Series, Showtime
We're being told that the store, Big Lots in America is selling (at least) Season 1 of Tracey Takes On... DVD released by HBO back in 2005 for $3. So, if you're a new fan and want to see what all the fuss is about, or you didn't get it the first time, OR you simply want another copy, head over to their store!
"State"''s Returning Guest Stars
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Also returning, actor, Adam Cagley. You'll remember him from last season as the student being seduced by his teacher.
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No Date Set For "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union" Season 2 DVD
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Girls Talk, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
0 Comments Published by expat on Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 10:47 PM.
Back in 2001-2002, Tracey hosted a fashion talk show, Visible Panty Lines, for the Oxygen network. She interviewed a long list of female celebrities. The series was a tie-in to Tracey's own fashion web site, Purpleskirt.comTracey's car was featured in a few of the episodes, driving to some of the locations where she would experience the world of fashion. We own the license plate and decide to share it up close. It's of course a prop. We won't be able to use it in any way. ;)
Here is a full episode with Nell Campbell as the interviewee:
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Australia To Get "State" Seasons 1 and 2 DVD in October?
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Shooting starts on SOTU, Sept. 11, 2009
Tracey Ullmans STATE of the UNION starts shooting on Monday September 14th at CBS Radford Studios in Studio City Hollywood Ca. The 7 part EMMY nominated series will be produced by Melanie Patterson and directed by Tracey Ullman. Rob Sweeney will be the DP
Allan McKeown, Tracey Ullman and Bruce Wagner are Executive Producers.
Andy Defoe is the asssociate producer, and Eric Fors the co-ordinator. The third season has been pre bought in a number of territories around the world.
The last time Tracey directed, it was the Ruby Romaine HBO 2003 special, Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales. Tracey also directed portions of the fourth season of Tracey Takes On... This is exciting!
9 to 5 and Odd Hosts Part 1C: That's Kentertainment!
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Photos from inside the 2009 CFDA Awards
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Another "Kick Up The 80s" Sketch Found!
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"Tracey Ullman's State of the Union" Season 3 in Pre-Production
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Tracey Arrives At The Showtime Summer Press Tour!
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"Tracey Ullman Show" Writer, Marc Flanagan Blogs About Mel Brooks
0 Comments Published by expat on Monday, August 3, 2009 at 7:28 PM.
Years later, I was working in Los Angeles as a writer on "The Tracey Ullman Show" that was shot on the 20th Century lot on Pico. Mel had an office there and I would see him in the Commissary oftentimes, never daring to interrupt his meal (I was older, less stupid -- thought now, a lot older and back to stupid).
James L Brooks, one of the creators of the Tracey show and the man who imported me from New York, offered Mel a role on the show. Mel, who was a great admirer of Tracey, accepted and somehow or another I got the nod to write the segment. I went over to his office and sat down with him, choosing not to reveal that we had met once before when I trespassed on his property.
Mel had an idea about a guy who gets a new chair for his office and just keeps sliding out of it ever time he sits down (he was probably in his 60s at the time … physical humor, a staple of comedy), and then I pitched him an idea, incorporating the "chair bit" about a movie director who was down on his luck and had to convince an A-list" movie goddess (Tracey doing a dead on impersonation of Kathleen Turner) to appear in his film.
Mel responded favorably to the story line and sent me off to write it. As I was leaving his office he asked me what he was going to get paid. I informed him that all of our guest stars recieved the SAG minuimum. He made a face and said he wanted a dollar more.
Funny. I wrote the piece over the next few days with great trepidation, for this was Mel Brooks, I was writing for the man who defined " funny.”
Finally done, I walked it over to Mel's office and left it with his secretary and then waited; waited like a man who is about to be hung and is hoping the Governor will commune his sentence.
Silence. I tried not to think the worst (You stink!). I went to lunch and when I returned there were two phone messages, one said "Fabian called" the other "Mel Brooks called.”
I called Mel back first (sorry, Fabian). Mel loved the sketch, which I titled, "Due Dilligence." Mel's character was Buzz Schlanger … he thought it was funny and sharp and was looking forward to doing it.
After I got off the phone with him, I walked around the lot thinking that I was hallucinating from my tuna melt -- Mel Brooks liked my sketch.
Amazing.
When we were in rehearsal for the show, he came over to me and suggested a change. One of the punch lines was, "Yeah, he's going up Thursday." Mel asked if he could change "Thursday" to "Tuesday.” Of course, I responded. Mel instructs, "Tuesday is a lot funnier then Thursday.” Now, I was hardly going to argue with Mel about the comic validity of switching days of the week -- that would have been like me arguing with YoYo Ma about how to play the Prelude from Bach's Cello suite No.1 (YoYo Ma -- funnier reference then Joshua Bell or Midori -- Mel would approve.)
On the night of the filming, I stopped by Mel's trailer, to wish him well. He asked me to step inside. I joined him in his camper and he confessed that he was very nervous about the shoot. We had an audience and he told me that he had not played a role in front of a crowd in a very long time. He did not want to screw up. I ran lines with him and reassured him that he was going to be "tops in taps.” He was showing a seldom-seen vulnerable side, and I felt honored that he was willing to share that with me.
He was Mel Brooks, but even Mel can get stage fright. Amazing.
Mel was great in the sketch, and his stage fright seemed to evaporate the moment he hit the studio floor. (And by the way he did the "chair bit" about seven times -- big laughs every time.) After we wrapped for the night, I walked the maestro back to his camper and told him that working with him and getting to know him was a high water mark in my life; he suggested a solution of bleach and water might make it go away.
I then told him the story about how we had met on Fire Island in the early ‘70s and although he didn't exactly recall it, he was curious if he had been nice. "Yes Mel you were incrediby nice to me."
"Hmmmnnn, he said, maybe I sensed that one day we would be working together and I shouldn't piss on you.” Funny.
I came to know Mel as the Thousand Year Old Man ... I hope he lives that long.
- The Times Talks To Tracey Ullman - click to watch video interview.
- Tracey uses Dr. Mary Lee Amerian's skin care line:
Dr. Mary Lee Amerian’s skin care line is fabulous. Recently I finished filming a show and found my skin to be tired and dull looking. After two days of using Mary Lee Amerian’s skin are products, I felt the glow return. The products made my skin feel clean and firm. Now Dr. Amerian can reach out to others with her new skin care line, which I highly recommend.”—Tracey Ullman
Tracey Attends The Premiere Of Julie & Julia!
0 Comments Published by expat on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 1:59 PM.
Last night's red carpet screening of Julie & Julia attracted a bevy of celebs, including the movie's costars Meryl Streep, Amy Adams (who, by the way, looked fetching in a white Roland Mouret dress and Tiffany jewels) and Chris Messina, T.R. Knight, Tracey Ullman, Ashley Greene, Kate Flannery, Giada De Laurentiis, and also from the film Jane Lynch and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
Streep stars as the late world-famous chef, Julia Child, while Adams plays a New York City government worker who decides to spend a year making every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Childs' book first published in 1961.
With the movie centered so much around food, we gotta admit we were famished by the time the end credits started rolling. Thankfully, we found an In-N-Out burger just steps away from the theater.
