May 1st, 2006 | 0 Comments
The top producer on ABC’s hit comedy-drama “Desperate Housewives” walked off the job late last week and may be replaced next season. Tom Spezialy, the show’s executive producer/showrunner, exited Friday after an unspecified falling out. According to sources, things calmed down over the weekend.
With only a few days of production left on the series’ second season, Spezialy will return to work on Monday, said a spokeswoman for Touchstone TV, which produces the series. It has been a rough second season for “Housewives,” which has faced carping from critics who say it has lost its creative footing. The spokeswoman denied any shake-up was afoot.
April 28th, 2006 | 0 Comments
According to USA Today, Teri Hatcher gets more family time in the upcoming “Desperate Housewives: The Complete Second Season – Extra Juicy Edition” DVD. The six-disc set (in stores July 29, $60) includes an unaired story line starring Hatcher’s character Susan Mayer, her mom (Lesley Ann Warren) and stepdad (Bob Newhart), as well as other deleted scenes and extras.
Also, “Grey’s Anatomy: The Complete Second Season – Uncut” (Sept. 12, $60) has three extended episodes with footage deemed too steamy for TV.
In addition to “lost,” unaired flashbacks, the seven-disc “Lost: The Complete Second Season – The Extended Edition” (Oct. 3, $60) promises an interactive matrix for exploring the connections between various characters and numbers.
April 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments
Teri Hatcher suffered an eye injury when a light bulb exploded on the set of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” People magazine reported Wednesday.
“Glass lodged in my right eye and proceeded to scratch my cornea,” Hatcher was quoted as telling the magazine following Tuesday’s accident. “I was taken to a wonderful eye doctor, and am now wearing a most glamorous eye patch over the right half of my face.”
Hatcher, 41, said she should be back to work in two days and was trying to see the humor “in the oddity of it all.”
The injury forced the actress to cancel her appearance at a Tuesday night party for the AmberWatch Foundation, which is dedicated to preventing child abduction and molestation. Hatcher is the group’s new spokeswoman.
April 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments
Look for new faces with big names tonight, beginning with Carol Burnett as Bree’s stepmother, Eleanor Mason, and Ronny Cox as her father, Henry. We understand that Eleanor’s not very nice. Surprised? Considering Bree’s nasty legal business with Andrew, maybe that could come in handy. Speaking of legal issues, the Solises will be back in court, trying to keep their newly purloined baby, who they’re calling Lily. Let’s hope she doesn’t grow up to be another Andrew. And speaking of big names, Kyle MacLachlan turns up as a dentist out to complicate Susan’s life even further. Isn’t Karl doing a good enough job of that as it is?
April 2nd, 2006 | 0 Comments
It’s party time again as the Wisterians celebrate Edie and Karl’s engagement. Look for Felicia Tilman to make it memorable. Meanwhile, the blessed event that Gaby and Carlos have been awaiting arrives, although how blessed it’ll turn out to be remains to be seen. And poor, unappreciated mom Bree might finally be owning up to her own addiction, but she’ll have to deal with someone else’s addiction of a different sort when her AA friend Peter McMillan (Lee Tergesen) gets real friendly real fast.
March 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments
When last we saw Bree Van de Kamp, she was guzzling chardonnay from her closeted stash. Tonight her life gets even more complicated when she meets a guy (Lee Tergesen) who’ll turn out to be as creepy in his way as George was in his. In other casting news, Eddie McClintock (Fred Savage’s older brother on Crumbs) enters Gaby and Carlos’s lives as they get desperate about adopting a kid. But not so desperate as to want an ugly kid. They do have their standards.
