Nicholas Sparks is Writing for Television

Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:00 am

Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks writes books that have been made into very successful movies like Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, and A Walk to Remember. His next movie is “Safe Haven,” coming out for Valentine’s Day.

He is now working on three television shows A Bend in the Road at TNT, The Falls at ABC Family and Deliverance Creek at Lifetime. I’m guessing that we can expect to see an important letter and/or a sad death in all of them.

According to Huffington Post:

“Bend In The Road” centers on a sheriff managing life in a coastal Georgia town, while “The Falls” is a modern-day “Romeo And Juliet” tale. Meanwhile, Lifetime’s “Deliverance Creek” will follow a woman as she attempts to protect her family after the civil war.

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Halloween Quiz: Television

Posted on October 25, 2012 at 8:00 am

How many of these spooky classics do you know?

1. This animated comedy goes all-out on Halloween every year with its popular “Treehouse of Horror” series.

2. It makes sense that this series about a witch would have memorable Halloween episodes. Probably the best-remembered featured an adventure filmed on location in Salem, Massachusetts, home of the witch trials.

3. A brave and curious little animated girl has to help a little monster find his way home before midnight.

4. This Emmy-winner for best comedy series has a Halloween-loving couple who turn their home into a haunted mansion, but at first everything goes wrong when their family members get caught up in their own drama.

5. The Halloween episodes of this long-running series were a highlight, especially one called “Boo!” where they turned their home into the “Castle of Terror.”

6. Zoinks! This funny-spooky animated series had a number of Halloween episodes, including one featuring KISS.

7. The Halloween episode of this musical series featured songs from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

8. Sisters Laura and Mary try to play some Halloween pranks but instead get spooked themselves in this series based on popular children’s books about 19th century settlers.

9. Liza Minnelli guest stars as the mother of a murdered child in a Halloween episode of this crime drama.

10. The teen star of this series and his cousin want to go to a Halloween party and try to top each other to win dates.

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Big Bird Halloween Costumes — The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Yellow

Posted on October 24, 2012 at 8:00 am

Mitt Romney’s comment about cutting funding for PBS at the first Presidential debate has made Big Bird one of the most popular costumes for Halloween this year. But that’s not all good news. The Children’s Television Workshop, producers of “Sesame Street,” sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind a “sexy big bird” costume. It’s not just a matter of licensing revenues and copyright protection. The characters who are important to children should not be trashed by being sexualized.

Agent Coulson Returns

Posted on October 14, 2012 at 12:18 pm

Just because a character has died on screen, even very dramatically, does not mean we won’t see him again. I’m delighted that Clark Gregg’s Agent Phil Coulson, who was killed in this year’s biggest film, “The Avengers,” will be returning as that character, though not in the next “Avengers” movie. Gregg has played loyal S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Coulson in “Iron Man,” “Iron Man 2,” and “Thor” and provided the voice for the animated version of the character in Disney XD’sUltimate Spider-Man. Now “Avengers” writer/director Joss Whedon is working on a S.H.I.E.L.D. television series for ABC and Gregg will be back to play the role. Stay tuned!

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Cheers — Happy 30th Anniversary!

Posted on October 3, 2012 at 8:00 am

It was 30 years ago that a television series about a neighborhood bar called Cheers premiered and soon audiences everywhere wanted to go “where everybody knows your name.”

John Ratzenberger told the Hollywood Reporter about his memories of playing bar regular Cliff Clavin, a mail carrier and know-it-all. He did more than play the part of Cliff Clavin — he came up with the idea for the character.

He tried out for the role of beer-slugging bar regular Norm, and after getting turned down — in favor of Wendt — he pitched a whole new character. Though he had spent the previous decade touring around Europe with his improv comedy group, the Connecticut native knew that back home in New England, every bar had a know-it-all, and suggested that the show’s Boston-based pub best have one, too.

He got the greenlight and a seat at the bar, and Cliff Clavin, the blowhard mailman who was a constant stream of false facts and half-true boasts, would become one of four characters to appear in all 271 episodes of the series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MxGC1j2ogM

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