Cheers & Jeers: Michelle Trachtenberg Gets Lost in Weeds

Michelle Trachtenberg Jeers to Michelle Trachtenberg for going to seed on Weeds. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! As Emma, the temptress who turned the Botwins' bicycle shop upside-down - literally - and stole their pot business, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum is a real buzz kill. With her Lolita-like looks and too-cool-for-school attitude, her character feels like a warmed-over version of Gossip Girl's Georgina Sparks. And somehow she's even more annoying than the perpetually perky (and aptly surnamed) nurse Chloe Payne on NBC's mercifully short-lived Mercy. Weeds has been allowed to grow unchecked for far too long, and Season 7's guest stars, including a low-energy Aidan Quinn as a crooked hedge-fund manager and an underused Martin Short as a lawyer, haven't been able to bring it new life. What are you waiting for, Showtime? Yank Weeds! Do you think it's time for Showtime to kill Weeds? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

EMMYS: Q&A Large Bang Theory Bill Prady

Bill Prady is showrunner for CBS other Chuck Lorre show that's, The Large Bang Theory, first-time Emmy nominated for OutstandingComedy Series within the same year that TwoAnd One Half Males was drawn from the running.Large Bang wascreated by Lorre and Prady. And sinceLorres not talkingto any media, Deadline TV contributor Diane Haithman searched for out Prady: DEADLINE: Congratulationson your nomination. Ill request the clichquestion first: so how exactly does it feel? BILL PRADY: Boy, what is a non-clich response to thatquestion?Im going to choose a clichd answer and say its really fun. Basically understood precisely what you needed to do to create a show Emmy-worthy, it's absolutely something which we'd do. Im likely to think that the operation is people consider the implies that are available and mark those they like most, and that we were among individuals shows this season. DEADLINE: Large Bang Theory is really a livestudio audience multi-camera show, and also the last to win the Comedy Seriesaward was Everyone Loves Raymond in2005. PRADY:Im personally a large fan of 4-camera TV comedy. Theres been a change through the years in thenumber of multi-camera and single-camera comedies created.I believe that probablyhas something related to it.It is possible to presupposition for theEmmy voter to select just one four-camera show?I truly dont believe that people makechoices like this. DEADLINE: Does that say anything about the modern TV comedy world? PRADY: If only I possibly could soundsmarter.I was raised about the TV classics anybody my maturity of 51 was raised on. I really like a reveal that has moments that actually enables you to laugh aloud.Individuals will say, ‘Did you realize this show would be ahit?’ And essentially you refuse. I approach this as everything Ive ever donewhich is: you receive in each morning, have coffee, and you say, ‘Whatsthe best factor that people could do?’And youdo it until youre tired and also you get home. The only real factor you have controlover is, ‘Are you trying hard?’ We always try. Among the excellent achievements for that employment of authors, andone from the challenges for sections of Development and experts,is how big themarketplace for TV programs has elevated.How can you develop the half adozen best? Andis the appetite for honours showsgenerated by a crowd searching for sign posts quality inside a huge market ofentertainment? DEADLINE: Large Bang is broad humor, butits broad humor about really wise people. PRADY:People discuss the show as being a wise show.Its about wise figures. But among the points from the show is the fact that beingsmart does not always provide you with a advantage if this involves coping with otherpeople. I believe we here one of the geekyand the nerdish draw by ourselves encounters. DEADLINE: Are TV writersnerds? PRADY: Arewriters brainiacs? My God. When you're walking about the lot and also you visit a group ofwriters, even when you do not know who they really are, you say, ‘God, individuals are authors.’Its really sad. You will know your group looks exactly the same for them. But to allthe women available, speaking with respect to the only people from the group,they're wise, they arefunny, they're caring, andtheyll reallylisten. DEADLINE: With MelissaRauch and Mayim Bialik,you've introduced girl nerds in your show. PRADY: Really,I wish to commend society for that creation and emergence from the femalegeek.Like a male geek, we welcomeher.Among the advantages of goingto Comic-Disadvantage nowadays, it's most assuredly a coed event now. I believe therehave been women who may have had early years as sad and lonely as some malegeeks, however theyre being released.We're showing a specific culture, and if you aredepicting a specific culture, there's an immediate judgment made whether youare honoring or mocking the culture. We understood i was honoring it becauseit is the west, nevertheless its with the prism of the four-camera comedy. DEADLINE: It is possible to sense that Comic-Disadvantage isn't justfor nerds and comic fans however the youthful stylish TV audience? PRADY: Our newbie at Comic-Disadvantage, I recall Chuck Lorre giving the cast just a little pep talk. ‘Go available into that room, and it is most likely likely to be mostly empty. Buteven if it is four people, letsspend a pleasant hour together.’ And that we walked in to the room also it was packed towards the rafters. I believe that implies that have a minimum of anaspect of something that's being celebratedat Comic-Disadvantage possess a bettertimethere. But there is a kind of Comic-Disadvantage-style fandom that develops uparound some shows.Take a look at a showlike Bones, that we know hasa large fandom thats there since you have nerdish figures. DEADLINE: What TV would you watch? PRADY: I loved Treme Imconvinced its being made only for me, because food and jazz are a couple of myfavorite things. I loved The Wire, Iloved The Shield.I nerdishly loved Bet on Thrones. Friday Evening LightsI love when somebodys got an excellent aggressive little bit of imagination, likeBattlestar Galactica. I believe watching comedy for any comedy author is a little of abusmans holiday. I lovewhat they are doing at Modern Family, however i dont find myself activating a comedy.I findmyself activating a drama. Becausethen Im notthinking about, ‘Heres a different way to do this joke,’ or, within the situation of contemporary Family, ‘What an excellent way todo that joke.’ But to look at something which shakes you and also moves you and also drawsyou in, and goes into another world — thats real fun.

Producers Talk Entourage Ending & Big Screen Plans

By Jolie LashBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- It may air on HBO, but don’t expect shocking endings for any of the characters when “Entourage” wraps up its final season later this year. “There’s no major deaths, there’s no major things,” Creator/Executive Producer Dough Ellin told reporters on Thursday at the Television Critics Association Summer Session 2011 in Beverly Hills as he sat alongside the cast and fellow EP Mark Wahlberg for the group’s final gathering. “It’s really hopefully just a vibe… kind of [like in the] first season where people just used to go, ‘These are my boys… I got a friend like E, I got a friend like Turtle or Drama…’” “We just want a vibe,” he added of how the series, which returned to HBO on Sunday, will end. “That was it. “ Ellin and Wahlberg confirmed again that they do plan to turn “Entourage” into a movie â€" eventually. “I said if I had to finance it myself I would do it,” Wahlberg told reporters. “I certainly hope that this has a chance to become a feature film and people have always complained that the episodes are too short and they want to go on a journey with these guys,” Wahlberg continued. “We’re gonna do a movie,” Ellin added more definitively of the big screen push. “It’s a question of when, how quick [we can]… come up with an idea and make it happen.” While the big screen “Entourage” journey is a ways off, Adrian Grenier, who has played Vince for eight seasons (they’ve wrapped shooting the final season), said his character remains with him in real life. “I’ve always found a lot of wisdom in the show and particularly through my character who’s been able to be a guiding force to the guys,” Adrian said. “I look up to him and I take a lot of cues from him. When he says stuff like, ‘Good or bad, you can’t listen to what these people say’… The idea is, what’s important is not the fame, the money, the glitz, the glam, the girls. What’s important is right here at home with the guys and I’ve tried to live with that line since the beginning.” Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Trio enter 'Friendship'

Matt Oberg ("Ugly People in america"), Stephen Schneider ("Close Friends Forever") and Anna Chlumsky ("My Girl") are starring in indie comedy "Bert and Arnie's Help guide to Friendship," created by Justified Finishes Entertainment.Adrian Martinez, Debargo Sanyal and Cristin Milioti also star within the pic written and directed by Shaun Kaplan and Ian Springer.Sal Irizarry, Jane Basina and Waj Arshad are creating. Filming commenced This summer 19 in New You are able to City.Oberg plays a sensitive professor and author of feminist literature who deep-down churns with sexual frustration. Schneider shows a noisy, obnoxious, womanizing businessman who's completely oblivious to how inappropriate he's in nearly every situation -- even if he falls crazily deeply in love with his new female boss.Oberg and Schneider are generally repped by CAA. Chlumsky is repped by Innovative Artists' Ken Lee. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

NY Film Fest Sets 'My Week With Marilyn' As Focal point Gala

New You are able to, NY, August 4, 2011The Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center introduced today that Simon Curtis MY WEEK WITH MARILYN can make its World Premiere because the Focal point Gala selection, screening at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, October 9 for that approaching 49th New You are able to Film Festival (September 30 October 16). "Having seen Lana Turner so frequently described in films like a caricature, it's a pleasure to determine this complex personality and different on-screen presence described so well by this type of gifted actress as Michelle Williams," states Richard Pea, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center. Depending on Colin Clarks journals, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, is occur the first summer time of 1956, whenever a 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just lower from Oxford and going to make his means by the film business, labored like a lowly assistant about the group of THE PRINCE And Also The SHOWGIRL. It had been the film that notoriously u . s . Mister Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Lana Turner (Michelle Williams), who had been also on honeymoon together with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Burns (Dougray Scott). Nearly 4 decades on, Clarks diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was released, but 1 week didn't have - that was released some years later as My Week with Marilyn. This is actually the story of this week. When Arthur Burns leaves England, the coast is obvious for Clark introducing Monroe to a few of the pleasures of British existence an idyllic week by which he escorted a Monroe who had been desperate to escape her retinue of Hollywood wardrobe hangers-on and also the demands of labor. Created by David Parfitt, the Weinstein Company release also stars Dominic Cooper, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Zoe Wanamaker, Emma Watson, Toby Johnson, Philip Jackson, Geraldine Somerville, Derek Jacobi and Simon Russell Beale. The film is placed for any November 4 release.

Justin Bruening to Vie for Sarah Michelle Gellar's Affections on Ringer

Justin Bruening Former Dark night Driver star Justin Bruening has arrived a recurring role on Ringer, TV Line reviews.Bruening will have Tyler, who chases Siobhan, among the twin siblings Sarah Michelle Gellar plays. Tyler may have lots of competition to cope with, though: Siobhan's already inside a triangular together with her husband (Ioan Gruffudd) and her lover (Kristoffer Polaha).Ringer's Sarah Michelle Gellar: "I am not attempting to re-create Buffy"Bruening was most lately connected to the unsuccessful Question Lady pilot and it has starred on My Children - Gellar's former cleaning soap home, though they were not on simultaneously.Ring tone premieres Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 9/8c about the CW.