PilotWatch '08: Bad Mothers, Good Behavior, and Alyssa Milano

.. because of where I live, but still.

- Meant: Wasn't this a show already? Called Dead Like Me? Starring Ellen Muth and Whitley from A Different World? I thought that too! And I actually liked that show.

- About Paula Marshall´s untitled pilot.. PLEASE BRING REGINA BACK!!! She rocked!!!

- Crusoe and your snap judgement.. Priceless! (It does serve him right hehe)

Thank you for keeping us informed

 

Both Kings and Crusoe are retelling age-old stories--great stories, but they've been told umpteen million times. Hmmm. How to make them fresh? Put a woman in the lead role! I would watch both of those if they had female leads, but as it is, none of these shows sound remotely interesting.

At least we have Dollhouse coming to cancel out all the rest of this crap!!  Yay!!  Whedon!!

wow not a one of these shows will make it pass it third episode I think its safe to say.

Though I will probable watch that Amy Smart tv show that by the way sounds nothing like deadlikeme.

-Nathiest
live for lust die for love

she totally looks like Charlese Theron i did a double take.

 

would be the one with Alyssa Milano.  I have been watching her since Who's the Boss. But she will always be a Charmed One. 

All these shows sound like they won't last long. But, I'll be watching Alyssa Milano and Paula Marshall for as long as their shows are on. I heart them so.

I miss Regina. Man, that was a good show...

~It means pride.~

I can't believe no one has said anything about the amazing AD references!

I own the book, and it was actually a really good read. I don't see it translating well into a tv series though, especially a comedy, because the book was rather serious in some parts. I also need to add that the book's British, so I don't know how they'll end up adapting the humour for an American audience.

"Will I check this out anyway? Maeby."

 

How can anyone be as cool as you? Oh, wait, they can't!

 

You rock! ^^

 

Why did the gods have to punish us by taking AD from us? WHY!!!??? They made a huuuuuuge mistake! 

wow, Bland is looking good!

love the AD joke there.

Rob thomas is involved, so im predicting it will be:
a. awesome
b. full of snark and twisty love triangles
c. cancelled just when it starts to hit its stride

I can't believe the ideas have run so dry that they would want to steal Kiwi TV shows which by and large are excruciatingly painful due to a combination of bad acting and bad writing (our movies are usually a different story though which is weird). I can't stand the concept and I can't stand to watch the Kiwi Outrageous Fortune so I don't think I'd be interested in the American one.

The rest of the shows are also a big fat meh...except maybe the Alyssa Milano one if they throw in some girl on girl action...

I love your wit.

i'm still mourning the loss of arrested development.  i looved the ad references!  'seriously, you couldn't pick her out of a lineup of one.'  ohh egg!

Love Effie Ferns!

Kisses!!@@

1>2<3>4<5>6<7> They are beautiful womyns'. With Beautiful characters. Superb!!

Everyone seems to have missed this but Portia also has a new show in the works as well although the name of it has slipped my mind.

I wish better roles for Alicia Silverstone I really do...that damn Clueless

I don't think Meant really sounds like Dead Like Me, other than starring women who die but don't really "pass on." Dead Like Me was more about improving death than improving people's lives, what with helping the souls move on and coming to terms with the inevitability of death. And Ellen Muth is blond (at least on the show), albeit a darker/dirty blond.

Wow.. seeing those recent pictures of Alia and Mae freaks me out because I just remember them both from being like, twelve on State of Grace. I miss that show. :O

A comedy about a 32-year-old woman (Silverstone) who is too busy taking care of her 16-year-old daughter (Shawkat) and 48-year-old mother.

 

Wow, what very convenient age gaps. Not even three months to give or take; exactly sixteen years between each of them. How coincidental. As an avid maths geek, I don't know whether to roll my eyes at the farce or to be thrilled that people know their times tables.

Outrageous Fortune was remade by ITV in England as a programme called Honest which I really got into. The mother and the youngest daughter are good female characters. And there was a Trans guy in there too.

I had to give it up for the brilliant "If there is, who wants to bet the volleyball gets more lines than the wife?" I'm dying over here. The sad thing is that would probably be true.

There was also a British tv version of the bad mother's handbook which was amazing, starring Catherine Tate, Anne Reid and Holly Granger. I hope that the American version will cut it but I have doubts.

I would probably watch something that Alyssa Milano did because she has proven she is quite well rounded, doing drama and comedy. And of course I can't wait for dollhouse by Joss

 

The snap judgments were the best part of this article.  My favourite was the last one.

Fall viewing doesn't seem to be looking too promising.  That's okay...I've come to the point where I'd rather read....and get my entertainment here.  AE has better shows and stars than television.

I'm looking forward to the follow-up when more show ideas are out there, and we get more snap judgments.  Awesome article!

I wasn't even going to give Gary, Unmarried a chance, but bam! There's Paula Marshall. Delicious as ever with laser-pointed comic timing.  I can even forgive that she's not playing lez here. Well she kinda is giving her highly unlikely (read: ridiculous) romance with Ed Begley Jr's character. 

Does anyone else feel like she just lights up a room when she smiles? 

Sigh. 

 

 

I'm a Sagittarius -- part ass, part dude with a loaded weapon, what's not to love?