Monday, December 5, 2011 2:05PM - By Damon Houx
As with every new year of television, the weakest shows that cost the most money are often cancelled after airing a handful of episodes. For example: this season, we’ve already seen The Playboy Club get shuttered, among others. TV shows are often about the ensemble, and most of their casts need time to work together to see how their chemistry develops over longer stretches of time. With comedies, that energy and chemistry is pivotal, and with so many shows put together through high-concepts or based around a name talent, everyone needs to find their footing. With that in mind, here are five shows that started rocky, and became brilliant.
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Thursday, May 5, 2011 8:07AM - By Guest Writer
Jules and Bobby trade dwellings to see if women can go from lavish surroundings to the poor practices of the past. Travis proposes to Kirsten-not-Kristen. Laurie establishes The Council to dole out punishment when Crew members wrong each other.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:00PM - By Damon Houx
The gang’s all back together with some fresh blood for the fourth installment of the Scream franchise. So vets David Arquette, Courtney Cox, and Neve Campbell have Anthony Anderson, Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Rory Culkin, Marielle Jaffe, Erik Knudson, Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts, Marley Shelton and Nico Tortorella in the mix in the slasher/whodunnit franchise that helped bring horror back to the big screen. In the intervening years, there’s been entire ways of horror films, so the movie has to comment on that as well. Did they succeed? Find out more below…
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:21PM - By Damon Houx
For stars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette and Director Wes Craven, the Scream franchise isn’t just a movie series, it’s a family. Which is funny for a series based around serial killers, and violence, but when two of the primary cast married each other, there’s going to be a familial vibe. For Scream 4, Craven brought the band back together ten years later for a film that has to work as a sequel and as a film that comments on what’s happened in horror since Scream changed how people saw horror. Which means introducing a new set of teens to the Scream universe .See how they all relate now in the interview below.
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Friday, March 18, 2011 1:05PM - By Damon Houx
We’re now less than a month away from Wes Craven‘s Scream 4. The long-in-gestation sequel comes out April 15 and we’re now starting to get even more footage from the film, which stars returning Scream trilogy survivors Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell and David Arquette, and fresh blood Emma Roberts, among others . Now we’re getting a TV spot and it’s a fun cut down version of the film’s trailer. Take a look.
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