Monday, April 20, 2009

Current TV Shows




House M.D. Fox Network Moratim Productions
Lost American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Bad Robot
Heroes National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Tailwind Productions
Prison Break Fox Network Prison Break Productions
Fox Network 20th Century Fox Television
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Fox Network Warner Bros.
How I Met Your Mother Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) 20th Century Fox
Bones Fox Network 20th Century Fox Television
Gossip Girl CW Television Network Warner Bros. Television
Supernatural WB Television Network, The Warner Bros. Television
The Office National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Reveille Productions
Grey's Anatomy American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Mark Gordon Company,
Two and a Half Men Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Warner Bros. Television
Scrubs National Broadcasting Company (NBC) ABC Studios
90210 CW Television Network CBS Paramount Network Television
Chuck National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Warner Bros. Television
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Dollhouse Fox Network 20th Century Fox Television
Family Guy Fox Network Fuzzy Door Productions
Smallville WB Television Network, The Warner Bros. Television
The Big Bang Theory Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Warner Bros. Television
One Tree Hill Tollin/Robbins Productions Warner Bros. Television
Fringe 20th Century Fox Television Bad Robot
Entourage Home Box Office (HBO) Leverage Management
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Jerry Bruckheimer
Desperate Housewives American Broadcasting Company (ABC) ABC Studios TV series
Harper's Island Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Junction Entertainment TV series
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire Comedy Central Productions Media Rights Capital
True Blood Home Box Office (HBO) Home Box Office (HBO) TV series
Hannah Montana Disney Channel Disney Channel TV series
Caprica Sci-Fi Channel, The David Eick Productions TV series
Dexter Showtime Networks Colleton Company, The TV series
The Mentalist Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Warner Bros. Television
Life National Broadcasting Company (NBC) NBC Universal Television
Doctor Who Sci-Fi Channel, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
CSI: Miami Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Jerry Bruckheimer Television
Criminal Minds Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Mark Gordon Company,
30 Rock National Broadcasting Company (NBC) NBC Studios
South Park Comedy Central Comedy Central
CSI: NY Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Jerry Bruckheimer Television
The Simpsons 20th Century Fox Television 20th Century Fox Television
The Unit Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Rescue Me FX Network Cloudland Company,
Castle American Broadcasting Company (ABC) ABC Studios
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Universal Network
Greek ABC Family Piller Squared/The Segan Company
Weeds Showtime Networks Lions Gate Television
Reaper CW Television Network Mark Gordon Company,
Kings National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Universal Media Studios (UMS)
Breaking Bad American Movie Classics (AMC) Sony Pictures Television

New TV Pilots Currently Shooting



untitled KELSEY GRAMMER pilot
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, CA
A new ABC comedy about a hotshot Wall Street executive (Kelsey Grammer) who loses his job and is forced to move back with his wife (Melinda McGraw) and kids to his hometown and reconnect with his family.

CANNED
CBS Studio Center, Studio City, CA
A new comedy for ABC about a group of friends who all get fired on the same day. Starring Stephanie Lemelin, Amanda Bynes and Tim Peper.

HAPPINESS ISN'T EVERYTHING
Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, CA
A new comedy for CBS created by Mitch Hurwitz ("Arrested Development") that centers on adult siblings who can't keep their noses out of each other's business. Richard Dreyfuss will play the loving but pushy patriarch, with Jason Biggs and Ben Schwartz as his sons.

untitled SHERRI SHEPHERD pilot
CBS Studio Center, Studio City, CA
A new comedy for LIFETIME about a married woman who discovers her husband has been cheating on her and has an illegitimate child - only to agree to let the child and her mother move in with the family. Starring Sherri Shepherd ("Less Than Perfect," "The View")

untitled JEFF STRAUSS pilot
CBS Studio Center, Studio City, CA
A new comedy for ABC which examines marriage and parenthood seen through the eyes of three couples. Starring Jonathan Silverman, Janet Varney and Matthew Lillard. Additional cast information TBA.

WAITING TO DIE
Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, CA
Two simple guys who are happy with their lives - no matter how bad it might look from the outside. A new comedy for CBS. Cast information TBA

ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE
CBS Studio Center, Studio City, CA
A new comedy for CBS about a San Francisco movie critic who finds herself accidentally pregnant after a fling with a much younger man, and the unconventional family that ultimately results. Starring Jenna Elfman, Grant Show, Jon Foster and Ashley Jensen.

100 QUESTIONS FOR CHARLOTTE PAYNE
CBS Studio Center, Studio City, CA
A new comedy for NBC about a young woman navigating life with friends in New York. The show begins each week at a dating service, where Charlotte is asked a question that then segues into that episode's storyline. Starring Sophie Winkleman and Chris Moynihan.

untitled JUSTIN ADLER pilot
The Culver Studios, Culver City, CA
A new comedy for NBC from writer/producer Justin Adler ("Samantha Who?", "Big Day", "Sons And Daughters") described as a family show with adult siblings. Starring Nick D'Agosto and Michael Rosenbaum.

BIG D
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, CA
In this new CBS comedy set in Dallas, Deanna Dunagan plays a Texan Southern belle who welcomes her son back home from New York and meddles in his wife's life. The matriarch's daughter is a tad sensitive and thrives on drama. Co-starring Missi Pyle, Ben Koldyke and Chris Parnell.

The ANITA RENFROE Presentation
Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, CA
Anita Renfroe stars in a new family sitcom centered around the thought that family comes first, by any means necessary. Anita has a unique brand of estrogen flavored comedy and blend of sass, edge and slightly offbeat takes on All Things Female. Renfroe, who some have described as "this generation's Erma Bombeck" is a featured comedian on ABC's "Good Morning America."

THIS LITTLE PIGGY
CBS Studio Center, Studio City, CA
A new comedy for ABC that centers on two adult siblings who are forced to live with their eldest brother and his family in their childhood home after falling on hard times. Starring Andrea Parker. Additional cast information TBA

BROTHERS
Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, CA
New FOX comedy about a retired football player who returns to his hometown and starts working to reconnect with his family - especially his brother, who is confined to a wheelchair following a car accident. Starring Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, Michael Strahan and Carl Weathers.

ACE IN THE HOLE
CBS Studio Center, Studio City, CA
A new comedy for CBS that stars Adam Carolla as a husband and father who works as a driving instructor.

Marlon Brando


(April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time, and was named the fourth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

As a young sex symbol, he is best known for his roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s. In middle age, his well-known roles include his Academy Award-winning performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, both directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an Academy Award-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris, and as Jor-El, the Kryptonian father of Superman in Superman, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, and (posthumously) Superman Returns.

Brando was an activist, lending his presence to many issues, including the American Civil Rights and American Indian Movements.

James Dean


(February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was a two-time Oscar-nominated American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled stereotypical high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward loner Cal Trask in East of Eden, and as the surly farmer Jett Rink in Giant.

His enduring fame and popularity rests on only three films, his entire starring output. His death at a young age helped guarantee a legendary status. He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two posthumous acting nominations (although other people had more than one posthumous nomination in other Oscar categories).

Casting process


It sometimes involves a series of auditions before a casting panel, composed of individuals such as the producer, director and/or choreographer. In the early stages of the process, candidate performers often may present prepared audition pieces such as monologues or songs. Later stages may involve groups of candidates attempting material from the work under consideration in various combinations; the casting panel considers both the talent of the individual actors and the chemistry of their combination.

There are exceptions to this. When a Casting director is working on a Print Advertising or TV Commercial casting project, then the talent comes in and is photographed or put on video with no one else in the casting session. The day's work of all the talent is then viewed on an audition website by the clients. A choice can occur that day or the next day with the production being only days away. There is more of this type of casting (commercial/print) going on than any other type.

Depending on the prestige of the role, casting calls may go out to the public at large (typical for community theatre), to professional and semi-professional local actors (for supporting roles in theatre and film) or to specifically selected actors (for leading roles, especially in films).