TV CASTINGS: Christopher Lloyd Joins NBC Pilot, Burt Reynolds Boards CMT Movie

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• Two questions about the LeAnne Rimes casting: 1). Her enormous talent as a singer is not in question, but can she act at all? 2). Isn’t she a bit on the nose at the moment? She’s a country star. One of the problems with having a conservative-Christian fanbase is that they’re nowhere near as forgiving of personal decisions like getting romantically involved with a married man as liberals are. Am I the only one who can see a lot of damaging comments about ‘Hollyweird’ and “oh what a skank”, godless antics etc. getting in the way? I’ve got no interest in her personal life myself, but a lot of people seem to watch movies/listen to music based on the artists politics and lifestyles nowadays.

  Comment by Spacelamb — Friday April 1, 2011 @ 7:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Chris Lloyd? Burt Reynolds?
  Still getting paid gigs?
  Something spooky is going on.

  Just in the last week, Deadline Hollywoood has featured so many old, mostly forgotten, should-be-retired actors-like Alan Alda, Don Johnson, and a bunch of nameless 50+ women,plus Betty White!-in NEW TV pilots & movies, that I have to ask:
  Is this Hollywood’s real life version of “Zombies”?

  What the hell is going on in TV land?
  Lloyd, Alda, Reynolds, Johnson, and 50+ old actresses?
  This is the talent pool NBC & other nets are tapping?
  Old actors 50+ make me feel OLD!
  What demo is a Chris Lloyd or Alan Alda going to attract?
  What products are their shows going to sell-Depends, life/medical insurance, The Clapper, ambulance chasing/social security lawyers, retirement villages, medicare rip-offs, vitamins?

  I gotta watch me some Disney channel right now to get out of this old funk!

  Comment by Sam — Saturday April 2, 2011 @ 2:22am PDT  Reply to this post

  • It’s about time that they have old actors again. You know like they did back in the 1970s and 80s.

    Comment by Jack — Saturday April 2, 2011 @ 4:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • You mean actors that actually know their craft, instead of 20 year old Disney robots? Give me Jean Smart and Christopher Lloyd anyday over Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens! And I’m nowhere near 50.

    Comment by Tracy Leigh — Sunday April 3, 2011 @ 5:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Great….more Canadian, runaway production crap.

  Comment by Mexy Martini — Saturday April 2, 2011 @ 7:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• madhuri

  Comment by harun khan — Saturday April 2, 2011 @ 11:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Charlie Sheen will be back at Two And A Half Men, but the show has jumped the shark. Charlie is very good, but he’s an actor in a good situation (on the show) even if he comes back, there is a lot of ill will, even though Chuck Lorre instigated it ,
  Chuck (and I dont know him), has a hit show, but that’s not enough he has those dumb vanity cards that nobody can read, and he bit the hand that feeds him by saying on one of those cards
  “If Charlie outlives me I will really be pissed” That was his self-importance (EGO) getting the better of him, why rock the boat; well he did, and the boat capsized………
  After tonight’s disaster in Detroit, hey I love that title, you can use it
  DISASTER IN DETROIT, STARRING CHARLIE SHEEN brought to you by, Jack Daniels, Coke, and Hustler magazine

  Comment by Eddeie Kritzer — Sunday April 3, 2011 @ 2:13am PDT  Reply to this post