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Of all the “Desperate Housewives,” no character is closer to the millions of fans than Felicity Huffman’s Lynette Scavo, the work-at-home mom who broke down last season under the pressure of rearing four children, at least three of whom would…
By Lee Alan HillSpecial to TelevisionWeek The news last October certainly got Hollywood’s attention-five-time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close would be joining the FX series “The Shield” as Capt. Monica Rawling, a newly created role, in its fourth season. Ms….
When HBO’s single-camera Hollywood comedy “Entourage” premiered last year, the show’s main thrust was to profile the misadventures of young A-list feature film actor Vincent Chase and his trio of friends/relatives/hangers-on. But in promoting “Entourage’s” second season, which begins today,…
Conchata Ferrell hails from West Virginia, but her story is, in many ways, classic Hollywood. Girl moves to New York. Does well on stage, in movies and on TV. Fast-forward through three decades of TV credits, Ms. Ferrell doing what…
By Amy HelmesSpecial to TelevisionWeek When HBO’s “Entourage” debuted last summer, six months after the finale of “Sex and the City,” it seemed questionable that the names Vince, Eric, Drama and Turtle-the four Hollywood hipsters at the center of the…
The thrilling first 20 minutes of the pilot episode of “Lost” is a blueprint for effective storytelling. Before the first commercial, the audience has been introduced to a half-dozen unique characters as survivors scramble for cover in the wake of…
By Amy HelmesSpecial to TelevisionWeek When director Stephen Hopkins first read the script for the HBO biopic “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,” he thought it was a miracle the movie was even being made, he said.“I’m a huge…
Richard Russo has done well by doing good work and keeping good company. His 2001 novel “Empire Falls” earned a Pulitzer Prize and was made into an HBO miniseries. The latter event may not have occurred if Paul Newman, who…
By Lee Alan HillSpecial to TelevisionWeek Since the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences created the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program category in 2003, “The Amazing Race” has won the Emmy both times. As it shoots for No. 3, it has several…
During the two-part pilot for ABC’s hit drama “Lost,” Terry O’Quinn’s character, John Locke, stayed in the background, one of the dozens of shell-shocked survivors wandering the beach of a mysterious island following the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Viewers…