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...offs, actor-playwright HARVEY FIERSTEIN is set to break new gender-bending ground. Fierstein, who won a Tony Award for his performance as a plus-size hausfrau in Broadway's Hairspray, has signed on to play a divorced mother of two in an ABC pilot. More Roseanne than Will & Grace, the show will include "no acknowledgment that this is a man playing a woman, no winking at the camera," says Craig Zadan, who is developing the project with Neil Meron, his co-executive producer on the film Chicago. Fierstein will sport wigs and makeup for the role and may have...
Ratings for the broadcast networks have taken another tumble this fall--down an overall 3% from last season. And it's not just new shows that are having trouble; a surprising number of old favorites have slipped badly. Frasier has dropped 21%; Will & Grace is down 16%; and even CBS's hot CSI fell 11%. Nor can it all be blamed on the unusually high ratings for the baseball play-offs. In times like these, TV fans are reminded of the famous Happy Days episode in which Fonzie jumped over a shark while water skiing in the Pacific Ocean...
Hedges reunites his audience with April Burns (played with unassuming grace by Katie Holmes), who earned a shoplifting record in high school and was so curiously fond of fire that she once tried to trim her younger brother’s bangs with a lighter. Now 21-years-old and armed with the emotional support of her affectionate boyfriend Bobby (played by the ingratiating Derek Luke of Antwone Fisher fame), April less than eagerly embarks on a day of cooking and decoration to prepare her humble New York apartment for a Thanksgiving dinner with her estranged family. When April discovers...
...Jack in “Dawson’s Creek” and Ricky in “My So-Called Life”), culminating in network television’s first openly gay lead characters on “Ellen” and “Will and Grace...
...starters, there are, by my count, only three predominantly gay series currently on TV (“Will and Grace,” “Queer Eye,” and Showtime’s “Queer as Folk”). Add to these one gay-themed network (I’m being conservative and not counting E!) and a pay-per-view channel available only to DirecTV’s 11.5 million American subscribers, and it’s clear that gays are not, in fact, taking television audiences hostage. Beyond being patently absurd...