We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Leftovers, Gotham, The Bachelorette and Fargo!
1 | With Errin Hayes abruptly on the way out, Kevin Can Wait is totally going to make a widower out of its titular patriarch, right?
2 | Wasn’t it a small shame that American Ninja Warrior: USA vs. The World competitor Jessie Graff wasn’t able to wear her usual Wonder Woman outfit (right), last weekend of all weekends? Which unexpected misstep made you gasp more: Graff...
1 | With Errin Hayes abruptly on the way out, Kevin Can Wait is totally going to make a widower out of its titular patriarch, right?
2 | Wasn’t it a small shame that American Ninja Warrior: USA vs. The World competitor Jessie Graff wasn’t able to wear her usual Wonder Woman outfit (right), last weekend of all weekends? Which unexpected misstep made you gasp more: Graff...
- 6/9/2017
- TVLine.com
The decision to send "Nashville" out on a cliffhanger was a creative one as much as it was a business one, per The Powers That Be.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate TV chairman Kevin Beggs said, “The ending we ran was the ending always envisioned for this season,” adding, “To go with a too-easy wrap-up is more of a disservice to the fans who have invested four years in this great cast and these great stories. And there [are] more stories to tell.”
In the cancelled series’ ABC swan song on May 25, the fate of Hayden Panettiere’s Juliette was left very much up in the air as the plane that was carrying the starlet lost radio contact. As TVLine reported, an alternate ending showing Juliette alive, well and being reunited with estranged hubby Avery (Jonathan Jackson) at the airport was shot but ultimately discarded.
The ambiguous ending was intended to buoy Lionsgate’s efforts to find Nashville a new home, but viewers were not pleased. “We love Nashville, but leaving Julliette missing at the end of the final episode sucked,” sighed TVLine reader Carol. Fellow fan Marla, meanwhile, said the finale “was very good but it would have been great without the cliffhanger! I would have loved to see Juliette and Avery get their happy ending!”
According to Beggs, the studio is currently engaged in “serious conversations with multiple buyers about continuing the show on another platform… We wouldn’t take such a strong position to advocate for [the cliffhanger ending] if we didn’t feel good about our chances moving forward.”
For his part, Nashville leading man Charles Esten is bullish about the show’s Season 5 prospects, telling TVLine that the addition of new showrunners Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick (My So-Called Life, thirtysomething) leaves the series “pregnant with possibilities,” adding, “There’s magic all over this thing.”
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate TV chairman Kevin Beggs said, “The ending we ran was the ending always envisioned for this season,” adding, “To go with a too-easy wrap-up is more of a disservice to the fans who have invested four years in this great cast and these great stories. And there [are] more stories to tell.”
In the cancelled series’ ABC swan song on May 25, the fate of Hayden Panettiere’s Juliette was left very much up in the air as the plane that was carrying the starlet lost radio contact. As TVLine reported, an alternate ending showing Juliette alive, well and being reunited with estranged hubby Avery (Jonathan Jackson) at the airport was shot but ultimately discarded.
The ambiguous ending was intended to buoy Lionsgate’s efforts to find Nashville a new home, but viewers were not pleased. “We love Nashville, but leaving Julliette missing at the end of the final episode sucked,” sighed TVLine reader Carol. Fellow fan Marla, meanwhile, said the finale “was very good but it would have been great without the cliffhanger! I would have loved to see Juliette and Avery get their happy ending!”
According to Beggs, the studio is currently engaged in “serious conversations with multiple buyers about continuing the show on another platform… We wouldn’t take such a strong position to advocate for [the cliffhanger ending] if we didn’t feel good about our chances moving forward.”
For his part, Nashville leading man Charles Esten is bullish about the show’s Season 5 prospects, telling TVLine that the addition of new showrunners Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick (My So-Called Life, thirtysomething) leaves the series “pregnant with possibilities,” adding, “There’s magic all over this thing.”
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- 5/30/2016
- TVLine.com
Need to catch up? Check out last week’s Nashville recap here.
It’s over, y’all.
Nashville‘s series finale aired Wednesday night, bringing to an end the saga of Rayna Jaymes, Juliette Barnes and the rest of the players in their soapy, soulful Music City circle. The finale itself followed the formula for a steel-toe-boot-to-the-heart country song: one part lovin’, two parts tears, 10 parts near-certain tragedy and one part repentant teenager, praise Reba.
But because these recaps have always come from a place of love, let’s start with the happier stuff first. Rayna-Deacon fans were rewarded with...
It’s over, y’all.
Nashville‘s series finale aired Wednesday night, bringing to an end the saga of Rayna Jaymes, Juliette Barnes and the rest of the players in their soapy, soulful Music City circle. The finale itself followed the formula for a steel-toe-boot-to-the-heart country song: one part lovin’, two parts tears, 10 parts near-certain tragedy and one part repentant teenager, praise Reba.
But because these recaps have always come from a place of love, let’s start with the happier stuff first. Rayna-Deacon fans were rewarded with...
- 5/26/2016
- TVLine.com
To paraphrase the lyrics of a Juliette Barnes tune, trouble is — for Nashville‘s Avery Barkley — an ex-wife for whom he still yearns and a scheming singer with too much time and him in her head.
And unfortunately for the band leader/new father, this Wednesday’s episode (ABC, 10/9c) finds him flanked by the two women as Luke’s tour gets underway.
RelatedNashville‘s Maddening Maddie Storyline: We Just Can’t Anymore
In the hour, Juliette’s success on stage boosts her confidence and prods her to try to re-start her relationship with Cadence’s dad. But Jackson says...
And unfortunately for the band leader/new father, this Wednesday’s episode (ABC, 10/9c) finds him flanked by the two women as Luke’s tour gets underway.
RelatedNashville‘s Maddening Maddie Storyline: We Just Can’t Anymore
In the hour, Juliette’s success on stage boosts her confidence and prods her to try to re-start her relationship with Cadence’s dad. But Jackson says...
- 4/26/2016
- TVLine.com
Despite that long up-and-down look Avery gave Juliette in Nashville‘s very first episode — you remember, in the hallway backstage at the Grand Ole Opry? — series star Jonathan Jackson swears he signed onto the country-music drama not knowing he’d wind up in one of its two main couples.
“But another thing is, when you’re in an ensemble cast and it’s a relationship-driven show, if the show’s around a few years, then chances are that the characters are gonna cross paths,” he says. “That’s just kind of how things work.”
Related General Hospital‘s Genie Francis...
“But another thing is, when you’re in an ensemble cast and it’s a relationship-driven show, if the show’s around a few years, then chances are that the characters are gonna cross paths,” he says. “That’s just kind of how things work.”
Related General Hospital‘s Genie Francis...
- 7/6/2015
- TVLine.com
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Bates Motel, Justified, Arrow and Scandal!
1 | Crazy 12 Monkeys theory: Could Striking Woman be Jennifer Goines? Or related to her somehow? We can’t be the only ones who think there’s a resemblance, can we?
RelatedMay Sweeps Scorecard 2015: Weddings, Deaths, Breakups, Sex, Resurrections, Firings and More!
2 | When it comes to Grimm‘s Juliette, are you Team ‘Biest or Team Restore?
3 | Is Outlander‘s recent virgin-turned-newlywed Jamie Fraser the quickest study in the world or what?...
1 | Crazy 12 Monkeys theory: Could Striking Woman be Jennifer Goines? Or related to her somehow? We can’t be the only ones who think there’s a resemblance, can we?
RelatedMay Sweeps Scorecard 2015: Weddings, Deaths, Breakups, Sex, Resurrections, Firings and More!
2 | When it comes to Grimm‘s Juliette, are you Team ‘Biest or Team Restore?
3 | Is Outlander‘s recent virgin-turned-newlywed Jamie Fraser the quickest study in the world or what?...
- 4/17/2015
- TVLine.com
Fool me once, Nashville, shame on you.
Fool me twice — with the very development I’d been hoping for, a tangle of bare limbs, “babe” and bittersweet regret, wrapped in a wrinkled plaid blanket and laid before me like a very early, very naughty Christmas present — shame on me.
Delicious, delicious shame.
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I want to believe that this week’s episode represents a brave new start for Rayna and Deacon. I want it more than Mulder wanted Scully to believe in aliens, more than Big Bird wanted people to believe in Snuffleupagus,...
Fool me twice — with the very development I’d been hoping for, a tangle of bare limbs, “babe” and bittersweet regret, wrapped in a wrinkled plaid blanket and laid before me like a very early, very naughty Christmas present — shame on me.
Delicious, delicious shame.
RelatedNashville Spring Concert Tour Performers and Dates Announced
I want to believe that this week’s episode represents a brave new start for Rayna and Deacon. I want it more than Mulder wanted Scully to believe in aliens, more than Big Bird wanted people to believe in Snuffleupagus,...
- 4/2/2015
- TVLine.com
The 41st Annual Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards were handed out Friday night, and thanks in part to its mighty Muppet militia, PBS emerged with more wins than any other network.
Related Daytime Emmy Awards to Stream Online, Forgo Televised Ceremony
Sesame Street‘s hub earned 10 total awards, as CBS followed with eight and The Hub Network nabbed six. Read on for all of this year’s winners:
Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series
Sesame Street (PBS)
Outstanding Children’s Series
R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series (Hub Network)
Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Animated Program
Peg+Cat (PBS...
Related Daytime Emmy Awards to Stream Online, Forgo Televised Ceremony
Sesame Street‘s hub earned 10 total awards, as CBS followed with eight and The Hub Network nabbed six. Read on for all of this year’s winners:
Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series
Sesame Street (PBS)
Outstanding Children’s Series
R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series (Hub Network)
Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Animated Program
Peg+Cat (PBS...
- 6/21/2014
- TVLine.com
Nashville divas Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) & Rayna James (Connie Britton)
Who doesn’t love a good soap? And there are plenty of them on the air now like the uber-popular Downton Abbey, ABC’s revitalized Revenge and even shows like Homeland have serialized elements that hook us.
And then there’s Nashville, a soap set in the exciting and already over the top world of country music. There are the successful country divas like stoic veteran Rayna James (Connie Britton) and bratty superstar Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere), the up-and-comers like songwriter Gunnar (Sam Palladio), singer Scarlett (Clare Bowen) and guitarist Avery (Jonathan Jackson, whose soap pedigree goes back to General Hospital) and late last season the series added Will Lexington (Chris Carmack), a closeted country heartthrob.
Will doesn’t believe a gay man can also be a country music superstar, and he might just be right on that score. Despite...
Who doesn’t love a good soap? And there are plenty of them on the air now like the uber-popular Downton Abbey, ABC’s revitalized Revenge and even shows like Homeland have serialized elements that hook us.
And then there’s Nashville, a soap set in the exciting and already over the top world of country music. There are the successful country divas like stoic veteran Rayna James (Connie Britton) and bratty superstar Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere), the up-and-comers like songwriter Gunnar (Sam Palladio), singer Scarlett (Clare Bowen) and guitarist Avery (Jonathan Jackson, whose soap pedigree goes back to General Hospital) and late last season the series added Will Lexington (Chris Carmack), a closeted country heartthrob.
Will doesn’t believe a gay man can also be a country music superstar, and he might just be right on that score. Despite...
- 2/5/2014
- by Jim Halterman
- The Backlot
News
The CW’s Flash pilot just added two more cast members. Deadline reports that Girlfriends alum Candice Patton will play Iris West, Barry Allen‘s best friend. Additionally, Broadway star Carlos Valdes (Once) has been cast to play an engineering genius named Cisco Ramon. Both names should be familiar to DC comics fans but since Arrow has had a character called “Speedy” and another named Roy Harper who didn’t end up the way we would have expected, don’t nerd out too quickly.
Transgender activist Janet Mock has called out Piers Morgan Live for an interview segment that was edited to focus on the physical aspects of her transition and her relationships, sensationalizing Mock’s story with similarly sensational descriptions for Mock appearing on screen. Is it really that hard for people like Morgan or Katie Couric to do some basic research on the topic they’re about to discuss?...
The CW’s Flash pilot just added two more cast members. Deadline reports that Girlfriends alum Candice Patton will play Iris West, Barry Allen‘s best friend. Additionally, Broadway star Carlos Valdes (Once) has been cast to play an engineering genius named Cisco Ramon. Both names should be familiar to DC comics fans but since Arrow has had a character called “Speedy” and another named Roy Harper who didn’t end up the way we would have expected, don’t nerd out too quickly.
Transgender activist Janet Mock has called out Piers Morgan Live for an interview segment that was edited to focus on the physical aspects of her transition and her relationships, sensationalizing Mock’s story with similarly sensational descriptions for Mock appearing on screen. Is it really that hard for people like Morgan or Katie Couric to do some basic research on the topic they’re about to discuss?...
- 2/5/2014
- by Lyle Masaki
- The Backlot
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Good Wife, The Walking Dead, The Blacklist and The Sound of Music Live!
1 | We get that she’s wicked smart, but should Grimm cool it with the “Juliette-knows-everything-about-all-sciences” thing?
Related | The Good Wife Season 5 Casts Matthew Goode as Prosecutor
2 | Snap Good Wife poll: Do you prefer Will and Alicia as lovers, or enemies? And as great as the show has been, why make Melissa George’s otherwise savvy consultant a quirky,...
1 | We get that she’s wicked smart, but should Grimm cool it with the “Juliette-knows-everything-about-all-sciences” thing?
Related | The Good Wife Season 5 Casts Matthew Goode as Prosecutor
2 | Snap Good Wife poll: Do you prefer Will and Alicia as lovers, or enemies? And as great as the show has been, why make Melissa George’s otherwise savvy consultant a quirky,...
- 12/6/2013
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
The turkey’s stuffed, the pumpkin’s pie’d and the family’s gathered — but don’t neglect your old friend, TV! It’s working Ot this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, serving marathons of fave shows (Castle) and flicks (James Bond), holiday movies (My Santa) and classics (A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving), plus fresh episodes of Glee, Grimm and others. So unbutton your pants and pick up your remote — it’s relaxin’ time. (Sunday’s entrees, including the Walking Dead finale, a great Wife and The Mentalist 2.0 will be covered separately.)
Thursday, Nov. 28
Midnight – 2:40 am Amazing Animation Thanksgiving Marathon (Starz...
Thursday, Nov. 28
Midnight – 2:40 am Amazing Animation Thanksgiving Marathon (Starz...
- 11/28/2013
- by Misha Solomon
- TVLine.com
Most Telegraphed Ending: The minute Survivor’s Andrea started talking about how sorry she felt for about-to-be-blindsided Brenda, we knew exactly which of them would be having their torch snuffed by episode’s end.
Best Returns: ABC-axed sudsers All My Children and One Life To Live returned — via Hulu and iTunes — courtesy of production company Prospect Park. That sound you just heard? The soap fan in your life cheering.
Most Controversial List: As always, this year’s Daytime Emmy nominations left many scratching their heads over everything from the fact that The Bold & The Beautiful’s Scott Clifton was in the supporting category despite the show revolving around his character for the past year to General Hospital’s Lindsay Morgan getting a nod over such supposed shoe-ins as Kelly Sullivan, Finola Hughes, Kelly Monaco and Rebecca Herbst.
Why You’re Seeing Double: BBC America renewed its epically awesome clone...
Best Returns: ABC-axed sudsers All My Children and One Life To Live returned — via Hulu and iTunes — courtesy of production company Prospect Park. That sound you just heard? The soap fan in your life cheering.
Most Controversial List: As always, this year’s Daytime Emmy nominations left many scratching their heads over everything from the fact that The Bold & The Beautiful’s Scott Clifton was in the supporting category despite the show revolving around his character for the past year to General Hospital’s Lindsay Morgan getting a nod over such supposed shoe-ins as Kelly Sullivan, Finola Hughes, Kelly Monaco and Rebecca Herbst.
Why You’re Seeing Double: BBC America renewed its epically awesome clone...
- 5/3/2013
- by theTVaddict
- The TV Addict
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Grimm, Mad Men, Cougar Town and Glee!
1 | Which Grimm storyline needs more caffeine: Juliette’s very slow-to-return memory or Rosalee and Monroe’s glacially paced romance?
2 | Nikita fans, on a scale of “Whoa” to “Omg! My Jaw Just Hit the Floor,” how would you rate Alex’s mutinous turn — and subsequent shooting of Ryan?
Photos | Nikita Season 3 Spoilers — Alex Is Betrayed by Her Division Mutineers
3 | How worried were you that Melissa McCarthy’s...
1 | Which Grimm storyline needs more caffeine: Juliette’s very slow-to-return memory or Rosalee and Monroe’s glacially paced romance?
2 | Nikita fans, on a scale of “Whoa” to “Omg! My Jaw Just Hit the Floor,” how would you rate Alex’s mutinous turn — and subsequent shooting of Ryan?
Photos | Nikita Season 3 Spoilers — Alex Is Betrayed by Her Division Mutineers
3 | How worried were you that Melissa McCarthy’s...
- 4/12/2013
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
Angela Lansbury talking show tunes!
That's why you should be excited about a new season of Michael Feinstein's American Songbook.
News
FX has issued an apology to fans of The Americans who found their DVR recordings cut off early. The episode ran for 67 minutes but listings had the run time going for an hour, meaning many viewers missed vital scenes. FX is putting the full episode online for viewers to catch up.
The next target for Adult Swim — 80s detective shows. Deadline reports that the late night block has ordered a new live action series, Hole to Hole, that will parody 80s detective shows.
Since I find Artie one of the more toxic characters on Glee, I didn't expect to be excited at the thought of meeting his mother, but she's going to be played by Katey Sagal (who was once one of Bette Midler's Harlettes) which suddenly has...
That's why you should be excited about a new season of Michael Feinstein's American Songbook.
News
FX has issued an apology to fans of The Americans who found their DVR recordings cut off early. The episode ran for 67 minutes but listings had the run time going for an hour, meaning many viewers missed vital scenes. FX is putting the full episode online for viewers to catch up.
The next target for Adult Swim — 80s detective shows. Deadline reports that the late night block has ordered a new live action series, Hole to Hole, that will parody 80s detective shows.
Since I find Artie one of the more toxic characters on Glee, I didn't expect to be excited at the thought of meeting his mother, but she's going to be played by Katey Sagal (who was once one of Bette Midler's Harlettes) which suddenly has...
- 4/5/2013
- by LyleMasaki
- The Backlot
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including How I Met Your Mother, Revolution, The Voice and New Girl!
1 | Which Grimm visual made you gag harder: The Sandman’s incredibly gross tongue or his spooned-out fly eyeball?
2 | Who did “Zou Bisou Bisou” better: Mad Men‘s Megan or Degrassi‘s Zig?
3 | Do any Revenge viewers actually care what happens to Padma? (Bueller…?) And were we alone in thinking Jack hadn’t bought the story about Kenny Ryan’s boat?
Photos | The Walking Dead...
1 | Which Grimm visual made you gag harder: The Sandman’s incredibly gross tongue or his spooned-out fly eyeball?
2 | Who did “Zou Bisou Bisou” better: Mad Men‘s Megan or Degrassi‘s Zig?
3 | Do any Revenge viewers actually care what happens to Padma? (Bueller…?) And were we alone in thinking Jack hadn’t bought the story about Kenny Ryan’s boat?
Photos | The Walking Dead...
- 3/29/2013
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
On TV this Friday: Happy Endings (finally!) returns with a double shot, Xiii: The Series aims to Reelz you back in, some gamers’ futures look Grimm and General Hospital fans have a long (and fabulous) weekend shift ahead of them. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features (linked within) — and with March Madness unfolding on CBS and TBS — here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm Nikita (The CW) | When Nikita decides Division should take on a government mission to eliminate a foreign head of state, Alex refuses to participate and instead recruits Birkoff to dig up secrets...
8 pm Nikita (The CW) | When Nikita decides Division should take on a government mission to eliminate a foreign head of state, Alex refuses to participate and instead recruits Birkoff to dig up secrets...
- 3/29/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Deacon spends part of this week’s Nashville at the veterinarian’s office, but it’s Gunnar who acts like a dirty old egg-sucking dog. (Boy, you are lucky that Scarlett seems to have a soft spot for strays.) Meanwhile, Juliette’s impulsive nature causes an actual panic, which triggers one of the greatest Barnes-James interactions we’ve seen so far. And Avery watches his career go down in flames – literally. Let’s review the major developments of “When You’re Tired of Breaking Other Hearts.”
Related | Nashville Hot Shots: Rayna and Juliette Hit the Big Apple, Peggy Is Hit...
Related | Nashville Hot Shots: Rayna and Juliette Hit the Big Apple, Peggy Is Hit...
- 3/28/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
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