It’s still blue skies in the Hamptons when Royal Pains returns tonight for its fifth season (9 p.m. Et on USA), but things will be getting a little stormy for Hank, Mark Feuerstein says. “A director I worked with, in of all places sitcoms, James Burrows, would say that in order to find the dimension and depth of a character, we need to find the dirt under his fingernails — which we were always looking for on Good Morning, Miami and Conrad Bloom and never necessarily found. But the writers of Royal Pains,” he says, “are so excellent at creating dimensional characters who you love,...
- 6/12/2013
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Alice alum Linda Lavin has been cast as Sean Hayes‘ mom in his untitled NBC comedy pilot, TVLine has learned.
The network’s vehicle for Hayes, from Better Off Ted creator Victor Fresco, is a multi-camera project centering on a man attempting to both parent the teenage daughter who just moved in and appease a temperamental new boss. Hot In Cleveland‘s Todd Milliner also will produce.
Lavin played Alice‘s titular hash-slinger for nine seasons. Her TV credits also include Room for Two,...
The network’s vehicle for Hayes, from Better Off Ted creator Victor Fresco, is a multi-camera project centering on a man attempting to both parent the teenage daughter who just moved in and appease a temperamental new boss. Hot In Cleveland‘s Todd Milliner also will produce.
Lavin played Alice‘s titular hash-slinger for nine seasons. Her TV credits also include Room for Two,...
- 2/4/2013
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Just because the characters of "Royal Pains" typically are seen at play in the Hamptons in the summer, that doesn't mean they don't celebrate the end-of-year holidays, too.
USA Network confirms it by giving the series -- which wrapped its fourth round a few months ago -- a new, stand-alone offering with "Off-Season Greetings" Sunday, Dec. 16. The two-hour movie both advances the saga and goes back in time with it, as doctor-to-the-rich Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) recalls his earlier romances while his brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) prepares to walk down the aisle with fiancee Paige (Brooke D'Orsay).
"It's directed by one of our executive producers, Michael Rauch," the friendly Feuerstein tells Zap2it, "and no one knows the DNA of the show more than him ... other than our other executive producer, Andrew Lenchewski. The two of them have built such an efficient and creative machine, and the show has gone in so many interesting directions.
USA Network confirms it by giving the series -- which wrapped its fourth round a few months ago -- a new, stand-alone offering with "Off-Season Greetings" Sunday, Dec. 16. The two-hour movie both advances the saga and goes back in time with it, as doctor-to-the-rich Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) recalls his earlier romances while his brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) prepares to walk down the aisle with fiancee Paige (Brooke D'Orsay).
"It's directed by one of our executive producers, Michael Rauch," the friendly Feuerstein tells Zap2it, "and no one knows the DNA of the show more than him ... other than our other executive producer, Andrew Lenchewski. The two of them have built such an efficient and creative machine, and the show has gone in so many interesting directions.
- 12/16/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Just about nobody's dry humor was drier than Steve Landesberg's. Landesberg, the deadpan comic who earned three Emmy nominations for the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller, has lost a battle to cancer, reports said today. He was 65. Landesberg played Det. Arthur Dietrich on the 1975-1982 cop comedy. The standup standout was just 30 when he won the world-weary role. After Miller, Landesberg didn't do series regular work again until Conrad Bloom, a short-lived comedy starring future Royal Pains doc Mark Feuerstein. Later, Landesberg played Ryan Reynolds' father in an episode Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, did voice work for Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman, and...
- 12/21/2010
- E! Online
With the season coming to an end, it's time to look back at what the last few months in entertainment have taught us. You can get your thinking caps on by clicking through our gallery of 20 Things We Learned This Summer. I'll start the addendum to the list. 1. A bit of Swedish: For instance, Hundtricket, the title of a 2002 film that features True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard in a shower scene (pictured), means "The Dog Trick." 2. Mark Feuerstein is no longer "TV poison": Royal Pains earned a second season on USA, which means the next time we write about its leading man we won't have to mention that he also starred in three failed NBC sitcoms — 1997's Fired Up (shot down after 23 episodes), 1998's Conrad Bloom (after nine episodes), and 2002's Good Morning, Miami (30 episodes) — and one blink-and-you-missed-it CBS drama, 3 Lbs. (canceled after only three airings in 2006). 3. Movie execs do have a heart,...
- 9/7/2009
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
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