NCIS, House and Criminal Minds

TUESDAY Peter Gannon NCIS Bartender Nov. 25th CBS @ 8pm

TUESDAY Alex Sol House Role – Larry Nov. 25th FOX @ 8pm

WEDNESDAY Spencer Hill Criminal Minds Co-Star Nov. 26th CBS @ 9pm

Lillo Brancato's murder trial is about to start

The train wreck that is Lillo Brancato‘s life is about to start his murder trial today. Brancato was the star ‘A Bronx Tale‘ and appeared in a handful of ‘Sopranos‘ episodes.

Brancato is being tried on a second-degree murder charge in the 2005 death of Officer Daniel Enchautegui. Authorities say he and Steven Armento broke into a Bronx apartment to steal drugs after a night of drinking at strip club in nearby Yonkers. Enchautegui, who lived next door, came out to investigate. Armento shot the 28-year-old officer in the heart. Enchautegui fired back, wounding both men.

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DVR making big changes in television viewing

Now that nearly 30% of American households have DVR‘s, viewers are in control of their own TV schedules and this is rapidly changing the studio business around it.

Nowhere is the impact more apparent than at the CW, where recording the shows and watching them later account for nearly 17 percent of the network’s viewership over a one-week period.

The most time-shifted show is NBC‘s “The Office,” where 28 percent of its audience watched it sometime other than Thursdays at 9 p.m, Nielsen said. Action shows and serialized dramas, like “Fringe,” “Heroes” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” have big time-shifted audiences.

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A look at Sean Penn and his many characters

Here’s a cool retrospective of Sean Penn‘s work. Complete with character pictures and synopsis of the roles he has played.

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Clint Eastwood is done (with acting)

The Gran Torino star says, “That will probably do it for me as far as acting is concerned. You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.”

He did say that he has no plans to stop directing.

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Peter Bart, AMPTP Shill, reacts to the looming strike

“If SAG were to throw a monkey wrench into Oscar season, as the writer’s did a year ago, its action would doubtless stir wrath throughout the creative community,” he writes.

We are the creative community. Us, the WGA and the DGA. The WGA has already been screwed out of their New Media money… so, let me ask: who’s wrath would SAG be getting? The AMPTP‘s? They are the creative community?

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Press Release from the AMPTP

A Message to the Companies Represented by the AMPTP

To the Companies Represented by the AMPTP in the 2008 SAG Negotiations:

We are disappointed to report that the federal mediation efforts between SAG and AMPTP failed in the early morning hours of Saturday, November 22nd, when mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez ended the process.

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True Blood's Nelsan Ellis is someone to watch

Have you been watching HBO‘s True Blood? If not, you should. It’s fantastic and Nelsan Ellis is incredible in his role as Layfayette Reynolds.

Allan Ball, the show’s creator calls him “a genius.”

“When he’s on set, we all just stand back and point the camera in his direction. He channels from his own planet.”

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Reese Witherspoon dismisses strife with Vince Vaughn

Despite all the rumors that she and Vince Vaughn had battles on the set of their new film, ‘Four Christmases‘, Reese Witherspoon puts them to rest.

“First of all I don’t know where all that came from. Every costar I ever worked with I’m either having an affair, about to get married to him, we’re having a baby or we absolutely cannot stand each other.”

Finally, she says, “We were very good friends and were very much partners on this movie. We decided to produce it together and we rewrote the script together. Every day was like, ‘How are we going to do this? What are we going to do now?’ ”

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STRIKE?

SAG issued a statement today saying that it will ask members to authorize a strike. Contract talks came to a screeching halt last night at 1 am after SAG realized there was going to be no movement from the AMPTP.

“We have already made difficult decisions and sacrifices in an attempt to reach agreement,” the statement said. “Now it’s time for SAG members to stand united and empower the national negotiating committee to bargain with the strength of a possible work stoppage behind them.”

The AMPTP quickly issued this tersly worded statement: “Let’s review the facts:  SAG is the only major Hollywood guild that has failed to negotiate a labor deal in 2008.  Now, SAG is bizarrely asking its members to bail out the failed negotiating strategy with a strike vote – at a time of historic economic crisis.  The tone deafness of SAG is stunning.”

It’s funny… the AMPTP stiffs the WGA on money they are owed and they have yet to comment. The second they walked out of talks with SAG the above statement was released.

Well, should we strike?

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