Allison Janney

2013 TV upfronts: CBS unveils schedule with six new shows

2013-05-15 08:20:00

NEW YORK -- Wrapping up a season in which it will finish first in both viewers and the crucial adults 18-49 demographic that advertisers favor, CBS unveiled a fall television schedule with four new comedies and two dramas. For CBS, the win in adults 18-...

2013 TV Upfronts: CBS orders two new dramas and four new comedies

2013-05-10 14:34:00

CBS has ordered six new series for the upcoming season, including two dramas and four comedies. The new dramas are: "Hostages," about a family caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy that will change their lives forever. Toni Collette and...

Disney delivers! Legendary and Warner Bros. parting ways?

2013-05-08 07:07:00

After the coffee. Before the flight to a rainy New York City. The Skinny: By the time most of you read this I'll be in the air on my way to the Big Apple for the broadcast upfronts and real pizza. I'm listening to "The Boxer" as I write this just to...

TV networks look to pilots to help them ascend in ratings

2013-04-24 07:00:00

There are monsters and vampires, science fiction, trips back and forward through time, supernatural themes and other out-of-this-world scenarios in the television pilots vying for space on the networks' fall schedules. The five major networks,...

Review: 'Struck by Lightning' is a flat coming-of-age tale

2013-01-11 00:00:00

The teenage coming-of-age story gets an ever-so-slight tweak in "Struck by Lightning," written by and starring "Glee" performer Chris Colfer, whose character is, in fact, struck dead by lightning in the film's opening moments. Nevertheless he narrates...

Movie review: 'Margaret'

2011-09-30 00:00:00

If you know Gerard Hopkins' Victorian-era poem "Spring and Fall," a reflection on the loss of innocence addressed to a young child named Margaret, you have a clue about what writer-director Kenneth Lonergan is getting at in "Margaret." This contemporary...

'The West Wing' cast reunites for walk and talk about walking

2012-05-01 16:36:25

Sundance Film Festival announces its drama, documentary premieres

2011-12-05 16:37:42

'Bridesmaids' star Melissa McCarthy digs another female-led film

2011-12-07 21:37:19

Monday's Talk Shows

2011-12-11 21:36:10

Fashion: Critics' Choice Awards 2012 have some style 'Help'

2012-01-13 16:32:14

Anna Paquin on the unlikely resurrection of 'Margaret'

2012-01-13 16:36:59

Comedy Premise: A newly sober single mom tries to raise her two kids in a world full of temptations -- and is not helped by the collection of goofballs around her, including her passive-aggressive mother, her son's father and her daughter's clueless boyfriend.

2013-05-15 07:55:21

NR; 1:37 running time "Liberal Arts" is a light and lively comedy of manners about college, literature and a midlife crisis that hits earlier than expected.

2012-09-20 08:36:00

Logline: Remake of a Britcom about parents (Tony Shalhoub and Allison Janney) who have their adult children over for Shabbat dinner every Friday. Why we're interested: Tony Shalhoub and Allison Janney.

2012-05-01 19:26:36