Julianna Margulies Talks Matthew Perry Joining
'The Good Wife'

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On the same day that CBS announced a whole slew of renewals, including the critical darling "The Good Wife," series star Julianna Margulies appeared on "Anderson" (Weeknights, 4 p.m. ET on Fox). There she talked about how she helped orchestrate Matthew Perry jumping on board the legal drama for an eight episode run.

All it took was Perry telling her he was interested. The two bumped into one another at a Halloween party, and Perry told her "The Good Wife" was his favorite show and telling her he wanted to be on it. It's probably something actors hear a lot from fellow actors, but they don't always mean it.

But Margulies immediately pounced on the idea. "If you say that, I will do something about it, so are you sure?" she asked him. And when he said he was, the very next day she was on the phone with the show's producers helping to make it happen, slotting Perry into a role they were already developing.

She said it took him about three days to get back into the rhythm of the long shooting hours that come with a weekly series, but he settled back in nicely. Fans can look forward to Perry's first appearance with the episode airing Sunday, March 25.

Julianna Margulies stars in "The Good Wife," airing at 9 p.m. Sundays on CBS. "Anderson" is syndicated nationally. Check local listings for channel and time.

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'Modern Family': Ellen Barkin Is A Ruthless Real
Estate Agent

post from TV on HuffingtonPost.com on 15 March 2012 02:26:50 AM. © TV on HuffingtonPost.com

Phil was on the cusp of landing the biggest real estate listing of his career on this week's "Modern Family" (Wed., 9 p.m. ET on ABC), but there was one thing standing in his way. A petite blonde named Mitzi Roth, played with deliciously evil glee by Ellen Barkin.

At first, it seemed she was just being aggressive in the business, but when she faked getting pushed into the bushes so she could throw the blame on Phil, it was clear that there were no depths which she would not go. Even when Phil tried to record her confession, she managed to outsmart him once again by confiscating his spy pen. It took the ingenious badness of Luke to help him orchestrate the perfect ploy.

What at first seemed like an innocent encounter between Luke and Mitzi at the supermarket, where Luke opened up about their financial struggles and simply asked her to be nicer to his dad, was in fact a carefully plotted plan that was executed flawlessly. And it worked, too. Mitzi later showed up at the house to give Phil the listing, but made it clear this was a one-time thing.

While this was going on, Cam was getting back together with his old clowning partner for a one-time gig that ended badly when his partner, played by Bobby Cannavale, wanted it to last longer -- he doesn't seem to understand that Cam gave up the "superstar" lifestyle for his family -- and Gloria's assets attracted one of the popular kids into wanting to hang out with Manny. Luckily, Manny only wanted to hang out with him because of his own interest in his sister, so that's a disingenuous friendship built solidly on mistrust.

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'Frozen Planet' exclusive: Series producer
Vanessa Berlowtiz talks challenges

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On Sunday night, Discovery is going to launch one of the most anticipated docuseries of the year in "Frozen Planet." From the makers of "Planet Earth," this show takes a look at a part...

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PaleyFest: 'Modern Family' Cast Dishes on
Director Bryan Cranston and Father Figure Phil

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The cast of the ABC comedy shared behind-the-scenes anecdotes -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson dances! Sofia Vergara hates the show's dog! -- and touched on the future of the series in the closing night at the 29th annual TV festival.

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VIDEO: 'Modern Family' cast talks Disneyland and
a season finale prom

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The cast of Modern Family has been shooting its third season finale all week in Los Angeles, but they took time out of their busy production schedule to attend the Paley Center for Media's annual television festival. It...

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MELNICKS OF THE MULTIVERSE

post from INNER TOOB on 15 March 2012 01:06:54 AM. © INNER TOOB

I guess it's a bit of serendipiteevee that one of my co-workers (Anthony!) asked me last night if I ever link movies to the TV Universe. After all, in my enthusiasm for the movie "John Carter", I wanted to just abscond with the whole movie out of the Cineverse and keep it prisoner in Toobworld. But I got better....

Anyhoo, the reason he asked was because he had been watching the Rock Hudson-Doris Day rom-com "Lover Come Back". And Tony Randall's character, Pete Ramsey, kept saying that he had to see his doctor, Dr. Melnick.

"Wasn't there a Dr. Melnick in 'The Odd Couple'?" he asked me. "Couldn't you connect them somehow?"
Something like that is always tempting, of course, but there were too many O'Bstacles. In the movie, Dr. Melnick was played by Richard Deacon, most famous as Mel Cooley on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. On the sitcom version of Neil Simon's play, it was Bill Quinn who portrayed Dr. Melnick. ("Felix, in the world of ulcers, you're what's known as a carrier!")

If there's somebody out there who has no problem with mixing movies and TV shows on a general basis, I suppose this argument could be made. The two Dr. Melnicks could have been related - perhaps as brothers. (There were only nine years separating Bill Quinn from Richard Deacon, and that same span should apply to the characters they played.)
What makes it especially tempting is the fact that both actors were bald - as if that genetic marker was a guar-auhn-tee for this theory of relateeveety.
But if I did want to find a way to link characters played by Quinn and Deacon together, I'd stick with their TV roles - like maybe Mr. Van Rensselaer, who used to frequent 'Archie Bunker's Place', was a cousin or uncle to Mel Cooley and his identical cousin Fred Rutherford.....?
By the way - here's a picture of my buddy Anthony with another pal, Scully... and a rather odd couple of guys they happened to meet.....

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DEJA VIEW: BUCKLAND HAUL

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Poor old Ted Buckland.......
You'd have to feel sorry for the lawyer representing Sacred Heart Hospital... if you weren't too busy laughing at him.
In the 'Cougar Town' episode "A One-Story Town", Ted was passing through Gulfhaven with his a cappella homies, on their way to an audition with Disney. And while crashing at Jules' house (since they met last season in Hawaii), Ted suddenly had an attack of "deja view"......

It certainly dramatized a question that has plagued televisiologists over the decades - how come TV characters don't recognize when other characters look exactly like people they've met before?
Actors were always being re-used on TV shows, sometimes several times over in the same season. Back in the early days, the producers probably didn't pay much attention to such a detail. (The same with trivial details and script continuity.) At the time they had no conception of the future in DVDs and syndicated reruns.
But it could make you question the eyesight of 'The Rifleman' - how could Lucas McCain be so blind not to notice how so many visitors to North Fork looked like Dabbs Greer or Royal Dano or John Anderson?
And why didn't 'Columbo' ever notice that a good percentage of his murder suspects looked like Robert Culp, Jack Cassidy and Patrick McGoohan? And that's not even taking into account all those characters who looked like Vito Scotti or my buddy John Finnegan!
And yet they don't notice such things overall. So when a character like Ted Buckland comes along who can see the resemblances, it must be due to them having a touch of tele-cognizance - the knowledge, sometimes only a sub-conscious level, that the world they live in is being televised.........
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'American Idol' Recap: Jermaine Jones Kicked Off;
Joshua Ledet, Hollie Cavanagh Have A Moment (Video)

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Judges Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson say there were missteps with song selection Wednesday, but several of the finalists surfaced as locks to stick around for another week.

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AS SEEN ON TV - DANIEL DERONDA

DANIEL DERONDA

CREATED BY:George Eliot
AS SEEN IN:'Daniel Deronda'
AS PLAYED BY:Hugh Dancy
TV DIMENSION:Land of Remakes
STATUS:Multiversal Recastaway
From Wikipedia:"Daniel Deronda" is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Its mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with a sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kaballistic ideas has made it a controversial final statement of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists.

The novel has been filmed three times, once as a silent feature and twice for television.

The ward of the wealthy Sir Hugo Mallinger and hero of the novel, Deronda has a tendency to help others at a cost to himself. At the start of the novel, he has failed to win a scholarship at Cambridge because of his focus on helping a friend, has been travelling abroad, and has just started studying law. He often wonders about his birth and whether or not he is a gentleman. As he moves more and more among the world-within-a-world of the Jews of the novel he begins to identify with their cause in direct proportion to the unfolding revelations of his ancestry. Eliot used the story of Moses as part of her inspiration for Deronda. As Moses was a Jew brought up as an Egyptian who ultimately led his people to the Promised Land, so Deronda is a Jew brought up as an Englishman who ends the novel with a plan to do the same. Deronda's name presumably indicates that his ancestors lived in the Spanish city of Ronda, prior to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
From the source:Deronda's first thought when his eyes fell on this scene of dull, gas- poisoned absorption, was that the gambling of Spanish shepherd-boys had seemed to him more enviable:--so far Rousseau might be justified in maintaining that art and science had done a poor service to mankind. But suddenly he felt the moment become dramatic. His attention was arrested by a young lady who, standing at an angle not far from him, was the last to whom his eyes traveled. She was bending and speaking English to a middle- aged lady seated at play beside her: but the next instant she returned to her play, and showed the full height of a graceful figure, with a face which might possibly be looked at without admiration, but could hardly be passed with indifference.
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"Mr. Vandernoodt, you know everybody," said Gwendolen, not too eagerly, rather with a certain languor of utterance which she sometimes gave to her clear soprano. "Who is that near the door?"

"There are half a dozen near the door. Do you mean that old Adonis in the George the Fourth wig?"

"No, no; the dark-haired young man on the right with the dreadful expression."

"Dreadful, do you call it? I think he is an uncommonly fine fellow."

"But who is he?"

"He is lately come to our hotel with Sir Hugo Mallinger."

"Sir Hugo Mallinger?"

"Yes. Do you know him?"

"No." (Gwendolen colored slightly.) "He has a place near us, but he never comes to it. What did you say was the name of that gentleman near the door?"

"Deronda--Mr. Deronda."

"What a delightful name! Is he an Englishman?"

"Yes. He is reported to be rather closely related to the baronet. You are interested in him?"

"Yes. I think he is not like young men in general."

"And you don't admire young men in general?"

"Not in the least. I always know what they will say. I can't at all guess what this Mr. Deronda would say. What _does_ he say?"

"Nothing, chiefly. I sat with his party for a good hour last night on the terrace, and he never spoke--and was not smoking either. He looked bored."

"Another reason why I should like to know him. I am always bored."

"I should think he would be charmed to have an introduction. Shall I bring it about? Will you allow it, baroness?"

"Why not?--since he is related to Sir Hugo Mallinger. It is a new _role_ of yours, Gwendolen, to be always bored," continued Madame von Langen, when Mr. Vandernoodt had moved away. "Until now you have always seemed eager about something from morning till night."

"That is just because I am bored to death. If I am to leave off play I must break my arm or my collar-bone. I must make something happen; unless you will go into Switzerland and take me up the Matterhorn."

"Perhaps this Mr. Deronda's acquaintance will do instead of the Matterhorn."

"Perhaps."
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Top 10 St. Patrick's Day TV Episodes

It's St. Patrick's Day on 30 ROCK tonight (8:30pm ET/PT; NBC), but Liz Lemon feels she's cursed when her ex-boyfriend shows up to spoil her day with Criss. In honor of this annual bash -- a day for Guinness, parades, and little men in green suits -- TV Tango kissed the Blarney Stone and found the 10 best St. Patrick's Day episodes in TV history. SEE THE TOP 10 ST. PATRICK'S DAY TV EPISODES....

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