Sunday 30 January 2011

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena S02E02

Marisa Ramirez has admitted that she did not know much about her character Melitta in the Spartacus prequel. "What I was told is that Melitta is a body slave to Lucretia, who is Lucy Lawless's character," she told Jim Halterman. "I didn't know what a body slave was but I soon foundout!

"Melitta is married and has complicated relationships with other men and that's pretty much all I was told. I only had the first script."

Ramirez added that she looked forward to playing a different type of role, saying: "It's definitely a new and exciting experience that I now have under my belt. Hopefully it will lead to different things. I'm so excited and grateful to be playing someone so different and I think I'm going to be able to show people other things that I can do."

However, she admitted that she had been nervous about filming nude and sex scenes.

"I suspected there was definitely going to be some with a show like this and it would've be hard to be modest because they were naked in those times!" she said. "They just were! I was pretty sure there would be some. As to how far it would go, I mean, who knew what would happen when they got me down there. I'm such a prude!"


Television Series: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (S02E02)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Jaime Murray, Lucy Lawless @ Marisa Ramirez
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Friday 28 January 2011

Skins S05E01

Skins star Freya Mavor has claimed that the show can inspire teenagers to act rebelliously. The actress plays Mini in the new series of the E4 drama, which began this week. Discussing the show's first run in 2007, she explained to What's On TV: "I was living in France and I was really badly behaved back then. I was leaving the house without my parents knowing, throwing parties and stuff like that when I was really, really young." She added: "It's an inspiration almost, Skins, to act rebelliously as a teenager."

Mavor went on to suggest that the show is "shocking" but is simply 'documenting a teenager's life'. "16-year-olds do take drugs and have sex and there's no point covering that up," she argued. "It's very risqué, but that's what makes it work." She concluded: "I think if you were to follow a teenager around with a camera, [then] you'd find out so much more about them than when they're just with their mates. Even your friends don't know half about you."


Television Series: Skins (S05E01)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Freya Mavor, Jessica Sula & Dakota Blue Richards
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Thursday 27 January 2011

The Opposite of Pornography

Skins creator Bryan Elsley has insisted that the MTV series is not trying to be provocative. The show has been the centre of controversy recently after the Parents Television Council called for an investigation into allegations that the programme breaks child pornography laws.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Elsley said that he does not plan to tone down the show's content because he wants it to remain authentic. "The show is the opposite of pornography," he added. "It isn't us who are being provocative. I think that some of the people who object to the show are being provocative in the use of that word."

Much of the controversy has focused on an upcoming episode in which Chris, who is played by 17-year-old Jesse Carere, uses erectile dysfunction pills and runs down a street naked.

However, Elsley explained that the scene needs to be taken in context, saying: "It's about a boy who is abandoned by his mother. How he deals with that and how his friends come to realise that this happy-go-lucky boy has led an incredibly sad and fractured life." Elsley acknowledged that some viewers might find the show "difficult or objectionable" but explained that he is worried that the show's more serious storylines are being ignored in the controversy.


Meanwhile, MTV has announced that it will not cancel its controversial remake of Skins. The second episode of the teen drama attracted just 1.6 m viewers, down from the 3.3m who watched the first installment. Six companies have also pulled their advertising from the show following the Parents Television Council's allegations that it breaks child pornography laws.

To that end, PETA has reportedly offered to sponsor the under-fire show. The Hollywood Reporter says that PETA has now offered to air a 30-second commercial during the show. The organisation said: "In light of the uproar surrounding the explicit content of MTV's new teen drama Skins, and the show's resultant loss of sponsors, PETA is offering the network a chance to get some positive media attention as well as save animals' skins."

The network's statement continued: "MTV stands by the US adaptation of Skins and the vision of its creator Bryan Elsley. Skins has earned the loyalty of fans across the globe for its thoughtful and honest portrayal of teen life today. An internationally acclaimed scripted drama, the show has been honored with a long list of prestigious awards."

An MTV spokesperson also confirmed that all ten commissioned episodes will be broadcast. The channel previously claimed that all episodes of Skins "not only comply with all applicable legal requirements, but also with our responsibilities to our viewers".
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Wednesday 26 January 2011

Silent Witness S14E07

And I know your heart is there...

Television Series: Silent Witness (S14E07)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Lili Bordan
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Tuesday 25 January 2011

Shameless S08E07

Like what you see? I can make these go faster than helicopter blades...

Pauline McLynn had waited a long time to lose her screen virginity but now she's finally done it she's, well, Shameless. The actress who made her name obsessing about tea as Mrs Doyle in Father Ted opted for something spicier by moving into the Chatsworth Estate and into the bed of desperate, drunken and feckless Frank Gallagher.

Craggy Island priests Ted and Dougal would have had a seizure at her not-so-prim-and-proper librarian Libby Croaker but, at 47, Pauline revelled in her role and the steamy sex scenes which, during filming, left nothing to the imagination.

She laughed: "I have never been asked to kiss anyone on screen before or simulate sex so it's been an eye-opener. I'm now familiar with every inch of my body. I'm not a vain person but I do worry for the viewers. There's nothing which will frighten them. Well, it may do, but in order to make sure the crew are safe I've had to take a long, hard look at myself."


Pauline may be full of humour and bravado now but the chatterbox admits she was almost lost for words when the subject of her sex scenes was first brought up with her co-stars.

She said: "When I first joined I was talking to some of the cast about the sex scenes and they were all saying 'oh yeah, they'll start you off on one of those just to break the ice'. Exactly the words you don't want to hear.

"But everyone on the Chatsworth estate is having sex with somebody else. In the first episode, Libby and Frank meet and when people first fall in love they usually have sex and it's no different for us. It is a strange experience, pretending to have sex in front of the crew and another 17 people in the room. There is no glamour in it. You're never going to get lost in the moment, put it that way.

"We did one take nude, because it annoys me when you watch shows and think 'Why are they still wearing underwear?' But once you get that out of the way, there comes a point where you say 'ah, turn a camera on, it's fine'."

She added with a chuckle: "I don't know how I'll feel when it's on, mind you."

That she embraced the saucy scenes and didn't run a mile was partly down to the fact that David Threlfall, the actor who plays Frank, directed it.

It's also down to the fact that Pauline is a huge fan of the show, which fed her enthusiasm when she first heard about the role - and is now chewing on her nerves as she waits to find out if Libby, a hopeless romantic with a mother from hell at home, is accepted by her fellow fans.

She said: "They put it about they were looking for someone to play Frank's new love and I came and auditioned for it. It's not a long journey from London to Manchester but it is if you are terrified.

"It's my dream job, one of the best things on television, so with the thought of even getting a foot in the door of Frank's world I was getting over-excited. Of course, I did the worst audition in the world. I didn't hear for a while and talked myself out of it but as it turned out here I am and isn't it grand? David directed the first episode of the series and in many ways I found that helpful.

"I'm now the love interest of one of the greatest TV creations ever, Frank Gallagher. How lucky am I?"

Of course, she has experienced good fortune before, as the slightly demented, Mrs Doyle. The final series of Father Ted, which saw her pick up a British Comedy Award for Best Actress, was filmed in 1998, although you'd never know it - it's shown regularly and still the subject of an annual convention, the Ted Fest.

Pauline, who lives in London with her husband, agent Richard Cook, has starred in Jam and Jerusalem, is a regular on panel shows including Just a Minute and Have I Got News For You, and is finishing her eighth novel.

She could be forgiven for wanting to leave Mrs Doyle in the past but she understands the interest and is gracious about - and grateful to - the woman with the "ah go on, go on, go on" catchphrase.

She said: "Father Ted is an iconic series now. To have been a part of it, well, I'm just so bloody proud of it. Wouldn't I be the biggest eejit to start going, 'no, no darling I'm past that now'.

"I can't believe I'm getting another bite at the Channel 4 cherry. I'm also finally getting asked to play somebody my own age. I'm usually older and in character."

Pauline is due to return for the next series of Shameless, now Channel 4's longest-running series, but is wary of looking too far ahead. When we speak, she'd not long heard Jam and Jerusalem had been axed.

She talked about it on her blog and called on disappointed fans to express their views to the BBC.

She said: "That may have been a misjudged call - and think if people felt strongly enough they should make their voices heard."

Strong, sexy and shameless... just the woman to take on Frank Gallagher.

Television Series: Shameless (S08E07)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Pauline McLynn
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Monday 24 January 2011

Funny or Die S02E02

Ooh you bad bird...
Television Series: Funny or Die (S02E02)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Lexi Belle
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Shameless US S01E03

Shameless star Emmy Rossum has revealed that she has largely avoided watching the original UK series. The actress told IGN that she finally watched brief snippets of the Channel 4 drama at the request of director Mark Mylod.

"[He] also was part of the original team from the British series [and] said, 'You need the watch the sexuality and make sure you're cool with that amount of exposure'," she explained. "So I watched the initial sex scene in the kitchen in the British version. But that's all I've seen."

Rossum, who plays Fiona in the Showtime remake, added that she had watched the scenes "on mute, because I didn't want to hear the accents". She admitted: "I know Anne-Marie Duff's presentation of the character is so loved and so fantastic, from everything I've read about it, so I was almost nervous to be exposed to that in any way. [I thought] that it might colour what my natural instincts would be."


Television Series: Shameless US (S01E03)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Emmy Rossum
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Sunday 23 January 2011

Californication S04E03

Girls my age appreciate a mouthful of pubes when they're sucking on balls...

Television Series: Californication (S04E03)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Camille Chen
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Saturday 22 January 2011

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena S02E01

Spartacus star Lucy Lawless has admitted that she felt nervous about performing lesbian love scenes in new prequel series, Gods of the Arena.

Lucretia (Lawless) will enter into a sexual relationship with her old friend Gaia (Jaime Murray) in the new six-part series. "The lesbian stuff made me nervous as hell," the actress told TV Guide. "I don't think I could have done it without Jaime. She's really funny and 200% professional. She's my kind of woman!"

"They've very, very friendly," Murray continued. "It's [set in] a time where women had very little power. They couldn't vote [and] they couldn't own property. It was looked down on for a woman to be without a husband. So she finds herself alone in the world and Lucretia is all she has."

Series creator Steven S. DeKnight added that Gaia was a figure from Lucretia's 'wild days'. "Lucretia is trying to become more respectable but Gaia is still the wild card," he explained. "[She] actually loves Lucretia, will stand by her through thick and thin, but is not adverse to pulling her into a bit of old-time trouble."


Television Series: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (S01E01)
Release Date: January 2011
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Friday 21 January 2011

The Shame Game

Despite the hype, MTV's scripted teenage drama Skins does not break child pornography laws— but it still has plenty to be ashamed of, says Jace Lacob...

MTV’s adaptation of hit British teen drama Skins made headlines this week amid talk that the show, overseen by Brian Elsley (who co-created the original with son Jamie Brittain), could potentially cross the line into breaking federal child-pornography statutes. In a recent New York Times piece, reporter Brian Stelter indicated that the cable channel’s executives had become “concerned” that scenes from Skins, which revolves around a group of hard-partying and sexually voracious teenagers— were in violation of federal law concerning sexual acts featuring minors.

The scene in question that was causing all of the alleged hand-wringing at MTV? In a rough cut of the third episode, slated to air January 31, “a naked 17-year-old actor is shown from behind as he runs down a street.” But those raising the objections—including an always-happy-to-be- incensed Parents Television Council and advertiser Taco Bell, which pulled its commercial support—fail to take into account the context in which the rear nudity occurs.


There is nothing remotely lascivious about the scene in which Chris ( Jesse Carere) is thrown out of his house by a drug-addled squatter after his mother has walked out on him. Naked and humiliated, Chris walks down the street with no clothes on and nowhere to go. It’s a depressing scene that’s not played for laughs or for titillation.

Which is where the question of child pornography should be erased altogether. The U.S. Department of Justice defines child pornography as “the visual depiction of a person under the age of 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct.” For one, the actor in question, while under the age of legal consent, was not engaged in sexually explicit behavior, nor in any sexual situation in that instance. Second, the DOJ states “the legal definition of sexually explicit conduct does not require that an image depict a child engaging in sexual activity,” and that “a picture of a naked child may constitute illegal child pornography if it is sufficiently sexually suggestive.”

It’s one thing to be sensitive to the concern of whether child-pornography laws were being violated, but it’s quite another to use fears of child porn in order to further leverage a show.

Let’s be upfront about this. There is nothing remotely sexually suggestive about the scene that allegedly raised eyebrows at MTV, a network notorious for pushing the envelope in terms of sexuality and smutty behavior, airing such shows as The Real World, Jersey Shore, The Hard Times of RJ Berger, and Undressed. (In those cases, the actors in question were over the age of consent, perhaps rendering the content discussion moot.)

In fact, there's nothing remotely in that sequence that could constitute a breach of the federal child pornography statute. Even the simulated acts of sexual intercourse, masturbation, etc. that occur within Skins—which are more troubling than the context of the bare buttocks here—still don't constitute a violation, as there’s nothing explicit about them nor do they feature nude genitalia or breasts, or any content that could be perceived as crossing the line into what’s legally defined as pornography.

Scenes, such as when Stanley ( Daniel Flaherty) or Tea ( Sofia Black D’Elia) masturbate (the latter to the iconic poster of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s) or any of the instances of simulated sexual intercourse, are careful not to depict any nudity, restricting the footage to a bared back or similar. (BBC America, which aired three seasons of the U.K. Skins, pixilated all insistences of frontal or breast nudity, as well as daytime broadcasts of any backside nudity, which is permitted in the 10 p.m. hour, according to a network spokesperson.)

So why were these objections raised now, and not during Skins’ development or production process? Its Monday premiere netted 3.3 million viewers—it’s a strong start for a scripted show on MTV, but was surely bolstered by the special episode of the phenomenally popular Jersey Shore MTV had slotted before it.

The more cynical among us might wonder whether the story in The New York Times was intended by MTV to generate controversy and bring more viewers to the series in the first place by playing up the more salacious aspects of the show. Which, if true, is extremely troubling, if not vile. It’s one thing to be sensitive to the concern of whether child-pornography laws were being violated, but it’s quite another to use fears of child porn in order to further leverage a show.

MTV, meanwhile, released a statement Wednesday about the tempest in a teapot swirling around Skins.

" Skins is a show that addresses real-world issues confronting teens in a frank way,” wrote an MTV spokesperson. “We review all of our shows and work with all of our producers on an ongoing basis to ensure our shows comply with laws and community standards. We are confident that the episodes of Skins will not only comply with all applicable legal requirements, but also with our responsibilities to our viewers. We also have taken numerous steps to alert viewers to the strong subject matter so that they can choose for themselves whether it is appropriate."

If only such care was being taken with whether the show is good. Because where E4’s Skins soared, MTV’s Skins crashes.

Unlike the original, which was groundbreaking in its honest depiction of millennial teenage life, MTV’s version seems calculatedly obsessed with the filth factor, pushing that content front and center while failing to realize that the original was so successful because it mined the rich interior lives of the lads and lasses of Bristol for narrative effect.

At once grounded and existing in a Technicolor heightened reality, the U.K. Skins captured the melancholia and often death-defying joy of adolescence. The show tackled such topics as teenage sexuality, rape, suicide, drug abuse, eating disorders, mental illness, and death with a combination of sensitivity and shamelessness.

Here, however, there’s a washed-out quality to everything, a leaden dullness to the plotting (which, ironically, leans way too heavily on the source material, at times beat by beat), and a largely wooden quality to the young actors. The U.S.’ Tony ( James Milo Newman) lacks the serial killer charisma of the original’s Tony Stonem ( Nicholas Hoult), who held both his best friend and his girlfriend in his thrall, playing with both like a child would dolls. Likewise, the loveably spacey Cassie ( Hannah Murray) is transformed here into Cadie ( Britne Oldford), an unexpressive mental patient who has a penchant for knives and cheese puffs, while silent Eura ( Eleanor Zichy) lacks the instincts and presence of her scene-stealing predecessor Effy ( Kaya Scodelario).

Even more frustrating is that the vibrant patois that Elsley and his famously young writing staff so expertly captured on the original feels empty here, the words pouring from the mouths of the Baltimore (actually and obviously Toronto) kids falling entirely flat. The result is something that seems a bland mix of Fox’s melodramatic Glee and MTV’s own Undressed (which ran from 1999 to 2002), containing none of the magic of the British original. Moments of attempted profundity, so easily achieved in the U.K.’s version, seem manufactured here.

While MTV’s Skins does not break any indecency laws, by making the conversation about the breaking of broadcast (as well as moral and legal) taboos, it does shift attention from the appalling lack of quality here. But the fact remains that, illegal or no, this cheap-looking remake doesn’t do the audience any favors.
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Wednesday 19 January 2011

Stepping Back From A Boundary

MTV executives have a new hit drama on their hands, featuring the sexual and drug-fueled exploits of misfit teenagers. They also have something else — a fear that coming episodes of the show may break the law, reports Brian Stelter...

In recent days, executives at the cable channel became concerned that some scenes from the provocative new show “Skins” may violate federal child pornography statutes. The executives ordered the producers to make changes to tone down some of the most explicit content. They are particularly concerned about the third episode of the series, which is to be broadcast Jan. 31. In an early version, a naked 17-year-old actor is shown from behind as he runs down a street. The actor, Jesse Carere, plays Chris, a high school student whose erection — assisted by erectile dysfunction pills — is a punch line throughout the episode.

The planned changes indicate that MTV, which has been pushing the envelope for decades, may be concerned that it pushed too far this time. “Skins” is a calculated risk by MTV which is eager to get into the scripted programming business. The channel, a unit of Viacom, has long tested American standards for sexuality and obscenity on television with shows like “The Real World” and “Jersey Shore.” Those reality shows have generally involved adults, but for “Skins,” the producers purposefully cast actors ages 15 to 19, most of whom had never acted before.


MTV’s president and other executives declined interview requests on Wednesday. An MTV spokeswoman, Jeannie Kedas, insisted that the future episodes of “Skins” were still works in progress. She would not confirm that MTV executives were fearful of running afoul of child pornography laws. “‘Skins’ is a show that addresses real-world issues confronting teens in a frank way,” she said in a statement. “We review all of our shows and work with all of our producers on an ongoing basis to ensure our shows comply with laws and community standards. We are confident that the episodes of ‘Skins’ will not only comply with all applicable legal requirements, but also with our responsibilities to our viewers.”

Child pornography is defined by the United States as any visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. In some cases, “a picture of a naked child may constitute illegal child pornography if it is sufficiently sexually suggestive,” according to the Justice Department’s legal guidance. Anyone younger than 18 is considered to be a minor. The youngest cast member on “Skins” is 15.

“Skins” is an import from Britain, a country that has historically displayed a higher tolerance for TV eroticism than the United States. The episodes for MTV, including the third one, which was shared with TV critics, are virtually identical to the source material. The remade episodes, like the ones in Britain, included simulated masturbation, implied sexual assault, and teenagers disrobing and getting into bed together.

With ads that feature groups of barely clothed teenagers, “Skins” is surely one of the most sexually charged programs that MTV has featured. Before it even had its premiere, the Parents Television Council, a TV watchdog group, labeled “Skins” the “most dangerous program that has ever been foisted on your children.” The group objected to the gratuitous scenes of drug and alcohol use, violence and sexual acts. Of course, those scenes may be what attract young viewers in the first place. Jessica Bennett, a senior writer for Newsweek, wrote last week, “ ‘Skins’ may be the most realistic show on television.”

The show is off to a running start. It attracted 3.3 million to its premiere on Monday night and set a new first-episode record for the channel among viewers ages 12 to 34. Episodes of “Skins” are rated TV-MA, indicating that the content may be unsuitable for viewers younger than 17. MTV states in news releases that it is “specifically designed to be viewed by adults.” However, many of MTV’s viewers are in middle and high school. According to the Nielsen Company, the first episode drew 1.2 million people younger than 18. MTV noted that the episodes were being shown only at or after 10 p.m. Eastern, and said in the statement, “We also have taken numerous steps to alert viewers to the strong subject matter so that they can choose for themselves whether it is appropriate.”

It is unclear when MTV first realized that the show may be vulnerable to child pornography charges. On Tuesday, a flurry of meetings took place at the network’s headquarters in New York, according to an executive who attended some of the meetings and spoke only on the condition of anonymity. In one of the meetings, the executives wondered aloud who could possibly face criminal prosecution and jail time if the episodes were broadcast without changes.

Days earlier, MTV held a premiere party for the series in Manhattan. Ensconced there in the V.I.P. perch, the actors huddled around one another and stared in awe at the youthful party that was under way — while unable to partake in the free alcohol that was flowing in the 21-and-older area. By midnight, several of the actors appeared to have headed home with their parents.

Referring to the largely unknown actors, Bryan Elsley, an executive producer of “Skins,” said in a letter to critics last month, “They’re making the characters their own and demanding that their voices be heard.” Mr. Elsley and his producing partners did not respond to interview requests on Wednesday, but MTV executives were known to be worried about how the producers would react to the planned changes. The channel intends for the editing to obscure some of the sexual content in the third episode and others.

There are, of course, innumerable examples of youthful sexuality being packaged by the media. Amy M. Adler, a professor of law at New York University who specializes in free speech, art and pornography, pointed to the teenage singer Miley Cyrus’s revealing photo shoots and the CW network’s use of condemnations by the Parents Television Council of the risqué drama “Gossip Girl” to promote the show. “There are times when I look at mainstream culture and think it is skirting up against the edge of child pornography law,” she said.
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'Game Of Thrones' is 'Beyond Rated R'

Emilia Clarke has admitted that she felt nervous while filming nude scenes for new HBO series Game Of Thrones. The actress will play Daenerys Targaryen in the adaptation of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels. "It was really scary and I thought, 'Do I look terrible?' and all this kind of stuff," she told MTV. "But you just overcome it, because as soon as I'm in the character, that's it. You're her, you're not yourself."

Clarke added that the final scenes will be "100% tasteful". She insisted: "Obviously knowing it was HBO [and] totally legit [helped]. They just did it beautifully [and] tastefully."


Producer David Benioff previously revealed that the series is set in a "violent world" and will contain "a lot of sex". According to Access Hollywood, Benioff explained that HBO has allowed the series to include scenes of sex and violence. "One of the things that had to be done with [my previous project] Troy is so many things had to be cut because we were trying to do a two-and-a-half hour movie and tell this massive, massive story," he said.

"Here, because we have ten hours to tell the story, we're able to include all the major characters... and we're able to do it the way George does it in the books in terms of the darkness of it and the violence of it and the sexuality of it, which a major studio would never let you do, even if you're lucky enough to get an R rating. This is beyond R."

Benioff, who explained that the show is about "power", added: "A lot of people get killed. George's world is a violent world - there's a lot of killing and bloodshed and eviscerations and decapitations and there's a lot of sex. It's one of the things that I loved about these books."

Game Of Thrones will premiere on HBO on April 17. The show will air on Sky Atlantic in the UK.
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Monday 17 January 2011

Californication S04E02

The secret to being a successful Hollywood actress is projecting the vibe that everyone you work with has a shot at fucking you...

Television Series: Californication (S04E02)
Release Date: January 2011
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Sunday 16 January 2011

Shameless US S01E02

Shanola Hampton stars alongside Emmy Rossum and William H. Macy in the edgy Showtime adaption of UK television series Shameless. She is poised to be Hollywood’s next “it” girl playing the very sexy Veronica, who runs her own x-rated home webcam. Her real life isn’t as scandalous as Veronica’s, so what did the gospel singing daughter of a pastor in South Carolina find the biggest challenge of her portrayal?

Shanola Hampton: Kev and I have some very intimate scenes together and because of our connection it makes it easier, but it’s always a challenge to reveal yourself in that way. You want to see the chemistry, but it’s not always the most comfortable of circumstances. You have a lot of people in the room even when they close the set. You still have a lot of people that are there and you’re in a relationship outside of your real relationship and then you have to play these characters on TV. So it’s always a challenge to do the more intimate scenes.

Was this the first time you had to do a scene like that?

Shanola Hampton: Absolutely. It was my very first and it wasn’t the last, lets just say. Kev and Veronica love each other very much for several episodes.


Television Series: Funny or Die (S02E02)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Shanola Hampton
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Friday 14 January 2011

The Most Dangerous Show On Television

MTV's controversial new series, Skins, portrays teens as experimental and sex-obsessed, lying to their parents and sneaking out at night. In other words, it shows them as they really are, writes Newsweek's Jessica Bennett..

Here's a quick taste of what you'll get in the first few minutes of MTV's new teen drama, Skins: Masturbation. Porn. References to "girl-on-girl." Parties, vomit, and a whole lot of prescription drugs. The plot of the first episode? Figure out how to get Stanley, a quirky, shy 16-year-old who's in love with his best friend's girlfriend, laid before his 17th birthday. How to do it? "We go to a party and get some girl'recaucusly spliffed," his friend tells him. "In her confused state, she comes to believe--momentarily, of course--that you're attractive. And then she bangs your brains out."

Sex, drugs, borderline date rape--it's no surprise Skins is pissing people off before it even premieres on Monday. It's a remake of the hit U.K. series of the same name (now in its fifth season), and MTV decided to bleep out swearing and take out the nudity that's rampant in the original. But it wasn't enough to strip the show of its MA rating, and on Thursday, the Parents Television Council condemned the series for its parental mockery, sexual objectification and overall "harmful, irresponsible, illegal, and adult-themed behavior." "Skins," the president of the council proclaimed, "may well be the the most dangerous show for children that we have ever seen."


But is it? Skins follows the lives of nine teenagers growing up in an unnamed Northeastern city—middle-class, multicultural, public-school kids struggling with the kind of conflict and insecurity that make high school, well, high school. Some come from broken homes, others struggle with depression. They experiment with drugs and sex. The characters are raw—and nothing appears to be off-limits with a producer, Bryan Elsley, who makes clear he isn't here to lecture. (He created the show with his 19-year-old son.) But inauthentic? Dangerous? To the contrary—Skins may be the most realistic show on television.

At the core of Skins is the close relationship between the characters: the handsome-but-cocky ringleader Tony (James Milo Newman), his pushover girlfriend Michelle (Rachel Thevenard); his best friend Stanley (Daniel Flaherty), who is desperately in love with Michelle but dating Cadie (Britne Oldford), a troubled anorexic who has is shuffled between psychiatrists and a teen mental institution. (She also has a thing for prescription drugs.) Daisy (Camille Crescencia-Mills) is the caretaker of the group; Tea (Sofia Black D'Elia) is the wild, semi-out lesbian cheerleader; Chris (Jesse Carere) is the hard partier abandoned by his parents; rounded out by funny-guy-with-strict-Muslim parents Abbud (Ron Mustafaa), and Tony's mysteriously silent younger sister, Eura (Eleanor Zichy).

The cast is mostly Canadian (the show films in Toronto), but is made up of real high school students, most of them in their first high-profile roles. That was a conscious effort—and instead of hiring a trove of senior television writers to put words into the teens' mouths, Elsley makes sure that real teens are in the writing room, too. He employs 30 of them as consultants on the U.S. show, and often solicits input from the show's rabid cult following. Even the music choices on show are made by a teenager—a 19-year-old named Matt. "We don't make this up," says Eleanor Zichy, the 15-year-old Torontoan who plays Eura on the show. "Sure, some of the experiences are exaggerated—it's television. But all the material comes from real teenagers."

And, well, let's face it: real teenagers can be a little nuts. They do have sex; they do experiment with drugs. Three in 10 of them will get pregnant before they turn 20, and 9 percent of them will attempt suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control. They can be angry and volatile, depressed, isolated, and often insecure. "I think we can all say we've known a Stanley or a Michelle," says Sofia Black D'Elia, who plays Tea. "I think a lot of teenagers will say, 'I may not be this person, but my friend is.' Or, 'maybe I didn't have this exact experience, but I had one that was similar.' Skins isn't an exact depiction of any of our lives, buts it's one of the few shows out there that gets close."

The challenge for the producers will be whether it gets close enough. Fans of the U.K. series are already miffed over the new version, worried that Hollywood-style production and American actors will strip Skins of its gritty appeal. And indeed, there is a positively American element to it: the girls are more glossed; crude details about the characters' lives have been played down; and, most noticeably, the flamboyant, tap-dancing Maxxie character has been replaced by a hot lesbian cheerleader. (Elsley says that was a creative decision, but it's hard not to see it as indicative of American intolerence.)

The language barrier is likely to bug some, too: the oft-used "spliffed" (that's "f--ked up") means little to U.S. teens; even the title, Skins—British slang for rolling papers—doesn't inspire the same double-connotation. But compared with the airbrushed glam of more exaggerated dramas like Gossip Girl—or even the cutesy preachiness of shows like Glee—Skins lets its characters be kids, flaws and all. "The cast are beautiful young people, obviously, but they’re not that kind of picture- perfect, cookie-cutter, idyllic," says Elsley. "There’s a reality to them." Skins certainly bares all—but in the end its message might surprise you.
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Tuesday 11 January 2011

Californication S04E01

Are you happy?...

Television Series: Californication (S04E01)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Addison Timlin
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Monday 10 January 2011

Shameless US S01E01

Emmy Rossum has revealed that she is not worried about the controversial side of Shameless. Rossum, who plays Fiona in the US remake of the show, told the New York Post that she has no problem with the sex scenes.

"People will either love this or be horribly offended, and I think all of those things are good challenges," she said. "I definitely embrace [the sex scenes]. So much of people's inner workings and who you really are can be shown through a sexual experience."

Rossum explained that she sees the sex scenes in the show as part of that, saying: "When they told me about the nudity and the sexuality, I've always been hesitant to do it in the past, but this is a classy group of people. Plus I knew that Bill Macy would also be showing his ass, so I wasn't worried!

"On a serious note, if you're going to show real people, you need to show their entire lives. Sex and romance are such a big part of an adult life, so to have it in any way that was more glamourised than the rest of the show would be odd. Apparently I didn't like wearing clothes until I was, like, seven, when I realised it was proper to wear clothes. I used to just take them off and run around naked. So clearly I'm comfortable that way."

Indeed, Rossum insists it is so important to show the sex lives of the characters in Shameless that negotiating herself out of the sex scenes and nudity in the show was "not an option".

"I had to fight for this role [of Fiona] because I don't think that given my past history of big budget movies and corset period dramas I was the logical choice for this kind of rough-around-the-edges character," she said. "I was living in the West Village at the time of my audition and it was raining and I remember thinking, 'I should take a cab'. Then I thought, 'No, screw it - Fiona wouldn't take a cab. I'm really going to do this thing'. So I went in jeans and a ripped tank top, no make-up and a Chicago accent. And I kind of convinced them that I could cuss with the best of them. My lack of vanity in the audition hopefully showed that it was very important to me to portray the character in a real way, as this raw person."


Television Series: Shameless US (S01E01)
Release Date: January 2011
Actress: Emmy Rossum & Shanola Hampton
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Friday 7 January 2011

Baring All That It Can

Skins Will Arrive Soon on MTV, Baring All That It Can
By Dave Itzkoff, New York Times

In a downstairs recording studio in the West Village, Bryan Elsley, a co-creator of the British teenage comedy-drama Skins, was guiding James Newman, a star of the MTV remake of the show, through a typical line of dialogue.

Conjuring up his confidence, Mr. Newman, a handsome, baby-faced 18-year-old who plays Tony, the cocky ringleader of a high school clique, said to an unseen co-star, “Normal girls like it.”

Mr. Elsley offered his thoughts on the line reading: “If you could be slightly scandalized,” he said, “but also amused.”

In an interview afterward, a more demure Mr. Newman declined to specify what indiscreet act he was trying to talk another (undoubtedly female) character into during that scene. “You’ll see,” he said with a grin.


MTV and its viewers will also soon see what an Americanized version of Skins looks like when the series has its premiere on Jan. 17. Famous in its original incarnation for frank depictions of sex, substance abuse and other authentic teenage pursuits, Skins is a show that MTV sought specifically for its boundary-pushing content while knowing that it could not break as many rules on American television.

As the United States debut approaches, the network and the Skins creative team realize that whether this version is too risqué or too tame, or even if it gets its balance just right, there will be consequences to pay.

“When you do things the fans don’t like, they really turn on you,” Mr. Elsley said. “When characters die in the show, there’s trouble. When people have the wrong sexuality or sexual behavior, there’s trouble. And when you bring the show to America, there’s trouble.”

Mr. Elsley, 49, a Scottish-born television producer with a gentle voice and sleepy eyes, recalled in an interview how he and his son Jamie Brittain created Skins about five years ago out of “a slightly irritable conversation across the dinner table.”

“He was acquainting me with my age,” Mr. Elsley said of Mr. Brittain (he uses his mother’s last name), then 19, “and my boringness and the mundaneness of what I did.”

Drawing from Mr. Brittain’s pop cultural interests (and his desire to make a teenage drama that would “be actually good and not rubbish”), the father and son created a group of characters based on Mr. Brittain and his friends: the well-liked, devious Tony; the hard-partying Chris; the fumbling, virginal Sid.

“Jamie wouldn’t mind you knowing that he is, in fact, Sid,” Mr. Elsley said, “and he would take great pleasure in telling you that his ridiculous, shout-y Scottish dad is in fact me.”

The only limitation placed on the original Skins, broadcast in Britain and Ireland on the E4 channel, was the prohibition of two particular swear words. The series took full advantage of this freedom, depicting its characters in various sexual couplings and triplings, struggling with unrequited crushes, eating disorders and unwanted pregnancies, and even dying.

Now on the verge of its fifth season (produced by a 24-year-old Mr. Brittain), Skins caught the eye of MTV executives as it started appearing on Netflix and BBC America.

“It was letting go of its assumptions about what young people do and how they talk, and letting them do it for themselves,” said Stephen Friedman, the general manager of MTV.

Skins also appealed to MTV as a signature series that could help the network reinvent itself as it pursued a millennial-age, 18-to-24-year-old audience and added more scripted series to its portfolio. Though documentary-style shows like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom are still far and away MTV’s most popular programs, the proliferation of the reality format across television has made it “hard to feel pioneering in reality,” Mr. Friedman said.

Scripted shows, he added, “became another opportunity to represent the life and the rhythm of our audience, in the way great fiction can be disconnected to your life but still speak central truths to you.”

But striking the deal that brought Skins to MTV took more than a year. Mr. Elsley said he spoke to several “amazing, legendary” show runners in the United States, only to conclude that he would have to produce the series himself.
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Bottoms Up!

Court ruling opens door to more nudity
by Maxine Shen, New York Post

Call it full moon rising -- soon, there could be bare butts all over the boob tube.

The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the $1.21 million worth of fines that the FCC levied against ABC after alleging that the network violated broadcast indecency standards for daring to show actress Charlotte Ross' naked behind during a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue.

When overthrowing the fine, the court cited the FCC's own declaration that "nudity itself is not per se indecent." It also reiterated that the FCC's context-based indecency test is "unconstitutionally vague," as previously determined by the court when the FCC demanded fines from Fox when profanities were aired during the 2006 Billboard Music Awards.

The result of the latest ruling is that "because networks know that they won't be fined for [showing bare buns on screen], they know that it is another tool in the arsenal to engage viewers," says Lawrence Meyers, editor of "Inside the TV Writer's Room" and "Picket Fences" story editor.


In essence, the ruling "gives television producers and networks more freedom to do it if they wish," he says, noting that "because network ratings are in severe decline and have been for a number of years, they may try to pull out all the stops and say, 'Let's throw in as much nudity and swear words as we can out there,' instead of focusing on playing great content, which they have not been doing."

Still, neither Meyers nor NYPD Blue co-creator Steven Bochco expects that bare buns will be de rigueur on broadcast TV.

"It's not just a question of, 'Oh, maybe they'll program where you're going to see a little tits and

ass ,' Bochco says. "That's not the issue. The issue is, generally speaking, having a broader palette to tell your stories.

"I thought 'NYPD Blue' would sort of usher in a somewhat more relaxed approach to adult fare on broadcast TV and instead, it carved out a niche for itself . . . it never really spilled over into broadcast TV programming in general. Part of it was the [period's] political climate, and a lot of it was due to the fact that it's an advertising-driven medium."

Bochco says he hopes that this ruling does convince showrunners to try edgier things for the sake of storytelling but admits that "broadcast TV is not in the business of controversy." (The broadcast networks contacted refused to speak about the court ruling.)

What the ruling is more likely to bring about, though, is boundary-pushing on a different front -- "What are parallel things that we can get away with now that we couldn't get away with back then?" Meyers says.

"Not just nudity, but will it be showing sexual pleasure or showing a little more violent content than you might have seen before instead of cutting away when a dagger is plunged into somebody's neck, do we see a little bit of blood spurting out first? Every little push forward, you might call it a microcalibration."
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Wednesday 5 January 2011

Court Overturns Nudity Fine

A federal appeals court has struck down a penalty imposed on ABC by the FCC in 2003. The $27,500 fine was originally charged after an episode of cop drama NYPD Blue contained a brief shot of a woman's nude buttocks.

According to the Associated Press, the 2nd US Court of Appeals has now ruled that since television stations are not fined for "fleeting, unscripted profanities" in live broadcasts, the brief nudity should not have resulted in a penalty.

However, the Parents Television Council has since slammed the ruling, arguing that there was "absolutely nothing fleeting or accidental about [the scene]".

"ABC intentionally chose to air a scripted visual depiction of a fully-naked woman before 10pm," it said in a statement. "The inclusion of the lengthy and ogling scene was intended to pander and titillate."

The FCC previously claimed that the scene "dwelled" on the nudity of actress Charlotte Ross and was "shocking and titillating".




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Tuesday 4 January 2011

Skins Deep

MTV 's new series Skins is more tame than it looks
By Maxine Shen, New York Post

Don't be fooled by the undressing -- the American version of Skins isn't as shocking as it makes out to be. Based on the highly controversial, scripted UK series and tagged with a "mature" rating -- usually reserved for shows like Nip/Tuck and the soft porn on Cinemax -- the upcoming MTV series seems to have dialed back the raunch factor promised in its promos.

Yes, the teens in the series are obsessed with sex, popping pills and smoking spliffs, but its edginess is on par with an average episode of Gossip Girl -- what with its threesomes, drug deals and near-rape scenes.


"When 'Skins' first launched in the UK [in 2007] it gave British TV viewers shocks when they thought they couldn't be shocked anymore," says Colin Robertson, TV editor of the The Sun newspaper in London.

The original series, created by Bryan Elsley and his then-19-year-old son Jamie Brittain, took on dysfunctional families, sexual orientation, death, substance abuse, destructive house parties and sex.

People barely out of their teens wrote and consulted on the show -- spawning dialogue and scenarios that teens could actually relate to -- and the cast was stocked with teens who always seemed to be undressing.

"It was the first British series to actually show teenagers getting up to what a lot of teenagers actually get up to -- sex, drugs, swearing and disrespecting adults," says the Sun's deputy TV editor, Leigh Holmwood. "It wasn't sanitized, it was full-on swearing. You saw everything. Teenagers loved it when it first came out, but there was a lot of disquiet at the time from a lot of other people about whether this was damaging or should even be shown."

Interestingly, the MTVseries has turned the UK series' gay character, a dance-loving guy named Maxxie, into a lesbian cheerleader named Tea. While it could easily be a simple creative decision -- Elsley and Brittain are also execs on the MTV version -- it's worth noting that kissing lesbians are far more common on TV here than gay men make-outs.

"In the UK series, you did get the feeling that they wanted to be as provocative as possible and as shocking as possible," Holmwood says. "So I don't know whether MTV wants to tone it down or whether they want all this controversy."

Other changes include the elimination of full-frontal nudity (verboten in the US, but not that uncommon in the UK) and bleeping obscenities.

"Of course it's a big risk for MTV to try and emulate that shock factor for US audiences, who seem too often to be treated with kid gloves by the big networks," Robertson says. "But it's perhaps a bigger risk to tone it down too much. Teenagers will turn it off if it's too tame and flip onto YouTube where their friends' sex and drugs videos could well prove more realistic."
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