Get the A2Z of 16 Candles on VH1 in August!
T for 32 Candles
There are plans in the works to do a Sixteen Candles reunion movie
U for Unrequited Love
Anthony Michael Hall had a crush on Molly Ringwald during filming
Y for Yanky My Wanky
One of the most memorable lines in the movie is "No more yanky my wanky
Sarah Wynter appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (12:05 a.m., ABC)on 7/21.
Sources at Scifi UK Confirm that they'll be showing The Dead Zone Season 3 in Sept!
2004 Award: Best Guest Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series
Program: Da Vinci's Inquest - 25 Dollar Conversation
Recipient(s): Colin Cunningham
The Futon Critic is also questioning what's up with The Dead Zone's 13th episode?
THE DEAD ZONE (USA) - In a move that leads one of believe a fourth season of the cable drama is around the corner, USA has opted to hold back the show's final installment of its 13-episode third season, the conclusion to the two-part episode "Tipping Point." To make room for the move, USA will air just one episode ("Instinct") not two as originally reported on August 15 while the two episodes scheduled for August 22 will be "Shadows" and part one of "Tipping Point." No official reason for the change was given nor has USA formally decided about the fate of the series.
Xpose's Special Issue #26 will ship from Jul 22 2004, News-stand Price • UK £4.99 / US $9.99.
The Dead Zone
Sarah Wynter talks about playing the newest addition to the spooky paranormal series, psychologist Rebecca Caldwell, and tells us what’s in store for the character.
Ratings for Week Ending 7/25
Q: What do you like and dislike most about being an actress?
- Sunnie Crowson, Alaska
NDB: What I love is I get paid to do something that I truly love. The part I don't like is all the waiting in between scenes. Also, I don't like being away from my husband John. And, like most actors, I don't like auditioning - it freaks me out. Thanks for your question.
Q: I have enjoyed your work in Star Trek: DS9 and The Dead Zone. I also enjoyed you on The Outer Limits and in the movie Cube. Are you currently working on any side projects?
- Scott, Jeffersonville, IN
NDB: A good deal of my non-Dead Zone time is spent with my husband John and his band All Systems Go on tour. The past two summers I did indie films. One is a comedy called Phil the Alien, where I play an assassin. The other one is a satire of reality TV called Public Domain where I play an alcoholic character that's obsessed with the '80s. Public Domain is making the rounds at film festivals around the country and Phil the Alien is in post production. Keep your eyes peeled for them both at a theatre near you.
Christopher Walken who was the Original Johnny Smith in the 1983 movie adaption, is playing in the remake of "The Stepford Wives"
Meanwhile the sinister Glenn Close and her even more sinister husband, Christopher Walken, seem to have the whole community in their thrall.
NBC Universal Cable networks USA and Sci Fi closed their respective Julys with some of their best numbers to date thanks to solid performances by their original series.
“The Dead Zone” is experiencing an outstanding summer season, pacing well ahead of last summer. This most recent episode was the top rated since the first season, averaging a 3.7 in households, a 2.8 in P25-54, a 2.3 in P18-49, with over 4.7 million viewers tuning in. So far this season, “The Dead Zone” has averaged a 2.5 in households, a 1.9 in P25-54, a 1.6 in P18-49, with over 3.2 million viewers tuning in weekly. Season three is pacing ahead of last season by +15% in households, +13% in P25-54 and +11% in P18-49. An additional half a million viewers are tuning in each week this season.
According to TV Now's Schedule for Anthony Michael Hall, This is the following show episodes, air dates and times.
Speak Now
Sun Aug 1 10:00P on USA Network
Mon Aug 2 12:00A on USA Network
Tue Aug 3 01:00A on USA Network
Thu Aug 5 12:00A on USA Network
Cycle of Violence
Sun Aug 8 10:00P on USA Network
Mon Aug 9 12:00A on USA Network
Tue Aug 10 11:00P on USA Network
Instinct
Sun Aug 15 10:00P on USA Network
Mon Aug 16 12:00A on USA Network
Wed Aug 18 01:00A on USA Network
Thu Aug 19 12:00A on USA Network
Shadows
Sun Aug 22 09:00P on USA Network
Mon Aug 23 12:00A on USA Network
Tue Aug 24 12:00A on USA Network
Thu Aug 26 12:00A on USA Network
Tipping Point
60 minutes- Season Finale
Sun Aug 22 10:00P on USA Network
Mon Aug 23 01:00A on USA Network
Tue Aug 24 01:00A on USA Network
HOT STAR: Anthony Michael Hall.
HOT GIG: Sends chills as psychic Johnny Smith on USA’s supernatural hit The Dead Zone.
SUMMER FUN: Hall, who rode to fame as the epitome of ’80s teen flick geekery, has really evolved. His show is unusually uplifting, as is his idea of a great day. At the Self-Realization Fellowship, an oasis of ponds, garden paths and meditational shrines in Pacific Palisades, he prays, writes in his journal and just stops to smell the incense. "A friend turned me on to the spot ten years ago. It’s a wonderful place for solitude." He’s also big on Kriya yoga, but his bull mastiff, Rey, hangs loose another way: "We drive up the coast, and he loves it. He’s a stick-your-head-out-the-window dog."
DOWNTIME DOWNSIDE: Every time he goes to the beach, "I’m reminded I can’t surf."
Thanks to Megang at the USA Messageboard for posting the link to The Dead Zone Puzzles at TV.Guide.com
Sources say it appears at this time that there will be one episode on Aug 1, Speak Now, 1 episode on Aug 15th Cycle of Violence (possibly only showing at midnight) and 2 episodes on the Aug 22nd, Shadows and Tipping Point prt 1.
Colin has landed a guest role on THE DEAD ZONE playing Pendragon
(an agent for the US Attorneys Office) in the episode THE TIPPING POINT
Colin has landed a part in the movie ELEKTRA starring Jennifer Garner.
ELEKTRA is the spin-off to the Ben Affleck movie DAREDEVIL.
Colin's character's name is McCabe, who is an "agent to the assassins"
who works with Elektra. Elektra is one of McCabe's clients. He books the
job and take ten percent of the cash.
Colin has just booked the *lead role* on a horror film called
CONDEMNED. The movie will also star Luis Guzman.
Filming on CONDEMNED starts on Monday in Vancouver, BC
TheOakland Tribune ran an article on guilty pleasure. It lists movies and actors that people secretly enjoy, although everyone else says their funky.
CHINS UP, shoulders straight, free at last, a handful of readers have written in to cleanse themselves of the guilt associated with loving movies or stars generally reviled by the rest of humanity. As promised in last week's guilty-pleasures column, here are their confessions: "Revenge of the Nerds," writes Judy L. of Fremont. "I laugh like crazy. And anything with the young Patrick Dempsey (older is good, too), especially as The Woo Woo Kid (in "In the Mood"), where he keeps marrying older women, and 'Loverboy.' I never miss the opportunity to see him and his mop of brown hair doing his Fred Astaire dance to 'They Can't Take That Away From Me.' Oh, and let's not forget 'Weird Science.'" Dempsey's not in the latter, but a young Anthony Michael Hall and the underappreciated Kelly LeBrock, a true guilty pleasure, are. "Many years ago my husband and I went to the second-run movie theater to see something like 'Il Postino,'" writes Colleen K. "Somehow we watched 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' instead. I sat through the opening credits thinking, 'wa happened?', not a little miffed. However, we both ended up guffawing through the whole unbelievably stupid movie. And saying every five minutes while laughing, 'This is sooooo stupid.' It's still stupid and it's still funny."
The Official Dead Zone Site has the complete wrap up available as well as act one for next weeks "Speak Now"
Robert Petrovicz who is a producer of The Dead Zone also produced Season one of Smallville!
Talk about it at Messageboard!
Please, ease up on USA's 'The Dead Zone'
July 21, 2004
Dear Editor:
I don't often write letters to web sites, but you've pushed me over the edge with your consistently negative comments about USA's "The Dead Zone."
In today's issue of Media Life, on the very same page you use words like "free fall" and "flame out" in reference to the "Dead Zone," your rankings indicate it was the 11th ranked cable show against households, and 7th against Adults 25-54.
Maybe that's not headline news, but it's far from ratings disaster. Last year you ran a headline along the lines of "Dead Zone in Death Throes." I'm all for a good play on words, but clearly, you were wrong, as the show was renewed for a summer flight, and is now in its third season. Because of this kind of negative reporting, ad agency colleagues of mine who read your site think that the show is in the trash. That's just not true.
While it is true that the show struggled when USA ran it in Winter 2003, it does just fine in the summer. And by all other reports in the press, USA is pleased with its performance.
You may not be a fan, personally, of the show, and that's fine. (Obviously, I am.) But please, look at your own data before you give the impression to your readers that this show is in the same ratings-league as "Peacemakers." That's just bad journalism. It's hard enough to keep quality shows on the air without this kind of unwarranted bashing. I'm not asking for fluff pieces, just fair and accurate reporting.
Roberta Haber
It seems one fans love of the original "National Lampoon's Family Vacation" sparked a 600+ mile trip to Wally World, or what's known to the rest of the world as Six Flags Magic Mountain.
My first discovery was that nobody at Six Flags had a sense of humor.
I would make a John Candy joke and the guards did not even crack a grin. My first ride was The Whipper Snapper, but the workers who loaded us on didn't seem to have ever heard of Walleyworld or the Griswolds.
What's more, Magic Mountain opened in 1971 and became a Six Flags park in 1979. The only rides left from the movie are the Revolution (Whipper Snapper), Colossus, Gold Rusher and Scrambler.
In the original movie ending that test audiences hated, the family went to Roy Walley's home and held his family hostage. Actor John Candy, as the guard at the "closed" Walleyworld, was a last-minute addition. Notice that at Walleyworld, Anthony Michael Hall, who played Rusty, is taller than Beverly D'Angelo, who played long-suffering mother Ellen. Hall grew 3 inches after the original photography was completed and was now taller than his "mom" when the new ending was shot.
AMH will be appearing at this years http://www.dragoncon.org/ Sept 3-6
Dragon*Con is America's largest, multi-media, popular arts convention—focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film.
IGN.com Asks 10 questions of famous people from time to time, here are Shawn Piller's Answers
1. What is your favorite piece of music?
Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" written by Lenord Cohen.
2. What is your favorite film?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
3. What is your favorite TV program, past or current?
Star Trek.
4. What do you feel has been your most important professional accomplishment to date?
The Dead Zone.
5. Which project do you feel didn't live up to what you envisioned?
The Lovely Leave by Dorothy Parker, who made a short story into a film short.
6. What is your favorite book?
The Giving Tree, a children's book.
7. If you could change one thing about the industry, what would it be?
Less cooks in the kitchen.
8. Who – or what – would you say has had the biggest influence on your career?
My father Michael.
9. What is your next project?
Possibly the TV series Legend starring Richard Dean Anderson and various features.
10. What is the one project that you've always wanted to do, but have yet to be able to?
Day One, the pilot to be made as a feature or series.
SATURDAY 21st AUGUST 2004
PITSEA LEISURE CENTRE
Northlands Pavement, Pitsea, Basildon, Essex
DOORS OPEN: 10.30am to 2.30pm - Adults:£2 Child: £1
(Early Bird Ticket from 9.30am Adults: £5 Child: £2.50)
MEET VERY SPECIAL GUEST
NICOLE DE BOER
STAR OF Hit TV Series The Dead Zone (Sara Bracknell/Bannerman) &
Star Trek Deep Space 9 (Lt. Ezri Dax)
The Outer Limits, Psi Factor, Poltergeist: The Legacy
The Outer Limits, TekWar, E.N.G., The Hidden Room, Beyond Reality,
Forever Knight, Maniac Mansion, Sweating Bullets, Beyond Reality, Kids in the Hall, Street Legal
Thanks to JohnnysGirl2 for letting us know, that AMH did not appear for his interview with Craig Kilborn on July 14th as scheduled.
Two different resources are giving two different numbers on last weeks "No Questions Asked". The earlier nymber's put it at 11, the newer ones have it tied up for number 9
Rank* /Program Network / Total U.S. / Household Rating** /Total Viewers***
1 Home Run Derby L/ ESPN /4.7 /7,713,000
2 4400, The (0103 New & Improved CM)/ USA /3.5/ 5,628,000
3 Law And Order/ TNT /3.2 /4,529,000
4 WWE Entertainment (WWE Raw Zone)/ SPIKE /3.1/ 4,851,000
5 Monk (2104 Monk Gets Fired)/ USA /3.0/ 4,678,000
6 Law And Order/ TNT /2.8 /3,955,000
7 WWE Entertainment (WWE Raw)/ SPIKE/ 2.7 /4,165,000
7 Law & Order /TNT /2.7 /3,840,000
9 American Chopper /DISC/ 2.6 /3,949,000
9 Family Guy/ TOON/ 2.6 /3,675,000
9 Dead Zone, The (3006 No Questions Asked) /USA/ 2.6 /3,968,000
* Rank is based on U.S. Household Rating % from Nielsen Media Research's National People Meter Sample
** A household Rating is the estimate of the size of a television audience relative to the total universe, expressed as a percentage. As of September 1, 2003, there are an estimated 108.4 million television households in the U.S. A single national household ratings point represents 1%, or 1,084,000 households.
*** Total viewers includes all persons over the age of two.
(S) Special
While visiting the USA Messageboard I found a thread from USA Board Member "Uh?" That talks about how they won an autographed script from Anthony Michael Hall! The script was from the upcoming "Instinct" episode!
We have a very talented actor who plays A.J. on THE SOPRANOS, Robert Iler, and he's in the high school episode that we did, as is Judge Reinhold. Frank
From TV Guide
Devious brothers draw Johnny into a legal quagmire in a fiendishly clever story about a bizarre murder plot.
Can a psychic infringe upon a person's right to privacy? What if that person is planning a homicide? When a stranger touches his shoulder, he “sees” the man slit a woman's throat. Yet the vision didn't show the man had a twin, or that the siblings are law students seeking to publicly humiliate Johnny. With parallels to the film “Minority Report,” the episode confronts the issue of holding people accountable for crimes not yet committed.
Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Chris Bruno, David Ogden Stiers, John L. Adams, Kendal Cross, Nicole de Boer
Release Year: 2004
Provides and interesting look at David Cronenberg's Original "The Dead Zone" movie and compares it with his some of his other horror movies, including "The Fly".
According to the Neilson Ratings, the No Questions asked episode came in 1th place.
Then view it again on USA Wednesday at Midnight. The complete script is also available for download at the USA Network site, along with the first act of this weeks "Looking Glass" for those of us that love Spoilers.
Read the full article atPlaybill News
"The Breakfast Club" Hits New York Stage as You See Us as You Want to See Us, July 22
By Ernio Hernandez
19 Jul 2004
The 1985 John Hughes film "The Breakfast Club," which starre "brat pack" faves Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and, of course, Molly Ringwald will make its way to the stage as You See Us as You Want to See Us… Reflections from the Breakfast Club.
The parody of the 80's flick is set to perform at downtown New York City's Opaline, starting July 22.
You See Us features a cast that includes Amorika Amoroso (as Allison), Sean Doran (as Andrew), Rommel Quimson (as Brian), Kelly Rauch (as Claire), Mike Van Steyn (as John) and Jimmy King (as Principal Vernon).
Tickets ($19.85, drinks not included) to You See Us as You Want to See Us… Reflections from the Breakfast Club at Opaline, 85 Avenue A (at Sixth Street), can be purchased at the box office on the evening of the show only. For information, call (212) 995-8684.
Actor Frank Whaley(who plays future guy Christopher Wey) turns 41 on July 20!
Here are an idea of some of the prices
And another Smallville Conection.
It appears that "Looking Glass" was originally meant to air after "Finding Rachel".
Stop by ourMessageboard to talk about tonights episode!
DRAMA
Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall) has visions of the future and the past, and he uses his powers to solve crimes. I yawned at the premise when this series premiered, but I'm glad I took another look last month when it started its third season.
A surprising plus is the show's provocative political consciousness. In the two-part season opener, slick Greg Stillson (Sean Patrick Flanery), an enemy of Johnny's, narrowly won a congressional seat by nefarious means that evoked the real-life election controversy of 2000. The July 4 episode focuses on a secret government intelligence program called Eyetrap, which will remind viewers of the Pentagon's much-criticized Total Information Awareness project. The writers go too far in suggesting that an unchecked Stillson could bring on Armageddon, but at least they're giving us some food for thought.
The psychic hero has a potential new romantic interest in Rebecca (Sarah Wynter from 24)--if only he can get his mind off Sarah (Nicole deBoer), his former fiancee and the mother of his young son. Unfortunately, the triangle of Johnny, Sarah and her sheriff husband, Walt (Chris Bruno), is still too polite to believe.
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AMH: [Laughter] What is interesting about the show is that I feel that a lot of the serialized episodes are my favorite because as an actor going through what I deem this to be leading man school, which is the starring in your own show, and working with all these talented people day in an day out, it is an opportunity to do different types of shows. Although I favor the serialized shows because it lets me really step up to the plate and take a stand and be a protagonist and the whole thing. And we do other things like this episode "Precipitate" where I play six or seven different characters and then we did "Deja Voodoo" which had a more romantic flare to it. We can take a risk, so that we don't always do a sort of cardboard cutout rendition of what the show is and what people expect it to be. And that is exciting too because the show is evolving.
Offical Fansite
"No Questions Asked" was helmed by Mike Rohl (last season's "Cabin Pressure") and scribed by DZ newby Moira Kirland. I must say that the rookie more than holds her own when it comes to the DZ standard. And as if I hadn't already given you all your share of behind-the-scenes info already, check out who's appearing in "No Questions Asked": Kendal Cross (who, as you DZ Season One DVD fans will know, was the original Dana Bright) is back, and although her girl next-door looks may not have been what the network was looking for with Dana, they more than fit the bill in this episode! Enjoy
Walt is haunted by a disturbing incident from his past involving his former deputy (Greg Grunberg), and reluctantly enlists Johnny's help to put his demons to rest. Dana: Kendal Cross.
Posts Highest-Ever June Ratings, While Broadcast Networks' Share Has Continued to Shrink
By James Hibberd
Maine vampires, San Diego reality exhibitionists and Miami plastic surgeons are helping to create the best summer ever for advertiser-supported cable television.
"This isn't just dominant but super-dominant," said Steve Raddock of the Cable Advertising Bureau. "This is the highest-ever share in June for cable, the lowest-ever for broadcast, and the gap between them has never been greater. These are record-breaking numbers."
All told, June's cable prime-time share is up 7.4 percent, going from a 53.7 share in 2003 to 57.7 in 2004.
"It's a cable renaissance. You have all of these mainstream cable channels doing awfully well," said Julie Piepenkotter, ABC Family's senior VP of research.
In addition to the usual basic cable roster of wrestling, basketball and children's programming, ratings standouts include TNT's original miniseries "Salem's Lot," FX's "Nip/Tuck," Discovery's "American Chopper," USA's "Monk," and MTV's "Pimp My Ride" and "The Real World."
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I learned a lot from TDZ editors, director Shawn Piller (who directed his first DZ episode this season), Michael Robison, and Executive Producer Lloyd Segan. All this learning and preparation for a chance to kinda, maybe, sorta, hopefully, one day, direct an episode of TDZ. Glasses in the air? Then let's toast to me directing!
