By Geoffrey Maingart Pasadena, CA(Hollywood Today)1/17/13/–The Public Broadcasting System survived the election and this new season will bring some truly extraordinary documentaries, dramas, musical events and educational shows over the year.  The PBS Press Tour at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena on Jan 14th and 15th was [...]

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Review by Valerie Milano

Self published author Jill Schaefer’s second book, “Coming of Age in
California -English Style-” is a lighthearted account of the author’s
true story of herself, Jewell, a naive English teen, fresh from home
and convent school, venturing forth with her school friend Margaret to
the California of the 1950s.

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Sunday airings of sex, drugs and alchol

By Valerie Milano

Pasadena, CA (Hollywood Today) 1/13/13 – The sexy, crazed, drug and alcohol fueled season premieres of “Shameless,” “House of Lies” and “Californication” air Sunday evening on Showtime.

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Most of the characters start off pretty unlikable

By Valerie Milano

Pasadena, CA (Hollywood Today) 1/9/13 – “I love that there’s kind of a moral compass inside of her without being self‑righteous, without being judgmental, and there’s a heart to her.” describes Meagan Good about how she approaches her character Joanna on NBC’s new show, Deception. She goes on to say, “it’s like you almost have to emotionally disconnect to a certain degree and really, like Joanna, be willing to die for the cause.”

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Reilly discusses the challenge of broadcast television as opposed to cable

By Valerie Milano

Pasadena, CA (Hollywood Today) 1/9/13 – “You may have noticed that we here at FOX kind of limped our way in out of 2012, so nobody’s happier than us to turn the page and get on to a fresh year where I think there’s some better things to come.” says Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment at Fox Broadcasting as he opens his executive panel at the TCA. This year should prove interesting to that network at least.

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The documentary ran parallel to the relief efforts By Valerie Milano  Hollywood, CA (Hollywood Today) 1/4/2013 – “It was during that time that we found out about Josue’s dream to bring clean water to his village; before we knew it, we had this sort of movement that was developing.” – Patrick Shen, Director of La [...]

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