‘Apprentice’ Paula: ‘I left with dignity’
Apprentice reject Paula Jones has claimed that some of this year’s contestants would “step over their own granny” to win the show.
Jones was axed by Sir Alan Sugar after making a costings error in a cosmetics challenge. The West Midlands-born business claimed yesterday that stockbroker Ben Clarke should have been fired instead.
However, the 29-year-old human resource consultant said that she believed she was able to leave the series with her head held high because she had not resorted to being “a b*tch”.
“Some of these contestants would step over their own granny for the job,” Jones told DS. “Debra’s already told lies in the boardroom. Ben’s got no self-respect whatsoever…he ought to be ashamed of himself.
“Yasmina has obviously shown herself to be a bit ruthless, but that’s just not me.”
She continued: “The most important thing for me was to be myself and not be a nasty person. I don’t think you have to be like that to get along in business. Unfortunately, Ben and Yasmina wanted to win at all costs. I wanted to win, but with my dignity still intact.”
Source: DigitalSpy
‘Ashes to Ashes’ returns with a 7mil viewing figure
Ashes drama draws in 7m audience
BBC drama Ashes to Ashes returned for a second series with an audience of 7 million, according to unofficial overnight figures.
The series launched last year with 7 million, but the time travelling cop show ended its run with only 5.4 million tuning in.
The show, which is set in 1981 and a sequel to Life on Mars, stars Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes.
ITV1’s cooking show Hell’s Kitchen drew 4.5 million viewers.
The series features two teams of celebrity chefs competing in a professional kitchen to avoid being sacked by head chef Marco Pierre White.
Around 1.3 million people watched cult show Heroes on BBC Two, which was broadcast at the same time, while Channel 4’s Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant picked up 1.7 million.
Source: BBC
‘Big Bang’ Kaley Cuoco tapped for ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ finale
Kaley Cuoco of the CBS comedy “The Big Bang Theory” will guest star on the season finale of “Grey’s Anatomy,” according to EW.
The actress, a self-proclaimed fan of the show, announced the casting Thursday night at PaleyFest. Cuoco said she is set to film her part next week, although what exactly that part entails is still unclear.
“It’s a big ol’ secret. I have no clue what I’m doing,” she told the magazine. “My guess is that I will be a patient of some kind. I’m practicing my scared, sad ‘I’m dying’ face.”
This year’s season finale for the ABC drama should prove to one to watch. Other guest stars include ”Gilmore Girls”” Liza Weil and “Everwood’s” Debra Mooney.
The episode is slated to air Thursday, May 14.
Source: LATimes
Michael Emerson Admits ‘Lost’ Confuses Him
Michael Emerson as Ben Linus might just be the most manipulative and confusing character on television. Emerson joined Lost to do a guest shot and his emergence as the primary villain ( or maybe he’s the hero?) is the stuff that an actor’s dreams are made of.
You want facts about this season’s finale? Would you really trust the man who plays Ben no matter what he told you? One true fact, the round glasses are pretty much like the ones he wears in real life. Another certainty is that you won’t get Michael to disrespect Ben.
Q: How would you describe your character?
A: Ben is intelligent and he is an operator. He’s a great student of psychology and he knows how to work people. He is sometimes very ruthless. We’ve seen that. Yet, to counterbalance that, we’ve seen him genuinely grieve the loss of a daughter, probably the loss of his own childhood or the loss of a chance to live a decent romantic life that he sees other people have. And of course he doesn’t have a happy relationship with members of the opposite sex, either. So he’s kind of alone.
Q: What does it do to you to play role like that all day?
A: Well, you’re not meditating on your backstory while you’re doing the scenes. You’re just sort of playing the moment at hand. And that’s more fun. It’s like a sport, really, or a kind of gamesmanship. It’s good, fun work. It’s a character with many layers, which is not what you always expect to get when you go to work in the television industry. So I think I have the best of both worlds. I get to play a character that has all the complexity of a stage character and yet all the visibility and reach of someone that comes in through the little box in people’s living rooms.
Q : Can Ben ever be trusted? Is he always looking out for himself or is he looking out for the island?
A: Well, for a long time, I would’ve said that those were one in the same motives, that his mission was also the island’s mission. Now that’s gotten more complicated because now Ben is out of favor, out of power. So I think, you can always count on the fact that what Ben says to you will be literally true, in a way. But he’s sort of a wickedly effective equivocator. You never know what he really means or how a thing is really going to play out. Yet we’ve seen him more vulnerably powerless this season. That trend will continue through to the end of the season. Ben is sort of inexplicable. We have to wait and see how it’s going to work. It keeps people wondering.
Q: Does it keep you wondering?
A: Yeah, I like that the character is as ambiguous as he is and has always been. And they seem to have figured out a way to keep that going.
Q: He is the character fans love to hate. Is he ever going to have any love interest?
A: I don’t see how. I think he hasn’t the kind of social maturity or frankly enough time in the day to get focused on someone outside himself. His mission does not allow enough leisure time for romance. This is not to say that he doesn’t become attached to people or possessive of them, because we saw that with his relationship with Juliette. But it wasn’t going to go anywhere because like most people who have part of their brain very highly developed, I think the other parts of the brain or personality lag behind. He has many gifts. And he is, on some level, a genius, I suppose. But in the field of personal development, he’s not very highly evolved. He’s immature about relationships.
Q: We now can figure out a little bit about why. You’re beaten up in almost every episode.
A: Yeah, I had a few episodes early this season where I got to be cleaned up and spiffed up. It was nice to wear those sort of James Bond kind of clothes and stuff. But of course that’s all over now. Now I’m back to my tattered rags and my bleeding face.
Q: So you get to makeup in the morning and you say, “Make me bleed.”
A: Yeah. And it feels like who I am now on the show. It’s not really Ben if he’s not beaten.
Q: And you have to match the wounds from day to day.
A: Oh, they do. They make a little stencil on a sheet of Saran Wrap. And they lay it on my face every day and mark the dots. And the wounds evolve, as they naturally would. A bruise goes from purple to yellow and green to pale pink. Our head makeup guy is a real student of cuts and bruises and how they heal. So it’s really interesting. It’s quite scientific.
Q: Does everyone ask you about the eyes?
A: I guess I have an effective focus. Completely out of my control, but my eyes are somewhat prominent in my face. So I guess they figure in my work, in the close ups, at least.
Q: When you first walked on that set, could you have imagined that you’d end up with such a central, pivotal part in all of this?
A: Oh, gosh. No. And I’m glad I had no idea at the time or I would’ve been so nervous I might have made a mess of things. As it was, it was going to be a guest spot, three episodes or so. And I thought, ‘Well, I’ll go. And I’ll do it. And I’ll hurry back home. And that will be that.’ So I didn’t have to get too worked up about it. So it was nice the way it came upon me gradually.
Q: Lost is a little bit like a scary movie — part of you wants to know what’s going to happen and part of you doesn’t want to know.
A: Exactly. And I think the part of you that wants to say, ‘Don’t tell,’ should prevail because the landscape of our show is a certain set of mysteries. And if you explode those mysteries, then the show becomes unhinged. It doesn’t have a place to live anymore.
Q: If I don’t watch every single time, I get confused. Do you ever get confused?
A: I watch every time and I get confused. I work on the show and I’m confused. In a way, we have to allow that to happen, give ourselves over to the confusion and keep watching. Maybe things will get clearer.
Q: Do you get stopped when you’re in public?
A: Sure, I get stopped everywhere.
Q: What do they say to you? Are little kids scared to come up to you?
A: Well, sometimes they are. Mostly I think people are just sort of delighted to see me. I think my character seems more fictional or unreal to people than some other characters. I think they don’t expect to ever actually run into the person that is Ben. So I think people are surprised or taken back a bit, as if he’s not supposed to exist outside the TV show.
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Prison Break returns tonight; will it do better than last Friday for FOX?
Prison Break returns tonight for a two hour installment between 8p-10pm (but the first hour is a repeat). Though without Dollhouse and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I think there will be less interest in the Friday night ratings, I do believe fans of those shows will be looking to see how Prison Break does.
Last week, FOX averaged about a 1.4 adults 18-49 rating for the night (1.3 for TSCC, 1.4 for Dollhouse). If Prison Break does better there might be a little freaking out. And if it does worse, some people will be “See! FOX neeeeeds Dollhouse and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles!
My guess is it will do about the same to slightly better than last week’s numbers, a 1.5-1.6 wouldn’t surprise me . Doing noticeably worse would surprise me. We’ll know tomorrow morning.
Update: my lack of Prison Break knowledge is showing. Sorry! As Alex points out in the comments, the first hour is a repeat (confirmed), so we’ll only really be looking at the 9p-10p hour comparisons…unless a repeat of Prison Break outperforms the TSCC finale at 8pm…
Source: TVByTheNumbers
Ashes to Ashes adds a year
DCI Gene Hunt and the team are back this Monday with a new series of popular drama Ashes to Ashes.
The Life on Mars spin-off moves on a year when it returns to BBC One this Monday.
The second series takes the detective team from 1981 to 1982 where they are faced with corruption, deceit and increasing levels of crime.
Philip Glenister, who recently starred in ITV1’s supernatural drama Demons, returns as DCI Hunt alongside DI Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes, who is still stuck in the 1980s.
Talking about what’s in store for his character Glenister says in a statement: “In this series of Ashes to Ashes Gene is still out there being a maverick, but what I always say about him is that, while he bends the rules, he never breaks them.”
“There is a police corruption theme running throughout the series so it does feel darker than series one,” he continued; “the corruption breeds a lack of trust and coherence which is unbalancing for everybody.”
The premiere of series two, which will also see the return of DS Ray Carling (Dean Andrews), DC Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) and WPC Sharon Granger (Montserrat Lombard), kicks off with the introduction of a new character — a legendary detective nicknamed ‘Super Mac’, played by V for Vendetta’s Roger Allam.
The death of a policeman in a Soho strip club brings the team’s new boss into the show, while Alex continues to receive flashbacks from the present.
Attracting 7 million viewers (29.1% of the total TV audience) to its first ever show, season one of Ashes to Ashes became an instant success. Despite losing viewers as the series progressed, the show remained a highlight of the BBC’s drama schedule, bowing out with a respectable 5.4 million viewers (23% of the total TV audience).
The cop drama also went down well on TV.com, with the first series gaining an average TV.com score of 8.7. It has also described by fans as influential and classic.
Ashes to Ashes new eight-part series begins this Monday, April 20, at 9pm on BBC One.
Source: TV.com
Ex sues CSI: Miami’s David Caruso
Actor who plays Horatio Caine on popular show sued for more than $1.2 million, house by the mother of his children; court docs claim Caruso was a jerk.
- David Caruso Sued
David Caruso is used to catching criminals as Horatio Caine in CBS’ CSI: Miami, but this time Caruso is the one under heat. Caruso’s ex-girlfriend, Liza Marquez, has sued the actor on the grounds that he broke his promise to financially support her.
According to The Associated Press, Caruso is being sued for more than $1.2 million and a house that was promised to her by the star. Marquez’s suit claims that Caruso asked her to quit her job and pass up other job opportunities because he would take care of her bills and needs, and was just a general all-around jerk.
The suit also says Caruso broke up with her after the birth of their second child in 2007, and the two agreed on a cash settlement and a house that was to be given to Marquez and the children.
But Caruso allegedly broke the agreement, says Access Hollywood, and over the course of their three year “marriage-like relationship,” Caruso was emotionally abusive to her and accused her of having an affair. Marquez also claims that Caruso would retreat to a second house that held “significant amounts of pornographic materials,” suggested she have sex with a male prostitute, and admitted to sleeping with another woman. Access Hollywood also says Marquez claims Caruso “asked [her] to exercise her option not to continue with the pregnancy” and when she refused, said “I guess for now you’ll just be a birthing cow.”
Caruso’s rep told Access Hollywood: “Last month David became concerned about the welfare of his children and sought court assistance to redefine David’s and Liza’s custodial schedules. It now appears that Liza has decided to retaliate by raising false claims against David, which David finds unfortunate since these claims will divert the parties’ and the court’s attention away from the best interests of the children.”
Source:- TV.com
Philip Glenister defends ‘Ashes’ co-star
Phillip Glenister defends Keeley Hawes
Philip Glenister has called for fairer treatment of his Ashes To Ashes co-star Keeley Hawes ahead of the show’s new series.
Hawes suffered a frosty response from critics after she made her debut as DI Alex Drake on the BBC One time travel show last year.
Glenister, who plays DCI Gene Hunt, later spoke out in support of the actress, claiming that her detractors should “hang their heads in shame”.
Reflecting on the criticism in a new interview with the Daily Record, Glenister explained: “What I objected to most was the personal nature of some of the attacks and the utter lack of appreciation of what a fine actress Keeley is, a woman with this incredibly impressive range of emotions and almost uncanny ability to cry on cue.
“Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I actually thought some of the remarks made about Keeley, and her acting, were utterly inexcusable. What I objected to most was this idea, this totally bogus idea, that she was somehow lightweight, that she wasn’t a key part of the show.
“She was central to it. There wouldn’t have been an Ashes To Ashes without her. So, this time round, I hope that the comments about Keeley’s contribution are a little more considered.”
Source:- DigitalSpy