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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Former According to Jim star Jim Belushi is moving to a drama series. He's been tapped to star in a legal drama created by Murphy Brown mastermind Diane English and Homicide and Oz exec-producer Barry Levinson. The show is loosely based on the memoir "How Can You Defend These People?" by TV commentator and lawyer Mickey Sherman. This is an excellent way for Belushi to wash...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Jim Belushi is teaming up with Diane English and Barry Levinson to create a show about a defense attorney based on the lawyer and television commentator Mickey Sherman, according to Variety . Belushi is coming off of eight seasons of his, for lack of a better term, hit sitcom, According to Jim . English created the respectable Murphy Brown , and Levinson's got quite a few notches in his...
The TV addict (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
• For the Love of God No! Jim Belushi plots TV comeback. • Naveen Andrews gets lost… in New York, we’re he’ll guest on LAW & ORDER: SVU. • Jack Donaghey would be proud. In lieu of GLEE, Jimmy Fallon will get his own Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Float. • One hero down, how many to go?
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
TV News: ICM packaging series for actor post-'Jim' -- Here's an unusual group of creative collaborators: Jim Belushi has teamed with Diane English and Barry Levinson for a prospective TV drama that would cast Belushi as a defense attorney character based on the lawyer and TV commentator Mickey Sherman.
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... be for some). But for the last five years or so, the reigning champ of that list was According to Jim , both because of its inexplicable longevity and its questionable quality. Now, with Jim Belushi's vanity project finally gone, it looks like another show has taken its place: FOX's 'Til Death . The network just doesn't want to let the show die. Every time the show is in a low-rated slot,...
The Theater Loop (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Second City, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary at a star-studded week Dec. 11-12, has released the names and titles of some of the daytime panels that weekend featuring its prominent alumnae. Among the Saturday highlights: A session on "The...
Rosario Dawson Online (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Rosario Dawson, Giada De Laurentiis, Jim Belushi and Lance Bass will guest star in new episodes of Playhouse Disney’s hit Emmy-nominated series “Handy Manny,” beginning MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 (9:00 a.m. ET/PT) on Disney Channel. Dawson (”Sin City,” “Rent”) guest stars as a marine biologist, De Laurentiis (”Everyday Italian”) plays the owner of...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Chicago and re-live the old times. Here's the rest of the former Citizens expected: Scott Adsit, Jim Belushi, Danny Breen, Frank Caeti, Larry Joe Campbell, Dan Castellaneta, Kevin Dorff, Robin Duke, Brian Gallivan, Martin Garcia, Ian Gomez, Peter Grosz, Mike Hagerty, Isabella Hoffman, Bruce Jarchow, Fred Kaz, Tim Kazurinsky, Keegan Michael Key, Richard Kind, Robert Klein, David Koechner,...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Photo by Mike-Chicago Next month, Second City alumni will converge on Chicago to help celebrate the comedy theater's 50th anniversary. In honor of the occasion, the theater will host three days of performances, panel discussions, and screenings on December 11-13 with big comedy names like Stephen Colbert, Alan Arkin, Martin Short, Harold Ramis, Jim Belushi, and Steve Carell. Tickets range in...
TV.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... good news I'm pretty sure. [ THR ] ...Hey you. Mouthbreather. Yeah, you who enjoyed According to Jim . Sigh. Your pastrami-sucking antihero, Jim Belushi , might just go and star in another TV series. Only this time it would be a drama , about lawyers. Which, OK, I understand. After something like forty-two seasons of According to Jim , people finally figured out that Jim Belushi isn't...
OfficeTally (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The list of alumni slated to return … currently includes … Scott Adsit, Jim Belushi, Danny Breen, Frank Caeti, Larry Joe Campbell, Steve Carell, Dan Castellaneta, Stephen Colbert, Kevin Dorff, Robin Duke, Brian Gallivan, Martin Garcia, Jeff Garlin, Ian Gomez, Peter Grosz, Mike Hagerty, Isabella Hoffman, Bruce Jarchow, Fred Kaz, Tim Kazurinsky, Keegan Michael Key, Richard Kind, Robert Klein,...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... long enough to accept someone cheating on George Clooney. [ Variety ] According to Council: Jim Belushi has teamed up with Diane English and Barry Levinson to shop a legal drama. The series would be based on the lawyer and TV commentator Mickey Sherman, played by Belushi. This shouldn't be too much a departure for Belushi, whose show According to Jim had the same number of...
No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Here’s some awesome news for all you comedy fans in Chicago: the new list of confirmed attendees for the 50th Anniversary festivities now includes fan favorites Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell! From the Chicago Tribune: Second City confirms Colbert, Carell, Belushi, Wendt, Dratch, Garlin, Vardalos, many others Second City is later today releasing the line-up for its [...]
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Second City confirms Colbert, Carell, Belushi, Wendt, Dratch, Garlin, Vardalos, many others |Second City is later today releasing the line-up for its big 50th-anniversary mainstage show at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. Entitled "The Second City Alumnae: For One Night Only," the show will be staged in both of Second City's theaters.Here's the latest line-up of names. It's quite a list:Scott Adsit,...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Chicago Tribune (MCT) -- Steve Martin understands that the path has been made difficult for movie stars who would moonlight as musicians. "I think I know the kind of thing you're talking about," he says. "What they really want to be is a rock star rather than a rock musician." He's too gracious to name names (Jim Belushi), but plenty a mediocre band has found itself thrust...
