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Alex O’Loughlin is in the House

Cynthia — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:40:42 +0000

Not in my house, but in the CBS TV.com house! He’s typing away, answering questions from the fans. Moonlight may be gone but the Alex fandom lives on!

Follow the CBS Twitter for more on Alex and his new show Three Rivers.

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When Jericho and Moonlight Meet

Cynthia — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:39:51 +0000

Scifi fans know Carol Barbee as the executive producer and a writer on the cult favorite series Jericho. But these days, she’s making the Moonlight fans happy because she cast Alex O’Loughlin to star in her new medical drama, Three Rivers.

I met up with Carol at a recent press screening of her new show and here’s what she had to say about casting everyone’s favorite vampire as a top transplant surgeon.

“Alex had a holding deal for CBS and I was under contract to CBS. He met with lots of people, we met with lots of people. He want to do [Three Rivers] and we wanted to have him. I wasn’t at all nervous [about casting him]. I felt very lucky that they steered him our way and second of all that he wanted to do it. He’s a really fine actor and he’s so dedicated and he’s a really nice guy and . . . okay. . .he’s cute,” she admits. “He’s a great lead. I feel very luck, usually there’s a nightmare quotient to a person like that and it’s just not there with him.”

As far as their recent ties to the scifi community go, Carol Barbee had to laugh. “Alex and I said that because of his fan base and the Jericho fan base, Three Rivers is the first medical drama that should premiere at Comic Con!”

Maybe next year, Carol, if Three Rivers gets picked up for a second season. Three Rivers premieres on October 4 on CBS.

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Alex O’Loughlin at TCA’s

Cynthia — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:58:48 +0000

Alex O’Loughlin and his fellow cast members chat with the members of the Television Critics Association about their new CBS series Three Rivers at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA on Friday, July 31, 2009.

Idents: l-r, Justina Machado, Daniel Henney, Kate Moennig, Alex O’Loughlin, Carol Barbee, Executive Producer/Creator, Alfre Woodard and Christopher J. Hanke Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This photo is provided for use in conjunction with the CBS Summer 2009 Press Tour.

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New Alex O’Loughlin Pics

Cynthia — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:12:23 +0000

Check out this terrific new photo of Moonlight’s Alex O’Loughlin. This one and the cast shot after the cut are from his new series Three Rivers which debuts on CBS this fall. (Photo: GEORGE HOLZ/CBS)

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Galactica, Dark Knight Win Big at Saturn Awards

Cynthia — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:27:45 +0000

Last night, luminaries from the world of sci fi and horror were honored at the 35th Annual Saturn Awards. The awards are given out by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for work in film, TV and on DVD. This years winners will join an illustrious list of former honorees including Vincent Price, Rod Serling, Dan Curtis, Ray Bradbury, Gene Roddenberry, Robert Wise and Lon Chaney Jr. just to name a few.

The Dark Knight was the evening’s biggest winner, taking home five awards including Best Action Film, Best Writing, Music, Special Effects and Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger.

On the television side, it was Battlestar Galactica that took home the most awards winning Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series, Best Actor on Television: Edward James Olmos, and Best Actress on Television: Mary McDonnell. Lost received the Saturn Award for Best Network Series, beating out Supernatural, Fringe, Heroes, Life on Mars, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Battlestar was up against an odd mix of shows for Best Syndicated / Cable including The Closer, Dexter, Leverage and more predictable, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and True Blood.

Moonlight took the award for the best modern DVD with Invaders winning for retro DVD.

Several special awards were presented throughout the evening, Lance Henriksen took the Life Career Award, Jeffrey Katzenberg received the Visionary Award and Leonard Nimoy was handed the Lifetime Achievement Award.

You’ll find a full list of winners after the jump. You can find the list of nominees here at the Saturn Awards Website.

Photos by Newscom

THE WINNERS OF THE 35^TH ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS

Best Science Fiction Film: Iron Man

Best Fantasy Film: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Horror Film: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film: The Dark Knight

Best Actor: Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man)

Best Actress: Angelina Jolie (Changeling)

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Performance by a Younger Actor: Jaden Christopher Smith (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Best Director: Jon Favreau (Iron Man)

Best Writer: Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight)

Best Music: Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight)

Best Costume: Mary Zophres (Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

Best Make-Up: Greg Cannom (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Special Effects: Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, Paul J. Franklin (The Dark Knight)

Best International Film: Let the Right One In

Best Animated Film: Wall-E

Best Television Series: Lost

Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series: Battlestar Galactica

Best Presentation on Television: The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice

Best Actor on Television: Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica)

Best Actress on Television: Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica)

Best Supporting Actor on Television: Adrian Pasdar (Heroes)

Best S upporting Actress on Televison: Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter)

Guest Starring Role on Television: Jimmy Smits (Dexter)

Best DVD Release: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer

Best DVD Special Edition Release: Stephen King’s The Mist (2 disc Special Edition)

Best DVD Classic Film Release: Psycho (Universal Legacy Series)

Best DVD Collection: The Godfather-The Coppola Restoration

Best Series on DVD: Moonlight

Best Retro Series on DVD: The Invaders

The Life Career Award: Lance Henriksen

The Lifetime Achievement Award: Leonard Nimoy

The Visionary Award: Jeffrey Katzenberg

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CBS Announces Premiere Dates

Cynthia — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:55:40 +0000

CBS doesn’t have much in the way of genre shows this year, but they did pick up Medium when NBC let it go. In what seems like a strange bit of scheduling, they lined Medium up with Ghost Whisperer on Friday nights. Aren’t those two a bit similar to run back to back like that?

The new Friday lineup begins on September 25.

For you Alex O’Loughlin fans, you’ll have to wait until October 4 before seeing him in his new series Three Rivers. That will make it one of the last new shows to debut in the fall which I suppose, could work in its favor. It’s up against Desperate Housewives, Family Guy and Football. What do you make of that?

“The Book of Changes” — Surrounded by her loved ones (background, left to right: Jamie Kennedy, David Conrad, Camryn Manheim), Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt, foreground) worries for her unborn child when she experiences a visit from a ghost. Photo: Eric McCandless/ABC Studios ©2009 ABC Studios. All Rights Reserved.

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Alex O’Loughlin Three Rivers Pics

Cynthia — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:07:58 +0000

CBS has picked up a medical drama starring our favorite Moonlight man Alex O’Loughlin. Three Rivers deals with a transplant hospital and with that the emotionally complex issues of organ donation.

Here’s how CBS describes it:

Alex O’Loughlin stars as Dr. Andy Yablonski, a highly-skilled workaholic lead organ transplant surgeon whose affable personality and sarcastic wit makes him popular with his patients and colleagues, and Katherine Moennig portrays Miranda Foster, a surgical fellow with a rebellious streak and fiery temper who strives to live up to her deceased father’s excellent surgical reputation.

I’m not a big fan of medical dramas but for Alex, I’ll be tuning in.

Three Rivers will premiere this Fall, Sundays (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

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CSI Casts Sci Fi Faves

Cynthia — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:06:08 +0000

Here’s a quick look at some of your sci fi faves who will be guest starring on the various CSI incarnations in the coming weeks.

On April 27, Moonlight’s Jordan Belfi (also of Ten Inch Hero for you Jensen Ackles fans) will guest on CSI Miami in “Dead on Arrival.” The episode also includes Adrianne Palicki, aka Jess from Supernatural.

Smallville and Stargate Universe’s Alaina Huffman will co-star with Friday the 13th’s Derek Mears in a rerun of “Raging Cannibal” on CSI Miami on April 20.

Battlestar Galactica’s Kate Vernon guests on the April 16th episode of classic CSI titled “A Space Oddity.” Based a sci fi convention, the episode also stars Jaime Ray Newman from Supernatural and Stargate Atlantis. (Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2009 CBS BROADCASTING INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)

E.T’s Henry Thomas guests on regular CSI on April 23 in “If I Had a Hammer.”

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Alex O’Loughlin on Criminal Minds

Cynthia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:37:25 +0000

Check out these photos of Moonlight’s Alex O’Loughlin from his up-coming guest appearance on Criminal Minds. I hardly recognized him!

Alex guests as a serial killer who sends a videotape of one of his crimes to the BAU team in an effort to stop his own crime spree. The episode is scheduled for Wednesday, April 29 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.

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Brian Austin Green Goes into Politics

Cynthia — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:34:24 +0000

Zap2it is reporting that Brian Austin Green has joined the cast of the CW pilot, Body Politic playing a character named Lucky.

The series is Gossip Girl in Washington DC with young government staffers taking the place of bored, rich high-schoolers.

The cast also includes former Moonlight star Jason Dohring, Minka Kelly of Friday Night Lights, Tim Matheson and Gabrielle Union.

Nice cast but it begs the question — does this mean there are no more Terminators in Green’s future?

Word is Body Politic is simply a fallback should Sarah Connor be given the old heave ho. If Connor is picked up for a new season, Politic will likely have to look for a new Lucky.

Credit: Scott Kirkland/INFEvents.com

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