Century City -- it's a lawyer show, set in the 2030... is the American Audience ready to tune in?
David Paymer ("Alex and Emma") Guest Stars
Nestor Carbonell ("Suddenly Susan"), Viola Davis ("Antwone Fisher"), Emmy award-winner Hector Elizondo ("Chicago Hope"), Ioan Gruffudd ("Horatio Hornblower"), Kristin Lehman ("Judging Amy") and Eric Schaeffer ("One Night at McCool's") star in CENTURY CITY, a new drama series set in the year 2030 where the lawyers find that the laws change but that people remain the same. The series, from Academy Award-nominee Paul Attanasio ("Donnie Brasco," "Homicide: Life on the Streets"), Katie Jacobs ("Gideon’s Crossing") and Emmy Award-winner Ed Zuckerman ("Law & Order," "The Agency"), premieres Tuesday, March 16 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. "

Michael Lehmann directed from a script by one of the series’ executive producers, Ed Zuckerman. David Paymer ("Alex and Emma") guest stars as Miller Sisto, the father of a boy in need of a liver transplant.

Heading the firm of Crane, Constable, McNeil and Montero are Marty Constable (Elizondo), who shares his insights and wisdom from the "old days," and Hannah Crane, (Davis) a strong, assertive woman who is determined to make the practice a success. Joining them is hotshot partner Darwin McNeil, (Schaeffer), who is trying to make his mark in the legal world; earnest, self-critical Lukas Gold (Gruffudd), a lawyer focused on fighting cases that matter; new partner Tom Montero (Carbonell), a handsome, charismatic former congressman who hasn’t left his politics behind, and the beautiful, genetically re-engineered first-year attorney Lee May Bristol (Lehman). In a time when judges can go before lawyers as holograms, the firm finds themselves in uncharted legal territory and their cases provide an eye-opening look into issues confronting society in the not-so-distant future.

In the premiere episode, 7-year-old Alex Sisto, who was born with a defective liver, needs a transplant within a year or he will die. His father, Miller Sisto (Paymer), wants the right to use the boy’s genetic embryo clone to develop a baby who could donate a portion of his liver to save Alex. The problem is that in the year 2030, the father has committed a crime by bringing a genetic clone into the United States and the government has seized it. The firm also takes on the case of a boy band that is suing its lead singer for not adhering to his contract to keep up his physical appearance.

Another episode airs March 20.

posted by Kay Thursday, March 04, 2004

 

Firefly the Movie!
According to Empire Online out of the UK the Firefly movie, to be titled Serenity, has finally gotten the green light to go into production.

We can think of no better words than the ones the folks at Empire Online used so to quote another fine publication:

"Whedon's show took the quite unusual concept of basing a Western in space, complete with old fashioned firearms, long johns, and the odd cry of 'howdy', all set aboard an intergalactic smuggling vessel - think the Millennium Falcon but with a hold full of cattle.

Serenity is the name of the ship, commanded by Captain Malcolm Reynolds and playing host to a number of curious crewmen including psychopathic ex-mercenary Jayne, a companion (read: prostitute) called Inara, a fugitive doctor and his mentally deranged sister and a priest with a mysterious past. Rattling around the cosmos in a ship that looks more like a space-bound turkey than a firefly, the crew managed to put together a mighty fine show, until the powers that be pulled the plug."

In related news, fans of the series can bring home a copy to watch whenever they like, as the entire run of the show, plus two unaired episodes, have been released on DVD.

posted by Kay Thursday, March 04, 2004

 
March 23 Hercules Season 3 hits stores on DVD.

Join the Street Team now for your chance to win Season 3 on DVD.

posted by Kay Monday, March 01, 2004