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09-03-2005, 09:30 PM
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| .   |  My local grocery store doesn't carry EW. It's funny that Love's old co-star Matthew Fox is on the cover and part of a very successful first season with Lost. His last series called Haunted flopped after about five episodes. It was actually pretty good but Haunted aired in the same time-slot as Angel, it didn't have a chance. Now he suffers living and taping episodes of Lost in Hawaii. [ September 03, 2005, 09:03 PM: Message edited by: i love love ] |
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09-04-2005, 09:19 PM
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| Thanks for the info, I'll have to check it out. I found this on their site. I'm guessing this is what is in the mag. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. GHOST WHISPERER from: ew.com NEW SHOW (CBS) 8-9 PM Debuts Sept. 23 Jennifer Love Hewitt thought she'd be doing a different show this season. She'd come up with the idea of playing a TV sports reporter, and had been developing the sitcom In the Game at ABC for nearly a year. The pilot was shot, retooled and recast, shot again...and then killed by the suits at ABC. ''Within four days of that show not going, I got the Ghost Whisperer script,'' says Hewitt, who was last seen on series TV in 1999's short-lived Party of Five spin-off, Time of Your Life. ''My agents saw me start to cry [when Game was canceled], and they said, 'Oh my God, we have to find something great,' and this happened to be there. It was meant to be.'' What a mystical turn of events: The death of her sitcom brought Hewitt to a drama about communicating with...the dead! (All together now: Ooooohhhhh!) The 26-year-old actress plays the titular whisperer, Melinda Gordon, a small-town, newly married medium who helps stagnated spirits complete their unfinished earthbound business so they can be alley-ooped into the proverbial light. But is crediting the show's appearance in her life to a spiritual force an eerie coincidence — other-worldly powers lead actress to a supernatural role! — or a practical decision? ''I've read horoscopes and watched ghost movies and heard stories of people being haunted, but I had never really put too much thought into [ghosts] before,'' she says. ''My mind is much more open to it now, but it kind of has to be…to convince other people and tons of skeptics to believe in it every Friday night.'' (All together now: Oh.) The idea for Ghost Whisperer came from a man who knows from spirits, famed medium James Van Praagh. His 2002 autobiographical CBS miniseries, Living With the Dead, haunted 17 million viewers, and he based the story of Melinda on the talents of ''ghostbuster'' Mary Ann Winkowski, whom he met on his short-lived syndicated show Beyond. (Winkowski serves as a consultant on Whisperer.) CBS paired Van Praagh with writer and executive producer John Gray (Martin and Lewis), and the two fleshed out the pilot, making Hewitt's character an antiques shop owner, and giving her a best friend with a secretive past (24's Aisha Tyler) and a husband (Miss Match's David Conrad) who, ironically, works as a paramedic. ''He's committed to keeping people on this side of the lifeline, her gift is keeping them on the other side,'' says Conrad. ''He has a weird fascination with what she does, but there's also a [feeling of] 'Nuh-huh, not this one.''' Every week Melinda will be approached by a new ghost, and she'll have to uncover what they need. Gray says that the stories will vary widely in tone, from spooky (a dead serial killer tries to off one last victim) to darkly humorous (an old, recently deceased boyfriend of Melinda's returns to win her back) to weepy (a fallen Vietnam veteran is desperate to find the grown son he never met). Come to think of it, they're all kind of sad: These are dead and grieving people we're talking about here. ''You'll cry every week,'' says Hewitt, ''because it's a drama, and that's our job.'' —Josh Wolk |
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