Lauren Is In!
David Milligan
Lauren Graham replaces Maura Tierney in NBC's 'Parenthood'
October 9, 2009 | 1:33 pm
"Gilmore Girls" star Lauren Graham has been cast in NBC's mid-season
drama "Parenthood," a network representative confirmed today.
Graham will play divorced mom Sarah, a role originally played by
Maura Tierney in the pilot.
There is a four minute preview of the show but Maura is still in it.
Ron Howard is the exec producer so he was narrating it between clips of
various scenes.
"Those Are Strings, Pinocchio" aired on ABC Family today. Just one
of those episodes I can't not watch!
--
David E. Milligan
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Rob Jensen
<david...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/10/lauren-graham-replaces-maura-tierny-in-nbcs-parenthood.html
>
>Lauren Graham replaces Maura Tierney in NBC's 'Parenthood'
>October 9, 2009 | 1:33 pm
> "Gilmore Girls" star Lauren Graham has been cast in NBC's mid-season
>drama "Parenthood," a network representative confirmed today.
> Graham will play divorced mom Sarah, a role originally played by
>Maura Tierney in the pilot.
>
> There is a four minute preview of the show but Maura is still in it.
>Ron Howard is the exec producer so he was narrating it between clips of
>various scenes.
Clearly, they're gonna have to reshoot at the very least Tierney's
scenes from the pilot, if not the entire pilot. Since the NBC exec in
charge of Drama Development passed away suddenly on the set of the
pilot and Tierney has come down with cancer, I think they *need* to
reshoot the *entire* pilot just to be on the safe side. And
hopefully, they'll get a Priest, A Rabbi, (a bartender), a Methodist
Minister, a Buddhist Monk and a Native American Shaman to bless the
set before filming[1] 'cause that pilot sure is cursed.
I wish they'd make the REAL seriesl finale to Gilmore Girls before
Lauren joins the show. Just in case. (knock on formica)
-- Rob
[1] All accompanied by an agnostic who's just thrilled to be there and
an atheist who's bored out of his skull but has nevertheless come
along to make sure that there's nothing scientific going on.
David Milligan
"Rob Jensen" <Shut...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 22:20:06 -0400, "David Milligan"
> <david...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/10/lauren-graham-replaces-maura-tierny-in-nbcs-parenthood.html
>>
>>Lauren Graham replaces Maura Tierney in NBC's 'Parenthood'
>>October 9, 2009 | 1:33 pm
>> "Gilmore Girls" star Lauren Graham has been cast in NBC's
>> mid-season
>>drama "Parenthood," a network representative confirmed today.
>> Graham will play divorced mom Sarah, a role originally played by
>>Maura Tierney in the pilot.
>>
>> There is a four minute preview of the show but Maura is still in
>> it.
>>Ron Howard is the exec producer so he was narrating it between clips of
>>various scenes.
>
> Clearly, they're gonna have to reshoot at the very least Tierney's
> scenes from the pilot, if not the entire pilot. Since the NBC exec in
> charge of Drama Development passed away suddenly on the set of the
> pilot and Tierney has come down with cancer, I think they *need* to
> reshoot the *entire* pilot just to be on the safe side. And
> hopefully, they'll get a Priest, A Rabbi, (a bartender), a Methodist
> Minister, a Buddhist Monk and a Native American Shaman to bless the
> set before filming[1] 'cause that pilot sure is cursed.
>
> I wish they'd make the REAL seriesl finale to Gilmore Girls before
> Lauren joins the show. Just in case. (knock on formica)
>
Rob Jensen
<david...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>"Rob Jensen" <Shut...@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:85v2d5p9cum9g31oc...@4ax.com...
>> I wish they'd make the REAL seriesl finale to Gilmore Girls before
>> Lauren joins the show. Just in case. (knock on formica)
>>
> How would it end in the Robverse?
SInce I'm not holding back just two words, I'm just going to touch on
the things that I think *should* happen:
* SPECIAL NOTE: This would not be a two-hour movie. It'd be a
five-part/one-ish-hour-each miniseries strung across one week ala
Torchwood: Children of Earth.
* Lorelai and Luke getting married (too bad Grey's Anatomy already did
the Post-It Note thing). And it's got to be a shotgun wedding.
* Richard dying from heart failure -- but not before asking Emily to
learn how to have fun from Lorelai (and asking Lor to teach her). This
absolutely *has* to happen because Lorelai has gone through the death
of a parent, which is, after all, one of the final rites of passage --
if not THE final rite of passage -- to adulthood. Richard's ghost is
last seen waving to her, dignified and happy, from off the side of the
Chupa. Lorelai is not wearing a veil.
* Rory getting pregnant and freaking out about her feelings of being
totally unprepared for it -- *while* being *in* a happy relationship
with someone (Logan, most likely).
* Lorelai ends up with custody of Gigi. I won't say under what
circumstances. I have had it plotted out for a while. Maybe after
another five years.
Since these first four points would collectively be the major
plotlines of the entire miniseries and would play off each other *and*
past episodes (especially Dear Emily & Richard), I'm not going to give
away the circumstances of Lorelai and Luke adopting Gigi. Other than
to say that Christopher wouldn't be dead.
Miscellaneous details and C-plots:
* SPECIAL NOTE #2: You probably noticed that some of these fates
above and below are a little neat even when they aren't necessarily
cute. That's because I'm hewing to the show's occasional references
to Shakespeare and slightly overdoing the neatness of the
romantic-comedy aspects of the ending ala As You Like It and Twelfth
Night and juxtaposing them against a bittersweetness ala Love's
Labour's Lost and A Winter's Tale. Some might mistake these points
for fan-fic-ness, but IMO, you've got to factor in that Gg always
underplays its plot points -- these would *have* to be as underplayed
as the rest of the series.
* Lane and Zach have another pair of twins on the way.
* Paris and Doyle get married. Doyle becomes a writer (read:
stay-at-home-dad.)
* Kirk marries Lulu and Rory sets Brian up with Madeline. Babette,
hilariously tactless (but not in the least bit homophobic) as always,
is amazed that Brian isn't gay. Quoth Madeline (Lulu nodding in
agreement), "Geeks want it more."
* Michel and Tobin move to Vermont because Michel needs a respite from
Gilmore drama. Michel becomes the concierge for a small Inn plagued
by three wacky brothers -- two with the same name -- who may or may
not be the result of in-breeding and who, much to Michel's chagrin,
collectively remind him of Kirk.
Slightly more absurdly than that last one (and Brian hooking up with
Madeline):
* Babette and Morey get visited by her now-50-year-old biological
daughter, who she gave up for adoption when she was 16. Lorelai
replies, "Wow, you had Rory and April all rolled into one? How did I
not know this?" and Babette replies, "Nobody knew. My Jewish half
compartmentalized my emotions and my Catholic half repressed her
existence. Does that sound too much like a retcon?" (Nevermind
wondering where Babette heard the term Retcon -- just go with it.)
Kirk, overhearing, replies, "YES! And I say that having endured the
trauma of DC Comics rebooting its multiverse at least four times in
the past twenty-three years!"
-- Rob
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> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:12:37 -0400, "David Milligan"
> <david...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Rob Jensen" <Shut...@aol.com> wrote in message
> >news:85v2d5p9cum9g31oc...@4ax.com...
>
> >> I wish they'd make the REAL seriesl finale to Gilmore Girls before
> >> Lauren joins the show. Just in case. (knock on formica)
> >>
> > How would it end in the Robverse?
>
> SInce I'm not holding back just two words, I'm just going to touch on
> the things that I think *should* happen:
>
> * SPECIAL NOTE: This would not be a two-hour movie. It'd be a
> five-part/one-ish-hour-each miniseries strung across one week ala
> Torchwood: Children of Earth.
>
<snip>
Thank goodness they don't allow silly fan-fiction to become real storylines
... although, wading through the mess called Smallville often makes you
wonder. :-\