Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'desperatehousewives'
October 21, 2007
A look at some of this week's noteworthy television: Desperate Housewives (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., WABC 7) A homosexual male couple moves into Wisteria Lane and wackiness ensues. Masterpiece Theatre: The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., WNET 13) In this 6 part series, Jane Horrocks plays a British supermarket manager who is dissatisfied with the political hacks who are gunning to be Prime Minister and decides to mount her own campaign. BBC 1 aired it......
Continue Reading "Noteworthy Television This Week: Mix of Good and Bad"January 15, 2007
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association voting pool for the Golden Globes only consists of 83 members, but every year their mainstream tastes become one of the potential early prognosticators for the Emmys and the Oscars. Over in Beverly Hills today, the stylists are putting the finishing touches on the stars' couture, that long red carpet is being laid and some assistant is double checking the seals on the envelopes. Here in New York of course,......
Continue Reading "A Few Predictions For Tonight's Golden Globe Awards"December 9, 2006
Earlier this week, we reported on the 92nd Street Y event where New York magazine co-founder Milton Glaser attributed the low number of high-profile female designers to the fact that women who have children and stay at home with them are less visible professionally. First, some clarification (for The NY Times’ Tom Zeller, Jr. ): the comment came during the Q&A session following lectures by Glaser, Chip Kidd and Dave Eggers. An audience member asked......
Continue Reading "The Glaser Conundrum, Continued"November 4, 2006
WNBC has the only known video of September 11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui; it's taken as he is being transferred to to his maximum security prison in Colorado A man was killed under an E train around 34th Street The City still won't look for World Trade Center remains in the debris that was sent to Fresh Kills A mistrial was ordered in a Colombo mob trial -- the jurors were deadlocked and three of......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"May 22, 2006
Do you want your dog to be the envy of all the other dogs in the dog park? Well then, you might want to consider taking the next few days to groom that pup of yours, because this Thursday there's a canine casting call. Magic, the Old Navy mascot, has retired...and his replacement is needed. Casting agents will descend on Union Square Park to find a brand new Magic. The event supports New York Humane......
Continue Reading "Canine Casting Call in Union Square"May 20, 2006
Gothamist cannot shy away from admitting we're fans of General Hospital. We just can't. It's a great, rerun-free, low-rent amalgam of ER, the Sopranos and Desperate Housewives (though much older than any of those shows). However, it seems we're sitting down an hour too late. Anyone who's anyone is getting on board with ABC's earlier soap, One Life to Live. A daytime staple since 1968, OLTL is filmed right here in NYC and has launched......
Continue Reading "One Life to Live...Well, Unless You Can Come Back From the Dead"March 5, 2006
It's Oscar Night and Gothamist is here. Tonight, it'll be a joint effort, from our resident film guru Karen Wilson and our resident Oscar freak Jen Chung. We hope you weigh in with what you think! KW: I have my popcorn, my diet coke -- I am ready for the spectacle and the excess. JC: ALL RIGHT! I just took extra Vitamin C - I'm waiting for some food delivery. 6:36PM Isaac Mizrahi has NOT......
Continue Reading "Liveblogging the Academy Awards 2006"January 16, 2006
Gothamist was a bit underwhelmed by this year's Golden Globe nominees, and we were thinking of not liveblogging. But, gosh darn it as we watched the E! preshow and saw the starlets sparkle their way down the red carpet, we realize it was hopeless, so here we are. Let it be known that: - Keira Knightley looks gorgeous in her white Valentino - and there's something surprisingly youthful about the dress, even though there's that......
Continue Reading "Blogging the Golden Globes 2006"December 31, 2005
We have a confession to make. We really, really love trash TV. We're not talking run-of-the-mill trash like Desperate Housewives (watched the first season, stopped caring) or syndicated trash like the Tyra Banks Show (uhm... won't turn it off if it comes on). No, we're talking about the kind of trash that you have to work to find and watch. We're the kind of people who have gone out of our way to watch every......
Continue Reading "Pasadena: The Best Canceled Show You've Never Seen"December 1, 2005
There's only one major wide release this weekend, and although it stars an Oscar winner, we can pretty much guarantee Paramount isn't expecting any year-end kudos for Aeon Flux. In fact, it looks like the studio is hoping to slyly score a big opening weekend on the draws of Charlize Theron in skintight rubber and fans of the old MTV animated series because they aren't letting critics anywhere near it -- apparently no press screenings......
Continue Reading "Weekend Movies: Tony Leung, the Maysles and a Transgendered weekend on lower 6th Ave."September 18, 2005
Good lord. It's not even five minutes into the Emmys and Gothamist (and friends Aaron Dobbs of out of focus and a Gothamist contributor, and Margaret Lyons, formerly of Chicagoist) is very very frightened. There is no reason why Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas should force Doris Roberts to dance with them. Doris needs to get the AARP to fight the fight with her. Welcome to Gothamist's attempt to liveblog the Emmys, until the......
Continue Reading "Emmys Coverage, 2005: Worst NIght Ever"September 15, 2005

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July 14, 2005
Desperate Housewives and Will & Grace both received 15 Emmy nominations today, proving that like every other awards organization, Gothamist just doesn't jibe with the voters. Sure, we're happy that Arrested Development, Scrubs, and Lost got some recognition. But there is no love for programs we'll actually stay at home to watch: Veronica Mars, Nip/Tuck, Gilmore Girls. Even The O.C., which faltered last season - you have to give Peter Gallagher some credit. And why......
Continue Reading "Emmy Nominations...So Very Boring"May 18, 2005
The NY Post reports that Cody Kasch, who plays Zach Young on Desperate Housewives, was arrested for smoking pot on the corner of First Street and Second Avenue. Plainsclothes narcotics officers issued him a desk appearance ticket, but Gothamist feels bad for Kasch. His mother shot herself, his father is a murderer and possible sociopath, he was wrenched from his biological druggie mother's arms, and he has rage problems. Oh, wait, that's Zach Young, his......
Continue Reading "Desperate for a Celebrity Pot Bust"January 19, 2005
When we read that CBS is working on a pilot about men who commute into the city and their wives, Gothamist had to laugh. The script, called "Commuters," is "about the lives of three couples in the New York suburbs whose husbands commute to the city every day." It's described as being a "black dramedy," so clearly CBS is hoping for some Desperate Housewives mojo (it was probably pitched as "A better The Mind of......
Continue Reading "Commuters Are Hot, Apparently"January 14, 2005
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards their 62nd annual Golden Globes this Sunday, a sure sign that the season of gowns, the buzz and the surprise upset is upon us. Unlike the Oscars though, the Golden Globes covers television and film, so we get to see the disjointed mingling of the stars on the red carpet from both genres. Speaking of the red carpet, this year look out for the gossip and designer name dropping......
Continue Reading "Golden Globe Awards On This Weekend"December 20, 2004
What we would give to see Bernard Kerik's email inbox. The local media has been reporting that emails from his tenure as head of corrections show that he gave some advance information about city construction jobs to firms - firms with mob ties. Don't people know that if they are doing anything illegal, it must take place on with hushed whispers, blinking, and a book of matches to burn the evidence? It's like on Desperate......
Continue Reading "Emails May Sink Kerik Further"December 13, 2004
Ah, along with the impending cold front, holiday sales, and smell of pine (from the tree sellers on the corner), Gothamist is enjoying the rites of winter with today's announcement of the Golden Globe nominations. The Golden Globes, best known as the boozy, somewhat suspect, but first awards ceremony of the year, picking rollicking wine-n-buddy movie, Sideways to lead the film contenders, with 7 nominations in the Best Comedy/Musical category; Closer and Million Dollar Baby......
Continue Reading "Golden Globe Nominations Announced"
