Do you remember The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd? Recently, star Blair Brown spoke with Deadline about the NBC/Lifetime TV show.The comedy-drama starred Brown as Molly Dodd, a divorced woman living in New York City. The show ran for two seasons on NBC between 1987 and 1988 before moving to Lifetime for another three seasons.Read More…...
- 12/21/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Wasteland:
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs;
and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
When people argue over the quality of television programming, both sides — it’s addictive crap v. underappreciated populist art — seem to forget one of the essentials about commercial TV. By definition, it is not a public service. It is not commercial TV’s job to enlighten, inform, educate, elevate, inspire, or offer insight. Frankly, it’s not even commercial TV’s job to entertain. Bottom line: its purpose is simply to deliver as many sets of eyes to advertisers as possible. As it happens, it tends to do this by offering various forms of entertainment, and occasionally by offering content that does enlighten, inform, etc., but a cynic would make the point that if TV could do the same job televising fish aimlessly swimming around an aquarium,...
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs;
and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
When people argue over the quality of television programming, both sides — it’s addictive crap v. underappreciated populist art — seem to forget one of the essentials about commercial TV. By definition, it is not a public service. It is not commercial TV’s job to enlighten, inform, educate, elevate, inspire, or offer insight. Frankly, it’s not even commercial TV’s job to entertain. Bottom line: its purpose is simply to deliver as many sets of eyes to advertisers as possible. As it happens, it tends to do this by offering various forms of entertainment, and occasionally by offering content that does enlighten, inform, etc., but a cynic would make the point that if TV could do the same job televising fish aimlessly swimming around an aquarium,...
- 7/22/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Blair Brown, before starting work on her fifth and final season as Fringe‘s Nina Sharp, will visit the Political Animals at the heart of USA Network’s highly anticipated summer drama series.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Brown will play Barbara Berg, the mother of Carla Gugino’s intrepid journalist who is out to get the scoop on First Lady turned Secretary of State Elaine Barrish (played by Sigourney Weaver).
A five-time Emmy nominee during her run as TV’s Molly Dodd, Brown is set to appear in the fifth of Political Animals‘ six episodes, which premiere Sunday, July 15 at 10/9c.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Brown will play Barbara Berg, the mother of Carla Gugino’s intrepid journalist who is out to get the scoop on First Lady turned Secretary of State Elaine Barrish (played by Sigourney Weaver).
A five-time Emmy nominee during her run as TV’s Molly Dodd, Brown is set to appear in the fifth of Political Animals‘ six episodes, which premiere Sunday, July 15 at 10/9c.
- 6/21/2012
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Mixing Comedy & Soap: A History of the Serialized Situation Comedy
By Doug Prinzivalli
As one of the producers of the hit web series Pretty - a parody hybrid of reality TV and soaps - I thought it would be a fun idea to take a brief look at the long history of the serialized situation comedy. The idea of mixing comedy with soap elements is not a new one - in fact it started over 60 years ago.
The First Hundred Years (CBS 1950-52) was a mildly humorous daily soap about newlyweds who are gifted with a bat-infested Victorian mansion. Sounds pretty wacky to me. After less than two years, it was replaced by something called The Guiding Light.
The Egg & I (CBS 1951-52) Based on a book by Betty MacDonald and the 1947 film (starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray) that followed, this show followed the misadventures of city folk...
By Doug Prinzivalli
As one of the producers of the hit web series Pretty - a parody hybrid of reality TV and soaps - I thought it would be a fun idea to take a brief look at the long history of the serialized situation comedy. The idea of mixing comedy with soap elements is not a new one - in fact it started over 60 years ago.
The First Hundred Years (CBS 1950-52) was a mildly humorous daily soap about newlyweds who are gifted with a bat-infested Victorian mansion. Sounds pretty wacky to me. After less than two years, it was replaced by something called The Guiding Light.
The Egg & I (CBS 1951-52) Based on a book by Betty MacDonald and the 1947 film (starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray) that followed, this show followed the misadventures of city folk...
- 12/2/2010
- by Guest Editorial
- We Love Soaps
It's always interesting when you've been hearing about a series for years and then finally sit down to watch it. All the little pieces and pop references of Ally McBeal are starting to come together, like Fishisms, The Biscuit, dancing babies and Vonda Shepard. I have seen the light. Well, at least season one of the light.
I mentioned in my preview last week that Ally McBeal seems like a mix of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and My World and Welcome To It. Having reached the end of season one, I still feel that way, with maybe a little Buffy the Vampire Slayer thrown in (hey, don't throw things at me, Ally looks like Buffy).
Molly Dodd because Ally is funny, desperate, strong and cute. My World because of all her fantasies, though not always in cartoon form as was the case with John Monroe / James Thurber.
I mentioned in my preview last week that Ally McBeal seems like a mix of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and My World and Welcome To It. Having reached the end of season one, I still feel that way, with maybe a little Buffy the Vampire Slayer thrown in (hey, don't throw things at me, Ally looks like Buffy).
Molly Dodd because Ally is funny, desperate, strong and cute. My World because of all her fantasies, though not always in cartoon form as was the case with John Monroe / James Thurber.
- 10/25/2009
- by Jane Boursaw
- Aol TV.
Blair Brown has had an illustrious career from the outset, working steadily on stage, screen, and television. She won a Tony Award in 2000 for her multilayered performance as the wife of physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and has been featured in 78 films and TV series. But she is most widely known as John Belushi's love interest in Continental Divide and the quirky title character in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, a dramedy that enjoyed a cult following from 1987 to 1991. Now tackling Nina Sharp—an ambivalent figure in Fox's Fringe -- a sci-fi thriller along the lines of The X-Files -- Brown is clearly enjoying herself. "She has the possibility of being anything," Brown says cryptically, not willing to discuss whether her onscreen alter ego, the executive director of Massive Dynamic, is good, evil, or both. "The challenge is that the writing is so dense and so good.
- 4/14/2009
- by Simi Horwitz
- backstage.com
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