ABC’s “Thirtysomething” sequel series, “Thirtysomething(else),” has added two more original cast members.
Melanie Mayron and Polly Draper will return to star in the pilot, reprising their roles as Melissa Steadman and Ellyn Warren, and will have recurring arcs should the project go to series.
They join other original cast-members Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield and Patricia Wettig. New cast includes Auden Thornton and Chris Wood.
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“Apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?” reads the sequel’s description from ABC.
“Thirtysomething” originally ran from 1987-1991 for four seasons and a total of 85 hourlong episodes, earning 13 Emmy Awards out of 41 nominations, including Best Drama. It also won two Golden Globes.
The drama series highlighted a tight-knit group of baby boomers living in Philadelphia,...
Melanie Mayron and Polly Draper will return to star in the pilot, reprising their roles as Melissa Steadman and Ellyn Warren, and will have recurring arcs should the project go to series.
They join other original cast-members Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield and Patricia Wettig. New cast includes Auden Thornton and Chris Wood.
Also Read: 'The Conners' Stays Steady With Last Week's Live Episode in Key Demo Ratings
“Apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?” reads the sequel’s description from ABC.
“Thirtysomething” originally ran from 1987-1991 for four seasons and a total of 85 hourlong episodes, earning 13 Emmy Awards out of 41 nominations, including Best Drama. It also won two Golden Globes.
The drama series highlighted a tight-knit group of baby boomers living in Philadelphia,...
- 2/20/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Chris Wood has been cast as the star of ABC’s “Thirtysomething(else)” pilot, the sequel to the network’s 1987 series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.
Wood will play the son of Hope and Michael in the new show, which follows a new cast of actors playing the 30-something-year-old children of the original cast. Returning original cast members include Ken Olin (Michael Steadman), Mel Harris (Hope Murdoch), Timothy Busfield (Elliot Weston) and Patty Wettig (Nancy Weston) returning.
Wood is the first new cast member to be announced.
Also Read: 'Thirtysomething' Sequel Series From Creators Marshall Herskovitz, Ed Zwick in the Works at MGM TV
“Apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?” reads the sequel’s description from ABC.
“thirtysomething” originally ran from 1987-1991 for four seasons and a total of 85 hourlong episodes,...
Wood will play the son of Hope and Michael in the new show, which follows a new cast of actors playing the 30-something-year-old children of the original cast. Returning original cast members include Ken Olin (Michael Steadman), Mel Harris (Hope Murdoch), Timothy Busfield (Elliot Weston) and Patty Wettig (Nancy Weston) returning.
Wood is the first new cast member to be announced.
Also Read: 'Thirtysomething' Sequel Series From Creators Marshall Herskovitz, Ed Zwick in the Works at MGM TV
“Apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?” reads the sequel’s description from ABC.
“thirtysomething” originally ran from 1987-1991 for four seasons and a total of 85 hourlong episodes,...
- 2/7/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
ABC has picked up “thirysomething(else)” to pilot, the sequel to the network’s “thirtysomething” series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.
The new show will follow an new cast of actors playing the 30-something year-old children of the original cast, with Ken Olin (Michael Steadman), Mel Harris (Hope Murdoch), Timothy Busfield (Elliot Weston) and Patty Wettig (Nancy Weston) returning.
The new cast has yet to be announced.
“Apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?” according to ABC’s description.
“thirtysomething” originally ran from 1987-1991 for four seasons and a total of 85 hourlong episodes, and earned 13 Emmy Awards out of 41 nominations, including Best Drama. It also won two Golden Globes.
The new show will follow an new cast of actors playing the 30-something year-old children of the original cast, with Ken Olin (Michael Steadman), Mel Harris (Hope Murdoch), Timothy Busfield (Elliot Weston) and Patty Wettig (Nancy Weston) returning.
The new cast has yet to be announced.
“Apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?” according to ABC’s description.
“thirtysomething” originally ran from 1987-1991 for four seasons and a total of 85 hourlong episodes, and earned 13 Emmy Awards out of 41 nominations, including Best Drama. It also won two Golden Globes.
- 1/8/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Patricia Cronin's work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Venice Biennale; Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini Museo; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University; Brooklyn Museum; and the American Academy in Rome Art Gallery. Her work has been included in group shows NYC 1993: Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum; Watch Your Step, Flag Art Foundation; and Sh(out): Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland. Cronin is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and two Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants. She has also received support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and Anonymous Was A Woman. Cronin's works are in numerous collections including National Gallery of Art, Washington; Perez Art Museum Miami; and the Gallery of Modern Art and Kelvingrove Art Galleries and Museum in Glasgow. She is the author...
- 10/14/2015
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Next month, the Wexner Center for the Arts will present the world premiere of the theater is a blank page, an immersive performance created by renowned visual artist Ann Hamilton and theater innovators Siti Company. The production, the first full collaboration between the artists, was created through a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award and is a signature moment of the Wexner Center's 25th Anniversary Season.
- 4/23/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Next month, the Wexner Center for the Arts will present the world premiere of the theater is a blank page, an immersive performance created by renowned visual artist Ann Hamilton and theater innovators Siti Company. The production, the first full collaboration between the artists, was created through a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award and is a signature moment of the Wexner Center's 25th Anniversary Season.
- 3/26/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Los Angeles — Albert Freeman Jr., the veteran actor who played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's epic film, "Malcolm X," has died. He was 78.
Howard University in Washington, D.C., confirmed his death Friday night but details weren't immediately available. Freeman taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department.
"He was a brilliant professor, a renowned actor and a master director who made his mark in the classroom as well as on stage, screen and television. ... He has mentored and taught scores of outstanding actors. He was a resounding voice of Howard and will be missed," university spokeswoman Kerry-Ann Hamilton said in a statement.
Freeman earned an NAACP Image Award for playing Malcolm X's mentor in Lee's 1992 biography.
He also received an Emmy nomination for his role as Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations." He won...
Howard University in Washington, D.C., confirmed his death Friday night but details weren't immediately available. Freeman taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department.
"He was a brilliant professor, a renowned actor and a master director who made his mark in the classroom as well as on stage, screen and television. ... He has mentored and taught scores of outstanding actors. He was a resounding voice of Howard and will be missed," university spokeswoman Kerry-Ann Hamilton said in a statement.
Freeman earned an NAACP Image Award for playing Malcolm X's mentor in Lee's 1992 biography.
He also received an Emmy nomination for his role as Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations." He won...
- 8/11/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The WB Network and Warner Bros. TV have recruited Party of Five alumni P.K. Simonds and Ann Lewis Hamilton as executive producers/showrunners on two new dramas, the hot fall entry Tarzan and Jane and the midseason replacement One Tree Hill, respectively. Tarzan and Jane stars model Travis Fimmel as Tarzan, who is brought back from the jungle to New York, where he falls for Jane, a level-headed cop. On the series, slated for the Sunday 9 p.m. slot, Simonds will serve as an executive producer alongside Laura Ziskin and David Gerber, with the pilot's writer, Eric Kripke, and Emmy-winning writer-producer Molly Newman (the WB's 7th Heaven) as co-executive producers.
- 5/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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