NBC Picks Up Two More Episodes of Parenthood

Richard Dreyfuss, Lauren Graham, Craig T. Nelson NBC has ordered two more episodes of Parenthood, a show rep confirms.The pickup brings the Season 3 total to 18 episodes.Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning showsThe family drama has been a consistent performer for the network. Tuesday's episode averaged 5.5 million viewers and a 2.2 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demo - a 5 percent increase from last week.Parenthood airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

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L-Word Star Kisses Girl, Gets Escorted Off Plane

-- A lesbian actress who starred in The L-Word said she kissed a girl and got escorted off of a Southwest Airlines flight on Monday for doing it. Leisha Hailey took to Twitter to call for a boycott of the carrier after a flight attendant told them other passengers had complained after witnessing the affection. Her first tweet said: I have been discriminated against. She later added, Since when is showing affection to someone you love illegal? Southwest responded on its website that Hailey was approached based solely on behavior and not gender. The airlines four-sentence response said passengers were characterizing the behavior as excessive. A discussion followed on the flight, and the airline said it escalated to a level that was better resolved on the ground. Hailey was a musician before joining the cast of the Showtime drama featuring the lives of lesbian friends and lovers living in Los Angeles. She played the character Alice Pieszecki. The actress and her unidentified girlfriend were on a flight from Baltimore to St. Louis. The kissing occurred in the air and a discussion followed when the plane landed. Hailey said the encounter between the couple and a flight attendant was recorded. A message seeking comment from Halleys spokeswoman Libby Coffey was not immediately returned. The Southwest website says it is the official airline of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Richard Ferraro, a spokesman for GLAAD, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Earlier this month, the airline kicked off Green Days lead man Billie Joe Armstrong for wearing his pants too low. The Grammy winner was escorted off a plane after failing to follow a flight attendants directive to pull the pants up. Southwest also removed director Kevin Smith from a flight last year because he didnt fit properly in a single seat. His first tweet read, Dear (at)SouthwestAir I know Im fat, but was (the) captain (.) really justified in throwing me off a flight for which I was already seated? Halley is preparing to launch a 21-city tour to promote breast cancer awareness. Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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'The Glee Project' Near Second-Season Renewal

Tyler Golden/Oxygen"The Glee Project" cast Oxygen is inching closer toward formally remaining running a business with Glee. The NBCUniversal-possessed cable network has introduced a multiple-city open casting require a potential second season from the Glee Project, with auditions being locked in metropolitan areas including NY, Chicago and Nashville. Monday's announcement comes per month following the 10-episode reality competition series broadcast its finalethat saw Damian McGinty and Samuel Larsen both granted seven-episode arcs around the Fox series and runners-up Lindsay Pearce and Alex Newell each generating two-episode stints. STORY: 'The Glee Project': Those who win Share Their Wants 'Glee' While Oxygen is the owner of the privileges per their contract with Glee studio 20th Television, the network has frequently mentioned it really wants to continue the series, with those who win ultimately landing a job around the Fox series, as lengthy because the musical dramedy remains around the air. Immediately airing the August finale, Oxygen started the casting process, using the network observing Monday which more than 87,000 fans and hopefuls have previously registered to explore who audition for that series. Executive created by Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy, Dante Di Loreto, Michael Davies and Shauna Minoprio, Glee Project initially vetted a lot more than 40,000 stars within an "broadened casting process" by having an initial concentrate on singing. Season 1 was executive created by Murphy, alongside mentors Robert Ulrich (Glee's casting director), choreographer Zach Woodlee and music agent Nikki Anders. STORY: 'The Glee Project's' Weak Premiere Rankings Leave Oxygen Executives Perplexed Since premiering to dismal rankings opposite the Tony Honours on June 12, Glee Project has ongoing to construct steam, striking a set high with 912,000 total audiences because of its eighth episode of year. Sunday's finale registered 1.two million total audiences, based on Nielsen. STORY: 'Glee Project' Runners-Up: Two Episodes Is not a 'Consolation Prize' Glee and Glee Project casting director Ulrich, who mentored the pool of 12 final participants with choreographer Woodlee, has referred to the series like a "boot camping for stars in showing the Glee fans how people prepare, rehearse and record." STORY: 'Glee Project' Champion Might not be the only person Going to Fox Hit Still unclear is what the prize for Season 2 from the reality competition series is going to be Fox has not because of the eco-friendly light for any 4th season of Glee. Candidates searching to audition should be a minimum of 18 and have the ability to "well" portray the role of the teen and become legally qualified to operate within the U . s . States in addition to readily available for production around or in The month of january through April of the coming year. To learn more, click the link. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit RELATED: STORY: Ryan Murphy on Chord Overstreet Return, Season 3 Spoilers, 'The Glee Project's' Future Glee Ryan Murphy The Glee Project

Things From Another World (Cose dell'altro mondo)

A flourishing north Italian town energizes to discover that it is immigrants have disappeared in Francesco Patierno's comically provocative but slight "Things From Another World," modified from Sergio Arau's 2004 feature "Every Day Without any Mexican." Pic's timing seems being right, due to the subject's newsworthiness, but disappointing receipts in your house declare that no matter the comedy form, residents are trying to find some factor effective or maybe more banal. Offshore will probably be limited to Italo showcases. Town kingpin Golfetto (Diego Abatantuono) utilizes numerous legal immigrants within the factory, but he's a typical hypocrite, railing against people using their company nations while experiencing their services (including people from the affectionate African streetwalker). The morning after he rants about immigrants on tv, these disappear. Ariele (Valerio Mastandrea) needs to handle a senile mother without any minder, while his ex-g.f. (Valentina Lodovini) is anxious about her black fiance additionally to her foreign-born students, all gone. Patierno ("Pater Familias") provides a few striking images but no vitality in this open-ended dissection of hypocrisy. Ironically, the press notes don't credit any thesps playing the immigrants, causing them to be disappear, too. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Britains Top TV Talent Agent: Were Neglecting To Create Enough TV That Really Matters

One of the Uk’s best talent agentshas blasted British TV becoming an institution that’s run by clever people making clever rubbish.Peter Bennett-Manley, founding father of Endemol-possessed Tiger Aspect (Mr Bean, Billy Elliot), saidlast evening within the annual BAFTA TV Lecture london that shaking some misunderstanding should be a larger priority.He added:Original and polemical programming influences casualty ward … My plea to authors is always to pursue your passion, agitate away. You ought to be available invoking and resulting in offence.Bennett-Manley mentioned he disagrees while using points of interest that Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and News Corp Deputy COO James Murdoch organized inside their recent Edinburgh TV Festival speeches. Schmidt mentioned that programming options needs to be based on record analysis of viewing habits and datawhile Murdoch mentioned they ought to be based on profitability. “I’m to not imply overlook the data,” Bennett-Manley mentioned.”Im just saying don't have a great deal belief within it. Stop asking Picasso and Michelangelo to fresh fresh paint by amounts. Bennett-Manley’ surveys are essential: Getting a customer list including comics Rowan Atkinson, Eddie Izzard and Armando Iannucci, BBC news anchor Kirsty Walk calls Bennett-Jonesthe guy too effective to piss off. But U.S. tv producers don’t seem to agree. Bennett-Manley states he remains fighting with Cinemax regarding Iannucci, executive producer of VEEP, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Anybody whos made programming for American tv producers knows that they like a programme supplier youre given less respect than you are here. Often you have to just provide the rushes, which might be an anathema here.

China morality cops cancel shows

The enormously popular "Idol"-style series "Super Girl" was yanked by Chinese regulators for running beyond its allotted time. China's broadcasting watchdog, the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV, has banned two popular reality and talent skeins for poor moral standards.SARFT cancelled "Super Girl," the hugely popular equivalent of "American Idol," after it broke a cap on broadcasting time imposed by authorities to discourage young viewers from spending too much time watching it.The broadcaster, Hunan Satellite Television, will not be allowed to screen "TV talent shows with mass participation" next year, the channel's spokesman Li Hao told local media."Instead, the channel will air programs that promote moral ethics, public safety and provide practical information for housework," Li said."Super Girl" peaked in the 2004-05 season, when more than 400 million people watched the finale and the winner, Li Yuchun, became a national celebrity.SARFT has also banned the movie channel of Shijiazhuang TV in north China's Hebei province after its "Emotional Codes" talkshow "misrepresented events, magnified family conflict and depicted disrespect toward an elderly parent" in the pursuit of ratings.The TV show "magnified distorted ethics and moral values" and "caused extremely negative social effects."Producers said the offending scene, showing a son treating his father disrespectfully and threatening to take him to court over money, had been scripted. But SARFT didn't see this as an adequate defense.China's TV companies are tightly state-controlled and must adhere to tough rules on morality as well as strict political guidelines. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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George Clooney Meets His Daughter's New Boyfriend in Latest Clip From 'The Descendants' (VIDEO)

L 'The Descendants' is really a dramedy in regards to a wealthy father (George Clooney) who needs to take proper care of his two kids when his wife will get right into a existence-threatening vehicle accident, all while coping with the thought that she has been getting an affair. Author/director Alexander Payne's follow-as much as 'Sideways' is scheduled to screen in the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival (after debuting at Telluride a week ago), as well as in anticipation, indieWIRE has first showed a brand new clip in the film. Watch ahead. Nobody likes an uncomfortable journey. [via indieWIRE/The Playlist] Photo thanks to Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Clooney pix topline London fest

LONDON -- Double doses of George Clooney and Michael Fassbender topline the 55th BFI London Film Festival, which once more offers the U.K. launchpad for a lot of Oscar and BAFTA challengers opened at Venice and Toronto.Clooney will attend together with his political drama "The Ides Of March" and Alexander Payne's "The Descendents," while Fassbender displays his range in Steve McQueen's "Shame" and David Cronenberg's "A Harmful Method."The 2010 festival, which runs March 12-27, may be the swansong of artistic director Sandra Hebron after nine years in control. On her final event, she's designed 204 fiction and documentary features, including 11 world premieres, 18 worldwide premieres and 22 European premieres.The LFF advantages of another strong year for British cinema, with local premieres for Lynne Ramsay's "We have to Discuss Kevin," Michael Winterbottom's "Trishna," Rob Fiennes' "Coriolanus," Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Levels" and Nick Murphy's "The Awakening," as well as the world premiere of Marc Evans' "Hunky Dory."Gleam first opportunity for the London audience to determine Madonna's "W.E."As formerly introduced, the fest will open with Fernando Meirelles' "360" and close with Terence Davies' "The Dark Blue Ocean," both starring Rachel Weisz. Another actress doing dual purpose in the fest is Vanessa Redgrave, who stars in "Coriolanus" as well as in Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous."The Film About The Square section includes Roman Polanski's "Carnage," Gus Van Sant's "Restless," Werner Herzog's "In to the Abyss: An Account of Dying, An Account of Existence," Todd Solondz's "Dark Equine," Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene," Drake Doremus' "Constantly,Inch Miranda July's "The Near Future,Inch Richard Linklater's "Bernie," Oren Moverman's "Rampart" and Jonathan Demme's "I am Carolyn Parker."One of the foreign-language highlights are "The Little One Having a Bike" in the Dardennes siblings, Nanni Moretti's "You will find there's Pope" and Michel Ocelot's animation "Tales from the Evening." "The Artist," Michel Hazanavicius' homage to Hollywood's quiet era, can also get a gala screening.Special occasions include talks by Payne and Winterbottom. Abi Morgan, Miranda This summer, Alexandre Desplat and Craig Ackroyd can give masterclasses, and you will see an in-depth consider the making of "We have to Discuss Kevin" with key people from the cast and crew.The 2010 archive gala may be the BFI National Archive's restoration of Miles Mander's 1928 quiet melodrama "The Very First Born," with a brand new score by Stephen Horne.Eight from the fest's world premieres have been in its New British Cinema section, with game titles including Carol Morley's "Hopes for a Existence," Richard Jobson's "The Sonambulists" and D.R. Hood's "Wreckers." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com