Thursday, February 23, 2017
Today's Blind Items - Diva'd Out Of A Main Role
Back in the day this actress was A+ list. She accomplished all of this while being in her teens. Yes, it was that period of time where the biggest movie stars in the world all seemed to be in their teens or early 20's. All of you know her. Every single last one of you. For years and years there is no way she would have let herself do television. She was far too good for that. Then, when you run out of money and your fame only gets you so many gigs, you start to change your mind. Always brutal to work with, she actually was sort of humble in that long running cable show where she starred for a number of seasons. After the success of that show though, she became difficult again and very demanding. If she was not going to be in the main cast, she wanted a lot of money to be a guest or a recurring. Her demands could be quite extensive too. So, along came this show. An almost network show that really wanted her to be part of the main cast or so they said. She heard from people behind the scenes that they wanted her name and a few others to try and get some people to watch but more importantly try and get it to season 2 and season 3. Meanwhile, her old cable network was calling with a new show where she actually would be the lead. How to get out of the almost network show where they were lying about her status until she signed and get on the show she really wanted? Our actress started listing out a whole slew of demands for the almost network show. Page after page. Revision after revision. She also wanted to be listed fairly high in the credits and wanted the fact she was going to be in it advertised. Here was her reasoning. What if her new show bombed? She wanted to be able to come back to the almost network show and them be backed into a corner and not able to swap her out with some other actress. It is quite the genius move.
SJP?!
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't say pay cable but maybe Anna Paquin?
ReplyDeleteMolly Ringwald. Cable series being Secret Lives of the American Teen.
ReplyDeleteMolly Ringwald—"Secret Life of the American Teenager," then "Riverdale"
ReplyDeleteClaire Danes
ReplyDeleteWinona Ryder and the HBO show about law
ReplyDeleteIf entry is fudging about cable and almost tv then stranger things not sure what almost network show though
ReplyDeleteBrooke Shields?
ReplyDeleteAnna made it when she was a kid, and SJP didn't make it until she was in her 30's.
ReplyDeleteI think this is Molly, maybe Winona. Netflix could be considered almost cable.
Broke Shields was also a kid when she made it.
ReplyDeleteNice. And the other new show being raising expectations- both that and secret life on family channel
ReplyDeleteSJP made it on Broadway when she was a kid.
ReplyDeletereally dont have a clue unless enty messed up somewhere
ReplyDeletebc Molly doesnt seem to have another show besides riverdale in the works and her role in the secret life of an american teenager didn't seem that big
oh nevermind just saw raising expectations
ReplyDeleteWhat choo talkin' bout, Wilis?
ReplyDeleteSJP made it as a kid! She starred as Annie on Broadway, was on Square Pegs, and made a million after school movies.
She's doing an HBO series right now that's been renewed for Season 2. Plus, no way in hell was she A+ in her teens...and remember Square Pegs? She's not snobby about doing TV.
ReplyDeleteUh...she's done LOTS of television, even as a teen.
ReplyDeleteIt's Molly for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked how many of you don't know Enty Speak by now. Almost Network is the CW. If it's a blind about "back in the day" almost network could be UPN or the WB. Almost Television is streaming networks like Netflixs, Amazon Prime, or Hulu. Pay Cable or premium cable are the terms he uses to talk about HBO, Showtime, Starz, & Cinemax. When the word Cable is used without the word "pay" or "premium" means any network that you don't pay a separate fee just for that 1 channel.
ReplyDeleteYou might have to pay extra to get FX or AMC, but those are in higher cable packages that include other channels as well. When you pay for HBO it's just for HBO channels for $10 to $20 dollars. This blind mentions an almost network show, so if Molly Ringwald is in a CW show it might be her, but Secret Lives of the American Teenager is on the channel that used to be called "ABC Family" but that's a cable channel & not an almost network channel like CW. Unless I'm reading the blind wrong this is about a person that has been recurring on a CW show, but has an offer from a cable channel (not pay cable) that would make her the lead. I don't watch the CW, so I do not know which former movie star actresses as a teen are appearing on 1 of the shows as a recurring.
Sorry for this long post. I see people post that clearly do not know the terms that Enty uses to describe TV channels, streaming, cable, or pay cable channels.
Jessica Lang? The show being.."Feuds".
ReplyDeleteBroadway & Square Pegs didn't make SJP famous. Sex & the City is what made her famous. She was in her 30's then.
ReplyDeleteSq Pegs lasted one season, it was a bomb, it didn't make Sarah famous. Neither did Annie, she was one of many, many little girls to do that role on broadway.
ReplyDeleteOkay, going with SJP because of the "experts,"; thinking Jessica Lange.
ReplyDeleteI thought he counted ABC Family as almost network because of the close association with ABC.
ReplyDeleteI guessed Jessica Lang, so I guess that shade is for me. I think your confusing me with someone else. Despite reading this column since before the format changed (aka "The good ol days), this is only my second post. SJP was NEVER to good for TV, she made a career out of it. I'm sticking with Jessica Lang. But, I'm probably wrong, I'm no expert.
ReplyDeleteSarah Michelle Gellar heard she was more than a handful on Buffy She was in Scream 2 or 3 and I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Grudge all in her late teens/early 20's...Many costars were vocal and stated they would never work with her again because she was so difficult...then she was on that show with and when Robin Williams passed which enty said there was no love between those two. How could one NOT get along with Robin Williams!
ReplyDeleteIf he did that then he would have to say that about most cable networks because nearly all of the cable channels are closely tied to their parent companies. Plus, it's not called ABC Family anymore. It has been called "Freeform" for over a year now. You can go back & look at blinds about Pretty Little Liars & check to see if he refers to it as an "almost network" but I do not think he has done that.
ReplyDelete