"Rich & Shameless" is a collection of seven premium films produced by TNT and Raw. The series delves into the lives of individuals who have achieved enormous wealth and the ups and downs that come with it. The films offer a glimpse into the realities of extreme wealth, something that most people never experience.
Each film in the series tells a true story, capturing both the successes and failures of the individuals involved. Viewers are taken on a journey that explores the thrills and miseries that accompany such immense wealth. Through this series, viewers gain a better understanding of the complexities that come with a life of luxury.
The series provides a unique insight into the lives of the wealthy and famous. It reveals the harsh realities of their experiences, which are often glamorized in popular culture. With "Rich & Shameless," viewers can gain a deeper appreciation for the complexities of wealth and the struggles that come with it.
The Mindy Project is centered on single gynecologist, Mindy Lahiri, portrayed by Mindy Kaling who has written the script for the TV show, based upon the real life story of her mother, a former OB/GYN physician. There are lots of interesting facts about The Mindy Project: it was first South Asian American leaded series in American TV history; and it features one person as a leading character, a script writer and a director. This person is Mindy Kaling, born as Vera Chokalingam, who has made a phenomenal career in television. She has started as writer in The Office being only woman in the staff. Besides the fact she has written at least 22 episodes she has got the role of Kelly Kapoor. By the eighth season she was awarded as the Executive Producer of the TV show which marked the pivotal point of her television career. It was crucial moment when NBC executives decided to give a green light for her TV show "“ The Mindy Project. In this single camera comedy Mindy depicts nice and cheerful young woman who is trying to find a man of her dreams, and in this endeavor she easily enters every new relationship that looks promising.
Premiered on September 25, 2012, Ben and Kate is adorable FOX-produced situation comedy, has immediately got lots of positive critic reviews. There are lots of reasons for this, and one of them is a brilliant ensemble cast. Not in the sense of presence of some top-paid actors in the series, but in the sense of amazing chemistry between the leading roles actress and actor: Dakota Johnson and Nat Faxon. They play adult brother and sister, how has grown up in totally different characters with lots of opposite traits. Kate (played by Dakota Johnson) is a lone mother, who is raising a daughter, trying to make ends meet by working hard as bar manager, while Ben (Nat Faxon) on his turn has had no special purpose in his life and just remained a child. The show begins when Ben decides that her sister lives a very uneasy life and decides to help her by moving in to her flat. All the Ben and Kate plot is build upon a laughable situations that arise in numerous quantity around their almost-as family life. Ben is trying hard, giving her sister lots of advices on how to establish strong relationship with men from a very first date, while Kate endeavors to familiarize his brother with a real adult life.
Nominated as "Best Situation Comedy" in 2010, The Inbetweeners depicts life of Will McKenzie and three of his friends Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright and Neil Sutherland while they are attending the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive School. The main character, Will narrates the intros and conclusions of each episode, and all the TV show action is concentrated mostly on his personality. When his parents were divorced, Will was transferred from expensive private school to comprehensive one. The new environment looked very hostile for him at the first time. However, he managed to befriend with the "gang": Simon, Jay and Nail very soon after his first day at the new school. Meanwhile, they formed some kind of "alliance" of "uncool" persons, as they share many similar traits and behavior clichés: each of them was suffering some bullying and failing the attempts to have sex with girls. The series has gained lots of positive reviews and even has been voted as "Best New British TV Sitcom 2008". The success of The Inbetweeners was repeated by The Inbetweeners movie filmed in 2011 and directed by Ben Palmer, while the screenplay was totally written by TV show creators - Damon Beesley and Iain Morris.
At the first glance FOX's The Mob Doctor's storyline looks much more goofy then its title. But it haven't prejudged so readily. Let's start with an ensemble cast: Jordana Spiro, who plays main protagonist "“ Dr. Grace Devlin, she appeared in Dexter as Beth Dorsey and she may be familiar to you by his role Petal in Trespass. She is a doctor, who have gotten into some serious troubles "“ in her efforts to help his brother to get out of his mob connections, she decides to pay of brother's debt to one of the most prominent mobsters of the city, Moretti. The debt should be paid of by healing or killing Moretti's wards. Erelong, she gets into a woe by herself when Moretti gives the first "murdering" order. The apparent deliverance is coming when another gangster, Constantine (played by William Forsythe: Infected, Boardwalk Empire) kills Moretti, and Dr. Grace passes to his hands with all of her "debts". Grace begins to execute the "medical" orders of her new boss barely managing to combine her new duties with the work in hospital. Shortly Grace realizes that she is more "mob" than "just" doctor.
Set in the fashionable Manhattan district called "The Drake", horror fiction supernatural drama 666 Park Avenue is filmed in the real-life building also known as The Ansonia. The house is owned by a mysterious couple Gavin Doran and Olivia Doran. Nobody knows how and where their wealth came from, but it is in the air that some demonic forces have participated in this. The TV show starts when new tenants move into this beautiful Beaux-Arts styled building. It's a married young couple and their names are Henry Martin and Jane Van Veen. From the very first scene of their residence it's become absolutely clear that something is wrong with landlords and all the tenants. Besides the twisted storyline, drama 666 Park Avenue can boast some interesting ensemble cast. Dave Annable, who plays Henry Martin may be familiar to you by his leading role as Jake Adams in "What's Your Number?" while Rachael Taylor could well be remembered by his brilliant acting as Abby Sampson in Charlie's Angels TV series.
Both erratic and entertaining brand new E! TV show, Married to Jonas depicts family life of unordinary young couple Danielle Deleasa and Kevin Jonas. Who are that two? Let's stop here and focus on each of them. Danielle Deleasa, or just Dani is cute girl from New Jersey met by Kevin in 2007 during his family Bahamian vacations. Dani has worked as hairdresser in her hometown in Oheka Castle until she married Kevin in December, 2009. She has quite odious Italian family including her younger sister, Katie, just graduated from high school and suspicious father Bucky, who is too much worried about Katie passage to adulthood in general and her prom in particular. That's all needed information about Danielle "“let's turn to Kevin. Here we have tons of information, just because Kevin is a superstar "“ he is the part of Jonas Brother's music boy band started in 2005 from Nick Jonas first solo album and grown to real boy band with huge music corporation's contracts portfolio. Besides Kevin, Jonas Brother includes two of his brothers: abovementioned Nick and Joe. So, Dani an her family has to deal not only with her star husband but with who family of young celebrities which leads to entire chain of uncommon situations arising at every point of their just-married life from meeting parents to baby plans.
The first season of this HBO-produced TV show is set in small town Treme three months after Hurricane Katrina has hit the New Orleans area. The leading characters in the TV series are musicians, bar-owners, chefs and Mardi Gras Indians and other odious characters, many of them playing themselves as a jazz trumpeter, singer and composer Kermit Ruffins who take part in the pilot episode and appears through all of the first season (he guests in second and third episode as well). As for Treme creators "“ you definitely know the names David Simon and James Yoshimura, who wrote a screenplay for another HBO TV show: Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets; Nina Kostroff Noble, who brought to you The Corner; Eric Overmyer, a talented writer and producer, who stands behind Law & Order, The Wire and New Amsterdam; Carolyn Strauss, an ex-President of HBO, who was responsible for success of The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Sex and the City. This professional team has delivered a buoyant and life-asserting television show about life and struggle of New Orleans residents trying to rebuild their homes, businesses, lives and relationships. These quite a serious, as per common sense things, are presented in very humorous light, making us to believe the everything will be OK with these nice Louisianan folks. The slogan of TV series is: " Hurricanes, Floods, Exile, Crime. Corruption. Betrayal. Greed. Neglect. Is That All You Got?" is colorfully reflects their life-affirming relation to reality, which is worthy of all respect taking to consideration all the circumstances they have been so unlucky to gone thru.
It seems like it was a wise business decision for FX to pick up Charlie Sean, who was recently fired from Two and a Half Man and put him in to a new environment of three-camera heavy-laugh-tracked sitcom about a former baseball player, Charlie Goodson, struggling to find a balance in his new life trough the anger management therapy courses. So, Charlie Sean's comeback to TV called Anger Management is new is a new promising round of career and, in case of success, a high-ROI business move for FX "“ mostly because of low-level costs of creation of such a sitcom. The plot of Anger Management is simple, and reminds us Californication: Charlie Goodson is divorced middle-age man who tries to keep formally good relationships with his ex-wife Jennifer (Shawnee Smith who may be familiar to you as Amanda from Saw franchise) and their OSD issues suffering daughter Sam (Awake TV show starlet Daniela Bobadilla) while being in Friends-With-Benefits-like sexual relations with his therapist Kate (Selma Blair, some people may know her as Abigail from released in 2012 Columbus Circle and Mary from the same year Replicas). Despite the bold sexual background of Anger Management, this TV show is only on FX without TV-MA rating. Who would have thought that Charlie Sean's new series will be such a content-safe?
The year of 2012 will be recorded in the annals of history of American television history as the extremely prolific one for dating reality shows. In the long row of Take Me Out, Love In The Wild and other dating series which had launched in 2012, there is another one, The Choice which looks like The Voice crossed in some weird manner with abovementioned ones. The whole idea of The Choice is so simple, that you may wonder way FOX managed to launch this concept prior other television channels. Generally The Choice is The Voice spoof where contestants compete for the attention of celebs that are choosing who will stay and who will go. All the contestants are hoping to achieve the long-waited-for dating with celebrity of their admiration. They are so straight and purposeful in their intentions hook the heartthrob of their life, that it seems like nothing could stop them. In their efforts to achieve the maximum celebs' attention, female contestants are pinning on themselves revealing short dresses and behave themselves like something in between strip-dancers and hookers, which naturally is very funny to contemplate.
After 30 years of nearly oblivion, TNT is reviving the grandfather of all plutocracy soap-dramas, Dallas. A little bit rebranded but still not losing its luster, this grand soap-opera appears to us in the new, contemporary glossiness, featuring all good old actors, like 80-year-old Larry Hagman who still plays incorrigible old buzzard J.R. Ewing, Patrick Duffy is still Bobby Ewing while Linda Gray is Sue Ellen Ewing. After the very first episode of renewed in 2012 Dallas you will find out, that the original characters are perfectly combined with the next generation of oil tycoons (as well as the new generations of actors playing them). Meet Jesse Metcalfe, who is Christopher, Bobby Ewing's adopted son who tries to bring the family business into the new modern route of green energy industry. Jordana Brewster, who may be familiar to you as Mia Toretto from Fast Five, now is Elena Ramos, John Ross's new girlfriend and ex-fiancee of Christopher. Who is John Ross? He is John Ross Ewing III (played by Josh Henderson) who tries to be a good son of his father by strict following all the family business traditions of oil drilling. This is the very short glance on Dallas 2012 turbulences, and you have to discover the rest 99.99% all by yourself.
