Alias

By Jason Hughes In 2008, ABC didn't care about comedy. But now, ABC has this Wednesday night lineup that is doing great (except for Hank). All the shows are critical darlings (except for Hank), and they've already been renewed for the full season (except for Hank). So now's the perfect time to bring Greer bac...

By Mike Moody Stealing scenes on the small screen is nothing new to Christian Slater. The actor, known for films like Heathers, True Romance and Pump up the Volume, has made memorable guest appearances on shows like Alias, The West Wing and My Name is Earl. His first shot at his own series, the NBC spy thril...

By Brad Trechak As others have noted, this new spec script could play as a sequel to his hit show Alias. That show did end with Sydney and Michael married with two kids being asked to return to service. Sadly, I think Jennifer Garner would consider that a backwards step in her career no matter how much she owes A...

By Bob Sassone Reading a quick description of Day One and seeing this behind the scenes footage, I think this might be NBC's version of Jericho. That's probably the show that this will be compared to, though this one looks more action-oriented. It's from ex-Heroes/Lost/Alias writer/producer Jesse Ale...

 CA He reminded me of Jennifer Garner on Alias, kicking ass and downing all comers. Sarah and Casey were shocked. So was Chuck. And thus we were left with the "to be continued" if they do continue. Chuck as not only the Intersect to be protected, ...

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By Kona Gallagher Harold Perrineau is worried. He's worried that viewers won't give his new show, The Unusuals, a chance. He has a valid concern: The Unusuals, which just premiered, is on Wednesday nights at 10, on ABC; otherwise known as the post-Lost timeslot (of doom).

By Bob Sassone All of the shows that J.J. Abrams has created or been involved with seem to have some bigger mystery at its core. Lost, of course, and Alias. Not sure about Felicity though. Did you ever get judged by an intelligent steam of smoke or go around finding artifacts that solve a centuries old mystery? A...

By Bob Sassone Hmmm...no idea why there's a new edition of Alias' season 5 coming out tomorrow. There was another version of the season already released, but it has been discontinued. I wonder if there's something different in the set that will tick off fans who bought that deluxe Alias Complete Series Set wi...

 CA I wonder if there's something different in the set that will tick off fans who bought that deluxe Alias Complete Series Set with Rambaldi Artifact a while back. And the fourth season of Felicity too. Maybe it's JJ Abrams' birthday? ...

By Allison Waldman The success of Slumdog Millionaire and Frost/Nixon recently inspired me to assess the ten best movies about television. TV has been a fertile source of entertainment for filmmakers. The TV turf is also a popular setting for TV shows, and there have been some all-time great shows about the t...

By Jane Boursaw Melissa George has held assorted roles since then, including Lauren Reed in Alias, Laura in In Treatment, and Dr. Sadie Harris in Grey's Anatomy. These were great, but I don't think she's really found her place in TV history yet. But maybe that will change soon, because she's just nabbed the f...

 CA - Jan 30, 2009 It's been called a new age A-Team, but I see it more as a lighthearted combination of Ocean's 11, Alias, Burn Notice and even How I Met Your Mother. ...

By Bob Sassone I knew that Sloane was up to no good, and that he and Sark and Peyton were going to get together and screw over Prophet 5. Peyton kills them all while Sloane and Sark go off to Mongolia to find the Rambaldi grave (Sark: "Does it have to be so dusty? If Rambaldi can prophecize the future, you'd thin...

By Keith McDuffee Keith McDuffee: Thanks so much for calling. Carl Lumbly: Absolutely. KM: So were you partnered up with Kevin Wiesman (Marshall on Alias)? KM: Right, because I had just read a couple of weeks ago that you had just filmed your final scenes with Jennifer [Garner]. How did that go?

By Bob Sassone I like how, even though Sloane is evil and obsessed, he still cares for Sydney. When he finds out that "Anna" killed "Sydney," he says that she deserved better, and attempts to choke Anna (Sydney). Marshall makes the alarms go off in the prison to distract Sloane (amazing what Marshall can co...

By Bob Sassone Later, Will tells Syd he's engaged. Syd tells him about the baby but lies that Vaughn is dead. Sloane meets with Peyton. Sloane says he doesn't want Syd hurt, but Peyton won't tell him why they are doing what they are doing. Peyton says that Sloane has fulfilled his end of the contract, and she giv...

By Bob Sassone In a nutshell:  Sydney Bristow was recruited by the CIA in college. She hid it from her friends. Her bosses told her that if she told anyone, it might get her and her friends in trouble.  In a phone mishap, her bosses find out that she told her fiancee' about her double life. They killed him. And this...

By Keith McDuffee Filed under: Drama, ABC, Talent, OpEd, AliasWhen ABC decided that this was going to be the last season of Alias, J.J. Abrams wasn't in on the discussions. It wasn't until after the decision was made that Abrams was called while filming Mission Impossible 3 in China. While he's not all that surp...

By Bob Sassone Marshall is looking through some files and finds out that Thomas Grace used to be married for three years. Not sure we're they are going with that little plot point, if anywhere. HOLY CRAP! The mysterious voice isn't a man at all...it's Irina! Lena Olin is back! And she's working with Kelly?! Wha...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Drama, ABC, OpEd, Alias It's great to see Sark (David Anders) back. When a show gets rid of a cast member (Michael Vartan), it's great when the show gets another favorite character on to fill in the gap, even if it's only temporary.

By Bob Sassone Besides, if it ends in May, it's probably easier to get Vartan back for one last appearance than to have to sign him for an entire season or two. And Vaughn being back...isn't that what we all really want? Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

By Jonathan Toomey US Magazine is reporting that Jennifer Garner has given birth to a baby girl. The labor was induced early this morning at an undisclosed L.A. hospital. Husband Ben Affleck was present throughout the entire birth, and the couple has supposedly decided to name the girl Violet Ann. Garner, the st...

By Annie Wu Filed under: Drama, ABC, Talent, AliasI know you all have been waiting desperately for the past few days for more news, so it's time for a follow-up on the rumor about Jennifer Garner going into labor on Thanksgiving Day. J-Garner.org has some candid pictures of Jennifer Garner picking up S...

By Sarah Gilbert While we're on the subject of Jennifer Garner's pregnancy, ABC News has an article about how different TV producers worked their stars' pregnancies into the plot lines. Garner's pregnancy is part of her character in Alias; and Lucille Ball was pregnant in real life and on screen; but Jane...

By Sarah Gilbert Alias star and pregnant hotty Jennifer Garner may have gone into labor on Thanksgiving Day, a Blogging Baby reader reported. While her due date was originally reported as November 11, more recent reports from the blogosphere suggest that her actual due date was December 5. We'll be postin...

By Anna Johns Filed under: Drama, ABC, Industry, Alias, ProgrammingIt's all over for Sidney Bristow in May 2006. ABC says, instead of winding down, it wants Alias to go out with a bang. The network is promising a big finale to wrap up this, it's fifth and final season, but it doesn't really reveal exactly w...

By Bob Sassone There's been a rumor going around that Michael Vartan is leaving the show! Now, rumors are rumors, so who knows if it's true or not. Over at E! Online, Kristin says it's not true, while Ted Casablanca has been talking about it for months. While I don't see it happening, especially since Alias i...

By Bob Sassone The additions to the cast of Alias continues. On the heels of Rachel Nichols and Elodie Bouchez joining the ABC show, now comes word that Balthazar Getty (Lord of the Flies, Ladder 49, Judge Dredd, Feast) will come on board as Thomas Grace, a new agent assigned to APO.

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Drama, ABC, Talent, Alias The new season starts on September 29 at 8pm. Yeah, that's a Thursday. It's going up against Survivor. That might be worse than Rambaldi. ReadPermalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

By Bob Sassone I understand the problem you're facing. Vartan wants to leave the show (I am praying Vaughn is still alive and we'll find out at the end of the season he faked his death to investigate the case) so you have to think of some way to get rid of Vaughn. But please don't tell me you had this idea a year ago...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Drama, ABC, Comedy, Talent, Alias, FOX, Kitchen Confidential FOX says that ex-Alias star Michael Vartan (oh, how it hurts to type "ex-Alias star") will guest star on Kitchen Confidential, the sitcom headed by another Alias alum, Bradley Cooper!

By Keith McDuffee Keith: Or spam and duct tape. Bob: So my vote is that he's definitely not dead, and we'll see Michael Vartan in guest star role in two or three episodes at the end of the season. Keith: Bah Keith: Kidding of course. Danny: "Ready for the wedding?" Danny: "..."

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Drama, ABC, Alias Meanwhile, USA Today's Robert Bianco is more concerned about the intro of yet another 15th century manuscript into the plot than about Michael Vartan's exit from the show. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

By Bob Sassone And so we begin the post-Vaughn era of Alias. Post Vaughn. Now there's a cereal the female fans out there would just love, eh? They want to keep him alive so they'll lead them to Gordon Dean. Every time I hear the name Gordon Dean I think of longtime ABC newsman Morton Dean. Alias is on ABC too. Coinci...

By Bob Sassone Syd, Marshall, and Thomas grab Rachel Gibson. Who is she? She tries to send a distress signal via transmitter, but Marshall stops it. She says she's an operative for the CIA, not knowing that she's in the presence of people in the CIA. Via stress test she seems to be telling the truth. Marshall s...

By Bob Sassone This E! Online story isn't that comforting. Seems that ABC sends out a press release every week, talking about which shows are doing well, which shows have buzz, which shows they want to plug, etc. And this past week they talked about Supernanny, they talked about Commander-in-Chief, and t...

By Ryan j Budke Rachel Nichols. She's reason enough for me to watch. She was spot-on perfect as Rebecca Locke on Fox's painfully cut short The Inside, and it's almost like what her character Rachel on Alias is going through is what's going to turn her into the calm cool Rebecca from The Inside. We get to see Ali...

By Bob Sassone So, who is the frozen guy (well, semi-frozen guy - he moved his hand a few episodes ago) in that box that Renee' stole from APO? Is it Vaughn? Or how about Rambaldi himself? Or maybe Vaughn's father? Or let's go waaaay out and say...well, I'll give you the fourth option after the jump...

By Bob Sassone Right now I'm more interested in Sloane's story. The guy who saved him from death row? Gordon Dean. And when Sloane says, "so, you're my benefactor," Dean says, "one of them." So it looks like there's yet another head cheese we haven't seen yet. Or maybe we've seen them but we just don't know who i...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Drama, ABC, Talent, Alias And here's the proof! Courtesy of People mag @aol.com. (Spoiler warning: don't look to the right -- Ed.) Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by Google

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Drama, ABC, OpEd, Alias My guess? The bad guys (the "other" bad guys) gave her some serum or something, and yet again Sloane will be forced to help them. Oh, and we find out in the coming attractions that Alias is moving to Wednesdays at 10 on December 7, with the return of...Sark!)

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Drama, ABC, OpEd, Alias Sloane tells Dean that Rachel is going to the platform alone. Dean doesn't trust him, so he sends Kelly - Rachel's former best friend - to the platform first, and if she sees Rachel, to put a bullet in her head.

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Drama, ABC, Alias. Bees? Water? Memory regression? Is this Alias or The X-Files? Really, really solid episode, pushing the Rambaldi story even further and also revealing some secrets about Sloane. Well, both Sloanes. ...