Television
Secret romance goes public on 'Standoff'
By TERRY MORROW
Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt star as FBI agents who try to separate their romance from their work in the drama "Standoff" (debuting 9 p.m., EDT/PDT, Tuesday, Fox).
Livingston plays Matt Flannery, and DeWitt is Emily Lehman, top-ranked negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU).
Julian McMahon ready to slice into a new season
By TERRY MORROW
Julian McMahon turned 38 recently. But he couldn't wait for the day to celebrate.
A week before, he took a day for himself _ getting a massage, a manicure and a pedicure and drinking tea.
My Network TV launches amid non-stop soaps
By ROB OWEN
The first of two new networks launching this fall begins broadcasting Tuesday, and its name is a mouthful: My Network TV.
Although the name may be big, its show budgets are small, relying on inexpensive soap operas based on the foreign telenovela format six nights a week (new episodes air Monday through Friday with a recap episode Saturday, check local listings).
MNT came to exist after The WB and UPN merged to form The CW, leaving Fox-owned UPN stations in several large cities without a network.
'Wood' Not So Dead
The first season of "Deadwood" is the finest TV ever made. The only things that interrupts the constant flow of smacktalk are scenes of people getting shot in the face or bashing each other's heads in. The characters are all such dirty bastards that you can practically smell their rancid, whiskey-drowned breath through the TV speakers. Everyone in the show is adamantly racist, sexist, unkempt and pretty much outright evil. When they tell each other "see you in hell," they really mean it. The dialogue is so rich that the scripts are veritable Cowboy Shakespeare.
