September 25, 2008
Several months ago, BuddyTV reported that Katee Sackhoff, who is perhaps best known for playing Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi series Battlestar Galactica, will be scrubbing in on Nip/Tuck for at least four episodes. Recently, however, producers have decided to give the FX drama a casting makeover, which leaves Sackhoff out of the picture.
Nip/Tuck has already set its eyes on Sackhoff's substitute. To find out about the actress, read on.
September 18, 2008
As Nip/Tuck heads to its sixth season, lead stars Julian McMahon (Christian Troy) and Dylan Walsh (Sean McNamara), as well as series regulars Joely Richardson (Julia McNamara), Kelly Carlson (Kimber Henry) and Roma Maffia (Liz Cruz), are asking FX for a hefty pay raise. Discussions have been ongoing for weeks but no one has reportedly had their request granted.
When production on Nip/Tuck's fifth season began in the summer of 2007, McMahon and Walsh saw their compensation upped to about $125,000 an episode, with Richardson following closely behind at about $100,000. Now, Richardson is reportedly seeking a rather considerable increase while McMahon and Walsh are asking to double their salaries.
August 20, 2008
Adhir Kalyan has performed a number of productions in South Africa, including theatrical adaptations of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, an adaptation of Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and the classical Shakespearean play Macbeth. But in the United States, he is popularly known for portraying exchange student Raja on Aliens in America, a sitcom that has won critical praise despite few viewers this season. Soon, however, the 25-year-old actor will be expanding his TV credits as he appears on yet another sitcom.
According to Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello, the Aliens in America star will be gracing the CBS series Rules of Engagement, the comedy from the writers of the Emmy Award-winning show Everybody Loves Raymond that looks at different relationship stages through the characters played by Patrick Warburton, Megyn Price, Oliver Hudson, Bianca Kajlich, and David Spade.
August 13, 2008
It seems that Nip/Tuck has earned quite a following, which happens to include other writers and producers who look up to creator Ryan Murphy for his brilliant ideas. The creator of the dark medical series recently announced that he will be working on another project, which sees him working with FOX’s umbrella company to work on new shows for the FOX and FX networks. Recently, we reported that Murphy is currently working on Glee, an hour-long musical comedy which will air on FOX. Nip/Tuck, on the other hand, was also reported to come to a close in 2011. That’s a good three years to keep the man busy.
However, it doesn’t end there. In fact, Murphy will be working on another show, this time for the NBC network, based on the novel Hyper-chondriac: One Man’s Quest to Hurry Up and Calm Down, a 2007 memoir written by Brian Frazer.
August 4, 2008
Nip/Tuck fans will shout for joy as the series' creator, Ryan Murphy, takes on a new project, Glee. The FOX network has announced the production of this musical comedy, which could potentially be launched March of next year.
The hour-long new series will highlight a bit of Murphy's lighter side, as he sets the show in the cutthroat world of high school glee clubs. The network gave it a green light once the script was viewed and four additional scripts had been requested. They've also been targeting to shoot a pilot for the end of the year. Murphy says that Glee is “a very optimistic, uplifting show for a very dark time.”
July 16, 2008
FX president John Landgraf made multiple programming and casting announcements about some of the network's critically acclaimed series at the Tuesday's Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, including some news about the dark medical drama Nip/Tuck.
The network announced that the series that follows the lives of two plastic surgeons, Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), will bow out after 100 episodes. On the other hand, fans will have enough time to come to terms with that since the final episode isn't slated to air until early 2011.