July 16, 2008
The star of FX's Damages, five-time Oscar-nominated actress Glenn Close, is set to be joined by a fellow multi-awarded actress in the person of Marcia Gay Harden to bolster the already stellar lineup for its coming season. If we backtrack to the second week of June, it was reported that another Oscar-winner William Hurt (King of the Spider Woman) will play a client of Patty Hewes (Close).
Harden, who won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Pollock in 2000, will play a powerful attorney who opposes Hewes on a case. In what appears like a trend of veteran actors transitioning to guest starring roles on television series, Harden also guest-starred on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit last year and actually won an Emmy for the role.
July 15, 2008
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July 8, 2008
Last season on Damages, viewers got a taste of Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), the brilliant yet ruthless lawyer attempting to win a class-action lawsuit against Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), the former CEO of a corporation ,on behalf of his former workers, by any means necessary. While the end of the pilot season's 13 episodes was more than satisfying, it also left fans hungry for more. With the filming of the second season having just started last month, it's going to be a long wait before fans of the legal drama get a hold of new episodes. In the meantime, here are some spoilers to ease the wait.
Warning: Major spoilers ahead.
June 26, 2008
Last week, FX announced that Academy Award-winner William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider-Woman) will join the cast of Damages for its upcoming second season. This week, another actor has been recruited to add even more zest to the legal drama.
Timothy Olyphant, perhaps best known for playing sheriff Seth Bullock on HBO’s Deadwood, has signed on for a season-long arc on Damages, playing a guy who enters Ellen’s (Rose Byrne) life and becomes entangled in both her personal life as she deals with her recent loss and professional struggles with boss, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close).
June 16, 2008
Damages just added some firepower to an already formidable cast. William Hurt, four-time Oscar nominee (and one time winner), has just signed on to join the cast of Damages for its second season, which is set to begin filming in New York City next week. The FX drama is coming off a critically acclaimed first season, and is another in a long line of hard-hitting original programs from the cable network. Hurt will portray a client of Glenn Close's attorney character Patty Hewes. This marks a reunion of sorts – Close and Hurt co-starred in The Big Chill twenty five years ago. They have not shared the screen since.
December 24, 2007
Check out all our lists for BuddyTV's Top 7 of '07 to relive the best and the worst of the year in television.
John Kubicek ranked Damages 2nd. He says...
No one is more surprised than I that when I put together my top shows of 2007 list, the FX drama Damages not only made it, but came in as the second best show of the year. When I first saw the pilot, I was instantly in love with the complex tale of a ruthless corporate lawyer named Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) trying to take down rich CEO Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson). From the start, the two were engaged in combat, a real life chess match in which their friends, families and associates are all merely pawns.
December 13, 2007
The nominations for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning, and in the television categories, there's a good chance you haven't seen most of the nominees unless you have cable. But unlike other awards shows where HBO is the cable giant, this year's nominees come from a wide variety of cable networks.
FX's Damages led all TV shows with a total of four nominations, while shows like AMC's Mad Men about ad executives in the 1960s and Showtime's Californication about a struggling, self-destructive writer and The Tudors about Henry VIII, all received multiple nominations. Meanwhile, established network hits like Heroes, Lost, Desperate Housewives and 24 were completely shut out. Continue reading for the full list of TV series nominees.
November 12, 2007
Good news for people who like quality television: FX has renewed its legal thriller Damages for not one but two additional seasons. The news comes nearly three weeks after season 1 ended, and those interested in more adventures of unscrupulous lawyer Patty Hewes and Associates will be in store for at least 26 more intense episodes.
The critically acclaimed series never had the same ratings success as fellow FX dramas Nip/Tuck or Rescue Me, but that hasn't stopped the network for giving it the greenlight. While cable channels like HBO are in a state of flux without marquee programs like The Sopranos, FX has built an arsenal of some of the finest television you're likely to see.