Andy Milder is one of th stars of the hit Showtime comedy series Weeds, which premieres its third season tonight, August 13, at 10pm.  Andy plays Dean Hodes, the unfortunate husband of the domineering Celia (Elizabeth Perkins).  At the end of the second season, Dean discovered his wife was having an affair with his best friend, Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon).Andy spoke to BuddyTV about the upcoming season, working with new cast addition Matthew Modine, and some of his favorite film and television roles during his long career.  Below you will find the complete interview transcript as well as the mp3 audio file. Read more »

Tonye Patano plays the drug dealing grannie Heylia James on the Showtime comedy Weeds.  The show‘s third season premieres tonight, August 13, at 10pm.  At the end of season two, Heylia sold out Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) to the Armenians by agreeing to pay them in exchange for them killing Nancy‘s DEA agent husband.  The payment was supposed to be from the money Nancy made by selling her homegrown weed to drug dealing rapper U-Turn, but when U-Turn decided to just steal the weed, she was left in a Mexican standoff with guns pointed at her by everyone.Tonye spoke to BuddyTV about her career, her initial reaction to her role on Weeds, and what‘s in store for her character in season 3 with the addition of new cast members Matthew Modine and Mary-Kate Olson.  Below you will find a complete transcript of the interview as well as the mp3 audio file. Read more »

The return of Weeds season 3, which premiered on August 13, came with an eye-catching publicity photo featuring its lead star Mary-Louise Parker.  While posing naked may be an issue for some celebrities, for the 43-year-old actress, however, it was not a big deal. In fact, she was even more bothered that her photo partner that came in the form of a snake."I didn‘t think I was going to do it actually," Parker told AP Radio News in a recent interview.  "But then, they were there and the snake was there, and I didn‘t want the snake to win, so I put the snake on…And actually, I grew to really love the snake - by the end of the day." Read more »

The third season premiere of Weeds produced a new high for the series, having beaten its previous opening numbers.  It drew in 824,000 viewers, all eager to find out what happens to suburban-mother-turned-drug-dealer Nancy Botwin.Fans of the show were left hanging when the second season ended with Nancy in a Mexican stand-off with five armed gangsters.  With no cellphone signal and her big stash of marijuana mysteriously missing, Nancy virtually had no way out of the dangerous situation.  When the third season began last month, Nancy was right where viewers expected her to be: facing five guns and trying to make the phone call that would save her life. Read more »

Mary-Kate Olsen‘s fame didn‘t necessarily secure her the part of Tara on Showtime‘s hit series, Weeds.  In fact, series creator Jenji Kohan said they decided to add Olsen to the cast not because of her celebrity status, but because she delivered a solid performance during her audition with costar Hunter Parrish. ‘‘The truth is we‘re so protective of the show,‘‘ Kohan said to Entertainment Weekly.  ‘‘We don‘t stunt-cast.  She earned that part.  It‘s weird to say that she‘s trying to break into the business, because of her status, but she is and she should have her shot.” Read more »

Playing a not-so-likable character on television does have its perks, and for Emmy-nominated actress Elizabeth Perkins, best known as manipulative soccer mom and PTA member Celia Hodes on Weeds, it is getting the opportunity to unleash one‘s own "bad" side on a regular basis. "It‘s so much fun for me to let out all my inner demons on someone like Celia," Perkins told the New York Daily News.  "She‘s a horror show.  She wins the prize for worst mother of the year.  I kind of based her on moms I‘ve seen on the soccer field and moms I‘ve met whose children I‘ve worked with.  They are sort of living out their dead dreams on their child - everything they didn‘t have or everything they never became." Read more »

Mary Louise Parker, is closely resembling her Weeds character as a single mother of two.  The actress now has a new baby aside from her three-year old son, Will. The 43-year old actress has just adopted a baby girl from Africa.  No further details are available as yet about the child. Read more »

Justin Kirk, who currently stars as Andy Botwin on the Showtime television series Weeds, is feeling the pressure to live up to fans‘ expectations following several rave reviews about the dark comedy series, as well as his acclaimed acting.  While the show has recently earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series, the 38-year-old actor has also distinctly been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series. Despite the praises, he says that he doesn‘t let it go to his head. Read more »

Romany Malco is one of the stars of Showtime‘s unapologetically funny, Weeds.  Malco stars alongside series lead, Mary-Louise Parker, as Conrad Shephard, son of the woman who supplies Parker‘s character, Nancy Botwin, with the marijuana for her weed-selling business.Malco, who came to prominence by playing rapper MC Hammer on the biopic Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story and more recently, as the trash-talking, womanizing Jay on the Steve Carell vehicle, The 40-Year Old Virgin, sat down with Showtime to discuss how his experience on Weeds has made him an overall better actor and artist. Read more »

To Weeds or not to Weeds – was that ever a dilemma for Mary-Louise Parker when she was offered the starring role in the critically acclaimed Showtime series?  As a mother, was it ever a point of argument for the 43-year old actress to essay the role of a dope-dealing suburban mom?  Ironically, Weeds was exactly the financial medicine Parker needed when the show came along just as she began raising her son as a single parent. When Mary-Louise Parker and her longtime boyfriend, actor Billy Crudup, called it quits back in 2003, Parker was seven months heavy with their son, William Atticus, who was born in January the following year.  Gainful employment that wouldn‘t take her away from her young child became a priority for the actress, who found precisely what she was looking for when the script for Weeds fell into her lap. Read more »

Nudity in a show about a pot-dealing suburban mom?  So it‘s not so far-fetched, as the publicity photo featuring Weeds star, Mary-Louise Parker, and her scaly, constricting friend showed us to drum up attention ahead of the premiere of the Showtime series‘ third season. Another Weeds actress has just declared complete willingness to bare it all, for Weeds or other small-screen projects. Read more »

Showtime‘s Weeds is still several weeks away from its third season finale, but the cable network has already renewed the highly-followed drama series for another year. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Showtime has placed an order of 13 episodes, with production for the new season slated to begin sometime in April.  The new season is then expected to debut in the summer.  Read more »

The third season of Weeds is coming to an end, and producers are claiming that the finale will change the show forever, despite it being too close to home.  The big season ender is set to air on Monday, November 19, but fans need not worry, as the show will return for another season next year. Those who want to find out what happens in Weeds‘ third season finale, read on. Read more »

The third season of Showtime‘s Weeds is coming to an end tonight, and as previously reported, the show‘s finale hits quite close to home.  With a wildfire quickly approaching, the residents of Agrestic, California are being forced to flee their homes.  This includes, of course, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and her two sons, Silas (Hunter Parrish) and Shane Botwin (Alexander Gould), but in tonight‘s episode, viewers will see why Nancy is experiencing a little bit of difficulty leaving home. Want to peek into the third season finale of Weeds? Read on for some mild spoilers. Read more »

It looks like the strike is petering out.  If this is how the thing has to end (with a smattering of interim agreements from the different independent movie houses), then so be it.  At least some studios have come to their senses.  Just this weekend, Lions Gate and the WGA reached an interim agreement that allows their under-contract writers to return to work.  While Lions Gate is mostly known for their films, they also produce Weeds and Mad Men, two of the most highly touted cable shows currently running.  This means that, this week, Mad Men writers are returning to work on season 2 and the Weeds scribes are coming back to work on their fourth season.  Read more »

After months of separation, Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have rekindled their romance and is now ready to walk down the aisle. The couple reportedly got back together on the set of Weeds, where Morgan previously guest starred as Parker‘s onscreen husband, Judah Botwin.  Upon their off-screen reunion, they made their relationship public last December, when they attended the U.S. premiere of Morgan‘s film P.S. I Love You, which is a romantic drama based on a novel about a young widow who discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.  During the premiere, Parker and Morgan were seen holding hands. Read more »

Weeds‘ star Mary Louise Parker has broken off her engagement with actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan.  The couple, just over a month after getting engaged, have now parted ways once again in what has become a classic on-again off-again relationship.  Parker and Morgan hit it off originally on the set of Weeds where Morgan played Parker‘s now-deceased husband.  They had a brief romance at the beginning of 2007, but soon after that they broke up.  Then, near the beginning of 2008, the couple rekindled their relationship, culminating in their surprise engagement last month.  The two have now, apparently, parted ways again, but if we are to believe the sources, they‘ve done so amicably.  According to the Associated Press, Morgan and Parker remain good friends and hold each other in the highest regard. Read more »

In case you‘ve missed an episode of Weeds season 3, you can catch the dark comedy drama when it comes out on DVD on June 3, which is two weeks prior to the premiere of the highly anticipated fourth season.  But unlike previous releases, this particular DVD set will consist of environmentally friendly materials.Lionsgate, the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, has come up with an initiative called “Green,” which promotes the use of 100 percent recyclable materials.  In line with this, the company is also evaluating other options throughout its filmed entertainment operations, including the development of standards for benchmarking the success of various environmental initiatives and cost-benefit analyses of diverse programs designed to promote environmental friendliness. Read more »

Showtime has officially entered Mary-Kate Olsen in the Emmy race for best guest actress in the dark comedy series Weeds for her role as Tara Lindman.  This potentially puts her against Lindsay Lohan, who is set to play an old schoolmate of America Ferrera‘s character Betty Suarez on Ugly Betty‘s May 22 season ender, and Britney Spears, who guest starred as a receptionist on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Submitting an Emmy entry costs several hundred dollars, which means Showtime is quite serious about backing up Olsen in the race.  There is no word yet on whether CBS is officially entering the Britney Spears episodes or whether ABC will put up cash on Lindsay, though many speculations have already been circulating. Read more »

Weeds is clearly going to roll with some big changes when the fourth season airs on June 16.  Comedian Albert Brooks will be stepping in as Nancy‘s estranged father-in-law, while Tonye Patano (Heylia James) and Romany Malco (Conrad Shepard) have been downgraded from regulars to recurring cast members.  You can read more about these on this previous article.  On top of that, the Showtime dark comedy is reportedly adding Julie Bowen to the upcoming plot.Nothing is officially yet but TV Guide‘s Michael Ausiello is confident about the Weeds casting news.  Bowen, who is perhaps best known for her role on the television series Ed where she played high school English teacher Carol Vessey and the love interest of the protagonist Ed Stevens (Tom Cavanagh), is said to play a cradle-snatching single mom who "befriends" Nancy Botwin‘s (Mary-Louise Parker) son, Silas (Hunter Parrish). Read more »

Some major overhauls are in the works for Showtime‘s dark comedy series.  When Weeds returns for a new season on June 16, fans can expect the show to alter at least three elements that viewers have been accustomed to, according to the New York Post.Weeds stars Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin, a widowed housewife in an affluent California suburb, who has become an upper-middle-class marijuana dealer to make ends meet.  For three seasons, it‘s known for having the song “Little Boxes,” sung by Malvina Reynolds, played during the intro. Read more »

Academy Award-nominated actor Albert Brooks has signed on to appear in at least four episodes of Weeds, which returns on Showtime for a fourth season on June 16.  The 60-year-old comedian will be lending his signature neurotic touch as he plays the role of Len, the estranged father-in-law of Mary-Louise Parker‘s character, Nancy Botwin, according to a network rep. This will be the first live-action, small-screen character role for Brooks since his 1970s era appearances on shows like The New Dick Van Dyke Show and Love, American Style.  His non-talk show or Saturday Night Live TV appearances over the past 15 years have been limited to some sporadic voice-over work on The Simpsons.  Read more »

Nancy Botwin has not had much luck in terms of her love life but she‘s not giving up hope just yet.  As she moves to a new location, a rundown seaside California town near the Mexican border, she‘ll be meeting someone who just might turn out to be her ideal match.Of course, viewers will have to stay tuned to the fourth season of Weeds to find out if Nancy‘s newfound romance has any potential at all.  But for those who can‘t wait until June 16, read on to find out more about Nancy‘ new man. Read more »

Albert Brooks, as reported last month, will join the cast of Weeds for several episodes in the upcoming fourth season.  His recurring role on the Showtime dark comedy marks his return after almost 30 years of absence on the TV canvas since his recurring role on The Odd Couple, unless we consider his minimal talk show appearances promoting his movies and a few voice-overs on The Simpsons.  So what enticed him back to television?Based on Brooks‘ interview with the New York Times, his return to TV has a lot to do with his fondness of Weeds, the series that revolves around a widowed housewife from an affluent California suburb who becomes an upper-middle-class marijuana dealer to make ends meet. Read more »

With the fourth season premiere of Weeds just a few days away, details about the new season of the dark dramedy series are gradually emerging.  So far, we already know that there‘s going to be some huge changes this season such as the replacement of the opening theme song “Little Boxes,” the relocation to a rundown seaside California town near the Mexican border, and the addition of several actors, including comedian Albert Brooks, Boston Legal‘s Julie Bowen and Mexican actor Demian Bichir.  But among all the changes, the most shocking is the nonappearance of regulars Conrad (Romany Malco) and Heylia James (Tonye Patano). Read more »

In a summer filled with reality television, the re-emergence of one of TV‘s funniest shows is something to celebrate. Weeds, the clever marijuana comedy, returns with the premiere of its fourth season tonight at 10pm on Showtime. The series returns after a major change in last season‘s finale: the central town of Agrestic was set ablaze, as was protagonist Nancy Botwin‘s house.How does Weeds move on from such a massive overhaul? By heading full-steam ahead in a bold new direction. The Botwin clan is on the run and wind up in a beachside town on the California-Mexico border Read more »

Mary-Louise Parker, lead star of the Showtime TV series Weeds, sported an unusual accessory during Sunday‘s Tony Awards.  The 43-year-old actress, who plays widowed housewife and marijuana dealer Nancy Botwin, reportedly wore a cast after breaking a toe while filming on the set of Weeds.But Parker‘s injury doesn‘t involve just any ordinary scene.  In fact, People reports that she broke her toe during a sex scene for Showtime‘s addictive comedy. Read more »

Although Showtime‘s Weeds is dark comedy series that authentically taps on the shady dealings within the drug business, that doesn‘t mean that cast uses real marijuana while filming the pot-themed series. In an interview with FANCAST, Elizabeth Perkins, who presently stars as Celia Hodes on the show, clears the air on the kind of herbs they use, as well as her take on the legalization of weed.According to Perkins, producers of the show supply the cast with fake weed that doesn‘t actually get you stoned.  Nevertheless, the fake marijuana obviously looks, and smells like the real thing. Read more »

Despite not returning on the Showtime comedy Weeds‘ new season, fans of Romany Malco can rest assured that they will still be seeing lots of him should they choose to.  The Brooklyn, New York-native, who plays Conrad, the pot-dealing partner of Nancy (played Mary-Louise Parker), has been developing a character called Tijuana Jackson and plans to release one episode weekly on the popular video-hosting site YouTube.“[It is] the thing I‘m most excited about. T.J. is a former convict currently under house arrest.  He has three women that he lives with, women he utilized to solicit sex.  So the court has made a stipulation:  You stay out of jail as long as you support these women.  I‘m going to be releasing one episode a week on YouTube to test out the response.” Read more »

Nancy Botwin, the witty and very likeable protagonist of Showtime‘s top-rated series Weeds, is apparently a huge influence on another series currently on the works.Renowned film critic turned director Rod Laurie (The Contender) is reportedly developing a “female-driven drama” for Showtime, and says he aims to pattern the character after Botwin. Read more »

Some critics were skeptical about the big move that the harshly addictive Showtime series Weeds proffered on its fourth season.  From the comforts of suburbia, the people behind this hit dramedy decided to move Nancy Botwin, played by Mary Louise Parker, and her drug-dealing ways to somewhere perhaps more liberated – a California beach town near the Baja border. If unofficial tenets of shows are to be believed, changing the setting is a big no-no, as viewers not only get attached to the characters, they also get comfortably attached to places.  But if Weeds is about anything, it‘s about breaking conventions.  And Weeds series creator Jenji Kohan sees something positive on the change; an abundance of new opportunities for Nancy and the other cast members.  (Besides, lately, there‘ve been a deluge of suburbia-based shows, such as Breaking Bad, Big Love, and Swingtown.) Read more »

The folks at Showtime had plenty to be excited about as their panels at the TCA began. Yesterday the network finally broke through at the Emmys to score its first ever nomination for Outstanding Drama Series for Dexter and also saw acting nominations for Michael C. Hall from Dexter and Mary-Louise Parker from Weeds.While the past year brought ratings records and plenty of awards, Showtime is looking to the future. The network just ordered two more seasons of Weeds following the current one, it‘s picking up two new comedies starring a pair of top-tier actresses and a potential spin-off for The L Word. Read more »

One of the things to look forward to in the fourth season of Weeds is the introduction of Nancy Botwin‘s (Mary-Louise Parker) new love interest in the form of Mexican superstar Demian Bichir.  As reported previously, the 44-year-old actor will be appearing on the Showtime series as someone who just might turn out to be Nancy‘s ideal match when she moves to a rundown seaside California town near the Mexican border.In an interview with TV Guide, Demian Bichir talks about what‘s in store for his character on Weeds.Warning: May contain spoilers. Read more »

Popular for her role as Ruth Jamison in the 1991 film Fried Green Tomatoes, Mary Louise Parker is comfortable in playing edgy, sometimes dark roles which eventually earning her Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe awards.  In fact, the 43-year-old actress can now be seen in the Showtime series Weeds, in which she plays the struggling housewife-turned-drug dealer, Nancy Botwin.  Following the unexpected death of her husband, Nancy enters the illegal drug business to support her suburban family.In last night’s episode entitled “Yes I Can”, we saw the feisty Nancy as she fought and appealed to the big boss to get her cut in an operation.  Meanwhile, her friends Doug (Kevin Nealon) and Andy (Justin Kirk) progress in their human-smuggling mission. Read more »

We previously reported that Mexican star Demian Bichir will be appearing in the fourth season of Weeds as Nancy Botwin’s (Mary Louise Parker) new love interest.  He recently talked to TV Guide about what’s in store for the next season, and how his character will deal with being around Nancy.  He revealed that Nancy and his character, Tijuana mayor Esteban Reyes, will have a complex and dynamic relationship, and that viewers will have to tune in to find out where that particular relationship is heading.As an established actor in his own field, however, Bichir cannot escape comparing himself to the characters he plays.  In this instance, however, he says that he has something in common with Esteban, saying that “it‘s a passion for life.   Whatever he‘s involved, he‘s not going to go halfway. He‘s going to go all the way, even if that means he‘s surrendering, even if he‘s going to lose.  He‘s not afraid, he‘s willing to go all the way.” Read more »

With the fourth season of Weeds coming to a close, fans hope are already excited for the fifth and final season of the series, which hits television screens in 2009.  Meanwhile, the actors and actresses are busy tending to other projects and recently, Justin Kirk, who plays Andy Botwin in the series, spoke to the LA Times to reveal what he has been doing for the past couple of weeks.“I trucked out to New York for a while, went up to Cape Cod and saw a friend‘s play, who was one of the writers on Weeds.  You know--trying to get a job,” Botwin says.  He adds that because this last season of Weeds was short, he was able to work on a few films in between. Read more »

While the fourth season of Weeds is well underway, one of the stars of the popular Showtime series has been tending to some hosting and guest appearances.  Kevin Nealon, who plays Doug Wilson in Showtime’s Weeds, recently appeared at the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis to be part of the third annual John T. Petters Foundation Legacy Gala, which had a Barcelona theme this year.  The foundation, which supports the advancement of educational experiences for students by providing scholarships abroad, was founded by Petters Group CEO Tom Petters, and is dedicated to his late son who passed away in Florence, Italy at the age of 21.Kevin Nealon served as the event’s marquee entertainer.  Other guests included actor Christopher McDonald, Starkey Laboratories CEO Bill Austin, real estate mogul Ralph Burnet and Petters executive Mary Jeffries. Read more »

When the third season of Weeds concluded with a scene of a burned down Agrestic neighborhood, actress Elizabeth Perkins feared that she and several other cast members will be written off the show.  However, all her worries immediately vanished as she started to shoot for the fourth season of the dark comedy series."It was so funny, when we read the finale we all sort of stopped and looked at each other and said, ‘Does this mean I‘m not coming back?‘ But we‘re scheduled to do 13 episodes, we‘re heading into episode three, and a large portion of the cast is still on our show," Perkins, who portrays Celia Hodes on Weeds, told the National Ledger. Read more »

With the fourth season Weeds coming to a close, the show’s actors are now spreading their wings to conquer other more challenging acting gigs.  In fact, two of the stars of Weeds are currently working on bigger endeavors that see them on Broadway and in film.Romany Malco, who played Nancy Botwin’s (Mary-Louise Parker) business partner and love interest Conrad Shepard, is now working on a feature film entitled Saint John of Las Vegas, based on an adaptation of Dante’s Inferno, script-written by Hue Rhodes.  In the film, Malco plays a maverick insurance fraud investigator who becomes a mentor to an ex-gambler, played by Steve Buscemi.  The project, which is currently shooting in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Last Vegas, is produced by IndieVest Pictures and Olive Productions. Read more »

Weeds fans are on a roll with Season 4 of the highly-anticipated series currently underway on the Showtime network.  The network is currently airing back-to-back episodes, which begins at 9pm.  Tonight, fans will get a recap of Episode 4.1 “Mother Thinks the Birds Are After Her” at 9, then “Lady’s a Charm” at 9:30, followed by “The Whole Blah Damn Thing” at 10pm, and finally, “The Coolers” at 11pm.So what exactly is in store for tonight’s back-to-back episode?  First of all, on Episode 4.3, “The Whole Blah Damn Thing,” fans will get to see Nancy successfully pulling off her run across the border with illegal drugs and human cargo in tow.  Meanwhile, Captain Till undergoes negotiations with Celia to get her out of jail, forcing her to dig up evidence that would implicate Nancy and Guillermo.  In Ren Mar, Andy tries to convince his family, especially his father, to help end Bubbie’s misery. Read more »

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards night is coming in a few weeks and television fans cannot wait to find out who will bag a trophy on September 21st, when the awards night finally takes place.  Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker was able to land a nomination this year in the category of Best Actress, Comedy, for her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of Nancy Botwin in the Showtime series, Weeds.Recently, Newsweek gathered a handful of television actors and actresses who were nominated for an Emmy Award this year.  The roundtable included Brothers and Sisters‘ Rachel Griffiths, who was nominated in the category of Best Supporting Actress, Drama Series, Dexter‘s Michael C. Hall, who was nominated in the Best Actor, Drama category, The Office‘s Rainn Wilson, who was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor, Comedy Series and Mad Men‘s John Slattery, who was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor, Drama Series category. Read more »

The fourth season of Weeds will premiere on June 16.  Building on the success of last summer‘s hit comedy lineup, the network will once again pair off Weeds with another half-hour series.  Weeds returns for its fourth season at 10pm ET/PT, followed by the premiere of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, a British hit series starring Billie Piper (Doctor Who), at 10:30pm ET/PT.The Monday comedy schedule was announced by Robert Greenblatt, Showtime‘s president of entertainment, along with the news of the 13-episode order of Weeds that began production in April. Read more »