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[Forever Xena]

Ju jag hållar med spidde , operations scenarne LOL

[Forever Xena]

'Nip/Tuck': Too Hot for Prison

(Friday, September 03 02:04 PM)

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) FX's drama "Nip/Tuck" hit its highest ratings ever last week, but it's pretty much guaranteed to lose a handful of viewers for its next episode.
Of course, they're not ones likely to be measured by Nielsen anyway. They're the inmates of the medium-security Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, which has just instituted a ban on the edgy series following a complaint from a female corrections officer.

"We decided it was all too much," prison spokesman Doug Harder tells the Oregonian newspaper. "Way too graphic."

The frequent and often graphic scenes of plastic surgery on the show, which stars Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon as Miami plastic surgeons, were apparently getting inmates riled up, as were regular depictions of sex. During a recent episode, a female officer reported, inmates were making catcalls and whistling at her.
"We don't like to get involved in censorship, but we were forced to take a hard look at this," Harder says.

Holly Ollis, a spokeswoman for "Nip/Tuck" producer Warner Bros. TV, says news of the show's ban at the prison raised her eyebrows a little.

"It's an unusual show, and I've heard a lot of unusual things," she tells the paper. "But this is certainly a new one for me."

[Marie Morot]

Som vanligt så reagerar de starkare på scener som beskriver sex, än som grafiskt beskriver våld.

[Kermit]

Precis. Dubbelmoralen slår till igen.

[Forever Xena]

Och de ofta blodiga operationer

[StarBld]

Jag kan faktiskt förstå varför dom gör detta. Tänk er själva i deras sits. Ni har ett helt fängelse av fångar, män, som inte kan vara med sina flickvänner, fruar eller liknande. Nu visar vi dom lite sexscener. Tror knappast att deras lust blir mindre av det.

[Johannes NA]

Som vanligt så reagerar de starkare på scener som beskriver sex, än som grafiskt beskriver våld

Amerikanska tv-bolag (de stora) är känsliga mot det mesta. Mot sex, mot svordomar .. och mot våld. Man får inte säga "shit" eller "fuck" och andra "råa" ord. Man får heller oftast inte visa lik med öppna ögon (!). Sådant är för hemskt. När C:S.I kom ansågs den nästan extrem.
Men detta är ändå ingenting mot Sverige på 80-talet. Tur att det ser annorlunda ut här nu (även om motståndet mot underhållningsvåld fortfarande är rätt påfallande)

[Spidde]

Hehe...det är lite mycket blod ibland...men ju mer blod desto högre skrattfaktor

[Forever Xena]

'Nip/Tuck' Bags Baldwin for Finale
(Thursday, September 16 08:50 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Oscar and Emmy nominee Alec Baldwin will join the cast of "Nip/Tuck" for the show's season finale next month.
He'll play Dr. Barrett Moore, the ex-husband of "life coach" Ava Moore (Famke Janssen), who has succeeded mostly in disrupting the lives of the show's lead characters. The episode is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 5.

Baldwin will be joined in the finale by Joan Rivers, who will come to Drs. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) for an unusual plastic-surgery consultation.


"Nip/Tuck," which was nominated for five Emmys this year (it won the award for best prosthetic makeup at the Creative Arts ceremony last weekend), is developing a reputation as a guest-star magnet. In addition to Baldwin, Janssen and Rivers, the series has also featured Vanessa Redgrave -- the mother of star Joely Richardson -- Aisha Tyler, Jill Clayburgh and Leslie Bibb this season.
Baldwin earned an Academy Award nomination this year for "The Cooler." He has three Emmy nominations in his career, most recently for the 2002 HBO movie "Path to War."

Other credits include "Glengarry Glen Ross," "The Hunt for Red October" and "The Royal Tenenbaums." He'll next be seen in "The Last Shot," scheduled for release Sept. 24.

[Mara Jade]

Oh, jag trodde det var en stor stjärna som skulle gästa serien..jag hade fel..

[Forever Xena]

Det nog vad man själv tyckar er en stor stjärna

F.ex om Lucy lawless hadde varet gästen hadde jag verkeligen tyckt det var en stor stjärna

[Marie Morot]

AB är ju främst med i filmer och att göra tv är väl inte hans grej annars. På så sätt är han ju en stor stjärna. Som skådis är han inte mer än habil imho.

[Johannes NA]

Alec Baldwin är ju ganska stor. Trodde först det var Adam Baldwin det rörde sig om

[Marie Morot]

Alec Baldwin är ju ganska stor. Trodde först det var Adam Baldwin det rörde sig om 

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Jo, många bröder Baldwin är det...

[rehnvall]

Är inte OZ ganska blodig/brutal med naket/sex i? eller visas inte OZ på "normala" kanaler i USA?

[Marie Morot]

Oz produceras och visas av HBO, en betalkanal. De stora, nationella kanalerna (CBS, NBC etc) hade aldrig fått igenom att göra en sån serie.

[Forever Xena]

Låt mig säga amerikaner blir shockad

Nip/Tuck's Sex-Change Shocker
by Daniel R. Coleridge


You can try to guess Nip/Tuck's twists in advance, but the FX plastic-surgery drama just keeps augmenting fans' expectations. In this week's jam-packed season finale alone, they had Joan Rivers, that serial stalker The Carver, and an over-the-top revelation: Ava Moore, the sinister sexpot played by X-Men's Famke Janssen, is really a man! Actually, it's more correct to say she's a male-to-female transsexual. Now that we didn't see coming.

"I always had [Ava's gender secret]percolating in the back of my mind," admits series creator Ryan Murphy, who had top-secret meetings with Janssen before proceeding with the story. "It was tricky. It's not every actress that you can [tell], 'By the way, you're a man,' and have them go, 'OK,' and commit."

After some initial concerns, Janssen took the plunge. "She... paused," Murphy recalls. "She just wanted to make sure it was done with grace and as a love story, which we did. She was also concerned about what I was going to show on the operating table [during Ava's genital surgery], and I told her not to worry.

"So after she approved it, I made her do a pact of silence, then I told Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon, and that was it. The scripts were a big-secret thing. They were numbered and you had to sign for them."

Even guest star Alec Baldwin was kept in the dark until he received the final episode's script. Before that, he'd only been told he was playing Famke's ex-husband, Dr. Barett Moore. Once he read it, he called Murphy to praise him for the story line's clever takeoff on Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. "Alec said, 'I have two requests — an ascot and an Indian manservant,'" Murphy laughs. "I bought him the ascot."

You may still be wondering why Murphy chose to give Ava gender issues. "I loved the hypocrisy of a life coach who's transforming other people's lives really being the ultimate creature of transformation [herself]," he says. "She's the villain you love to hate because she was so extraordinary and had so many secrets."

Murphy feels it would've been unoriginal to "just have [Ava] shot between her eyes by her son, Adrian, over the incest thing. I wanted to really humanize her. I cared about her character and I knew that there was something she was running from. Famke played that subtextually from the beginning. Everything [on Nip/Tuck] relates to the world of plastic surgery, so this fit the theme perfectly."

Look for Ava — who fled to Paris after Adrian's suicide — to return in the third season. "If you go to the fan websites, she's an overwhelming favorite," Murphy enthuses. "People are obsessed with how bad she was every week. Famke loved this show so much, she cleared almost an entire year of her schedule and turned down movies to do it! We were quite honored to have her, and she said, 'If you want me back for one or two episodes [next season], I would love to do it.' So I'm sure she'll come back."

[Forever Xena]

Question: Please say that F/X will do a third season of Nip/Tuck. I'm still reeling from last week's cliffhanger! — Miranda

Ausiello: I've got good news and bad news for you, Mir. Can I call you Mir? Cool. The good news: Yes, F/X will have a third season of Nip/Tuck. The bad news: Series creator Ryan Murphy may not be a part of it. (He wants to make movies, beginning with the Julianne Moore pic Running with Scissors.) And as he half-jokingly pointed out to me last week on the phone, "The only person in the world who knows whether Christian is dead or alive is me, so the fate of that character does rest in my hands." Sounds like someone's enjoying his newfound power, Mir.

TVguide

[Forever Xena]

'Nip/Tuck' Under Knife for Two More Seasons
(Tuesday, January 11 05:00 PM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) The plastic surgeons of FX's provocative series "Nip/Tuck" will be slicing and dicing for two more seasons.
Series creator Ryan Murphy has signed a deal with the network to stay on with the show for seasons three and four, along with executive producers Greer Shephard and Michael Robin, the cable network announced Tuesday (Jan. 11). The show's third season, consisting of 15 episodes, will debut in late summer or early fall.

"Over 'Nip/Tuck's' first two seasons, Ryan Murphy has displayed one of the sharpest and most original television voices ever," FX Entertainment president John Landgraf says. "We're overjoyed that his vision will remain in place for two more seasons."


Murphy's return wasn't assured as the show wound down its second season, despite strong ratings -- it's the No. 1 basic-cable series among adults 18-49 -- and Golden Globe nominations for best drama series and for stars Julian McMahon and Joely Richardson.
He was quoted as saying he might be done with the show after two years and a season finale in which McMahon's character, Dr. Christian Troy, appeared to be at the mercy of a killer. He was also looking ahead to directing his first feature film, an adaptation of the Augusten Burroughs memoir "Running with Scissors."

That project is still on track to begin filming in March, and Murphy will be back with the show for its next season.

"'Nip/Tuck' has been an extremely gratifying series for myself, Greer Shephard and Mike Robin to produce and direct," Murphy says. "We are anxious to being work on season three and look forward to working with our incredible cast and crew."

Landgraf also said Tuesday -- the opening day of the TV Critics Association winter press tour -- that FX would likely launch its fourth drama series during the summer. The network has two pilots from which to pick: "Thief," which stars Andre Braugher ("Homicide," "Gideon's Crossing") as a professional burglar, and "Over There," an Iraq-set military drama from Steven Bochco ("NYPD Blue") and "Mississippi Burning" writer Chris Gerolmo.

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[Marie Morot]

Bring it on, I say!

Av de två pilotavsnitten som nämns i slutet skulle jag helst vilja se "Thief" tack vare André Braugher. Han var väldigt bra i Homicide ... En serie som jag nog sätter som den främsta polisserie som någonsin gjorts.

[Kermit]

Håller med om André Braugher och "Homicide".

[Marie Morot]

Finns den serien ute på dvd än? Orkar inte googla just nu.

[Kermit]

Tror bara filmen finns ute...

[Marie Morot]

Synd, för den skulle jag verkligen vilja ha i sin helhet. Men, den kommer väl så småningom. *optimistisk*

[Mindphazer]

Härligt at serien får ytterligare fortsättning! Nu väntar vi bara på att SVT skall börja visa det dom köpt in också...