Just a reminder that tonight’s episode of Raising Hope, “Snip Snip,” airs at 9:30, after American Idol. Here are the previews:
Winter’s Bone wins two Spirit Awards, screenplay available online
Winter’s Bone won two Spirit Awards yesterday, for Best Supporting Male (John Hawkes) and Best Supporting Female (Dale Dickey). Black Swan and The King’s Speech won Best Feature and Best Foreign Film. The full list of winners is here.
Cinematical has posted all the Oscar nominated screenplays, including Winter’s Bone, here.
Zimbio has a couple of pics of Garret on the red carpet at the Spirit Awards and there are two short interviews with him on YouTube. He is about a minute into the first clip and a minute and a half into the second one.
Promotional stills from Raising Hope 1×15 & 1×16
Okay, airing order mess sorted. The next episode of Raising Hope is “Snip Snip” and the one with Mary-Lynn Rajskub and J.K. Simmons airs two weeks from now. I’ve added pages with photos from both episodes here: “Snip Snip,” “The Cultish Personality.”
Ep 15 airs next Tuesday at 9:30, after American Idol. From TV by the Numbers:
Next week American Idol will air on Tuesday and Wednesday from 8-9:30p and on Thursday from 8-10p. On Tuesday March 1 Raising Hope will air from 9:30-10p getting the Idol boost. Traffic Light will get that boost on Wednesday March 2 at 9:30p.
Here is the synopsis for 1×15, “Snip Snip:”
When Virginia and Sabrina discover secrets about each other, Sabrina blackmails Virginia into keeping her mouth shut. Meanwhile, Jimmy takes Burt to get a vasectomy after a family vote.
And for 1×16, “The Cultish Personality” (airs March 8):
Cousin Mike visits the Chance family after a six-month spiritual quest and brings his new wife, Tanya (Mary-Lynn Rajskub), and his three brother-husbands with him. Meanwhile, Burt tries to patch a strained father-son relationship between his brother (J.K. Simmons) and Mike, but winds up getting himself in trouble.
There are some new behind-the-scenes pics on the show’s official Facebook page.
And Raising Hope made it to #3 on Hollywood Reporter’s The Power Rankings! this week. Here is what they say about the show:
Rolling along in its stunningly funny freshman season, Raising Hope continues to really nail the combination of clueless ferocity and unexpected sweetness. The casting on this show is excellent, with Garret Dillahunt’s mastery of dopey, irritable and sensitive being one of the comic surprises of the season. Under appreciated as well.
Raising Hope spoilers, previews & PaleyFest schedule
Raising Hope will have a panel at PaleyFest 2011. Deadline has the schedule:
Closing Night: Raising Hope (Thursday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m)
Moderator: TBA
Greg Garcia, Creator / Executive Producer (schedule permitting)
Lucas Neff, “Jimmy Chance”
Martha Plimpton, “Virginia Chance”
Garret Dillahunt, “Burt Chance” (schedule permitting)
Shannon Woodward, “Sabrina”
Plus additional members of the cast & creative team
Here are some spoilers from Entertainment Weekly:
I LOVE Raising Hope, especially Maw-Maw! Any scoop? — Vic
Well, if you like relatives, you’ll love this. Next season, we’re going to meet Burt’s parents! “We actually have a story idea, but we ran out of episodes for this season to do it,” showrunner Greg Garcia tells me. “But I think that as you continue on, rather than just looking forward at these people and their lives, it’s always fun to look back and see how they became who they were. There’s a little bit of stuff [in an upcoming episode] with the cousin Mike story, where J.K. Simmons plays Burt’s brother. There’s some stuff we get into there about his relationship with his brother. But certainly I think we’re going to meet Burt’s parents in season 2 and learn more about his backstory as well. In our season finale, there’s a lot of explanation about the relationship between Maw-Maw and Burt and Virginia and their whole dynamic, as well.” Now, take your casting suggestions in comments!Please, more Raising Hope scoop! The show is so under-loved. — Gale
There will be an episode coming up where the family tackles the issue of Hope’s custody…should they all die. Leave it to Hope to make talk of a sudden, freak death funny. I’m laughing inappropriately already.
And from TV Squad:
‘Raising Hope’
Jaime Pressley and Ethan Suplee, who were regulars on the NBC sitcom ‘My Name Is Earl,’ will appear in the penultimate episode of the season as a married couple who lives in the neighborhood.
And the previews for “What up, Cuz,” with Amy Sedaris, which airs this Tuesday:
Raising Hope previews & promo
Fox has released a bunch of photos from episode 1×15, “The Cultish Personality,” with J.K. Simmons and Mary Lynn Rajskub guest starring, but they also put out a press release for another episode 1×15, called “Snip Snip.” I’m not posting any new pages until it’s clear which episode airs first, but you can see all the new stills on Pizquita.
Entertainment Weekly talked to Greg Garcia the other week and got a few interesting bits about the season finale and the babies not getting fired after this season:
“In our season finale, there’s a lot of explanation about the relationship between Maw-Maw, Burt, and Virginia and their whole dynamic,” he says of the episode that flashes back to five years ago.
Looking back is easy. Looking forward, however, is a bit trickier given that Hope is helmed by babies who will age even when the cameras aren’t rolling between seasons. (Hope is played by two sets of twins.) Thankfully, Garcia has a simple plan for that, too (because this isn’t The Simpsons, people).
“Things can always change, but the plan now is to start season 2 jumping forward in time to the point where the baby is whatever the [babies’ ages are] when we start season 2. We might even do a first episode that tells the story of what happened up until the last time we saw them,” he says. “I’d like to incorporate some home videos of the baby in that time and get some good stuff of the baby growing up so our viewers can also watch the baby grow up in those six months [we’re off the air]. At that age, with babies that little, every month they change.”
Here is the press release for “Snip Snip:”
BURT SUFFERS THE UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL
ON AN ALL-NEW “RAISING HOPE” AT A SPECIAL TIME
TUESDAY, MARCH 1, ON FOXWhen Virginia and Sabrina discover secrets about each other, Sabrina blackmails Virginia into keeping her mouth shut. Meanwhile, Jimmy takes Burt to get a vasectomy after a family vote in the all-new “Snip Snip” episode of RAISING HOPE airing Tuesday, March 1 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (HOP-118) (TV-PG D, L, V)
Cast: Lucas Neff as Jimmy; Martha Plimpton as Virginia; Garret Dillahunt as Burt; Shannon Woodward as Sabrina
Guest Cast: Cloris Leachman as Maw Maw; Trace Garcia as 3-Year-Old Jimmy; Eddie Steeples as Tyler the Gas Man; Sam McMurray as Doctor Burwitz; Leslie Thurston as Nurse; Jake Stirzel as 10-Year-Old Jimmy —
I’ve posted the synopsis and photos from next week’s (Feb. 22) ep, with Amy Sedaris guest starring, here: “Raising Hope 1×14 What up, Cuz?”
And here are four previews from tonight’s episode, “A Germ of a Story:”