On Tuesday 10 Things I Hate About You had its season finale and today Jen from Watch with Kristin confirmed that the show was picked up for 10 more eps starting early next year!!! The show is based on characters from the 1999 movie, but as the season went on it became its own and got better with each episode, so I am thrilled we are getting more. I especially love how Kat and Patrick’s relationship is playing out, check out Watch with Kristin to see what is coming up for them in the next 10 on 10 Things!!!
Now if only ABC Family would renew Ruby and the Rockits I would be as high as a rocket could go!!!
UPDATE: Alexa Vega just Tweeted that Ruby and the Rockits was not picked up. I am so sad now because I really loved the show that had something for every family member in your household. BTW show ABC Family what a mistake they made and watch the show this Tuesday at 8:30p when Shirley Jones will once again play David Cassidy’s mother.
ABC Family’s Ruby & the Rockits really is a fun set to be on, not only because all 4 of the Cassidy brothers are working on it but also because the kids on the show know how to play a good prank or two on each other! Alexa Vega might be playing the cousin of Austin Butler and Kurt Doss, who are playing brothers but really these three are more like siblings than co-stars.
I recently did a set visit and the three of them told us about the practical jokes that happen when the camera is off. Here are the pranks that they played on each other and see how they don’t know who did what to who.
Austin’s cereal… Austin: So I was having to eat Cap’n Crunch in the scene, and I left for a second, and they filled it with salt. I didn’t want to eat it because it’s soggy and I don’t like soggy cereal, and then they were like, “Oh, no, it’s really good. Cap’n Crunch is really good soggy.” So I was like, “Okay, I’ll try it.” And so not only was it soggy, it was salty like crazy. So it was terrible. Alexa: We were in the middle of shooting a scene a couple weeks ago, and we’re supposed to be eating breakfast at the table, and I was like, “Hey, Kurt, watch this.” And I totally unscrewed the salt lid, and I’m like pouring salt all over Austin’s cereal. And that was probably a bad idea because it suddenly unlocked this thing in his mind that that’s okay. “I didn’t know we could do that.” I was like, “Oh shoot, I probably shouldn’t have done that because we’re going to get in trouble now.”
The bra on Austin’s door… Kurt: Well, I found a bra inside our dressing room. It’s like just right around this corner before we get to the stage. And I picked it up and I thought, “This will be—this gives me ideas.” So, I tape it to his door. And I wrote a note on the bra when I taped it. And it said, “Wardrobe said you dropped this. Your loving brother Ben.” I asked Alexa to take a look at it. She thought it was funny. It turns out it was her bra, so twice the funny. He’s going to be the jokester. He thinks he can retaliate, but no.
How Austin and Alexa protect themselves against little Kurt: Austin: Last Friday, while we were doing the show, the audience was here, we had one scene in between our scenes that we were going to be in, and I saw him walking with this group of keys. And he had been warning me all day that he was going to get me. And I was like, “Oh, this can’t be good.” So I went to my room, and I hid in my bathroom. And sure enough, five minutes later him and four guys came in there, and Kurt’s like, “Oh, here’s the plan. We’re going to put all his furniture in the middle of the room.” And then they had this huge thing of Saran Wrap, and I came out and I screamed at him. And he’s like, “Oh. You got me.” So yeah. He was going to Saran Wrap all my furniture together. Alexa: And my boyfriend shows up on set the next Friday after he heard about all these jokes going on, and Kurt was planning on playing another joke on Austin. And my boyfriend walks up to him, and he’s a producer, and he goes, “Listen, Kurt, I’m going to say this once. I know where to find 300 live tarantulas. Don’t think about messing with Alexa’s room. That’s all I’m saying.” And Kurt’s just like, “Yes sir,” and walk away. But yeah, I was just like what if he gets me? I don’t want to get messed with. I just want to be the one that helps him out. So we have a couple cool ideas that we’re going to try on poor Austin. He’s like the poor guy that gets picked on. But I’m sure I’ll end up getting hit one of these days.
Souds like Austin needs to be just as afraid of Alexa as he is of Kurt.
BTW besides playing jokes on each other, these three actors’ futures are really bright. Alexa Vega can sing and act and even though she has been doing this for a long time, she is still so sweet and respectful and unspoiled by Hollywood. Austin Butler is an up and coming teen idol as he should be because like Alexa he can sing and act, plus he has the hair that drives girls crazy. And then there is 13 year old Kurt Doss who is like the cutest thing ever. We all fell in love with this little man the second he started talking. He is funnier than most of the comedians that are 2, 3, 4 and 5 times his age.
Ruby and the Rockits is as fun to watch as it sounds like it to work on. So check it out tonight and every Tuesday night at 8:30p on ABC Family after 10 Things I Hate About You.
Tonight on ABC Famly's 10 Things I Hate About You Bianca and Dawn want to raise money, so they create a web reality show. When they realize what makes them more popular they keep taking things further and further including going as far as they do in those pictures. If you really want to see to how much further they will take it tune into 10 Things on ABC Family at 8p! BTW I was on the set the day they filmed this scene for a set visit and the show's creator Carter Covington told us they originally wanted Bianca to sell her panties to guy in a Japan, but ABC Family said no to that and yes to same-sex kiss! How far the network has come!!!
Tonight at 8:30p on ABC Family, we really get to see Ruby and her family band together as they try to help each other out from getting into trouble on Ruby & The Rockits! When Jordan calls Ruby to say he needs a ride a home because his designated driver is too drunk to drive she borrows her uncle’s car, that he doesn’t let anyone drive, to pick him up. The three (including Ben) think they got away with the perfect crime until her uncle realizes someone drove his car. Ruby asks her dad, David to take the blame and he does but wait to see how he blows it thus the title “Do You Want To Blow a Secret?”! What I really loved most about tonight’s episode is we are really getting to see Ruby and her new found family work together!
Ruby & The Rockits really is a show that everyone in the family can enjoy, so sit down with your family and watch it tonight and every Tuesday at 8:30p after 10 Things I Hate About You!
BTW I know I said I would post about the non-Cassidy family members from the set visit today, but with the TCAs everything is getting delayed. So next Tuesday find out about all the pranks on the set. And don’t forget to see teen idol Austin Butler in the movie Aliens In The Attic that is out now!!!
For the first time in David, Shaun, Patrick and Ryan Cassidy's lives, the four brothers are working together. So what brought this Showbiz legacy of a family all together? Well Shaun Cassidy pitched a show to ABC Family called Ruby & The Rockits with his brothers Patrick and David in mind and then hired his baby brother Ryan to set design and the rest is TV history. So what is it like for these brother to work together? As someone who has been on the set, it is like going to family reunion where the brothers recapture their childhood and everyone wants to hang with them and they want you to do the same. It really is a family atmosphere on the set. The Cassidy brothers aren't the only ones of their family to work on the show, Patrick's wife Melissa Hurley, who was a dancer in the '80s and '90s music video, choreographs the '80s video dance numbers and last week it was confirmed that David's TV mom and Shaun, Patrick and Ryan's real mom, Shirley Jones will appear on an episode as guess what…their mom. In fact Friday nights when the show tapes 3 generations of the family come out to watch Ruby & The Rockits and because there are so many of them, I think that is why the show's taping are always sold out and that was before the show even aired! Joking! It really is a show with someone and something for everyone in your family!
Ruby & The Rockits is loosely based on the Cassidy Family and things they have been through. Kind of how like when Ruby surprised David in the pilot by telling him he is her dad, David did that with his brothers with Katie. According to Shaun when the Melrose Place star was 15, David brought her along to dinner one night with his brothers and then he said, "Oh, and by the way, this is my daughter, I’ll have the chopped chicken liver and the…”. That was the first time they met and learned about her. Shaun is the family man like Patrick and Patrick is the father of 2 boys like his character. In fact Shaun told us when he originally pitched the show, he wanted Patrick to play the rock star and David the dad, thankfully they switched that out.
The three other brothers talked about their experience with the show and working together. David being the eldest took credit how it was idea that got the ball started!
Well, my brother and I had a phone call about a year and a half ago—Shaun and I. And I had the germ of the idea of doing a family show, which we have talked about—Patrick and I haven't talked about working together and said, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could,”—I’m trying to think of the original conversation that just sparked the idea. And he ran with it, you know. That’s what he does and he does it well. I said a music show satirizing our family, my persona, his, and Patrick and I have always wanted to work together.
And I said, “You know, it’d be great if we could get Ryan as well. Then the four of us can work together for the first time,”
Patrick summed it up best what it is like for the 4 Brothers to work together:
There’s no downside to it, because even when—let’s say Shaun and I have a disagreement or Dave and I have a disagreement, this is the only job I know where I can go to the Executive Producer and he can yell and scream at me, and I can yell and scream back at him and I still have a job the next day. You know what I mean?
So, it’s a collaborative effort. And like Katie was saying, I’m always wondering what the crew people and the other actors think about what it’s like from the outside looking at us all doing this together. I think they get how much we care about each other. I think they get how much it means to us to be able to do this, to have the privilege to do it together. I think they feel all of that. And I think they feed off of that. So, there really isn’t a downside. There really isn’t.
It’s a funny thing. I’ve said this. I’m really getting paid to have therapy, because I’m getting to do it with my family. And you learn stuff about your family when you work with them as opposed to just hanging out with them every Christmas.
And baby Ryan put it all in perspective:
I love working with my brothers. I come every day, and it’s great. You know, it’s a little surreal actually, because I’ve been doing this for so many years on different shows, to go to work and actually see all your, you know, all your siblings, is great, actually. It’s been such a joy to do. So, I’m having so much fun. And I’m very grateful for it because it’s a once in a lifetime kind of opportunity, I think. So, I’m enjoying every moment of it, and it makes the work just that much more enjoyable to do. I actually don’t see it as work. I see it as enjoy, you know. So, it’s great.
As you can Ruby & The Rockits is a show the whole family can enjoy because it really is a family show. What other sitcom on TV today can say that? So tune into ABC tonight at 8:30p to feel like part of The Cassidy Family! On tonight's episode Ruby is adjusting to living with Patrick, his wife and their two sons and finally getting to know her dad. What better way for her to get to know him, but to organize a father/daughter dance at her school. Will David disappoint her or will he make her proud. Believe me you will want to tune in to see what he does because it will definitely having you LYAO!!! BTW I have to admit that I was kind of nervous that the show wouldn't be as good as the pilot and after seeing the 2nd and third episodes, I have to say I was right because the show was not as good as the pilot…it was a whole lot better! Seriously this show gets btter with each laugh!!!So make sure to check it out tonight and every Tuesday on ABC Family at 8:30p! Next week see what the non-Cassidy Family members had to say about working on the show, and which one of the brothers is their favorite…hint they all the same thing!!!
ABC Family has picked up its new hit drama Make It or Break It for 10 more episodes to air early next year. I love that MOB is the perfect mix of romance and friendship with gymnastics. It is really interesting to watch what the athletes go through in order to compete to make it to Olympics and it was about time someone did a show about it. I am so happy that ABC Family wasted no time in picking it up for 10 more episodes! Now hopefully they will do the same ASAP for 10 Things I Hate About You and Ruby & The Rockits!
Make It or Break It airs on ABC Family Mondays at 9p, so make sure to catch it tonight!
ABC Family has been striking gold with its new shows like The Secret Life of an American Teenager, Make It or Break It and 10 Things I Hate About You, and I think the best one is premiering tonight at 8:30p. Ruby & The Rockits is a family show that has someone and something for everyone in your household. It might be because this really is a family show. For the first time all 4 of the Cassidy brothers (David and Patrick star, Shaun created it and Ryan does set design) are working together and you don’t have to be of Cassidy blood to feel like part of the family and that is what I love about it so much.
Ruby & the Rockits is the story of ’80s rock star, David, who finds out one day he has a teenage daughter, Ruby. Not prepared to raise her on his own, he goes to his brother, who he used to sing with back in the day and now they don’t make sweet music together, to help him out. Patrick is now a successful business man and happily married father of two sons. Will he be willing to help his brother out and how will his family feel about have a new member? Being a family sitcom, they will work it out thanks to Ruby and Audie (Patrick’s wife and former-video vixen for them) who will work their magic to get these dueling brothers together and little by little they will do it in funny one liner ways! I can’t wait to see what other antics this non-traditional, but in ways traditional family get in to!!!
Ruby & The Rockits has a lot of true stories from the Cassidy family life in it like David having a daughter his brothers didn’t know about until one day he surprised them with Katie. It is little tales like this that make this show seem a little more realistic, and the humor is just such a bonus. Seriously I can’t get over how hysterical and likable it is. You would think because this show is on ABC Family that the humor would be all like G rated, but let me tell you there are some PG-13 laughs coming up in the future episodes.
Now when it comes to the cast, they are like a true family and I am not just talking about the two real life brothers. They sincerely have an amazing chemistry that takes some shows years to get. David Cassidy is perfect as the former-teen idol rocker and not just because he was one but because his timing and delivery is beyond perfect. He will have you cracking up so hard you might split your tight leather pants. Alexa Vega is so adorable as his daughter, not only can she can act but her voice is as beautiful as her. Patrick Cassidy is great as the former rocker, now perfect dad who longs for yesteryear. Katie Amber Keane really handles being the mom and the mediator between the two brothers well. Austin Butler, who plays the older son Jordan, is the current teen idol of the show and I wouldn’t be surprised if he is on all the teen mags soon because he is going to drive all the teen girls crazy with his looks, acting and singing. But he might have some competition from Kurt Doss, who plays his younger brother Ben, who is the cutest pre-teen boy out there in Hollywood. He will and should give the Jonas Brothers a run for their popularity. Seriously he is so freaking awwwdorable and funny you just are going to love him the second you hear him deliver one of his wisecracks on the show. It really is a dream cast and show that you will find yourself addicted to before the first commercial break!!! And I haven’t even mentioned the awesome ’80s flashback videos that everyone on the cast and crew love putting together. Here is a little tidbit, the clothes that David Cassidy is wearing in them is from his closet of that time and yes ladies he still fits into them!!!
Last week I did a set visit for this delightful show and later today, I will post what the 4 brothers told us about working together next week and following week I will tell you about the rest of non-Cassidy family cast!!! It was a lovely day to go with feel good show!
Please check out Ruby & The Rockits tonight and every Tuesday night at 8:30p for a show that everyone in your family will be able to love and enjoy!!!
Molly Ringwald gave birth to her twins, a boy and a girl on Friday according to Korbi TV!! Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos join her 5 year daughter, Mathilda Ereni. Can you tell by the names that her husband, Panio Gianopoulos is Greek?
Although production for her ABC Family show The Secret Life of the American Teenager is still going on, the show will go on because her scenes were pre-taped! Lucky for Molly her character was also pregnant, so she didn't have to hide her pregnancy.
Don't forget you can watch a new episode tonight at 8p on ABC Family.
IN OTHER BABY NEWS: Mira Sorvino had a baby boy, Holden Paul Terry Backus on June 22 after a very difficult pregnancy according to People!
“As soon as they placed him in my arms I knew it had all been worth it,” Sorvino, 41, says. “He is my miracle baby. With everything that threatened this pregnancy and both of our lives, he came out of it completely unscathed: perfectly healthy, beautiful and wonderful!”
Holden was born on June 22 in L.A. Weighing in at 8 lbs., 12 oz., he joins 4-year-old sister Mattea, and 3-year-old brother Johnny at home. “We are overjoyed to bring our beautiful healthy son home to his brother and sister,” the couple said in a statement. “We are blessed to have a home filled with so much love.”
Mira suffered from a placenta previa, and then she developed a blood clot from lack of movement from being on bed rest. Finally little Holden wasn’t so little and came a few weeks early, but will all of that birthing him was easy and he is doing OK now!!!
Thankfully mom and som are OK after all those life-threatening complications.
ABC Family is premiering a show that everyone can relate to and enjoy, so at 8p you will want to switch your dials to ABC Family to watch 10 Things I Hate About You! It is a teen angst show that makes you want to be a teen again or wish you were that teen. The creator of the show Carter Covington has a made at least one character that we can all see ourselves as or want to be. Now I know that some of you are saying, but it is based on the movie. That it is true, but after the pilot the show will have its own feel like the great John Hughes movies of the ’80s! And who didn’t want to be Molly Ringwald or Andrew McCarthy or even Duckie?
Just like those movies, 10 Things has an amazing cast! Ethan Peck captures the essence of bad boy Patrick perfectly. Lindsey Shaw is the self-confident outcast Kat and just doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Meaghan Martin is Bianca the girl that wants to fit in and be popular. Larry Miller is there lovable dad who just tries to keep peace between his daughters and also their chastity. Talking about Chastity, Dana Davis is perfect as the bitchy popular girl. While Nicholas Braun is so adorable as the AV Squad member who has a crush on a girl that is not in his league. There are so many more characters that you eother see yourself as or someone you knew in high school!
Seriously 10 Things I Hate About is just a fun endearing show that you will want to watch over and over again! You don’t have to be in high school to love this show!!! So tune into ABC Family tonight at 8p for a show, I promise you are going to find more than 10 Things to Love About It!!!
This Tuesday at 8p, ABC Family is going to air their newest show 10 Things I Hate About You and there is nothing to Hate about this show. Last week, I went to set of the show you are going to want to watch and I learned 10 interesting thing about the show and the cast and now I am going to share them with you. 1 - How the show came about - Carter Covington, who created the show, has been working with ABC Family for a while with his own pilot and Greek and one of the directors he worked with was Gil Junger, who directed the movie 10 Things I Hate About You. So Carter would constantly ask him what it was like working on the movie. As Carter told us from those interactions, "the pilot kind of grew out of that. I mean, it was kind of, it’s been ten years, and I’d always wanted to do a show about high school. I mean, I grew up loving John Hughes movies, like loving. And no one’s ever really kind of captured that spirit to me in a series. And so when we kind of came up with the idea, I got the blessing from the writers of the original movie, who are friends of friends." And that is how we got the must watch show of the summer. Here is another tidbit, Gil Junger directed the pilot for the show. 2 - Location trivia - The real high school where they filmed the pilot at is the same HS that was used in the movie Heathers. Now the show is filmed on a set and it is same one that original Melrose Place was shot at when it aired on Fox. Here is another tidbit Carter interviewed for Melrose Place 1.0 as a PA at the same location where he is now running the show. 3 - Larry Miller aka Walter Startford the dad - The only cast member, as of now, who appeared in the movie is also blogger! If you need a laugh, because you will get one, check out his blog at Larry Miller Humor. 4 - Ethan Peck aka Patrick Verona - Ethan Peck had never been on a motorcycle before the show and now he is taking lessons to learn how to drive one. Doesn't he look good on one? 5 - Last one cast - Carter was having a problem finding the right Patrick Verona until they got Ethan Peck's audition tape from NY.
I was like, “Let’s keep this guy mysterious. Let’s give him a—let’s make him—let’s make the role—let’s find an actor who doesn’t have Heath Ledger or is like singing in the bleachers sort of extroverted energy who has more of this like ‘I’m this mysterious guy.’” And we couldn’t find him. We kept casting, we kept casting, and we kept casting. And I called the network. I said, “I think we need to, like, expand out of LA. Like, I’d really like to see if there’s anyone in New York and anyone in Canada.” And so we had some casting directors. And Ethan went on tape and I was, like, going, “Nah, nah,” through all these auditions. And he just walked on screen, and the first word out of his mouth I was like, “What?” [Laughs] “Whose voice is that?” And I didn’t know anything about his grandfather or anything like that. I didn’t know that he came from this past. We flew him out for the final audition with the network, so I’d never met him in person until the day he was auditioning. And it was just like a no-brainer. I mean, it was—literally, he came in and just—he read the scene and everyone was just kind of like, “Whoa.” And I’ve had a lot of talks with him because, Patrick I think we’re really trying to evolve in a fun and different way. And he’s a really funny guy, but it’s a real sort of understated humor. So we’re really trying to play with that and sort of evolve the character as this sort of anti-romance between the two of them where they constantly like pushing each other’s buttons and sort of getting under each other’s skin, but they’re really attracted to each other.
Here is a Ethan tidbit, the grandfather Carter is talking about is the legendary actor Gregory Peck. 6 - Lindsey Shaw aka Kat Stratford - She almost missed out on the role because she was filming the movie Devolved the day they called her to audition for the show.
Well it was great. I was actually doing a small independent film at the time, and I was working that day that I was supposed to have this audition. And my manager called the director, because it’s small, you don’t talk to any PAs on a small independent. You talk to the director. And John Cregan was just—he was a little upset about having to rework everything because it was a big rework. But he finally did it. He gave me the morning off. And so I went and I did this audition, and it was wonderful. I met Carter, and it was super fun. And the next thing I get this call, and they’re like, you know, “You’re going to network in a month.” And I was like, “Oh, all right. Awesome. Cool, cool, cool.” Went there and, you know, did the network thing. And I got a call that night from both my manager and my agent like, “Ah, you got it.” So it was kind of a tricky story on how I finally got to the audition, but it was so worth it. And I told that director, he’s like, “I knew it. I knew you’d get it.” So I’m very thankful to him for reworking all of that, or else it all might not have been. So.
Luckily for her the director worked it out, so she was able to audition. And she isn't the only lucky one because we are lucky to have her as Kat because she is amazing in the role! 7 - Meaghan Jette Martin aka Bianca Stratford - The day after our set visit Meaghan's film Dear Lemon Lima was premiering at the LA Film Fest and she said the cast was coming out to support her. As you can see she told us the truth because Kyle Kaplan, Nicholas Braun, Chris Zylka, Jolene Purdy and Ethan Peck were all there with her! (photo from WireImage) 8 - The show's HS bathroom - The sign on the bathroom door on the set says Ladies, but when you go inside it is a boy's bathroom. 9 - A kiss! - Coming up on the show two of the actresses are going to kiss. You will have to watch to find out who and why? And believe me you will want to watch. 10 - Things I Hate About You is fun show that anyone can enjoy with an amazing cast, so make sure to check it out on July 7th on ABC Family at 8p! It is the only time you will be looking forward to going to school in the summer!!!
5 - Last one cast - Carter was having a problem finding the right Patrick Verona until they got Ethan Peck's audition tape from NY.
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