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!!!
The first season of The Secret Life of the American Teenager ended with Amy giving birth to her baby and tonight at 8p on ABC Family we see how she is dealing with be a 15 year old mom. Also on the season premiere, someone will announce that they are pregnant, someone will lose their virginity and someone will die. And the person who dies will leave everyone crying including us.
If the second season is as good as the first season, I can’t wait to watch it all happen. You don’t have to be a teenager to enjoy this show, you have to like great television.
So tune into The Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABC Family at 8p and watch the new show about a gymnastics team Make It or Break It at 9p!
Tonight on the season finale of The Secret Life of the American Teenage on ABC Family at 8p, Amy gives birth to her baby. After a season of the 15 year old Amy deciding whether to have her baby or give it up for adoption, the time has come for her to meet her son. Will his birth change everything? We will have to wait until next season to find out.
ABC Family will lose the belly buttonless Kyle XY, but they renewed The Secret life of an American Teenager, Lincoln Heights and Greek plus they picked up Ruby and the Rockits, 10 Things I Hate About You and Perfect 10 according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Based on the feature of the same name, "10 Things I Hate About You" is a single-camera comedy about the Stratford sisters — the strong-willed Kat (Lindsey Shaw) and social butterfly Bianca (Meaghan Jette Martin).
"Ruby and the Rockits," from ABC Studios, is a multicamera comedy starring Patrick Cassidy as a former teen idol who has chosen to lead a quiet life with his wife and two sons. But when his former Rockits bandmate and brother (David Cassidy) shows up unexpectedly with his newfound teenage daughter (Alexa Vega) in tow, the family's life becomes anything but normal.
Set in the world of competitive gymnastics, "Perfect 10" follows a group of teen Olympic hopefuls as they train and prepare for their day in the spotlight.
I am so glad they picked up Secret Life because I love that show! I also can't wait for Perfect 10 and Ruby and the Rockits!!!
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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