Italia Ricci plays April Carver, a 20-something going through cancer, on on ABC Family’s Chasing Life. Part of the role calls for her to wear a bald cap, but at the end of the day the extraordinary actress has to take it off. Looks like from these photos, she can’t wait for that happen. Does anyone blame her?
When it comes to the Chasing Life if you are not watching it, then you are missing out on a very special drama. The show tackles cancer, remission and being a patient or a survivor like no other show has ever done. It shows you that can live life as you do everyday, but then one day it can all change with a phone call. Unlike most other shows that have tackled cancer, the drama shows you all aspects of life with it, going through it and what happens when you beat it. Then if you do beat it, what happens if you think it is back. That is where the show stands as of now, and tonight at 9p April will find out if her worse fears are confirmed that her cancer is back or like some people in remission the anxiety is getting the best of her. All of this leads into next week’s season finale.
So if you have never seen the show, you can watch a few of the later episodes on the ABC Family app or OnDemand. I also highly suggest that when it becomes available on home video that you buy it. It can help you if, Gd forbid, you have someone in your life who is going through cancer. I know it helped me to get over a friend, who I lost to the same type of cancer, just a few months before the show debuted.
Italia Ricci and The Duff’s Robbie Amell are getting married, and like most women she has to pick out the dreamy dress for their wedding. Yesterday, the star of Chasing Life went shopping for that perfect white gown, and her face says it all. Even if you are part of the most inspirational show to ever air on ABC Family, that doesn’t mean you won’t stress about the day you’ve been waiting your whole life to happen.
Just when I thought I couldn’t love the incredible actress any more, she shares a real life moment that makes me adore her even more.
When it comes to Chasing Life, I saw the season finale that airs on March 23rd and I am in complete of awe of the excellence that the show portrays in just an hour.
Chasing Life is back on ABC Family tonight at 9p for a special Christmas episode. The episode picks up where the midseason finale left off, and we find out if Leo (Scott Michael Foster) got the surgery to save his life. We also get to see how April (Italia Ricci) is doing now that she is getting the Chemotherapy. The treatment is causing her to lose her hair and she decides to shave it all off before it falls out on his own.
Which is a good thing because now that her father’s parents (Marion Ross and Ed Asner) have come to visit, she and the rest of the family are ready to pull their hair out.
Will they be able to survive her grandparents visit? Will April survive her chemotherapy? Will Leo survive his surgery? You just have to tune in for another incredible episode of Chasing Life to find out.
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Then at 10p on ABC the Forever, the fall finale picks up where last week’s episode left off. Henry (Ioan Gruffudd) has gotten into the cab driving by his stalker, so will he finally find out who he is? Not at first because the mystery man has other plans for him. One of those plans is framing the Medical Examiner for murder. Will his stalker succeed? Will Henry die tonight?
You don’t want to miss this thrilling episode full of many twists and a surprise ending you will never see coming.
The whole season of Chasing Life has lead up to tonight’s episode at 9p on ABC Family, and it doesn’t disappoint.
Since episode one the drama has been talking about April (Italia Ricci) starting chemotherapy for her Leukemia and tonight she finally enters the hospital for her month long treatment. The first night her mom (Mary Page Keller) stays with her, but the patient doesn’t sleep. Being trapped in the hospital is emotionally hard for her. Then when she starts having visions of her late father, things get so much worse for her. She can’t handle it anymore so she calls Leo (Scott Michael Foster) to break her free from the hospital. He meets her in the hospital’s place of worship and tries to convince her to stay, but are his words enough? Will she run away with him? Especially since Dominic (Richard Brancatisano) is back. How will she explain everything to her ex-boyfriend? How will he handle her cancer diagnosis?
Not only does the show deal with all of the above, it also deals with how the side effects of chemotherapy are effecting her. What it is like to be confined to the hospital. How the nurses act differently to the patients in the ward. The emotional stress it puts on the family and friends and so much more. It is so well done, I implore you to watch their brilliant episode.
As I mentioned tonight is the midseason finale. So there will not be a new episode for a while. ABC Family informed me we are getting a holiday episode and the rest of the season will air shortly after that. I hate that we have to wait that long to find out what happens next. I really wish they would air the rest of the season straight through and then pick it up for a second season. What are they waiting for? It is the best show that the network has ever done, so I sincerely wish that they keep it going. Who agrees with me?
It is April’s (Italia Ricci) final few hours before she enters the hospital for a month long stay so she can get chemo and she wants to live life as normal as possible before then. However, when someone at works finds out her secret on tonight’s Chasing Life at 9p on ABC Family, they spread her diagnosis faster than you can say, “breaking news”.
April and Beth (Aisha Dee) go to Bruce Hendrie’s (Todd Waring) debate for Governor so that she can speak to Leo (Scott Michael Foster) about their “night” together, but he is already talking to the other press people. When Leo starts talking gibberish, it is obvious something is very wrong. Therefore, they decide that he needs to go to the hospital to be checked out.
Beth is in the auditorium while April is in the pressroom at the time. When Beth hears the ambulance, she assumes it was for April. When she finds out it isn’t, she runs into the bathroom and breaks down. One of April’s co-workers comforts her as she tells her how scared she is for her best friend. This speech will make you go through a box of tissues because it is that heartbreaking.
Beth didn’t know that the person she was crying to is April’s co-worker. When that person realizes it is April her bathroom buddy is talking about, they tell everyone at The Boston Post about her leukemia. Now, April’s normal day is anything but. Instead of letting it get to her, she writes an article that will break your heart. An article they read at the end of the episode.
But before we get to that, April goes to visit Leo at the hospital. When she’s done she runs into her doctor. The doctor shows her where she will be staying for the next month and reality has finally set in for her.
Another reality that sets in for her is that she might lose her hair to the chemo. Beth shows her what she will look like bald to prepare her if that happens.
Then it is time for April to go to her home away from home for the next month. As she leaves, the show reveals something that will make you wish you could watch next week’s episode right away. Although you will probably want some time off for your eyes to dry because there will be a lot of crying during tonight’s extremely poignant episode.
Chasing Life is proving to be one of the most powerful shows on television. Not only because it is about cancer, but because of the way they are handling it. So, if you’ve never seen the show, then you’ll want to catch up on the episodes you’ve missed on the Watch ABCFamily app and/or ABC Family OnDemand. First make sure you have enough tissues to get through it because you will need them.
If you are like me, then you are desperately going to need a laugh after Chasing Life. You will get several laughs during the season premiere of Hollywood Hillbillies on Reelz at 9p tonight.
The lease was up on the house that Mema, Michael, John and Dee Dee were staying at, so they’ve been staying in a crappy motel for the last month. None of them are happy about it, but what can they do.
Especially since Michael’s manager, David Weintraub, has been away for the last month touring with Ray-J. Now he is back and Ray-J has signed Michael on for his label, it’s time for a meeting. Ray-J might reconsider singing the ginger after he meets Mema. She actually tells him at the meeting that she watched his infamous sex tape with YKW. That’s why we adore because she will tell anyone whatever is on her mind at that moment.
Meanwhile, Weintraub will regret taking a call during their meeting because his parents invite Mema and her family over to their house for Passover. It is as crazy as you’d think it is going to be. Oy!
However, it works out because they find a place to stay. That house is will look familiar to you because we’ve seen it on another reality show. Think you can guess which one? You will just have to tune into find out.
I am so happy Mema is back on Reelz because I’ve missed her mouth so much!
