Jack and Grace, I mean Sean Hayes and Debra Messing are working together on a NBC show for the first time in 6 years and I am confused by what show it is for after seeing these pictures of their reunion. Hayes is the Executive Producer of Grimm who is guest starring on Messing’s show Smash, but the way she going after his neck it looks like she should be on his show instead of the other way around. Unless Smash is taking a much different direction this season since Vampires are so much hotter than singing shows on TV this year? Maybe they are modernizing Marilyn and we find out she really didn’t die in 1962 but instead was turned into a Vampire who works as her own impersonator who kills off her competition by bleeding them dry? Of course it is still a musical because you can’t go too far away from the original plot of the show. I’m in, are you?
Smash is cleaning house for season two and according to Inside TV the fat lady has sung for Dev and Ellis. It is not known if or for how long they will be back in the second season, but the finale made it easy for them to be written out and never heard from again.
Karen gave Dev the boot after she found out he slept with her frenemy Ivy, so if we never see him again it would make sense. When it comes to the annoying Ellis, he was fired after he proudly admitted that he poisoned the star of the show. So for him to leave quietly seems harder to believe but then again I doubt he would want to come back because they could go to the cops on him for attempted murder if he threatens them in his Ellis way.
Will you miss them? Do you want to see the curtain go down for more people and who?
UPDATE: Julia’s lovers are also out. According to The Hollywood Reporter Julia’s husband Frank and her ex-lover, who was playing Joe DiMaggio in Marilyn/Bombshell will not be around to find out if they are father of her unborn child. I can see how they can get rid of her husband, but it will be interesting to see how they will get rid of the male star of the musical.
It looks like Smash will be getting rid of the outside annoyances and make it incestuousness affair and I have no complaints about that.
UPDATE 2: Jaffrey Raza who plays Dev Tweeted this about his departure from the show, “Thnks for grt msgs!No more Dev indeed.Delighted to have been part of it and glad Dev’s off before got himself into too much more trouble!”
I can tell you that on tonight’s Smash on NBC at 10p that either Karen or Ivy will take the stage as Marilyn in front of an audience, but you won’t care because all you want to know is that Ellis finally got what is coming to him.
After Rebecca Duval is poisoned, she decides to drop out of Bombshell and now a new Marilyn will have to take her place. Will it be the green Karen or will it be troubled Ivy? Only one woman can do it and you won’t know who it will be until the curtain goes up and the credits are about to roll. Just when you think you will know who it will be something will happen and things will change and then they will change again and again.
So will Ellis be the only one shown the door tonight? Or will someone else be leaving the show? Like will Karen find about Dev and Ivy? Will Julia walk away to save her family? Will Derek finally have had enough?
You will have to tune in for a season finale that is as good as the season premiere.
People have been singing the praises of Smash since before it aired last month, and now NBC is doing the same by renewing the singing drama for a second season. The news is not really a surprise because it is the network’s highest rated scripted show.
BTW I am so happy NBC finally made a good decision because they have made plenty of bad one. Plus it didn’t hurt that the show has been the network head’s baby since he ran a little cable network and brought it over from there.
Finally after weeks of teasing us with the Marilyn showcase, the show will finally make its debut on NBC’s Smash tonight at 10p. An event that should go smoothly finds itself in a position that Derek wonders if the production is cursed. The boiler is broken and it making Marilyn hot and not in a good way. Ivy’s mother has come in to town and she is a Broadway legend. Who better to play that person than Bernadette Peters who is one herself. Peters is not supportive of her daughter and that will make things difficult for Ivy as she makes her workshop debut. An affair is revealed. A cast member falls off of the stage. And I can go on, but you know want to see what else is going to happen. Oh and did I mention by the end of the night someone will be fired from the show.
So tune in for Smash, as the show gives us a retrospective of all of the original music to date and a song sung by Miss Bernadette Peters herself. Can’t make it to a Broadway show or afford it, then this is the next best thing.
