'Sicko' among nominees for IDA honors
The five nominated features in the 23rd annual International Documentary Assn. Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards competition were announced Thursday, and Crazy Love, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, Sicko, Taxi to the Dark Side and A Walk to Beautiful made the cut.
Winners will be announced at the IDA Awards gala benefit Dec. 7 at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles.
Nominees in the short-film category are Black and White, "Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy," The Fighting Cholitas, Freeheld, and A Son's Sacrifice. Nominated programs in the continuing series competition are 30 Days (FX), American Experience (PBS), American Masters (PBS), This American Life (Showtime) and Wide Angle: Season Five (PBS). Limited-series category noms are Addiction (HBO), Coming Out Stories (Logo), The Hill (Sundance Channel) and The Supreme Court (PBS).
The IDA also will present the ABCNews VideoSource Award for the best utilization of television news footage as an integral component of the work; the Pare Lorentz Award to the filmmaker whose documentary best represents the activist spirit and lyrical vision of Pare Lorentz, who was the first recipient of the IDA Career Achievement Award; and the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award.
Winners will be announced at the IDA Awards gala benefit Dec. 7 at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles.
Nominees in the short-film category are Black and White, "Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy," The Fighting Cholitas, Freeheld, and A Son's Sacrifice. Nominated programs in the continuing series competition are 30 Days (FX), American Experience (PBS), American Masters (PBS), This American Life (Showtime) and Wide Angle: Season Five (PBS). Limited-series category noms are Addiction (HBO), Coming Out Stories (Logo), The Hill (Sundance Channel) and The Supreme Court (PBS).
The IDA also will present the ABCNews VideoSource Award for the best utilization of television news footage as an integral component of the work; the Pare Lorentz Award to the filmmaker whose documentary best represents the activist spirit and lyrical vision of Pare Lorentz, who was the first recipient of the IDA Career Achievement Award; and the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award.
- 10/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Options keep ABC, Fox's pilots flying
Several pilots have received a second lease on life after the options on their actors were extended.
The principal casts of ABC's comedies The Middle and The Hill and Fox's dramedy Nurses have been extended. Also extended were two of the leads of Fox's The Cure, Oded Fehr and Anson Mount. If the Warner Bros. TV-produced medical drama is picked up to series, it is expected to undergo retooling.
Middle, from WBTV, is a single-camera family comedy starring Ricki Lake.
It is not clear how a potential starring role on a primetime series would effect Lake's chances to join ABC's The View as a co-host. Since both shows are owned by ABC, she could follow the lead of Kelly Ripa, who simultaneously starred on ABC's sitcom Hope & Faith and co-hosted ABC's Live With Regis and Kelly.
Hill, also from WBTV, is a multicamera comedic soap set in Washington starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Eric Christian Olsen and Wendie Malick.
The new comedy series that ABC has picked up so far for next season -- Cavemen, Carpoolers and Samantha Who? -- are all single-camera.
The principal casts of ABC's comedies The Middle and The Hill and Fox's dramedy Nurses have been extended. Also extended were two of the leads of Fox's The Cure, Oded Fehr and Anson Mount. If the Warner Bros. TV-produced medical drama is picked up to series, it is expected to undergo retooling.
Middle, from WBTV, is a single-camera family comedy starring Ricki Lake.
It is not clear how a potential starring role on a primetime series would effect Lake's chances to join ABC's The View as a co-host. Since both shows are owned by ABC, she could follow the lead of Kelly Ripa, who simultaneously starred on ABC's sitcom Hope & Faith and co-hosted ABC's Live With Regis and Kelly.
Hill, also from WBTV, is a multicamera comedic soap set in Washington starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Eric Christian Olsen and Wendie Malick.
The new comedy series that ABC has picked up so far for next season -- Cavemen, Carpoolers and Samantha Who? -- are all single-camera.
- 7/3/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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