When I was 9 years old, I was obsessed with the Disney Channel monster-of-the-week series, "So Weird." The show centered on a strong-willed teenage girl named Fiona "Fi" Phillips (Cara DeLizia) who used the power of information gathered from online research to help make sense of ghosts, monsters, folk legends, and other supernatural occurrences that seemed to follow her and her rockstar mom while they traveled the country on her comeback tour.
I wasn't yet a teenager and I certainly didn't own a laptop, but I could feel deep in my bones that I was just like Fi Phillips, and often fantasized what it would be like to live her life. Sometimes, the wind would blow a little too strong as I walked home from school or I'd hear a disembodied voice that was probably the result of my own imagination, and the line between my favorite TV show and my own life would blur.
I wasn't yet a teenager and I certainly didn't own a laptop, but I could feel deep in my bones that I was just like Fi Phillips, and often fantasized what it would be like to live her life. Sometimes, the wind would blow a little too strong as I walked home from school or I'd hear a disembodied voice that was probably the result of my own imagination, and the line between my favorite TV show and my own life would blur.
- 4/8/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Teen dramas aren't just for teens anymore. In 2022, "Euphoria" became HBO's second most-watched series ever, and season 3 of Mindy Kaling's comedy-drama "Never Have I Ever" continued to attract a massive audience of viewers of all ages. The genre simply continues to expand, to the delight of its many fans.
Perhaps teen dramas persist because becoming an adult is a universally complex stage of life. In her book "Teen TV," Dr. Stefania Marghitu writes, "Certain narrative elements present themselves in nearly every teen series: the protagonist feels alienated from the adolescent world she is on the threshold of entering. This conflict is intertwined with a passionate story of first love and new discoveries during the transition from child to adult." Even for viewers who are no longer teens, the thrills, pains, and misunderstandings of youth aren't too difficult to remember.
Some of the best teen dramas on TV are the...
Perhaps teen dramas persist because becoming an adult is a universally complex stage of life. In her book "Teen TV," Dr. Stefania Marghitu writes, "Certain narrative elements present themselves in nearly every teen series: the protagonist feels alienated from the adolescent world she is on the threshold of entering. This conflict is intertwined with a passionate story of first love and new discoveries during the transition from child to adult." Even for viewers who are no longer teens, the thrills, pains, and misunderstandings of youth aren't too difficult to remember.
Some of the best teen dramas on TV are the...
- 1/22/2023
- by Allison McClain Merrill
- Slash Film
The long-gestating Mad About You revival has “recast” Janeane Garofalo, who previously played Paul and Jamie Buchman’s grown-up daughter.
Per our sister site Deadline, Abby Quinn (from Black Mirror‘s “Arkangel” and this Christmas’ Little Women film) has been tapped to play college-age Mabel in the 12-episode revival, which landed on Spectrum back in March. Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt will reprise their signature roles in the “limited series,” bowing late this year.
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Per our sister site Deadline, Abby Quinn (from Black Mirror‘s “Arkangel” and this Christmas’ Little Women film) has been tapped to play college-age Mabel in the 12-episode revival, which landed on Spectrum back in March. Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt will reprise their signature roles in the “limited series,” bowing late this year.
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- 8/15/2019
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Abby Quinn (Landline) is set to star opposite Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser in Mad About You, the upcoming limited event series for Spectrum Originals, a follow-up to the popular 1990s NBC comedy series.
Quinn will play Mabel, the grownup daughter of Paul (Reiser) and Jamie (Hunt) Buchman.
In its return, Mad About You will explore the modern marriage through the eyes of the Buchmans (Reiser and Hunt) as newly minted empty-nesters after dropping their unpredictable, hard-to-control daughter Mabel off at college.
On the original sitcom, Mabel — whose name was an acronym derived from a saying that Jamie’s mother liked: “Mothers Always Bring Extra Love” — was introduced at the start of Season 6. The infant/toddler was portrayed by two sets of twins during Season 6 and the show’s final seventh season. In the Season 6 episode “Letters to Mabel,” an 18-year-old Mabel is played by Meredith Bishop. In the series finale,...
Quinn will play Mabel, the grownup daughter of Paul (Reiser) and Jamie (Hunt) Buchman.
In its return, Mad About You will explore the modern marriage through the eyes of the Buchmans (Reiser and Hunt) as newly minted empty-nesters after dropping their unpredictable, hard-to-control daughter Mabel off at college.
On the original sitcom, Mabel — whose name was an acronym derived from a saying that Jamie’s mother liked: “Mothers Always Bring Extra Love” — was introduced at the start of Season 6. The infant/toddler was portrayed by two sets of twins during Season 6 and the show’s final seventh season. In the Season 6 episode “Letters to Mabel,” an 18-year-old Mabel is played by Meredith Bishop. In the series finale,...
- 8/15/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The Mad About You revival at Charter's Spectrum Originals has found the third member of the Buchman family.
The limited series, due in late 2019 on the platform, has cast Abby Quinn as the college-age Mabel, daughter of Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt). The show will pick up with the couple dropping the unpredictable Mabel off at college and becoming empty nesters.
The original series, which ran from 1992-99, introduced Mabel as a newborn during its sixth season. Older versions of the character were played by Meredith Bishop, Cara DeLizia and Janeane Garofalo in flash-forward scenes, the ...
The limited series, due in late 2019 on the platform, has cast Abby Quinn as the college-age Mabel, daughter of Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt). The show will pick up with the couple dropping the unpredictable Mabel off at college and becoming empty nesters.
The original series, which ran from 1992-99, introduced Mabel as a newborn during its sixth season. Older versions of the character were played by Meredith Bishop, Cara DeLizia and Janeane Garofalo in flash-forward scenes, the ...
- 8/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Four of the newer cast members on David E. Kelley's Fox drama series Boston Public -- Joey McIntyre, Jon Abrahams, Cara DeLizia and China Shavers -- will not return to the David E. Kelley Prods./20th Century Fox TV series in the fall. All four became regulars on the series last year, with Shavers first joining the show in 2001 as a recurring. The move is not unusual for the ensemble drama, which saw the departure of original cast members Jessalyn Gilsig and Rashida Jones and the recruitment of McIntyre, Abrahams and DeLizia last season. Casting changes on Kelley's other returning series this fall, ABC's The Practice, have drawn a lot of attention in the past week, with the producer deciding not to pick up the options of six of the legal drama's stars, including Dylan McDermott and Lara Flynn Boyle (HR 5/20). Boston Public, executive produced by Jason Katims and Jonathan Pontell, is set to move from its Monday 8 p.m. slot to Fridays at 9 p.m. in the fall.
- 5/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Presidio Med star Blythe Danner is staying in business with CBS and Warner Bros. TV with a starring role in Charlie Sheen's comedy pilot Two and a Half Men. Meanwhile, Thomas Ian Nicholas and John Ducey have joined CBS' untitled Nicole Sullivan comedy pilot, while Sasha Barrese has been cast in the WB Network's comedy pilot Run of the House. In other pilot casting news, Cara DeLizia, Stark Sands and Kerry Butler have been tapped to star in Fox's untitled twins comedy pilot, and Chris Sieber has been added to the cast of ABC's untitled Flett-Giordano/Ranberg comedy pilot.
- 3/31/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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