Busy Philipps is getting a new late-night talk show. The host of short-lived E! talker “Busy Tonight,” Philipps will return to the genre with “Busy This Week,” which will stream on shopping network QVC’s streamer, QVC+.
Per QVC+, “During each half-hour episode, viewers will join Busy on the couch to get an unscripted take on whatever has kept us busy this week. From celebrity guest interviews and laugh-out-loud moments to personal stories and her favorite curated shopping finds, Busy will give her audience a healthy dose of [retail] therapy.”
The show will launch May 8 at 10 p.m. Et. QVC+ says Season 1 will be “split,” with the first 10 episodes released weekly on Wednesdays, and then four holiday-themed episodes premiering later this year in November and December for a total of 14 episodes.
“Busy This Week” is executive produced by Philipps, Caissie St. Onge and Michael Gleason.
QVC+ picked up Philipps’ “Busy This...
Per QVC+, “During each half-hour episode, viewers will join Busy on the couch to get an unscripted take on whatever has kept us busy this week. From celebrity guest interviews and laugh-out-loud moments to personal stories and her favorite curated shopping finds, Busy will give her audience a healthy dose of [retail] therapy.”
The show will launch May 8 at 10 p.m. Et. QVC+ says Season 1 will be “split,” with the first 10 episodes released weekly on Wednesdays, and then four holiday-themed episodes premiering later this year in November and December for a total of 14 episodes.
“Busy This Week” is executive produced by Philipps, Caissie St. Onge and Michael Gleason.
QVC+ picked up Philipps’ “Busy This...
- 3/13/2024
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Butler, the co-creator of “Remington Steele” and a veteran television director who worked on such series as “Hill Street Blues,” “Star Trek” and “Batman,” died Nov. 3 in Los Angeles. He was 95.
Butler’s career spanned nearly five decades, during which he directed many notable series, including “Hennesey,” “Star Trek,” “Batman,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Bonanza,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Gunsmoke,” “Hawaii Five-o” and more. He won three Primetime Emmy Awards: two for “The Blue Knight” in 1974 and the other for “Hill Street Blues” in 1981. He also received Emmy nominations for episodes of “Moonlighting,” “Sirens” and “Lois & Clark The Adventures of Superman.”
Butler and Michael Gleason co-created “Remington Steele,” starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist, which ran from 1982 to 1987 on NBC. Butler directed five episodes of the detective procedural series between 1982 and 1983, including the pilot.
He also directed several feature films and TV movies, including “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t,...
Butler’s career spanned nearly five decades, during which he directed many notable series, including “Hennesey,” “Star Trek,” “Batman,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Bonanza,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Gunsmoke,” “Hawaii Five-o” and more. He won three Primetime Emmy Awards: two for “The Blue Knight” in 1974 and the other for “Hill Street Blues” in 1981. He also received Emmy nominations for episodes of “Moonlighting,” “Sirens” and “Lois & Clark The Adventures of Superman.”
Butler and Michael Gleason co-created “Remington Steele,” starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist, which ran from 1982 to 1987 on NBC. Butler directed five episodes of the detective procedural series between 1982 and 1983, including the pilot.
He also directed several feature films and TV movies, including “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t,...
- 11/11/2023
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
NBC could have had a big hit with the reboot it planned for Remington Steele. Quite a terrific genre-blending series, the romantic comedy-drama is often credited for launching Pierce Brosnan‘s career. The trendsetting show co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason was first broadcast on NBC from October 1982 to February 1987; it aired for five seasons, with a total of 94 episodes. Though it drew mixed critical reviews while it ran, Remington Steele has aged well as it is now looked on as an innovative show that pioneered various elements that are habitual to contemporary television shows. Since the...
- 4/30/2023
- by Banks Onuoha
- TVovermind.com
Michael Gleason, the co-creator of Remington Steele and producer of such popular series as Diagnosis Murder and Rich Man Poor Man Book 2, died Friday at the age of 78. His death was confirmed on his Facebook page; no cause was listed. Gleason, a novelist as well as veteran producer, started as a writer for such 1960s series as Rawhide, Laramie, My Favorite Martian, The Big Valley and Peyton Place, continuing through the ’70s with Marcus Welby, M.D., Cannon, McCloud and Ric…...
- 10/25/2016
- Deadline TV
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