Tag: TV movie

  • ‘Walker Texas Ranger’ star Chuck Norris to make TV movie for CBS

    MUMBAI: Martial arts star Chuck Norris who got a fair amount of visibility through the television series Walker Texas Ranger will reprises his role as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker in a TV movie for US broadcaster CBS.
     

    In India the series used to air on Star World. The television series ran for eight seasons in the US.
     
     

    In the new TV movie called Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial By Fire which has begun production in Dallas, Texas series stars Sheree J. Wilson (Alex Cahill), Judson Mills (Francis Gage) and Clarence Gilyard (James Trivette) also return for the movie in which Walker must try to find a teenager who is on the run from a dangerous crime syndicate, and also clear an innocent colleague who is framed for murder. Janine Turner plays a forensics expert.

    A missile guidance component inadvertently falls into the hands of a 13-year-old boy who becomes the target of a crime syndicate determined to recover it. When Walker (Norris) responds to a message left by the boy’s father asking for help, he goes to their home and discovers that the father has been brutally murdered. The boy shows up while Walker and Gage (Mills) are at the murder scene and, when they attempt to remove him from the house, they are also attacked. The boy manages to escape but remains the target of the men whose only mission is to recover the key component which gives missiles 100 percent accuracy in hitting a target.

    Meanwhile, forensics expert Kay McCord (Turner) is investigating the murder of a woman who she saw leave a local bar with Ranger Rhett Harper (Andre Kristoff). Though Harper fervently denies any knowledge of the crime, D.A. Alex Cahill (Wilson) is forced to arrest him. Walker believes in Harper’s innocence and vows to help clear his name.

  • MTV Intl, Swedish agency to produce Aids TV movie

    MTV Intl, Swedish agency to produce Aids TV movie

    MUMBAI: The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), MTV International and MTV Europe are launching two initiatives addressing HIV/Aids and the trafficking in persons.

    The projects include the first-ever made for TV movie for MTV’s Staying Alive HIV/Aids awareness campaign. It will premiere on MTV internationally on 1 December 2005.

    The two hour TV movie Transit will use fiction to deliver HIV/Aids prevention messages to young people. Co-written by Murilo Pasta and Niall MacCormick, the film explores themes of emotion and sexuality in a candid manner to engage young people and encourage them to practice safer sex.

    The other television initiative is more Europe specific. It is the first campaign of the MTV Europe Foundation and is called End eXploitatIon and Trafficking (Exit). The aim is to combat the trafficking in persons – specifically women – for sexual exploitation in Europe.

    The above mentioned projects will be offered free to all TV broadcasters worldwide to get the messages of the campaigns out to the widest audiences possible.

    As far as Transit is concerned MTV and Sida will work together to develop teaching materials related to the film. This will be available in schools and to any community-based organisations interested in adapting the materials for local use.

    Launched in 1998, MTV’s Staying Alive campaign seeks to help prevent HIV/Aids by empowering youth to protect themselves, fight stigma and discrimination, and engage businesses, media and organisations to form their own response to HIV/AIDS.

    The campaign includes documentaries, concert events, discussion programmes and made for TV movies, public service announcements, sexual behaviour polls, a dedicated, multi-lingual Web site www.staying-alive.org, and off-air marketing and grassroots promotions. Last year’s campaign reached 74 per cent of the world’s TV households – or 938 million households.

  • HBO leads the nomination pack at Golden Globe

    MUMBAI: An HBO presentation, the six-hour mini-series Angels in America, the Mike Nichols adaptation of Tony Kushner’s play about AIDS during the Reagan administration, walked off with seven Golden Globe nominations including one for Al Pacino’s performance as Roy Cohn.
    A record in itself since, last a television project grabbed seven nominations in 1997 for NBC’s ER.
    This year’s spotlight is on lesser-known shows like FX’s new plastic-surgery series Nip/Tuck, nominated for best drama series, BBC America’s mock documentary about an inept office manager- The Office, has nominations for best comedy, creator and star Ricky Gervais, say media reports. 
    Besides, Angels in America, pay-cable channel HBO dominated the proceedings, with nominations for best drama and best comedy series for Six Feet Under (currently aired on Zee English) andSex and the City (on HBO). Sex and the City also shared the spotlight with Will &Grace as the most celebrated regular TV series in this year’s Globe contest with five nominations each.
    After HBO, its NBC emerged as the most nominated broadcast network, which has collected a total of 10 nominations, including a best drama nomination for The West Wing and a best comedy nod for Will & Grace. Both are currently on Zee English, say the reports.
    While showtime’s controversial TV movie, The Reagans, earned acting nominations for its two stars — James Brolin and Judy Davis as former first couple Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
    All the four members of the main cast in Will & Grace Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Megan Mullally, and Sean Hayes, have been nominated for the Globes this year. Ditto for Sex and the City, which garnered nominations for its four principals actors Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon, add the report