AOLR Weekly Wrap-Up #21

November 29, 2009 By mizzoh 2 Comments

tbup-r160709-09 Due to CBS’s Thanksgiving program schedule, we’ll have to make do without Alex O’Loughlin and Three Rivers today, but can look forward to the show’s return on Sunday, December 6th with episode 9, A Roll of the Dice!

  • For a recap of last week’s episode, The Kindness of Strangers, check out TV Guide Magazine’s feature Kevin Rahm Goes Straight to Three Rivers.
  • Steve Farber, founder of the American Transplant Foundation takes credit for this week’s Three Rivers Expert Blog post. Mr. Farber was fortunate enough to receive a kidney from his son when he required a transplant, but before it came to that, he candidly admits to having considering purchasing an organ on the black market, which was the topic of last week’s show. “The journey changed me for good,” he writes in his account on the Expert Blog.
  • The latest post at Three Rivers Undercover covers the brilliant installment with Mandy Patinkin, that was written by Lance Gentile, an ER surgeon and former Emmy-winning writer for… ER. If you haven’t read it yet, you can do so here.
  • TV Guide Magazine’s William Keck wrote about Israeli actor Oded Fehr coming on board the show in Some Luc-ky Casting for Three Rivers. He’s expected to play Dr. Luc, who “has the talent to match his ego” and he and Andy Yablonski butt heads over the treatment of a patient. He sounds like a great addition to the TR cast!
  • iFMagazine recently published a very nice interview with Alex called Alex O’Loughlin Moonlights on Three Rivers. Some of the content you’ll have read before in other articles, but there’s also some new information to absorb!
  • Alex’s fellow cast member Alfre Woodard (who plays Andy’s superior, Dr. Sophia Jordan) attended a White House state dinner held in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last Tuesday. She was there with 334 other guests, including actor Blair Underwood and DreamWorks founders Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen and Steven Spielberg.

Great news for anyone who missed seeing Whiteout in the theater or if you just want to get another glimpse of Alex’s polar bear club stint: the DVD and Blu-ray will be released in the New Year! US fans can obtain it from January 19th and it’s available in the UK from January 25th. Here are the links to the product pages on Amazon.com, Amazon UK (DVD) and Amazon UK (Blu-ray). It appears that the DVD will only have additional scenes as extras, whereas the Blu-ray will also include two featurettes (“The Coldest Thriller Ever Story” and “Freeze Frame: From Page to Screen”), and a digital copy of the film. Many thanks to Bianca for the heads up!

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TV Guide Meets “Three Rivers” Cast

October 10, 2009 By mizzoh 1 Comment


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CBS Teaser #12 & #13 for Alex O’Loughlin’s “Three Rivers”

August 26, 2009 By mizzoh 2 Comments


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Updated “Three Rivers – Behind the Scenes” Promo

August 19, 2009 By mizzoh 1 Comment


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AOLR Weekly Wrap-Up #5

August 8, 2009 By mizzoh 4 Comments

The TCA’s 2009 Summer Press Tour draws to an end today! Here’s what’s of interest from this bi-annual event:

  • The two must-read articles covering the Three Rivers press conference on July 31st are by Will Harris/Premium Hollywood and Rob Owen/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They give a good behind-the-scenes impression and contain some great quotes from the cast, especially Alex O’Loughlin.
  • Rob Owen also wrote in another TCA-related article, “Our Three Rivers coverage, particularly on this blog, often serves as catnip to Alex O’Loughlin fans, helping to drive up hits to the web site.” Which I guess says it all about Alex O’Loughlin fans!
  • Here’s a selection of the cutest/funniest Twitter tweets from some journalists present at the Three Rivers press conference (best read from the bottom up). Of course, Alex charmed the ladies present ;-):

    Kate OH – FYI, Alex O’Loughlin will be playing some rugby in Three Rivers, as he has done in life. It is a gentlemen’s game played by ruffians.
    Kate OH – At the 3 Rivers set, Alfre Woodard admits to being “freaked out” hearing Alex O’Loughllin talk in his normal Aussie accent.
    Kate OH – Currently on the Three Rivers set in LA–no, it’s not shooting primarily in Pittsburgh, but will do some filming there.
    Kate OH – Apparently.as a child in Australia, Alex O’Loughlin loved the show “Monkey Magic” and can do a lively rendition of the theme.
    Kate OH – To explain further. a group of reporters had a lunch with Alex O’Loughlin of CBS’ Three Rivers. He’s charming & funny.
    Kate OH – Just had lunch with Alex O’Loughlin…who sang the Monkey Magic theme. Very cute.
    TVGuideMagEIC – Just had lunch with Alex O’Loughlin. Adorable! He said his fave shows are The A-Team and something called Monkey Magic. He sang the theme!
    writerchica – Alex O’Loughlin sang for a group of ladies of the press the theme song of ‘Monkey Magic,’ his favorite kid’s show. Wish I’d brought my cam.
    writerchica – Alex O’Loughlin still joking about his tight scrubs. Says they wear them on “Star Trek.” They’re gone, confirms producer.
    writerchica – Alex O’Loughlin made fun of his tight scrubs, which you won’t see him wearing in the revised pilot. We can confirm he looked hot!
    TheTVShowGirl – Alex O’Loughlin just joked that learning about the medical profession has made acting seem boring: “I should’ve been a doctor!”
    HitFixDaniel -  “Damn those Buddhists.” – Alex O’Loughlin (joking) when it’s mentioned that Shinto Buddhism forbids organ donation.

  • One reason that Alfre Woodward signed on for the part of Dr. Sophia Jordan in Three Rivers is Alex. She confessed to TV Guide Magazine, “I heard so much about Alex, what a lovely man he is, besides being a really good actor.”
  • CBS has released some Three Rivers cast photos, set photos, photos from the TCA press conference as well as a press package. Additionally, an HQ poster and banner surfaced on a Russian site. Check them out in the Three Rivers album in the gallery and the TCA album.
  • Alex also attended the CBS, CW and Showtime All-Star Party at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California on August 3rd. You can view photos of his arrival at the event in the gallery. Rick Bentley, who covered the bash for the Fresno Beehive, wrote: “I asked O’Loughlin, the star of the new CBS series Three Rivers, if he has talked to any of the fans who were upset when his former CBS series Moonlight was canceled after only one year. He had. The fans told him they were very upset. Then O’Loughlin smiled and said, ‘How do you think I felt?’”

And other Alex-related info:

  • There’s a new Whiteout poster available – I’ve added it to the Whiteout poster album.
  • There’s also a scan from the feature “First Look – An Early Peek at Some of Hollywood’s Coolest Projects” in last week’s Entertainment Weekly about The Back-Up Plan. It’s not a huge article, but still worth a mention!

Be sure to check out the Latest News for any recent posts you may have missed!

[tags]alex o’loughlin, alex o’lachlan, three rivers, tca 2009 summer tour, andy yablonski, alfre woodard, whiteout, the back-up plan, jennifer lopez[/tags]

Filed Under: Weekly Wrap-Up Tagged With: Alex O'Loughlin, alfre woodard, CBS, CBS Films, Dr. Andy Yablonski, Interviews & Articles, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Back-Up Plan, Three Rivers, Whiteout
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