by admin on November 19, 2012
And the first series of the fall TV season to get full-season pickups are… NBC’s Go On, The New Normal and Revolution!
NBC ordered nine additional episodes of each series, bringing their episode totals for the season up to 22, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Source: http://www.tvguide.com/News/NBC-GoOn-New-Normal-Revolution-1054140.aspx
by admin on August 16, 2012
A preview of the series “Go On,” which stars Matthew Perry as a sportscaster who reluctantly joins a support group after the death of his wife.
Original Air Date: Aug 8, 2012
– description from tvguide.com
by admin on August 16, 2012
John Cho has been promoted to series regular on NBC’s Go On, Deadline reports.
The half-hour comedy stars Matthew Perry as Ryan, a sportscaster who tries to move on from a loss through mandatory group therapy sessions. Cho plays Ryan’s boss.
Cho, who rose to fame in the 2004 film Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, most recently appeared on the 2009 ABC series FlashForward.
Source: http://www.tvguide.com/News/John-Cho-Go-On-1048887.aspx
by admin on August 16, 2012
Matthew Perry may be starring in the new NBC sitcom Go On this fall, but he also plans to resurrect his guest role as Mike Kresteva on CBS’ The Good Wife.
Perry got the go-ahead for Go On the same day he landed the recurring role on The Good Wife, he tells Zap2It.com.
“I’d never played an all-out bad guy before. The fact that he was basically a sociopath, a guy who would lie to your face, was just so much fun to play,” Perry tells Zap2It of his Good Wife character, the nemesis of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) who plans to run against her estranged husband Peter (Chris Noth) in the Illinois gubernatorial race.
Though the former Friends star is clearly focused on his leading role in Go On, he says he’s looking forward to revisiting Mike Kresteva.
“Before Go On got picked up, [the Good Wife showrunners] had plans for it to be a much bigger character,” Perry tells Zap2It. “I was going to do nine or 10 episodes, but I know I’ll be able to go back and do one or two. I wish I could do both shows, but you just can’t. So far, the two episodes they’ve given me are some of the best writing I’ve encountered.”
Source: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Matthew-Perry-Good-Wife-1051817.aspx
by admin on August 15, 2012
Matthew Perry, Go On
How You Know Him: Could he be any funnier? Perry mastered the sarcastic one-liner as Chandler Bing on Friends, followed by slightly less amusing stints on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Mr. Sunshine.
Now, he’ll try to put a smile on your face by tackling, of all things, grief. Then again, Chandler did have a pretty sad (read: pathetic) upbringing.
Source: http://www.tvguide.com/PhotoGallery/Fall-TV-Familiar-1050746/1050757
by admin on August 15, 2012
Laura Benanti, Go On
Benanti, a Broadway veteran and Tony winner whom viewers might know from her work on Eli Stone and the ill-fated The Playboy Club, plays an unlicensed therapist who leads the support group Perry’s sportscaster character joins after his wife dies in a car accident. Is it too soon to root for a inappropriate romance between her and Perry?
Source: http://www.tvguide.com/PhotoGallery/Fall-Stars-Watch-1050678/1050687
by admin on August 15, 2012
Go On (NBC)
Premieres: Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 9/8c
What’s so funny about grief? Matthew Perry’s about to show us. The Friends alum returns to NBC as Ryan King, a sportscaster who turns to a motley crew support group after his wife dies. How eclectic are these guys? The lead therapist, Lauren (Laura Benanti), honed her skills in a Weight Watchers group.
Source: http://www.tvguide.com/PhotoGallery/Fall-TV-Watch-1050580/1050589
by admin on August 9, 2012
Go On premiered on Wednesday night after the Olympics — it won’t be back until its regularly scheduled series debut in September — and on a first look, I’d have to say I’ve rarely seen a show with such a gap between the abilities of its cast and the ideas at the heart of the series. Matthew Perry, making another attempt at using his prodigious comedic timing after the ratings failures of Mr. Sunshine and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, has surrounded himself with very good performers pushing an odd agenda.
That agenda consists of making fun of support groups that deal, in this instance, in grief. Perry plays Ryan King, a wiseguy sports-talk radio host whose wife died recently. His boss, played by the excellent John Cho in a role that barely registers in the pilot, insisted that Ryan do 10 hours of therapy work before returning to his job. And so we arrived at the organizing family-structure of Go On: the “Transitions” therapy group.
It’s led by the completely charming Laura Benanti (an acclaimed stage actress whom you might also recall on the short-lived Playboy Club) as a therapist who (let’s start counting the ways Go On sets up characters for Ryan and the audience to condescend to, shall we?) has no formal training as a therapist but did work for Weight Watchers. Benanti’s Lauren had to utter humiliating lines about losing “40 pounds and I kept it off” and, when Ryan glances rear-ward, added, “Oh, yeah, it’s good,” as in “I have a great ass” — a response that isn’t just tiresome (don’t most women in sitcoms and reality shows these days seem to have to either brag about or accept compliments about their posteriors?) but also rather out of character for the one that Benanti does a heroic job of establishing.
Read more: http://watching-tv.ew.com/2012/08/08/go-on-matthew-perry/
by admin on July 30, 2012
Watch the season premiere of Go On on Wednesday, August 8 on NBC after the 2012 Summer Olympics coverage; the time period premiere is Tuesday, September 11 at 9/8c (9-9:30 p.m.).
Source: http://www.wetpaint.com/network/articles/fall-2012-tv-premieres-when-do-your-favorite-shows-start?#3
by admin on July 25, 2012
Go On is Matthew Perry’s third post-Friends TV project, but there’s something different about this show from his previous ones.
“In my efforts to have a TV show and come back, the characters have progressively gotten nicer,” Perry told reporters Tuesday at NBC’s Television Critics Association fall TV previews. “The Showtime show [End of Steve, which was not picked up in 2008] was about a terrible guy, and I thought it was genius. Everybody went, ‘I don’t wanna watch that.’ Mr. Sunshine, he was sort of down and out. And now this guy is a nicer, more well-intended guy. … I don’t know why that is, but you certainly wanna play a guy that people can get behind and root for.”