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Post by fenris on Apr 30, 2013 22:34:42 GMT
What A Girl Wants is being shown on Channel 5 this coming Sunday (5th May 2013) at 16:00.
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Post by orokiah on May 17, 2013 20:30:24 GMT
Hex star Christina Cole is heading to CBS. The actress has landed the female lead in the network's Jason Lee drama pilot Second Sight. isn't getting a second shot: It was a bad season to have a pilot at CBS, with the network renewing 20 existing shows and rejecting 14 pilots in total. Victims of the cull include a TV version of the Cameron Diaz film Bad Teacher, Jason Isaacs medical drama The Surgeon General and a new sitcom starring Debra Messing (Will & Grace, Smash).
Other pilots on the scrapheap: priest-turns-lawyer drama (no, really) The Ordained, a trio of sitcoms - including one starring Matthew Broderick - and a remake of Clive Owen's BBC series Second Sight, with Jason Lee in the Owen role of a blind cop.[/i] www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/tubetalk/a481985/ncis-red-delirium-the-us-tv-pilots-that-didnt-make-the-cut.html |
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Post by orokiah on Jun 29, 2013 16:11:25 GMT
Lewis: 'The Mind Has Mountains', which stars Christina as Claire Gansa, is being repeated on ITV3 on Monday night (01/07/13) at 9pm.
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Post by fenris on Aug 7, 2013 15:00:48 GMT
What A Girl Wants is being shown on ITV2 this Sunday (11th August 2013) at 15:10.
Although it was Christina Cole's movie debut, the lead role in What A Girl Wants (2003) was filled by American tween star Amanda Bynes. Unfortunately, like too many other US child stars (Lindsey Lohan is another recent example), Bynes has learnt that her fame had an expiry date. At the height of her success, her fanbase (almost exclusively young girls in the same age group as herself) regarded her as a role model, self-identification figure, and best friend surrogate. But as Bynes got older, her fanbase grew up with her, eventually reaching that certain age (early-teens) when they suddenly regard themselves as young women instead of being 'girls', and (in order to prove that they're as grown up and adult that they think they are) abruptly distant themselves from everything that they now associate with their childhoods. Thus, the likes of Bynes and Lohan are basically - ruthlessly - dumped by their once-loyal fans, as they're now & forever fixed in time as part of those fans' now-embarrassing, younger lives.
Having previously had a guaranteed, built-in audience (making them a safe bet at the box office), tween stars find that once that fanbase has drifted away, the work swiftly dries up and the phone stops ringing. In the space of 1 - 2 years, they go from headlining their own movies to being written off by the showbiz industry as has-beens. While only in their late-teens (an age when most people are just entering the world of work) their career - which swallowed up their childhood and is the only life they've previously known - is effectively over. Unsurprisingly, many of them go into meltdown, either rapid or slow-motion.
At the time of writing, Bynes' last screen credit was a supporting role in Easy A (2010), which was a vehicle for rising starlet Emma Stone. Bynes has subsequently announced that she's retired from acting, and in the last several months has gotten into the habit of taking photos of herself and posting them on Twitter, in which she often appears drunk or stoned and is frequently topless or naked. From Wikipedia (admittedly not the most accurate source of information), here's a summary of Bynes' other recent misfortunes;
In March 2012, Bynes was stopped and ticketed by police for talking on a cell phone while driving. A month later, she was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after side-swiping a police car in West Hollywood.
On September 4, 2012, Bynes was charged for two alleged hit and run incidents, one occurring in April and the other in August. The hit and run charges were dismissed in December 2012 following a financial settlement between Bynes and the victims.
Bynes' driver's license was suspended on September 6, 2012, by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
On September 16, Bynes was cited for driving with a suspended license, and her car was impounded. In May 2013, Bynes pleaded no contest to the charge, and was sentenced to three years probation. The charge for driving under the influence is still pending.
On April 4, 2013, Bynes announced via Twitter that she has an eating disorder.
On May 23, 2013, Bynes was arrested at her home in Manhattan for criminal possession of marijuana, attempted tampering with evidence, and reckless endangerment. According to a prosecutor at Bynes' arraignment, police observed Bynes throwing a bong from the window of her 36th-floor apartment. Bynes claimed that the alleged bong was actually a vase. Following her arrest, Bynes underwent a psychiatric evaluation at a hospital before she was processed at the police station. On May 25, Bynes said on Twitter that she had been sexually harassed by the arresting officer: "He slapped my vagina. Sexual harassment. Big deal." The police department has denied the accusation.
On July 24, 2013, Bynes was hospitalized for a mental health evaluation after allegedly starting a small fire in the driveway of a stranger's house in Thousand Oaks, California. During the fire, Bynes reportedly ignited her pants and doused her Pomeranian dog with gasoline. Bynes fled the scene and attempted to wash her dog in the employees-only section of a local convenience store before being forced to leave. She was apprehended by authorities shortly thereafter.
Bynes' parents filed for conservatorship of their daughter shortly after her hospitalization began. On July 26, a Ventura County judge put the request on hold while medical evaluation continued. On August 1, Bynes was denied a request to leave the facility early, after appearing before a judge within the hospital.
Just over ten years ago, when they were filming What A Girl Wants, Christina Cole was a newcomer in her first significant role and Amanda Bynes was an established star - a household name in America. A decade on, and Christina is in regular work and doing well for herself, while Bynes' career is a receding memory and her life is a train wreck. Such is the sobering reality of the fickle nature of fame.
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Post by orokiah on Aug 9, 2013 18:17:53 GMT
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Post by orokiah on Nov 30, 2013 0:34:19 GMT
Christina is part of the cast of The Assets, an eight-episode series premiering on ABC on Thursday 2nd January: The Assets is an eight-part limited series based on the real life events of CIA counter-intelligence officer Sandy Grimes (Jodie Whittaker).
The year 1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille (Harriet Walter) vowed to find the mole who would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US History, Aldrich Ames (Paul Rhys). Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.
The Assets stars Paul Rhys (“Borgia”) as Aldrich Ames, Jodie Whittaker (“Venus”) as Sandy Grimes, Harriet Walter (“Babel”) as Jeanne Vertefeuile, Stuart Milligan (“Jonathan Creek”) as Paul Redmond, Julian Ovenden (“Downton Abbey”) as Gary Grimes, Christina Cole (“Casino Royale”) as Louisa, and Ralph Brown (“Withnail and I”) as Lawrence Winston.Source |
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Post by fenris on Dec 23, 2013 0:34:47 GMT
What A Girl Wants is being screened on ITV2 this Friday (27th December 2013) at 09:30, and again on New Year's Eve at 10:20.
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Post by orokiah on Jan 8, 2014 20:06:33 GMT
The first trailer for the Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending, featuring a brief appearance from Christina at around 1.06:
^That's her in the thumbnail...
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Post by orokiah on Feb 1, 2014 19:17:31 GMT
Another US TV role for Christina: Carole Bouquet and Christina Cole have signed on to NBC‘s four-hour miniseries Rosemary’s Baby, an adaptation of the 1967 best-selling suspense novel by Ira Levin. It centers on Rosemary Woodhouse (Zoe Saldana), a young wife and would-be mother who, with her husband Guy (Patrick J. Adams), moves into a Paris apartment that has a dark past. Bouquet has been cast as Margaux Castevet, a sophisticated and beautiful Parisian socialite who befriends young Rosemary, and Cole will play Julie, Rosemary’s spirited girlfriend.Source |
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Post by fenris on Feb 12, 2014 1:07:49 GMT
What A Girl Wants is being shown on Channel 5 this coming Sunday (16th February 2014) at 14:55.
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Post by orokiah on May 5, 2014 20:30:10 GMT
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Post by fenris on May 24, 2014 16:39:48 GMT
Christina is apparently adding to her genre credits with a role in Morlocks, an original movie for the SyFy channel based on - surprise surprise - The Time Machine. is being screened on Syfy (the UK channel) at 22:00 tomorrow night (25th May 2014). Coincidentally, the two best-known movie adaptations of The Time Machine are also being aired on British television this week: the 2002 version starring Guy Pearce is broadcast tomorrow on Channel Five at 17:10, and the 1960 original with Rod Taylor is being screened on More4 at 11:25 on Tuesday (27th May). |
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Post by fenris on Sept 12, 2014 14:56:36 GMT
What A Girl Wants is being shown on Channel 5 this coming Sunday (14th September 2014) at 15:00.
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Post by orokiah on Oct 30, 2014 18:14:12 GMT
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Post by orokiah on Apr 20, 2015 20:05:42 GMT
A couple of bits of recent Christina news that I don't think have been posted on the board yet: Christina joins the cast of Suits
Suits has tapped Christina Cole (The Assets, CHAOS) to join the Season 5 cast as Dr. Paula Agard, a Harvard educated psychiatrist specializing in high end corporate consulting who becomes the perfect match for Harvey.
Look for the two to play a game of cat and mouse throughout the season, although it’s unclear if Cole’s shrink will become Harvey’s personal therapist.
Cole — whose credits also include the BBC America supernatural series Hex — will recur throughout the USA drama’s fifth season, beginning with the June 24 premiere.SourceChristina in TNT drama pilot LumenC.J. Valleroy (Unbroken), Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter), Christina Cole (Rosemary’s Baby), Nadja Bobyleva (Getting A Life) and Jon Brazier (The Piano) have rounded out the cast of TNT drama pilot Lumen, written by Chris Black and directed by Joe Johnson.
Valleroy will play Charlie Drake, a teenager whose obsession with a series of fantasy books intensifies when he witnesses the author disappear in a blinding flash right in front of him. He tries for years to solve the mystery, ultimately opening up a portal into a surreal world called Lumen and transporting himself there, along with his family. Cole is Jamie, Charlie’s (Valleyroy) mother.Source |
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