2003 Alias News
December 2003
12.26.2003 - Garner
happy to be home for holidays
12.25. 2003 - 'Alias'
star happy to be home for holidays
12.25.2003 - Garner
Happy to Be Home for Holidays
12.25.2003 - Daredevil
star Garner keen to tread boards
12.14.2003 - "Alias,
Season Two" - More Complex Than We Thought
12.11.2003 - Isabella
Rossellini Joins the Growing 'Alias' Family
12.09.2003 - "Alias"
Family Tree Grows
12.08.2003 - Melissa
George's 'Alias' Is the Other Woman
12.06.2003 - 'Alias'
exile returns with new look
12.02.2003 - Cooper
Returns To Alias
12.1.2003 - Garner
finds fame
November 2003
11.30.2003 - Alias
- The Complete Second Season
11.26.2003 - Alias
Star Ignores Hype
11.24.2003 - Report:
Jennifer Garner Interested in Off-Broadway Edie Sedgwick Drama
11.23.2003 - Alias
3.8 - Breaking Point
11.16.2003 - Ticking
clock or kicking jocks? In TV's espionage sweepstakes, 'Alias'
has the excitement that '24' has frittered away
11.16.2003 - ECW PRESS SIGNS GUIDEBOOKS TO ANGEL
AND ALIAS
ECW Press is proud to announce the signing of two new television
guidebooks to their list. The first will be a companion guide
to the show Angel, written by Nikki Stafford. Stafford, author
of the best-selling Bite Me! An Unofficial Guide to the World
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"I attended a few conventions this past summer as both
a fan and an author, and I kept hearing the same two questions
over and over," says Stafford. "'Will you be re-releasing
Bite Me! with season seven of Buffy?' and 'Why did you put
such short episode guides to Angel?' I love Angel as much
as Buffy, but because Bite Me! was intended to be a guidebook
to Buffy (and with full Angel episode guides it would have
been over 500 pages long) I focused on Buffy instead. As for
re-releasing Bite Me! with only one new season in it, it wouldn't
be fair to ask people to plunk down their money to buy the
same book with only 50 new pages in it! So I decided to do
this book instead."
Stafford's new guide to Angel will feature full episode guides
for seasons one through five, and will also include, as a
bonus, season seven of Buffy to complete the episode guide
on that show. It will also feature best Angel Web sites and
mailing lists, and a rundown of the 2003 Posting Board Party
in L.A. "I'm hoping this book could be as much a companion
to Bite Me! as it is a guide to the show." The book is
due in stores in September 2004.
Stafford will also be co-writing a book on Alias with Robyn
Burnett. "I'm a big fan of her previous book on Roswell
and thought it would be a lot of fun to work with a fellow
writer and fan on this book."
Burnett has been a professional writer for several years,
and has done diverse work for ECW Press. She is the author
of Crash Into Me: The World of Roswell and co-author of A
Chance for Life: The Suzanne Giroux Story. She most recently
finished A Journey of Spiritual Awakening with psychic Judy
Brown. She is excited to be working on another television
guide. "Alias is a fantastic show with an incredibly
talented cast," says Burnett. "I was a loyal fan
before the book idea came up, so this is a treat for me..
I'm also thrilled to be working with Nikki as I have always
found her books to be both insightful and entertaining."
Aside from extensive biographies on Jennifer Garner and the
other cast members, the book will feature an episode guide
chronicling the first three seasons of the successful show,
as well as a chapter on the history of the show itself, some
interesting tidbits on the CIA, favorite Alias Web sites,
the show's fan following, and more. The guide to Alias is
also due in September 2004.
Both books will be unauthorized analytical guides to the
show, and will not be affiliated with Twentieth-Century Fox,
the WB network, or ABC.
11.14.2003 - "Alias"
Mom Gets Lost--Again
11.14.2003 - 'Alias'
star invites Martha Stewart to spy with her
11.14.2003 - Olin
Turns Down Alias
11.11.2003 - Cronenberg
Operates on 'Alias'
11.11.2003 - Alias
3.7 - Prelude
11.04.2003 - Alias
3.6 - The Nemesis
11.04.2003 - Role
to relish (Victor Garber article)
11.02.2003 - Ricky
Gervais goes Bad
11.02.2003 - The
edge: ‘Alias’ brings back Evil Francie and Will
October 2003
10.31.2003 - Office
Boy Visits Alias
10.28.2003 - Alias
3.5: Repercussions
10.24.2003 - Jennifer
Garner Up for Masters of the Universe Role?
10.23. 2003 - One
'do at a time
10.21.2003 - Jennifer
Garner Says Media Kind During Divorce
10.20. 2003 - Alias
3.4: A Missing Link
10.14.2003 - Scott
Foley Denies Infidelity in Breakup
10.13.2003 - Garner
gets personal
10.09.2003 - Jennifer
Garner Speaks Out About Split
10.05.2003 - Stealing
Time
10.03.03 - Dungey
Returns to Alias
September 2003
09.23.2003 - Jennifer
Garner Thrills Parents
09.10.2003 - Behind-the-Scenes
Glimpse at 'Alias'
August 2003
08.29.2003 - Jennifer
Garner is the CIA's latest recruit
08.27.2003 - CIA
Recruiting TV Spy Garner for Promo Video
08.27.2003 - 'Alias'
date has a fishy end
08.25.2003 - Too
dense for the drop-in viewer
08.21.2003 - Melissa
Comes Between Alias Lovers
08.19.2003 - Alias'
Other Woman Talks
08.18.2003 - Meet
Alias's Sexy New Superspy
08.13.2003 - The
'secret' is out about 'Alias' co-stars
08.02.2003 - Jennifer
Garner Makes New "Alias" Deal
08.01.2003 - Garner
Undercover for More "Alias"
08.01.2003 - More
Alias For Garner
June 2003
06.13.2003 - Gamblin' man: Grunberg rolls on
two movies
The Hollywood Reporter
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Former "Felicity"
co-star Greg Grunberg has joined the cast of the Coen brothers'
crime caper "The Ladykillers" and the indie feature
"Poker Night."
He will shoot the projects simultaneously this summer before
returning to his regular post on ABC's "Alias."
"Ladykillers," a Disney remake of a 1955 British
comedy, centers on an eccentric Southern professor (Tom Hanks)
who puts together a gang of double-crossing thieves to rob
a riverboat casino. They rent a room in an old woman's house,
but when she discovers the scheme, somebody must do away with
her. They find out that's harder than it seems. Grunberg plays
a manic commercial director. Joel Coen will direct from a
script he wrote with brother Ethan, who will also serve as
a producer.
"Poker Night" centers on a group of friends, all
of whom run scams, who gather for a weekly poker game. Grunberg
will play a compulsive gambler in danger of losing his best
friend. Dennis Farina also stars. Cassidy Harrison directs.
Grunberg recently starred on the big screen in Warner Bros.
Pictures' "Malibu's Most Wanted."
06.11.2003 - LENA Olin, who played the shadowy mother of
Jennifer Garner on ABC's "Alias," says she's trying
to come back next year. "I couldn't be [a regular], because
I live in New York," Olin told the SCI FI channel's website
yesterday.
"I'll see if we can work it out so that I can work a
chunk of time [in Los Angeles, where the show is filmed]."
Olin was added to the cast this season and became a riveting
character - especially after the suggestion that she was trying
to kill her own daughter. There was no word at the end of
the season what would happen to her.
Olin added that the season-ending cliffhanger - in which
Sydney Bristow (Garner) wakes up two years after being presumed
dead - shocked the cast as much as it did viewers.
"That was a surprise to everybody in the cast as well,"
Olin said. "Nobody knew about that."
May 2003
05.13.2003 - 'Alias'
Star Jennifer Garner Files for Divorce
05.05.2003 - TV
Gal Catches Her Breath
So is this going to be the show's modus operandi?
Constantly shaking up its premise and giving the viewers whiplash?
Did Sydney go into shock (a la Teri on "24") after
she realized (or so she thought) that both her best friends
were dead? Did the added trauma of having to murder her roommate's
evil doppelganger send our heroine over the edge? Did Sloane
kidnap her or did the ever-lovely Irina (who even looks great
rappelling off the side of a building) rescue her daughter?
And perhaps the most important question (which has all my
female friends in an uproar) -- how in the heck did Vaughn
grieve for Sydney, accept the fact that she was dead and meet
and marry someone else in two years (I'm assuming the CIA
called him back from his honeymoon)? Did he marry his fall-back
girl Alice, or did he meet someone new?
Two years ahead means that Marshall and Carrie could be
married by now. And the Rimbaldi mystery could be solved.
And Irina and Jack could be back together. Or Jack could be
siding with Sloane. Who knows what team Sark, whose alliances
are malleable, is on. Basically, when the series returns in
the fall, we could be looking at entirely new show. Unless
the whole thing turns out to be a dream, but I don't think
series creator J.J. Abrams would play with viewers' trust
like that.
Don't get me wrong. I loved the finale -- it was exciting,
romantic, sexy, surprising and emotional with fantastic action
sequences (loved, loved, loved the final showdown between
Faux Francie and Sydney and I'm always happy when Will's got
game). But I fear that all these twists and turns practically
guarantees the show a short shelf-life. This much upheaval
can't be good for the sustainability of the series. Abrams'
other television creation, Felicity Porter, only had four
years of life in her. I'm really hoping Sydney Bristow has
more.
05.02.2003 - Jennifer
Garner Makes Visit to Hometown
05.02.2003 - Wild
'Alias' finale leaves us hanging
05.02.2003 - Garner
Takes Paltrow Role in 'Happy' Picture
April
2003
04.25.2003
- Sark
Attack
04.24.2003
- David
Carradine Knows Secrets of 'Alias'
04.02.2003
- Jennifer
Garner, Scott Foley Separate
04.02.2003
- Channel 7 in Australia that fans will be able to watch Alias
again in 2-3 months time.
February
2003
02.26.2003 - ABC
Picks Up 'Alias,' Six Comedies for Next Season
02.24.2003 - Lewis
Goes Undercover for 'Alias'
02.19.2003 - 'Alias'
Creator Explains Why SD-6 Had to Go
02.15.03
- "Alias" star Jennifer hosts SNL.
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