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Geena Davis Shows Off Her New Mumsy Figure As She Takes Children To The Park By Daily Mail Reporter 12th November 2009 She might be one of America's best-loved actresses, but Geena Davis seems more keen to spend time being a full-time mother to her three children. The Thelma And Louise actress showed off a fuller figure and a huge smile as she played happily in the park with her young children. Being a full-time mum: Geena Davis on the red carpet in 2000, and at a park in Santa Monica, California with her three children yesterday The 53-year-old dressed...

'Commander in Chief' Takes Six-Week Break By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES - "Commander in Chief" is going on a six-week hiatus, making way for a new comedy from "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels as part of ABC's midseason schedule makeover. The White House drama, which brought Geena Davis a Golden Globe last month for her portrayal of the president, will air through Feb. 28. It will be replaced in its 9-10 p.m. EST Tuesday slot March 7 by the sitcom "Sons & Daughters."

The losers on “American Idol” have been real winners for Fox. The show continues to earn its highest ratings in its fifth season. The early rounds of the reality singing competition, which feature competitors who can’t hit a note, last night averaged an impressive 15.0 rating among viewers 18-49 for a two-hour episode. That’s a 25 percent increase over the 12.0 last season’s second Tuesday episode earned, and that show was only one hour long. Last night’s episode basically even to the 15.2 overnight rating last week’s season premiere earned, meaning viewers are sticking around. In terms of total viewers,...

Country music may not be as hot as it was at this time last year, but it could still help CBS to a November sweeps victory. CBS’s three-hour coverage of the 39th annual “Country Music Awards” averaged a 5.4 overnight rating among viewers 18-49 last night, up 35 percent over CBS’s season-to-date average on Tuesday nights. CBS usually averages a 4.0 in the demo on Tuesdays. That big bump gives CBS an edge over ABC as the two head into the final two weeks of sweeps in a dead heat among viewers 18-49. Through Monday night, CBS led with a...

ABC's presidential drama dips to lowest ratingOn election night, TV viewers were not nearly as interested in fake politics. ABC’s presidential drama “Commander-in-Chief” averaged a series-low 3.7 overnight rating among viewers 18-49 last night. That’s down 16 percent versus the 4.4 overnight rating the show had averaged through the first six episodes. The problem seems to be the return of Fox’s “House” after a baseball furlough during which the ABC show blossomed. With “House” now back, viewers who had been watching other things in the 9 p.m. timeslot are migrating back to Fox. “House” averaged a 5.3 overnight rating among...

We asked the question almost a month ago, now TIME magazine is on the story. TIME ran a story last week on the "Clinton Connection" to the new hit ABC TV show "Commander in Chief," which features Geena Davis playing the first women President. At the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, Clinton told us she doesn't watch the program. Over 16 million people do watch the show each Tuesday night. According to TIME, Capricia Marshall is a consultant to the show. She was Clinton's social secretary, and one of the writers is Steven Cohen. He was once...

HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM(see descriptor morphs) by Mia T, 10.02.05 It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton eviews of "Commander-in-Chief" mislead; they suggest that this new ABC offering, this electuary of suds and psychologizing, is optional for missus clinton, that Rod Lurie's latest clinton agitprop is nothing more than the icing on missus clinton's inaugural cake. The reviews miss the point of the show because they fail to identify missus clinton's problem in the first place. And circular reasoning compounds the error. THE PROBLEM While America appears not...

*** This comment may contain spoilers *** Full disclosure requires me to reveal my prejudice: I am no fan of Rod Lurie. Back when Lurie was a KABC Radio film critic I crossed swords with him when he was on air attacking the Academy for honoring director and HUAC friendly witness Elia Kazan, and once again spinning the Hollywood left's unending revisionist history about the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, which started out investigating Nazis in Hollywood with full Communist Party support, but apparently went awry when, post WW2, HUAC attempted to root out communists in the creative guilds who...

Why ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" is a Condi Rice clone   by Mia T, 9.28.05         ommander-in-Chief" Mackenzie Allen is a carefully crafted Condi-Rice clone. She is not hillary clinton. Indeed, she is specifically antihillary. This can mean only one thing: hillary clinton and her agitprop machine have determined that missus clinton, the construct, is unelectable. Because ABC is part of the permanent clinton agitprop, because the "Commander-in Chief" head writer is a veteran of clinton campaigns and hillary's press office, because the show has been perfectly positioned to desensitize the electorate to the notion of a woman...

ABC insiders deny there's any connection between real-life presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and their new TV show "Commander-in-Chief" - where Geena Davis makes her debut tonight as America's first woman president. But it turns out the show's lead writer is a longtime Clinton campaign insider who held a top job in Hillary's press office. "Writer Steve Cohen used to work for her in the 1990s, serving as the then-first lady's deputy communications director," reports the Village Voice. "I have no doubt she is capable, qualified, and ready to be the president of the United States should she choose to run,"...

U.S. TV makes way for two White House dramas September 23, 2005 17:50:40 Actress Geena Davis poses at a premiere screening in Beverly HillsBy Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A new TV show starring Oscar-winner Geena Davis as America's first female president, juggling career and family while holding Republican enemies at bay, is drawing Internet fire from conservatives and feminists alike. But the big question among network executives is whether there is room enough in prime time for two White House dramas. "Commander In Chief" premieres on Tuesday on ABC following the return on Sunday of NBC's Emmy-winning White...