Congrats to Katie Finneran

Katie Finneran won a Tony Award last night for her role in Promises, Promises! You can see her acceptance speech here where she revealed that she’s engaged to actor Darren Goldstein. Congrats to Katie on both accounts! Below is a collection of news articles and blog posts about the award show!

1. Tony Awards 2010 Fashion
2. Katie Finneran Gets Engaged to Darren Goldstein
3. Katie Finneran: Promises, Promises Tony 2010
4. Scarlett Johansson, Katie Finneran take different paths to a Tony
5. Tony Awards: Katie Finneran and Hollywood Celebs Win Big
6. Miami’s Katie Finneran wins again at Tonys

Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 11:56 AM. Leave a comment?

4 Canceled Shows to Watch

Wonderfalls made Parade Magazine’s list of 4 Canceled Shows to Watch on DVD ! Here’s what they say:

Wonderfalls is a quirky little series from Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller that aired on Fox for just four weeks back in 2004. It centers around 24-year-old Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas), a cynical, underachieving Brown graduate who works at a Niagara Falls gift shop, lives in a trailer, and reluctantly engages in conversation with various animal figurines and statues: a wax lion, a wind-up penguin, a plastic flamingo, etc. Basically, if it’s fake and it has a face, it talks to her. And not just about anything. The muses, as they’re called, give Jaye enigmatic instructions that seem at first to cause problems but ultimately help people who may not have even realized they needed help—including Jaye herself. It sounds ridiculous, I know. And it is, a little. But it’s also incredibly sweet and engaging. If you can suspend your disbelief long enough to watch an episode or two, you’ll see what I mean.

Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 @ 10:42 AM. Leave a comment?

Off The Map

Caroline Dhavernas has been cast as one of the leads in Off The Map, a new pilot for ABC. Off The Map will be a new medical drama by Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and its spin-off Private Practice. The pilot also stars Mamie Gummer and Enrique Murciano. Congrats to Caroline!

Read the full story here.

Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 5:50 PM. Leave a comment?

Favorite TV Moments

ExpressNightOut.com includes a funny Wonderfalls mention in their list of favorite moments from this decade:

Best performance by a damaged lion figurine: Talking damaged lion figurine in the awesomely weird “Wonderfalls.”

See the full list here!

Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 @ 5:46 AM. Leave a comment?

Great Wonderfalls Review!

This article includes Wonderfalls in a list of DVDs that would make great Christmas presents! Here’s an excerpt of what they say:

Caroline Dhavernas headed the cast of the 2004 hour-long comedy that, when it could not find its audience, was cancelled by Fox after four episodes.

Over it’s 13 produced episodes, Wonderfalls combined a cynical wit that oozed irreverence with a premise strange enough to work.

Jaye Tyler (Dhavernas) worked a dead-end job at a Niagra Falls gift shop when she began to hear voices. Instead of a burning bush, though, these voices come from inanimate animal figures. The animals could be anything from a wax lion to a stuffed bear. The one thing they all have in common is that they had advice for Jaye.

Each episode saw Jaye become an unwilling miracle worker, righting wrongs and doing good deeds while following the cryptic advice of her voices.

Dhavernas’s performance as Jaye Tyler is like an exotic fungus. You won’t notice it at first, but over time it will grow on you until the only thing that keeps you from sharing it with others is to wear shoes in the shower.

At first glance, Tyler is the stereotypical slacker, dishing out more sarcastic remarks and bored expressions than a sullen teenager. Fortunately, Dhavernas’s Canadian charm is more contagious than the SARS virus and audiences will begin to look past her bitter exterior.

Her unwillingness to follow, let alone believe in, the voices that drive her insane is as believable as the slow and unavoidable character growth that occurs during the series’ run.

Be sure to read the full article here! It’s a great read!

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 5:51 AM. Leave a comment?