Calling All Eliza Fans! "Tru Calling"

[The Rose24]

Good show tonight. I just wish things could have worked out better for Carlie? or is it Carly?



I believe the writers are finally finding their rhythm.

Tara: My heart doesn't stutter.


Tara: Willow, I got so lost.

Willow: I found you. I will always find you.

Edited by: The Rose24  at: 4/15/04 7:51 pm

[Gatito Grande]

It isn't bad enough my VCR f*cked up again on last week's ep, now they have a frickin' half-hour American Idol on? I turned the TV back on 9, not realizing I'd missed half the show!



GG Mo'fo' FOX: why can't they just pick a time-slot, and stick w/ it (like the geniuses who are now putting 24 on opposite Alias : yeah, nobody watches both of those! ) Out



Anyone else notice how Jack's hair looks kinda like devil horns?

[Grimaldi]

from what i saw it was an ok episode



it was kinda creepy when Jack was staring down that guy who was trying to take Harrison's car

I'm not stealing, I'm just taking things without paying for them. In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
Welcome friends, how may I pervert you?

[Hemiola]

ITA, GG!!



It would have been a good episode if I could've seen the whole thing from the beginning!!



I think the Fox programmers must have talcum powder for brains

[sam7777]

GG & Hemiola: Yeah my DVR let me down as well.



Even against Apprentice, "Tru Calling" posted some good ratings and demo numbers. On May 20, FOX is doing it's Upfront Sales Presentation so we should know by then what will happen to "Tru Calling". I'd like to see it get another season.

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[shivermetimbers]

Wow the show's definately changed a lot. I can't decide if it's losing its goodness as it gets more and more far fetched or if it's just all in good fun. The episode with Dad and step mom was a little over the top... still Eliza did a great job with some pretty crappy dialogue.



Is Jack bothering the crap out of anyone else? I like the idea of dicotomy. In the same breath, I can't tell if Jason Priestly is playing him like that on purpose or if his acting's just gotten worse since his 90210 days. (I suspect that will lead to comments...)



On a closing note, does anyone know where I can download or buy episode 17?



Thanks.

[J uk]

There's a torrent here:

66.90.75.92/torrents/1583/tru.calling.117.pdtv-lol.%5BBT%5D.torrent



Or if you have a good newsserver it's recently been posted to:

alt.binaries.multimedia.buffy-v-slayer

alt.binaries.tv.aus

alt.binaries.multimedia

Edited by: J uk at: 4/17/04 5:33 pm

[urnofosiris]

Thanks for the link J uk, I downloaded the episode, but I have yet to watch it. I just finished watching episode 15. My dislike for Harrison and his mannerisms is growing by the second and I really don't care at all for Jason Priestly and his character, but he is doing a good job at creeping me out.

[Still Waters Run Deep]

Sky+ showed episode 1 last night [Thursday] at 9pm so if you miss an ep then it will be shown a week later + a day. Inconvenient, I know - but hey, that's Sky for you.

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love and kisses

Still Waters



"just an old, saggy cloth cat. Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams, but Emily loved him"

[The Rose24]

Do not read if you have not seen tonight's episode.



Jack relives days too. Interesting.

Tara: My heart doesn't stutter.


Tara: Willow, I got so lost.

Willow: I found you. I will always find you.

Edited by: Warduke at: 4/22/04 7:47 pm

[Gatito Grande]

A very good ep. Re-lived days appear to be turning into a game of chess: move and counter-move.



GG I thought there was something going on when Tru picked up the tab w/ her credit card. Didn't think of the camera phone though! (too new-fangled for Lil Old Me ) Out



Trying to figure out where they're gonna go (next year? renewed? Please? Please!) w/ Tru and Davis. Are his feelings gonna be unrequited? Will Tru fall for the lovable pudge? (will Davis---his only name, according to IMDB!---aka Zach Galifianakis come back buff? )

[Gatito Grande]

. . . Kicked Ass!



So help me, this show better get renewed!



Poor Luc: he never was as attractive as when he was buying it, I'm afraid. Grieve him, Tru, but I'm sure you'll find love again (just give GG a call! )



GG Doesn't Eliza just look -alicious in black? Love when she's angry, too! Out

[The Rose24]

Tru was sooooo good tonight!!!!!



I knew there was something about Jack I didn't like!!! What a psycho!!!

So Jack is the Anti-Tru and Tru's Father was the Anti-Tru's mother.



I really hope this show gets renewed and we see how Tru deals with Jack.



I hate that Luke dies because he was the perfect guy for Tru. He really loved her.

Tara: My heart doesn't stutter.


Tara: Willow, I got so lost.

Willow: I found you. I will always find you.

Edited by: Warduke at: 4/29/04 8:16 pm

[Kieli]

Know what i find interesting?



It's that Jack's arguments about his balancing out the "Order of the Universe" were paper thin. He used so much twisted logic (and his actions surely didn't confirm or support his arguments) that it was interesting that someone would even fall for it! However, I really do think now this is truly a "Good vs Evil" thing and it's gonna get hot in da house! I was so hoping for Tru to just bitch slap Jack b/c he was owed some serious pain. I hope Tru gets renewed b/c I want to see her reaction when she realizes how her father has been manipulating the "Order of the Universe" to his advantage (i.e. killing her mother) and recruiting others like Jack who have this "Anti-Gift".





ETA: Thanks W. I was wracking my brain trying to find the EZcode for spoilers...now I know. Cheers!

Time flies by when the Devil drives.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

Edited by: Kieli  at: 4/30/04 5:16 am

[Grimaldi]

i enjoyed the episode, it explained what Jack was about ( i kind of agree with his view) i really hope the show does get renewed

I'm not stealing, I'm just taking things without paying for them. In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
Welcome friends, how may I pervert you?

[Gatito Grande]

Grim: I think I possibly could agree w/ Jack's perspective (that saving lives of the already-deceased sets off consequences that may outweigh saving an individual life), but definitely not in the way he's presented it to date (which just seems to be more about his own power-trip, and general misanthropy).



It's interesting that Jack is pretty definitely not going to go the way of Tru's father, in at least one respect: I don't see Tru marrying Jack! Another option, it seems to me, is that Jack could have inherited his powers, also, by being a half-brother to Tru (though that seems fairly cliche'd). Just what is Tru's dad's motivations towards her? Could he kill her (have her killed), like her mother, or does he feel actually parental, um, affinity? (He did seem to speak of her respectfully)



GG The plot so very much thickens---can't wait for S2! (Hear that FOX?) Out



Is it now canon that Tru can't re-live the day post-embalming?

[tyche]

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From Metro.co.uk - By Ben Sloan

60 SECONDS EXTRA!: According to FHM, Eliza Dushku is the 26th Sexiest Woman in the World, but she’s just as famous for playing the mysterious Faith in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Her first major role was in This Boy’s Life, with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, but you may also remember her as Arnie’s daughter in True Lies. She currently plays the lead character in Tru Calling on Sky One.

Is it daunting to have a show resting on your shoulders rather than being part of the cast?

Physically yes, psychologically no, because I’ve always said that I wanted to try everything, and it feels like an accomplishment. But, physically, I gained a lot of respect for Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rose McGowan [of Charmed] and other women who headline shows. We were doing 16 hour days every day Monday to Friday for eight months, and I’m in every single frame of every single shot. I would whine sometimes when I was driving home at eight o’clock on a Saturday morning feeling like a crack-head going to bed while everyone else was waking up to start their day.

When you worked with Leonardo DiCaprio, could you tell he was going to be a star?

I was 11, so the honest answer is no. I was barely aware that I was working with one of the dopest actors of all time, in Robert De Niro. Him and Ellen Barkin were, as far as I was concerned, just these eccentric, weird actor-y people. Leo was about four or five years older than me and we definitely had a sibling love-hate relationship. At one point he was being a really nasty little brat and cursing me out, saying swear words that I hadn’t even heard before, and I started crying: ’Why are you so mean?’ So I told the director and he said to Leo: ’She’s just starting middle school, don’t you think she’s getting enough teasing there?’ I think Leo got a soft spot for me. He asked what was going on at school and he gave me quick, witty comebacks I could say.

What things?

Well, for one, having my wonderfully unique last name, there’s always someone trying to tease you about it, so he asked what I said to that, and I told him: ’Well, I just cry.’ He said: ’You can’t just cry.’ So he had me practising saying: ’You think I’ve never heard that before? Did you just make that one up yourself?’ He just taught me how to stick up for myself.

Is it true Schwarzenegger bought you a scooter?

He bought me a little motorised Go-Ped thing. I don’t think anyone made it clear that maybe they weren’t made for 14-year-olds. My best friend and I ended up getting hit by a car, and my mum called Arnold from the hospital - he sent a huge bunch of flowers.

Does it feel weird now that he’s Governor of California?

Yeah, though I’ve been in Vancouver for the past eight months, but I’ve just got back and I’m finding what California’s like for myself.

I believe you’re not entirely in line with his politics.

This is true. I was on this TV show Access Hollywood and I had someone say: ’OK, you’re on in five seconds. We just want you to say: ¿Hey Arnold, this is Eliza, rooting for you, you have my vote.¿ OK, go Eliza!’ And I had to say: ’Whoa, wait a minute, are you high? Haven’t you checked my political views? I’m a Democrat.’ And they were like: ’Well, aren’t you guys friends?’

According to FHM, in 2002 you were 58th sexiest woman in the world, in 2003 you were 48th, this year you’re 26th. What’s your target for next year?

I don’t know. They’ve been nice to me even though I haven’t done a photo shoot for them. I did one for Maxim and my brothers had something to say about it, so I haven’t done another.

What did your brothers say?

They said: ’Did you really have to? Our friends read that magazine, did you have to take your clothes off?’ So maybe if we could put together a really classy shoot, I’ll be higher in the ranks next year. There have been some cool shoots, where the women look like they’re having fun and not like they’re about to be shot.

What would constitute a ’classy shoot’?

OK, the shoot has to be in a tropical location, it’s gotta be fun, they should get some of their hot, smart, good-looking men readers and put them in the shoot with me, or at least bring them to the location. We can come up with a list of our deal points, and you can tell FHM to get in touch with me.

60 SECONDS EXTRA!: That’ll get you in the top ten no problem.

It’s a win win situation: I get in the top ten, they get a photo shoot.

60 SECONDS EXTRA!: Have you been asked to adjudicate the Miss Albania contest?

Apparently, though I don’t know if it’s going to happen. There are two famous Albanians living today. One is Jim Belushi, whose brother was John, and they were the original Albanian celebrities. I guess I was the next Albanian celebrity, and it’s really flattering that they are proud of me, because I’m proud to be an Albanian. We’re supposed to be strong and stubborn and strong-willed. I like it whenever people find I’m Albanian and they go: ’Ooh, the crazy Albanians’, [laughs] because in New York the Albanians and the Italians had some serious feuds. The Albanians just showed up and started claiming neighbourhoods and they were fearless. The Italians were saying: ’We were here first,’ but the Albanians were just known to be a little bit prickly and ’Well, we don’t care.’ I’m definitely proud to be an Albanian and I want to get over there but I don’t know if it’ll be this year at the beauty pageant.

60 SECONDS EXTRA!: Are you still selling autographed film memorabilia for the Eliza Dushku Foundation?

Yeah, my father and my brothers were all involved in this camp in Boston, because my father was an elementary school teacher at an inner-city school. Actually, he taught Bobby Brown, and I ran into Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston at the Vanity Fair Oscar party a couple of years ago and I was wondering whether to bring it up, and Bobby Brown was actually the one to say: ’Your name, that name, I recognise that name!’ And I said: ’This is going to sound crazy but my father taught you.’ He was jumping around going: ’Yes! I remember him.’ Because, literally, we’re the only Dushkus in America. But, anyway, there’s this camp outside Boston for these kids and my father had started a foundation to raise money, and I got involved. I’m trying to open it up to girls, because it’s all boys at the moment. All my brothers were counsellors there and the kids are great, they just don’t come from homes with a lot of money. I’ve always loved kids, and I’m just a kid at heart (not that I’m old now). We’re going to set it up a bit better later this year, we need to go through some legal things in the first place.

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What kind of novels do you write: fiction or nonfiction? - US immigration officer to Ian McEwan

[urnofosiris]

Thanks for posting that Tyche. That's an interesting interview. I don't really know a lot about Eliza Dushku, so this is certainly informative. She sounds like a great lady with plenty of brains as well as beauty. I had no idea she was Albanian, live and learn. The questions (or rather the replies) about Schwarzenegger cracked me up. I really hope this show gets renewed. She has all the qualities of a great leading lady.

[Gatito Grande]

OK, it's official:

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I was on this TV show Access Hollywood and I had someone say: ’OK, you’re on in five seconds. We just want you to say: ¿Hey Arnold, this is Eliza, rooting for you, you have my vote.¿ OK, go Eliza!’ And I had to say: ’Whoa, wait a minute, are you high? Haven’t you checked my political views? I’m a Democrat.’

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I'm in love.



GG As Lorne once said, "Cute and SMART!" Out



Geez: I thought working w/ DeNiro in City by the Sea was a Big Deal for her . . . turns out it was like old times!



When/where are we gonna find out about (Please Dear Lord!) Tru's renewal???

[emma peel]

A bump to ask if anyone has heard anything definite about a second season? Or not?

[J uk]

www.reuters.com/newsArtic...ction=news

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A spokeswoman for the network said the fate of shows like the critically acclaimed comedy "Arrested Development" and the drama "Tru Calling" were still up in the air and would be decided over the next month. The network plans to announce its full fall schedule on May 20.

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So fingers crossed.

[Jennpurr]

Ooooh, fingers crossed.



Jen

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Phoebe: I hate cemetery's at day. (They hear a noise.) What was that?
Prue: Ah, probably a zombie or vampire.
Phoebe: Great, where's Buffy when you need her?

[emma peel]

Thanks for the info, J uk. I'll keep my fingers (and toes! ) crossed.

I'm really rooting for a second season of Tru (even though I've only seen about and ep and a half). I'd love to see ED successful on television, especially far and away from JayDubya, who's "empire" is falling away piece by piece.

[WebWarlock]

Yup.



It looks good. (thanks for the link HIP).



66.51.173.18/cgi/gofuton....re&id=6582



Warlock

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[Jennpurr]

Wooooo Hoooooo!!!!



Jen

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Phoebe: Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting demons. ~ Charmed: Season 2, "P3 H20"

[sam7777]

It's official, Tru has been renewed:

Familiar Faces Dot CBS' Fall Lineup

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Fox has given second-season pickups to two freshman series on the bubble: "Tru Calling" and critical darling "Arrested Development." Fox will make its schedule presentation Thursday.

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Woo Hoo!!!!



It's so great to see Eliza doing well away from the bad folks at ME. I've said that Fox has ADD when it comes to their shows but I give them credit for having the patience to stick by both "Tru Calling" and "Arrested Development." Fox had two shows similar to "Joan of Arcadia": Tru and "Wonderfalls" and when they went with Tru in the fall, they really made their choice as to which they were going with (why they developed Wonderfalls anyway is a mystery). Both simply could not survive but I'm glad Tru did because I like Eliza and am glad to have her back on TV. "Arrested Development" really deserved a pick up IMHO because it was something new as well as being critically acclaimed. I'm glad that Fox is giving it a chance to build an audience. it's the kind of edgy original programming that they should support cuz there's nothing else like it on TV.



So kudos to Fox for giving Tru a chance. "Tru Calling" showed that Fox could have a drama succeed in the Thursday death slots and gain an audience.

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I still see dead lesbian cliches

Edited by: sam7777  at: 5/18/04 10:10 am

[emma peel]

Thank you sam for that terrific info.

[sam7777]

More good news for Tru. Tru is getting the OC as it's lead-in show on Thursday:

2004 Broadcast Upfront Presentations: FOX

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In November, returning favorite THE O.C. moves to the Thursday schedule, leading into the second season of TRU CALLING

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THURSDAY

8:00-9:00 THE O.C.

9:00-10:00 TRU CALLING

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I still see dead lesbian cliches

[The Rose24]

It is great Tru is being renewed, but there is one problem.



CSI!

Tara: My heart doesn't stutter.


Tara: Willow, I got so lost.

Willow: I found you. I will always find you.

[urnofosiris]

There is one solution:



VCR!



Kidding, I know that does not help with the ratings. Still, it getting renewed is enough of a victory.