Constance Wu is returning to the stage and she will make her Ahmanson Theatre debut in Los Angeles at the end of the month!
19.09.2022 - 23:23 / etonline.com
is taking a leap into the modern day with NBC's update of the classic '90s sci-fi action drama.The new series picks up nearly three decades after Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and disappeared, never returning home. A new team, led by physicist Ben Seong ('s Raymond Lee), has been brought together to restart that same project with the aim to understand the mysteries behind the accelerator and Beckett.
Of course, it being sci-fi and all, things take a turn for the unexpected when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving the team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it and try to successfully bring him home.«It's 2022 and the world looks different onscreen and off. It's important that this show represents that to show how far technology has come and just how life has elapsed in general, how time has elapsed in general. There's a lot of history in the past 30 years to also go back into and a lot of wrongs that could be turned right.
So, it was ripe for a comeback and now it's here,» Lee told ET. «History, a lot of times, has the answers. So, it's important for us to feel comfortable at times when it's very uncomfortable.
A show like this has such a loving fanbase and the themes are so relevant to what's happening in the world now. I feel like it is a soothing balm, a salve for perhaps all of the chaos that is happening outside. I hope this show can be that to the world now.»Ahead of Monday's series premiere, ET spoke with Lee about leading the charge on a modernized , if he foresees an opportunity for Bakula to ever make an appearance and why it's significant for an Asian actor to be headlining the sci-fi remake.
Constance Wu is returning to the stage and she will make her Ahmanson Theatre debut in Los Angeles at the end of the month!
Meghan Markle seemingly never figured out the difference between being a celebrity and being a royal. The Duchess of Sussex was an American actress before meeting and marrying Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. Fox News royal contributor Duncan Larcombe noted that it's unclear if Harry gave Markle a good idea of the expectations that would be placed on her after she married into the royal family.
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Married at First Sight UK star Lara Eyre has spoken her time on the show, claiming her husband Richie Dewes was "performing" and acted differently when the cameras weren't rolling. Lara who had been paired up with guitarist Richie, made the comments during an interview with The Sun, saying: "It felt like I was dating a TV presenter because Richie was always acting whenever they were filming and concerned with how people would perceive him. "When the cameras were off, Richie kept to himself and wasn't as enthusiastic or caring, he didn't ask much about me except for when they were filming.
Strictly Come Dancing 's Will Mellor has admitted that his "knees are in shock" as he shared a video of himself resting with a bag of frozen peas after rehearsals. Taking to Instagram, the Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps star, 46, said in the clip: "Just in rehearsal for Strictly, Will's knees sponsored by peas! I am knackered." Will captioned the video with: "In rehearsal for @bbcstrictly !! My knees are in shock!! #tooldforthis #strictlycomedancing #dancing #badknees #shattered." It comes as the actor admitted that his biggest fear would be leaving Strictly over his ongoing knee injury, saying: "I don't want to go out with injury, that would kill me!" Talking to OK! and press recently, Will said: "I don't want to get injured.
! Justin Hartley and Sofia Pernas are set to guest star in an upcoming episode of the NBC reboot, which stars Raymond Lee.The real-life couple will appear in episode 4 of the freshman sci-fi drama, which is set to air Oct. 10.The episode, titled “A Decent Proposal,” follows Ben (Lee) as he leaps to 1980s Los Angeles and into the body of Eva Sandoval, a no-nonsense bounty hunter in the midst of securing an elusive target.
Real-life couple Justin Hartley and Sofia Pernas are headed to “Quantum Leap.”The pair, who worked together on “Young and the Restless” and Hartley’s show “This Is Us,” will guest star on the NBC sci-fi series.Hartley and Pernas will appear in the fourth episode of the season, titled “A Decent Proposal.” It will follow Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) “as he leaps to 1980’s Los Angeles and into the body of Eva Sandoval, a no-nonsense bounty hunter in the midst of securing an elusive target.
Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey had quite the Hollywood meet cute. At the red carpet premiere of her new film,, in New York City on Tuesday, Cuoco told ET's Rachel Smith that she and her new beau shared an instant connection at another premiere event back in April. «We have the same manager,» Cuoco said, «so we met at the premiere.»Pelphrey, who played the troubled Ben Davis in the Netflix drama, was on-hand as one of the show's stars. Cuoco happened to attend as a guest of her manager that evening. «I went inside, I was so excited,» she recalls, «and we met there — and it was love at first sight.»The starry-eyed actress gushed, «He's the cutest of all.»In , Cuoco plays a single woman named Sheila who discovers a time machine that allows her to travel back in time to a date she had the night before with a man named Gary, played by Pete Davidson, over and over again. However, when she starts going back to moments in Gary's past to try to change him into her dream version of the man she wants him to be, things get even more complicated and messy.In real life, Cuoco, 36, and Pelphrey, 40, took a big step in their relationship just last week while attending the Emmys together.According to ET's insiders, the pair were all loving looks and light touches throughout the event, showing off sweet and subtle PDA on the same night that they made their red carpet debut as a couple.
They’ve been branded this year’s Adam Aveling and Tayah Victoria, last series’ Married At First Sight UK couple who instantly fell in love and are now engaged and expecting their first child together. But MAFS UK expert Paul C Brunson says that no two couples are the same, and Chanita Stephenson and Jordan Emmett-Connelly’s biggest challenge will be coping with the pressure of being one of the series’ strongest pair.
“Outlander” and “La Brea” — but NBC’s reboot of “Quantum Leap” doesn’t quite capture the spirit of its predecessor.That series aired for five seasons (1989-93) on NBC with stars Scott Bakula as time-jumping Dr. Sam Beckett and Dean Stockwell as Al, the cigar-chomping wiseguy hologram tasked with guiding Sam through his tricky missions after assuming someone else’s identity — and saving the day — as he bounced back and forth in time.This new version of “Quantum Leap” references the original show — both Bakula and Stockwell are seen, though not as in-the-flesh characters, and the series opener is dedicated to Stockwell, who died last November.
Joshua Alston Among the entries in television’s recent reboot gold rush, “Quantum Leap,” NBC’s revival of its early-‘90s sci-fi drama, is arguably the series most deserving of a contemporary reimagining. That’s not because “Leap” was a blockbuster. It performed modestly enough to be considered a cult series by the standards of its era, clawing its way to just shy of 100 episodes across five seasons. But the high-concept hook is no less potent now than during the show’s heyday. The original found Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula), a gifted physicist, desperate to save the time-travel technology he’s been building on the government’s dime with too little to show for it. To prove his concept and save the project, Beckett tests the technology on himself to spectacular, if inconvenient results. Beckett can indeed hurl himself to and fro about the space-time continuum, but each “leap” plops him into the consciousness of a random person facing a consequential challenge. Once he solves the problems of his latest protagonist, he leaps again, each time hoping to land back in his own timeline.
TheWrap: I would love to know a little bit about how this role came about and how secretive it was. Was it a blind audition?Raymond Lee: It was not a blind audition. It wasn’t so secretive in the sense that I was given the pilot script to read first.
“Quantum Leap” has entered the “Peak TV” era of television, but while the new NBC reboot gets off to a shaky start, there’s reason to believe this new version is still worthwhile.Airing from 1989 to 1993, NBC’s original “Quantum Leap,” starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a scientist who has invented time travel (via his secret project, Project Quantum Leap) and ends up getting trapped in time as a result of it.
Scott Bakula is putting an end to speculation that fans may see him reprise his role as Sam Beckett in NBC’s “Quantum Leap” reboot.
Scott Bakula starred in all five seasons of the original Quantum Leap series, but he has “no involvement” in the upcoming reboot that premieres on NBC next week.
EJ Panaligan editor Scott Bakula, who famously played Dr. Sam Beckett on the 1989 original series “Quantum Leap,” posted a statement on Instagram which confirmed his lack of involvement in the upcoming NBC reboot series. “Here’s the simple version of what’s going on with the Quantum Leap reboot and me: I have no connection with the new show, either in front of the camera or behind it,” Bakula’s Instagram post reads. Speculation about Bakula’s involvement in the 2022 revival have surrounded the show since the pilot episode was greenlit in January of this year, though there wasn’t any communication about Bakula’s role until the actor put out the new statement.