No Time Like the Present for 'The O.C.' (Thursday, September 01 10:53 AM) By Rick Porter LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Marissa gets kicked out of school! Summer gets a new nemesis! Sandy takes over the business he once despised! Just another year in "The O.C." Or, in the case of all the things just mentioned, just another month. The FOX series, which opens its third season Thursday, Sept. 8, plans to cover a lot of ground again this year, creator Josh Schwartz says. And after tying up a couple of loose ends (albeit not too tightly) in the season premiere, the show will dive into a year of changes for the Cohens and those around them. "This year is senior year [for the teen characters] and with senior year comes all that sort of angst and anxiety, all that sort of epic teen drama -- who am I, where am I going, what's gonna happen to us," Schwartz says. "It's going to call everyone's identity into question and throw the show back on the family." The premiere resolves the legal questions revolving around Marissa's (Mischa Barton) shooting of Ryan's (Ben McKenzie) brother Trey (Logan Marshall-Green). But Schwartz fallout from the incident will continue to affect the characters -- starting with Marissa being kicked out of the Harbor School, thanks to a new dean of discipline ("Eyes'" Eric Mabius, who will have a recurring part). Marissa's departure will bring a new character, Taylor Townsend (Autumn Reeser, "Complete Savages"), into the forefront at Harbor. Schwartz describes her as "this sort of steaming, young Newpsie-in-training socialite who's been toiling in Marissa's shadow all these years." With Marissa banished to (gasp) public school, Taylor takes over as Harbor's social chair -- much to the consternation of Marissa's best friend Summer (Rachel Bilson). "Summer goes toe-to-toe with her as a sort of symbolic gesture to keep the Marissa flame alive at Harbor," Schwartz says. "It's going to bring back some of the classic, bitchy Summer -- there's really sort of an 'All About Eve' thing between Taylor and Summer." Viewers will get substantial pieces of these plot threads in the first four episodes. And that's to say nothing of Kirsten's (Kelly Rowan) journey through rehab -- where she encounters the mysterious Charlotte Morgan (recurring guest Jeri Ryan) -- or Sandy's (Peter Gallagher) entree into the Newport Group as a sort of caretaker while his wife is away. The big steps are by design, Schwartz says, as "The O.C.," after four episodes in September, will take most of October off while FOX televises the major league baseball playoffs and World Series. The network has asked the producers of its serialized dramas to leave viewers wanting more before they go off the air for baseball. "For us, we've had so many cliffhangers lately, we were really looking for the final episode before baseball to be less a traditional cliffhanger and more a signal of the show being in a new place," Schwartz says. "There's a sense that the show has really moved over the course of those four episodes and set up some new dynamics." --- 'O.C.' Basks in Summer (Sunday, September 04 12:03 AM) By John Crook Sorry, this story is not yet available! This story has not yet been published. Please check back on the date of publish. --So, check out Zap2It.com for this story on Sunday!!--

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Thursday, September 01, 2005

Happycrumb 8/31/05 The O.C. fashion line exclusively at Amazon TVRules 8/30/05 The OC: The Aftermath (Season 3 Premiere) 301 9/8/05 --- O.C. Learned Lessons in Sappho-more Year by Matt Webb Mitovich (TVGuide.com) Just as we like to think those kids at Harbor High School do, The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz has learned a few important lessons from the show's second year, which culminated in Marissa's shocking shooting of Trey. So when Season 3 premieres on Sept. 8, some things may seem the same, but will be very different by the time the show is forced to take a break during baseball playoffs. "Episode 1 is like Part 2 of the season finale," he says. "We're sort of there to resolve all of the story lines and get you back up to speed with where all of our characters' heads are at. But with Episode 2, you'll start to meet a lot of our new characters." Those include Eric Mabius as Harbor's new "mean dean," Autumn Reeser as opportunistic socialite Taylor Townsend and Jeri Ryan as a rehab pal of Kirsten's. Schwartz, though, does not foresee leaving fans with a big fat cliff-hanger before the break. "We've done that before, in our first season, after Marissa OD'd in Tijuana," he notes. "But we have had so many cliff-hangers lately that we're looking at that final episode before baseball as more a signal of the show being in a new place. You'll get a sense of, 'Oh, the show has moved over the course of the first four episodes,' and have a sense of where we are headed when we come back." You can also expect fewer titillating twists, like the girl-girl kiss (and subsequent romance) between Marissa and Alex (played by Mischa Barton and Olivia Wilde). "That was a double-edged sword for us," Schwartz admits, "because we were asked to pull back [on the duration of the kiss] while at the same time it was very heavily hyped. It was like some sort of game. But while everybody thought the kiss would be the start and end of it for them, for us it was really about doing a real relationship and showing how, after it ended, Marissa would be at a place of greater maturity." Speaking of Marissa — and aren't we always? — what will be the aftermath of her aforementioned marksmanship? Schwartz, arguing against criticism that the show's arcs are too short and too tidily wrapped up, hopes to get more mileage from what happens next. "It's funny, because people say, 'Oh, you resolve things too quickly,' and others say, 'You took too long.' But the Trey-shooting story line and the Kirsten story line play out for at least a half dozen more episodes. "On the Trey side of it," Schwartz continues, "although the immediate plot and mechanics are resolved in the first episode, the emotional ramifications actually play out for a very, very long time. They set in motion plotlines that carry us through most of the season. [We'll explore] the fallout and how it lands on the characters and relationships — between Ryan and Marissa, especially."

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Monday, August 29, 2005

Samaire Armstrong (our beloved Anna) will be starring in Stay Alive. The plot outline: While playing an online horror game, a group of teens notice that once their characters die ... they die. --Question, how can THEY notice that once their characters die, they die? They would be dead, correct? Ooh...they will become dead...No Anna, nooo. Don't go into the light!--

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Sun Sentinel 8/21/05 The O.C. better weekly than all at once

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