Showtime’s best online extra EVER: Pam Adlon’s video diary from Californication
October 28, 2009 by Jillian Cohan
OMG. Californication fans, you must watch these videos. Showtime’s PR department had the genius decision to set actress Pamela Adlon up with a videophone and send her out to film behind-the-scenes footage on set.
As Adlon tools around the studio, she’ll introduce you to the props department, the rubber band guy, the head of the costume department and other key personnel. Adlon is quite funny in her scripted role as long-suffering wife Marcy Runkle, but her improv skills are in fine form for the video diary. Take a look at Video No. 1:
Video No. 2, in which Adlon and the …read more
Californication actress could leave Showtime for CBS sitcom
April 28, 2009 by Jillian Cohan
If things go Pamela Adlon’s way, Hank and Charlie won’t have Marcy Runkle to kick around much longer on Californication.
Adlon has been cast opposite Adam Carolla in the pilot of a CBS family comedy called Ace in the Hole, The Hollywood Reporter says.
If the pilot gets picked up Adlon will leave Californication, where she’s played the long-suffering (and hilariously coke-addicted) wife of Evan Handler’s literary agent, Charlie, for three seasons.
In the CBS project she’ll play the long-suffering wife of Carolla’s character, a father of two who works as a driving instructor. Her character will be a nurse.
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