Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to tv in The Ringer

[Sawyer]

THURSDAY, JULY 21
1:45 pm Ringer | Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar (in only her second Comic-Con appearance ever), Nestor Carbonell, Ioan Gruffudd, Kristoffer Polaha; Producers: Pam Veasey, Nicole Snyder, Eric Charmelo (Ballroom 20)

Bumped for this thursday's Comic-Con panel.

 

[Matt.S99]

Can't wait to see SMG back.

 

[Marx]

This looks pretty interesting.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Cool. Gellar's one of those actors who belongs on tv. The big screen's just not a good fit for her. Good to have her back were she belongs.

 

[Marx]

She was really good in Cruel Intentions and I Know What You Did Last Summer.

 

[Primal Slayer]

She was great in those but after that never really chose high profile projects. She wouldve been good in Legally Blonde probably if she went after the role.

 

[Specter313]

Jaime Murray is heading back to The CW on its new drama series Ringer, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Murray, who once starred in the network's short-lived Valentine, joins the Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring series as Olivia, Andrew Martin's (Ioan Gruffudd) stunning business partner. She is the only woman in a boy's club and she relishes it.

Ringer focuses on a troubled recovering alcoholic (Gellar) on the run from some unsavory types. She hides out by masquerading as her wealthy twin sister, who, it turns out, also has a bounty on her head. Oops. Nestor Carbonell, Kristoffer Polaha, Tara Summers and Mike Colter also star.

Murray, 33, who will first appear in Episode 2 of the new CW series with a possibility to recur, is best known for her role as Dexter's dangerous love interest in Season 2 of Dexter. She most recently appeared on the Spartacus prequel and Warehouse 13.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Ringer-CW-Jaime-Murray-1035475.aspx

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Sawyer]

SDCC Sneak Peek

Looks fantastic.

 

[Specter313]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer looms large over Sarah Michelle Gellar. This fall, more than eight years after she last played the droll demon fighter, she'll return to prime time as the star of another series, The CW's neo-noir mystery Ringer.

Speaking to reporters at Comic-Con Thursday, before she took the stage to promote Ringer, Gellar said she knows that she'll have to convince Buffy fans that this very different project — in which she plays twins! — will be worth their time. "I'm not trying to re-create Buffy and I'm not trying to top it," she said. "I'm trying to do something that the fans, who have been so good to me, will love. I'm a television watcher, and this is the kind of show that I would watch."

On Ringer, Gellar plays twins — neither of whom will remind you of Buffy. Bridget, a troubled recovering alcoholic, is on the run from some real unsavory types. She hides out by masquerading as her wealthy twin sister, Siobhan, who is thought to be dead but is actually also on the run, trying to escape a mysterious bounty placed on her head. But the girls are far from similar: "Bridget's is a story of redemption and that's what motivates her and everything she does," Gellar explains during the panel. "Siobhan's story is a story of revenge... Buffy's motivations were so different. Neither Siobhan nor Bridget wants to save the world."

Then there's the stunt work, which Gellar is game to do, but the producers insist on bringing in a double. "I was thinking, this is weird... They wouldn't let me do it. I wanted to go through the wall," Gellar said of a foundation-crashing scene in the pilot. In that same vein, Gellar has had to realize that her new characters are not ass-kicking crime fighters. "I can't kick him straight in the face," Gellar noted. "Bridget doesn't know what she's doing!"

Ringer was developed for CBS but after CBS Corp. President and CEO Leslie Moonves screened the pilot, it was moved to younger-skewing sister network The CW. It premieres Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 9/8c. Says Gellar: "I thought, 'Yes! I'm getting better clothing!' That was my first thought. I'm a girl, what can I say?"

For Gellar, who also serves as an executive producer on Ringer, there was relief as well. "I think we have a little more freedom here," she said, noting that an initial concern that sprung from being developed by CBS was having to make the serialized mystery more procedural in nature. "Because they're still finding out who they are, you can take more risks at The CW... I think we all know who the CBS audience is."

Asked about the show's master plan — lest it get bogged down in the number of Lost-style mysteries that enthrall and enrage fans — executive producer Eric Charmelo said he's got stories for "nine seasons — and then the triplet shows up." But seriously, the writers have already hashed out three seasons' worth of plot. "We're also playing with time and perspective, and that allows for a lot of latitude," he said. In other words: Expect flashbacks!

"I love mysteries and one of the important things that we've all talked about is that we know audiences get frustrated with mystery when one is solved and but then creates 10 more," Gellar said. "What's different is that we've mapped out where all the mysteries are going, so there are answers to the questions."

And although both Gellar and co-star Lost's Nestor Carbonell hail from supernatural-themed series, don't expect the sci-fi elements to follow them to Ringer. "There will be no vampires, no demons, nothing supernatural. Sorry, guys," executive producer Nicole Synder said. Added Geller: "No hatch! No island!"

Of course, that doesn't mean the mystery won't have twists. It's those twists that attraced Gellar to the project in the first place. "It was the first time in a really long time that I'd been surprised by something," Gellar said of reading the script for the first time. Having spent so many years on Buffy, she says she's easily able to forecast what's coming — and it once made for an unfortunate movie-going experience. "I was the person in the theater during The Sixth Sense that [early on] said, 'Is he dead?'"

But let's get back to Buffy. Is a reunion in the works, maybe even one on Ringer? "Michelle Trachtenberg's angling for a role; she's been hanging around an awful lot," Gellar said. (Producers say nothing official has been planned.)

What about Mr. Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr.? Will he make any type of appearance? "We're going to have my husband come on and he's going to be in a love triangle with Kristoffer Polaha's wife and Ioan Gruffudd's wife," Gellar joked. So... probably not.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Ringers-Sarah-Michelle-Gellar-Buffy-Comic-Con-1035521.aspx

 

[Specter313]

Zoey Deutch has joined the cast of CW's thriller Ringer, replacing Caitlin Custer in the role of wild child Juliet, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Deutch, the daughter of actress Lea Thompson, previously appeared on the Disney Channel's The Suite Life on Deck and was cast in ABC's Hallelujah pilot from Desperate Housewives' Marc Cherry last year.

Juliet is the daughter of Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd) and stepdaughter of Siobhan (Sarah Michelle Gellar). On the show, Siobhan's recovering addict twin sister, Bridget, assumes her sibling's identity while on the run from some unsavory types.

Ringer will reshoot Juliet's scenes in the pilot with Deutch before it premieres on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 9/8c.

Dexter's Jaime Murray has also joined the cast as Andrew's business partner.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/CW-Ringer-Recast-Zoey-Deutch-1035695.aspx

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Sawyer]

SMG

 

[venom892]

She still looks good after all these years.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Dark Raven]

That girl in the mirror kind of looks like Sarah Michelle Gellar.

She's just a bit shorter.

 

[Siby]

lol, she better look like Sarah Michelle Gellar, since they are the same person.

SMG looks very pretty in those pictures.

 

[Dark Raven]

lol, she better look like Sarah Michelle Gellar, since they are the same person.

SMG looks very pretty in those pictures.

lol I was joking. I've already posted in this thread before.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Im so scared for this to premire. I want it to be really good and do great in ratings, but I just have my doubts.

 

[Specter313]

Logan from Veronica Mars is joining Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new drama on the CW.

EW has learned exclusively that Jason Dohring will recur as Mr. Carpenter, a high school teacher at the new school attended by Juliet (Zoey Deutch), the stepdaughter of Manhattan socialite Siobhan Martin (Gellar). The sexy thriller — which features Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Gellar playing twins — will bow Sept. 13. It also stars Lost’s Nestor Carbonell as an FBI agent.

Dohring recently appeared in episodes of Lie to Me and CSI but fans probably count his run as Josef on Moonlight as his second-most memorable gig behind Mars.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/29/veronica-mars-alum-joins-cws-ringer-exclusive/

 

[Dark Raven]

You know, SMG looked prettier in the first or second season of Buffy. Then she seemed to change a bit and become more elf like and seems to permanently look more like this:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/684/ringerpromo1.jpg/





I'm not sure what's happened other than she matured (even during Buffy). I don't know if her nose became more prominent or her face became larger. She did look subtly different though in her earlier appearances.

 

[Sawyer]

Elf-like?

 

[Dark Raven]

That's not an uncommon description of SMG. She has been described as elfin several times before.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[mclay18]

SMG is a fantastic actress. She doesn't look nearly as good as she did on Buffy, but she's still pretty hot.