The episode of wife swap that I co-directed with Stephen Pettinger (one director per house) got picked to be the season premier!!
It's a beauty pageant stage mother who swaps place with a feminist Mormon preacher who home schools her kids to protect them from misogyny.
Please tune in tomorrow night at 8 PM on ABC.
Aliyah
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
NEW YEAR AND A NEW HURLEY (in gestation)!!!
It's been forever - or at least months - since our last posting. This is the problem of having no counter, feedback or accountability to the blog.
It still feels like a not so private diary of indulgence so there's no "you never write" guilt.
Although we've been lax on the digital front - we have been incredibly busy.
Seamus tends to start his days at 4 am, pull on a red shirt and heads out to rable rouse.
More specifically, he is the rabble rouser in charge of the Writers Guild strike line at Universal/NBC.
He's got fantastic stories that I will let him share in another post.
As for me - wiped out by 6 stimulating but exhausting months on Wired Science, I had lofty plans of an extended NY vacation with family and friends around Thanksgiving, but instead I rolled straight into running the upcoming season of Trading Spaces on TLC.
Paige Davis - whom I adore - is back and it's a whole new team at TLC so the show is being revamped into a network worthy, primetime feeling, tentpole series. So far episode 1 looks killer so we just need to keep hitting the high bar we've set for ourselves.
The downside is that it's a 7 day a week job because we air weekly starting Jan 26th.
The upside, I really like the folks I'm working with.
Because of the unexpected new job and it's Saturday after Thanksgiving start date - instead of 10 days in NY, Conn and DC, I spent 2 glorious days on my parents couch holding my perfect nephew Jackson Ezra (son to Josiah and Felicia) and surrounded by my parents, in-laws, grandma, extended family, and my favorite Aunt.
More on Jackson:
Hes beautiful, smart, highly advanced and very handome.
He doesn't actually do much yet - so we entertained ourselves by feeding, changing and bathing him - and also putting a speakerphone under his butt to pretend he could talk.
More on my aunt:
Sydne is now fully recovered from the bout with cancer that left her alternately voiceless, prodded with needles, soldiering through chemo and surgery and generally uncomfortable. She is full of energy again and back to high spirits. We are all REALLY, REALLY grateful.
And in the spirit of burying the lead.
I am pregnant with a baby girl who is due to make her entrance into the world on May 27th.
Seamus and I cannot wait. Her "inside" name is Spanky McPantsPants and there is a short video of her at 13 weeks below. The part at the beginning where it gets cloudy is me cracking up and laughing when I first saw the image.
Oh my god - it really looks like a baby!
Much love to all!
Aliyah and Seamus
It still feels like a not so private diary of indulgence so there's no "you never write" guilt.
Although we've been lax on the digital front - we have been incredibly busy.
Seamus tends to start his days at 4 am, pull on a red shirt and heads out to rable rouse.
More specifically, he is the rabble rouser in charge of the Writers Guild strike line at Universal/NBC.
He's got fantastic stories that I will let him share in another post.
As for me - wiped out by 6 stimulating but exhausting months on Wired Science, I had lofty plans of an extended NY vacation with family and friends around Thanksgiving, but instead I rolled straight into running the upcoming season of Trading Spaces on TLC.
Paige Davis - whom I adore - is back and it's a whole new team at TLC so the show is being revamped into a network worthy, primetime feeling, tentpole series. So far episode 1 looks killer so we just need to keep hitting the high bar we've set for ourselves.
The downside is that it's a 7 day a week job because we air weekly starting Jan 26th.
The upside, I really like the folks I'm working with.
Because of the unexpected new job and it's Saturday after Thanksgiving start date - instead of 10 days in NY, Conn and DC, I spent 2 glorious days on my parents couch holding my perfect nephew Jackson Ezra (son to Josiah and Felicia) and surrounded by my parents, in-laws, grandma, extended family, and my favorite Aunt.
More on Jackson:
Hes beautiful, smart, highly advanced and very handome.
He doesn't actually do much yet - so we entertained ourselves by feeding, changing and bathing him - and also putting a speakerphone under his butt to pretend he could talk.
More on my aunt:
Sydne is now fully recovered from the bout with cancer that left her alternately voiceless, prodded with needles, soldiering through chemo and surgery and generally uncomfortable. She is full of energy again and back to high spirits. We are all REALLY, REALLY grateful.
And in the spirit of burying the lead.
I am pregnant with a baby girl who is due to make her entrance into the world on May 27th.
Seamus and I cannot wait. Her "inside" name is Spanky McPantsPants and there is a short video of her at 13 weeks below. The part at the beginning where it gets cloudy is me cracking up and laughing when I first saw the image.
Oh my god - it really looks like a baby!
Much love to all!
Aliyah and Seamus
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