Wir wollen,dass ihr so schnell wie möglich die neuesten News bekommt. Dafür muß leider auch der Google Übersetzer benutzt werden. Wir hoffen,ihr habt dafür Verständnis.
Alex`s MYSPACE
schmeissi am 04.12.2009 um 23:58 (UTC)
Alex hat seine Myspace Seite neu gemacht.
Neue Bilder aber mit Musik,die er schon mal hatte. (Radiohead)
Donating Funds to DONATE LIFE in lieu of a Christmas gift
Tinker-Petra Lisa am 04.12.2009 um 16:02 (UTC)
Donating Funds to DONATE LIFE in lieu of a Christmas gift
[Text by Tinker (AnnHart) and Petralisa, translation by Sabine Atkins. The English text is below the German Original.]
Spendenaktion anstatt eines Weihnachtsgeschenkes
Inspiriert durch die Fernsehserie Three Rivers, haben wir uns vorgenommen, dieses Jahr zu Weihnachten eine Spendenaktion zugunsten von Donate Life durchzuführen. Anstatt eines Weihnachtsgeschenkes für Mr. O'Loughlin starten wir eine Spendenaktion für Donate Life, was sicher in seinem Sinne ist. Alex O'Loughlin, der über ein gewaltiges Potential verfügt, versteht sich darauf, die Zuschauer mit seiner mitfühlenden aber auch kompetenten Darstellung des Charakters Andy Yablonski (ein Herzchirug) in seinen Bann zu ziehen. O'Loughlin spielt nicht nur eine Rolle, sondern dieses Thema ist ihm sehr wichtig, da er selbst Organspender ist. Mittlerweile ist er Botschafter von Donate Life geworden. Wir vom Deutschen Alex O'Loughlin Fanclub sind der Meinung, das wir ihn in jeder Hinsicht dabei unterstützen sollten, sei es als Organspender oder Blog Verfasser um möglichst viele Leute auf dieses Thema aufmerksam zu machen. Mr. O'Loughlin es uns vorgemacht. Es ist unsere Pflicht Leben zu retten! Wir sind nicht nur Fans, sondern wir wollen etwas bewegen!
Wir wünschen Mr. O'Loughlin und allen Beteiligten ein gesegnetes Weihnachtsfest und viel Erfolg und Schaffenskraft für das Jahr 2010.
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Inspired by the CBS TV series THREE RIVERS, we have decided to do a donation campaign for Christmas benefiting Donate Life.
In lieu of Christmas presents for Alex O'Loughlin, we have started a donation campaign for Donate Life. We feel this is something he would be very happy about.
Alex O'Loughlin, who has a tremendous potential, knows how to capture his viewers with his compassionate but also competent portayal of the character Andy Yablonski (a heart transplant surgeon). Alex O'Loughlin doesn't just play a role, this subject is very important to him, because he himself is an organ donor. Recently, he has become an Ambassador for Donate Life.
We, the members of the German Alex O'Loughlin Fan Club, believe that we should support him as much as we can, be it as organ donors or blog authors, to make as many people as possible aware of this cause.
Alex O'Loughlin shows us how to help. We want to save lives! We are not only fans, we want to be proactive!
We wish Alex O'Loughlin and all participants a blessed Christmas as well as a prosperous 2010.
[More information about this campaign (in German):
http://www.german-alex-oloughlin-fanclub.de/-Geschenk.htm]
If you would like to donate funds or learn more about how to become an organ donor, please visit
Tuned In: CBS's 'Three Rivers' has likely run its course Read more:
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette am 04.12.2009 um 09:02 (UTC)
Tuned In: CBS's 'Three Rivers' has likely run its course
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
CBS's Pittsburgh-set medical drama "Three Rivers" has stopped flowing.
The network yanked the series from its December schedule late Monday and announced no plans for future air dates. "Cold Case" moves back to 9 p.m. beginning Sunday, and reruns of other CBS dramas will air at 10 p.m. for the next few weeks.
"No final decision on its future has been made," said a CBS spokeswoman of the show's fate. "Three Rivers" will complete production on the 13 episodes ordered.
Technically "Three Rivers" is on "hiatus," but the more likely reality is that the show is done, with the possibility of unaired episodes being burned off at a later date.
"Three Rivers" joins the ranks of previous filmed entertainment that made the city look good -- "Rivers" featured many new establishing exterior shots of Pittsburgh despite filming mostly in Los Angeles -- but wasn't great in execution (see also: "Striking Distance," "Inspector Gadget"). The same theory also holds that projects that make Pittsburgh look less attractive ("Wonder Boys," "The Road," CBS's "The Guardian") tend to be of higher quality.
"Three Rivers" starred fan-adored actor Alex O'Loughlin ("Moonlight") as a star transplant surgeon at the fictional Three Rivers Medical Center. Overall household ratings for the show were not awful: It ranked No. 42 among 245 prime-time series in household ratings and drew an average 8.4 million viewers.
But the demographic ratings used to set advertising rates skewed old: Its most recent telecast tied for No. 71 among adults 18-49, just below a Friday airing of the telenovela "Sortilegio" on Univision. Advertisers pay a premium to reach younger viewers, which makes younger-skewing shows more profitable for television networks.
"Three Rivers" was viewed as a troubled series from pretty early in its existence. Many critics disparaged the original pilot, which was shot in Western Pennsylvania and then scrapped. A later pilot, filmed on a new, large set in Hollywood, didn't fare much better, rating 48 (out of a possible 100) at Metacritic.com, a Web site that aggregates reviews of TV shows.
Producers and a small crew returned to Pittsburgh in August to film a rugby match scene for the new premiere episode that ended up getting cut and placed in a later episode. The scene included a nonsensical attempt at localism as a tough guy from Andy's (O'Loughlin's) old neighborhood (Mount Washington) hit him after a play was over.
"Mister Big Shot, you may work across the river now, but I know where you came from," the tough guy said, "and who you screwed over to get there."
Who knew "wrong side of the tracks" applied to Pittsburgh's rivers? And which river, since there are three, is considered the good side? Or does the tough guy mean no one from Mount Washington can become a successful transplant surgeon?
The episode order of the first two episodes was reversed at the last minute because network executives thought the second episode was stronger, but this introduced continuity errors into the story of a new transplant coordinator who was shown on his first day at the hospital in the second episode to air even though he was working at the hospital in the first episode that aired.
CBS's scheduling also did not help "Three Rivers." It premiered opposite a prime-time Steelers game, hurting ratings locally where TV shows with a Pittsburgh connection traditionally out-perform national averages. The show was also frequently delayed due to football overruns, making it difficult to find and/or to record.
Monday night on social media site Twitter, one fan tweeted, "Heart is broken + I need Dr. Andy to repair it. It's sad, show had promise. A Intelligent drama doesn't have a chance on TV."
There's plenty of evidence that intelligent dramas do have a chance to be successful on TV ("Lost," "House" and even "The Good Wife" are just a few examples among broadcast network series), but "Three Rivers" was not in that league.
Simply put, the show was a messy affair from the start, and scripts didn't improve as "Three Rivers" progressed. Writers did little to distinguish the assorted characters or give them much in the way of distinctive attributes; they were all just generic doctors trying to save patients' lives. That's a recipe for mediocrity, not success.
Tenaya Wallace and Tom Mone: Television can save your life
By Tenaya Wallace and Tom Mone am 04.12.2009 um 07:02 (UTC)
http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_13920079
Kann eine einzelne TV-Show tatsächlich Leben retten? "Three Rivers", ein CBS Prime-Time-Serie über Organspende und-transplantation,hat dies getan. Leider reicht diese bemerkenswerte Tatsache nicht aus, um sich selbst zu retten.
Wie die Organspende und-transplantation Gemeinde trauert um den vorzeitigen Aus von "Three Rivers," wir stehen in Ehrfurcht vor dessen Leistungen. Vor einem Monat hat in San Antonio, Texas, eine Familie die Hornhaut eines geliebten Menschen, der gestorben war gespendet. Sie sagten , weil sie wollten, dass ihre Familienangehörigen, anderen helfen, genau wie in "Three Rivers."
Zwei Wochen später, spendete einer Familie an der Ostküste die Organe ihrer Tochter im Teenageralter, weil sie über "Three Rivers" an einem Sonntag Abend gesprochen hatten.
Am Thanksgiving-Wochenende hat eine Tochter in Louisiana die Zustimmung gegeben ihre Mutter für drei Menschenleben zu retten. Auch sie war ein Fan von "Three Rivers", und der Koordinator war beeindruckt, wie viel die Familie wusste von der Spende aus der Beobachtung der Show.
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Tenaya Wallace and Tom Mone: Television can save your life
By Tenaya Wallace and Tom Mone
Updated: 12/03/2009 05:29:54 PM PST
CAN a single TV show actually save lives? "Three Rivers," a CBS prime-time series on donation and transplantation, did. Sadly, that remarkable fact was not enough to save itself.
As the donation and transplantation community mourns the premature shelving of "Three Rivers," we stand in awe of its achievements. A month ago, a San Antonio, Texas, family donated the corneas of a loved one who had passed away. They said yes because they wanted their family member to help others, just like on "Three Rivers."
Two weeks later, a family on the East Coast donated the organs of their teenage daughter because she had talked to them about donation after watching "Three Rivers" on a Sunday night.
On Thanksgiving weekend, a daughter in Louisiana gave consent for her mother to save three lives. She too was a fan of "Three Rivers," and the coordinator was impressed by how much the family knew about the donation process from watching the show.
For years, the organ and tissue donation community held its breath every time donation was used as a television storyline. Inaccurate and horrific scenarios about black markets and stolen organs made us initiate letter-writing campaigns; even worse, research showed it kept viewers from signing up to be donors.
Finally, one show got it right. "Three Rivers" viewers got something extra with their nightly fare of drama: They had a chance to learn the truth about donation and were challenged to talk about a
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topic families rarely wish to discuss - death and their wishes at end of life.
The night that "Three Rivers" premiered, 9.2 million people saw what could essentially be called a 42-minute PSA on organ donation. There are not many public education campaigns that can reach 9.2 million people in a single hour.
From the outset, producer Carol Barbee and her writers reached out to donation and transplant professionals to ensure accuracy in each story and to find the stories that reminded us that death touches us all, that precious legacies can be left by anyone, and that people can gain life through a tremendous gift. Alex O'Loughlin, the show's star, became a Donate Life Ambassador and wore the Donate Life pin and wristband proudly each episode. This was television taking the high road.
Unfortunately, the high road doesn't immediately translate into high ratings and the advertising revenue on which television depends. At a time when networks are casting about for new ways to combat declining audiences, quick decisions to shelve compelling shows without allowing them to mature and develop an audience may be a part of their problem, not their solution.
In the world of organ donation, saving lives comes first, and "Three Rivers" helped to do just that. We can only hope that whatever new form "Three Rivers" takes on, even in a midnight rerun, it will keep inspiring the gift of life.
Tenaya Wallace is the campaign director for Donate Life Hollywood, a national campaign to promote the accurate portrayal of donation in TV and film. Tom Mone is the CEO of OneLegacy, the organ recovery agency serving the greater Los Angeles Area.
TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2009: #51-#1
http://www.buddytv.com//slideshows/tvs-100-sexiest-men-of-2009-511-20977.aspx am 03.12.2009 um 23:28 (UTC)
#11 Alex O'Loughlin, Three Rivers
Still hot from his beloved stint on Moonlight, O'Loughlin put on a pair of scrubs to become the next George Clooney or McDreamy. While Three Rivers isn't exactly burning up the ratings, the thought of O'Loughlin saving a life is all the fire we need.
