Some info on Jeremy Jordan

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...on-sept-4/

Another addition to the cast. Couldn't remember if we'd seen this or not...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...rls-361926

Scoop/spoilers coming up. Brief but I guess inevitable.

http://www.eonline.com/news/338325/...e-and-more

I am confessing here and now that I have become addicted to Teen Wolf. Although Twilight left me cold, this blend of teen monsters and raging grampies (at least last season) really captured my attention. It's horrible, funny, interesting, and just had some kind of edge that Twilight never quite managed for me.

A girl and her wig... also I listened to the video of Don't forget Me again and was suitably blown away.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ds-newsxml

Fan recording (off the tv?) of a new Smash II promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rlE0-HbVEA

Kat and Jeremy Jordan on set

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/vBMF...hYrnDVvBD1

Kat, JJ, misc. fans on set

http://www.justjared.com/2012/08/18...my-jordan/

More, tks to Savannah Wise at KMC

http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/9ar...br4yfrpn1/

I didn't mean to support Vulture. It must have been a link from twitter or something.

Those spoilers are more like teasers.

We watched that promo during the Olympics and went frame by frame to catch everything. Yay bumpy!

 

Oo, oo. Can I please have the job of holding an umbrella in the sun for Ms. McPhee??

More shots from the set, Katharine and JHud. K begins at about #13.

http://www.x17online.com/gallery/vi...081712_X17

The Daily Mail sure loves Katharine. Bully for them!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ds-newsxml

More Katharine in black romper? w/fishnets. (Don't ask me about fashion terminology)

http://celebrity-gossip.net/smash/j...nyc-713396

Kat and JHud getting ready to film

http://celebrity-gossip.net/smash/j...set-714341

Kat, JH and Megan on set

http://www.justjared.com/2012/08/22...-starlets/

Kat and Jeremy

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/aiAw...N6KSJfG1sc

More in the white flowery dress

http://perezhilton.com/2012-08-20-k...rdan-smash

Interview with Debra M. in which she basically says she doesn't know what's happening in Season Two, but oh well...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...23125.html

And yet more in the "no news is... no news?" category. Is Ivy going into a new musical? Inquiring minds want to know.  Warning:  that's basically what the article says about Smash, noting that Sean Hayes is coming onboard.

http://www.eonline.com/news/340212/...h-and-more

#1 = takes a prize for leg shots
#2 = a candid and shot from an odd angle, but still a really beautiful picture

http://www.denimology.com/2012/08/k...jacket.php

It's leg day!

http://theskinnywebsite.com/jennifer-hudson-katharine-mcphee-on-the-set-of-smash/

This is a hodgepodge of stuff but also talks about Smash. What's this about Christian Borle not coming back? And a Neutrogena contract? Hope this gets more airtime than the SkinID infomercials tht were buried at 4 in the morning.

http://www.theimproper.com/45128/ka...oho-photos

On the Neutrogena thing, I'm pretty sure they were confused about how long ago she had that endorsement deal. I wouldn't be surprised if they confused Borle with one of the other cast members who was let go, because he's still there and he's been in various pictures we've seen of them filming the new season.

Sometimes old stuff from years past crops up in amidst the new news, no idea why. I guess this was one of them, eh? Maybe somebody confused Julia's husband with her writing partner. Not everyone pays as close attention as we do.

I don't think this has any news that we haven't already seen, but I thought the title was funny.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...02931.html

BTW it was fall and winter!

For some reason the fashion folks got all excited about all the scarves the Smash cast wore. I guess I go on the theory that I don't care what they're talking about as long as theyre talking. Well, I do but I don't. The "any publicity is better than no publicity" thing.

some misc. candids of Katharine, her combat jacket and her pop bottle

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/SD6B...s+back+set

Two sets of pictures, very different fashion ideas.

http://www.celebfanforum.com/showth...st-21-2012

You know you've got it made when you're parodied in "Forbidden Broadway." Honestly, when stuff like this happens, you've become some sort of meme and passed into popular culture. That's good, right?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/t...wanted=all

Tweeted by Megan H:

http://twitter.com/meganhilty/statu...5331127298

A bit on Sean Hayes coming to Smash.

Well, we're not surprised that Ivy is going to the new musical. It only makes sense.

More from the "flowered dress that looks like the audition dress but isn't" series

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/4jAo...FLT2IHN466

http://lifeoftherichandfamous.com/2...-of-smash/

I'm going to miss the Karen/Ivy rivalry. That was the heart of Season One. Unless they're going to find a way to resurrect it somehow... Now that Bombshell is kind of off the ground, is Jack still as intimately connected to it? how does this work? Is he still intimately connected to Ivy? To Karen?

Below: more from the "black mini" and the "flared jeans" candids. Some look like I've seen them before, some I know I haven't.

http://www.gotceleb.com/katharine-m...e-smash-08

I suspect they'll find a way to keep all the old rivalries going. And Bombshell hasn't made it to Broadway yet so there's still work to be done.

How to make Smash smashier

http://www.theproducersperspective....ment-18104

Re: How to make Smash smashier

#1 is such an excellent point. Rebeck may have been a good playwright and knew lots about Broadway, but may not have really been the right choice to be a showrunner, and some of the other writers were more playwrights than experienced in TV. Plus, not mentioned, but Rebeck always came off as rather formidable and quick to fight, so there likely was a lot of fighting with NBC.

A short-n-sweet glimpse of filming in NY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZdTcmaLYHg

Dalki, that may have beenNBc's gripe with Rebeck but the fans seemed to want more Broadway and less extraneous material, by which they meant a LOT of stuff, and better written stuff. Some of the scenes with Leo did stink a bit. Personally I thought the kid came off as let's say developmentally disadvantaged, no matter how often they claimed he was an honor student.

A lot of misc, including shots from the set

http://www.examiner.com/article/sma...at-s-ahead

Somewhere on this page is supposed to be a link to a JHud/Katharine duet but I can't find it. I'm going to look for another link. Anyone else do better?

http://m.theinsider.com/v/Music/Wat...f0a94155bc

Here's the video without the article. I don't know why it was changed. The video has Kat introducing a clip and then we see Kat and Jennifer duet on "On Broadway" (there are cuts so it's not the full thing) interspersed with clips from last season and a few from this season.

http://cloud.broadwayworld.com/vidu...20Pass.mp4

I haven't watched past the first few seconds.

 

Edit: Yeah, this is it.