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As you may have noticed, TV owns the lions' share of good scripts, good parts for older women, everything the movies aren't providing. (Although staying on TV is tough in of itself).
So it's no wonder film stars have been enjoying a career resurgence on the small screen: Alec Baldwin, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Bill Paxton, Toni Collette, Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Kyra Sedgwick, Gary Sinise, and Gabriel Byrne are just a few examples. Even if they don't want to commit to a series, you'll find the television movies/miniseries category littered with pedigreed actors: Jessica Lange, Joan Allen, Kenneth Branagh, Meryl Streep, and Al Pacino, for example.
In the middle of her guest arc on
30 Rock,
Julianne Moore (complete with Boston accent) has
reportedly been courted for TV pilots, including a remake of
Prime Suspect. Also on TV networks' wishlists for new series:
Maria Bello, Demi Moore, and
Matt Dillon (whose younger bro
Kevin has had much success on
Entourage).
I scrolled through lists of Oscar nominees in the past decade and found it hard-pressed to find someone who didn't at least guest star on a TV series since then. But who would you love to see make the full-gig jump to small-screen glory? Perhaps
Susan Sarandon or
Uma Thurman in an edgy drama for Showtime?
Kevin Spacey as the next nemesis on
Dexter?
Billy Bob Thornton in the next incarnation of CSI? --
Ellen
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