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Cate & Baze: It Ain’t Over!
Jul 29th
Are Cate and Baze over for good? Last viewers saw, Cate and Ryan tied the knot, but executive producer Liz Tigelaar says not to count Baze out yet. Tigelaar tells TVGuide.com about the upcoming second season of Life Unexpected, which she says will focus on how each character redefines themselves now that their family dynamics have changed.
TVGuide.com: If Season 1 was about Lux (Britt Robertson) finding her family, what would you say Season 2 is about?
Liz Tigelaar: Season 2 is about: Who am I now? Who am I now that I’ve been adopted? Who am I now that I’m married? Who am I now that I’m a step-father or a father? Who am I now that I lost the girl? Who am I now that my daughter didn’t choose me? Who am I now that I got what I wanted? Who do my parents expect me to be? What if I’m not what they really wanted? What if they got a lemon or a dud? What if they think I’m someone I’m not? It’s redefining who they are now in light of what happened in the finale. It’s all those questions.
TVGuide.com: Why did you have Cate (Shiri Appleby) and Ryan (Kerr Smith) actually get married in the finale?
Tigelaar: People’s weddings usually don’t get stopped. They went through with it and we wanted to end the season with a bang and not necessarily with a cliffhanger, because we didn’t know if we would come back. I think we wanted to show an end to the story that we told. The season began with a proposal and ended with a wedding, and now we’re launching in a new direction. The idea is that whether Baze [Kristopher Polaha] successfully stopped the wedding or not, he still stepped up and was ready to do something, and that was the evolution of his character.
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TVGuide.com: Lux goes from having no parents, to having two fathers in Ryan and Baze. Will they be fighting over her?
Tigelaar: Yeah, Baze and Ryan are not going to be fighting like they were in Season 1. The gauntlet has been thrown down, and Ryan has sensibly won. There’s going to be a struggle in terms of how Ryan fits into Lux’s life and what does it mean now that he’s a step-dad? Baze has been such a point of contention in Cate and Ryan’s relationship, and what they don’t know yet is that there are so many other things that can be points of contention broader than Baze. Lux, in a way, can be one of them. We’re going to see Ryan not wanting to be on the outside looking in and [figuring out] if he wants his own kids.
TVGuide.com: Cate and Baze’s relationship can’t be over, right?
Tigelaar: Of course not. Cate and Baze aren’t over. We’re in it for the long haul. Their relationship will shift in a way that will make you love them together, but it’s more of them against the world instead of them against each other.
TVGuide.com: We hear that Baze will have to work with his father this season. Will their relationship continued to be strained?
Tigelaar: I think his relationship with his father has evolved. You can’t just say ‘I love you’ and a switch is flipped, but I think that we’re telling a story of two people trying to change their dynamic. What we do in this season will be working towards that.
Shaun Sipos headed to Life Unexpected
TVGuide.com: What new characters will you be introducing this season?
Tigelaar: The family of the show is broadening out in that there are characters who are going to affect our core family. Also, we’re going to have the family of our show back: Bug, Tasha, Jones, Laverne, Abby, Jack. We’re introducing a new foil at the radio station for Cate: Kelly, the fake virgin. Amy Price Francis plays her and we’re really excited about that.
TVGuide.com: With the introduction of a hot new teacher, played by Shaun Sipos, everyone will wonder: Will he have an inappropriate student-teacher relationship with Lux?
Tigelaar: He’s going to be a very pivotal male figure in Lux’s life. Lux has a desire to be normal that is pulled by her inability to feel normal or challenged by that. He plays into that. She’s struggling in many areas in her life and he’s somebody that will support her. He’ll be paired up with someone besides Lux.
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Vote for Britt for Breakout TV Star!
Jun 29th
E Online’s Kristin Dos Santos:
Tater Tops is the chance for you TV-lovin’ couch potatoes (Taters? Get it? So clever, we know) to give love to the TV shows and stars you love the most.
All joking about the “real glory” aside, I can tell you that the Tater Top Award winners do receive real, bona fide Golden Tater trophies, and many of the actors and producers who’ve won in the past have reached out to say how utterly cool it is to know how much you fans care.
Plus, that trophy sure makes for a stunning centerpiece, as it is 100 percent feng shui certified and real gold (in color)!
Today, we kick off our 2010 Tater Top Awards with the brightest and newest favorites of the TV season: Male and Female Breakout Stars. (Some of them may have been working for a while, but were discovered by you during the past year.)
The nominations were all sent in by you, and tallied by us.
We’ll be tackling a new category each weekday for the next three weeks as Tater Tops continues, so don’t forget to keep nominating and voting until winners are announced on July 20.
And listen up robo-voters, we’ve got ya pegged! Thanks to our handy dandy cheat-blocking device, there will be no uber-voting allowed throughout the Tater Tops Awards. So don’t fret, each poll’s results will be 100% accurate. We promise.
Happy Father’s Day Baze!
Jun 20th
Watch Polaha hit the spotlight playing an aloof dad on Life Unexpected, CW Network’s jewel of Fall 2010
Kristoffer Polaha: “In real life, I have a beautiful wife and two children, Caleb (five) and Micah (three). So it was pretty interesting to be able to be a daddy on TV and to be able to sort of explore that tenderness that I now naturally feel for my kids.
“And just being a family man, which is cool to be able to put that to use – especially in Hollywood where you feel, if you have a wife and kids, you have to hide that,” said Polaha in an interview recently.
“Baze is really a joyful character to play. Here is a guy who is innately likable, but he just has the Peter Pan syndrome, he doesn’t want to grow up.
“And for an actor, I don’t have to comb my hair in the morning. I don’t have to wear stiff, uncomfortable clothing. I get to like, just go and play, which is a joy!” joked Polaha.
May 14th
This excerpt was taken from a wonderful article by Cultural Learnings.
Perhaps it’s for the best, though, as I can focus on the one bubble show that I’d say I’d be legitimately angry to see canceled 
early next week. It isn’t that Life Unexpected is my favourite show on television, or even that it had a particularly spectacular first season (it was good, not great); rather, it’s that it’s a young show with a strong cast that grew beyond its premise to become a solid drama series, and it has a great deal of creative and commercial potential yet untapped. And while The CW has been trapped within an identity crisis since its inception, that’s no excuse to turn away a show with the potential to grow into something which complements their brand just so that they can focus on “hype.”
The CW doesn’t need hype at this point, they need something capable of being fresh and standing out from their lineup marked by vapidity, nostalgia marketed to teenagers, and genre programs being run into the ground (exceptions made for Vampire Diaries and Supernatural within this description of their lineup). Life Unexpected is that show, and I really hope they come around to this fact before they make the same mistake they made last year. Read more: cultural_learnings.com.
