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2008
AUGUST
August 2: Tareco Productions have released a trailer for Bee Afraid at YouTube. Ally is in the trailer, so go have a look here. In addition, a photo of Ally is featured in the behind-the-scenes video situated at Tareco Productions website, under Gallery. Bee Afraid is the fourth snippet in the sequence. A Gazette.Net article is about a school campus being used in a location shoot for Toe to Toe. The article includes a photo of Ally on location, having her make-up retouched.
JULY
July 27: Tell Me You Love Me's second season is a no-go after all. Creator Cynthia Mort struggled, and ultimately failed, to find a direction for the sophomore season of the series. Read the whole-yet-brief story at either Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide or The Hollywood Reporter.
July 3: Sadly, Ally didn't apparently make the top ten shortlists of either lead or supporting actress nominations at the Emmys this year. Say it with me: boo!! Thankfully, at least Michael Slezak of Entertainment Weekly is smarting, too, at this snub.
JUNE
June 5: Ally, along with the other actresses of Tell Me You Love Me, get a little Emmy attention at Variety in the supporting actress category. Nominations for this year's awards will be announced July 17.
MAY
May 21: Michael Ausiello of TV Guide, aided by Matt Roush and Bruce Fretts, has included Ally under supporting actress nominees in his dream Emmy ballot. From these men's lips to God's ears!
May 6: IMDb reports that Ally has signed to appear in a movie called Toe to Toe as Claire. The movie will be written and directed by Emily Abt. Ally's character is described thus: "(45): Elegant, Caucasian, leggy woman. Heavy-hitter in the world of international development. Confident, ambitious and always on the go." The movie is slated for release in 2009.
May 2: You can see Ally's ad for Clairol's "Nice and Easy" range at YouTube, courtesy of rhcannon. Huzzah!
APRIL
April 6: I've located some new "old" photos of Ally. Here, you can find three pictures of a photo shoot in the 1990s with Ally, and also two candids of her from the Dirt premiere in December 2006.
MARCH
March 25: Ally's Law and Order episode "Driven" will be repeated on Wednesday, 26th of March, on NBC. Sorry for the late heads up!
JANUARY
January 26: Tell Me You Love Me received its award as one of the best television series of 2007, chosen by American Film Institute, on January 11th. Ally and co-star Tim DeKay were on hand to participate in the festivities. Getty Images has a picture of them together at the gala. (Perform a search for "Ally Walker" with the quotation marks.) Also: Tim DeKay's website lists Ally as a guest star in a one-reeler film called Bee Afraid. More details here as they surface.
January 24: Ally guest starred in last night's Law and Order episode called "Driven" as a racist mother. Sorry about the belated heads-up! I'll keep you posted on if and when NBC will rerun the episode. In the mean time, Television without Pity has weecapped the episode. You can read it here. NBC offers a "Two-Minute Replay" of the episode at their video section. Go see Ally in action!
2007
DECEMBER
December 18: American Film Institute will honor Tell Me You Love Me as one of the top ten television shows of 2007. The awards will be given out Jan 11, 2008. Congratulations to the creative team!
December 1: This is a few months late (hee!), but Ally stepped out on the town with John to celebrate Nip/Tuck's fifth season premiere on Oct 20. You can see three photos of them at Contactmusic.com. Also on the site are two photos of Ally from HBO's Emmys After Party; you can catch a glimpse of her dress in full. Over at Getty Images, there are three photos of Ally and co. from the Nip/Tuck party. In one of them, Ally's kissing former Profiler co-star Julian McMahon on the cheek! Aw. (At Getty Images, perform search under Editorial - Entertainment photos and remember to include the "" around Ally's name.)
NOVEMBER
November 24: It's been confirmed that Ally will indeed be playing Matthew Broderick's former wife in Wonderful World. Tell Me You Love Me will be released on DVD in February 2008. Also, I'm still hard at work with trying to find out in which American Dad! episode Ally has appeared. Garn's Guides lists the episode to be "Four Little Words", broadcast in April of this year. No solid confirmation of this at this point. However, all you lucky Americans can apparently view the episode on AOL Video. Hm...
OCTOBER
October 24: Internet Movie Database reports that Ally has a role in the upcoming Wonderful World, starring Matthew Broderick and Sanaa Lathan. The movie is currently being shot in Shreveport, Louisiana. The filming will reportedly take 23 days. Ally's character is called Eliza, but there are scant details of the character and her role in the movie. She could be the ex-wife of Broderick's character or someone else altogether. I'll keep looking for more info.
October 4: The Hollywood Reporter reports that HBO has picked up Tell Me You Love Me for a second season. No word yet when the shooting will begin or the second season will air.
SEPTEMBER
September 27: Here's Some intimate moments, an LA Times interview that was published at the beginning of this month. It has a lovely new publicity shot of Ally, so be sure to take a look!
September 25: Dish magazine recently published 8 Questions with... Ally Walker. She dishes on her favourite shows, being starstruck and the gossip in tabloid magazines.
September 20: Ally did make an appearance at HBO's Emmy After Party! DailyCeleb.com has a photo of her from the event. I was beginning to wonder why no one from Tell Me You Love Me would have put in some face time.
September 18: HBO has put online a brief interview with Ally. She dishes on her role, and answers a short relationship quiz.
September 15: BuddyTV conducted an interview with Ally about Tell Me You Love Me and her previous roles.
September 12: The Celebrity Image Database has added more photos of Ally to their collection. The photos are candids and Profiler promo shots, so go take a look. Best of all: you're able to save them to your hard drive.
September 11: Here's a brief but nice interview with Ally about her career as an actress and Tell Me You Love Me: "Ally Walker to Bare All for Her Art."
September 10 (updated): Reaction to Tell Me You Love Me is trickling in. Read Ryan McGee's column of From Inside the Box at Zap2it and Karen Valby's TV Watch column at Entertainment Weekly. In addition, HBO has added features to the show's official site, including an episode guide, a seemingly weekly blog by Cynthia Mort and a link to Tell Me about Tell Me You Love Me, a site where real-life couples discuss the themes they pick up on in the episodes. Update: Michael Slezak of Entertainment Weekly wonders whether Ally might be an Emmy contender next year! Keep your fingers crossed...
September 9th: Tell Me You Love Me will premiere at 10 pm. HBO On Demand offers episodes for viewing six days prior to the scheduled broadcast. Tell Me You Love Me reviews: Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly, Rick Porter of Zap2it, Ellen Gray of Philadelphia Daily News, Maureen Ryan of Chicago Tribune, Tim Goodman of SFGate.com, Robert Bianco of USA Today, Peter Ames Carlin of The Oregonian, James Poniewozik of TIME, and Joanne Ostrow of Denver Post.
September 7th: The bitching Television without Pity website has added Tell Me You Love Me to its recap list. The site also has a proper forum in which to discuss the minutiae of the show as well as the cast - including Ally! Join the fun!
JULY
July 8th: By Appointment Only has been broadcast in Spain on April 28th on the Antena 3 network. Film Affinity website has a promo photo and/or DVD cover shot as well as a plot synopsis of the movie here. E-Filme.org provides a bigger cover art here. The movie was on sale at the Berlin Film Festival in early February 2007.
JUNE
June 13th: A two-minute promo for Tell Me You Love Me was available at YouTube. The promo introduces the premise and the couples and shows some clips from scenes. Ally says: "it's very difficult having small children and being in a long-term relationship." Now (September) the promo can be viewed at HBO's Video section for the series.