'Michael J. Fox Show': 'Back to the Future' Reunion (Exclusive Photos) "The Michael J. Fox Show" Great Scott! NBC's The Michael J. Fox Show is going Back to the Future in the spring when guest star Christopher Lloyd will reunite with the former Marty McFly -- and The Hollywood Reporter has the exclusive first look. PHOTOS: Faces of Fall TV 2013 Lloyd, who played bumbling genius Dr. From the early preview, it looks like the old friends could wind up working side by side in what appears to be a wicked game of laser tag. Michael J Fox: 'Nobody pities me and that's great. I couldn't stand it' When Michael J Fox walks into the reception of his office in New York, he arrives like a bantam-weight boxer ready for a fight. It is not so much the way he moves, although that is partly why he gives that impression, his weight shifting restlessly from foot to foot.
"I feel like I'm dangling from a coat hanger, with my toes scraping and kicking at the ground," he writes in his excellent autobiography, Lucky Man, describing the effects of Parkinson's disease, which for more than two decades now has racked his body. What really gives him the appearance of a readying boxer is the look in his eyes.
Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house. It is a proud and confrontational look, honed from 20 years of dealing with people's initial reaction to him, stricken at what has happened to Marty McFly, who once moved with such grace on a skateboard. "Is the chair OK? "Yeah, it's important. "Exactly.
Michael J. Fox makes comeback bid against all odds. Michael J. Fox. AP When he was young and healthy, Michael J. Fox was one of Hollywood’s most popular comers, top-billing the hit “Back to the Future” film franchise and a number of top-rating sitcoms. Imagine his and his fans’ dismay, therefore, when he fell ill in the year 2000, and learned after some tests that he had Parkinson’s disease!
It was a shocking diagnosis, because the disease was notorious for wreaking havoc on its victims’ neurological system. So, Fox had to leave his ongoing series, “Spin City,” to try different treatments and medications to treat his serious illness. At the time, those treatments were limited in scope and effectivity, so Fox decided that he would use his celebrity to raise funds for more research to be conducted to develop other and better modalities to address and remedy the disease’s worst effects.
He did: He helped develop what would later become “The Michael J. We hope that “The Michael J.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation Hangout with Michael J. Fox. Betsy Brandt of "Breaking Bad" to play Michael J. Fox's wife on new series. Betsy Brandt arrives at the BAFTA Los Angeles 2013 Awards Season Tea Party held at the Four Seasons Hotel on Jan. 12, 2013, in Los Angeles. Getty "Breaking Bad" actress Betsy Brandt will star opposite Michael J. Fox in his upcoming NBC sitcom. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brandt will portray Fox's wife, Annie, on the upcoming series. Brandt's character is being described as "tough yet loyal with a goofy side. " Fox will play Mike Burnaby, a former newscaster who leaves his job due to Parkinson's Disease but decides to return to work after undergoing treatment.
NBC has ordered 22 episodes of the series, inspired by Fox's real life and set In New York. The untitled show will also feature Katie Finneran ("Wonderfall") as Leigh, Mike's younger sister; Conor Romero ("American Gangster") as Ian, Mike's teenage son; Jack Goor as Graham, Mike's youngest son; and Wendell Pierce ("Treme") will play Harris Green, Mike's close friend.
Brandt plays Marie Schrader on AMC's "Breaking Bad. " Michael J. Fox to play newscaster in new NBC show. Jan. 6, 2013 3:58 PM ET PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On his upcoming NBC comedy, Michael J. Fox will play a newscaster who had quit his job due to Parkinson's Disease but returns to work in the show's first episode because a new medical regimen has helped him control many of the disease's symptoms. File -- In a Nov. 6, 2006 file photo actor Michael J. Fox greets supporters at a rally for Wisconsin Gov. It mirrors the life of the former "Family Ties" and "Spin City" star, who said last year that drugs have helped minimize the physical tics of Parkinson's and have enabled him to take on more acting jobs.
The yet-to-be-named sitcom is a key piece of NBC's strategy to build upon a revival that has brought the network back from many years in the ratings wilderness. Though it's not definite, NBC is penciling Fox's comedy in for September on its low-rated Thursday schedule. Fox is meeting this week with actresses who may be cast as his wife on the show.