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ABC Orders Fuller’s DAISIES!! Plus CAVEMEN & UNDERBELLY!! But No Hurwitz Sitcom Or LIFE ON MARS Or MR. & MRS. SMITH!!
I am – Hercules!!
ABC doesn’t announce its fall schedule till Tuesday, but The Hollywood Reporter already knows which new shows the network has ordered.
And that “Notes From The Underbelly” and “October Road” are comimg back.
Seven hourlongs and three sitcoms are new.
NEW HOURLONGS:
“Pushing Daisies,” from writer-producer Bryan Fuller (“Heroes”), who previously created “Dead Like Me” and “Wonderfalls.” It’s about a guy who can reanimate the dead, but only for a few seconds. Which comes in handy for murder investigators. “Men in Black” man Barry Sonnenfeld directed the pilot, which on the page was hilarious.
“Cashmere Mafia,” from writer-producer Kevin Wade (“Maid in Manhattan”), is about four female executives - friends since college - in New York.
“Big Shots,” from writer-producer Jon Feldman (“Tru Calling,” “Reunion”), is about high-powered execs who socialize at an exclusive golf club.
“Dirty Sexy Money,” from writer-producers Craig Wright & Greg Berlanti (“Jack & Bobby,” “Brothers & Sisters”), is about an idealistic lawyer who inherits his late father’s less-than-idealistic law practice.
“Eli Stone,” from writer-producers Marc Gugenheim & Greg Berlanti (“Jack & Bobby,” “Brothers & Sisters”), is about a lawyer who begins to suspect he’s also a prophet. (NOTE: “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Eli Stone,” which share a creator and a lawyer protagonist, are NOT the same show.)
“Private Practice” is the “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff starring Kate Walsh.
“Women’s Murder Club,” from writer-producers Liz Craft & Sarah Fain (“Angel,” “The Shield”), is based on the James Patterson (“Along Came A Spider,” “Kiss The Girls”) books about a quartet of girlfriends who solve murders.
NEW SITCOMS:
“Carpoolers,” from Kid In The Hall Bruce McCulloch (“Superstar,” “Dog Park,” is about four guys who share an auto to work.
“Cavemen,” based on the hilarious Geico ads, made by the guys behind the Geico ads.
“Sam I Am,” from a writer named Don Todd, about a woman with amnesia.
NOT ON THE LIST:
“The Thick of It,” the new sitcom from “Arrested Development’s” Mitch Hurwitz.
“Untitled Rina Minmoun,” the Southern lawyers series from “Everwood” showrunner Minmoun.
“Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” based on the movie, from the movie’s writer, Simon Kinsberg.
“Football Wives,” based on the British series, from “Ugly Betty’s” Marco Pennette.
“Life On Mars,” based on the British series, from “Boston Legal’s” David E. Kelley.
Read all of the Hollywood Reporter’s story here.
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Wow, that's a.. er.. first..
"Private Practice" is just a brutally generic name for a show.. what, "Doctor's Orders!" was taken?
And that Cavemen show... why, for the love of god... why...
Greg
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Pushing Daisies has promise, eh?
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Well maybe two. I know the Caveman is overrated but that shit cracks me up. Did anyone see the Superbowl pregame with the insecure Caveman golfing w/... was it boomer?? i can't remember.
"the Thick of it" sounds interesting, but there is nothing on adc that I like but lost and Kimmel
Most highly overated current tv show belongs to Greys. tell me this is not the worst acting on tv right now. it's almost like they are trying to do a serious scrubs, but just not quite serious enough -
Plus, it looks good with all the slutty female cavewoman costumes.
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but chicks with facial hair don't turn me on, no matter how low cut that antelope-skin top is
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It's funny on the commercials because they play it straight. A laugh track will kill it.
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It's just plain illogical to be greenlighting all these dramas. You can fit two sitcoms into the slot of a drama, which means you have twice the chance of lucking on a successful show. Any exec who greenlights more dramas than comedies is an IDIOT. (Also, there should be some 15-minute shows on network TV. It works for Adult Swim. It would be awesome to see TWELVE SHOWS packed into a three-hour network night of programming.)
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Thanks to new and improved network idiocy!
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...and also HEROES, which NBC had low hopes for, thinkg Studio 60 was their hot new show.
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Ausiello at TVGUIDE has list that shows KNIGHTS OF PROSPERITY returning at midseason...There is a god!
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The second best Taxi Driver ever. Grounded for life was a great show as well.
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Two catch phrases in 1 subject line. :)
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You can start greenlighting comedies now, networks!
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...I am sad to see "Life on Mars" not on the list. I mean, I know the American version will SUCK big time, esp. with JJ butchering it, but I still miss it enough to watch even that atrocity.
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Wait... what?
Didn't the pilot for this turn out *really* badly?
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Is it dead? I thought the network ordered more scripts. And wasn't Life on Mars pushed to midseason anyway?
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But they reimagined the wrong UK soccer soap opera - Sky One's Dream Team was MILES better than the BBC's Footballers' Wives in every way. That had some serious star power; Lucy Lawless, Gabrielle Union, James van der Beek. You never really know with pilots, lesson for today.
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per Ausiello (mid season replacement).
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http://www.cavemanscrib.com/
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May 11, 2007 9:51:49 PM CDT
Isn't pushing daisies a rip-off of part of Torchwood...
by alonzo mosely
Torchwood was utter shite, however it had one marginally decent idea, the machine that brought the dead back for a limited time so they could ask them how they died and therefore solve some shitty mystery before having gay sex just because... And I am happy we got no US Life on Mars, it worked because of reasons David Kelly would never grasp...
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Re: Pushing Daisies. For anyone who has seen Torchwood, I think the way they handled this concept (of being able to reanimate the dead for a brief period of time to help in a murder investigation) showed how problematic it would actually be - the idea that you would reanimate them and they would not freak out, wonder what was going on, want to see their family, etc. before they died again definitely does seem to be shown to be kind of pointless.
As for the Life on Mars remake, it probably is for the best - I did love Life On Mars, but I think the only way the remake would work if they did just take the basic premise but otherwise make it completely original, from an American perspective. I'm kind of surprised ABC isn't giving it a shot though. -
You said almost exactly the same as me, on the same two subjects, and posted 12 seconds after me...
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"...about a quartet of girlfriends who solve murders."
so, it's like Veronica Mars. ONLY WITH MORE WOMEN!!!1 :p -
Herc's post is kind of presumptive in a bad way.
The article only mentions what's been ordered. Herc fill in the rest. It's true we'll probably not see the pilots left on the table by ABC, but not necessarily. A producer like David Kelley might get another stab at Life on Mars or it or it might get picked up later.
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I've just seen epic movie...
so, my question would be, is the damage permanent, or or will this pain eventually go away? -
... that mr and mrs smith didn't get picked up. not that i would have watched it, but still. pushing daisies sounds great, and i'll check out eli stone. i'm a little bummed that mitch hurwitz' sitcom didn't get picked up, but then again, who wants to see another great show get cancelled? how jon feldman keeps getting tv jobs blows my fucking mind. tru calling's first season, except for about five episodes, was awful (its second year was much improved... every episode is watchable except the episode written by showrunner feldman) and reunion was an excellent-in-concept-HORRIBLE-in-execution show that in better hands could have been a really good show. at least abc isn't still trying to milk its lost and housewives successes this year (even though there's that grey's spinoff). on a totally separate note, last night's TRAVELER premiere brought in respectable ratings. KEEP IT UP, BITCHES!
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yep, I'm in.
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More shows about Doctors, Lawyers and typical (cliched) white yuppy angst...The cornerstone of cookie cutter unoriginal primetime enterblandment. Thank god for dvd porn.
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"That had some serious star power; Lucy Lawless, Gabrielle Union, James van der Beek."
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She likes it
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We have two shows about executives, two shows about a group of women, two shows about lawyers, and the frakkin' GEICO CAVEMEN, but NOT the Mitch Hurwitz/Christopher Guest pilot? Come on!{/Gob}
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That all looks terrible.
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Life On Mars was held back for midseason to increase the casting pool for the lead.
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Everything gets frickin' cancelled these days, particularly those sit-coms. (But hang on,
Knights of Prosperity is coming back you say... I'll believe it when I see it (but I'll love it).)
I'll be surprised if Life on Mars wont be shown, it was absolutely huge in the UK, with loads of media buzz.
More Lawyer shows? They seem a risky idea. More get dropped than are kept on it seems. Boston Legal and Shark being the only two that I can think of that have done well. In Justice and more recently that thing on Fox with the Alias guy faded out.
I'm really reluctant to give anything a chance that isn't already established. I guess I'll keep on with Traveler (oooh only one 'L'. Snazzy), being a Summer/off season show, it wont get cancelled... surely...?! -
The lead character (baker who can revive the dead briefly) does so to his childhood sweetheart. But then he discovers that if he touches her again, she'll die - and stay dead.
Since "Heroes" hit big this year, all of the networks are eager to pursue genre material and I'm glad to see said material being given a chance on network television when the medium as a whole has never really pursued it as much as they have for this fall season. As a genre fan, I'm excited. -
He's going to be even more disenfranchised. Dirty Sexy Money is staring Peter Krause though, so I'll watch that.
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WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ABC??
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they say Footballers Wives DID get picked up. I'm hoping it doesn't because that would leave Lucy Lawless free to 1) return on Battlestar Galactica or 2) become a regular on Veronica Mars if they do the FBI idea.
And apparently, Pushing Daisies is getting a lot of positive buzz, can't remember where I read it, but some studio guy said it's the best pilot he's ever seen. And not only is it by the guy who created Wonderfalls, it stars the brother from that show! It's the one show so far that I'm looking forward to. -
terrible title. I would give any show with Peter Krause a chance. But the plot sounds exactly like Six Feet Under (inheriting a business from a sketchy father), except it's a law practice instead of a funeral home.
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I too have read article after article touting how loud the buzz on this series is. As a "Dead Like Me" (Season One was the best)/"Wonderfalls"/Bryan Fuller fan, I can't wait to see this!
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bring on the sitcom with the two Guinness blokes. Brilliant!Bryan Fuller writing about dead people: Brilliant!
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Love the guinness idea. Brilliant!However, not seeing Jordana Brewster (Mrs. Smith) regularly is, ah, not so brilliant.Question: Just HOW bad does something have to be for them to not pick it up?
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This had Mitch Hurwitz, Armando Iannucci, Christoper Guest and Olive Platt and it *still* didn't get picked up? And that caveman thing did?! God, I hope the pilot is available to download somewhere. Because that was the only new show that I've heard of so far that I was really looking forward to.
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Her family owns Yale, why is she doing this show that will get cancelled instantly?
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Was one of the most painful I've spent in recent memory. Exactly how did that nauseatingly stupid pseudo-dramatic/romantic crap get renewed?
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Not that I expected it would be good, but given the popularity of the film and the same behind-the-camera talent, I would've thought the network would've been very enthused. Guess it was a bonafide dud.
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Won't go into spoiler territory here, but I also have no confidence that they would "wrap" up the "mystery" angle of the show in only 16 episodes like they did with the UK version...... nor can I imagine them handling the ending in the same way (I am curious, how did the UK audience react to Life on Mars' ending? I read in an "Ashes to Ashes" article that it was generally pretty positive and that people seemed to "get" the kind of ending they were going for).
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that wasn't called "LOST". I guess I've watched a Kimmel or two. It doesn't appear this new line-up will have me watching anything either. Why are straight men abandoning television in record numbers? This line-up offers a number of clues.
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The reaction in the UK was generally positive to the ending. Personally, I didn't like it as it seemed to betray the notion from the first series that Sam was absolutely desperate to get home. I far prefer the first series to the second and now wish that it had ended after one series (with a proper resolution). But I really am in the minority on this one.
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...little kids, gays, hermaphrodites, white men with black penises, rich people who live in an apartment, people who own black and white TV's, gays, TT Boy, Dawn Summers, Walter B, and talkbackers who think the Sopranos is too boring and complex. Word.
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Yeah, skipping ABC next season -- like I have done since the fourth season of Alias.
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I wish the arrested development guy had been given a chance.
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FYI. Source - blog from the Envelope.
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you do know that an Apartment in the LA area can sell for over 1 million dollars. Even out in the valley.
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Poor Sandra Bullock. Her first foray in tv producing goes kaput after (what) three or four years of airtime. Ahh well, she should make a fortune in syndication by selling it to Telemundo.
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I'm surprised at you guys...
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I wish they could have held out far a better job than a series inspired by the most generic writer on earth. Oh well, I can see a probable post-Housewives timeslot.
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Sounds like a chick show, so therefore most dudes will instantly pass on it. Call it something like "Beyond The Grave" or "After Life" and THEN you'll get your key demographic, Fuller..
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Who's gonna help Shawn Ryan run The Shield? Maybe Tim Minear can lend a helping hand since Drive got the shaft.
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"Football Wives" was the one show in production that I was actually looking forward to for next season. You've got Bryan Singer (House) and Marco Pennette (Ugly Betty) adapting the British series "Footballer's Wives" based on the German movie "Geheime Leben der Spielerfrauen, Das" about the wives of jocks cheating on their clueless, inattentive and self-abbsorbed husbands, with Lucy Lawless (Xena), Gabrielle Union (Night Stalker), Ving Rhames (Pulp fictin), James Van Der Beek (Dawson), Kiele Sanchez (Related, Nikki on Lost), Kelly Monaco (Playboy playmate/Dancing With the Stars), Eddie Cibrian (Third Watch/Invasion), and Holly Robinson Peete (Love, Inc.). And it has "Wives" in the title. What, too late to jump on the "Housewives" bandwagon?
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May 13, 2007 1:53:31 AM CDT
The title "Private Practice" may not be overly original
by napoleon park
or clever but it's not really all that bad. I mean, some sleazy shock jock cranks out a self-congratulatory autobio-pic called "Private Parts" to make his dismal life seem sympathetic and everyone howls "Oh so clever, a wicked double entendre because it's about the private parts of his life and privates is a euphemism for the genitalia.
But if a woman writer and series creator like Shonda Rhimes creates a series with a female lead like Kate Walsh, and it's spun off from a show with a crude double sexual entendre in the title (Grey's Anatomy is a pun on the reference book Gray's Anatomy and also refers to the main characters body.) and does a show that, based on the two hour Grey's ep that served as the series pilot, is even more about sex than the original series was, then all the shy boys put their hands in their pockets and line up on their side of the gym and act nervous and embarrassed. "Privates" is slang for genitals. Vagina Practice. Pussy Practice. Cunt Practice. As in, "gee, the lead character who cheated on her husband with his best friend sure is a tart, she sure gets in a lot of practice with her privates". I mean, she's going to be working in a freaking fertility clinic dealing exclusively with sex topics (the same way SVU deals exclusively in sex crimes). Working in a clinic is not like having a private practice, so the title obviously does not refer to her career - in that regard, it's hardly a double entendre at all, there's only one meaning that's applicable, the sexual connotation.
So how is that not a perfect title for this show? What did you think they'd call it, "Genital Hospital," "Dr. Montgomery, Medicine Trollop," "Mightas Welby, A. Whore?" (I'll admit I've been referring to it for the last few months as "Addison's Anatomy" but that really didn't make sense.) -
Again, one of the least funny pieces of shit I've ever read. And I had to read a Nickelodeon show's script once.
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fols just been watching series 1. get it on dvd, torrent, watch it, its absolutely brilliant http://tinyurl.com/2snsfs
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Do we not like latina unless they're J-Lo or Shakira? Kiele Sanchez is having the shittiest luck making it in this country. She was on a shoo in series, "Related', then the shows star, laura San Giacomo, leaves the project and the series tanks. Then she gets booked on a hit show and the fans hate her character so much her catch phrase is "who's Nikki?" and her most popular moment is getting a shovel full of sand in the eyes while being buried alive. She did a freaking strip club pole dance in the same episode, and people loved her getting buried alive more. Then she gets a pilot of a remake of a British hit series with an all star cast - Xena, Dawson, Marcellus Wallace. Ranger Russell, etc, - and ABC passes? Is that a joke? Hey ABC, we have a sure fire hit evening soap, it's about Football! "Pass!" Come on, Kiele Sanchez is hot, put her on TV. Oh well, if Sofia Vergara can't catch a break...
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Victim: "Wha- what happened,? Where am I, who are you? The knife (gun, plastic bag, pillow, ballbat, etc.)..."
Gifted detective: "Relax, calm down. I have the power to revive the dead for a brief period of time. Since you witnessed your own murder, I need you to tell me who your killer was?"
Victim: "What? I'm DEAD?"
Gifted detective: "Yes, Can you tell me who killed you? Did you see your murderer?"
Victim: "You said 'briefly'! How much time do I have?"
Gifted detective: "About ten minutes, Now concentrate, this is important. Who killed..."
Victim: "No, that's NOT important, you idiot. Get me a phone! I have to call my (wife/husband/child/other important person) and tell them (I love them/I forgive them/ ask them to forgive me/where the key to the bank safety deposit box is). You dragged me out of the afterlife for this? So I could tattle on my killer? Vengence isn't important, love is what's important. I see that now... it's all so beautiful..."
Gifted detective: "Please, who killed you...?"
Victim: "You brought me back to life for ten minutes so you could argue with me? Here, if you won't give me a phone, deliver a message for me. Write this down: "Dear..."
Gifted detective: "Please, your killer is still at large and we have to find him before he kills again!"
Victim: "Well, when you put it that way... Okay, it was... Oh. MY. GHOD... That light, it's so beautiful... Mom? Dad?... Scooter?..."
Gifted detective: "Wait, wait, quick, you have to tell me..."
Victim: "It's so beautiful... so peaceful..."
Gifted detective: "Please! WHO KILLED..."
Victim: " ... "
Gifted detective: "Aw dammit, not again..."
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