“Fat Sells” Greenlit at HBO July 10, 2008 5:40 pm
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We’re about to find out if the American public, who annually dishes out billions upon billions of dollars in weight loss programs, are interested in watching a series revolving around the industry. HBO has greenlit a pilot called Fat Sells. The show is centered on a head of a weight loss company, who’s life starts to go down hill after he gets investigated by the FDA for his company’s weight loss claims. Forest Whitaker is attached to executive producer alongside Dave Broome (executive producer of The Biggest Loser). Whitaker may also direct the pilot.
Source: Variety
NBC Tweaks Schedule for “My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad” February 4, 2008 4:00 pm
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NBC has set slightly changed the premiere date for their new competition series My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad. It’ll premiere on Monday, February 18 from 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET rather than its previously announced 8:00-9:00 p.m. premiere.
SCI FI Greenlights “Warehouse 13” October 25, 2007 11:16 am
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The SCI FI Channel has greenlit the pilot Warehouse 13, a series with similarities to X-Files, with a take on two FBI agents in charge of a top-secret storage facility.
CBS Orders “Million Dollar Password” October 11, 2007 8:14 pm
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CBS has ordered six one-hour episodes of Million Dollar Password. The game show, a new version of the classic, will be hosted by Regis Philbin and will be ready by midseason 2008.
USA Network Adds ‘Smoking’ Spin-off October 8, 2007 3:42 pm
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USA Network has greenlit a spinoff TV series based off of the 2006 feature film Thank you for Smoking.
CBS Close To Ordering New Show For Midseason August 17, 2007 10:02 pm
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CBS is close to picking up the LL Cool-J starring drama series The Man, intending to premiere the show at midseason. Through sources, The Hollywood Reporter is relaying that the order would be for six episodes.
HBO Greenlights New Project from “Six Feet Under” Creator August 9, 2007 11:55 pm
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HBO is getting back together with Alan Ball, creator of the hit Six Feet Under. The network has officially picked up the vampire series True Blood, which Ball will executive produce and act as showrunner for.
CBS Picks up Comedy Series “The Captain” June 6, 2007 5:06 pm
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Adding to its 2007/2008 slate, CBS has picked up the Chris Klein/Jeffrey Tambor comedy The Captain.
ABC Orders New Gameshow “Wanna Bet?” June 3, 2007 6:00 pm
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ABC has ordered the Gurin produced gameshow Wanna Bet?, committing to six episodes of the series, likely to be broadcast during the 2007/2008 television season.
The CW Adds ‘Eight’ to Development Slate June 1, 2007 12:20 am
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The half-hour comedy Eight Days a Week has been picked up by The CW as a mid-season replacement.
Grey’s Anatomy Spinoff Casting March 11, 2007 11:09 pm
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ABC has announced a few casting decisions for the potential Grey’s Anatomy Spinoff series.
Court TV To Have Star Jones Talk Show March 7, 2007 6:37 pm
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Star Jones, current red carpet correspondent for E! and former host of the The View, is returning to that medium as host of an upcoming daytime talk show on Court TV.
NBC Reality Show Starring Former Spice Girl, Mrs. Beckham February 28, 2007 4:43 pm
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NBC and former Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham are teaming together for a reality TV series.
NBC to Debut Improv Series February 28, 2007 4:35 pm
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NBC has announced it will debut an improv comedy series called Thank God You’re Here on Monday, April 9 at 9:00 p.m. ET.
Taye Diggs to Guest on Grey’s Anatomy February 22, 2007 10:11 pm
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Actor Taye Diggs will be guest starring on an episode of the ABC show Grey’s Anatomy.
Cartoon Network Reveals New Shows for 2007 Season February 17, 2007 5:32 pm
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The Cartoon Network at their 2007 Upfront Event, announced its lineup for 2007 which includes five new original series.
Sci Fi announces new “Flash Gordon” series January 12, 2007 8:04 pm
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Having just recently announced a new reality series (Destination Truth), Sci Fi announced today at the TCA even that they are working on a new Flash Gordon series.
A&E announces slate of original drama series January 9, 2007 2:30 pm
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A&E, coming off the heels of the recent addition of The Sopranos, is getting even more involved in the realm of drama, announcing a slate of six new shows:
HBO and J.J. Abrams team up for medical drama January 4, 2007 6:23 pm
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HBO and J.J. Abrams are in negotations for Abrams to executive produce and possibly direct a medial drama pilot that was recently given the green light by HBO.
The project, currently untitled, is a hospital drama that will focus on the patients point of view. It’s based on the book “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness” and will be written by Tom Schulman and Rafael Yglesias.
Source: — [The Hollywood Reporter] — HBO OKs medical drama pilot with Abrams
The CW greenlights new Schwartz TV project January 4, 2007 6:13 pm
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Though one of Josh Schwartz’s show’s was just canceled (The O.C.) he has a few others waiting in the wings.
Variety reports that The CW has just greenlit Gossip Girl, Schwartz’s second pilot pickup (NBC greenlit Crumbs earlier).
Gossip Girl is based on the popular book series of the same name and marks the first-ever scripted pilot order for The CW.
Source: — [Variety] — CW gives Schwartz some good news
NBC orders pilots for three shows January 3, 2007 4:11 pm
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NBC executives have given the go ahead for three drama pilot orders of shows by David Eick (Bionic Woman), Dennis Leary (Fort Pit) and Josh Schwartz (Chuck).
From Variety:
“Fort Pit,” from Sony Pictures TV, is based on a real NYPD precinct in which “bad cops go to finish off their careers and young rookie cops with no pull go to start their careers,” said Sony Pictures TV co-prexy Zack Van Amburg.
Meanwhile, “Chuck,” an action comedy about twentysomething spies, is written by Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Warner Bros. TV is producing.
Then there’s “Bionic Woman,” a new take on the 1970s franchise from Eick (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Laeta Kalogridis (“The Dive”), both of whom are writing and exec producing (Daily Variety, Oct. 10). Drama, from NBC Universal TV Studio, was given a cast-contingent order.
Head on over to Variety for more details on the pilots ordered.
Source: — [Variety] — NBC pilots 3 dramas
ABC green lights tv version of “Mr and Mrs. Smith” January 2, 2007 9:58 pm
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In development for a while, Variety is reporting that ABC has given to go ahead on a small-screen version of the hit Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie film Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
The script was originally ordered back in January of 2006. The series will be overseen by Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg as director and writer, and they will be joined by Dave Bartis as executive producers.
“ABC has been amazing in terms of giving us time for development,” Kinberg said. He also added that the plan is to get the pilot out by March.
The show will be more comedic than the feature with a little more darkness, saying: “It’s essentially ‘Married … With Children’ with guns,” Kinberg said. “The show takes all the marital issues a couple has and blows them up to action-genre size.”
So rather than fight about who forgot to pack the toothpaste, “They’ll bicker over someone forgetting to pack the detonator,” he said.
This wil be the second time a TV version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith was attempted, there was a 1996 version of the show that lasted less than 2 months on CBS. It starred Scott Bakula and Maria Bello.
Source: — [Variety] — ABC gets with ‘Smith’
Bravo acquires “Taxicab Confessions” December 28, 2006 3:55 am
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Bravo has made a deal with HBO and aquired nine episodes of the documentary/drama series Taxicab Confessions.
The series will make its basic-cable premiere this Friday with three back-to-back episodes, followed by a New Year’s Eve marathon and then a brand new original episode on Sunday.
Nathan Fillion gets attached to “Drive” December 15, 2006 1:04 pm
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Nathan Fillion (of “Firefly” and “Serenity” fame) has been tapped by Fox to star in the midseason drama series “Drive”.
The series is executive produced by Tim Minear, Ben Queen and Greg Yaitanes and is from 20th Century Fox TV.
“Drive” chronicles an underground race across America and Fillion wil play the role of Alex Tully, a roque landscaper who is forced into joining the race to search for his kidnapped wife.
New japanese inspired game show on the way to NBC December 15, 2006 12:55 pm
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Executive producer Vin Di Bona (“America’s Funniest Videos”) is preparing a one-hour pilot for NBC titled “Comedy Colosseum”, based on a popular japanese game show.
The program will be hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Dean Edwards and Olivia Lee (from Britain).
The format of the program has comics going head to head for $10,000 in the arena of a Colosseum, where the audience decides on the winners and losers. Each comic will be judged on the laughter they are able to generate from the audience.
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