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TELEVISION ITEMS:
EDITOR'S NOTE: ALL TIMES EST.
ABC, CBS, Fox make rookie cancellations
It's the end of the road for three freshman series: ABC's "Hot Properties," CBS' "Threshold" and Fox's "Reunion." EDITOR'S NOTE: I SURE WISH THEY'D STICK WITH EPISODIC THINGS THRU AN ENTIRE SEASON. I WAS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING CAUGHT UP ON "THRESHOLD" AND "REUNION" AND SEEING THOSE STORIES THRU FOR AT LEAST ONE SEASON. GUESS THERE'S NO POINT IN WATCHING WHAT I'VE ALREADY GOT ON TAPE? GRRRR.....
ABC has opted not to pick up additional episodes from "Hot Properties," sources said. The Warner Bros. TV comedy has completed its original 13-episode order and will stay on the air through December.
After a sluggish start in its original Friday 9 p.m. slot and equally soft results from the trial move of "Threshold" to the Tuesday 10 p.m. slot last week, the Paramount Network TV sci-fi drama will be taken off the schedule for the last Tuesday of the November sweep this week, replaced by a repeat of CBS' promising new crime drama "Criminal Minds." EDITOR'S NOTE: AND NO PLAY-OUT OF WHAT THEY'VE ALREADY GOT 'IN THE CAN'?
'Jenna,' 'Love' get January launch on CBS
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS is launching two series in January, the comedy "The Jenna Elfman Show," which will take over the Monday 9:30 p.m. slot, and the comedy-drama "Love Monkey," which will bridge the two installments of "The Amazing Race" Tuesdays at 9 p.m.
"The Jenna Elfman Show," slated to premiere January 23, stars the "Dharma & Greg" actress as a successful lawyer looking for true love. Freshman comedy "Out of Practice," which occupies the Monday 9:30 period, will go on hiatus, returning in March.
"Love Monkey," which stars Tom Cavanagh ("Ed") as a single record executive, will premiere January 17.
Because CBS has given full-season orders to all of its freshman series but "Threshold", the network doesn't have many available slots for its midseason series. Two of them, the comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and the drama "The Unit," will not get on the air until at least March.
Meanwhile, UPN has cut the order for midseason drama "South Beach" to eight episodes for scheduling reasons. Beginning in January, the series will run in the Wednesday 8 p.m. hour, linking the two seasons of "America's Next Top Model."EDITOR'S NOTE: EXCEPT FOR "VERONICA MARS" (WHICH ROCKS...ONE OF THE TOP 2 OR 3 SHOWS ON TV....IMHO), UPN COULD RUN TEST-PATTERNS THE REST OF THE TIME. BLESS THEIR PATHETIC LITTLE HEARTS....
NBC to shuffle primetime lineup in January
NBC is looking to rebuild its Must-See TV comedy block on Thursday, unveiling a midseason schedule overhaul for Janaury that relocates its promising new comedy "My Name Is Earl" to the line of fire against CBS' top-rated "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
The peacock's makeover brings significant changes to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights.
Starting the week of Jan. 2, NBC will move "Will & Grace" up from 8:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, followed by a new buddy comedy, "Four Kings," from the same creative team as "Grace." "Earl" and its Tuesday 9:30 p.m. companion "The Office" will relocate to the Thursday 9-10 p.m. hour in place of "The Apprentice: Donald Trump," with the night capped as it has been for the past 11 years by "ER EDITOR'S NOTE: YEAH. THAT SHOULD FIX EVERYTHING. DON'T BOTHER TRYING TO PRODUCE ANYTHING NEW. AND DON'T WORRY THAT CONSTANTLY SHIFTING YOUR SHOWS AROUND WILL ONLY COMPOUND THE PROBLEMS. NAHHHHH.....
WE to Debut Two Funny in March
A day after introducing six new programs slated for its December lineup, WE: Women’s Entertainment announced a half-dozen new original series that will be added to its roster in 2006 and beyond.
Debuting in March are the half-hour series Two Funny: Cotter & Louise, a look at the lives and careers of two female standup comics, as well as the hour-long John Edward Cross Country,EDITOR'S NOTE: ONE OF THE MINOR SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE. (THINK ABOUT IT. THIS IS A GUY DEEMED TOO LAME NOW FOR THE SCIFI CHANNEL. THE SCIFI CHANNEL, WHERE THEY'VE GONE TO 24/7 CREATURES EATING B-MOVIE ACTORS). which welcomes EDITOR'S NOTE: AT LEAST ON WE WE'RE SAFE FROM EVERY STUMBLING ACROSS HIM ACCIDENTALLY. the psychic back to TV, and the hour-long Skating’s Next Star, a reality show on ice. EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS KINDA HAS ANDREW'S NAME ON IT, DOESN'T IT? (AND MAYBE MINE. OH DRAT. NOW I MIGHT ACCIDENTALLY SEE JOHN EDWARDS!)
In June, WE spins off yet another nuptials-obsessed series with the six-episode Million-Dollar Weddings, while October offers a behind-the-curtain look at fashionista Gemma Gucci, in the 13-episode strip Rebel Gucci.
WE also announced that it will in March 2007 begin running Hair Trauma!, a reality series that takes place in the milleau of an upscale Manhattan beauty salon.
Since executive vp and general manager Kim Martin came aboard WE at the beginning of the year, she’s increased the amount of original programming on offer at the network by 30 percent.
MOVIE ITEMS:
Spielberg wants 'Munich' to speak for itself
"Munich,"Steven Spielberg's film about Israel's revenge for the killing of its athletes by Palestinian guerrillas at the Munich Olympics , opens in three weeks, but the Oscar-winning director has made surprisingly little effort to publicize it.
Leaders of Jewish and Muslim groups as well as diplomats and foreign policy experts will preview "Munich" before its U.S. release on Dec. 23, but Spielberg has shied away from the media hype and costly promotional campaigns that typically precede a big-studio movie, including several of his own.
The low profile is even more unusual given that "Munich" has appeared, sight unseen, on almost every pundit's list of films expected to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture. Spielberg's associates say the director, recognizing the potential of his film to stir fierce debate, insists on letting the work speak for itself. EDITOR'S NOTE: LET'S HOPE THAT DOESN'T BACKFIRE AND CAUSE THE FILM TO BE LOST IN THE END-OF-YEAR SHUFFLE.
Smith, Mostow Set Date for TONIGHT
Columbia Pictures has signed Will Smith to star in TONIGHT, HE COMES. The studio also signed Jonathan Mostow to direct. The script is written by Vince Gilligan, based on Vincent Ngo's screenplay.
The story centers on a disaffected and underappreciated superhero in a mid-life crisis. Akiva Goldsman, Michael Mann, Will Smith and James Lassiter will produce. EDITOR'S NOTE: WILL SMITH SEEMS A LITTLE YOUNG FOR A MIDLIFE CRISIS. BUT ALL THE FOLKS INVOLVED WITH THIS ARE A-LIST. AND SMITH CAN PULL OFF JUST ABOUT ANYTHING.
Core Gains LIBERTY
Touchstone Pictures has signed cinematographer-turned-director Ericson Core (DAREDEVIL, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS) to direct the action film LIBERTY.
The story written by Sean Bailey, with a rewrite by Andrew Marlowe, takes place after an electromagnetic pulse disables the infrastructure of the country, and centers on a ragtag group of Americans who must use technology from the 1940s and '50s to defend against a foreign invasion. EDITOR'S NOTE: THE STUFF IS STILL WORKING, AND PROBABLY BETTER THAN THE NEW STUFF EVER DID. THIS IS NON-FICTION, RIGHT?
Chris Moore and LivePlanet's Sean Bailey will produce.
Johnny Depp as an Aussie?
Aussie filmmaker Peter Weir [“Green Card”, “Dead Poet’s Society”] will direct Jump Street-er Johnny Depp in “Shantaram”, a film based on the novel about an Australian heroin addict who gets a new lease on life as a general practitioner in the slums.
In the film, the man escapes a maximum-security prison and reinvents himself in India as a doctor in the slums of Bombay. The man’s eagerness to find medicine for his patients leads to him doing ‘whatever it takes’ – gunrunning, drug smuggling, counterfeiting, says Variety.
Crowe heads to Crocodile Farm
The recently announced Nicole Kidman/Russell Crowe project – no, not “Eucalyptus”, the new one, “Gumleave”, or whatever the heck it’s called - is set for a shoot in Coolibah Station, east of Timber Creek, reports The Kimberly Echo.
Milton Jones' Coolibah station - a crocodile farm Russ, so you better watch out for snappers – is said to be the prime location they’re looking at to lens the Bazz Luhrmann directed romance.EDITOR'S NOTE: OH DEAR. BAZ LUHRMANN. MUST RUN AWAY NOW.
The station would host 300 crewmembers for three months of the $40 million dollar movie’s filming.
The budget for the movie, set in the 1930s with Kidman playing the target of Crowe's affection, is reported to be more than $40 million
Atkinson talks Bean sequel
Rowan Atkinson was plugging his film “Keeping Mum” – saw it last week, not bad, not good, somewhere in between – in London this week, and stopped for Sky's Showbiz Channel for an on-air chat.
Atkinson followed his plug for the new black comedy with word that he’s currently working on the long-awaited sequel to “Bean”, which is currently being written.
According to Atkinson, it’s been a little harder to doodle down a story of it than they thought it would be, but he looks forward to the film because Bean is a character he hasn’t played for a while.
“The last Bean film, well, the only Bean film was back in 1997”, he reminds us.
The script for “Bean 2” is said to be set in London – not America, as the first film was – with Richard Curtis again serving as co-penciller.
Ari Gold getting back to Nature
The cooler-than-frost Jeremy Piven ["Entourage"] is, 42 movies later mind you, snagging himself a lead flickeroo role.
Piven, whose long-string of supporting roles includes "Grosse Pointe Blank", "Say Anything" and "Judgement Night", is waxing lyrical with New Line Cinema about a possible headline act in an untitled man vs. nature project being produced by Robert Simonds. The deal will mark the first starring, above-the-title credit in his career, says The Hollywood Reporter.
In the nature project, Piven will play a smug Portland, Ore., real estate developer who accepts a challenge from his real estate mogul boss to develop a pristine forest in the hopes of being promoted to partner. He gets more than he bargained for when the area's animal residents start taking their revenge on him and wreak havoc on his every attempt to develop the land. EDITOR'S NOTE: I LIKE PIVEN. BUT I'M ROOTING FOR THE CRITTERS.
Josh Gilbert and Michael Carnes are penning the comedy, which was titled "Furry Vengeance."
Terminator 4 moving forward
It’s confirmed. Jonathan Mostow will dust off the towering terminator for a third sequel.
Mostow, who directed “Terminator 3”, was confirmed for the “T4” gig in today’s Variety.
Unfortunately, it’s a long ways off yet though (which could be good news for Schwarzenegger fans – because what I’m hearing is that the current draft of the script is a restart for the series, and doesn’t feature Arnie’s red-eyed cyborg, but maybe if he’s available, they might be able to write him into it?) because Mostow has committed to direct “Tonight, He Comes”, which Columbia has been trying to get cooking for quite a while , which he will direct in L.A next Summer. EDITOR'S NOTE: SEE HOW THINGS COME FULL CIRCLE? (SEE WILL SMITH ITEM, ABOVE)
TELEVISION ITEMS:
EDITOR'S NOTE: ALL TIMES EST.
ABC, CBS, Fox make rookie cancellations
It's the end of the road for three freshman series: ABC's "Hot Properties," CBS' "Threshold" and Fox's "Reunion." EDITOR'S NOTE: I SURE WISH THEY'D STICK WITH EPISODIC THINGS THRU AN ENTIRE SEASON. I WAS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING CAUGHT UP ON "THRESHOLD" AND "REUNION" AND SEEING THOSE STORIES THRU FOR AT LEAST ONE SEASON. GUESS THERE'S NO POINT IN WATCHING WHAT I'VE ALREADY GOT ON TAPE? GRRRR.....
ABC has opted not to pick up additional episodes from "Hot Properties," sources said. The Warner Bros. TV comedy has completed its original 13-episode order and will stay on the air through December.
After a sluggish start in its original Friday 9 p.m. slot and equally soft results from the trial move of "Threshold" to the Tuesday 10 p.m. slot last week, the Paramount Network TV sci-fi drama will be taken off the schedule for the last Tuesday of the November sweep this week, replaced by a repeat of CBS' promising new crime drama "Criminal Minds." EDITOR'S NOTE: AND NO PLAY-OUT OF WHAT THEY'VE ALREADY GOT 'IN THE CAN'?
'Jenna,' 'Love' get January launch on CBS
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS is launching two series in January, the comedy "The Jenna Elfman Show," which will take over the Monday 9:30 p.m. slot, and the comedy-drama "Love Monkey," which will bridge the two installments of "The Amazing Race" Tuesdays at 9 p.m.
"The Jenna Elfman Show," slated to premiere January 23, stars the "Dharma & Greg" actress as a successful lawyer looking for true love. Freshman comedy "Out of Practice," which occupies the Monday 9:30 period, will go on hiatus, returning in March.
"Love Monkey," which stars Tom Cavanagh ("Ed") as a single record executive, will premiere January 17.
Because CBS has given full-season orders to all of its freshman series but "Threshold", the network doesn't have many available slots for its midseason series. Two of them, the comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and the drama "The Unit," will not get on the air until at least March.
Meanwhile, UPN has cut the order for midseason drama "South Beach" to eight episodes for scheduling reasons. Beginning in January, the series will run in the Wednesday 8 p.m. hour, linking the two seasons of "America's Next Top Model."EDITOR'S NOTE: EXCEPT FOR "VERONICA MARS" (WHICH ROCKS...ONE OF THE TOP 2 OR 3 SHOWS ON TV....IMHO), UPN COULD RUN TEST-PATTERNS THE REST OF THE TIME. BLESS THEIR PATHETIC LITTLE HEARTS....
NBC to shuffle primetime lineup in January
NBC is looking to rebuild its Must-See TV comedy block on Thursday, unveiling a midseason schedule overhaul for Janaury that relocates its promising new comedy "My Name Is Earl" to the line of fire against CBS' top-rated "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
The peacock's makeover brings significant changes to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights.
Starting the week of Jan. 2, NBC will move "Will & Grace" up from 8:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, followed by a new buddy comedy, "Four Kings," from the same creative team as "Grace." "Earl" and its Tuesday 9:30 p.m. companion "The Office" will relocate to the Thursday 9-10 p.m. hour in place of "The Apprentice: Donald Trump," with the night capped as it has been for the past 11 years by "ER EDITOR'S NOTE: YEAH. THAT SHOULD FIX EVERYTHING. DON'T BOTHER TRYING TO PRODUCE ANYTHING NEW. AND DON'T WORRY THAT CONSTANTLY SHIFTING YOUR SHOWS AROUND WILL ONLY COMPOUND THE PROBLEMS. NAHHHHH.....
WE to Debut Two Funny in March
A day after introducing six new programs slated for its December lineup, WE: Women’s Entertainment announced a half-dozen new original series that will be added to its roster in 2006 and beyond.
Debuting in March are the half-hour series Two Funny: Cotter & Louise, a look at the lives and careers of two female standup comics, as well as the hour-long John Edward Cross Country,EDITOR'S NOTE: ONE OF THE MINOR SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE. (THINK ABOUT IT. THIS IS A GUY DEEMED TOO LAME NOW FOR THE SCIFI CHANNEL. THE SCIFI CHANNEL, WHERE THEY'VE GONE TO 24/7 CREATURES EATING B-MOVIE ACTORS). which welcomes EDITOR'S NOTE: AT LEAST ON WE WE'RE SAFE FROM EVERY STUMBLING ACROSS HIM ACCIDENTALLY. the psychic back to TV, and the hour-long Skating’s Next Star, a reality show on ice. EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS KINDA HAS ANDREW'S NAME ON IT, DOESN'T IT? (AND MAYBE MINE. OH DRAT. NOW I MIGHT ACCIDENTALLY SEE JOHN EDWARDS!)
In June, WE spins off yet another nuptials-obsessed series with the six-episode Million-Dollar Weddings, while October offers a behind-the-curtain look at fashionista Gemma Gucci, in the 13-episode strip Rebel Gucci.
WE also announced that it will in March 2007 begin running Hair Trauma!, a reality series that takes place in the milleau of an upscale Manhattan beauty salon.
Since executive vp and general manager Kim Martin came aboard WE at the beginning of the year, she’s increased the amount of original programming on offer at the network by 30 percent.
MOVIE ITEMS:
Spielberg wants 'Munich' to speak for itself
"Munich,"Steven Spielberg's film about Israel's revenge for the killing of its athletes by Palestinian guerrillas at the Munich Olympics , opens in three weeks, but the Oscar-winning director has made surprisingly little effort to publicize it.
Leaders of Jewish and Muslim groups as well as diplomats and foreign policy experts will preview "Munich" before its U.S. release on Dec. 23, but Spielberg has shied away from the media hype and costly promotional campaigns that typically precede a big-studio movie, including several of his own.
The low profile is even more unusual given that "Munich" has appeared, sight unseen, on almost every pundit's list of films expected to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture. Spielberg's associates say the director, recognizing the potential of his film to stir fierce debate, insists on letting the work speak for itself. EDITOR'S NOTE: LET'S HOPE THAT DOESN'T BACKFIRE AND CAUSE THE FILM TO BE LOST IN THE END-OF-YEAR SHUFFLE.
Smith, Mostow Set Date for TONIGHT
Columbia Pictures has signed Will Smith to star in TONIGHT, HE COMES. The studio also signed Jonathan Mostow to direct. The script is written by Vince Gilligan, based on Vincent Ngo's screenplay.
The story centers on a disaffected and underappreciated superhero in a mid-life crisis. Akiva Goldsman, Michael Mann, Will Smith and James Lassiter will produce. EDITOR'S NOTE: WILL SMITH SEEMS A LITTLE YOUNG FOR A MIDLIFE CRISIS. BUT ALL THE FOLKS INVOLVED WITH THIS ARE A-LIST. AND SMITH CAN PULL OFF JUST ABOUT ANYTHING.
Core Gains LIBERTY
Touchstone Pictures has signed cinematographer-turned-director Ericson Core (DAREDEVIL, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS) to direct the action film LIBERTY.
The story written by Sean Bailey, with a rewrite by Andrew Marlowe, takes place after an electromagnetic pulse disables the infrastructure of the country, and centers on a ragtag group of Americans who must use technology from the 1940s and '50s to defend against a foreign invasion. EDITOR'S NOTE: THE STUFF IS STILL WORKING, AND PROBABLY BETTER THAN THE NEW STUFF EVER DID. THIS IS NON-FICTION, RIGHT?
Chris Moore and LivePlanet's Sean Bailey will produce.
Johnny Depp as an Aussie?
Aussie filmmaker Peter Weir [“Green Card”, “Dead Poet’s Society”] will direct Jump Street-er Johnny Depp in “Shantaram”, a film based on the novel about an Australian heroin addict who gets a new lease on life as a general practitioner in the slums.
In the film, the man escapes a maximum-security prison and reinvents himself in India as a doctor in the slums of Bombay. The man’s eagerness to find medicine for his patients leads to him doing ‘whatever it takes’ – gunrunning, drug smuggling, counterfeiting, says Variety.
Crowe heads to Crocodile Farm
The recently announced Nicole Kidman/Russell Crowe project – no, not “Eucalyptus”, the new one, “Gumleave”, or whatever the heck it’s called - is set for a shoot in Coolibah Station, east of Timber Creek, reports The Kimberly Echo.
Milton Jones' Coolibah station - a crocodile farm Russ, so you better watch out for snappers – is said to be the prime location they’re looking at to lens the Bazz Luhrmann directed romance.EDITOR'S NOTE: OH DEAR. BAZ LUHRMANN. MUST RUN AWAY NOW.
The station would host 300 crewmembers for three months of the $40 million dollar movie’s filming.
The budget for the movie, set in the 1930s with Kidman playing the target of Crowe's affection, is reported to be more than $40 million
Atkinson talks Bean sequel
Rowan Atkinson was plugging his film “Keeping Mum” – saw it last week, not bad, not good, somewhere in between – in London this week, and stopped for Sky's Showbiz Channel for an on-air chat.
Atkinson followed his plug for the new black comedy with word that he’s currently working on the long-awaited sequel to “Bean”, which is currently being written.
According to Atkinson, it’s been a little harder to doodle down a story of it than they thought it would be, but he looks forward to the film because Bean is a character he hasn’t played for a while.
“The last Bean film, well, the only Bean film was back in 1997”, he reminds us.
The script for “Bean 2” is said to be set in London – not America, as the first film was – with Richard Curtis again serving as co-penciller.
Ari Gold getting back to Nature
The cooler-than-frost Jeremy Piven ["Entourage"] is, 42 movies later mind you, snagging himself a lead flickeroo role.
Piven, whose long-string of supporting roles includes "Grosse Pointe Blank", "Say Anything" and "Judgement Night", is waxing lyrical with New Line Cinema about a possible headline act in an untitled man vs. nature project being produced by Robert Simonds. The deal will mark the first starring, above-the-title credit in his career, says The Hollywood Reporter.
In the nature project, Piven will play a smug Portland, Ore., real estate developer who accepts a challenge from his real estate mogul boss to develop a pristine forest in the hopes of being promoted to partner. He gets more than he bargained for when the area's animal residents start taking their revenge on him and wreak havoc on his every attempt to develop the land. EDITOR'S NOTE: I LIKE PIVEN. BUT I'M ROOTING FOR THE CRITTERS.
Josh Gilbert and Michael Carnes are penning the comedy, which was titled "Furry Vengeance."
Terminator 4 moving forward
It’s confirmed. Jonathan Mostow will dust off the towering terminator for a third sequel.
Mostow, who directed “Terminator 3”, was confirmed for the “T4” gig in today’s Variety.
Unfortunately, it’s a long ways off yet though (which could be good news for Schwarzenegger fans – because what I’m hearing is that the current draft of the script is a restart for the series, and doesn’t feature Arnie’s red-eyed cyborg, but maybe if he’s available, they might be able to write him into it?) because Mostow has committed to direct “Tonight, He Comes”, which Columbia has been trying to get cooking for quite a while , which he will direct in L.A next Summer. EDITOR'S NOTE: SEE HOW THINGS COME FULL CIRCLE? (SEE WILL SMITH ITEM, ABOVE)
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