Year: 2007

In the US: Wednesdays, 9.30/8.30c, ABC

In the UK: Not yet acquired

All of a sudden, there are a lot of “baby-men” dramas around. We started with The Class, in which various former school friends reunite after years of separation and discover that life has taken them in strange directions. But now we have another comedy that looks back nostalgically at High School and the life choices taken afterwards.

In Case of Emergency is also a comedy about losers, of which there are also a lot around (cf Knights of Prosperity). Despite the high aims and achievements of Jason, Harry, Sherman and Kelly at High School, only one of them has done well and that’s all about to end, too.

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In the US: Tuesdays, 10pm ET/PT, FX

In the UK: Not yet acquired.

Courtney Cox has been lurking in a cocoon somewhere since Friends ended. She’s probably been doing something: a movie, some producing, maybe opening a restaurant. But this is her first TV series since everyone’s favourite perpetually re-run sitcom stopped making new episodes.

Dirt, which she exec-produces with her hubby David Arquette, could be construed as a slightly bitter show in which Cox gets her own back on those evil gossip mongers, the tabloids. In it, Cox plays the editor of two tabloids, one nasty, one nice. Together with her team of muck gatherers and a schizophrenic paparazzi, she dishes the dirt on the stars – to bad effect.

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