An archive of articles about US television programmes and production.
Love them or hate them, sometimes Microsoft gets things right. Here’s an advert spotted on the Battlestar Galactica web site:
I laughed anyway.
NBC has ordered up three more scripts for Studio 60, but NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly has admitted he’s keeping a close eye on the show – as well as on Friday Night Lights and 20 Good Years (which has been yanked from the schedules until next year).
Meanwhile, ABC has ordered four more scripts for each of The Nine, Help Me Help You and Men in Trees.
We all know UK and US soap operas are different – if only because of Dallas and Dynasty in the 80s. US soap operas are glossy affairs, while UK soap operas tend to be miserable and down-to-earth (fill in exceptions at your leisure). But there are more differences than that. Don’t believe me? One US soap opera is going to get an honest-to-goodness superhero, thanks to co-operation from Marvel Comics.
Seriously. Guiding Light‘s ‘Harley Davidson Cooper’ will be given the powers of levitation and the ability to conduct electricity.
Now that, my friends, is different.
Good news: NBC is shuffling its schedules and its Thursday night line-up is going to include both 30 Rock and a new series of Scrubs. The bad news is those two shows are in the 9pm slot, which pits them against Grey’s Anatomy and CSI.
I can hear a death knell sounding right now.
Clearly, since one hour is not enough, Medium needs to have a two-hour premiere to kick off its third season on November 15th.
Damn. I’ve a “the” left over from my blog title in that sentence. Must try harder.
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