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If you only buy one Tom Selleck commemorative plate…
…this is the one to get.
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CBS shows coming in Fall 2009
CBS isn’t the sexiest of networks, but with its constant diet of cop procedurals, Chuck Lorre comedies and adult-skewed programming, it’s about the only one that’s done better this year than it did last. Apparently convinced that slow and steady – and unsexy – shows with bad scripts but good casts will win the race, CBS has two more cop procedurals, two medical procedurals and a law procedural – oh, and a comedy about a pregnant movie critic, starring someone who used to be in a Chuck Lorre comedy. They always like to throw a wildcard into the mix, don’t they?
So, after the jump, plot run-downs and videos from Accidentally On Purpose, The Good Wife, NCIS: Los Angeles, Three Rivers, The Bridge and Miami Trauma.
Friday’s ta ta RTD news
Doctor Who
- Rusty takes a last (official) look inside the TARDIS
Film
- Harry Houdini to be an action star
British TV
- Sharon Horgan explains why Pulling was pulled
- BBC4 to make dramas about Margot Fonteyn, Gracie Fields and Enid Blyton starring Jane Horrocks, Anne-Marie Duff and Helena Bonham Carter
- ITV and C4 may show full episodes of programmes on YouTube
- It’s the Psychoville press pack
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- Gossip Girl spin-off might not be completely dead
- CBS admits new line-up isn’t sexy
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ABC shows coming in Fall 2009
Argh. So many upfronts to cover. Today, at least, I’ll be covering ABC’s shows and hopefully – work willing – I’ll have looked at CBS’s and The CW’s new shows for Fall 2009 by the end of Friday.
Ah ABC. If only there was some language somewhere where ABC stood for “Night of the Long Knives”. Because you can pretty much guarantee that just about every show here is going to be cancelled by this time next year, just as last year’s got culled this week.
So prepare to not get too attached to: V, Flash Forward, Cougar Town, Eastwick, The Forgotten, Hank, Happy Town, The Middle and Modern Family. Argh. That’s a lot. It took me two hours to do this. I’m really not sure half these shows are worth two minutes.
A round-up of some of the finales I haven’t yet covered
Erk. So many finales, so little time. With the upfronts happening at the same time, and with actual work to do, how am I going to review them all?
I know. How about one great big entry that gets rid of a whole load of them in one go, albeit with The Mentalist and CSI: Miami still to come?
So after the jump, brief spoiler-ridden looks at the finales (and preceding seasons) of 24, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, Eleventh Hour, Gossip Girl and Prison Break.
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