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Lifetime drafts Army Wives for season four

Posted Feb 25th 2009 11:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free

There are two significant things to take from the news that Army Wives will return for a fourth season. One, the predominantly female viewership of Lifetime has embraced the series about the lives of Army personnel and their families on the Fort Marshall post in Charleston, South Carolina; and two, scripted dramas are on the rise all across the cable networks. It also means that this finely acted, well-written and well produced show is going to be around for the next couple of years at least.

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CBS greenlights a pair o' pilots

Posted Aug 6th 2007 7:18PM by Varun Lella
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Pickups and Renewals

Who is ready for more new show news? Good to hear.

Mark Gordon, executive producer of Grey's Anatomy, has just been given the go by CBS to produce another hour-long medical drama with director Kasi Lemmons. It follows the life of a Bellvue psychiatric neurologist who also serves as a crisis manager. But guess which calm, cool professional has a chaotic life at home?

Lemmons, whose Don Cheadle-headlined Talk to Me is winning rave reviews, will direct, writer and produce the pilot.

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Those Criminal Minds folks are funny - TCA Report

Posted Jan 18th 2007 5:23PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, Criminal Minds, Celebrities, TCA Press Tour

Maybe it's because they work on such a dark show. Maybe it's because many of the actors on the show have at least some comedy in their backgrounds. But the folks from Criminal Minds really like to yuk it up. At least that's what I got from the "informal" (again, that means "jammed in a far-too-small conference room") session for the procedural. The panel consisted of executive producers Edward Allen Bernero and Mark Gordon, and stars Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster and Shemar Moore.

Gibson started off the comedy by lifting a jar of candy from the table and offering them to the gathered crowd. "They're wah-fer thin," referring to a classic bit from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

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