big day-related stories
Posted Feb 10th 2007 3:03PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, CBS, Industry, Celebrities
I mentioned the other day that
Harold Perrineau had joined the CBS pilot
Demons. They've now cast the main character, Gus, and the winner is Ron Eldard. If you were paying attention, you might have seen him in the short-lived
Men Behaving Badly or
Blind Justice. Otherwise, think of him as the paramedic with issues that was dating Carol early in the
ER run. It's not the best piece of casting I've ever seen. Eldard has never proven that he can be the dramatic lead for a show, but stranger things have happened.
Meanwhile, over at CBS, Hugh Jackman (
Wolverine!) is producing something called
Viva Laughlin. Lloyd Owen (
Miss Potter) will star as a family man trying to open a casino in Laughlin, NV. Word is that Jackman will appear in the pilot and may have a recurring role on the series. Given just that bit of knowledge, I'm intrigued by the possibilities.
Continue reading ABC and CBS reveal more pilot casting news
Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 8, FOX has a new American Idol, followed by a new House. - NBC has a new Dateline at 8.
- The CW has a new Gilmore Girls at 8, then a new Veronica Mars.
- At 9, ABC has a new Big Day.
- Discovery has a new Dirty Jobs at 9.
- The History Channel has a new Ancient Discoveries at 9.
- At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery.
- ABC has a new Boston Legal at 10.
- There's a new episode of Miami Ink on TLC at 10.
- Bravo has a new Real Housewives of Orange County at 10.
- Also at 10: FX has a new episode of Dirt.
- At 10:15, TCM has the classic western Shane.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Jan 9th 2007 5:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, NBC has a new Dateline, followed by new episodes of Law and Order: CI and Law and Order: SVU. - PBS has a new Nova at 8.
- Discovery has a new Really Big Things at 8, followed by new episodes of Dirty Jobs and Most Deadly.
- At 9, ABC has two new episodes of Big Day, then a new Boston Legal.
- FOX has a new House at 9.
- CBS has The People's Choice Awards at 9.
- At 9:30, Food Network has a new Tasty Travels.
- At 10, FX has a new ep of Dirt.
- Also at 10: HBO2 has REAL Sports 2006: A Look Back.
- At 10:15, AMC has The Towering Inferno.
- At 10:30, The Hungry Detective goes to Boston.
Posted Dec 21st 2006 10:09AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, HBO, Showtime, Programming, The CW, USA, Sci Fi, Comedy Central
Schedule Boy has returned! Yes, yes, many of you know me as the dashingly attractive Rich Keller, reviewer of such shows as Bones and ER. However, sometimes I need to put on my mask and cape (and nothing else) and take on the guise of Schedule Boy in order to give you, the holiday-exhausted TV Squad readers, a chance to see where season premiere dates will fall or what time your favorite horror movie will air on Halloween night. It's a thankless job, but someone has to do it!
This time around I have been given the task to list the days when your favorite (and not-so favorite) shows will return from the holiday break. Also included in this list will be those shows having late starts to their season, like According to Jim, and those that are coming back from mid-season finales, like Psych. Please be warned that these dates may change, and we will try to adjust the schedule accordingly when we find out about them. So, get your decoder rings out and let's begin . . . right after the jump, that is. Schedule Boy, away!
[Schedule Boy image courtesy of the Hero Machine at UGO.]
Continue reading Look here to find out when your shows will return from holiday break
Posted Dec 14th 2006 2:30PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Programming
Remember that post I did this past weekend where I called
Help Me Help You the
"least publicized show of 2006?" Well, now we know why ABC hasn't publicized it at all: it looks like they're pretty much done with it.
According to Cynopsis, the Ted Danson comedy has been pulled from next week's schedule, running back-to-back episodes of
Big Day instead. Now, that could have been done because of the holiday, but they could have also scheduled a repeat, too. Anyway, the article states that ABC hasn't announced anything official, but there's also "no word" on when it's returning to the schedule.
As I pointed out in my Sunday post on the show, the ratings have been dismal, especially since
Dancing with the Stars ended. So this isn't a big surprise.
Posted Dec 6th 2006 12:34PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Gilmore Girls, Celebrities, Ugly Betty, Men In Trees, Brothers and Sisters
Not every woman can look like Salma Hayek, but every woman can smell like her. Just in time for the holidays,
InsideBayArea.com has released a list of the fragrances favored by television's leading ladies. Not everyone understands the appeal of expensive perfume, and nobody wants to be around someone doused in it. Perfume is an indulgence when you're penny pinching, but I've got to admit that it's one of my own weaknesses.
As you might expect, the perfumes on the list are ridiculously pricey, but at least, no one is wearing Britney's Curious for Women. I personally can't afford any of these scents - even in the 1 oz. bottle - but I can certainly "test" them at Sephora. Here are some list highlights:
The Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham wears Fracas by Robert Piguet;
Men in Trees' Anne Heche wears Amaze by IsaDora;
Ugly Betty's Salma Hayek wears Narciso Rodriguez's For Her;
Big Day's Marla Sokoloff wears Trish McEvoy's #9; and
Brothers & Sisters' Calista Flockhart wears be by becker.eshaya.
Posted Dec 5th 2006 8:11PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Programming, Lost
When it returns from a 13-week hiatus,
Lost will have a new time slot. ABC has bumped the sci fi/drama back one hour to 10 pm. The reasoning behind this,
according to Variety, is the unstoppable power that is
American Idol.
Lost has consistently finished second to CBS's
Closer to Home Criminal Minds this fall and apparently ABC can't stomach the thought of coming in third during the 9 pm hour on Wednesday nights. Last year,
Lost took a pretty big hit on Wednesdays once American Idol started up. The new Wednesday schedule makes it pretty obvious that ABC is bowing down to
American Idol.
Here's the new Wednesday schedule at ABC:
Continue reading ABC bumps Lost to 10 pm
Posted Dec 5th 2006 5:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, ABC has Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town, followed by new episodes of Big Day, Help Me Help You, and Boston Legal. - CBS has a repeat NCIS at 8, then a repeat episode of The Unit and The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
- NBC has a new episode of Friday Night Lights at 8, followed by repeats of Law and Order: CI and Law and Order: SVU.
- There's a new Standoff on FOX at 8, then a repeat House.
- Gilmore Girls is new on The CW at 8. It's followed by a repeat Veronica Mars.
- ABC Family has Once Upon A Christmas at 8.
- AMC is showing Miracle on 34th Street a lot this season (that's a good thing). It's on again at 8.
- At 9, Discovery has a new ep of Dirty Jobs.
- TLC has a new Overhaulin' at 9, followed by a new Miami Ink.
- Also at 9: CMTV has A Smoky Mountain Christmas, with Dolly Parton and Lee Majors.
- At 10, HBO has a new Costas NOW.
- Also at 10: Nip/Tuck airs on FX.
Posted Oct 6th 2006 3:31PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Industry, Programming, OpEd
Remember
way back in August, when
Ugly Betty was moved from Fridays to Thursdays? Even though it was only two months ago, people have already forgotten the names of the two new shows
that were displaced by the move. Well, here's a refresher: one of the shows was called
Big Day, a serialized comedy that takes an entire season to explore the ins and outs of a young couple's wedding day. According to this
press release, the show will finally debut on Tuesday, November 28 at 9. That was the time slot that was reserved for
The Knights of Prosperity before ABC decided to
delay its premiere until midseason. Considering how little-regarded
Big Day show was when ABC sent the pilots out over the summer (Anna said in her
preview, "I don't think I laughed at all."), it seems like
Knights might end up back in that timeslot sometime around Christmas.
Oh, the other displaced show,
Notes from the Underbelly, has yet to be rescheduled. Don't rush with that one either, ABC.
[via
The Futon Critic]
Posted Aug 10th 2006 3:28PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Industry, Programming, OpEd
Yesterday, when
I reported that ABC moved
Ugly Betty from Fridays to Thursdays, I wasn't sure of the fate of the two shows it was replacing,
Big Day and
Notes from the Underbelly (right). According to Richard Huff of the
New York Daily News, the two serialized comedies will find a home on the schedule on either Tuesday or Wednesday, after
Dancing with the Stars and its results show are done. It's just as well;
Underbelly doesn't seem like it has staying power, anyway, and from what I've heard,
Big Day isn't that special, either. ABC made the right choice by putting a stronger show in the more high-profile timeslot.
So what's going to take
Ugly Betty's vacated Friday spot? A second episode of
America's Funniest Videos, that's what. So that means this fall we're going to be seeing Tom Bergeron
four nights a week, since he hosts both
AFV and
Dancing. Who knew he'd become the network's next Regis Philbin?
Posted Jul 14th 2006 12:34PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC
Now that
NBC and
CBS have us all excited about its fall season, it's time to move along to the screener DVDs we've been receiving from ABC. While we're not allowed to technically "review" each new show, we can give you a short preview with our initial thoughts.
For ABC, we're covering:
The Knights of Prosperity (formerly
Let's Rob...)
, Help Me Help You, The Nine, Big Day, Notes from the Underbelly, Six Degrees, Ugly Betty, and Men in Trees. (We'll do a Part 2 of the ABC previews once we receive the remaining shows.)
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