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Posted Jul 13th 2007 8:10AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming

I'm not really sure if this should go in the Drama or Comedy category.
FX has six drama pilots in contention for this fall, and one of them is
The Patriot, which is being
described as "the anti-24," because it shows all of the mundane things an agent has to go through every single day and not the "there's a nuclear bomb going off/I'm being tortured/gun battle" stuff that Jack Bauer goes through. There's potential here for realistic drama (it's written by Steven Conrad, the man who wrote
The Pursuit of Happyness) or funny satire. Maybe they can show him getting coffee in the morning, getting a parking ticket, having a problem with human resources, that sort of thing.
Because there are so many dramas that might make the schedule, FX is going to add more episodes of
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, so there's enough comedy on the network too. It returns September 13.
Posted Jul 18th 2006 2:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, Daytime, Talk Show

If
The Today Show and
Good Morning, America aren't enough for you. If
CBS This Morning doesn't float your boat, and you don't really want to watch CNN's
American Morning or your local morning show, then FOX has
another option coming next year.
The network will launch a national morning program from New York, to be hosted by FOX News personalities Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy. It will feature news and celebs and music and all that. In other words, another morning show.
This flashes me back to the days when FOX actually did have a morning show. When they took
Breakfast Time from FX, changed it to
FOX After Breakfast, destroyed it, and then changed it into the
Vicki Lawrence Show. Ugh. What a sad end to one of the great morning shows in history.