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Posted Jan 14th 2007 9:05PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, OpEd, TCA Press Tour
If there's any part of the press tour that's hard it's a situation like this: imagine being in a room with the cast of a show no one really likes much, extolling its virtues to disbelieving ears. To fill the boredom, the uncomfortable stars and creators start cracking jokes that no one thinks are funny. On top of that, there aren't enough questions to fill the time, so reporters start getting creative in order to keep the discomfort level at a minimum.
That's what I got when I sat in on the panel for the new ABC sitcom
In Case of Emergency.
Continue reading In Case of Emergency's painful session - TCA Report
Posted Jan 4th 2007 7:03AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, OpEd
(
S01E01) I'm not sure how I feel about this show. It's not bad. It's not good either. It's just there, wallowing in a sea of blandness. Honestly, what was so creative about this show that it deserved to get made? Maybe there's some sharp writing in upcoming episodes that wasn't displayed here. Which would be understandable of course. It is the pilot episode and you need to explain what the show is all about: four high school friends reuniting under unusual circumstances. That's a unique idea... right? Not even close.
Continue reading In Case of Emergency: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted May 31st 2006 11:41AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Programming, Video, Web
You can get a really good idea of ABC's fall schedule
right here, where Yahoo! has posted clips from 12 of ABC's new shows for the fall. Clips include
Brothers & Sisters (Calista Flockhart),
Day Break (Taye Diggs),
Men in Trees (Anne Heche),
The Nine (Scott Wolf),
Six Degrees (created by J.J. Abrams),
Traveler, Betty the Ugly, Big Day, Help Me Help You (Ted Danson), In Case of Emergency, Let's Rob..., and
Notes from the Underbelly.
Some early thoughts after the jump:
Continue reading ABC offers a preview of its fall schedule
Posted May 11th 2006 8:14AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Programming
Ahead of next week's Upfronts, where the networks lay out their fall schedules, ABC has announced it's picking up a handful of new dramas and sitcoms for next fall. Also, NBC is expected to pick up Tina Fey's new comedy and put it on Thursday nights. Oh, and NBC canceled Teachers. Shocker.
Details, details, details on ABC's pick-ups:
- The Nine, a drama following the aftermath of hostages in a bank robbery;
- Six Degrees, a drama about six strangers brought together by mysterious circumstances (Identity meets Lost?);
- Day Break, a drama starring Taye Diggs as a cop who tries to figure out who tried to kill him;
- In Case of Emergency, a comedy starring David Arquette, Greg Germann and Jonathan Silverman as a group of high school buddies who reunite when their lives intersect in some sort of comedic way;
- Help Me Help You, a comedy starring Ted Danson as a troubled celebrity shrink;
- Notes from the Underbelly, a comedy about how the life of a couple changes as they're expecting their first child.
There is a lot more speculation about the fall schedules for all the networks
here in The Hollywood Reporter.
Posted Feb 27th 2006 9:04AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, FOX, CBS
Names like Regina King, Madeleine
Stowe, Christine Taylor and Jonathan Silverman should add some clout to all sorts of dramas and comedies being planned
by the networks for next fall.
Here is the latest casting news from
The Hollywood
Reporter:
Continue reading More familiar faces sign on to network pilots
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