May 16, 2006
Upfront and Personal
Even though the network media upfronts don't mean anything - except to advertisers - because schedules can be shuffled and shows killed between now and fall, Gothamist is still excited, because it's about hope (Tina Fey's new show to be good, Veronica Mars to be picked up) and new seasons of shows we love (The Office, My Name is Earl...and, heck, we can't help but watch Grey's Anatomy). Anyway, there are a lot of NYC-set shows coming in the fall season; NBC has Kidnapped and The Black Donnellys. Things we're wondering about:
- Will 30 Rock, the show about a sketch show starring Rachel Dratch, Tracy Morgan, Tina Fey, and Alec Baldwin, be good? And will it be a way to expose prime time viewers to the SNL cast...so they watch SNL?
- Will Studio 60, the Aaron Sorkin show about a sketch show, be as boring as the trailer looks?
- Who is leaving Law & Order? (A Variety article says Dick Wolf will be making cast changes)
CBS and Fox (and the CW) will have upfronts later this week. Zap2It has good coverage of the upfronts, and the NY Times' Virginia Heffernan's blog about the upfronts is pretty funny (she disses Crash, Jeff Zucker, references to Cat Fancy, stingy seat-assigning from ABC). The Post says Leslie Caron will guest star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the new season - she watches from France plus she knows Sam Waterston from shooting Le Divorce (a sweet trifle of a film).
Ooh, and TV Squad says Veronica Mars was renewed by the CW! Hooray!
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It looks like Dick Wolf's Conviction is gone, too.
Scrubs will be back, but at mid season. That is one good thing.
Just notice the bit about Veronica Mars getting picked up by the CW. It will be nice to know that the show will not be pre-empted by stupid basketball games or the duplicative Fox "News" coverage of the shrubbery's utterings.
The Studio 60 script for the pilot is floating around out there. It's pretty funny. Nobody thought the West Wing would take off, and it went seven years, after all.
Not really that suprise that Veronica Mars got picked up(though I am very excited!).
I mean...
"CW?"
"It's a done deal"
I thought the novel, "le Divorce" was a nice, witty little book. Not anything to strain your brain-a nice easy read, halfway interesting characters and plot. The movie (and this is in addition to the idiotic way they changed things from the book that made the movie basically dim)...I remember one scene, of Naomi Watts, Kate Hudson, Stockard Channing, and Sam Waterston walking along the Seine...by that point in the movie, I found myself wishing, that Channing and Waterston's characters would find some reason to chuck those two blonde ditzes into the water, and go off and make a movie with Leslie Caron about two naive American tourists with new sneakers and an expensive purse gadding about in France, at the mercy of a sophisticated native. In the little screen time these three pros had in this movie...they stole it from Watts and Hudson.
Yay Veronica! Definitely psyched for the next season.
The season finale was written by the TV Gods...
jack's assistant... borgia or whatever, is leaving the show after this season on l&o. fyi.
The new show on NBC are AMAZING compared to what ABC unveiled last night.
One word: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz