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Here's the roundup for NBC from Variety:
While the focus this spring centered on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy"spin-off, NBC was quietly developing one of their own - and announced this morning that "Heroes" has spawned a second series of its own.
"Heroes: Origins" will air in "Heroes'" Monday night time slot when that smash hit takes a hiatus. The net has ordered six segs of "Origins," which, combined with "Heroes," makes for 30 hours altogether....
"Heroes: Origins" will center on characters not yet seen on the original show. Peacock has also added an interactive element to the show: Viewers will be asked to pick their favorite character from "Origins," who will then join the cast of the full-blown "Heroes" skein the following year.
The initiative to keep the "Heroes" franchise in originals for as long as possible harkens back to the golden age of TV, when series aired 39 weeks worth of originals, then took a break.
With repeats dipping to record lows on all five nets, those reruns are fast becoming a thing of the past. Besides the 30-seg "Heroes" and "Heroes: Origins" stretch, Peacock is also picking up 30 eps of "The Office" - including five hour-longs (Daily Variety, May 14) - and 25 segs of "My Name is Earl." ...
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"Friday Night Lights" was moved to Fridays at 10 PM for next season. While this move makes sense from a marketing standpoint (Friday is in the name after all), that is one of the toughest slots on TV since very few people watch TV then. It is good news that the show got picked up at all, but this is a worrisome development to those that are hoping for a ratings surge in season 2.
Personally I think they could scrap Law and Order and move the show to later on Tuesday nights. I get so bored with Law and Order these days and I used to love the shows.
From Sunday: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964812.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
"30 HALF-HOURS OF 'THE OFFICE' INCLUDING 5 ONE-HOUR EPISODES"
"Peacock is also picking up 30 eps of "The Office" - including five hour-longs (Daily Variety, May 14)"
That implies that there are 35 half hours.
I'm going to check on this.
NBC PR is saying "25 half hours and 5 hours" making for 30 episodes.
The Bionic Egg!
That and Catholicism.
Boy, did I see a lot of the "Merv Griffin Show."
Kramer: "So, you dated Jerry for awhile. Tell us a little about that."
George: "What?"
Kramer: "Sorry, got the cue cards out of order."
41 - Well, the DVR is in the family room - doesn't help me in the bedroom. So to speak.
The sentiment is understandable, but I think throwing your VCR into the toilet was probably an over-dramatic gesture, especially for a guy who lives alone.
That sounds like a man who never had his hard drive DVR crash and burn and take 40 hours of unwatched programming with it into the dark abyss.
You're probably better off having those 40 hours to do something more productive, like read baseball blogs.
Not when it was your wife's programming and you procrastinated in moving them from the hard drive to the DVD recorder:)
Well, perhaps you can convince her to look at the tragedy through a similarly positive filter.
As for "Heroes" it is something of a tour down memory lane, since they are reusing all of the best comic story lines of the past twenty years. The season finale is building towards the end of "Watchmen" and the best episode of the season was "The Days of Future Past" like trip through time. Since the show has a comic book and it is co-written by Jeph Loeb (who wrote "Batman: The Long Halloween") I think their "homage" to comics is fine.
their first new comedy offering, The IT Crowd (think The Office, but with computer nerds) won't arrive until midseason.
This is exciting for me. The British version of the IT Crowd is hilarious, though I'm biased being an IT nerd myself.
Is that 24 half hours? Or maybe 26.462 episodes?
This is a pretty big bump next year then, from 24* half hours to 30 half hours.
*The Negotiation, Beach Day, Women's appreciation and a few others were supersized, so this would add a half hour or two.
62 - Sopranos talk is my queue to leave, I have been hearing raves all day, but I haven't seen the episode yet.
Beginning was incredible, ending was incredibler
The episode didn't seem to advance the characters or the audience in any meaningful way.
Me too. Except my one time using psychedelics in Vegas resulted in less of a life-changing epiphany and more of a sampling of the 31 flavors of hell.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1083404/
She was probably alluded to in one line five years ago and we're expected to keep track of such things.
I'll do that for "The Wire," but not for "The Sopranos!"
http://southdakotadark.blogspot.com/2007/05/official-abc-schedule.html
7pm America's Funniest Home Videos
8pm Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
9pm Desperate Housewives
10pm Brothers & Sisters
MONDAY:
8pm Dancing With the Stars
9.30pm Sam I Am*
10pm The Bachelor
TUESDAY:
8pm Cavemen*
8.30pm Carpoolers*
9pm Dancing With the Stars Results
10pm Boston Legal
WEDNESDAY:
8pm Pushing Daisies*
9pm Private Practice*
10pm Dirty Sexy Money*
THURSDAY:
8pm Ugly Betty
9pm Grey's Anatomy
10pm Big Shots*
FRIDAY:
8pm Men In Trees+
9pm Women's Murder Club*
10pm 20/20
Did you watch any of the "Private Practice" pilot? I almost had to pour battery acid on my eyes to protect myself for further pain.
Tim Daly = Kiss of Death
80 - I still don't know why you keep talking about Tim Daly, who starred on one of the longest-running sitcoms of the 1990s, and not Taye Diggs.
New post up top.
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