The CW sets its Sunday lineup
Two weeks after the CW announced its tentative fall schedule, word comes of the new shows that will make up the face of the network's Sunday night lineup.
Two weeks after the CW announced its tentative fall schedule, word comes of the new shows that will make up the face of the network's Sunday night lineup.
Media Rights Capital (MRC) announced that it will bring to the CW
In Harm's Way
,
Surviving Suburbia
,
Valentine, Inc.
and
Easy Money
for the greater part of the Sunday prime-time programming block.
These shows will join the CW's other fall 2008 shows
90210
,
Surviving the Filthy Rich
, and
Stylista
.
Beginning at 6:30 p.m. will be the narrative reality show
In Harm's Way
, which will take a look at the lives of people who perform dangerous jobs. Executive producer
Craig Piligian
already had a hit with Discovery channel's
Dirty Jobs
, which puts host
Mike Rowe
in the shoes of some of America's filthiest work environments.
Following that will be the half-hour comedy
Surviving Suburbia
, which centers on a family and their new, and most assuredly, wacky neighbors.
Valentine, Inc.
is an hourlong dramedy that revolves around the romantic and sometimes amusing stories that come out of an agency that mends broken hearts and finds lost loves and true loves.
Finally, another one-hour drama,
Easy Money
, will focus on a family that runs a high-interest loan business.
'Nashville Star' lands second life on CMT.
CMT has landed second-run rights to NBC's
Nashville Star
, which makes sense, if you think about it.
Nashville Star
, which previously aired on USA, will premiere its sixth season on NBC on June 9. CMT will get its first crack at re-airings on the afternoon of June 14. CMT's encores will move to their regular slot starting June 20 at 8 p.m.
Kelsey Grammer now part of ABC's 'Empire.'
Following the cancellation of
Back to You
,
Kelsey Grammer
may not have much of a layoff.
The multiple-Emmy winner has signed on to ABC's comedy pilot
Roman's Empire
, the show-biz trade papers report. He'll play the title character, an eccentric billionaire.
The show marks Grammer's first role in a single-camera comedy after more than two decades of playing Dr. Frasier Crane on multi-camera shows
Cheers
and
Frasier
. This season, he starred
Back to You
on Fox with Patricia Heaton. His casting in
Roman's Empire
likely will put to rest speculation that the show might switch networks.
Roman's Empire
is told through the character of Leo (
Nick Thune
, of
Knocked Up
), a guy who can't escape the grasp of Roman Pretty (Grammer) and his family even after he breaks up with Roman's daughter (
Christine Woods
).
Costars join '24' prequel.
A trio of costars have joined the cast of Fox's
24
prequel telefilm, slated to air in November.
According to the Hollywood Reporter,
Eric Lively
,
Tony Todd
and
Gil Bellows
will appear in the two-hour special, scheduled for Nov. 23 as a bridge between the sixth and seventh seasons of the Emmy-winning drama.
When the prequel special begins,
Kiefer Sutherland
's Jack Bauer is in South Africa handling an international crisis. Back at home, the newly elected president (series newcomer
Cherry Jones
) is preparing for her inauguration day.
Part of the prequel is being shot in South Africa and Sutherland told advertisers gathered for the announcement of Fox's fall lineup that the story would, indeed, be in real time.
The trade paper says that Lively (
The L Word
), brother of
Gossip Girl
star
Blake Lively
, will play the president's son, while Bellows will play a State Department officer with a subpoena to serve to Bauer. Todd is set as Gen. Juma, a cruel African dictator.