More shows come back from break
NBC's "Life" isn't the only sophomore show that's been gone for a while. Other series that went missing as a result of last winter's writers strike include:
NBC's "Life" isn't the only sophomore show that's been gone for a while.
Other series that went missing as a result of last winter's writers strike include:
* NBC's "Chuck" (8 tonight, Channel 10). Zachary Levi stars as Chuck Bartowski, an underachieving geek whose life became way more interesting after he accidentally downloaded a top-secret government database into his brain. High jinks ensued, along with romance, for 13 episodes, anyway. From what I've seen of Season 2, it's one of the best not-quite-new shows of the year.
* ABC's "Pushing Daisies" (8 p.m. Wednesday, Channel 6). Critics and viewers actually seemed to agree on this colorful entry last fall about a pie-maker who could bring the dead back to life, and the show's nine episodes yielded a dozen Emmy nominations. Wednesday's season premiere - "Bzzzzzzz!" - is a honey of a reintroduction.
* ABC's "Private Practice" (9 p.m. Wednesday, Channel 6). This "Grey's Anatomy" spin-off, which aired only nine episodes last season, appears to be trying to become a little more of a medical show this season and maybe a little less a soap about middle-aged doctors in love and lust. We'll see.
* ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" (10 p.m. Wednesday, Channel 6). Ten episodes was enough to secure "DSM" and the over-the-top darlings a place on my guilty-pleasures list last season, and Wednesday's season premiere, which finds the Darlings once again in trouble on several fronts, didn't change a thing.
- Ellen Gray