On March 8th ABC is going to air The Bachelor’s Jason Mesnic’s wedding to his second choice Molly Malaney. The two hour special will include “include the bride’s dress fitting, planning for the big day, bachelor and bachelorette parties and the ceremony” according to The Live Feed. As if we care to see him have a happy wedding after he dumped Melissa Rycroft on television after he asked her to marry him for Molly. Seriously am I the only who would pay ABC to have Molly leave him at the alter and tell him she was leaving him for one of the other Bachelors or better yet Bachlorettes???
Yesterday during ABC’s TCA Winter Press Tour Day the head of ABC Stephen McPherson told us before he told the casts and crews of Modern Family, The Middle and Cougar Town that they were all picked up for a second season. He then dared us to Tweet the pick ups, which we did and that is how some of them found out. In fact Steven Levitan, the show creator of Modern Family told us this is how he found out, “We were shooting a scene this morning, and I got a call from ABC and they were — as they were trying to get Chris Llyod (Co-EP) and I on the line together and get everybody on the phone together, it had already been Twittered here and our actors were already reading it. So when I came back to make the big announcement, they’re like, ‘Yeah, we know.’” For some reason I can picture Steven Levitan walking out on to the set and seeing the cast with those signs that Jesse Tyler Ferguson Tweeted breaking the news to him that way they were renewed. After listening him talk yesterday and seeing those pictures, I imagine that Modern Family is a really fun place to work! That could be why it is such an awesome show that has really helped to save sitcoms from near extinction. Well that show along with The Middle and Cougar Town! So check out all three shows tonight on ABC starting at 8p for much needed laughs!!!
I am beginning to think that ABC hates us because they are making us wait until March for both V and FlashFoward. FlashFoward aired its fall season finale tonight and now we will have to wait until March 4th to find out what happens next according to Zap2It. I wonder if the delay is because they lost their head writer and ABC recently put the show on a creative hiatus and they want to redo the show and give them time to do it. While it might help the show, it will totally suck for us to wait until three months for the next episode.
Although the wait for FlashForward is bad, it is not as bad until to March 30th for a new V. The show is also have creative problems according to ABC, but waiting 5 months between episodes might hurt its chances of returning strong. It will help that it will air after the last season of Lost, but still I might forget by then what happened on V because Lost will have killed a whole bunch of brain cells by then. That means for two months we will have one show on ABC Tuesadays f*cking with out head. So maybe the delay is good brain? But I am impatient and I want the shows back now now now.
BTW I wonder if V’s delay could be so they could also let the forgotten play out. Is anyone watching that show? I tried it once and the next week I was going to try it again, but I had forgotten I already tried it and didn’t like it.
Tonight on ABC at 8p it is the last episode of the exciting show V and it is appropriately called It’s Only the Beginning because the way it ends I can’t wait for it to begin again in March of 2010. It is an action packed episode that answers some questions, but totally thrusts the show forward with just so much to look forward to. The resistance is finally starting up with Erica, Jack and Morris the V! Tonight they will uncover a way that Anna is trying to control the humans. We also get to see “bliss” in action and find out why the Vs want to be connected to it. Talking about the Vs we learn who some more of the members of the Fifth Column are and there are a few of them on the ship. There is also a little life in the works, as in the first V/human baby is announced. But while a new life is beginning for one person, another one’s might be over but you have to watch the episode all the way to the credits to find out whose it is…
Seriously tonight’s V is so freaking good, I really hate the fact that we have to wait 3 months to find out what happens next. But at least we have Lost to f*ck with our heads for a month beforehand and I think we need a month to prepare to have two awesome shows going back to back together like V and Lost!
Not only did Drew Barrymore star in the big screen version of Charlie’s Angels, she also produced it. Now Variety is reporting that Drew Barrymore is looking to bring it back to the small screen and ABC is interested in helping her do it. The negotiations are still in the early phase and I hope it stays that way because what made the show so good was the cheese factor it had going for it. The show never took itself seriously and I am sure if ABC updated it, they would want to make more real. But if they considered having fun with it, I might be OK with it as long as they don’t cast Hilary Duff in Farrah Fawcett’s role. Can’t you see them doing that?
And BTW my sentiment about remaking TV shows is the same as for movies, when will Hollywood come with original ideas again and stop destroying shows like Kolchak the Nightstalker???
ABC has cancelled Hank and they will not be airing any more episodes according to The Live Feed. Believe it or not this is only the second show to be cancelled this season, the only other one to bite the dust was The CW’s The Beautiful Life. Although NBC’s Trauma and ABC’s Eastwick did not get any additional episodes ordered, their networks are still airing all of 13 episodes that they ordered. The only shows still waiting to hear if they will get any additional episodes ordered at Fox’s Brothers and CBS’s Three Rivers and I am really hoping both get more episodes because I love them both.
Now back to Hank, this is Kelsey Grammer’s second consecutive failure. His last show Back to You did not come back to Fox. BTW did anyone watch Hank? I never got Kelsey Grammer, so I never watched it, and since it got cancelled I guess I am not the only one.
UPDATE:The Hollywood Reporter says that Fox will not order any more episodes of Dollhouse. But before all you Dollhouse fans freak out too much, they will air all 13 episodes and Joss Whedon promised it would be a satisfying end for y’all!!!
ABC has decided not to order any more episodes of Eastwick starring Lindsey Price and Rebecca Romijn, but they have decided to pick up 5 more episodes of theforgotten with Christian Slater according to James Hibberd. To be honest I am surprised by their decision because both shows were doing equally bad as in both have been beaten by The Jay Leno Show more than once, so I thought that both would get the ax after their 13 episode order. Guess I was wrong and guess that means that ABC doesn’t have much to offer up during the mid-season except for Lost. In fact their mid-season got even slimmer because James Hibberd added that Let’s Dance is making like Jewel and not dancing. The show that was suppose to be hosted by Kathy Griffin was pulled two weeks before it was suppose to air because they had problems casting the show. I wonder what that means for the next season of Dancing with the Stars, does that mean that ABC has run out of celebrities who want to dance? Maybe Rebecca Romijn can do it, she has a lot of time on her hands now that show was cancelled and her husband, Jerry O’Connell is a stay-at-home dad.
I am huge fan of the original V, so much so I spent Sunday watching the original miniseries re-air on SyFy for 11 and a half hours. So when I heard that ABC was remaking V, I was less than enthused. That was until I saw the pilot. The episode blew me away and I have been waiting almost two months for this show to start up, so I could watch the series play out.
There are elements from the original V in this one. Like spaceships hovering over major cities throughout the world. Also The Visitors say they are here to help us with medical advances and they need something from us to ensure the survival of their planet. Oh and the most important thing that is still the same is under their skin lives a lizard.
While those are the same things, there are changes and some of them are reversals of which sex plays certain roles. In the original V, the spokesperson was a woman and this time it is Scott Wolf so not sure how that will change things up. But the big one that was changed is the teen recruiter is a female and the human is a guy. In the original V their relationship lead to the human girl getting pregnant, so I can’t wait to see who will get pregnant in this version…that is if anyone gets pregnant? After all we did learn from Alien Nation that alien men can have babies, so maybe on V the human male can get pregnant?
This updated version of V starts off so much faster than the original one and the special effects are flawless. Seriously V is the most exciting drama to come to TV this season and you don’t want to miss out on any part of this show. So make sure to watch it tonight on ABC at 8p!
UPDATE: Some bad news coming out about the show today, according to James Hibberd V is changing up their show runners. That is never a good sign for any show. Especially since ABC split V’s airings to air 4 episodes now and the remaining ones to start up again in March. Plus it was widely reported that ABC put the show on a production hiatus because they didn’t like where it was going. Like I stated above I loved the pilot and I really hope this show does well because it is the best drama ABC has on their air right now. Their veterans are going to hell in a handbasket. Seriously when was the last time there was a watchable episode of Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice or Ugly Betty? I sure as heck can’t remember why I am still watching any of those shows.
ABC has picked up FlashForward for a season. You didn’t need to black out for 137 seconds to see this coming, the show and its ratings keep better by the week! Now I wonder if April 29, 2010 will really play out on that day, or will they will wait until May sweeps?
The show is ABC’s first new drama to get the full season pick up, it joins Modern Family. Cougar Town and The Middle who go the full season order last week!
ABC has picked up 3 of their 4 (Modern Family, Cougar Town and The Middle) new Wednesday comedies for a full season. While it is no surprise that critically acclaimed Modern Family and the hysterical Cougar Town were picked up, I find it interesting that The Middle was in the mix. Either way it is great day for sitcoms because up until this season it looked they might be on the way out. But Modern Family and Cougar Town have really helped to re-ignite the comedy fire and I hope that we will be getting more of them instead of less. Seriously who isn’t enjoying the 9p hour on ABC? Modern Family is just brilliant, while Cougar Town is a laugh riot!!!
The lone comedy not picked up is Kelsey Grammer’s Hank, guess his Frasier days are long over.
