Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Former "NYPD Blue" star Rick Schroder has a new beat, joining the cast of Fox’s "24." Schroder has signed on for a regular role on the skein, which returns for its sixth season next month. He’ll play CTU operative Mike Doyle, teaming with Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) to pull off key field operations. Other new cast members include Chad Lowe, Regina King, Powers Boothe, Peter MacNicol, James Cromwell, Kal Penn and David Hunt. Most recent regular TV gig for Schroder was Lifetime’s "Strong Medicine." He spent three seasons on "NYPD Blue" as Det. Danny Sorenson.

Variety 

I think he would be great as a bad guy, but I guess not this time.

The ad above aired during Standoff on Tuesday night after People announced the two were hosting the show. So I didn’t think much of it until yesterday when I was watching Bones and they ran another ad still saying that they are hosting the show. Fox denies that there is a host, but then why are they advertising that Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are hosting? I am so confused?
BTW sorry about the voiceover at the beginning and end of the ad, it was the only one I could find on YouTube.

"The Loop" doesn’t even have a spring premiere date yet, but FOX is already putting the series on notice. According to the industry trade papers, FOX has trimmed the order for the midseason comedy by three episodes, from 13 to 10. Although "The Loop" premiered last spring to fairly weak ratings, FOX was encouraged by the show’s retention of its "American Idol" audience (at least compared to "Life on a Stick," apparently) and hoped to retool the comedy for its second season, concentrating more on the workplace adventures of the junior airline exec played Bret Harrison. Since the show hasn’t had a chance to find a new viewership this year, the episode cut is believed to be the result of FOX’s already stuffed spring premiere schedule. While almost all of the network’s fall offerings have flopped, FOX has a slew of new shows hoping to benefit from the network’s inevitable "American Idol"-fueled spring resurgence. On the drama front, FOX has "Drive" and an untitled wedding series from David E. Kelley on tap. In addition, the comedy "The Winner" is in production, though that series only has a six-episode initial order.

Zap2It 

Bret Harrison is not having a good week, his other project Revenge of the Nerds well you know… 

News Corp., the parent company of book publisher HarperCollins and the FOX network, has canceled publication of the O.J. Simpson book and television special "If I Did It." "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson." In the book, the one-time football superstar tells how he would have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman if, in fact, he had done it. A dozen FOX affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the book’s publication. One station manager who had said he wasn’t airing the special said he was concerned that whether or not Simpson was guilty, he’d still be profiting from murders. "I have my own moral compass and this was easy," said Bill Lamb, general manager of WDRB in Louisville. Relatives of the victims have lashed out at the now scuttled publication and broadcast plans. "He destroyed my son and took from my family Ron’s future and life. And for that I’ll hate him always and find him despicable," Fred Goldman told ABC last week. The industry trade publication Broadcasting & Cable editorialized against the show Monday, saying "FOX should cancel this evil sweeps stunt." One of the nation’s largest superstore chains, Borders Group Inc., said last week it would donate any profits on the book to charity. Also last week, Judith Regan, would-be publisher of Simpson’s book, said she did not pay Simpson for the rights to publish his book. "What I do know is I didn’t pay him," Regan said in an eight-page statement titled "Why I Did It." "I contracted through a third party who owns the rights, and I was told the money would go to his children. That much I could live with." Regan also said in the statement that she wanted Simpson’s "confession" because she herself was once a victim of abuse. "I made the decision to publish this book, and to sit face to face with the killer, because I wanted him, and the men who broke my heart and your hearts, to tell the truth, to confess their sins, to do penance and to amend their lives." Although Regan has acknowledged that Simpson does not directly say that he killed his ex-wife and her friend, she said she considers the book to be his confession. Regan said Simpson approached her with the idea for the book, which reportedly was sold for $3.5 million. "If I Did It," which was to be published by ReganBooks — an imprint to HarperCollins, was scheduled for release Nov. 30. FOX had planned to air a two-part TV interview of Simpson on Nov. 27 and 29. In the television world, the closest precedent for such an about-face came when CBS yanked a miniseries about Ronald Reagan from its schedule in 2003 when complaints were raised about its accuracy. The Reagan series was seen on its sister premium-cable channel, Showtime, instead. For the publishing industry, the cancellation of "If I Did It" was an astonishing end to a story like no other. Numerous books have been withdrawn over the years because of possible plagiarism, most recently Kaavya Viswanathan’s "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," but a book’s removal simply for objectionable content is virtually unheard of. Pre-order sales had been strong, but not sensational. "If I Did It" cracked the top 20 of Amazon.com last weekend, but by Monday afternoon, at the time its cancellation had been announced, the book had fallen to No. 51.

Fox News (Thanks Alix) 

It is nice to know that Rupert Murdoch had the balls to do what he did during November sweeps

FOX will make the final four episodes of VANISHED available online on FOX On Demand at MySpace.com  and on MyFoxLocal station sites in 24 markets beginning Friday, Nov. 17. Viewers will see the mystery unfold as the remaining clues in the disappearance of Sara Collins (Joanne Kelly) are uncovered in the episodes to be posted on four consecutive Fridays: Nov. 17, Nov. 24, Dec. 1 and the Warm Springs series finale on Dec. 8. Streaming begins at 12:01 AM PT each Friday.
All-new episodes of JUSTICE will air on four consecutive Fridays, Dec. 1, 8, 15 and 22 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

The Futon Critic 

Seriously when is Fox going to put Justice out of its misery because this is cruel already.

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