Emmy award winner Eddie Izzard is no longer part of the hit TV drama 24 – after completing only one day of filming. Izzard has been replaced by British actor David Hunt, husband of Patricia Heaton. Hunt will take over the role and play a villainous accomplice on the show named McCarthy. The cross-dressing comedian quietly parted with the show and is currently working on his upcoming TV series "The Riches" with fellow Brit Minnie Driver, which was picked up by the FX network in September.
FOX will once again split "Prison Break’s" season into two parts as its "fall finale" has been set for Monday, November 27 at 8:00/7:00c. The series will then return for the back half of its sophomore season sometime in 2007. The network has yet to settle on what will air in the show’s Monday, 8:00/7:00c slot come January when "24" launches its sixth season. "Prison’s" current lead-out "Justice" seems like the most obvious choice however FOX has yet to extend the newcomer for a full season. Meanwhile, FOX will follow NBC’s "Kidnapped" route and go 13-and-out with its freshman drama "Vanished." The series will wrap its inaugural season on Friday, December 8 at 8:00/7:00c. "Vanished," again like "Kidnapped," has not been canceled – FOX plans to wait and see how the series fares in its new Friday home before making the final decision about its future.
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Wow! I am not a that huge of a fan of The OC and even I am looking forward to watching it on November 2nd.
BTW the number of days until The OC is back is the number of episodes Fox has ordered for the season.
While the ratings for FOX’s fall comedies don’t necessarily justify addition episodes, the network wants to see if there are funny scripts in the future for "Happy Hour" and "’Til Death." You can practically hear the nation’s TV critics yelling, "If there weren’t funny scripts in their past, why would there be funny scripts in their future?" Regardless, according to media reports, FOX has asked for three additional scripts for each of its Thursday night comedies, which means that the writers will get paid if nothing else. Through its first four episodes, "’Til Death" has been averaging roughly 6.9 million viewers. The show went on an unplanned production hiatus (the baseball-based October hiatus had already been scheduled) because star Brad Garrett was reportedly uncomfortable with the state of scripts at the time. "Happy Hour" went on its baseball hiatus a week early. While FOX has tried reprogramming "’Til Death" in several different time slots, the network has shown less support for "Happy Hour," which has averaged under 5.6 million viewers in its three airings. At this point, FOX has now asked for addition scripts for all of its fall shows without picking any of them up for a full season.
Lately We’re heading into our last show before the baseball break. That’s always a bit of a reprieve, but we’ve put out 5 great shows and I’m really proud of the work we’ve done so far. Everything is going real great. The chemistry between Emily and me is getting better and better with each show and that’s going to be prevalent this season. Today we’re shooting in a church. It’s a big end scene with Emily, real big bonding scene, this specific episode. It’s called "Aliens in a Spaceship," no aliens involved but the good thing is we have some new directors coming up. David Duchovny is going to be directing the next episode, which is exciting. Keep an eye out for him, he may actually appear in one of the episodes. Something good for all you X-Files fans. So it’ll be fun to see that.
I so wish David Duchovny was back on TV, I miss his dry sense of humor. Saying that I can’t wait to see how his episode turns out because Boreanaz also has a dry sense of humor!
