"Clear!"
How many times have you heard that while watching a medical show? Now meet The CW's Emily Owens, M.D. (9/8c), who's such a magically giddy sprite of a surgical intern she can actually "Clear!" a room, just by showing up. My living room, anyway. Or any room in which she might suddenly appear, babbling in gratingly incessant voice-overs that make Meredith Grey seem a model of restraint. A more toxically cutesy, aggravatingly precious, aren't-I-adorable waste of talent would be hard to imagine.
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MTV is staying in business with Snooki & JWoww.
The Jersey Shore spin-off has been renewed for a second season, the network announced Friday at the Television Critics Association's fall TV previews. The series debuted in June to 2.4 million viewers, a big drop from Jersey Shore's Season 5 premiere, which drew 7.6 million viewers.
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MTV has ordered two new scripted series and four reality shows that would bring the likes of Ke$ha and Bo Burnham to TV, the network announced Friday.
On the scripted side, Underemployed hails from...
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Katherine Heigl is returning to television in an HBO film.
The former Grey's Anatomy star will produce and star in the cable network's adaptation of Ann Hood's best-selling novel The Knitting Circle.
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The book revolves around ...
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Question: How likely is it that Dirty Sexy Money will survive the writers' strike? It's by far my favorite new show of the season, and the thought of it being scrapped is upsetting. I've also heard that the networks think this season has been a bust and they would be quite happy to start over once the strike ends without any of their freshman shows. Craig Wright didn't sound very optimistic about their survival chances in an interview I read, and with no end to the strike in sight, I'm beginning to feel the same way (particularly in light of the stories I heard about DSM being significantly over budget).
Answer: Again, I'd be lying if I didn't say a show like this is vulnerable, along with many other freshman series that haven't quite broken out yet. Given the investment of talent in front of and behind the camera on Dirty Sexy Money, I'd be especially sorry to see this one scrapped too early. Guess we'll have to wait and see ...
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