French Stewart (Third Rock from the Sun) and Rebecca McFarland (The Dresden Files) will make like Clark and Ellen Griswold in Happy Campers, an ABC Family pilot about a family on a cross-country road trip. According to the Reporter, the pilot, which starts shooting Monday, features Kay Panabaker (Summerland), Alessandra Toressani, and Ryan Malgarini and the kids, as well as Beth Littleford (The Daily Show) as Stewart's ex-wife. (It must be a really, really big family truckster.)
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This was a sweet (as in, "Awww") episode of TNT's The Closer, with the aging police-beat reporter hunting down one last story. It also served as an easy "transition back in" for Gabriel, though I was surprised we weren't privy to a case while he was away. Maybe no sense in punishing the actor for the character's trespasses? Nice moment when Brenda called out for the MIA Gabriel, creating awkward looks amid the PHDers.It was a decent mystery, too. Surely the casting of Mrs. McCluskey as the head nurse was to make us view her askew. The manager being the culprit, though, seemed a bit expected and his "defense" a tad pat — especially for a mere $2,500 a pop (or "ma," as the case may be).Was I the only one who at a midpoint, once the home's financials came to light, began to suspect that Gary Who Never Lies (French Stewart, as sinewy as ever) would be dovetailed into this case as some sort of "supplier" of cash-rich retirees? That'd have been a stretch, though, especially so close ...
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SNL alum Chris Kattan and 3rd Rock's French Stewart are lending their pipes to Two Dreadful Children, the new cartoon comedy being developed at Fox, says the Hollywood Reporter. They will voice neighbors of a redneck family boasting a set of horribly disobedient, genius twins.... The gay-friendly pay network Here! has bought rights to The DL Chronicles, an anthology series about "men of color who lead double sex lives," aka are "on the down low," says Variety.
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