With ABC, CBS, Fox and the CW holding their upfront presentations during the week of May 18 — and NBC set to reveal the rest of its own 2009-10 plan on May 19 — the pilots for a slew of prospective series are getting their final looks.
Among the surprising let-downs? NBC took a pass on David E. Kelley's Legally Mad — and owes Warner Bros. TV a seven-figure penalty payment for doing so. It also turned down Dick Wolf's Lost & Found, a cop drama starring Katee Sackhoff.
Though there has been talk in the trades that NBC might avoid the Legally Mad penalty by instead granting Warner Bros.' Chuck a pick-up, the action-comedy's creator ...
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ABC has given a green light to a pair of comedy pilots, including one that will mark Gilmore gal Lauren Graham's return to the small screen.
In Let It Go, Graham will play a self-help guru/talk show host whose advice to woman winds up falling on her own deaf ears when ...
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Lauren Graham could soon be showing us the funny again.
ABC has made a production commitment to a new comedy starring the former Gilmore gal as a self-help guru who advises women on how to live a stress-free life, only to have her calm center unsettled when ...
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Could it be that the never-heard last three words of Gilmore Girls were, "Fugue for Tinhorns"? (So-so joke? Sue me, sue me....)
Lauren Graham will make her Broadway debut as the female lead in a new revival of Guys and Dolls, Playbill.com reports. For the planks-averse, that means LG will play Miss Adelaide to Oliver Platt's good ol' reliable Nathan, Nathan, Nathan, Nathan Detroit.
"To be making my Broadway debut in this role ...
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Question: Any chance Lauren Graham changed her mind about Cupid?
Answer: No chance, I'm afraid. But based on some of the other names being tossed around to play Bobby Cannavale's lovah half (********* ***** and ******* ****** to name two), I have every confidence that Rob Thomas will find a worthy successor to Paula Marshall.
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