Cougar Town, Modern Family and The Middle have been picked up for full seasons, reps for the ABC series confirm to TVGuide.com.
The news of ABC ordering more episodes of the Wednesday night comedy block — sans Hank — comes a day after...
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Get ready to see an old friend in Cougar Town next year.
Courteney Cox, the erstwhile Monica Geller, is partnering with ...
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As promised, here's the complete transcript from my new interview with Scrubs' main man Bill Lawrence (an excerpt of which appears in this week's Ask Ausiello). If you consider yourself a fan, I urge you to read it and heed the urgent call to action at the bottom. Time is of the essence, people!Where do things stand on doing a series finale?Bill Lawrence: It's tough for me to say because I can't really get involved in that stuff until the strike ends. But either way, [NBC] is going to air the episodes we already shot.And what about shooting new episodes?Lawrence: The worst-case scenario is that ABC/Disney lets me make the last four episodes as a DVD. And I say that's the worst-case scenario because I'm going to try as hard as I can to get NBC's support in finishing the show up on TV. I just don't have any definitive answer because I haven't been talking to them. When the strike is over, what will your first order of business be?Lawrence: The second we're told that we can go back to ...
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Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence was is a unique position as the strike neared in that his show was on its way off the air. Even so, he said Sunday at a New York Comedy Festival event that he refused a request from NBC to slap together a script that would serve as a series ender. Describing the finale the network suggested as full of scenes where "two people kiss," Lawrence (who has one of 12 pre-strike scripts left to shoot) instead hopes to wait out the strike and then craft his own denouement — by any means possible. "I will use all my leverage to end this show properly, even if it means I have to do all the voices myself and call people up to read it over the phone," he said.More strike coverage: • Will Tonight Show Go On... With Guest Hosts?• Strike Could Give Cable Shows Edge at '08 Emmys• Striking Up Romance: Single Scribes Pair Off on the Picket Line
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Keeping a promise he made to Aloma Wright, Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence tells Variety that though he killed off Nurse Roberts this past season, her portrayer will still have a job for Season 7. Wright will play Laverne's twin sister, Shirley (ha!), a single, alcoholic woman who shuns religion. Says the actress, "I'm glad to know [Lawrence] is a man of his word.".... Brit beauty Jaime Murray (Hustle) is joining Showtime's Dexter in the role of Lila, a "wild, unconventional and daring" artist and former addict who befriends our sick little antihero.
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