Big Shots Neutered in Favor of Warmed-over Privates

Michael Vartan, Dylan McDermott and Joshua Malina in Big Shots by Sam Jones/ABC
At a time when the networks have been almost wasteful airing new episodes during this après-sweeps stretch, ABC has elected to pull
Big Shots and its three remaining episodes effective immediately, this just days before Charisma was to (finally,
finally) make her splashy debut. In place of Vartan, McDermott et al, the network for the remainder of 2007 will air
Private Practice repeats in the post-
Grey's time slot. Cutting-edge notion there, programming a spin-off adjacent to the original show.