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Weekend Update: The Latest Pickups and Passes
The latest pre-upfronts news:ABCDrama pickups: Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone (both from Everwood's Greg Berlanti); the Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice, the Sex and the City-esque Cashmere Mafia; Pushing Daisies, Women's Murder Club; Big Shots (Dylan McDermott, Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus and Joshua Malina as CEOs/wannabes). Comedies: Cavemen; Sam I Am (Christina Applegate as an amnesiac); Carpoolers. Other notes: October Road and Notes from the Underbelly will return mid-season with 13-episode runs. (Today's News)FOXDrama pick-ups: The Terminator-inspired sci-fi-er The Sarah Connor Chronicles; K-Ville (concerning cops in post-Katrina New Orleans); New Amsterdam (about an immortal homicide detective). Comedies: Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton's Back to You (FKA Action News); Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Return of Jezebel James (starring Parker Posey); The Rules of Starting Over (courtesy of the Farrelly Brothers) (Today's News).NBCDrama pick-up...
The latest pre-upfronts news:
ABC
Drama pickups: Dirty Sexy Money and
Eli Stone (both from
Everwood's
Greg Berlanti); the
Grey's Anatomy spin-off
Private Practice, the
Sex and the City-esque
Cashmere Mafia;
Pushing Daisies,
Women's Murder Club;
Big Shots (
Dylan McDermott,
Michael Vartan,
Christopher Titus and
Joshua Malina as CEOs/wannabes).
Comedies: Cavemen;
Sam I Am (
Christina Applegate as an amnesiac);
Carpoolers.
Other notes: October Road and
Notes from the Underbelly will return mid-season with 13-episode runs. (
Today's News)
FOX
Drama pick-ups: The
Terminator-inspired sci-fi-er
The Sarah Connor Chronicles;
K-Ville (concerning cops in post-Katrina New Orleans);
New Amsterdam (about an immortal homicide detective).
Comedies: Kelsey Grammer and
Patricia Heaton's
Back to You (FKA
Action News);
Gilmore Girls creator
Amy Sherman-Palladino's
The Return of Jezebel James (starring
Parker Posey);
The Rules of Starting Over (courtesy of the Farrelly Brothers) (
Today's News).
NBC
Drama pick-ups: Lipstick Jungle, an hour-long drama based on the novel by
Candace Bushnell (
Sex and the City) and starring
Brooke Shields (as a movie-studio exec),
Kim Raver (as the boss of a pop-culture mag) and
Lindsay Price (as a fashion mogul) (
Today's News).
Renewals: The original
Law & Order has been renewed, while
Criminal Intent will move to the USA Network (
TV Guide News Report).