Brad Garrett, 'Til Death
After attending the networks' upfront presentations all week, the Biz has this analysis of the coming season. (Click here for next fall's grid and new-show descriptions.)
CWYou've got to wonder what went wrong in CW's new-series development process if the network had to bring back 7th Heaven — even though the show lost a reported $16 million for WB this past season.
But the decision to have CW's inaugural schedule made up of established shows from WB and UPN may end up being a blessing. Many of the shows have small but rabid followings, and promoting new shows on a new network will be tough. The fans of shows like One Tree Hill and Veronica Mars will track them down on their own. Viewers in the 18-to-34-year-old demographic that CW targets don't watch networks, they watch shows. (According to recent survey, only one in four 1
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Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives
Dancing with the Stars So the Kelly Monaco theory of soap-opera fans' unbeatable enthusiasm must have a corollary: football fans. Or maybe we're seeing the proof of that other law of reality TV: viewers vote for the person most abused by the judges. Either way, I again completely underestimated my own shock at Jerry being safe for another week, while Stacy and Lisa were left to the suspense of the bottom two. Man, I am so sucked into this drama! I don't know what I would have done if Stacy had been out. Do people really want Jerry to win? On to the entertaining elements of the show — and by that I decidedly do not mean Michael Bublé's performance. I'm talking about Tom Bergeron's Charlie Chaplin-esque quickstep. So ador
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