Big Shots

[2007, TV Show]

Big Shots: TV Guide News

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Four CEOs find sanctuary in male bonding to make sense of their personal and professional lives.

Best Valentines Day Videos | Today's Top Videos | 2/14/2008
ABC’s Hottest Smooch SessionsIn honor of the all the love in the air on this fine Valentine’s Day, ABC found it fitting to whip up a little montage of some of the sexiest kissing scenes (and sometimes a tad more) to get everyone in the spirit. And don’t worry, they've covered almost every show they have, complete with the Sawyer-Kate cage hook-up and the infamous Gizzy romp in the sheets. This video can be summed up best as face-sucking at its finest. Watch it now! | More... read more
Murder Club Snuffs Creators; Big Shots Muzzled? | Today's News: Our Take | 2/13/2008
The end of the strike doesn't mean good news for everyone, mind you. ABC's Women's Murder Club, whose fate seems super-iffy, has let go of three executive producers, including co-creators/co-showrunner Elizabeth Craft — says the Reporter. (Ausiello might want to revisit that "less than 0.015 percent chance of survival" mentioned in today's fresh AA.)Another of the net's freshman offerings, Big Shots, is "not expected to continue," says the trade. But, reports my dream, Charisma is being... read more
Ask Matt | 1/28/2008
I'm a frequent reader of your articles. However, I was very unhappy and continue to be unhappy with your reviews of Big Shots. Of course, it is not the best writing in the world, but it is not god-awful, either. I'm no TV reviewer, but I have watched a lot of TV, including some really horrible shows in my time, and this is not one of them. Let's face it: Not all the shows you give positive reviews are as great as you say. Personally, I would rather shoot myself in the head than watch two ... read more
Big Shots' Joshua Malina on the Show's Future | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/17/2008
With production halted on Big Shots (tonight at 10 pm/ET, ABC) by the writers' strike, the penultimate episode airs tonight. Which makes it a good time to assess the series with one of its four leads, Joshua Malina, who's been busy in ways that would be alien to the hapless Karl ? "arguably the jerkiest" of the series' four tycoons, admits Malina. The father of two has been preoccupied with "field trips, class plays and being in total daddy mode." TV Guide: So will Big Shots be renewed?Joshua... read more
Thursday Ratings: Big Shots Up, Apprentice Down | Today's News: Our Take | 1/13/2008
Thursday's first-run highlights:8 pm/ETUgly Betty topped the hour with 10 million total viewers, a gain of 600K from its last fresh episode (Dec. 6). The last new 30 Rock (blargh) drew six mil, a 420 thou increase from Dec. 13.9 pmCSI was No. 1 in viewers (18.1 mil, down 1.7 from Dec. 13), while Grey's Anatomy (17.6 mil) claimed the lead in key demos. Week 2 of Celebrity Apprentice, delivering 8.1 mil, plunged 26 percent from its premiere.10 pmWithout a Trace (13.2 mil, slipping almost two mil... read more
Big Shots Neutered in Favor of Warmed-over Privates | Today's News: Our Take | 12/11/2007
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... read more
Ask Matt | 12/10/2007
I've never responded to something I've read on TVGuide.com before, but there is something I don't understand. Why did you refer to Big Shots as "unwatchable"? I know many people who watch and love this show. It's also one of the few shows my husband and I both watch and love. We both enjoy the storylines and the cast. Granted, the "tranny hooker" storyline probably wasn't the best, but the rest is great and the show has evolved. It gets better and better each week. It's funny, and the cast of... read more
Ask Matt | 11/30/2007
Every year people complain that the networks are too impatient and that shows are yanked before they have a chance to hit their stride or build an audience. Well, because of the strike, shows that have been sagging in the ratings since day one or that premiered to mixed reviews have been allowed to stay on the air for months now. And, for the most part, the shows that sucked when they premiered still suck and the shows that flopped out of the gate still aren't attracting viewers. So what do you... read more
Ask Matt | 11/16/2007
Is Candis Cayne, who plays Patrick's mistress, Carmelita, on Dirty Sexy Money, a woman (sure looks like one), a transvestite (I don't even know how to spell it) or a man (hard to believe)? read more
Ask Ausiello | 11/14/2007
Can you give me some news on my new favorite show, Big Shots? read more
Scheduling Scorecard: Women's Murder Clubs Big Shots | Today's News: Our Take | 11/6/2007
Big Shots just doesn't get any respect. On Nov. 15, ABC will yank it so that Women's Murder Club (or, as I call it, Angie Harmon's Matlock) can get a post-Grey's Anatomy sampling. The following week, BS is getting preempted for the return of October Road. Whether Michael Vartan and Co. will finally pop back up in time for the end of sweeps remains to be seen.... The Bachelor: After the Final Rose is bumping Boston Legal on Nov. 20.... Kathy Griffin's Straight to Hell comedy special will air on... read more
Rosie's Apres-View Debut, More Programming Notes | Today's News: Our Take | 10/31/2007
Rosie O'Donnell makes her first (consensual) television appearance since exiting The View on today's The Martha Stewart Show. Read into it what you will, but Ro will be dressed as Queen Elizabeth (sic?).... Charisma Carpenter's Big Shots debut currently is rescheduled for Nov. 29, with the Angel alumna playing (typecasting alert!) an "increasingly irresistible" woman.... ABC premieres the animated special Shrek the Halls Nov. 28 at 8 pm/ET. (My Jared and Jacob are getting into an advance... read more
Ask Matt | 10/29/2007
Does it seem like the networks this fall are nursing their new shows a little better than in the past few seasons? I know Viva Laughlin was canceled quickly (oh, well!), but the networks have picked up Gossip Girl, Private Practice, The Big Bang Theory, Back to You and Pushing Daisies for full-season orders. None of these are ratings blockbusters, but they have pretty decent followings and good buzz. Do you think the suits are trying something new as ratings, in general, have been down, or do... read more
Ask Matt | 10/29/2007
Pushing Daisies, Big Shots, Ugly Betty and of course Desperate Housewives all have this awful, cutesy "Baby Elephant Walk"-style score that turns my stomach. Perhaps if just one show did the campy soundtrack I could bear it, but so many? I compare it to reheated baby puke. It's turned me off these shows completely, but more new shows keep adding vampy, cutesy music. Doesn't ABC care about the oversaturation? read more
Murder Joins a Crowded Friday Club | Roush Dispatch | 10/12/2007
My loyalties are so divided on Friday nights. I want ABC’s so-so new crime drama Women’s Murder Club to do well enough to bring some much-needed eyeballs to the charming romantic comedy Men in Trees, which finally returns from a cruel nearly eight-month hiatus. With James Patterson’s name as a selling point for Murder Club (though he’s not writing this series any more than he appears to be penning half of the books that go out with co-writers’ names on his ubiquitous... read more
Ask Matt | 10/12/2007
I watched the premiere of Pushing Daisies last Wednesday, and all I can say is thank you for talking up this show's "Pie Lette" as much as you and your colleagues have! The charming, magical episode lived up to all of the hype. The quality that instantly endeared me most was the incredible chemistry of the cast, especially between Ned (Lee Pace) and Chuck (Anna Friel). I don't think I've seen genuine sparks fly like this since the early days of Luke and Lorelai on Gilmore Girls. It will ... read more
Ask Ausiello | 10/10/2007
When exactly can we see Rob Thomas' work in action on Big Shots? Because I don't know how much more I can take of those Big Losers. read more
Ask Matt | 10/8/2007
I've just got to ask: What do the powers that be at ABC have against Men in Trees? We all know what ABC did to the show last season. But why didn't the network make this show part of its much-hyped premiere week? I couldn't sit through more than 20 minutes of the wretched Big Shots, and I think it's ridiculous that ABC moved Men in Trees out of the coveted time slot following Grey's Anatomy for this garbage. read more
Ratings: CSI Teaches Anatomy a Lesson | Today's News: Our Take | 9/28/2007
Round 1 last fall went to the Seattle Grace gang; not so this time. Thursday's ratings rundown:8 pm/ETSurvivor: China topped the hour with 14.16 million total viewers, a drop of a mil from its premiere. Ugly Betty's season-opener (11.05 mil) was up from its freshman finale but off six mil from its year-ago debut. NBC's Earl (8.52 mil) was down about 500K from its previous premiere. Smallville veritably matched last fall's return with 5.08 mil.9 pmWith 24.9 million viewers, CSI outperformed its... read more
Law & Order Alum Lands Big Gig, More Casting Bits | Today's News: Our Take | 9/28/2007
Law & Order alumna Elisabeth Rohm and onetime Veronica Mars recurring player Ryan Devlin are each joining ABC's Big Shots, playing love interests for Michael Vartan and Peyton List (aka Dylan McDermott's daughter), respectively.... Also per the Reporter, Jordan Bridges (Conviction) is joining Bionic Woman to woo Jaime Sommers, and Brandon Eaton has been cast as a younger version of NBC's Journeyman, Kevin McKidd.... Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Tim DeKay (Tell Me You Love Me) are Amber... read more