Question: Do you have any information on Life Is Wild? I read on another website that it got canceled.
Answer: I'm hearing the cast has been informed that it's over. The CW, however, insists that no decision has been made. I'll do my best to get to the bottom of this and get you some kind of firm answer…. Oh, who am I kidding. This is Life Is Wild we're talking about. I've already spent too much time on this subject.
OK, that's a wrap! As I casually mentioned at the top of the column, AA is going to be on hiatus until Jan. 7 on account of the holidays. But never fear, I'm not disappearing from your lives completely. Over the next few weeks I'll continue to update my Ausiello Report blog with breaking news and other assorted ra
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Let me say that my family, my co-workers, and everyone we work with here in South Africa are all very thankful for the fans and the wonderful support for this little show we're working on, Life is Wild. We love what we're doing and we're having an awful lot of fun doing it, but it's worth nothing without you, the fans, and we appreciate you.So this Thanksgiving week, let us wish you all the best for you and your family and express our deep appreciation for your support! We are very happy to have you as part of what we're thankful for this Thanksgiving!!! All the best,DW
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Hello good people and thank you for your continued support of that 'little engine that could' called LIFE IS WILD.This week’s episode deals with love and marriage and we have a giraffe and an elephant falling in love. No really. And there's a couple that comes to our lodge to get married and gets INTERRUPTED by an old flame....on a motorcycle. He must be the bad guy....but don’t girls always like the bad guys??? Oh my what will the girl do????I want you to keep a special eye out for the wedding scene at the end. I think it might be one of the more beautiful shots/locations we have devised on this show and that issaying a lot with all of the beautiful shots we’ve already put together! I can’t wait to see it myself.Hope you enjoy the show and I look forward to your comments!!Take care,D.W. Moffett
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Andrew St. John, Leah Pipes, Calvin Goldspink in Life Is Wild by Lorenzo Agius/The CW
This Sunday, as NBC's football coverage tackled 16 percent more total viewers, with an audience of 15.8 million:7 pm/ETWhile CW Now (852,000) and Online Nation (762,000) posted "gains" of 72K and 64K, respectively...8 pmThe CW's Life Is Wild premiered to 1.64 million viewers. (Perspective check: Girlfriends and The Game were putting up Sunday-night tallies of about 2.7 mil a year ago.) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition matched last week's 11.66 million. How about that master bedroom suite? Sweet.9 pmHousewives dominated with 17.41 mil, down 1.6 mil week-to-week. (Anyone else see that Gaby "confession" coming down Broadway?) Cold Case (12.82 mil) slipped 700 thou.10 pmBrothers & Sisters — aka the show with that shameful "Justin's funeral" on-air promo (I pity the poor spoilerphobes) — slid 1.1 mil to 12.21 mil. Shark (11.2 mil) dipped 230K.
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The CW's fall schedule kicks off with two-hour premieres of both Beauty and the Geek (which this season will add into the mix a hunky dude and a geeky gal) and America's Next Top Model. Here are the deets:Tuesday, Sept. 188 pm/ET Beauty and the GeekWednesday, Sept. 198 pm America's Next Top ModelFriday, Sept. 218 pm Friday Night SmackdownSunday, Sept. 237 pm CW Now7:30 pm Online NationTuesday, Sept. 259 pm Reaper (sorry, but I don't see why all the fuss over the pilot....)Wednesday, Sept. 269 pm Gossip GirlThursday, Sept. 278 pm SmallvilleMonday, Oct. 18 pm Everybody Hates Chris8:30 pm Aliens in America9 pm Girlfriends9:30 pm The GameThursday, Oct. 49 pm SupernaturalSunday, Oct. 78 pm Life Is Wild
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Stephanie Niznik by Ed Araquel/ABC
Let the fall-season recasts continue. Stephanie Niznik, best known to TV fans as Everwood's Nina, is taking over the role of the wife/mother on the CW's Life Is Wild, replacing Judith Hoag (who played the part in the pilot). Just last week, the family patriarch was recast with Hidden Palms' D.W. Moffett.Also per the Hollywood Reporter, Brent Sexton (aka Deadwood's Harry Manning) has been added to the series-regular cast of the new NBC drama Life, playing the former partner of Damian Lewis' wrongfully imprisoned and now back-on-the-force lawman.
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Jason Dohring by Patrick Ecclesine/The CW
Jason Dohring, aka Veronica Mars' love-to-hate-him/hate-to-love-him Logan, has found another role with some real bite to it. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Dohring is joining the new CBS drama Moonlight as Josef, an ancient vampire. Interestingly, Dohring is replacing 60-year-old Rade Serbedzija, now that the character has been reconceptualized as a young and mischievous hedge-fund trader.Speaking of fall-TV recasts, Hidden Palms' D.W. Moffett (a TVGuide.com celebrity blogger) is joining the CW's Life Is Wild, replacing Brett Cullen as the relocated-to-South Africa family's pop.Moonlight is slated to air Fridays at 9 pm/ET, Life Is Wild Sundays at 8. Here is the complete 2007-08 prime-time schedule.
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Question: Is the upcoming Wild at Heart on the CW the same show that just finished up on BBC America on Saturday night? Granted, I might be just another put-out Veronica Mars fan, but I wonder why the CW would bill something as a new show when it just completed a run on American television. Overall, I have to say that I am less than impressed with what the CW is offering next season. Do you think there is hope for it to become a competitive network?
Answer: It's the same premise (a family moves to a South Africa game preserve), but the CW's Life Is Wild is an Americanized adaptation of the British Wild at Heart — not the same show. I imagine the CW hopes this will target the same family audience that embraced 7th Heaven for a decade. We'll see. Overall, while I've been awfully hard on the CW since its inception, I've got to say that some of its new shows (Reaper and Aliens in America in particular) are among the brightest and most promising of any network in the fall. Will the C ...
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The new NBC series Bionic Woman and Chuck, as well as the CW's Life Is Wild, have earned a thumbs-up from the Family Friendly Programming Forum, whose mission is to promote the development of programming appropriate in theme, content and language for adults and children. According to the Hollywood Reporter, this fall marks the first time the FFPF has an approved program airing each night of the week (meaning minus Saturday, which literally nobody seems to care about), with the new options joining the ranks of Ugly Betty, Brothers & Sisters, Notes from the Underbelly, Friday Night Lights and Everybody Hates Chris. But Bionic Woman, really? Methinks someone at the FFPF actually fancies two hot gals duking it out in a nighttime downpour.
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A year ago, the former stars of the WB and UPN found themselves uncomfortably mingling on one stage for the first upfront of the new CW network. They looked like the kids at the wedding of two single parents.This year, the CW took a step toward developing its own personality, shedding the aging Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars (the longest-running unsuccessful show in prime time) and All of Us (the weakest link in its lineup of urban sitcoms). The network is even taking the teen out of teen-angst drama One Tree Hill. When that show returns in mid-season, the characters will have been fast-forwarded to their lives after college.The network is replacing All of Us with Aliens In America, a comedy about a Muslim exchange student coming to live in Wisconsin. It looks funny and a little provocative. Who would have thought the CW would have the first sitcom to deal with post-9/11 attitudes?Tuesday at 9 pm brings Reaper, about a slacker whose parents sold his soul to the Devil, played with a br...
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