CBS is going global with two new pilots based on shows from overseas, plus one drama that's homegrown. The lineup includes Ny-Lon, based on a U.K. show that starred Office alumna Rashida Jones; the Israeli-inspired Mythological X, about a woman who revisits her past relationships; and Can Openers, a medical drama.... CMT has picked up rerun rights for two Fox reality series, Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy and Nanny 911.... Starz is also beefing up content, commissioning six new documentaries on topics from comic book movies to special effects. — Anna DimondOh, and speaking of Rashida Jones....
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Bravo is developing Money Shot, a Project Runway-esque reality competition for aspiring shutterbugs-to-the-stars in which the winner gets cash and a spread in People.... Also per Variety: Animal Planet is going to the movies, offering up a critter-themed family feature every Saturday night, starting May 19 with Stuart Little.... Fox's Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy airs new episodes April 26 and May 3, at 9 pm/ET.
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Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy
Having a new mom — or wife — for a week is unimaginable for most people. But for the families on Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy, it's an eye-opening learning experience that turns their worlds upside down with surprisingly positive results. The Season 3 premiere (tonight at 8 pm/ET, on Fox) opens with two families who find that their biggest differences lie in their religious beliefs. TVGuide.com talked with story producer Danielle King about choosing families, developing the new season and then letting the cameras roll.
TVGuide.com: Why did you choose these two families to premiere the new season?Danielle King: The "Martin/Shatz" episode contains the essence of what we try to do at Trading Spouses — bring down cultural barriers. We've got a Christian mom from Appalachia and an Orthodox Jewish mom [from Boston] whose worlds have never touched in the pa
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Fox isn't doing too much tinkering with its schedule. The complete press release is below.FOX ANNOUNCES PRIMETIME SLATEFOR 2006-2007 SEASONTHREE NEW DRAMAS AND TWO NEW COMEDIES JOIN NETWORK’S SCHEDULE ADDITIONAL DRAMA AND COMEDY ANNOUNCED FOR MID-SEASON NEW SATURDAY LATE-NIGHT ENTRY HOSTED BY SPIKE FERESTENUNSCRIPTED SERIES INCLUDE SIMON COWELL’S “DUETS” AND MARK BURNETT AND STEVEN SPIELBERG’S COMPETITION “ON THE LOT” New York (Thursday, May 18, 2006) – FOX today unveiled its primetime schedule for the 2006-2007 television season, featuring the network’s most stable and balanced slate in years. Three new dramas and two new comedies will complement returning favorites on every night of the week this fall, announced Peter Liguori, President, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.The new dramas premiering this fall are VANISHED and STANDOFF from 20th Century Fox Television and JUSTICE from Warner Bros. Television and hitmaker Jerry Bruckhe...
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Yeah, I admit it: I'd never before even thought about watching those video clips of the 3-ton harpy screeching about how "God drew me into this show." So it was a little disappointing to realize that said breakdown wouldn't occur until next week. But I kept an open mind; this is like a lowbrow version of Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days, right? Except that placing an admittedly closed-minded religious fanatic from small-town Louisiana in the home of a New Agey astrology-following hypnotherapist in Massachusetts doesn't exactly sound like an experiment. We pretty much know what's going to happen. That doesn't mean it is any less fun to watch Marguerite Perrin (none of her new family seems to notice that she calls herself "Margaret") squirm and literally vomit from the un-Christianness of it all. I don't get how celebrating the solstice is ungodly if you're supposed to believe
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