ABC has announced the mid-season return of V. The alphabet net will pair up the alien invasion saga with No Ordinary Family on Tuesday nights at 9:pm, starting January 4th. NBC, meanwhile, has given full-season orders to three of its new-in-2010 shows. The Event, which is among the highest-rated shows of the new season, has gotten an additional order of nine more episodes, … [Read more...]
NBC Nabs X-Files-ish Pilot ‘Echelon’
The man who wrote the screenplay for the movie 300, Michael Gordon, has created a series that NBC's picked up called Echelon. Gordon will executive produce alongside Imagine Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Television. Echelon is based on the covert database used by the U.S. for eavesdropping to watch for terrorist-related keywords in phone calls, emails, and other forms … [Read more...]
It’s Dead, Jim: NBC’s Outlaw
Another one bites the dust: NBC's Jimmy Smits vehicle Outlaw is the third casualty of the Fall 2010 season. The legal drama aired on Fridays, but will burn off its last four episodes on Saturdays. NBC is filling the open Friday night slot with a second hour of Dateline. … [Read more...]
It’s Alive! ‘Munsters’ Reboot in the Works
When I first saw a headline proclaiming that The Munsters was being reimagined for NBC, I let out an audible groan. Like many others, it always seemed to me like a kitschy, unfunny copycat of the sublime Addams Family. The thought of updating it for today sounds just plain awful. But then I saw who was re-creating the show: Bryan Fuller. The genius behind the delightfully … [Read more...]
NBC to Air New Shrek & Kung Fu Panda Specials
Holiday season is nearly upon us, and NBC and DreamWorks are planning a pair of brand new half-hour animated specials to commemorate Halloween and Christmas. Scared Shrekless, scheduled for October 28th, finds Shrek challenging his friends Donkey, Puss in Boots, his wife Fiona, and the franchise's other fairy tale characters to spend the night in the former Lord Farquaad's … [Read more...]