HIGHLA-L Digest - 22 May 2004 to 26 May 2004 (#2004-95)
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1. US fall TV--HL alums are hard to find
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:30:23 -1000
From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
Subject: US fall TV--HL alums are hard to find
The US fall TV schedules were announced recently. (Links are below.) No
joy for HL fans, of
course, but in fact ALL genre fans are largely bereft. There's seems to be
very little to look forward to--aside from stale sitcoms, dreary dramas, &
of course increasingly tacky & outrageous "reality" programming. Nothing to
take the place of Angel....
One new trend is "sharing" timeslots. Various plot-intensive dramas--West
Wing, Alias, 24, etc.--will air all their season's eps in consecutive weeks,
w/o
reruns or pre-emptions. The remaining weeks will be filled by a new show.
On one bright genre note, Tru Calling DID get renewed. (So did ST:
Enterprise, though who really cares....) Previous Whedon-ites Alyson
Hannigan & Charisma Carpenter both had their sitcoms shot down, though.
Also axed--
the Dark Shadows remake. One genre-sounding new show I see on the main
networks is
ABC's Desperate Housewives--a dead woman looks down on her neighborhood;
derivative, but the stars
include the yummy James Denton, as well as the always interesting Felicity
Huffman. NBC
has Revelations--sounds a little X Files-like.
HL alum Joey Pantoliano has a new show, co-starring w/ Rob Lowe in a new
drama on CBS--
dr. vegas. Lowe is a disillusioned doc taking refuge at a posh job as
in-house doctor, w/ Joey Pants
playing the casino boss--a role he could do in his sleep, I'd think.
Over on Sci Fi Channel (hock--SPIT), Stargate: Atlantis (yawn....) will
co-star Torri
Higginson; she takes over Jessica Steen's character from a few recent SG-1
episodes. Higginson played Nick's cranky & doomed partner in HL: Raven's
premiere ep way back when.
Nina (wallowing in dvds this summer)
mac.westie@verizon.net
ABC's fall schedule details-
http://primetimetv.about.com/cs/columnists/a/abcupfront2004.htm
NBS fall schedule details-
http://primetimetv.about.com/cs/columnists/a/nbcupfront2004.htm
CBS fall schedule details-
http://primetimetv.about.com/cs/columnists/a/cbsupfront2004.htm
UPN fall schedule--
http://www.upn.com/shows/fall_preview_2004/index.shtml
WB fall schedule--
http://www.thewb.com/Shows/Special/0,11116,171792,00.html
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