Welcome to the Monday edition of What To Watch. Tonight we have a repeat of last week’s Hell’s Kitchen followed by a brand new episode on Fox. TNT has new episodes of The Closer and Saved. ABC has repeats of Wife Swap and Supernanny followed by a new episode of How To Get The Guy. AMC has another airing of Broken Trail with Robert Duvall and the Discovery Channel has the American Chopper Salute To Armed Forces with episodes featuring bike they built for various branches of the United States Military. NBC has a repeat of last week’s Tresure Hunters followed by a new episode and a repeat of Medium. WB has a night of 7th Heaven and SciFi has three repeats of Stargate SG-1. And finally USA has two hours of WWE Monday Night Raw.
Hell’s Kitchen - 9 pm/ET, FOX
Not being able to stand the heat is one thing, but forgetting to turn on the oven? So arrivederci, Giacomo. You weren’t the only reason it took the guys two hours to plate an entrée, but you can’t cook without heat, can you? Now the boys in blue will have to sauté on without you, but since the blue team is down to just three people, it’s history, as Chef Ramsay reconfigures the teams tonight and has them cook for kids.
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“Law & Order” mastermind Dick Wolf has teamed up with cable TV network HBO to develop a movie about the plight of American Indians during the 19th century. The HBO Films project is based on the best-selling book “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West,” by Dee Brown.
The nonfiction book, first published in 1970, is an account of how the American Indians were displaced as the United States expanded west. Specifically, the book uses council records, firsthand accounts and other resources to tell the story of “the systematic destruction of the American Indian” during the latter half of the 19th century, including “the battles, massacres and broken treaties that left them demoralized and defeated.”
Wolf is executive producing “Wounded Knee” with Tom Thayer, whose previous credits include the A&E Network movie “Faith of My Fathers” and the USA Network series “Kojak.”
Yves Simoneau, who earned an Emmy nomination for producing the pilot of USA’s “The 4400,” is attached to direct “Wounded Knee,” while Daniel Giat, an Emmy nominee for writing HBO’s “Path to War,” will pen Wolf’s screenplay.
Tribune Broadcasting has licensed syndication rights to the hit CBS comedy Two and a Half Men from Warner Brothers Domestic Television Distribution, with the sitcom’s off-network debut set for fall 2007. The deal covers the entire run of the series, which returns to prime time in the fall for its fourth season on CBS.
The Tribune station group, which licensed “Men” on a cash-plus-barter basis, also will double-run the show on weekdays for the first three years; two additional episodes will air on weekends. The stations will have the right to stream five episodes of the series each week on their own Web sites free to viewers.
“This is the first mega-hit sitcom since ‘Everybody Loves Raymond,’ and we got a deal that is according to that kind of show,” Warner Brothers Domestic TV president Dick Robertson said. “They’ve bought the show for the whole network term; this is no short-term deal or barter-only. It’s the exact same template as ‘Friends’ and the first show to be sold like that in a long time.”
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Three years after Fox canceled the show, Matt Groening’s Futurama will resume production for a 13-episode run on Comedy Central. The new episodes will be added to the network’s library of 72 “Futurama” episodes previously licensed from 20th Century Fox Television. Voice talent Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio will return for the new episodes, which will debut in 2008.
Fox announces Fall Premier dates for the 2006-2007 Season. Six New Primetime Series and a Late-Night Entry Set for Fall Launches Along with Returning Favorites
FOX has set the fall premiere dates for its new and returning series. Six new primetime shows and a new late-night entry join returning favorites on the fall schedule.
The premieres are listed below in chronological order. All times are ET/PT.
Monday, August 21
8:00-9:00 PM PRISON BREAK (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM VANISHED (Series Premiere)
Wednesday, August 30
8:00-9:00 PM BONES (Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 PM JUSTICE (Series Premiere)
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NBC’s controversial series The Book Of Daniel was broadcast early in 2006, but before the first episode hit the air it was already canceled in 8 markets: affiliates in Nashville, Little Rock, Terre Haute, Amarillo and four other markets decided not to air the show about the Episcopalian priest who talks to Jesus (in person). While a different Little Rock station decided to pick it up, by the second episode other stations were pulling out, and soon advertisers were as well. By the 4th episode’s airing, NBC had decided to make it the last one and cancel the series.
It was made available for a while via streaming video at NBC.com, but now you’ll be able to get all 8 produced episodes on DVD. Universal is releasing this as a 2-DVD set on September 26th, for around $30.
Everybody Loves Raymond veteran Ray Romano, whose show was U.S. television’s top sitcom when it ended its nine-year CBS run last year, is looking to return to the small screen starring in a new comedy on cable’s HBO.
Talks are under way for the 10-episode single-camera project, now in the early stages of development, that would star Romano as a forty-something billionaire who has six months to live.
Dennis Klein, co-creator of one of HBO’s signature comedies, “The Larry Sanders Show,” is on board to write the show. And the creators of the Fox network’s hit spy thriller, “24,” Joel Surnow and Bob Cochran, supervising as well as executive-producing the new comedy. Romano and Klein also are expected to share executive-producer credits on the limited series.
Continue reading Ray Romano Pitches New Show To HBO
Welcome to the Spoiler Roundup, the most comprehensive weekly spoiler wrapup on the internet. We scour the web for all the best spoilers on some of the most popular shows on the air. Catch it here every Wednesday at The TV Remote.
This week: Deadwood, Ghost Whisperer, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Nip/Tuck and more. Now let’s get to the spoilers . . . (SPOILERS BELOW)
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James Gandolfini, star of HBO’s mob drama “The Sopranos,” is muscling into a salary dispute between two of his castmates and the cable network before production begins on the show’s last batch of episodes.
Gandolfini, whose own bitter contract squabble with HBO three years ago escalated into a court battle before it was settled, is hosting a sit-down this weekend with co-stars Steven Van Zandt and Tony Sirico, according to sources.
With less than two weeks until the scheduled production start of the show’s last eight episodes, Gandolfini is said to be looking to intervene in the network’s standoff with Van Zandt and Sirico over their demands for higher pay.
Only a handful of “Sopranos” actors - including Emmy winners Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli and Vincent Curatola - have closed deals to appear in the final installments of the HBO gangster drama.
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Welcome to the Thursday edition of What To Watch. NBC has two repeats of My Name Is Earl and The Office followed by a new episode of Windfall. CBS has another episode of the Gameshow Marathon and ABC has a new episode of Master of Champions.
Windfall - 10 pm/ET, NBC
Opportunists galore have made life tough for the 20 lottery winners — take, for example, the desperate con woman who insisted that Cameron fathered her child, or the shadowy character from Sean’s past who wants a slice of the bread. Tonight another potential opportunist appears in the form of a neighbor, who claims she is one of the lucky winners, too. Meanwhile Cameron makes a monumental life decision without consulting Beth, and Sean believes Zoe’s life is in danger.
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