NBC will return the hit supernatural drama Medium - starring Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette - to its primetime schedule on Wednesday, November 15 (9-11 p.m. ET) with a special two-hour episode before resuming the following week in its regular day and time (Wednesdays, 10-11 p.m. ET). In addition, The Biggest Loser will move to 8-9 p.m. ET on that night. In their first collaboration together, actor Thomas Jane will join his wife, Arquette, in the two-hour premiere, as the series kicks off its third season. Jane stars as Clay Bicks, an old lover of Allison’s (Arquette) - a danger-loving photographer, who, in the moment after his own death, is delivered to Allison’s door - unaware that he has died. Once Clay makes peace with the fact that he has left the world of the living and will never have a chance to be with the woman he loved, he decides to take up residence in the Dubois house - to stay close to her. Obviously, this does not sit well with Allison’s husband Joe, who is made aware of Clay’s presence.
Additionally, the premiere episode features animation by Van Partible (”Johnny Bravo”). Allison discovers that her and her daughter Bridgette are both having a very similar odd series of dreams, with the primary difference being that Bridgette’s dreams keep coming to her in the form of cartoons. When her daughter’s dreams become dark and ugly Allison begins to realize the connection. The episode, titled “Four Dreams,” is written by creator and executive producer Glenn Gordon Caron and co-executive producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach.
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Mark Deklin has joined ABC’s Desperate Housewives. On “Housewives,” Deklin will play Bill Pearce, a handsome widower who gets to know Gabrielle when she becomes a consultant on a pageant featuring his 11-year-old daughter. Deklin also has a recurring role on Fox’s new drama Justice.
Powers Boothe has been elected vice president on Fox’s 24. In the recurring role, he will play Noah Daniels, the Number 2 to new U.S. President Wayne Palmer (D.B. Woodside). Powers, who co-starred on HBO’s Deadwood, recently wrapped the indie The Final Season opposite Sean Astin(another former 24 castmember).
NBC will return the Emmy Award-nominated “Scrubs” and move freshman comedy “30 Rock” to Thursday nights beginning November 30 to form a new two-hour 8-10 p.m. (ET) comedy block with My Name is Earl and The Office. The change will follow a special super-sized night of comedy two weeks earlier on Thursday, November 16, with three 40-minute episodes of My Name is Earl, The Office and 30 Rock. The announcements were made by Kevin Reilly, President, NBC Entertainment. “We are excited about the prospect of two-hours of top-notch comedy on Thursday nights, which includes the return of ‘Scrubs,’” said Reilly. “We will stay on-brand with the best comedy block on television, which will position us for the future on the night.”
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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: Battlestar Galactica, Bones, Brothers and Sisters, CSI, ER, Friday Night Lights, Gilmore Girls, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, House, Lost, Men In Trees, My Name Is Earl, Nip/Tuck, Numbers, Prison Break, Smallville, Supernatural, The Nine, The OC, The Office, Ugly Betty, Veronica Mars and What About Brian.
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Michael Ausiello is reporting that Kip Pardue has been cast as the new resident nurse and love interest to Linda Cardellini’s Sam on ER. He’s slated to debut on November 30. You might remember Pardue from such films as Remember The Titans, The Rules of Attraction and Driven. While his first recurring role on a tv series, Pardue has also had guest spots on 7th Heaven and Fox’s House.
Variety reports that NBC’s Heroes delivered its best ratings to date on: According to preliminary nationals from Nielsen, “Heroes” (6.2 rating/15 share in adults 18-49, 14.3 million viewers overall) was up nearly 10% week to week to log the highest regular-slot 18-49 score for a first-year drama in the past two seasons. It was up a big 55% over NBC’s non-sports average in the timeslot last season.
In related news, the Hollywood trade paper says that Jack Coleman, who plays the hit drama’s mysterious Mr. Bennet, has been made a series regular. He’ll join the series full time in its 11th episode. Coleman plays the father of Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere), the cheerleader at the center of the show’s current “Save the Cheerleader” story arc. The actor’s character is also known as “H.R.G.” - short for “Horn Rimmed Glasses,” a strange figure who is seen kidnapping people (including Greg Grunberg’s character, Matt Parkman) and experimenting on them.
As the clock ticks closer to 24’s highly anticipated return, Fox has made a special, extended “Day Six” trailer available for worldwide viewing at 24Trailer.com. The first promo for the new season is also scheduled to air during Game 3 of the World Series tonight on Fox. 24 sets the clock for “Day Six” with a four-hour, two-night television event Sunday, Jan. 14 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) and Monday, Jan. 15 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on Fox.
The fifth hour of 24 will air in the show’s regular time period Monday, Jan. 22 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), and the intense season will unfold without interruptions until the season finale in May 2007. Season Six stars Keifer Sutherland, DB Woodside, Regina King, Jayne Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Roger Cross, James Morrison, James Cromwell, Kal Penn, Marisol Nichols, Alexander Siddig, Harry Lennix, David Hunt, Eric Balfour and Carlo Rota. 24, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, is a production of Real Time Productions and Imagine Television in association with 20th Century Fox.
CBS has ordered four additional scripts of its heavily promoted freshman comedy The Class, which is off to a shaky start in the ratings. The project follows a group of eight twentysomethings who reunite 20 years after being third-grade classmates. It is the last new CBS series whose fate has not been decided. The network already gave full-season orders to the dramas Jericho and Shark and canceled Smith. Class struggled during its first three airings in the 8 p.m. Monday slot. CBS then moved the comedy to 8:30 p.m. behind How I Met Your Mother. The switch paid off in the first week when Class perked up, building on its lead-in, but the show dropped again in its second airing at 8:30 p.m. last week.
The CW has also handed out “back-nine orders” to rookie comedy The Game and the veteran drama 7th Heaven. The Game debuted October 1 as part of the CW’s Sunday night comedy block, which last week switched to Mondays. The 9:30 p.m. series, a spinoff of lead-in Girlfriends, is averaging 2.6 million viewers after three original episodes. It is one of only two new series on the CW’s first fall slate. The other series, the drama Runaway, was canceled last week. 7th Heaven, the former WB Network series that was given a last-minute reprieve in May after airing what was supposed to be the series finale, kicked off its 11th season September 25 at 8 p.m. Mondays but recently switched to Sundays. The drama is averaging 3.9 million viewers after three original episodes, down 26% in viewers compared with last year.