Monk, USA’s critically-acclaimed original series starring Tony Shalhoub, returns in its fifth season with all-new episodes and a roster of top-tier guest stars on Friday, January 19, 2007 at 9pm/8 Central. Guest stars for mid-fifth season return include Steven Weber (Wings, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives, Six Feet Under), Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings, 24), Charles Durning (Rescue Me, Everybody Loves Raymond), Dan Butler (Frasier, American Dreams), Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men, The Practice), Michael Cavanaugh (24), David Eigenberg (Sex and the City, Third Watch), Andy Richter (Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter Controls the Universe), Heather Tom (One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless), James Gammon (Nash Bridges, Cold Mountain), Chris Williams (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Curb Your Enthusiasm), Brooke Adams (Lace, Moonlighting) & Emmy Clarke (My House in Umbria, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus) as Julie Teeger.
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CBS has canceled its Stanley Tucci medical drama 3 Lbs. after three low-rated airings. The show most recently drew 8 million viewers. It marks the second new CBS drama to crash in the Tuesday 10 p.m. slot this fall, following the Ray Liotta crime saga Smith.
NBC announced a shakeup to their midseason scheduling. The big news coming out of this announcement is that Crossing Jordan is back on the NBC schedule. Jordan is slated to return to its previously held Sunday night time slot at 10 PM/ET in January. Grease: You’re the One That I Want and The Apprentice will lead into Crossing Jordan. This is great news for everyone that has been waiting for NBC to settle on a premiere date for the new season of Crossing Jordan. The crime drama has been without a time slot after being shifted around the schedule to make room for new shows, and many people thought the show might not ever make it to air. Crossing Jordan fans can breathe a sigh of relief because we will be back in the morgue in January.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday nights will be getting a makeover on NBC this midseason. The post-NFL Sunday lineup will feature previously announced The Apprentice at 9 p.m. joined by the new reality series Grease: You’re the One That I Want at 8 p.m. and Crossing Jordan returning to its previous 10 p.m. Sunday slot. Meanwhile, struggling rookie football drama Friday Night Lights will move to 8 p.m. Wednesday from 8 p.m. Tuesday, followed by Deal or No Deal.
NBC’s Monday lineup of Deal or No Deal, the hit new drama Heroes and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip will stay intact despite speculation about a possible move of the critically praised Studio 60, which regularly loses a large chunk of the Heroes audience. To stay primarily in originals, Studio 60 will share its 10 p.m. slot with midseason drama Black Donnellys. After struggling to gain traction with viewers in the 8 p.m. Tuesday slot, Lights is being taken out of American Idol’s cross hairs with a move to Wednesdays as of January 10. On its new night, the high school football drama will continue to air in the 8 p.m. hour, which the network has been looking to make a scripted-free zone. An unscripted show, the hit game show Deal or No Deal, will run at 9 p.m. beginning January 3, when it will face the results show of Fox’s Idol. Medium is staying put at 10 p.m.
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This week: Boston Legal, Close To Home, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, Numbers, Prison Break, Smallville, The OC and Veronica Mars.
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HBO is developing a one-hour series based on the popular 1990s Vertigo comics series, Preacher, says The Hollywood Reporter. Mark Steven Johnson (upcoming Ghost Rider, Daredevil) is writing the pilot, while Howard Deutch is attached to direct. Johnson and Deutch will executive produce along with Michael De Luca, George Agusto, Chris Bender and JC Spink.
Preacher, which ran from 1995-2000, told the story of a down-and-out Texas preacher possessed by Genesis, a supernatural entity conceived by the unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon. Given immense powers, the preacher teamed with an old girlfriend and a hard-drinking Irish vampire and set out on a journey across America to find God - who apparently had abandoned his duties in heaven - and hold him accountable for his negligence.
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CBS is drafting TV talent for its broadband channel, Innertube, signing Michael Cera of Arrested Development to do a scripted shortform series. Cera, who played the son of Jason Bateman’s character on the Fox cult favorite, will star, write and produce The Good Life, Innertube’s first scripted program with a talent deal attached. CBS said at least eight multiminute episodes of varying lengths will be produced, with an option for more. Shot mockumentary-style, Good Life follows Cera and Clark Duke as aspiring TV producers who are so convinced that they have the next big thing on their hands that they remain oblivious to the fact that they have made little progress getting their dream show made. Since launching in May, Innertube has stocked a mix of “repurposed” (i.e. recycled) CBS programs and original projects, including BBQ Bill and The Green Room.
British actress Gabrielle Anwar will co-star opposite Jeffrey Donovan in USA Network’s drama pilot Burn Notice. Set in Miami, the show centers on Michael Weston (Donovan), a blacklisted Special Ops agent who uses his elite training to find the reason for the “burn notice” that ended his spy career as well as to help those who can’t go to the police. Anwar will play Weston’s ex, a former IRA terrorist and expert at survival tactics who has a love-hate relationship with him. Sharon Gless will play Weston’s mother, a lonely, an aging chain smoker who has issues with her son. Bruce Campbell will play a former Navy SEAL who is an old friend of Weston’s. Production is slated to begin Tuesday in Miami. Anwar next stars opposite Noah Wyle in the TNT movie The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines and opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers on the Showtime series The Tudors.
Zap2it is reporting that ABC has pulled critically acclaimed but ratings-challenged The Nine from its schedule effective immediately. A special edition of 20/20 will take its place on Wednesday, November 29, and Primetime will move into the 10 p.m. Wednesday spot the following week. The network made the announcement on Saturday. Through last week the show had averaged just 8.6 million viewers, fumbling more than half of the 17.7 million viewers who watched its lead-in, Lost. With Lost now on hiatus, numbers for The Nine tumbled even further this week, finishing a distant third in its timeslot. ABC says the show will return sometime later this season but is offering no specifics. It joins another ABC freshman show, Six Degrees, in scheduling limbo.
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, ER, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, House, Lost, My Name Is Earl, Prison Break, Scrubs, Smallville, Supernatural, The Nine, The Office, The Shield, The Unit and Ugly Betty.
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