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This week: 24, 30 Rock, Aliens In America, Bones, Brothers and Sisters, Chuck, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Dirt, Dirty Sexy Money, ER, Friday Night Lights, Greek, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, House, Law and Order: SVU, Lost, Jericho, Men In Trees, Nip/Tuck, October Road, Prison Break, Pushing Daisies, Reaper, Scrubs, Shark, Smallville, Supernatural, The Riches and Ugly Betty.
Continue reading The Spoiler Roundup 10.31.07
Snoop Dogg will play himself in the December 13 episode of Ugly Betty and gets trapped in an elevator with Betty! Later, he comes back to entertain during a fashion show Daniel and Betty hold during fashion week. Snoop joins a growing list of Ugly guest stars this season, including Betty White and Eliza Dushku.
Michael Ausiello is reporting that NBC is developing an episode of The Office that would introduce several new characters who would then be spun off into a new series. Unlike Private Practice, which used Grey’s Anatomy regular Kate Walsh to anchor the new series, the proposed Office 2 is not expected to include any of the original Office cast. Producers are already casting about for a “name” to headline the potential show.
ABC has picked up Samantha Who? for a full season. In its first three airings, the Christina Applegate-fronted memory-loss comedy has retained a good portion of its Dancing with the Stars lead-in, easily ranking as the most-watched new comedy of the fall.
Fox is teaming with writer Adam Barr and producer McG for Spaced, a comedy project based on the Channel 4 series of the same name from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz masterminds Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has handed out a put pilot commitment to the single-camera Spaced, which hails from Warner Brothers TV, McG’s WBTV-based Wonderland Sound and Vision and Granada America, which owns the format. The project revolves around two strangers who pose as a married couple in order to rent an apartment.
Barr (”Will & Grace”) is writing the script, which garnered interest from several networks. He is executive producing with Wonderland’s McG and Peter Johnson and Granada’s Robert Green. The original series, which ran on Channel 4 for two seasons, was written by Pegg and Jessica Hynes who starred as the fake couple, and was directed by Wright. It earned two BAFTA nominations for best comedy series and an International Emmy nomination.
John Francis Daley is getting a new role on Fox’s Bones as a series regular, reports Variety. On Bones, Daley will play Dr. Lance Sweets, a hotshot therapist appointed by the FBI to determine whether Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) can continue as partners. “He is terrifically funny and very appealing while projecting intelligence, which injects his scenes with all our actors, especially Emily and David, with a kind of rollicking energy that is a real bonus,” said Bones executive producer Hart Hanson. “He fits in perfectly with the cattywonkers tone of our show.” Daley was recently seen on Fox on the short-lived but much-loved Kitchen Confidential, as well as Boston Public.
Fox has ordered an additional 11 episodes of the new comedy Back to You, bringing the total number of episodes for its premiere season to 24. The announcement was made today by Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company.
Back to You stars Kelsey Grammer as Chuck Darling and Patricia Heaton as Kelly Carr, co-anchors at Pittsburg, PA, news station WURG, who are reunited at the anchor desk after Chuck had an embarrassing and very public fall from grace on-air at his previous post in Los Angeles. The comedy also stars Fred Willard, Ty Burrell, Josh Gad, Ayda Field and Laura Marano.
Back to You airs Wednesdays (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on Fox.
Men in Trees is again being uprooted. The series will air two hours earlier, Fridays at 8 pm, starting November 2. (In turn, 20/20 returns to its 10 pm berth.) Elsewhere on ABC, Samantha Who? will move up to 9 pm Monday starting November 26 where its lead-out will be Notes from the Underbelly. And October Road returns November 22 with a special post-Grey’s Anatomy outing before settling into its Mondays-at-10 home a few nights later.
ABC has ordered an additional half-dozen scripts of Samantha Who?, according to the Hollywood Reporter. In its first two weeks, the Christina Applegate starrer has averaged 14 million-plus viewers, demonstrating strong retention from that dancing-and-fainting celebs show. This comes on the heels of ABC picking up full seasons of two of its freshman hits - Private Practice and Pushing Daisies.
Jason Cahill, who won a Writers Guild award for his work on The Sopranos, has joined the production staff on The Bionic Woman as show runner says The Hollywood Reporter. Cahill joins executive producers Jason Smilovic and David Eick, while Jason Katims — who has been pulling double duty while “on loan” from Friday Night Lights — has been pitching in for the past month as a consultant.