CSI: NY incorporating Anna Belknap’s real-life pregnancy into Lindsay’s story line says Michael Ausiello. The show’s producers have written Danny as the father. “Lindsay will be pregnant,” reveals executive producer Pam Veasey. “And, clearly, Danny is the father.” The news will be revealed in the show’s 101st episode, tentatively scheduled to air on November 26, but the fallout will be felt long thereafter. “We’re not going to be so typical about it,” Veasey adds. “They’re both happy about it, but it is unexpected.”
Conor O’Farrell has been tapped as a lead on TNT’s drama pilot, Night and Day. O’Farrell will play Hollister’s (William Fichtner) boss, the agent in charge of the task force. Written by Joel Surnow and Todd Robinson, Night and Day is a gritty drama about the life of Dan Hollister, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who works for a special threat-intervention task force.
Christina Moore and David Julian Hirsh are set to co-star in TNT’s drama pilot Time Heals. In the pilot, Moore will play Candy, a night-shift nurse. Hirsh will play Ray, a bright, quick-witted nurse who has a crush on Candy. Time Heals, penned by John Masius, centers on Nancy Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith), a strong but caring director of nursing at Charlotte Mercy Hospital in North Carolina. She’s a single mother who always puts the pain of others first. On the Sony TV-produced pilot, Moore will play Candy, a night-shift nurse. Hirsh will play Ray, a bright, quick-witted nurse who has a crush on Candy.
Spike TV gave a pilot order to the single-camera comedy adaptation of a British series, Peep Show. The show is a modern-day Odd Couple centering on Jeremy, a slacker with misguided musical ambitions, and Mark, his uptight, office-drone roommate, who are living together and trying to survive the many unexpected hurdles life throws at them. The stories are told with what is described as a “unique” first-person perspective and voice-over from the characters. Shooting on the half-hour pilot just wrapped in Chicago.
Fox picked up Good Vibes, a new animated comedy from Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green. Written by Green and to be drawn by Brad Abelson, the show revolves around a crazy group of high-school students living in a Southern California coastal community. Green will executive produce the series with Abelson, and Good Humor TV’s Tom Werner and Mike Clements.
Michael Ausiello is reporting that the Boston Legal veteran accompanying Julie Bowen back to Crane, Poole & Schmidt this fall is none other than . . . René Auberjonois. Like Bowen, Auberjonois will appear in this season’s 10th episode. Unlike Bowen, Auberjonois never technically left Boston Legal - or at least his character, Paul Lewiston, never did. When last seen in December 2007, Paul had begun scaling back his duties to focus on raising his daughter’s kid.
The 2008 Fall Season is upon us and that signals the return of Premiering Tonight. Welcome to Premiering Tonight, highlighting all the new and returning shows premiering on the Fall 2008 schedule.
Premiering tonight on TV are the season premieres of Chuck and Life on NBC.
Chuck - 8 pm/ET NBC
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In the season 2 premiere, Chuck mixes it up with a formidable operative (Michael Clarke Duncan) out to obtain a device that would potentially give rise to a new Intersect. Later, believing his spy career is behind him, Chuck asks Sarah out on a true first date. At Buy More, Morgan uses quirky means to hire a new assistant manager with his version of Thunderdome.