Jennifer Elise Cox has landed a guest role on ABC’s Pushing Daisies. Cox will appear in an episode titled Robbing Hood, playing a widow, with a secret agenda. Cox has appeared recently in Lovespring International and 10 Items or Less, but to some will always be the big screen’s Jan Brady.
Eric Braeden of The Young and the Restless has landed a role on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, playing Robin’s father, Robin Charles Scherbatsky, Sr. As Ted and the gang hide in a restaurant from someone, they each take turns recounting the the one person they would most hate to run into. Robin’s pick is her father, seeing as she has Daddy issues - in that hers always wanted her to be a boy.
The networks will carry President Bush’s address to the nation live at 9 pm. The White House announced Wednesday afternoon that Bush would speak to the American people about the financial crisis that has gripped Wall Street and Main Street and become the major issue in the presidential campaign. He’ll also discuss the bailout and reform package prepared by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and currently being debated in Congress.
This will back up the second hour of primetime for the Eastern and Central time zones. That includes CBS’s Criminal Minds, NBC’s America’s Got Talent and a David Blaine special on ABC. They will start immediately after the address and a short amount of commentary. Network officials said the White House has told them that Bush’s speech would last between 12 and 15 minutes. Katie Couric will anchor for CBS, Charles Gibson for ABC and Brian Williams for NBC. Fox Broadcasting will also carry coverage of the event.
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 New Adventures of Old Christine, Criminal Minds and CSI: New York along with the series premiere of Gary Unmarried on CBS. Lipstick Jungle returns to ABC for a sophmore season. NBC revs up tonight with the series premiere of the new Knight Rider.
Knight Rider - 8 pm/ET NBC
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A revved-up retread of the 1982-86 TV vehicle of the same name, the series slips into gear tonight with Mike Tracer and KITT delivering a package - but their parcel turns out to be a man with top-secret codes inscribed in his DNA. Tracer’s travels turn perilous upon the encroachment of enemies, including an enigmatic lady (Paula Garcés) who has detailed knowledge of a past Tracer can’t remember.
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This Week: 90210, Bones, Brothers and Sisters, Chuck, Desperate Housewives, Friday Night Lights, Greek, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, House, How I Met Your Mother, Lost, NCIS, One Tree Hill, Prison Break, Pushing Daisies, Smallville, Supernatural, The Closer, The Office, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, True Blood and Ugly Betty.
Fox has picked up Lie to Me, committing to the midseason drama starring Pulp Fiction’s Tim Roth as a human lie detector. The drama, from the producers of 24, centers on Cal Lightman (Roth), a cutting-edge researcher who can detect people’s lies from their faces, voices, and body language. The Practice’s Kelli Williams plays his colleague, Dr. Gillian Foster, described in a Fox news release as “a woman whose guidance he needs whether he knows it or not.”
Disney and CBS have inked separate deals to show TV series including Hannah Montana and CSI on demand and commercial-free to Netflix subscribers says The Hollywood Reporter. The arrangements allow Netflix users to stream via the Internet some new shows 24 hours after they air as well as such older shows as MacGyver, Star Trek and Family Ties. In all, about 350 episodes from CBS will be available. Disney’s contribution includes 500 episodes from, among others, Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place, The Replacements and new spinoff series The Suite Life on Deck. Disney’s ABC was not included in the deal.
Subscribers primarily will watch the shows on personal computers, though Netflix also has partnered with various consumer electronics companies that make boxes for putting Netflix’s streaming content on TV screens. A stand-alone box from Roku sells for $100 and similar technology is coming to Xbox game consoles and is being built into a Blu-ray player coming from LG Electronics. Streaming movies and TV shows is nothing new to Netflix, but content from CBS and Disney had not been available until now. Netflix has also struck deals with several movie studios but has shied away from expensive new releases because the economics of its model - no extra cost for streaming movies - limit such expenses.
