With the Writers Strike over, our favorite shows have gone back into production to finish up their shortened seasons or to start working on new seasons. Fox kicked off the Spring Post-Strike Schedule with Gordon Ramsey and Hell’s Kitchen returning to Tuesdays. Other shows returning this week include CSI, My Name Is Earl, Battlestar Galactica and Numbers. Find when your favorite show is coming back with a list of the fall premiere dates, by title or by premiere date.
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It’s that time of year again!! Hell’s Kitchen crowned a new champion while Entourage, Rescue Me and freshman series Burn Notice are all winding down to their finales. September is here, so it’s time for Prison Break, ER, House, My Name Is Earl, Scrubs, The Office and Heroes to return to the airwaves along with a this years newest offerings, K-Ville, Cavemen, Bionic Woman, Private Practice and Reaper. Find when your favorite show is coming back with a list of the fall premiere dates, by title or by premiere date.
Updated with a list of shows not premiering until 2008.
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While NBC has shown confidence in it’s freshman lineup by ordering additional scripts of their four new shows, Chuck, Bionic Woman, Life and Journeyman, CBS has only ordered additional scripts from Jimmy Smits’ new drama Cane. No word on additional script orders for Moonlight or The Big Bang Theory.
The CW ordered three more scripts of new comedy Aliens in America. The network has already ordered a full season of its freshman drama Gossip Girl.
After two weeks of averaging 2.4 million total viewers, Fox has pulled Nashville from its Fridays-at-9 time slot. Fox will most likely run the remaining episodes sometime in October. Until The Next Great American Band arrives on October 19, Fox will fill the void with repeats of the freshman drama K-Ville.
The FX cable channel has handed out a series commitment to Queen B, a female workplace drama from the creator of Nip/Tuck. The project, which Ryan Murphy co-created with Nip/Tuck executive producers Richard Levine and Lyn Greene, centers on a brilliant but ruthless woman who takes over a worldwide conglomerate as a CEO and corrupts a young girl with power.
There is no talent on board yet, but even in such early stages, the project is attracting the attention of a number of top actresses older than 40. Murphy, Levine and Greene are writing the script and are executive producing. FX recently ordered a pilot for an untitled transsexual drama Murphy co-created with Nip/Tuck writer-producer Brad Falchuk.
Fox is developing a drama based on the British series Ghost Squad. The gritty story revolves around a female cop in Chicago who works in a “ghost squad,” an undercover unit whose existence is never acknowledged within the department. The original, starring Irish actress Elaine Cassidy, airs on Britain’s Channel 4.
NBC has given a 13-episode commitment to the horror anthology series Fear Itself, which the network plans to air sometime next summer, Variety reported. The show is a reworked version of the Emmy-winning Masters of Horror show and comes directly from the Showtime series’ producers, Lionsgate and Industry Entertainment. Masters of Horror executive producers Keith Addis, Andrew Deane and Mick Garris are all onboard for the NBC project as well. Fear Itself could also be scheduled during the regular season on Saturday nights as an alternative to the network’s drama repeats. Production will begin early next year; the producers are looking to woo top-name horror writers and helmers for Fear Itself, just as they did with Masters of Horror.
After a good start to its fourth installment, NBC has picked up a fifth season of the weight-loss reality series The Biggest Loser. The 14-episode new season will feature for the first time teams of two - significant others, relatives, co-workers or best friends - rather than individual contestants competing for a $250,000 grand prize. Alison Sweeney will return as the host of the new installment, which is slated to begin production this fall for a midseason launch.
Kristin@E!Online is reporting that AMC’s Mad Men will be coming back for a second season. As of Sunday night, not even the cast knew of the show’s fate, but they said they’ve loved being a part of the series and were crossing their fingers it would return.
USA has ordered a third season of drama Psych, reports Variety. The network has picked up 16 episodes of the show, which revolves around a psychic cop (James Roday). Dule Hill, Corbin Bernsen and Maggie Lawson also star. “The series has been a critical and ratings sensation since it premiered last summer and continues to gain new viewers and grow its fan-base,” said USA executive VP of original programming Jeff Wachtel. Steve Franks executive produces Psych, which is produced by Universal Media Studios and Tagline Pictures.