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Ugly Betty (ABC)
Betty tries to impress her neighbor Jesse; Amanda’s financial troubles send her in search of a new place to live; Mark and Cliff discuss the prospect of cohabitation.
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James Van Der Beek and David Denman have been cast to co-star on Fox’s pilot Eva Adams. The hourlong project, from writer/executive producer Kevin Falls, is set at a sports agency and centers on Adam, an egotistic sexist agent who, under a witch’s spell, turns into a beautiful woman so he can endure the harassment he’s been dishing out. Van Der Beek will play Connor, a former frat boy who is a good friend of Adam’s and an agent at the firm. Denman will play another agent, Paul, a single dad reeling from a devastating divorce.
Fox TV Studios has teamed with Canada’s CTV, Germany’s ProSieben and the BBC for Defying Gravity, a 13-episode adventure drama series starring Ron Livingston. Defying Gravity, which comes from creator/executive producer James Parriott (Grey’s Anatomy) and executive producer Michael Edelstein (Desperate Housewives), is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who take on a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system. German actress Florentine Lahme also has been cast. David Straiton has signed on to direct the first episode of the series, which is slated to begin production January 19 in Vancouver.
24 will premiere with a two-night, four-hour event Sunday, January 11 and Monday, January 12 at 8:00 PM ET on Fox. The series, returning for its seventh season, celebrates its milestone 150th episode during the fourth hour of the two-night premiere. The show will return to its regular time on Monday, January 19 at 9:00 PM ET, 24 will unfold without interruption through the finale in May.
Set in Washington, D.C., “Day Seven” opens with CTU dismantled and Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) on trial. Bauer’s day takes an unexpected turn when former colleague Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) returns after being presumed dead. Meanwhile, President Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) leads the country alongside White House Chief of Staff Ethan Kanin (Bob Gunton) and First Gentleman Henry Taylor (Colm Feore). An unthinkable national security crisis prompts an investigation by a team of FBI agents including Agent Janis Gold (Janeane Garofalo), Agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching), Agent Larry Moss (Jeffrey Nordling), Agent Sean Hillinger (Rhys Coiro) and security specialist Michael Latham (John Billingsley). Although CTU no longer exists, Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) and Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) are back for another momentous day of shocking events.
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Fox has chosen not to renew King of the Hill beyond its current 13th season. In April, Fox picked up 13 more episodes from the show, which are wrapping production. A lot has changed since “King of the Hill” premiered in 1997. Its creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge have moved on to other projects - Daniels developed and is running NBC’s The Office, and Judge has a new animated series, The Goode Family, launching on ABC in midseason.
Judge had continued to voice the central character on the toon comedy, alongside voiceover cast members Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Tom Petty, Johnny Hardwick and Stephen Root.
Following the casting of Ben Koldyke as the lead in Fox’s comedy pilot Boldly Going Nowhere, another unknown, Lennon Parham, has landed the top female role. Chad L. Coleman also is cast in the 20th TV-produced project. Boldly Going Nowhere from the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creators Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton, is about what happens day-to-day on an intergalactic spaceship helmed by the rogue Captain Ron Teague (Koldyke). Parham will play Joyce, the ship’s by-the-book pilot. Coleman will play Cobalt, the self-absorbed, intimidating head of security.
Stephen Tobolowsky has joined the cast of Fox’s upcoming musicomedy Glee say Michael Ausiello. Produced by Ryan Murphy, Glee centers on a Spanish teacher (Broadway star Matthew Morrison) tasked with taking over a high school glee club. Tobolowsky plays a fellow teacher at the school.
