Michael Chiklis is developing a new series at FX about a ponzi investment scheme similar to the true life events surrounding the Bernard Madoff scandel. The project, House of Cards, concerns a group committing an elaborate scam similar to the alleged Madoff fraud. Chiklis has been developing the project since February after he and his wife became victims of a Ponzi scheme themselves. “It really rocked our world,” Chiklis said. “Not so much from a monetary standpoint - it didn’t significantly hurt us - it was more the feeling of being betrayed and the ripple effect it caused.” House of Cards will likely center on the leader of investment scheme, with Chiklis planning to executive produce, but not star. FX expects to attach a showrunner to the project shortly. At first the concept might seem a bit limiting for a series - how many seasons can you stretch out the story of a scam? Chicklis countered that his case has been going on for five years and still isn’t entirely resolved.
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Breaking down the new episodes of your favorite network shows, Channel Surfing will give you an hour by hour view of whats on television tonight. Channel Surfing helps you decide what shows to watch, what shows to record and what shows you have to pass on this week.
Setting the DVR for: Pushing Daisies, Dog the Bounty Hunter and Sons of Anarchy.
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Pushing Daisies (ABC)
When a millionaire is murdered, the prime suspects include a modern-day Robin Hood (Danny Comden) and the deceased’s scheming, much younger widow (Jennifer Elise Cox). Meanwhile, Lily is repulsed by Dwight’s courtship of an oblivious Vivian.
Continue reading Channel Surfing 11.26.08
Breaking down the new episodes of your favorite network shows, Channel Surfing will give you an hour by hour view of whats on television tonight. Channel Surfing helps you decide what shows to watch, what shows to record and what shows you have to pass on this week.
Setting the DVR for: Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, House, Fringe, The Mentalist and The Shield.
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Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (ABC)
Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty and the rest of the Peanuts gang gather for their 1973 feast of popcorn, sundaes and stacks of toast. It may not be the tastiest spread, but what do you expect when a beagle’s doing the cooking? Included: the bonus cartoon “This Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers,” which finds the gang aboard the Mayflower in 1620.
Continue reading Channel Surfing 11.25.08
Breaking down the new episodes of your favorite network shows, Channel Surfing will give you an hour by hour view of whats on television tonight. Channel Surfing helps you decide what shows to watch, what shows to record and what shows you have to pass on this week.
Setting the DVR for: My Name Is Earl, Kath and Kim, Kitchen Nightmares, Grey’s Anatomy and ER.
My Name Is Earl (NBC)
It’s the twist and shout when a series of tornadoes touches down in Camden County. But the skies darken more when a downcast Earl loses his all-important karmic list. It also gets stormy between Joy and Darnell, who spar over who is more cerebral. Meanwhile, Randy takes a wild boat ride; and Catalina and Patty undergo a religious transformation.
Continue reading Channel Surfing 11.20.08
Breaking down the new episodes of your favorite network shows, Channel Surfing will give you an hour by hour view of whats on television tonight. Channel Surfing helps you decide what shows to watch, what shows to record and what shows you have to pass on this week.
Setting the DVR for: Pushing Daisies, Bones, Life, Ghost Huntes and Sons of Anarchy.
8:00 PM/ET
Pushing Daisies (ABC)
A magician (Fred Willard) who has been a surrogate father to Ned’s half brothers needs the pie maker’s help with his act when his animal assistants are mysteriously dying. Meanwhile, Lily is wary of Dwight’s intentions.
Continue reading Channel Surfing 11.19.08
FX is developing AR2, a drama from Prison Break creator/executive producer Paul Scheuring and The West Wing director/executive producer Thomas Schlamme about a group of Midwestern youths who spark a second American Revolution. Scheuring calls the project Les Miserables’ in modern America. It is set in Michigan, home of the top U.S. automakers, where “corporations undermine the common man and the government is not interested in helping (the common man),” Scheuring said. Scheuring, who had been tinkering with the idea for a while, took it to Schlamme, an American history buff. “It is an analysis of what is a patriot,” Schlamme said of the project.
AR2 will explore how the revolting college students - as well as the military and the law enforcement officers who oppose them - perceive patriotism. “It looks into what happens on both sides of the conflict and how that affects the personal lives of all involved,” Scheuring said. AR2 carries a different message than Schlamme’s previously politically themed drama, NBC’s The West Wing. “West Wing in some ways was wish fulfillment, and it looks like to a degree it has become a reality,” Schlamme said, referring to the election of Barack Obama. “This one is a cautionary tale, that this is a journey we’re on and we have to constantly be aware so it doesn’t happen.”
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Breaking down the new episodes of your favorite network shows, Channel Surfing will give you an hour by hour view of whats on television tonight. Channel Surfing helps you decide what shows to watch, what shows to record and what shows you have to pass on this week.
Setting the DVR for: House, The Mentalist, Fringe, Eli Stone and The Shield.
8:00 PM/ET
House (Fox)
During an examination of a teen’s heart problems, the team begins to doubt her claims of being an emancipated minor. Foreman defies House’s rejection of a proposal to conduct a clinical trial.
Continue reading Channel Surfing 11.18.08
