November 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments
FX has set return dates for original hourlong dramas Nip/Tuck and Damages. Nip/Tuck will begin the first part of its sixth season on Tuesday, January 6, at 10 pm/ET, for an eight-episode run. Nip/Tuck, which stars Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon as successful plastic surgeons, resumes with Sean and Christian in L.A., and their practice faces an unexpected medical crisis. Love is also in the air, as Christian decides to settle down while Sean’s vulnerability leads him into a new relationship.
The sophomore season of the Emmy-winning series Damages returns on Wednesday, January 7 at 10 pm/ET with 13 new episodes. Damages will pick up with the turbulent life of Patty Hewes (Emmy winner Glenn Close), who after her unprecedented victory over billionaire Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson) is pondering her next move. William Hurt joins the cast as Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty’s mysterious past who will launch her into a new legal challenge. Oh, and Patty’s protégé Ellen (Rose Byrne) is acting as an informant for the FBI to bring Patty down. Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden and Timothy Olyphant also join the cast this season.
November 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments
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: Life, Ghost Hunters and Sons of Anarchy.
8:00 PM/ET
42nd Annual CMA Awards (ABC)
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood host the 42nd annual event from Nashville’s Sommet Center. Slated performers include hosts Paisley and Underwood, Trace Adkins, Brooks and Dunn, Kenny Chesney and the Wailers, the Eagles, Alan Jackson, Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, George Strait, Sugarland, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban.
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November 11th, 2008 | 0 Comments
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, Fringe, The Mentalist, Eli Stone and The Shield.
8:00 PM/ET
Lincoln Heights (ABC Family)
Cassie’s parents chaperone the prom, where Cassie must face seeing Charles and Sage together.
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November 3rd, 2008 | 0 Comments
FX is developing a New York-set police drama with former West Wing writer/executive producer Lawrence O’Donnell says The Hollywood Reporter. Staten Island centers on a compromised police chief based in the borough. Should the project go forward, it could become a successor to FX’s long-running cop drama The Shield, which bows out November 25.
October 26th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Nip/Tuck has cast Desperate Housewives alumni Kiersten Warren says Michael Ausiello. She is set to play one of McNamara-Troy’s more memorable patients yet: A thirtysomething stripper with breasts the size of watermelons. The self-professed freak of nature – whose professional name is Jenny Juggs – also has severe anger issues.
October 24th, 2008 | 0 Comments
FX has bought cable rights to three 20th Century Fox films, including Max Payne, the Mark Wahlberg starrer that opened at No. 1 this past weekend. FX also has bought rights to this past summer’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, and The Rocker, starring Rainn Wilson.
All three titles reportedly carry four-year license terms, starting in late 2010-early 2011, with the potential for distributor Twentieth TV to carve out broadcast network windows on each. FX is estimated to have paid a total of about $8 million for the three titles, based on the standard 10%-12% of domestic boxoffice.
Max Payne opened with $17.6 million this past weekend and has upped its domestic boxoffice take to $21.1 million through Wednesday. It’s projected to earn a total of $50 million-$60 million domestically. X-Files, which was released in July, earned $20.1 million domestically, while “Rocker,” which opened in August, took in $6.4 million during its run.
