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ABC focuses on dramas in fall prime-time lineup
The aliens can stay, but those folks who can see into the future are a thing of the past -- that was part of the message in ABC's announcement of a fall schedule that will include five new dramas, one new comedy and a new reality-TV entry.
The alien-invasion-themed series V was among the shows renewed by ABC for 2010-11, along with veteran titles Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Private Practice, Dancing With the Stars, America's Funniest Home Videos and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and rookie successes Modern Family, The Middle, Cougar Town and Castle.
ABC cancelled FlashForward and Scrubs, and will also bid farewell to Lost, which exits on its own terms with a 21/2-hour series finale this Sunday.
ABC's roster of new dramas unveiled Tuesday in New York includes Body of Proof, a medical/detective series about a former neurosurgeon (Dana Delany) who becomes a medical examiner after an accident compromises her surgical skills; Detroit 1-8-7, a documentary-style drama starring Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) as a Detroit homicide detective; The Whole Truth, a legal drama starring Rob Morrow (NUMB3RS) and Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck); My Generation, a nostalgic drama about a group of former high-school classmates who reunite after 10 years apart, and No Ordinary Family, which stars Michael Chiklis (The Shield) as the head of a family that develops paranormal powers after surviving a plane crash in the Amazon jungle.
The network's lone new sitcom this fall is Better Together, a relationship comedy featuring JoAnna Garcia (Privileged) and Jennifer Finnigan (Close to Home) as two sisters on very different romantic paths. ABC's new "unscripted" series is Secret Millionaire, which will follow wealthy Americans as they leave their luxurious lives behind for a week to live and work in some of the U.S.'s most impoverished and dangerous communities.
Among the shows ABC has picked up but will hold as mid-season replacements are Mr. Sunshine, a fortysomething-inclined sitcom starring former Friends regular Matthew Perry, Happy Endings, a post-breakup comedy starring Elisha Cuthbert, and Off the Map, a far-flung medical drama from Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes.
CBS is scheduled to unveil its fall-schedule plans today, but as has been the case all week during the U.S. networks' annual upfront ad-sales presentations, details were circulating in advance of the formal announcement.
According to media reports out of New York, CBS has cancelled Ghost Whisperer, The New Adventures of Old Christine, NUMB3RS, Cold Case, Gary Unmarried, Accidentally On Purpose and Miami Medical. The network is expected to announce six new entries in its 2010-11 schedule, including an Internet-inspired sitcom starring William Shatner, a remake of the '70s cop drama Hawaii Five-O, a Criminal Minds spinoff featuring Forrest Whitaker, a police drama starring Tom Selleck, a sitcom about people in an overeaters' support group, and a legal drama starring James Belushi.
CBS's official 2010-11 schedule announcement takes place this morning in New York; the CW Network -- home of such titles as Gossip Girl, 90210, The Vampire Diaries, Smallville, Supernatural and America's Next Top Model, will unveil its lineup on Thursday.
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Fresh programming: A new locally produced documentary, Beyond the Beat, offers local music fans a glimpse inside the life and career of Winnipeg rapper Fresh IE (Rob Wilson), an inner-city success story whose faith-based hip-hop recordings have earned a pair of Grammy nominations. The film, directed by Leona Krahn, premieres Thursday on MTS TV's Winnipeg On Demand service.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 19, 2010 d3
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