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My yearly tv thread dedicated to new stuffs and returning series.
so here the info I collected starting by the fist to be aired.
Also everyone is invite to add any infos they have or pointing us which shows they are waiting to see and why.
K-Ville
FOX (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 17, 2007 Show Category: Drama
It's been two years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and a select few still remain at the NOPD. These special cops are bound and determined to bring back the life to New Orleans, otherwise known to most as K-Ville (Katrinaville), and clean up the crime and damage that still remains.
Marlin Boulet, a veteran of the NOPD's Felony Action Squad, was left stranded in the waters by his partner, but still attempted to keep some little bit of order to all the chaos that was going on during the hurricane. He now has a new partner with ulterior motives, Trevor Cobb, who is fresh back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Together the two work the streets of New Orleans, trying to make it a better place. Helping them on their crusade are fellow officers Jeff Gooden, Captain James Embry, Billy Faust, and the lone female officer, Ginger LeBeau.
Journeyman
NBC at Monday 10:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 24, 2007
Show Categories: Science-Fiction, Drama
Kevin McKidd (Rome) stars as Dan Vassar in this new series from NBC set to air in the fall of 2007. Dan is happily married with a son. It seems like he has everything going for him. Dan ends up traveling into the past. He changes people's lives, sometimes for the better, but sometimes not. During his travels he meets up with Livia Beale, he was engaged to her when she died in a plane...
Chuck
NBC at Monday 8:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 24, 2007
Show Category: Comedy
The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz, and director McG ( We Are Marshall ), bring us Chuck , a new drama pilot at ABC, laced with humor about young twenty-something spies. Zachary Levi ( Less Than Perfect ) plays Chuck, a nerdy computer tech who has a database of government secrets downloaded into his brain. Chuck soon finds himself recruited by John Casey (Adam Baldwin of Day Break ), a...
Cane
CBS (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 25, 2007 Last Aired: January 1, 2008
Show Category: Soap
This soapy drama tells the story of two multi-generational Latin American families, the Duques and the Samuels in the rum and sugar business. This series explores the rivalry between the two families as well as the power struggles within the individual families.
Cynthia Cidre wrote the pilot and will executive produce alongside Jonathan Prince, Polly Anthony, and Jimmy Iovine.
Bionic Woman
NBC at Wednesday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 26, 2007
Show Categories: Drama, Science-Fiction
More Pictures
Jaime Wells Sommers is nothing but a hard-working woman juggling work as a bartender, the responsibility for the care of her younger sister, Becca, and her relationship with her boyfriend, Will. Although she does not have much, Jaime has always enjoyed being as normal as any other human being. However, this all changes when she is hit by a car and seriously injured. Her only hope becomes an experimental and top secret procedure, but, as Jaime soon discovers, this salvation comes at a high price.
Dirty Sexy Money
ABC WEDNESDAY 10/9c
SERIES PREMIERE: September 26 at 10/9c
Power, privilege and family money are a volatile cocktail thrust on an idealistic lawyer when he inherits the job of tending to the legal (and sometimes illegal) needs of the absurdly wealthy Darlings of New York City. Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald, Samaire Armstrong, Seth Gabel, Zoe McLellan, and Jill Clayburgh star.
Life
NBC Wednesday 10:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 26, 2007
Damien Lewis stars as a former police officer who, after years of false imprisonment, returns to the force with a decidedly different philosophy. Deadwood's Robin Weigert has been added to the cast of the series. She'll play the boss of Lewis' character, Lt. Davis. Sleeper Cell's Melissa Sagemiller will play the lawyer who got him out of prison that despite the fact that she is married, has a spark with Lewis.
Private Practice
ABC Wednesday 9/8c
SERIES PREMIERE: September 26 at 9/8c
Grey's Anatomy executive producer Shonda Rhimes combines the heart and soul of television's top-rated drama with exciting new faces in a sun-drenched new city to create a show with a whole new vibe. This intimate portrait of the choices and changes we make in our search for happy lives, centers around neonatal surgeon Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery of Grey's Anatomy. After a failed attempt at reconciliation and two disastrous affairs, a move to Southern California to join her friends' health cooperative could be just the right prescription to jump-start Addison's own life.
Big Shots
ABC at Thursday 10:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 27, 2007
Show Category: Comedy
The line gets blurred between the boardroom and the bedroom in a new outrageous drama about four dysfunctional CEOs who will do anything to stay on top. This foursome takes refuge at their country club where they can discuss business, confide secrets, seek advice. It's lonely at the top and they have to trust someone to cover their back. Michael Vartan (Alias, One Hour Photo), Golden Globe® winner Dylan McDermott (The Practice), Christopher Titus (Titus) and Joshua Malina (The West Wing, Sports Night) star as our greedy, horny and competitive -- yet sexy and likeable -- CEOs.
Moonlight
Originally on: CBS (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 28, 2007
Show Category: Drama
Moonlight follows Mick St. John, an immortal vampire and private investigator and his struggle to exist after he was bitten 60 years ago by his vampire bride on their wedding night. It also follows his internal torment as he falls in love with one he should not, one who is mortal named Beth, a news reporter, as well as his dealings with the woman who made him a vampire, his sire Coraline.
The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Silver Pictures. Joel Silver is executive producing with Trevor Munson and Ron Koslow both writing and executive producing.
Cavemen
ABC TUESDAY 8/7c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 2 at 8/7c
Over the last hundred thousand years, mankind has evolved from primitive creatures to sophisticated beings, except for a small minority who unfortunately didn't evolve physically at all. Now three sophisticated cavemen (who already have a fan base from their popular GEICO commercials) are living in modern-day Atlanta, where they are at odds with contemporary society as they struggle to overcome their physical appearance and the accompanying stereotypes.
Carpoolers
ABC TUESDAY 8:30/7:30c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 2 at 8:30/7:30c
There are men who actively try and figure out the world -- together. These men are more complicated than we might think -- they have hopes, ambitions, families, careers, and insecurities. These men are the Carpoolers; four guys, living different versions of the modern suburban family life who obsess, dream, and strategize as they rocket their way up and down the carpool lane every day.
Pushing Daisies
ABC WEDNESDAY 8/7c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 3 at 8/7c
Pushing Daisies is a love story about a pie-baking young man with a very special gift… the ability to return dead people briefly back to life with just a simple touch -- enabling him to help a P.I. crack murder cases by asking victims to name their killers. Director Barry Sonnenfeld, writer-producer Bryan Fuller, and the producers of Big Fish blend romance, crime procedural and high-concept fantasy to create a fairytale in the spirit of Amelie, Stranger than Fiction, and Chocolat. Features a stellar cast.
Women's Murder Club
ABC FRIDAY 9/8c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 12 at 9/8c
When you are a woman working in a man's field, you get a lot further by teaming up… so to circumvent the Justice Department boy's club, San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer (Angie Harmon, Law & Order) assembles a secret all-female team of experts -- the Women's Murder Club. Two-time Emmy Award®-winning Director/Producer Scott Winant (Huff, thirty something) adapts the bestselling novels by James Patterson into a thrilling new crime series that redefines women's work. Because sometimes, the best way to get your man is with a woman.
Samantha Who?
ABC MONDAY 9:30/8:30c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 15 at 9:30/8:30c
It's a common fantasy: rewind your life, erase all the mistakes and cringe-worthy moments and start over with a clean slate. But for Samantha Newly, the fantasy is far too real. After a hit-and-run car accident puts her into an eight-day coma, she wakes up with retrograde amnesia -- meaning that she can function in the world but she can't remember a single fact about her own life. That's when our heroine begins the long, comic process of starting over and digging for clues about her former not-so-nice self.
Viva Laughlin
Originally on: CBS (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: October 18, 2007 Last Aired: January 1, 2008
Show Category: Drama
Viva Laughlin is a re-make of the Golden Globe nominated mini-series Viva Blackpool. The story is about an ambitious small entrepreneur Ripley Holden (Lloyd Owen), who dreams of opening up a casino in Laughlin, Nevada. Meanwhile, he is having marital problems and is struggling to keep his family together.
The show has been produced by BBC Worldwide, CBS Paramount Network Television, Seed Productions and Sony Television.
American Band
FOX at Friday 12:00 AM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: October 19, 2007
Sometimes achieving idol status is more than a solo effort, and this FOX series is set to celebrate the talents of multiple musicians. Simon Fuller and friends open up the American Idol-style competition to bands, and all sizes and genres from across the country are welcome to make a play for the spotlight.
Cashmere Mafia
ABC TUESDAY 9/8c
SERIES PREMIERE: December 4 at 9/8c (Special Preview November 27)
From the creator and executive producer of Sex and the City and the writer of Working Girl comes a comedic drama focusing on four dynamic women, friends since their days at Business school together, who support each other through rocky marriages, ridiculous dates, parenting challenges, professional rivalries and the hunt for the perfect apartment. Mixing the sass and wit of the film The Devil Wears Prada with insight of the novel I Don't Know How She Does It , this nuanced dramedy taps into the thoroughly modern, but eminently relatable dilemmas of today's working women who valiantly struggle to "have it all."
Canterbury's Law
FOX (60 min.)
Status: New Series MID-SEASON
Canterbury's Law follows a passionate female defense attorney, Elizabeth Canterbury, who pushes the envelope to protect her innocent clients.
The pilot, written by Dave Erickson, will be executive produced by Denis Leary and Jim Serpico of Apostle Productions. The production companies are Sony Pictures Television and Apostle.
Eli Stone
ABC MID-SEASON
Following the success of their work on the current hit Brothers and Sisters, Ken Olin (Alias), Marc Guggenheim, and Greg Berlanti (Everwood) create a unique, character-driven drama that explores the very different worlds of law and spirituality in a humorous and heartfelt way. Joining fantasy and spirituality from The Ghost Whisperer, sincerity and passion from The Practice and quirky humor from Monk , the show asks if we can change the course of our life midstream. Eli Stone is the cutthroat lawyer who risks everything he's worked for in order to explore a higher calling.
Miss Guided
ABC MID-SEASON
You can run and you can hide but you can never escape… who you were in high school. Becky Freeley thought she had left her teenage self behind when she returned to her old school to work as the guidance counselor. But when her gorgeous former nemesis joins the faculty, Becky's cover is blown. From producer Ashton Kutcher and Emmy Award-winning director Todd Holland (Malcolm in the Middle, The Larry Sanders Show) comes a show about second chances.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Originally on: FOX (60 min.)
Status: New Series MID-SEASON
Show Categories: Drama, Science-Fiction
More Pictures
The Terminator franchise arrives on TV with this serial drama. Set a year after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day the series follows Sarah and John Connor as they hide from the authorities and Skynet's army of Terminators.
New Amsterdam
FOX (60 min.)
Status: New Series MID-SEASON
Show Category: Science-Fiction
New York City homicide detective John Amsterdam is cursed with immortality because he stopped the murder of a Native Indian girl in 1642 by stepping in front of a sword. Due to this act of kindness, the Indian girl rescued Amsterdam from the stab wound by making him immortal, but warns that it is a curse that will only be lifted when John meets his true love.
Now, Amsterdam is a homicide detective in the Big Apple where he shares his secret with Omar, a blues club owner with a few secrets of his own. John is partnered up with Eva Marquez and gets into a chase with a suspect. When he suffers what appears to be a heart attack and is revived by ER doctor Sara Dillane, he realizes that mortality may be closer then he thought.
The Return of Jezebel James
FOX at Wednesday 8:30 PM (30 min.)
New Series Premieres: March 1, 2008
Show Categories: Comedy, Drama
Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator of Gilmore Girls, brings us this multi-camera comedy about how two estranged sisters who are polar opposites try to raise a baby together.
Boston Legal's Parker Posey was cast in the lead role in this comedy pilot as Sarah Tomkins. Sarah is an intelligent, optimistic and determined woman who has it all. She's a successful editor of children's books with a very helpful assistant Buddy (The Good Shepherd's Michael Arden) who keeps her life together. Also she has a steady, no-strings-attached relationship with businessman Marcus Sonti (Gilmore Girls's Scott Cohen) a confirmed bachelor. Also Oz Dana Ivey will star as Molly an unspecified character on the series.
At the same time Sarah's father, Ronald(Trump Unauthorized Ron McLarty) always reminds her that although she has the perfect job and boyfriend, something is missing in her life. When Sarah comes home from work she feels alone and she is also not getting any younger, so she decides to get pregnant. But the doctor soon tells her that she cannot have children, so Sarah begins an alternate plan. When she can't find anyone she can count on to have the baby for her, she turns to her estranged sister Coco (Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose). Coco refuses at first, but when Sarah mentions that she has turned Jezebel James, Coco's imaginary childhood friend, into a story book, Coco begins to take her sister's idea more seriously. Coco thinks about her current living status on her friend's couch and decides to go ahead with her sister's plan.
Sherman-Palladino will also serve as director and executive producer on the show, which is being produced by Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions and Regency Television. FOX has order 13 episodes of this comedy series first season, and it will premiere on Spring 2008.
so here the info I collected starting by the fist to be aired.
Also everyone is invite to add any infos they have or pointing us which shows they are waiting to see and why.
K-Ville
FOX (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 17, 2007 Show Category: Drama
It's been two years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and a select few still remain at the NOPD. These special cops are bound and determined to bring back the life to New Orleans, otherwise known to most as K-Ville (Katrinaville), and clean up the crime and damage that still remains.
Marlin Boulet, a veteran of the NOPD's Felony Action Squad, was left stranded in the waters by his partner, but still attempted to keep some little bit of order to all the chaos that was going on during the hurricane. He now has a new partner with ulterior motives, Trevor Cobb, who is fresh back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Together the two work the streets of New Orleans, trying to make it a better place. Helping them on their crusade are fellow officers Jeff Gooden, Captain James Embry, Billy Faust, and the lone female officer, Ginger LeBeau.
Journeyman
NBC at Monday 10:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 24, 2007
Show Categories: Science-Fiction, Drama
Kevin McKidd (Rome) stars as Dan Vassar in this new series from NBC set to air in the fall of 2007. Dan is happily married with a son. It seems like he has everything going for him. Dan ends up traveling into the past. He changes people's lives, sometimes for the better, but sometimes not. During his travels he meets up with Livia Beale, he was engaged to her when she died in a plane...
Chuck
NBC at Monday 8:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 24, 2007
Show Category: Comedy
The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz, and director McG ( We Are Marshall ), bring us Chuck , a new drama pilot at ABC, laced with humor about young twenty-something spies. Zachary Levi ( Less Than Perfect ) plays Chuck, a nerdy computer tech who has a database of government secrets downloaded into his brain. Chuck soon finds himself recruited by John Casey (Adam Baldwin of Day Break ), a...
Cane
CBS (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 25, 2007 Last Aired: January 1, 2008
Show Category: Soap
This soapy drama tells the story of two multi-generational Latin American families, the Duques and the Samuels in the rum and sugar business. This series explores the rivalry between the two families as well as the power struggles within the individual families.
Cynthia Cidre wrote the pilot and will executive produce alongside Jonathan Prince, Polly Anthony, and Jimmy Iovine.
Bionic Woman
NBC at Wednesday 9:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 26, 2007
Show Categories: Drama, Science-Fiction
More Pictures
Jaime Wells Sommers is nothing but a hard-working woman juggling work as a bartender, the responsibility for the care of her younger sister, Becca, and her relationship with her boyfriend, Will. Although she does not have much, Jaime has always enjoyed being as normal as any other human being. However, this all changes when she is hit by a car and seriously injured. Her only hope becomes an experimental and top secret procedure, but, as Jaime soon discovers, this salvation comes at a high price.
Dirty Sexy Money
ABC WEDNESDAY 10/9c
SERIES PREMIERE: September 26 at 10/9c
Power, privilege and family money are a volatile cocktail thrust on an idealistic lawyer when he inherits the job of tending to the legal (and sometimes illegal) needs of the absurdly wealthy Darlings of New York City. Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald, Samaire Armstrong, Seth Gabel, Zoe McLellan, and Jill Clayburgh star.
Life
NBC Wednesday 10:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 26, 2007
Damien Lewis stars as a former police officer who, after years of false imprisonment, returns to the force with a decidedly different philosophy. Deadwood's Robin Weigert has been added to the cast of the series. She'll play the boss of Lewis' character, Lt. Davis. Sleeper Cell's Melissa Sagemiller will play the lawyer who got him out of prison that despite the fact that she is married, has a spark with Lewis.
Private Practice
ABC Wednesday 9/8c
SERIES PREMIERE: September 26 at 9/8c
Grey's Anatomy executive producer Shonda Rhimes combines the heart and soul of television's top-rated drama with exciting new faces in a sun-drenched new city to create a show with a whole new vibe. This intimate portrait of the choices and changes we make in our search for happy lives, centers around neonatal surgeon Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery of Grey's Anatomy. After a failed attempt at reconciliation and two disastrous affairs, a move to Southern California to join her friends' health cooperative could be just the right prescription to jump-start Addison's own life.
Big Shots
ABC at Thursday 10:00 PM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 27, 2007
Show Category: Comedy
The line gets blurred between the boardroom and the bedroom in a new outrageous drama about four dysfunctional CEOs who will do anything to stay on top. This foursome takes refuge at their country club where they can discuss business, confide secrets, seek advice. It's lonely at the top and they have to trust someone to cover their back. Michael Vartan (Alias, One Hour Photo), Golden Globe® winner Dylan McDermott (The Practice), Christopher Titus (Titus) and Joshua Malina (The West Wing, Sports Night) star as our greedy, horny and competitive -- yet sexy and likeable -- CEOs.
Moonlight
Originally on: CBS (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: September 28, 2007
Show Category: Drama
Moonlight follows Mick St. John, an immortal vampire and private investigator and his struggle to exist after he was bitten 60 years ago by his vampire bride on their wedding night. It also follows his internal torment as he falls in love with one he should not, one who is mortal named Beth, a news reporter, as well as his dealings with the woman who made him a vampire, his sire Coraline.
The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Silver Pictures. Joel Silver is executive producing with Trevor Munson and Ron Koslow both writing and executive producing.
Cavemen
ABC TUESDAY 8/7c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 2 at 8/7c
Over the last hundred thousand years, mankind has evolved from primitive creatures to sophisticated beings, except for a small minority who unfortunately didn't evolve physically at all. Now three sophisticated cavemen (who already have a fan base from their popular GEICO commercials) are living in modern-day Atlanta, where they are at odds with contemporary society as they struggle to overcome their physical appearance and the accompanying stereotypes.
Carpoolers
ABC TUESDAY 8:30/7:30c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 2 at 8:30/7:30c
There are men who actively try and figure out the world -- together. These men are more complicated than we might think -- they have hopes, ambitions, families, careers, and insecurities. These men are the Carpoolers; four guys, living different versions of the modern suburban family life who obsess, dream, and strategize as they rocket their way up and down the carpool lane every day.
Pushing Daisies
ABC WEDNESDAY 8/7c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 3 at 8/7c
Pushing Daisies is a love story about a pie-baking young man with a very special gift… the ability to return dead people briefly back to life with just a simple touch -- enabling him to help a P.I. crack murder cases by asking victims to name their killers. Director Barry Sonnenfeld, writer-producer Bryan Fuller, and the producers of Big Fish blend romance, crime procedural and high-concept fantasy to create a fairytale in the spirit of Amelie, Stranger than Fiction, and Chocolat. Features a stellar cast.
Women's Murder Club
ABC FRIDAY 9/8c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 12 at 9/8c
When you are a woman working in a man's field, you get a lot further by teaming up… so to circumvent the Justice Department boy's club, San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer (Angie Harmon, Law & Order) assembles a secret all-female team of experts -- the Women's Murder Club. Two-time Emmy Award®-winning Director/Producer Scott Winant (Huff, thirty something) adapts the bestselling novels by James Patterson into a thrilling new crime series that redefines women's work. Because sometimes, the best way to get your man is with a woman.
Samantha Who?
ABC MONDAY 9:30/8:30c
SERIES PREMIERE: October 15 at 9:30/8:30c
It's a common fantasy: rewind your life, erase all the mistakes and cringe-worthy moments and start over with a clean slate. But for Samantha Newly, the fantasy is far too real. After a hit-and-run car accident puts her into an eight-day coma, she wakes up with retrograde amnesia -- meaning that she can function in the world but she can't remember a single fact about her own life. That's when our heroine begins the long, comic process of starting over and digging for clues about her former not-so-nice self.
Viva Laughlin
Originally on: CBS (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: October 18, 2007 Last Aired: January 1, 2008
Show Category: Drama
Viva Laughlin is a re-make of the Golden Globe nominated mini-series Viva Blackpool. The story is about an ambitious small entrepreneur Ripley Holden (Lloyd Owen), who dreams of opening up a casino in Laughlin, Nevada. Meanwhile, he is having marital problems and is struggling to keep his family together.
The show has been produced by BBC Worldwide, CBS Paramount Network Television, Seed Productions and Sony Television.
American Band
FOX at Friday 12:00 AM (60 min.)
Status: New Series Premieres: October 19, 2007
Sometimes achieving idol status is more than a solo effort, and this FOX series is set to celebrate the talents of multiple musicians. Simon Fuller and friends open up the American Idol-style competition to bands, and all sizes and genres from across the country are welcome to make a play for the spotlight.
Cashmere Mafia
ABC TUESDAY 9/8c
SERIES PREMIERE: December 4 at 9/8c (Special Preview November 27)
From the creator and executive producer of Sex and the City and the writer of Working Girl comes a comedic drama focusing on four dynamic women, friends since their days at Business school together, who support each other through rocky marriages, ridiculous dates, parenting challenges, professional rivalries and the hunt for the perfect apartment. Mixing the sass and wit of the film The Devil Wears Prada with insight of the novel I Don't Know How She Does It , this nuanced dramedy taps into the thoroughly modern, but eminently relatable dilemmas of today's working women who valiantly struggle to "have it all."
Canterbury's Law
FOX (60 min.)
Status: New Series MID-SEASON
Canterbury's Law follows a passionate female defense attorney, Elizabeth Canterbury, who pushes the envelope to protect her innocent clients.
The pilot, written by Dave Erickson, will be executive produced by Denis Leary and Jim Serpico of Apostle Productions. The production companies are Sony Pictures Television and Apostle.
Eli Stone
ABC MID-SEASON
Following the success of their work on the current hit Brothers and Sisters, Ken Olin (Alias), Marc Guggenheim, and Greg Berlanti (Everwood) create a unique, character-driven drama that explores the very different worlds of law and spirituality in a humorous and heartfelt way. Joining fantasy and spirituality from The Ghost Whisperer, sincerity and passion from The Practice and quirky humor from Monk , the show asks if we can change the course of our life midstream. Eli Stone is the cutthroat lawyer who risks everything he's worked for in order to explore a higher calling.
Miss Guided
ABC MID-SEASON
You can run and you can hide but you can never escape… who you were in high school. Becky Freeley thought she had left her teenage self behind when she returned to her old school to work as the guidance counselor. But when her gorgeous former nemesis joins the faculty, Becky's cover is blown. From producer Ashton Kutcher and Emmy Award-winning director Todd Holland (Malcolm in the Middle, The Larry Sanders Show) comes a show about second chances.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Originally on: FOX (60 min.)
Status: New Series MID-SEASON
Show Categories: Drama, Science-Fiction
More Pictures
The Terminator franchise arrives on TV with this serial drama. Set a year after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day the series follows Sarah and John Connor as they hide from the authorities and Skynet's army of Terminators.
New Amsterdam
FOX (60 min.)
Status: New Series MID-SEASON
Show Category: Science-Fiction
New York City homicide detective John Amsterdam is cursed with immortality because he stopped the murder of a Native Indian girl in 1642 by stepping in front of a sword. Due to this act of kindness, the Indian girl rescued Amsterdam from the stab wound by making him immortal, but warns that it is a curse that will only be lifted when John meets his true love.
Now, Amsterdam is a homicide detective in the Big Apple where he shares his secret with Omar, a blues club owner with a few secrets of his own. John is partnered up with Eva Marquez and gets into a chase with a suspect. When he suffers what appears to be a heart attack and is revived by ER doctor Sara Dillane, he realizes that mortality may be closer then he thought.
The Return of Jezebel James
FOX at Wednesday 8:30 PM (30 min.)
New Series Premieres: March 1, 2008
Show Categories: Comedy, Drama
Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator of Gilmore Girls, brings us this multi-camera comedy about how two estranged sisters who are polar opposites try to raise a baby together.
Boston Legal's Parker Posey was cast in the lead role in this comedy pilot as Sarah Tomkins. Sarah is an intelligent, optimistic and determined woman who has it all. She's a successful editor of children's books with a very helpful assistant Buddy (The Good Shepherd's Michael Arden) who keeps her life together. Also she has a steady, no-strings-attached relationship with businessman Marcus Sonti (Gilmore Girls's Scott Cohen) a confirmed bachelor. Also Oz Dana Ivey will star as Molly an unspecified character on the series.
At the same time Sarah's father, Ronald(Trump Unauthorized Ron McLarty) always reminds her that although she has the perfect job and boyfriend, something is missing in her life. When Sarah comes home from work she feels alone and she is also not getting any younger, so she decides to get pregnant. But the doctor soon tells her that she cannot have children, so Sarah begins an alternate plan. When she can't find anyone she can count on to have the baby for her, she turns to her estranged sister Coco (Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose). Coco refuses at first, but when Sarah mentions that she has turned Jezebel James, Coco's imaginary childhood friend, into a story book, Coco begins to take her sister's idea more seriously. Coco thinks about her current living status on her friend's couch and decides to go ahead with her sister's plan.
Sherman-Palladino will also serve as director and executive producer on the show, which is being produced by Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions and Regency Television. FOX has order 13 episodes of this comedy series first season, and it will premiere on Spring 2008.
