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Fox's Fall Features AS-P's Return (and Sarah Connor's)
Fox's pickups for the fall include the Terminator-inspired, sci-fi The Sarah Connor Chronicles; K-Ville (concerning cops in post-Katrina N.O.); and New Amsterdam (about an immortal homicide detective), says the Hollywood Reporter.
Comedy-wise, Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton's Back to You (FKA Action News) has been officially ordered to series, as have Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Return of Jezebel James (starring Parker Posey) and The Rules of Starting Over (courtesy of the Farrelly Brothers).
FALL TV UPDATE: The fates of Law & Order and CI decided!
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May 12, 2007 9:38 AM
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I'm looking forward to the Kelsey Grammer-Patricia Heaton show. Don't know if I'll watch AS-P - after what she did to Gilmore Girls.
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May 12, 2007 10:31 AM
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Michael Arden on TV!!!! I can finally delete that Grey's Anatomy episode he was in from my TiVo.
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May 12, 2007 10:55 AM
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I know how you feel Tazjt
Fool me once - shame on you
Fool me twice - shame on me! 
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May 12, 2007 12:23 PM
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Rev - LOL - you got that right! Every time I hear or read her name, I think of reading her "trust me" assurances about Gilmore Girls. Indeed!
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May 12, 2007 1:36 PM
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That's funny to see that AS-Ps show got picked up. I was just listening to the podcast and Ausiello said he wasn't hearing any buzz about it. But he also said that wasn't an indication of a pick up or not. I guess he was right.
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May 12, 2007 7:42 PM
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Fact is - we won't really know anything until next week - not for sure. Sometimes I think the networks "leak" information trying to get "buzz" going before the upfronts. And it works. We're talking about it!
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May 12, 2007 8:02 PM
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I'm with tazjt. I know people are talking about Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham letting them down because there won't be an eighth season. But, I feel the betrayal came when AS-P wrote such a pathetic sixth season that DR had to spend half of this last one getting out of the corner she put him in.
AS-P tried to ruin her own creation and if she can do that with Gilmore Girls, who's to say she won't do that again with this next one.
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May 13, 2007 8:44 AM
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Katcon - I don't think AS-P thought the fans were smart enough to figure that out!
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May 13, 2007 8:58 AM
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ASP RETURNS?!!!!!RUN PEOPLE!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELVES TO BE SUCKED INTO ANOTHER VOID IN THE WORLD OF TELEVISION!!!!
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May 13, 2007 1:46 PM
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John - you are too, too funny! I'm so glad to see you back!
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May 13, 2007 7:36 PM
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Tazjt, you may be right, but what does that say about AS-P's arrogance? Is she a talented writer? Yes. Does that give her the right to do what she did to GG? No.
So, that means I really, really approve of what John said. I will not waste my time in more AS-P shows. We all know how she repays viewer loyalty. I'm not bitter about the end of GG, but I'm disgusted that AS-P is being rewarded.
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May 13, 2007 11:01 PM
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For once, Fox appears to have more than 1 intriguing new show. The only one that I think won't last is the Farrelly Brothers show.
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May 14, 2007 12:22 AM
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Katcon, I absolutely agree with you. After AS-P's treatment of Gilmore Girls - and her betrayal of us as viewers - why would any of us trust her again?
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May 14, 2007 9:04 AM
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Katcon, I absolutely agree with you. After AS-P's treatment of Gilmore Girls - and her betrayal of us as viewers - why would any of us trust her again?
Because she left the show in the middle of the storyline she had planned due to a contract dispute, not because she didn't want to finish the storyline she had planned. I don't think she betrayed anybody at all -- she was in the middle of the story she wanted to tell, one that would have ended differently in s7 than how she had to leave it in midstream. So IMO, she doesn't deserve the derision she's getting for having to leave the show mid-story. What was she supposed to do? Have the nervous breakdown that she narrowly avoided by leaving the show and threby put the completion of the storyline in jeopardy anyway?
That said, wasn't Jezebel James a pay-or-play deal? That would make the pickup virtually redundant as it's cheaper to play it (for a typical 6-13 episodes of a new series) than to pay out the contract. Anyway, the pickup of Jezebel James looks like old news of the "(yawn) Tell me something I didn't already know" variety.
-- Rob
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May 14, 2007 3:20 PM
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