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Official CW Sunday Sked: Laughs, Love, Loan Sharks
Media Rights Capital, the third-party firm contracted to program the CW's Sunday line-up, has officially unveiled its plans, and they differ slightly from what was (barely) announced a few weeks ago. The Sunday block, launching Sept. 14 at 6:30 pm/ET (versus the traditional 7), still won't resurrect CBS' Moonlight (see related news story), but instead features:
• In Harm's Way, an unscripted series following people in dangerous or unenviable jobs (avalanche hunters, subway tunnel diggers, Denise Richards' publicist).
• Surviving Suburbia, a comedy based on a long-ago dismissed pilot about a grumpy husband and father.
• Valentine, Inc., a romantic comedy in which the Greek gods Aphrodite and her son Eros run an Earth-bound dating service.
• Easy Money, about a family of loan sharks — including a middle son who's uneasy about their line of work.
What's your take? Anything striking your fancy? Or do you need to hear some casting first?
Related:
• Why Moonlight Won't Live On at the CW
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May 27, 2008 9:04 AM
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Yeah, no thanks. They all sound horrible. I liked Aliens in America.
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May 27, 2008 10:26 AM
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Aphrodite and Eros? Seriously???????
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May 27, 2008 10:29 AM
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Sounds horrible. I'd rather watch that awful new show Surviving the Filthy Rich than this.
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May 27, 2008 10:29 AM
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The only thing striking my fancy here is the idea of a show about a network programming honcho who manages to keep her job despite her dismal record by selling her soul (and whatever else about her that might be the least marketable) and becoming a demon.
She decrees that great drama with fascinating character-driven storylines shall be either banned, sexed up, or driven toward the land of stupid; and she keeps a pack of hellhounds around her to ward off creative people. During the season finale, she unleashes her final evil plan for flooding American media with tasteless and offensive marketing: to inundate America's female pre-teens and teens with so much mindless drivel of promiscuity, rampant materialism, and idiocy that even Hardee's begins to rethink its ad policy.
Then, in Season Two, someone with brains AND cojones hires these two demon hunters with a great track record, supplies them with plenty of rock salt and holy water, and the chase is on.
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May 27, 2008 10:35 AM
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Ditto to all these comments. No network should gear itself to one audience. And it helps to have someone with a brain in charge.
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May 27, 2008 10:43 AM
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Yeah, I liked In Harm's Way...when it was called Dirty Jobs!!
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May 27, 2008 10:56 AM
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I have been fed up with the CW since it started! It has some of the best shows on TV and cant seem to coordinate the schedule in its own favor. Supernatural is awesome and has the potential to be so much bigger, but what do they do? Place it in the Thur 9 pm slot with the big dogs. Come on. And all those repeats of Reaper? Give me a break. Someone in there wants that show to survive and NO ONE WATCHES IT. And yet they keep shoving it down our throats. Clearly there is not one person with a business/advertising degree working at the CW.
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May 27, 2008 11:02 AM
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Ho hum... [yawn]... NEXT!
And a big LOL to what AriGato wrote. Good stuff!
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May 27, 2008 11:02 AM
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I think I will pass, they all sound horrible. I only watch the CW on Thursday anyway for Supernatural.
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May 27, 2008 11:14 AM
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They passed on Moonlight for that crap? This is not a great testimonial for outsourcing.
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May 27, 2008 11:17 AM
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Valentine Inc. sounds a lot like Cupid (yeah, I know I'm about the only person who remembers Cupid). But since I loved Cupid, I might love that too.
And In Harm's Way does sound a bit derivative of Dirty Jobs, except that its focus seems to be more on dangerous jobs, rather than filthy jobs, so I might give it a watch. Sounds like something husband might like.
I have to admit that apart from Supernatural and Reaper, I don't really watch the CW (not in the demographic), but I'm willing to keep an open mind about it.
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May 27, 2008 11:24 AM
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This is sad. I love "Everybody Hates Chris" , "The Game" And "Girlfriends". I hope that a network with common sense will pick these up.
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May 27, 2008 11:27 AM
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Great scenario AriGato. I would watch it. However, there's nothing on that schedule that sounds even remotely interesting.
I would have watched Moonlight (along with the 8 million other viewers who would have come over from CBS). And I would have kept watching Aliens in America (which was, of course, canceled), along with Everybody Hates Chris (which was, thankfully, renewed).
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May 27, 2008 11:33 AM
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This is sad. I love "Everybody Hates Chris" , "The Game" And "Girlfriends". I hope that a network with common sense will pick these up. ~des0517
Um why? With the exception of Girlfriends, why would another network pick them up when the CW still has them?
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May 27, 2008 11:34 AM
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