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Fall 2007: Christina Applegate Draws a Blank
Who's doing what for whom this pilot season (per Variety and the Reporter):
• Emmy winner Christina Applegate, long wooed to return to network TV, has opted to star as an amnesiac woman in the ABC comedy Sam I Am. Jean Smart is Sam's mom, and Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager) is also in the cast.
• As first scooped by the Ausiello Report, Judging Amy Brenneman and Merrin Dungey (Alias) have come on board the Grey's Anatomy spin-off, playing Violet and Naomi.
• Melanie Griffith will guest on the pilot for the CBS musical drama Viva Laughlin. A conniving sexpot, Griffith's character could go recurring.
• Drew Carey's Diedrich Bader is the loyal friend of CBS' Skip Tracer.
• Jamey Sheridan (Law & Order: CI) is a wife-beater turned zombie in CBS' Babylon Fields.
• Stephanie Childers (Studio 60) is the mother of ABC's American Family.
• Ty Burrell (Out of Practice, indeed) is an ace reporter for Fox's Action News.
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Mar 13, 2007 9:23 AM
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Amy Brenneman on the Grey's spinoff? Does this mean Judging Amy won't be back???
 ![]<img border=](http://community.tvguide.com/images/emoticons/devil.gif) "> This running gag brought to you by TV Gord
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Mar 13, 2007 9:41 AM
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Yay! Jean Smart and Christina Applegate on the same show! They're both two of my favorites. Christina Applegate is very funny, I loved her guest appearances on Friends, even more than Married... with Children. And what can I say about Jean Smart? She's extremely versatile. You don't get two characters more different than Charlene Stillfield on Designing Women and Martha Logan on 24!
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Mar 13, 2007 10:05 AM
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Ya know, Merrin is also on King of Queens and more recently than she was on Alias, so why didn't you put KOQ behind her name?
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Mar 13, 2007 10:58 AM
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OK "wife beater turned zombie" may be the coolest premise I've ever heard. Is it a drama? A comedy? A romance? What?
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Mar 13, 2007 11:34 AM
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Is that going to be his excuse in court? "I was a zombie your honor. That's why I beat her." 
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Mar 13, 2007 11:48 AM
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Of all the topics I've run across here at TV Guide, I never thought "Zombie Wife Beating" would be one of them.
Now that's good clean fun for the whole family!
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Mar 13, 2007 5:44 PM
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