All right then, before i get to the latest from the network upfronts going on this week in New York, the really big news just hit the internet a little while ago. It seems that the "rumored" Brangelina twins have been confirmed. Check it:
Jack Black let the news slip while doing a joint-interview with Jolie in Cannes to promote their movie, Kung Fu Panda. "You're gonna have as many as [the] Brady Bunch when you have these," he said during the chat with Today show's Natalie Morales. Asked by Morales if she is indeed having twins, Jolie replied, "Yeah, yeah, we've confirmed that already. Well, Jack's just confirmed it actually." Pressed about the gender of the babies, Jolie said, "We would like to keep that private." (source PEOPLE Online)
Even though this has been the worst kept secret since Brangelina first hooked up, its nice to have confirmation. Now all the speculation will be about the sex of the babies and whether she took fertility drugs to conceive. Isn't the media grand?
Speaking of the media, lets get back to some TV news. Two networks have revealed their new fall lineups in the 24 hours since I last posted, so its time to get back to business. The CW was the third network (after NBC and ABC) to show off their new schedule, which is really exciting if you either are a 16 year old girl or have the mentality of a 16 year old girl. Here's the scoop:
The CW unveiled a new fall schedule focuses almost exclusively on wooing women no older than 34. As previously announced, the male-oriented WWE Smackdown goes. The male-fronted Smallville and Supernatural stay, presumably getting by on their good looks. Also coming back: Watercooler shows Gossip Girl and America's Next Top Model; barely rated shows Everybody Hates Chris and The Game; and the once-endangered One Tree Hill. The Reaper won a reprieve, and a sophomore season, as a midseason replacement. Aliens in America wasn't so lucky; the comedy didn't win anything but a cancellation. The 90210 spin off will be paired on Tuesdays with the CW's other new scripted show, Surviving the Filthy Rich, about a young woman who trades in a career in journalism to become a tutor to a pair of rich girls. Stylista, the third new show, from Tyra Banks and the creators of, yes, Project Runway, is set at Runway judge Nina Garcia's former magazine, Elle, and features 11 Lauren Conrad-types competing for a job at the publication. The fall schedule is the CW's third. The network has yet to put together a season as "big" as either of its ancestors, the WB and UPN. After scrapping Saturdays, the CW plans to downscale even further, turning Sundays over to an independent studio that'll produce four as-yet unspecified series for the night. (source E Online)
Well, I wasn't terribly interested in The CW's new schedule to begin with (I still haven't forgiven them for canceling Veronica Mars last season, just as I was starting to get into it) other than to make sure The Reaper got renewed. Since it has I'm not going to boycott the network (you know, because my one household of two people could totally take the network down if I did) though I am a little pissy about pushing the show off to mid-season. But I'll live. There's so much buzz around the 90210 spin off that I may tune in to see its premiere, but I'm not really in to the whole overly dramatic manipulations that the first one made so famous so I kind of think the new one will really appeal to me. But you never know, I may end up eating my words on that one. For all the scoop on the casting, including which alums have already signed on for the new season, click here. And here. And here. Oh wait, here too. I told you this thing was buzzy!
CBS also announced their new fall lineup, though they waited until this morning to unveil it. Its pretty typical for CBS, check it out:
Moonlight was one of a handful of series that didn't make the cut today as CBS unveiled its new fall schedule. Others: James Woods' Shark and controversy's Kid Nation. CBS bubble shows whose bubbles did not burst, as they were invited back included: The New Adventures of Old Christine, How I Met Your Mother and The Unit. The script-loving network will introduce five new scripted shows, more than any network so far. The new CBS shows are: Worst Week, a Meet the Parents-aspiring sitcom; Project Gary, a divorced dad comedy starring Jay Mohr; The Mentalist, a procedural crime show starring Simon Baker; Eleventh Hour, with Rufus Sewell as a "brilliant" scientist that the brilliant government waits to the last minute to call; and The Ex List, an hourlong dramedy about a thirtysomething woman who, acting under the influence of a psychic, hunts down her ex-boyfriends to find her future husband. Some returning CBS series will return to new digs: The Unit travels from Tuesdays to Sundays; Without a Trace shifts from Thursdays to Tuesdays;
Christine trades Mondays for Wednesdays; and Rules of Engagement moves from Mondays to the bench, where it'll remain until it's called up as a midseason replacement. In addition to Rules, Harper's Island, a new murder mystery drama, was slated for a midseason-ish launch. (source E Online)
Again, I don't really watch much on CBS (seriously, I stay mainly in the NBC and ABC range), but I have been watching How I Met Your Mother on DVD (Netflix rules!) and I really do enjoy it. Maybe I'll be caught up with the show by the time it premieres next fall and I'll actually watch it live instead of two years after each episode is on. I can dream right? Anyway, it sounds like CBS has a pretty strong schedule ahead of it for next fall, and I'm glad that they are actually adding more scripted comedy, Lets hope the other networks take note and maybe make an effort to produce original content instead of all of the reality dreck that they've been forcing on us since the writer's strike (although, if the actors go on strike this summer like they're threatening to do, we're all screwed!).
So that's that. We're still waiting to hear from Fox and some of the other smaller cable networks want to put their two cents in too. TNT is actually talking some pretty big game in New York today. Here's what they've got:
Cable's TNT announced plans to challenge the broadcast networks with three nights of original programming by 2010, and touted several proposed new series, including an Elvis impersonator-detective show from George Clooney, and a new action-crime drama from the cocreator of 24. (source E Online)
If they can make it work, they may end up being a major contender. But I really hope they don't take away the hours of reruns they show everyday. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't zone out to endless reruns of Charmed and Law and Order after work.
Well, until tomorrow people. This redhead has to get back to doing the job that actually pays her.
Later!
Moonlight was one of a handful of series that didn't make the cut today as CBS unveiled its new fall schedule. Others: James Woods' Shark and controversy's Kid Nation. CBS bubble shows whose bubbles did not burst, as they were invited back included: The New Adventures of Old Christine, How I Met Your Mother and The Unit. The script-loving network will introduce five new scripted shows, more than any network so far. The new CBS shows are: Worst Week, a Meet the Parents-aspiring sitcom; Project Gary, a divorced dad comedy starring Jay Mohr; The Mentalist, a procedural crime show starring Simon Baker; Eleventh Hour, with Rufus Sewell as a "brilliant" scientist that the brilliant government waits to the last minute to call; and The Ex List, an hourlong dramedy about a thirtysomething woman who, acting under the influence of a psychic, hunts down her ex-boyfriends to find her future husband. Some returning CBS series will return to new digs: The Unit travels from Tuesdays to Sundays; Without a Trace shifts from Thursdays to Tuesdays; Christine trades Mondays for Wednesdays; and Rules of Engagement moves from Mondays to the bench, where it'll remain until it's called up as a midseason replacement. In addition to Rules, Harper's Island, a new murder mystery drama, was slated for a midseason-ish launch. (source E Online)
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