NEW YORK -- Looking to get back into competitive position in primetime, NBC is shaking up every night of the week in the fall with a new primetime schedule that includes four new dramas and two comedies. "We have hit a gold mine in terms of drama development," NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly told reporters during a conference call this morning in advance of NBC's formal 3 p.m. presentation today at Radio City Music Hall. "This year we had more good pilots than we had time slots to move them in." The peacock's Monday night slate will continue to lead off with game show Deal or No Deal in the 8 p.m. hour, followed by new drama Heroes, about a group of people who discover they have super powers, and the returning 10 p.m. drama Medium.
- 5/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Looking to get back into competitive position in primetime, NBC is shaking up every night of the week in the fall with a new primetime schedule that includes four new dramas and two comedies. "We have hit a gold mine in terms of drama development," NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly told reporters during a conference call this morning in advance of NBC's formal 3 p.m. presentation today at Radio City Music Hall. "This year we had more good pilots than we had time slots to move them in." The peacock's Monday night slate will continue to lead off with game show Deal or No Deal in the 8 p.m. hour, followed by new drama Heroes, about a group of people who discover they have super powers, and the returning 10 p.m. drama Medium.
- 5/15/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As the countdown to next week's upfront presentations began, NBC on Thursday handed out series pickups to five pilots for the 2006-07 season, including the Jeff Goldblum drama Raines and the John Lithgow-Jeffrey Tambor buddy comedy 20 Good Years. Also picked up Thursday were the dramas Heroes and Friday Night Lights and the comedy The Singles Table. A pickup of the untitled Tina Fey project also was said to be imminent once a few deal-related issues are sorted out, sources said. NBC declined comment on its new series orders. The peacock is the first of the broadcast networks set to unveil its fall lineup next week, with its presentation to advertisers set for Monday at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
- 5/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ABC got busy putting the pieces of its 2006-07 schedule together Wednesday, handing series orders to the dramas The Nine, Six Degrees and Day Break and comedies In Case of Emergency, Help Me Help You and Notes From the Underbelly. NBC, which will kick off the broadcast networks' upfront week Monday, was widely expected to make the bulk of its series pickups Wednesday but did not. Pilots that are expected to get a formal series greenlight today or Friday include the dramas Friday Night Lights, Heroes and Raines and the untitled Tina Fey comedy. The comedies 20 Good Years, Community Service and The Singles Table are understood to be in contention for the remaining NBC comedy slots. Sources said NBC is passing on Andy Barker, P.I., Conan O'Brien's single-camera gumshoe comedy starring Andy Richter, and the project will be shopped to Fox.
- 5/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Alec Baldwin is in final negotiations to star opposite Tina Fey in Fey's untitled comedy pilot for NBC. In other pilot casting news, Bruce McGill has been cast in ABC's drama Enemies, Sean Bean has been tapped as the lead in Fox's drama Faceless, Eric Mabius is set to star opposite America Ferrera in ABC's drama Ugly Betty, Jaime King will play the female lead in Fox's comedy The Worst Week of My Life -- with Charles Malik Whitfield also cast in the project -- and Julie Hagerty has come on board Fox's comedy Becoming Glen. Additionally, Milo Ventimiglia (Gilmore Girls) has been tapped to co-star in the NBC/NBC Uni TV drama Heroes, Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) has joined the ABC/Warner Bros. TV comedy Notes From the Underbelly, Michael Trucco has been added to the ABC/Touchstone comedy pilot Him and Us, Charlie Finn (The Dukes of Hazzard) and Darlene Hunt (The Darwin Awards) have been cast in the ABC/Regency TV comedy pilot Help Me Help You, and Dorian Missick (Freedomland) has come on board the ABC/Touchstone drama pilot Six Degrees.
- 2/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hostel star Jay Hernandez has been cast in ABC's drama pilot Six Degrees. In other pilot castings, Ali Larter and Hayden Panettiere have joined the cast of the NBC drama Heroes, John Billingsley and Owain Yeoman have come on board ABC's untitled Steinbergs drama, Matt Bomer, Logan Marshall-Green and Aaron Stanford have landed the three leads in the ABC drama Traveler, while John L. Adams has joined Angie Harmon in ABC's drama Secrets of a Small Town. Meanwhile, Tim Blake Nelson has been tapped to direct NBC's untitled Willie Reale drama pilot. Six Degrees, from Touchstone TV and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot, is an ensemble soap about the intertwined stories of a group of strangers in New York from different walks of life.
- 2/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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