ABC today announced the early pickup of an even dozen series: six each of scripted and unscripted programs.
Scripted series pickups go to: Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Private Practice and Ugly Betty.
Unscripted series pickups include: America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Bachelor, Dancing With the Stars, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Supernanny and Wife Swap.
The 2009-10 season of Lost, its sixth, will mark the conclusion of one of the best television dramas of all time, while America’s Funniest Home Videos will be entering its 20th season.
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While some things Emmy [ABC, 8/7C] remain the same [Hello, James Spader!], some things Emmy have definitely changed – and for the better [I’m looking at you Mad Men!]. Gold Derby at the Los Angeles Times has handicapped the possible winners for us, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be right. Heaven knows that the Academy does the unexpected often enough to make their award winning selections suitable for bookie fodder. So, then, what follows is the Gold Derby handicapping for each category followed by my selections – not of the winners, but of those who should win in my not necessarily humble opinion…
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ABC has just announced that two of its most popular shows, Grey’s Anatomy and Lost, have been given the go-ahead to shoot two-hour finales. In both cases, this means that plot arcs that were severely pruned because of the WGA strike will be given extra room to complete.
The news is especially good for Lost fans, as the series had been slated to run for sixteen episodes but was cut back to thirteen because of the strike. With the addition of an extra hour to the post-strike schedule, the show will now run the equivalent of fourteen eps – drastically reducing the expected need to condense its elaborate story arcs.
The Grey’s Anatomy two-hour finale will air on Thursday, May 22nd [9/8C] while the two-hour Lost finale will run Thursday, May 29 [9/8c]. Both shows return Thursday, April 24th with original episodes – Grey’s at 9/10C, and Lost at 10/9C.
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With the end of the writers’ strike all but signed, sealed and delivered, ABC is the first network out of the box in terms of announcing early pickups for the ‘08-‘09 with nine series getting the good news.
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