It’s the Upfronts!: ABC
Posted by Maggie
May 15th, 2007 at 10:15am
In All Things TV
Lost and Ugly Betty are great fun, so I can’t in all honesty say that I dislike ABC — I just find their Lascivious Middle-Aged Mom house style a little off-putting. But maybe I’m still bitter that they objectified Piz.
Here’s their new schedule! Seven dramas and four comedies. Good lord, that’s a lot of new stuff.
First, the things we can automatically dismiss: We already know that Private Practice blows. Cashmere Mafia is a complicated Candace Bushnell rip-off, and therefore ignorable as well. Big Shots, even though it stars TiFaux Madness Favorite Michael Vartan, has a gag-inducing premise, but Vartan just may be cute enough to pull it off — we’ll see. Eli Stone is about a lawyer who has visions because of a tumor in his brain. Um, correct me if I’m wrong, but that totally happened to Billy on one of the later seasons of Ally McBeal, did it not? Cavemen, the Geico Cavemen atrocity, sounds terrifying. And finally Women’s Murder Club and Sam I Am: Bleh. No opinion.
On the other hand, Dirty Sexy Money not only has a very descriptive title, it also stars Peter Krause and could be not bad. Pushing Daisies — I like the unrequited love aspect, and even though it has a narrator, the narrator is Jim Dale, official Harry Potter-speaker! Miss/Guided — terrible, terrible title, but stars Judy Greer, and involves re-living high school trauma, which makes it a must-see for me.
So what do you think?
5 Comments Add your own
1. lupa | May 15th, 2007 at 10:55 am
“Pushing Daisies” is gonna be awesome. I hope Lee Pace becomes the breakout star of the year and then marries me and gives me lots and lots of cute babies.
2. Vance | May 15th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Im in for Pushing Daisies cause it sounds awesome! Eli Stone just cause Victor “Daddy Bristow” Garber, More Alias Vet Michael Vartan’s show, and anything with Judy Greer. ANYTHING.
I cannot BELIEVE they went with Caveman though. What were they thinking?
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Cristin | May 15th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
October Road and Notes from the Underbelly got renewed? Um, okay, ABC.
4. Jeremy | May 15th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Yes, that did happen to Billy from Ally McBeal in the later seasons, right before he done died. But now it’s happening to Jonny Lee Miller from Hackers! Don’t tell me that’s not an improvement.
Ugh, ABC, how did you let those titles through? Women’s Murder Club – lazy. Miss/Guided – awful. Dirty Sexy Money – Maybe the worst title for anything ever.
Although I’m totally holding out hope for Judy Greer’s show. I’m a fan.
5. Angel | May 15th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Well Vance, for the cavemen show, I think they were thinking about what moneygrubbing wh*res they could be when they hold a company’s icon hostage.
They’ve got that company’s ad dollars by the balls, a heretofore unheard of feat for any network.
(I’d like to start a ‘heretofore’ drinking game. Who’s with me?
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