Preview Several of FOX’s New Shows
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, FOX, Video,
Already itching to start a new TV season? Well here are a few of FOX shows scheduled to debut over 2009-2010.
Brothers
This half-hour comedy starring former New York Giant Michael Strahan will air on Fridays this fall. This Dollhouse lead-in (you can see the obvious similarities) focuses on a retired and financially-strapped football player who moves back home with his parents (Carl Weathers and The Shield‘s CCH Pounder). Daryl “Chill” Mitchell plays his wheelchair-bound brother.
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Spaced Remake Snubs Creators
Posted by Shannon Bennett Categories: Comedy, Editorial,
For fans of the original series - some of us still finding it hard to accept that there will never be a third season - the announcement that an American remake of Spaced was on the way probably didn’t raise cheers of joy.
In fact, it’s always been assumed that Granada (as it will be called) would be Americanized and Hollywoodized beyond recognition from the original genius upon which it’s based, which makes this latest piece of news all the more infuriating.
Wonderland and Warner Brothers, more specifically McG, have apparently cut Simon Pegg, Jessica (Stevenson) Hynes, and show’s director Edgar Wright out of any participation with the show, crossing lines from avoidance to clear expression that their creative input is undesired. A foolish gesture considering Pegg and Wright’s phenomenal American success with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and morally just all sorts of wrong.
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