Post by yankeesrj12 on May 15, 2011 12:35:43 GMT -5
TVN Announces Fall Schedule
After showing significant growth in its first full season, TVN is prepared to make bold moves to ensure even further growth. For the first time in network history, the entire fall schedule will be filled with original, first run programming.
Network executives had a total of six different schedules, and in the end the strongest one was chosen.
On Monday nights, the hit freshman family drama, OUR FAMILY, kicks off the night at 8pm. That leads into new family drama, REBUILDING MY LIFE. Rounding out the night is COPS OF NEW YORK.
Tuesdays continue to be "Women's Night In" with the return of SISTERHOOD at 8pm leading into the hit comedy WOMEN ARE CRAZY, MEN ARE STUPID. AWKWARD SITUATIONS will continue airing at 9pm, with the new comedy MOTHER AND DAUGHTER at 9:30pm. The new female led drama, CHICAGO D.A., finishes off the night at 10pm.
TVN looks to make the biggest push on Wednesday nights. The third season of THE NEXT SUPERSTAR moves to a new night at 8pm, with RULE OF LAW staying put in its 9pm timeslot. The most talked about new drama of the season, SECRET SERVICE, will air in the prime Wednesday 10pm timeslot.
Thursdays will continue to be more of the same, with THE NEXT SUPERSTAR at 8pm, REVERSING HISTORY at 9pm, and TAKEN at 10pm.
Friday night continues to be family and workplace comedy night. The third season of BEING AVERAGE will air at 8pm, with THE FAMILY MAN returning to its 8:30pm timeslot. Hit comedy EIGHT DAYS A WEEK will air at 9pm, leading into the new workplace comedy, FAILING TO PUBLISH (frm. Untitled Magazine Workplace Comedy). THE STREETS will round at the night at 10pm.
For the first time in network history, Saturday nights will have three hours of first run programming. DR. HEART stays put in its 8pm timeslot, with the dead FOX pilot WEEKENDS AT BELLEVUE airing at 9pm. Former Monday night drama, MARLOWE, moves to Saturdays at 10pm in the fall.
On Sundays, Weekly Update will return in the 7pm hour, but will be a specific 'Controversy' series. Last seasons breakout game show THE NEIGHBORHOOD comes home at 8pm. TVN's number one Sunday drama, THE RICH LIFE, moves up an hour, to 9pm. TVN's other talked about series, CALL GIRLS, assumes the role of the 10pm timeslot.
MONDAY
8 - Our Family [new night and time]
9 - REBUILDING MY LIFE [new drama]
10 - Cops of New York
TUESDAY
8 - Sisterhood
830 - Women are Crazy, Men are Stupid
9 - Awkward Situations
930 - MOTHER AND DAUGHTER [new comedy]
10 - CHICAGO D.A. [new drama]
WEDNESDAY
8 - The Next Superstar
9 - Rule of Law
10 - SECRET SERVICE [new drama]
THURSDAY
8 - The Next Superstar: Results Show
9 - Reversing History
10 - TAKEN
FRIDAY
8 - Being Average
830 - The Family Man
9 - Eight Days a Week
930 - FAILING TO PUBLISH [new comedy]
10 - The Streets
SATURDAY
8 - Dr. Heart
9 - WEEKENDS AT BELLEVUE [new drama]
10 - Marlowe [new night and time]
SUNDAY
7 - Weekly Update: Controversy
8 - The Neighborhood
9 - The Rich Life [new time]
10 - CALL GIRLS [new drama]
Total number of new fall dramas: 5
Total number of new fall comedies: 2
TVN has also picked up three new dramas for midseason (Untitled Mob Drama, 1850, and Border Patrol), one new comedy (The Strip), and one new miniseries (End of Our World).
Returning comedy, Broadcasting My Life, has been given the greenlight for a second season and will return at midseason. Former fall comedy, Kate and Zoe, will also return sometime later this year.
TVN also has two other pilots in development, Cops of LA and TAKEN: Phoenix. Other TBA pilots: Untitled Sports Radio Show, Other Peoples Kids, Rookies, Hail Mary, and Partners.
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS:
REBUILDING MY LIFE
- June 18th, the start of what was supposed to be an excellent summer adventure for the Smith family, turned out to be the exact opposite. At 4:17pm, a terrible accident would destroy Edward Smith's (Enrique Murciano) life forever. After three weeks in a coma, Edward wakes to discover that everyone he loved died in the accident. The love of his life, his seven year old son, and five year old daughter - all gone in the blink of an eye. How can one rebuild their life after such a tragic accident? Rebuilding My Life tells the story of Edward and his struggles to somehow get over the loss of his family.
- Starring: Enrique Murciano and Noelle Beck
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
- Stephanie (Candace Cameron Bure) is a newly divorced woman with one child (Liam James). Needing a place to stay, she decides to move in with her single mother (Alley Mills). Even though the two have had a rocky relationship, they are going to have to make the best of it.
- Starring: Alley Mills, Candace Cameron Bure, and Liam James
CHICAGO D.A.
- Anna Fuller (Annabella Sciorra) is the first ever female District Attorney of Chicago. In her new job, she learns just how difficult it is to put away a city full of corruption and murder.
- Starring: Annabella Sciorra, Monica Raymund, Kevin Alejandro, J.C. MacKenzie
SECRET SERVICE
- Title 18, United States Code, Section 3056A: Secret Service Uniformed Division officers provide protection for the White House Complex, the Vice President's residence, the main Treasury Building and Annex, and foreign diplomatic missions and embassies in the Washington, D.C., area. Additionally, Uniformed Division officers travel in support of presidential, vice presidential, and foreign head of state government missions.
George Marshall (Mark Harmon) is the newly elected President of the United States. Under Title 18 Section 3056A, he is entitled to his own security, the Secret Service. In this new drama, we follow a small portion of the protection that is always with the President. Led by Andrew Walters (Thomas Gibson), his team of Dana Lee (Erica Durance), Grace Shepherd (Lena Headey) and Benjamin Caldwell (Sean Patrick Thomas), it is their duty to protect the President at all times. Given intel information about possible assassination attempts, they must do anything and everything to make sure Marshall does not join the likes of JFK. The Secret Service must also watch over crowds at large speaking events, where the President is seen many times. Working non-stop, the members have pushed their personal lives to the side to watch over the most important man in the country, the President of the United States.
- Starring: Mark Harmon, Thomas Gibson, Erica Durance, Lena Headey, and Sean Patrick Thomas
FAILING TO PUBLISH
- A group of friends thought they had it all: a great job working with each other. Then, the recession hit, and people stopped buying magazines. Needing to rescue the magazine to continue working together, the friends develop strange ways to keep the magazine afloat. We also see the development of relationships in and out of the six friends circle.
- Starring: Ethan Embry, Josie Davis, Hayes MacArthur, Ashley Scott, Trevor Moore, and Jessica Parker Kennedy
WEEKENDS AT BELLEVUE
- Centered on a psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit.
- Starring: Lauren Ambrose, Janet McTeer, Yin Chang, Joe D'Onofrio, Xzibit, Daniel London, David Alpay, and Margaret Anne Florence
CALL GIRLS
- Meet Mark Tully (Johnathon Schaech), he owns Sugar, an escort service made for callgirls. Bridget Mongalo (Kirsten Dunst) has been in the business for three years and now has high paying executive clients. Rebecca Davis (Mila Kunis) and Wendy Parker (Laura Vandervoot) have known each other since high school. Not wanting to go to college, they decided to start working at Sugar last year. Valerie Kay (Yvonne Stahovski) needs to pay for medical school, and the only way to come up the money is to sell her body. Valerie has been on the job for less than a week and has to get used to her new life. Together, all four girls develop special relationships with clients and discover that to get through it all, they need each other.
- Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Kirsten Dunst, Mila Kunis, Laura Vandervoort, and Yvonne Strahovski
For midseason series descriptions, go here: networkgame2.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tvn&action=display&thread=7177