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Fox hunting werewolves


Never mind vampires -- the Fox network is looking to get back into the werewolf business, developing "Howl," from DreamWorks TV.
Project is being written by Joshua Miller and M.A. Fortin. DreamWorks TV toppers Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank would exec produce.

"Howl" is described as an epic family saga about warring families of werewolves in a small Alaskan town.

"Alaska is a place where people disappear and now you know why," Miller said.

The script reflects the changes that are going on in the country, and "metamorphosis and constant change is the basis of werewolf mythology," he added. "Howl" is about "the psychology of living with change."

One of the Fox network's first series, 1987's "Werewolf," also revolved around the mythic creatures. More recently, CBS aired the short-lived "Wolf Lake," while MTV is currently developing a new take on the 1980s movie "Teen Wolf."

(variety)

trailer for a proposed British sci-fi show called Slingers, which is kind of a Firefly-meets-Mad Men with an Ocean's 11 plotline


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FX announces return dates for 'Nip/Tuck,' 'Damages'
by Lynette Rice

FX announced today that the final nine episodes of Nip/Tuck will begin airing Jan. 6 while the third season of Damages will kick off Jan. 25. FX’s new drama Justified (formerly Lawman) starring Timothy Olyphant will bow in March, while the network’s new comedy Louie starring comedian Louis C.K. will launch in the spring. FX will also debut a new animated comedy called Archer – which is set at a spy agency – on Jan. 14.

Guest stars for the final season of Nip/Tuck include Melanie Griffith, Joan Rivers, Mario Lopez, Frances Conroy, Donna Mills and Joan Van Ark while Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine will join the new season of Damages.

(Ew.com)

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Ray Romano’s MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE Is Probably TNT’s Best Original Series Ever


A TNT dramedy from “Everybody Loves Raymond” writers Ray Romano and Mike Royce, “Men of a Certain Age” stars Romano, Andre Braugher (“Homicide”) and Scott Bakula (“Star Trek: Enterprise”) as a trio friends – a party supply store owner, a car salesman and a part-time actor – confronting mid-life crises.

It may be TNT’s best original series to date. I already like it a good deal better than Romano’s long-running laughtrack sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond.” There’s a very dark gag early in the first episode involving a vehicular mishap that makes me want to cut “Certain” a lot of slack.

Braugher is aces as always, and looks far heftier than I remember he did in “The Mist”; unless there are some digital effects or some very convincing prostheses at play, he seems to outeaten Robert DeNiro, packing on a troubling amount of weight to play an unhappy, lethargic, diabetic overeater who finds himself pushed to new levels of frustration. (The series’ storyline appears to bring a new resolve to the character that might keep the actor from killing himself.)

At times the series feels like a middle-aged “Diner” and at other times feels slightly overwritten; the comedy and drama might grow stronger if the project adopted the semi-improvisational approach we saw in “Diner” and still see “Friday Night Lights” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” I laughed hard at something as simple as Romano failing to guess the correct temperature; I’d love to see more of that kind of thing.

(aintitcool)

Nice to see Scott Bakula's got a role that suits him

Nice to see Scott Bakula's got a role that suits him

One was amused that his role on Enterprise was originally going to be named Jeffrey Archer.