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Consensus has it that "Eli Stone" is coming back to ABC, though I can’t understand why. "October Road" is dead. Sources disagree on "Women’s Murder Club," though given the title…
CBS is expected to bring back "The Unit." Still no word on whether "Reaper" will be back on CW, which has gotta be thought of as bad news.
Zach Braff told fans on MySpace what has been the worst-kept secret in Hollywood - "Scrubs" is moving to ABC for its eighth season.
Producers are trying to get CBS to pick up Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton’s "Back to You," which was dropped by Fox. Here’s pix of Grammer at a "memorial" erected by fans over at Fox this morning. People are weird, no?

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I’ll just keep updating this item I think, because the pilot pickup news is coming fast and furious…

Fox picked up J.J. Abrams "Fringe" and kept "‘Til Death" alive but won’t be going "Back To You" next season.
"New Amsterdam" wasn’t immortal after all.
CW picked up "90210," complete with Jennie Garth, and "Stylista."
CW also picked up a show Nikki Finke calls "This Is Our Money-Grubbing Attempt to Clone Gossip Girls But Not Call It A Spin-Off."
And Nikki sez Tori Spelling might also be in "90210." Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Fox also picked up Joss Whedon’s "Dollhouse."
And the writers strike screwed up the whole process.

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Dr. House will once again be insulting the deathly ill. Why do we love him so.
Booth and Brennan will be flirting inappropriately over the grotesque remains of innocent crime victims. And Peter Griffin will be back sobbing into his beer at the Drunken Clam.
Fox has announced resumed production and post-strike premiere dates for a bunch of shows. Among those that will be back on the set is "24," which will finish up production on its seventh season, even though it won’t return until Jan. 2009.
"Bones" will be back with new shows April 14, while "House" follows two weeks later. The much-ballyhooed Julianna Margulies courtroom series "Canterbury’s Law" finally sees the air March 10. The complete press release with all the details is after the jump.
FOX RETURNS SERIES TO PRODUCTION
“BONES” Returns with All-New Episodes on April 14
“‘TIL DEATH” and “BACK TO YOU” Return with All-New Episodeson April 16
“HOUSE” Returns with All-New […]

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Fox sends out review copies more often than the other networks typically do. Still, I was surprised when they sent a DVD with cuts of tonight’s installments of "Back To You" and " ‘Til Death." Even more surprised when their PR staff called and emailed to see if I was going to write about them. Under normal circumstances I probably wouldn’t have; there would be something newer or more important to deal with. But with the writers strike on, and the end of original episodes looming for many series, I better take the chance while I have it, before everything on television is game shows and "Big Brother." I suspect the Fox PR push came from a similar place - trying to sear these two sitcoms into viewers’ memories so they have a chance when (and if) they return after the strike.
If, as many seem to think, the strike is […]

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The life of a celebrity fluctuates constantly.  One minute they’re on top of the world.  The next minute they’re overweight, dancing in front of millions of viewers while distracted by an ensuing custody battle.  If you need the security and consistency of a 9-5 job, then becoming a celebrity probably isn’t a good match for you. This week Video Top 5 looks at stars that have fallen (both literally and figuratively) off the map. 
Jerry O’Connell has had some success over his career.  However, Carpoolers is nothing short of a head-on collision with failure.  Also, if you haven’t checked it out already, watch as Marie Osmond faints during the judges’ critique. Everyone’s biggest concern was making sure the show went to commercial break. 
Menudo has only been an obscure trivia answer for the last couple decades, yet apparently America wants Menudo back. 
Even though Back to You is still hanging […]

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"GOOD LORD, cut your nails! It’s like a falcon landed on my wrist!" If you hear that in Frasier Crane’s voice and laugh, then you’re going to like "Back To You," the new - sort of - Fox sitcom debuting tonight. This is a traditional three-camera, setup-punchline sitcom complete with obnoxious laugh track, made by skillful practitioners of the craft. It’s TV comfort food. Take out the YouTube references and maybe dial back the sex jokes just a bit, and you could put this in the way-back machine and air it in 1982 or 1978 without anyone noticing a problem. Hell, Fred Willard would be wearing the same sportcoats.
Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier") stars as the perfectly named Chuck Darling, a "preening gasbag" of a local news anchor who returns to his old station in Pittsburgh after an on-air meltdown in Los Angeles that became a YouTube sensation. Patricia Heaton ("Everybody […]

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"GOOD LORD, cut your nails! It’s like a falcon landed on my wrist!" If you hear that in Frasier Crane’s voice and laugh, then you’re going to like "Back To You," the new - sort of - Fox sitcom debuting tonight. This is a traditional three-camera, setup-punchline sitcom complete with obnoxious laugh track, made by skillful practitioners of the craft. It’s TV comfort food. Take out the YouTube references and maybe dial back the sex jokes just a bit, and you could put this in the way-back machine and air it in 1982 or 1978 without anyone noticing a problem. Hell, Fred Willard would be wearing the same sportcoats.
Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier") stars as the perfectly named Chuck Darling, a "preening gasbag" of a local news anchor who returns to his old station in Pittsburgh after an on-air meltdown in Los Angeles that became a YouTube sensation. Patricia Heaton ("Everybody […]

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"GOOD LORD, cut your nails! It’s like a falcon landed on my wrist!" If you hear that in Frasier Crane’s voice and laugh, then you’re going to like "Back To You," the new - sort of - Fox sitcom debuting tonight. This is a traditional three-camera, setup-punchline sitcom complete with obnoxious laugh track, made by skillful practitioners of the craft. It’s TV comfort food. Take out the YouTube references and maybe dial back the sex jokes just a bit, and you could put this in the way-back machine and air it in 1982 or 1978 without anyone noticing a problem. Hell, Fred Willard would be wearing the same sportcoats.
Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier") stars as the perfectly named Chuck Darling, a "preening gasbag" of a local news anchor who returns to his old station in Pittsburgh after an on-air meltdown in Los Angeles that became a YouTube sensation. Patricia Heaton ("Everybody […]

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"GOOD LORD, cut your nails! It’s like a falcon landed on my wrist!" If you hear that in Frasier Crane’s voice and you laugh, then you’ll like "Back To You," the new - sort of - Fox sitcom debuting tonight. This is a traditional three-camera, setup-punchline sitcom complete with obnoxious laugh track, made by skillful practitioners of the craft. It’s TV comfort food. Take out the YouTube references and maybe dial back the sex jokes just a bit, and you could put this in the way-back machine and air it in 1982 or 1978 without anyone noticing a problem. Hell, Fred Willard would be wearing the same sportcoats.
Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier") stars as the perfectly named Chuck Darling, a "preening gasbag" of a local news anchor who returns to his old station in Pittsburgh after an on-air meltdown in Los Angeles that became a YouTube sensation. Patricia Heaton ("Everybody Loves […]

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Premiere date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Airs: Wednesdays @ 8pm on Fox
In the ’90s, the local TV news scene in Pittsburgh was dominated by one team: CHUCK DARLING (Kelsey Grammer) and KELLY CARR (Patrica Heaton). They had that elusive quality all news teams need: chemistry… at least on-screen. Off-screen, Chuck was a bit of a self-centered […]
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