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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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The ABC Upfronts are next week and rumors are swirling that one of my favorite new shows of this past year, ELI STONE, will get the nod to return next season. Nothing is official of course, but these kinds of rumors are definitely welcome.
I’ll be at the presentation in NYC when ABC pres Steve […]
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TiFaux has joined the strike-centric Adopt A Writer project, but also has the best criticism of it in the headline for this item: "TV Writers and TV Bloggers: Holding Hands, Riding on Unicorns."

ABC has added a disclaimer to its controversial premiere of "Eli Stone." (TV Guide)
Photo spoilers for the season premiere of "Jericho." (Televisionista)
Bob Newhart will stand in for his late TV spouse, Suzanne Pleshette, where her star on the Walk of Fame is dedicated. (TV Squad)
Another sign of the apocalypse: "Celebrity Apprentice" gets a second season. but where oh where will they find someone as creepy as Gene Simmons (right)? (TV Squad)
Screen Actors Guilding begins to prepare for its negotiations with the producers. (LA Times)
"Idol" and "House" kick ass in Tuesday ratings. Duh. (TV Decoder)
Another studio strikes a side deal with the writers. (Scribe Vibe)
Self-aggrandizing douchebag Dr. Phil says he "regrets" the Britney mess, but, uh, he didn’t […]

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"Eli Stone" hasn’t actually begun airing yet, but the American Academy Of Pediatrics is up in arms about it. In the first episode, which airs Thursday on ABC following "Lost," Eli Stone takes on a case in which a mother believes a vaccine caused her child to become autistic. Did I mention that he’s having prophetic visions? Because that’s important. He’s a prophet of doom, in other words.
The problem with the premise is that the vaccine-autism link is pretty much disproven, and the last thing we need is more unvaccinated children getting horribly, even fatally, ill because their parents believed the superstition that vaccines cause autism.TV Squad says parents and TV viewers are smarter than that. I disagree. Parents are crazy with sleeplessness and worry, and humans in general are terrible judges of risk, and the last thing we need is a television show which encourages parents to rush to […]

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ABC unveiled its winter schedule on Friday, the last of the big four to do so, and the main news involved "Lost." The castaway hour, already a bit of a drama queen when it comes to scheduling, will indeed air the eight episodes complete before the writer’s strike. And here’s a kick in the pants - they will air in "Grey’s Anatomy’s" timeslot, Thursdays at 9 ET beginning Jan. 31. You can argue that this will further confuse the already addled "Lost" audience, or that it will give the show a new chance for audience sampling as it kicks off its final three seasons. No word, though, on what airing eight episodes this year does to that plan for three final 16-ep seasons, which was supposed to tie a bow on the whole island saga.
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