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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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Live ads are making a comeback as one way to beat the DVR, and Jimmy Kimmel will be the next to offer them. (AdWeek)
Writers strike cost "Desperate Housewives" some viewers, it appears. (Hollywood Reporter)
CBS unveils big summer plans including - finally - plans to put "Swingtown" on the air. (Hollywood Reporter)
"Battlestar Galactica" boss has a new SF show coming on Fox. (BuzzSugar)
First peek at the new girl on "Gossip Girl" - Michelle Trachtenberg of "Buffy." But - to your right - we found one they didn’t have. (TV Addict)
A look at the season finale of "New Amsterdam." (TV Squad)
Our friend Tim Goodman lowers himself to praising CBS Monday comedies. Sort of. Still snobby, dude. (SFGate)
Anderson Cooper for Katie Couric? Theo Epstein wouldn’t make that trade. (TV Squad)
Verdict on last night’s "How I Met Your Mother." (TV Squad)

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There’s been a distinct lack of buzz for Fox’s new supernatural detective show "New Amsterdam," so I didn’t go in expecting much. It’s also a concept that’s been more or less done before, a few times, but I’m willing to allow that there are new things that could be done with the immortal guy in a nice trenchcoat. Unfortunately, "New Amsterdam" does exactly none of them. Aside from a rather charming throwaway about our hero taking a photograph of Times Square every year, I didn’t see a scene or hear a line of dialogue that I haven’t more or less heard before.
In classic cop cliché, we meet John Amsterdam as he’s being hooked up with his new partner, Eva. She’s a tough lady cop who didn’t want this assignment, but is bound and determined not to get pushed away or killed as all Amsterdam’s partners seem to. Amsterdam wants to […]

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Fox’s new drama, New Amsterdam, doesn’t officially premiere until Monday, March 10th at 9pm, but you can catch a sneak peek of it tonight at 9pm following IDOL and then another sneak peek on Thursday at 9pm.
New Amsterdam tells the story of a New York homicide detective unlike any other. He is brilliant, mysterious, reckless, […]
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John Amsterdam is a New York detective unlike any you’ll find on "Law & Order."
Way back in 1642, as a Dutch soldier serving in what was then called New Amsterdam, he saved the life of an Indian who picked up her peace pipe and gave him the magic toke of immortality, or something like that. (The flashback is a little dark.) Now he’s the "living embodiment of New York City," says Fox, which sounds like a wild party, except that everyone he loves or even likes gets old and dies, and he doesn’t. Bummer. He won’t be released from this blessing/curse until he meets his soulmate. But then your average foot pursuit hands him a near-death experience, and he knows she must be near…
Fox’s "New Amsterdam" is a cop show under a Native American spell. Also, Lasse Hallstrom directed the pilot. Not bad. Its first two episodes bow on Tuesday […]

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Rundown on "America’s Next Top Model" and acrophobia. (BuzzSugar)
Worrying about "30 Rock" going all "Will & Grace" with the guest stars. (TiFaux)
Daily Show’s new web site includes a complete archive, how cool is that? (BuzzSugar)
The annoying husband/father on "Gilmore Girls" is going to be a boyfriend for Addison on "Private Practice." (TV Guide) Just saying "Private Practice" already makes me yawn, though.
A roundup of season orders and airdates (or in the case of "New Amsterdam," lack of airdates). (E! Online)

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Maybe there’s a curse on immortal-detective shows this season. Maybe it’s some kind of David Boreanaz/"Angel" mojo.
CBS’ "Moonlight," about a vampire private eye, has been playing musical showrunners for weeks now, most recently shedding former "Angel" showrunner David Greenwalt in favor of former "Millennium" hand Chip Johannessen. And now Fox’s "New Amsterdam," about an immortal detective in New York City, has been pushed back to midseason, as Fox handed over its time slot to Boreanaz and "Bones" in a schedule reshuffle.
"Bones," starring Boreanaz as an FBI agent and Emily Deschanel as a forensic anthropologist, will now air on Tuesdays at 8, right before the ratings juggernaut and critical favorite "House." The summer sort-of -hit/"Singing Bee" clone "Don’t Forget The Lyrics" will take the Thursday 9 p.m. slot, while Gordon Ramsay’s "Kitchen Nightmares" will move from that slot to the old "Bones" time period, Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
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