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"Battlestar Galactica" fans love "Battlestar Galactica," true, but there aren’t that many of them. (TV By The Numbers)
Crappy ratings for "Monk" and "Psych," too, in their move to broadcast. (Hollywood Reporter)
Talking to Barry Watson of "Samantha Who?" (BuzzSugar)
Deconstructing the TV Guide cover with "The Office." (Give Me My Remote)
"Friday Night Lights" deal with DirecTV the new template for series survival? (NY Times)

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ABC has finally unveiled its spring, post-strike debut schedule. The bad news is that "Pushing Daisies," "Private Practice" and "Dirty Sexy Money" won’t return until next season. The good news is that they will return. "Desperate Housewives" returns to the scheduled April 13 with seven hours of new episodes including a two-hour season finale. Also returning with new episodes: "Boston Legal," "Brothers & Sisters," "Grey’s Anatomy," "Samantha Who?" and "Ugly Betty." "Grey’s" returns April 24, when "Lost" switches to 10 p.m. Thursdays. The full release with all the details is after the jump.
ABC ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF TELEVISION’S BIGGEST HIT SHOWS
Series Returning Include "Boston Legal," "Brothers & Sisters," "Desperate Housewives," "Grey’s Anatomy," "Lost," "Samantha Who?" and "Ugly Betty"
"Lost" Moves to New Time - Thursday Nights at 10:00 p.m. - Beginning April 24
ABC Entertainment announces the return of television’s biggest hit shows, including "Boston Legal," "Brothers & Sisters," "Desperate Housewives," "Grey’s […]

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We’re about to enter Week 5 of the WGA strike so Ducky and I give you the rundown on how many original episodes are left for most shows. We then discuss this season’s plot points thus far as well as whether or not each show is living up to our expectations.
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The Ausiello Report reports that Timothy Olyphant, who played Sheriff Seth Bullock on "Deadwood," will be heading over to "Samantha Who?" That’s great. I liked him in that role and I hope he’ll be good in this one.
What confuses me about the post is that Ausiello says "Samantha" is an "irresistible" show with "boffo" ratings. Is this the same show that I saw? I went back over to ABC.com and re-watched it, and I still don’t like it. It’s aggressively mediocre. It’s got one joke that it repeats again and again. I get it: She’s a bitch starting over with a blank slate.
We’ve seen this before: Goldie Hawn played it for laughs in the forgettable 1987 movie "Overboard," and Harrison Ford played it as a drama in "Regarding Henry." I really can’t see that gimmick lasting more than about ninety minutes, but they’ve apparently got a whole season of […]

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Whopping numbers for "Samantha Who?" on Monday night. The Christina Applegate comedy beat top-rated "Two And A Half Men" and even edged out its ABC brethren "Private Practice" for the fall’s highest debut. (Televisionista)
Another midseason Fox pilot in trouble? One day after an order cut for "The Return of Jezebel James," Ausiello says "New Amsterdam" is taking a production break after eight episodes. (TV Guide)
Today’s advertising note: The Travelocity Gnome has been kidnapped. Or did it just defect to Orbitz? (TV Squad)
"Dancing With The Stars" doesn’t want any more lifting. Um, whatever. (TV Squad)
Barnhart takes TVGuide to task for a cover spoiler. (TV Barn)
Debra Messing and "The Starter Wife" will be back in a series version. There is no God. (Hollywood Reporter)
"Kid Nation" parents support the show. (Buddy TV)

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A decade removed from her stint on "Married…With Children," Christina Applegate shows a terrific and very different comic touch in her new ABC comedy, "Samantha Who?" This is the amnesia comedy that was called "Sam I Am" until the Dr. Seuss estate got wind of it. Applegate plays Samantha Newly (get it?), who wakes up after an eight-day coma with a bad case of retrograde amnesia. She remembers how to walk and talk, but not her family or her friends, her high-school prom or her 8th birthday party.
"This is awful," sobs Jean Smart as Samantha’s  self-involved mother. "I worked my fingers to the bone for that party!"
Turns out that before the accident, Samantha was
pretty self-involved
herself, and the first two episodes follow her as she discovers just
what she was like. (Spoilers ahead.)
Leaving the hospital, she tries living with her
parents (Smart and Kevin Dunn), but they believe shouting will overcome
amnesia ("I said, […]

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The new ABC sitcom "Samantha Who?" stars Christina Applegate as a woman who wakes from a coma to find she has retrograde amnesia - she can walk and talk and drive, she just can’t remember anything about her life, not family or friends or lovers. Gradually she finds out that ‘Old Sam’ has been a rotten human being; ‘New Sam’ decides to change her ways. Call it a kindler, gentler "My Name Is Earl."
"Some people call this ‘My Name Is Girl,’ and I hate those people," co-creator Donald Todd said at press tour this summer. He was joking, kinda.
"There’s an element of this show that can draw on the same kind of setup, someone who discovers a problem and has to go fix it. But with us that’s only one element of the show… There are so many avenues for stories on this, but one will be land mines that […]

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