UNTITLED WILL SASSO PROJECT (ABC, New!)

  • Post published:November 9, 2004
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Futon Critic Reported: Actor Will Sasso ("Less Than Perfect") is set to topline a new comedy project for ABC and Touchstone Television from "Perfect" writer Chuck Tatham and producers Nina Wass and Gene Stein. The project, which has a script commitment from the network, features Sasso as the bartender at a local country club who raises his younger brother and sister. Wass and Stein will executive produce via their Wass/Stein Productions banner along with Tatham.PHQ Note: Does this mean no more Carl on Less Than Perfect? We have yet to find out but we will let you know.

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TIN MAN (Sci Fi, New!) Pretender Creator’s TV Movie

Futon Critic Reported: Steven Long Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle ("The Pretender," "The Tin Man") are developing a new four-hour mini-series at the cable channel which puts a sci-fi twist on "The Wizard of Oz." The project centers on Dorothy, a young girl who gets lost in an alternate universe policed by law enforcement officers known as Tin Men and tries to find her way home with the help of three strangers she meets in the mysterious land known as Outer Zone, or O.Z. The pair will write and executive produce the mini-series, which is still in the early stages of development.

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Not the cover but it is Jamie!

  • Post published:November 3, 2004
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The November 7th -13th issue of TV Guide is out and it is Wicked Good! Read about the Wisteria Lane residents in the new issue for The Naked Truth about John, Gabrielle's hunky boy toy. In the real life romance section we learn that Eva Longoria is now divorced from our Pretender little brother, Ethan played by Tyler Christopher (currently of General Hospital). Also, don't you just love the pictures of Jamie? I do. (I can't call him James. He'll always be our Jamie.)

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ABC’s Housewives Pulls Largest Audience to Date

  • Post published:November 3, 2004
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ABC's Housewives Pulls Largest Audience to DateABC had all the tricks and the treats as a Halloween night airing of Desperate Housewives racked up its largest audience to date. The suburban dark comedy delivered 22.3 million viewers and 9.8 rating/23 share in the adults 18-49 demographic at 9 p.m., according to preliminary estimates for Sunday from Nielsen Media Research.

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