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Shows I Look Forward to In 2007/2008 Season


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In many of the following shows I'm interested in the writers who created the shows, not in the theme that much.

The CW

Gossip Girl (Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage) — based on the best-selling book series about the lives of rich youngsters and their parents in New York City

Reaper (Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters of L&O: SVU)— comedic drama about a 21-year-old slacker who becomes the devil’s bounty hunter, retrieving souls escaped from hell

M.I.L.F. and Cookies (Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith) — four hot single moms living in an apartment building balance raising their kids and having single life

FOX

The Cure (Akiva Goldsman) — group cuts through the red tape of medica bureaucracy — often at their own peril — to get care to those who need it most

NSA Innocent (Cochran, Surnow, Gordon) — family man winds up recruited by the NSA as a spy within the defence contracting company he works for

The Return of Jezebel James (Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino)

Minister of Divine — based on the British The Vicar od Dibley

The Apostles (Charles Pratt Jr.) — cop drama with soapy elements that follows officers in Simi Valley, CA, in their off-duty time with their families

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The Mastersons of Manhattan (Gary Janetti, James Burrows) — soap about a wealthy family in New York; revolves around two socialite sisters, one of them played by Natasha Richardson

Zip (Rizzo, Abrams, Benson) — follows the “have nots” living in ZIP code full of “haves” who are hustling to joind the rich crowd (single-camera)

Lipstick Jungle (Candace Bushnell) — trio of power-hungry, rich professional womend will do anything in their power to maintain their status in New York. Based on Bushnell’s novel

M.O.N.Y. (Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson) — surprising and unlikely everyman becomes mayor of New York. He shoots from the gut, makes mistakes and hopefully wins the hearts of the city’s residents

Untitled Blake/Shore (David Shore, Peter Blake) — light ensemble drama with procedural elements that centres on female cop played by Femke Janssen

Journeyman (Kevin Falls, Alex Graves, ex The West Wing) — epic fantasy about a man who travels back in time to alter and fix the lives of people in trouble, but by recalibrating the past, he sometimes alters the future

Chuck (Josh Schwartz, Chris Fedak, McG, Peter Johnson)

CBS

The Big Bang Theory (Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, James Burrows) — Science geeks befriend a woman who is out of their element

Ex Men (Rob Greenberg)

Untitled Kohan/Mutchnik (Max Mutchnik, David Kohan, James Burrows) — office buddy comedy about two friends and writing partners, one straight and one gay, and the women who work with them

The Rich Inner Life of Penelope Cloud (Jeff Greenstein) — former literary genius has an awakening and decides to pursue optimism instead of cynicism

Untitled Scott Silveri — ensemble about the people who are up all night while the rest of us are sleeping

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Babylon Fields — sardonic, apocalyptic comedic drama in which the dead are resurrected and try to resume their former lives. As a result, lives are regained, familiesd restored and old wounds are reopened

Demons (Barbara Hall) — ex-Jesuit priest/psychologist performs exorcisms, fighting the demons in his lives and the lives of others

Los Duques — powerful Latin American family in south Florida

Swingtown (Mike Kelley, Alan Poul) — revolves around married couples in 1970s suburbia who explore partner-swapping and open marriages

Twilight

ABC

American Family

The Call (Surnow, Cochran, Gordon)

Football Wives — watched the British and Italian versions

See Jayne Run — alpha female in the male-dominated world of investment banking struggles to balance single motherhood and career (single-camera)

The Thick of It (Mitch Hurwitz)

Traveling in Packs (Jhoni Marhinko, James Burrows)

Cashmere Mafia (Darren Star, Gail Katz) — four successful female executives, friends since college, rely on one another as they juggle the demands of career, family and high ambitions in New York

Dirty Sexy Money (Craig Wright, Greg Berlanti) — idealistic young lawyer inherits the job of representing a rich, powerful and ethically flexible family after his father’s unexpected death

Eli Stone (Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim)

Life on Mars (David E. Kelly)

Suspect (Ed Zuckerman) — stylish, fast-paced procedural drama uncovering the perpetrator by tracing the suspects

Women’s Murder Club

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