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Archive for the ‘Pickups’ Category

October 24th, 2007

‘Pushing Daisies’ Earns the Back Nine for a Full-Season Ride

ABC is picking up its pickups these days. Just last week, the Alphabet Network awarded the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Private Practice with a full season. Now, executives’ good graces are raining down on the romantic crime dramedy fantasy (Whew!) that precedes the medical series on Wednesday nights in the United States, the one […]

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October 19th, 2007

Congratulations to ‘The Big Bang Theory’!

Nice going to the cast of CBS’ newest hit sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. In addition to sophomore military drama The Unit, a show whose popularity I simply cannot and will never understand, the Eye Network has decided to give a full-season pickup to the rookie “Two Braniacs and a Babe” comedy.
Industry publication Broadcasting […]

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October 15th, 2007

NBC Shows ‘Chuck’ Some Love in the Face of a Looming Writers’ Strike

…but just a teensy weensy bit.
Following the announcement last Tuesday of the first full pickup of the current fall season, which went to The CW’s new young-adult soap Gossip Girl, both NBC and ABC publicly stated that several of their rookie series have received orders for additional scripts.
No, in case you’re wondering, that’s nowhere near […]

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