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Date Posted: 17:50:38 05/18/04 Tue
Author: SMH
Subject: The WB announces it's fall schedule

Saw on zap2it.com that The WB released their fall schedule today as well.

Shows getting cancelled: All About the Andersons, Angel, The Help, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Like Family,
Run of the House, Surreal Life, and Tarzan. I think the only decent one of the bunch was Angel and personally I never watched any of them.

Here is their line-up:

Sunday:
7:00-- Steve Harvey's Big Time
8:00-- Charmed
9:00-- Jack and Bobby (new)

Monday:
8:00-- 7th Heaven
9:00-- Everwood

Tuesday:
8:00-- Gilmore Girls
9:00-- One Tree Hill

Wednesday:
8:00-- Smallville
9:00-- Blue Collar TV (new)
9:30-- Drew Carey's Green Screen Show (new)

Thursday:
8:00-- The Mountain (new)
9:00-- Studio 7 (new)

Friday:
8:00-- What I Like About You
8:30-- Commando Nanny (new)
9:00-- Reba
9:30-- Grounded For Life

Here are the descriptions for the new shows (complete with comments from the zap2it powers that be):

Blue Collar TV:
Premise: Taking a "Blue Collar" perspective, each show begins with a standup routine by Jeff Foxworthy. The rest of the episode then continues with skits based on the them set up at the beginning.
From What We've Seen:
If you watch this show... You might be a redneck. Then again, Foxworthy's humor clearly has a more mainstream reach and his comedy tours with Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy have been wildly successful. Then again, does anybody besides Haley Joel Osment remember "The Jeff Foxworthy Show"? Perhaps he'll have more luck with this mixture of stand-up and improv that approaches a different theme each week. Skits teased for advertisers included an amusing "CSI: Tennessee," where the investigators deal with the difficulties of investigating crimes when everybody's DNA is the same.

Commando Nanny:
Premise:
A 20-year-old ex-commando for the British Special Forces moves to Beverly Hills and takes a job as a nanny for three spoiled rich kids.
From What We've Seen:
Phillip Winchester offers a strangely prim and prissy interpretation of the excitable Burnett. He does, however, have the looks and British accent to make even normally staid advertisers sigh. You wouldn't think the premise could be subject to endless laughs, but how many years did "Mr. Belvedere" last? Gerald McRaney is the kind of actor who can wring laughs out of even the most tired of material and he may be doing that a lot here.

Drew Carey's Green Screen Show
Premise:
Imagine "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" with an animated element. Many of the players from ABC's "Whose Line" are here improvising scenes based on suggestions from the audience. The added dimension is the green screen behind them that flashes animations and effects, giving the skit a feel of a movie.
From What We've Seen:
The clips from the pilot show a number of different animated (from grainy retro black-and-white to claymation to Disney parodies) and effects styles and the integration appears to be seamless. The cast is full of reliable improv comedy veterans and if The WB can draw half the audience "Who's Line Is it Anyway?" got on ABC, the network would be overjoyed. The problem is that improv comedy is about imagination and while the animation helps flesh the jokes out, it doesn't make things much funnier.

Jack and Bobby
Premise:
An eccentric single mother raises two teen boys, one of whom is destined to be president of the United States.
From What We've Seen:
The identity of which brother becomes president looks like a mystery, but it's revealed at the end of the pilot. Some viewers will feel cheated by the reveal, while others will think that the sense of dramatic irony (by the end of the first episode we know several important details about the future of Jack, Bobby and those they love) makes the show more entertaining. The lovely Quebec-born Pare may be too quirky for her role, but Matthew Long seems born to be a Face of The WB. Christina Lahti's predictably eccentric single mother is all too much like Frances McDormand's "Almost Famous" mum. The time-skipping premise, which makes sense in context, will be difficult to promote.

The Mountain

Premise:
The owner of a famous ski resort dies and leaves the family business to the most irresponsible of his three grandchildren.
From What We've Seen:
The WB seems determined to keep trying to make Oliver Hudson a star, but this show doesn't look like his hit, particularly given the time slot of death. McG and company seem to mostly be interested in the extreme sports aspect of the plot, which means lots of stunt people flying through the air with bikes, snowboards and skis and very few interesting or original characters. From brooding charismatic outsiders to vapid affluence to random fist-fights, "The Mountain" wants to be "The O.C." at a higher altitude, but the pilot suggests that much work has yet to be done.

Studio 7

Premise:
Game shows meld even more with reality. Seven young adults compete in a series of elimination rounds that test their knowledge of pop culture, world events, science and literature. The twist? They're also roommates for a week in a deluxe New York apartment.
From What We've Seen:
The pilot hasn't been shot, but advertisers were shown clips confirming the show's "Real World" meets "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" premise. This may be the perfect refuge for viewers looking for a sexier, hipper, stupider brand of quiz show, but in this time slot, who's going to be watching?

Studio 7 sounds kind of interesting, since I love trivia, but they have to live together? Geez. The Drew Carey show might be interesting as I enjoyed Whose Line. I was intrigued by historical implications of the title "Jack and Bobby", and might check out the show just to see how they work the premise. Other than that it just looks like typical WB fare.

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