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Fox, NBC Get Head Start on Fall Lineups
A missing wife and a crabby married man. That may sound suspicious to us, but to Fox, it sounds like an hour and a half of good television.
The network announced Friday it was giving the early go-ahead to two new series--Vanished, a cleverly named missing persons drama, and the Brad Garrett sitcom Til Death, about a longtime married couple whose next door neighbors are newlyweds.
"In the case of both shows, given the quality of them, the decision was inevitable," Craig Erwich, executive VP of programming at Fox, told Variety. "Sometimes when you know, you know. They fit into the brand and the strategy of what we're trying to do here."
Deter people from joining together in holy matrimony?
Vanished will center on one missing person in particular, a senator's wife who disappears as part of a larger conspiracy (terrorist, government, financial-the possibilities are endless). Former ER doc Ming-Na and Rebecca Gayheart are the major players attached to the project.
That sounds like just one hour of 24, actually, but Fox execs can smell the tension, and, therefore, the promise, of the action-suspense drama.
"We've had success with epic sagas over the last few years, and this one is delicious in the way that any great mystery novel is," Erwich said.
Til Death stars Garrett and Joely Fisher as the seen-it-all couple and American Pie's Eddie Kaye Thomas and relative newcomer Kat Foster as the starry-eyed duo next door.
Sony Pictures Television, the show's producer, sounds quite pleased with the early greenlight.
"It helps ease the anxiety going into pilot season," Jamie Erlicht, co-president of programming and production at Sony Pictures Television, said. The studio also has another production in the works, an hour-long drama called Kidnapped for NBC.
We have no idea what that could be about.
Vanished and Til Death join a handful of scripted series that Fox is sure it wants back on its prime-time roster in the fall. The network has already welcomed back with open arms the freshmen series Prison Break and Bones and ordered up 18th and 19th seasons of The Simpsons and an 11th year of King of the Hill.
After renewing all three of its Law & Order series Thursday, NBC continued to pad its fall lineup by picking up three of its more solid performers, Medium, Crossing Jordan and Las Vegas. Each delivers about 11 million viewers per week.
"These three shows have A-plus creative auspices and some of the most loyal audiences on television," NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly said in a statement. "I'm thrilled that we can count on them again next season."
We're sure that all of the people who get up every morning to make Patricia Arquette see dead people, Jill Hennessy perform an autopsy and James Caan act somewhat like Sonny Corleone again are thrilled, as well.
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