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Mick Jagger Heist on Hold
The first new show of the fall TV season has been put on the shelf. Only, it's not expected to get too dusty up there.
The Knights of Prosperity, an ABC sitcom about a band of "average joes" who rob from the rich Mick Jagger to give to themselves, will be held back from its scheduled Oct. 17 debut and instead rolled out in January.
For the time being, the comedy's 9-9:30 p.m. Tuesday slot is expected to be filled by Dancing with the Stars, which has been offering super-sized Tuesday episodes of 90 minutes-120 minutes this fall.
Knights' delayed premiere is being spun as a reward, not a punishment. In the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the move Wednesday, ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson said the show was "so good, it deserves to have a strong launch."
Usually, when networks or studios say something is "so good," and, come to think of it, too good to be released to the public as scheduled, they really mean something is so bad. But this time, the makers of the "so-good" show believe the network really does believe in them.
"We could not be happier about this decision," Knights cocreator and executive producer Rob Burnett told the Times.
A January launch works for Burnett because, he said, Knights was "a little bit lost in the shuffle" going into its October launch.
While Ugly Betty got a big fall push from ABC, Knights got by on the kindness of strangers who remembered it as the Mick Jagger show that was formerly known as Let's Rob Mick Jagger and that Mick Jagger himself wasn't really going to be in (outside of a cameo in the first episode).
In lieu of Jagger, Knights stars Donal Logue, late of Fox's Grounded for Life.
The comedy remains in production, the Times reported, with nine new scripts ordered on top of the original 13-episode tab.
So far, no member of the freshman TV class of 2005-06 has been permanently banished from prime time. The Fox comedy Happy Hour seems to be dancing closest to abyss, losing a scheduled air date last week. Another Fox comedy, 'Til Death, has had Nielsen problems, and reportedly in star Brad Garrett's eyes, script problems. The Hollywood Reporter said that Garrett's unhappiness with a script recently extended a planned weeklong hiatus by another week.
CBS' The Class hasn't been yanked, and it hasn't been shut down, but it has been swapped. Effective next Monday, the Friends-esque comedy about a group of friends will switch places with How I Met Your Mother, with the latter moving up to 8 p.m., and the former moving back to 8:30 p.m. If The Class can't cut it there, it might be out of time slots.
In happier news, for Julia Louis-Dreyfus anyway, CBS has ordered a full-season's worth of episodes of The New Adventures of Old Christine. At two seasons old now, Old Christine is the longest-lived comedy series for a formerformer Seinfeld costar.
It could be said the pick-up officially ends the "Seinfeld curse," except it could be said the "Seinfeld curse" officially ended when Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards all made a bajillion dollars for a series that wasn't named after them.
Elsewhere, Veronica Mars made its CW debut Tuesday night, and, in a rare development, benefited from its new network home, if not its new lead-in.
Airing after Gilmore Girls, the teen P.I. show hooked an estimated 3.3 million, the CW said. Last year on UPN, it averaged just 2.2 million.
In another premiere, NBC's Friday Night Lights seemed out of place on Tuesday, scoring with only an estimated 7.2 million.
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