I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted some news about everybody’s favourite cancelled-before-its-time show EVERWOOD, so here’s some great news to make up for it.
According to Ausiello over at TVGUIDE, EVERWOOD’s Chris Pratt (Bright), will be joining THE OC for a multi-episode arc this season. Pratt will play Che, an environmentalist that Summer (Rachel Bilson) befriends while away at college. Greg Berlanti, EVERWOOD’s creator said:
“I think it’s great for him to do an arc on another show this year, so that when pilot season comes around everybody remembers what a versatile and talented actor he is. I love Chris. I want to see him do really, really well.
the TV addict couldn’t agree more. The only bad news is that THE OC doesn’t premiere until November 2 (damn you baseball!). 
According to this morning’s LA TIMES, EVERWOOD Creator Greg Berlanti has agreed to join the struggling ABC drama BROTHERS & SISTERS as a showrunner, following yet another behind-the-scenes shuffle at the new series. The series, featuring a fantastic ensemble cast including Calista Flockhart, Ron Rifkin and Sally Field has been plagued with problems since the it was picked up, including to Executive Producers quitting the show. The most recent one, Marti Noxon, has refused to comment on the story.
Needless to say, with Berlanti at the helm, this TV addict will definitely be watching yet another show he didn’t intend to watch this fall season. Time to buy a second TIVO!
Hoping to be the next NOBODY’S WATCHING, rejected pilots are popping up all over YouTube in droves. According to Variety, at least four failed pilots from the 2005-06 development season have ended up online. The pilot leaks are inspired by the fact that Bill Lawrence’s NOBODY’S WATCHING was recently picked up by NBC after being rejected by the CW, after it gained a large following on YouTube. Needless to say, TV Exects are not happy, and the pilots are generally removed within hours of being posted.
Michael Ausiello over at TVguide has snagged some fantastic GILMORE GIRLS/VERONICA MARS scoop. In an attempt to ensure all of GILMORE’S loyal audience keeps the channel tuned into VERONICA MARS following GG on Tuesday nights, Gilmore Guy Matt Czuchry will cross over to VERONICA MARS on October 24, playing Charlie Stone, the half brother to Logan Echolls!
According to the Hollywood Reporter GILMORE GIRLS (former) showrunner and creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has found a new home. She’s signed a deal with FOX Broadcasting Co. to create a half-hour mutli-camera comedy. The untitled comedy revolves around two estranged sisters who reunite after one of them agrees to carry the other one’s baby. ASP will write, executive produce and direct the bpilot which has yet to be picked up by a studio.
SPOILER ALERT! Looks like JAM (Jim & Pam) Shippers are not going to be too happy with the aftermath of the BIG kiss in last season’s finale. According to the Hollywood Reporter, former BOSTON PUBLIC teacher Rashida Jones has landed a recurring role as a potential love interest and co-worker for Jim. Rumour has it that Jim will start the season at a different Dunder Mifflin branch, where Rashida Jones, Ed Helms (The Daily Show) and Charles “Chip” Esten (Whose Line) will play co-workers. Looks like we’ll have to wait at least one more season for a happily ever-after ending.
GET OUT! Seriously, you can chat with Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus today online. Head on over to http://goldderby.latimes.com for TheEnvelope.com’s live internet chat session. I can’t attend, but if you do, make sure to ask her if she reads theTVaddict.com! Just Kidding. But do ask a question, and tell Julia theTVaddict says HI and I love THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE.
In related NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE news, Variety reports that Blair Underwood has signed on for a recurring role in the sitcoms sophmore season. The SEX AND THE CITY alumnist will play (surprise!) a new teacher that Christine falls for at her son’s school.
In a move that I can only hope becomes more common place among networks, Warner Bros. Studio has recently made the un-aired pilot of AQUAMAN available for download on iTunes for $1.99 [click here to download].
In the premiere episode, we’re introduced to A.C. Curry (Justin Hartley), who by the end of the episode, discovers he is actually the long-lost prince of Atlantis and is pretty much the only man who can save both the human world and the underwater one (Atlantis). Thrown into the mix is a mysterious mentor (Ving Rhames), a Government agent, a love interest (of course!) and a step-father (Lou Diamond Phillips).
So did the show warrant a place on the new CW’s schedule? This TV Addict says YES! (not surprisingly, the show is far better then 7th HEAVEN!). Overall the pilot was enjoyable and as most successful pilots do, properly introduce us to our hero and supporting players. The episode was shot beautifully and lord knows in the cold of winter, I’d be more then happy to spend an hour a week in beautiful Tempest Florida. Yet the question is, could writers Millar and Gough (SMALLVILLE) really dream up enough adventure to ensure AQUAMAN remained interesting for 100 epidodes. Sadly we’ll never know, but I think it would have been pretty great to find out.
The TV Addict has learned that ABC is hosting red carpet screenings for two of their new fall shows, UGLY BETTY and MEN IN TREES. For your chance to see a new fall show before it airs on the network, be sure to join ABC for one of the special screenings below:
Wednesday, August 9th @ 8pm
Crown Center Square – Kansas City, KS
Wednesday, August 16th @ 8pm
Cherry Creek North Shopping District – Denver, CO
Tuesday, August 22nd @ 9pm
Cinema San Pedro – San Francisco, CA
Thursday, August 24th @ 8pm
Marymoor Park – Seattle, WA
If you do attend the screenings, be sure to come back to theTVaddict.com to post your thoughts!
In what the TV addict believes is a brilliant promotional move, NBC has signed a deal with Netflix (the leading internet video rental store) to offer select shows from their fall line-up to Netflix Subscribers. NBC hopes to drum up early buzz for two shows: STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP and KIDNAPPED by offering them on DVD to Netflix Subscribers
According to NBC, subscribers will be able to watch the first episodes of each of the shows and sample trailers of NBC’s other new series set to air in the 2006/2007 broadcast season. The shows will be available beginning on August 5.
Yet another reason why theTVaddict wishes NetFlix would come to Canada!
Thanks to Watch With Intelligence for the tip
Source: Reuters
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