TV TimeZ

Tuesday, March 22, 2011


Planet Green: The Fabulous Beekman Boys at 10p
Syfy: Marcel's Quantum Kitchen at 10p
truTV: Big Brian: The Fortune Seller at 10p
ABC: No Ordinary Family, Best in Film: Greatest Movies of Our Time
CBS: NCIS, NCIS: LA, The Good Wife
NBC: The Biggest Loser: Couples, Parenthood


Several summer reality series set premiere dates on NBC:

• Season six of America's Got Talent bows May 31 while the sophomore season of The Marriage Ref opens June 26. 
• New game show It's Worth What? hosted by Cedric has not set its premiere date or time. 
• Fresh episodes of a handful of series will also continue during the summer including upcoming new singing competition series The Voice through June; as well as new game show Still Standing, new reality series Love in the Wild and new eps of revamped Law & Order: Los Angeles. 
• The final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent will premiere on NBC May 30.
• Friday Night Lights will open its final season on NBC April 15 and continue through into the summer after having aired on DirecTV.

The 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards set for June 19 at 8p on CBS based at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas.


With spring comes baseball and ESPN debuts its 22nd season of MLB coverage with MLB Opening Week airing March 31 through April 3.  Furthermore, ESPN's Baseball Tonight show opens April 3 with shows airing each Sunday at 1230p and 7p.

A seven-episode sophomore season of Hogs Gone Wild is back on Discovery Channel starting April 19 at 10p.  The series chronicles the tough pest control companies as they try to catch aggressively mean wild hogs that cause health risks and property damage across the US.  Film Garden produces the series for Discovery Channel.


Aaron Sorkin's tentatively titled HBO drama pilot, More As the Story Develops is in talks with Jeff Daniels to star. Sorkin had spent time with former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann as well as MSNBC's Chris Matthews to better understand the cable news world.  If this project goes to series, this project will be Daniels' first venture into regular series television. 

HBO is also prepping a new miniseries after optioning the book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by journalist Barton Gellman.  The project would take a look at Dick Cheney's political career from his involvement in the Nixon administration through his eight years as Vice President under President George W. Bush.  Spring Creek Productions and Fair Catch Productions' Paula Weinstein are set to produce with Jeffrey Levine.  Frontline's David Fanning and Michael Kirk and Fair Catch Productions' David Kennedy will serve as executive producers.  Rick Cleveland (The West Wing, Six Feet Under) will adapt the book.  The production is from Spring Creek Productions in association with WGBH/Frontline and Fair Catch Productions.

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes is working on Titanic, a new television miniseries project that was approved for production.  Fellowes will write the epic drama consisting of two 90-minute episodes as well as four one-hour eps.