The IV Line: Week of October 29, 2007

by the-jam · October 29, 2007 @ 3:23 pm · Filed under TV News

Well last week seemed to go off well so here goes another week. Posting a bit late this week as I was out of town for the latter half of last week and the weekend.

This Week

Some high profile premieres this week starting with FX’s Nip/Tuck on Tuesday at 10PM. The show changes its setting to Los Angeles for its fifth season. Also starting on Tuesday at 10:30PM is Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is on BET the last of the network’s Tuesday reality block. A couple Halloween themed events on Wednesday. The Sci Fi Channel is airing their now annual six-hour Ghost Hunters (Wednesday 9PM) Live special this year Destination Truth’s Josh Gates guest hosts. The History Channel is also premiering their new show MonsterQuest (Wednesday 10PM) that will look into the historical truth behind famous monster sightings. History has another new show premiering Thursday at 9PM called Gangland which will tell the stories of America’s most famous gangs from Revolutionary War gangs to modern day drug traffikers. Friday sees the premiere of Cartoon Network’s new primetime original Chowder (Friday 7:30PM) about a wannabe chef in a crazy mystical city. Also of note starting this Friday is ABC’s schedule rearrangment. Men in Trees is moving to 8PM and 20/20 is moving back to its old 10PM timeslot. Seems to make sense Men in Trees is a much better fit for an earlier timeslot and it seems wierd not having 20/20 on Fridays at 10PM. Hopefully the move doesn’t hurt Trees‘ already low ratings. Sunday sees the return of The Amazing Race (Sunday 8PM) which skips right over the future update section into this upcoming week section. Due to Viva Laughlin’s attrocious ratings CBS pulled it after only one airing in its regular time slot and brought back the Race to the slot it had moderate sucess in last season. The series will travel to several countries it’s never visited before this season. There’s also a couple cable series premieres on Sunday. Court TV’s Secret Ops (Sunday 9PM) about special weapons and tactics teams aroung the country and VH1’s new reality competition, The Shot (Sunday 10PM), about 10 amateur photographers competiting for a fashion photographry job. A little less sensational from the network’s other reality competitions more in line with some of the off network repeats they air like America’s Next Top Model. Well that’s it for this week’s schedule changes on to updates for the future.

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New Program Announcements

ABC announced it’s post Dancing with the Stars Monday night plans. They include a spin-off of Dancing called Dance Wars in which DwtS judges Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba will go head to head in a competition to create the best performance group. It is set to premiere January 7th. The We network announced that their new reality show previously titled The Next Great Supermodel has begun production and is now titled She’s Got the Look. It follows a group of older women vying for a modelling contract. Bravo is also set to premiere a modelling competition series early next year titled Make Me a Supermodel. They just announced that Niki Taylor and Tyson Beckford will be hosting. This series will allow viewers to vote on who continues each week. BBC America has picked up the rights to air 29 episodes of the UK version of Dragon’s Den a reality series where people try to sell a group of investors on their business plans. The UK version originally aired on BBC Two. Animal Planet has started production on a new reality series to be aired early next year called Petfinder that will try to match families and pets.

Programming Updates

A number of updates to the network’s fall shows this week. We had the first cancellation of a scripted show when CBS cancelled Viva Laughlin after only two airings in four days. They’re bringing back The Amazing Race this week to fill the timeslot. CBS also ordered three additional scripts for Moonlight. FOX oredered a full 24-episode season of Back to You and two additional scripts for K-Ville. ABC ordered a full season of Pushing Daisies and additional scripts for Carpoolers (3), Dirty Sexy Money (3), and Samantha Who? (6). Lastly The CW ordered three additional scripts for Reaper. This leaves only four scripted shows (Cavemen, Women’s Murder Club, Big Shots, Life Is Wild) with no additional orders or a cancellation, three of which are on ABC.

ABC also announced their post Dancing with the Stars plans for Monday night (Cashmere Mafia has already been announced to take over DwtS’s Tuesday slot on December 4). Season Two of October Road is set to premiere on Thanksgiving day after Grey’s Anatomy and then move to the Monday at 10PM timeslot for regular airings beginning the following Monday, November 26. Samantha Who? will then move up to the 9PM timeslot and Notes from the Underbelly will return to take the 9:30PM timeslot that same Monday.

A number of cable series also received new or extended orders this week. The Sci Fi Channel ordered a fifth season of Stargate Atlantis and extended it’s contract with the WWE for ECW through 2008. Spike TV has renewed The Ultimate Fighter through it’s twelfth season in 2011.

As always all schedule information can be found on our handy grid pages including upcoming programming: Current Broadcast Network Grid, Current Cable Network Grid (with a list of upcoming programs), Upcoming Broadcast Network Grid

 The show’s airing new episodes each day of the week can be found on each day’s respective calendar pages: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

I guess that’s all for this week. Feel free to post any suggestions or questions in the comments section.

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