Big Shots

[Penny Century]

Originally Posted by tojoson

Speaking of ER, I like her acting in Big Shots, She's not as wooden in this roll

She's honestly not terrible. Which is kind of a shame, because Michael Vartan is terrible. And Nia Long isn't helping much, since she now seems to be trying to act enough for both of them. That way lies madness, dude.

Meanwhile, Brody's father-in-law is a terrible little man. Kudos to the actor who played him for not trying to "seem likeable" while uttering some truly despicable stuff. Plus hey, storyline for Brody! It will be interesting to see where they take the "I own you now" situation; plainly, we see a pattern developing in which Brody is constantly hiding things from Janelle, apparently out of fear. Will she find out about any of it? And then what? The show may or may not have enough time left to explore that, but still.

[Morrigan]

zap2it.com

The final few minutes of "Grey's" and "Big Shots" averaged 5.9/10 for ABC, just beating "ER," 5.8/10, on NBC.

[SamIAm]

From here:

ABC's Big Shots is wrapping. I understand production was told today they would not be coming back after the strike. Not surprising because it was stillborn ratings-wise.

[DamnSkippy]

My, God, can this woman not catch a break? I hope they at least finished filming episode 9 and we'll get to see her one time! *grumblespitcurse*

[Penny Century]

Per Ausiello's column, which Tojoson linked, I expect they will produce the remaining episodes of the 13-episode commitment - if for no other reason than that all the scripts have been turned in, and fresh meat is fresh meat.

I don't have much reason to doubt Nikki Finke, but it also may pay to remember that this is a very unofficial statement. We'll probably hear from ABC soon enough.

[Morrigan]

It's not unexpected but hopefully CC will get on air. At the very least hopefully she'll have made some good connections that will benefit her career next time around.

I still think CC would have been better in Samantha Who? than Christina Applegate.

[SamIAm]

It is true that not coming back after the strike isn't the same as not going to finish filming the existing episodes, so there's some slim hope there. Also, as pointed out, it's not official.

Originally Posted by Morrigan

I still think CC would have been better in Samantha Who? than Christina Applegate.

I kinda like CA as Samantha, but I agree, CC would have kicked ass in the role too.

[Penny Century]

Meanwhile, a piece of an exchange from Marc Berman's Programming Insider site:

Originally posted by TravisYanan:
...Big Shots is finishing filming on the scripts it has remaining, just like everything else.

But, like all new marginal/bubble series this season, I suspect the plug will be pulled when the when the show is finished producing. And to me that seems like just about every new series outside of Private Practice, Samantha Who, and Big Bang Theory.

The possible renewals, I think, are Pushing Daisies, Chuck (since it has become NBC's number one new series... oh, how quickly Bionic Woman tumbled), and Gossip Girl.

[tojoson]

Oh, for crap sake

I was checking the show listings at The Futon Critic today.

For Dec. 6th at 10:02, they show a Barbara Walters special, then reruns of Big Shots for the rest of the month.

So it looks like we will have to wait till after the first of the year to see CC's episodes, if then.

[Penny Century]

Originally Posted by tojoson

For Dec. 6th at 10:02, they show a Barbara Walters special, then reruns of Big Shots for the rest of the month.

So it looks like we will have to wait till after the first of the year to see CC's episodes, if then.

I was super-pissed about that, too. It didn't seem to make any sense, because that episode also has the denouement of the Duncan/Lisbeth/Terrence triangle. --->Lisbeth and Terrence get married.<---

It could be that ABC is hoping the show at least will go out in style and is saving that big finish --->as well as the introduction of the Notorious J<--- to lure back viewers after the holiday. No one really knows how long the strike will persist, and December is usually when series begin reruns anyway. I guess we'll see.

[Platypus]

For what it's worth, Ausiello said this today in this week's "Ask Ausiello":

Question: Can you give me some news on my new favorite show, Big Shots? — Charlie
Ausiello: There are so many things wrong with that sentence I don't even know where to begin. So I'll just cut directly to the answer: Despite widespread reports, ABC has not canceled Big Shots. Not yet anyway.

[Alice]

Christopher Titus Says it himself

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iRCtc7RHJA&eurl=http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-11-15T22%3A56%3A00Z&max-results=25

[tojoson]

CC's first episode is now scheduled for Dec. 13th

story here

[tojoson]

Lots of screencaps from the wedding scene in ep 9.
Only one of CC and Titus

here

spoiler>> They say that someone is going to die in the episode. I gotta believe it's blackthorn, because he's going over to Cashmere Mafia<<


ETA:
According to the Futon Critic, the schedule for Jan. is,

10--The Better Man
17--Death Be Not Proud
24--Who's The Boss

[SamIAm]

I am going to choose to believe the ABC suits started seeing all these critics saying how anxious they were to finally see CC on Big Shots, so they decided to move her episodes to January to make sure there was plenty of opportunity to promote her appearance. No one will dissuade me from this belief either.