From what I saw of it, the show was funny, with Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton turning in their usual, first-rate jobs, and the bonus of Fred Willard as a sports anchor.

I think if FOX had scheduled “Back To You” on a regular night earlier in the week–Sunday to Tuesday, the show would have fared better. A Tuesday block of ‘Til Death” and “Back To You” from 9 to 10p EST would have been good. A Sunday block of the same two shows, after “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy” from 8 to 9p EST Sundays, would have been even better!

October Road was the reason my son and I stayed home and ate a late dinner together in front of the TV. It appealled to more than just one generation and, in fact, sought to close the gap between generations.

Leave it to ABC to get you hooked, string you along for a few seasons, and then drop you like an old habit. The real reason that this show did not ever earn its true due was that ABC never gave it a solid slot. They plugged it in at different times of the year around whatever else took precedence. They advertised it a couple of times before the season and then would not let you know when it would return. With only about 4 episodes last season spread 2-4 weeks apart, it must have been hard to find viewers. It also did not help that the episodes were preempted sooooo many times by sporting events. You would search for the day and time, sit down with a piping hot pizza and realize that you couldn’t watch it anyway. Hopefully, another network will pick up this gem.

As far as Notes from the Underbelly, this comedy packed with well-timed punchlines and ridiculous scenarios (a la Seinfeld.) The cast was ideal. What else can you say? It is a shame that the people don’t get a vote!!!

October Road was the reason my son and I stayed home and ate a late dinner together in front of the TV. It appealled to more than just one generation and, in fact, sought to close the gap between generations.

Leave it to ABC to get you hooked, string you along for a few seasons, and then drop you like an old habit. The real reason that this show did not ever earn its true due was that ABC never gave it a solid slot. They plugged it in at different times of the year around whatever else took precedence. They advertised it a couple of times before the season and then would not let you know when it would return. With only about 4 episodes last season spread 2-4 weeks apart, it must have been hard to find viewers. It also did not help that the episodes were preempted sooooo many times by sporting events. You would search for the day and time, sit down with a piping hot pizza and realize that you couldn’t watch it anyway. Hopefully, another network will pick up this gem.

As far as Notes from the Underbelly, this comedy packed with well-timed punchlines and ridiculous scenarios (a la Seinfeld.) The cast was ideal. What else can you say? It is a shame that the people don’t get a vote!!!

October Road was the reason my son and I stayed home and ate a late dinner together in front of the TV. It appealled to more than just one generation and, in fact, sought to close the gap between generations.

Leave it to ABC to get you hooked, string you along for a few seasons, and then drop you like an old habit. The real reason that this show did not ever earn its true due was that ABC never gave it a solid slot. They plugged it in at different times of the year around whatever else took precedence. They advertised it a couple of times before the season and then would not let you know when it would return. With only about 4 episodes last season spread 2-4 weeks apart, it must have been hard to find viewers. It also did not help that the episodes were preempted sooooo many times by sporting events. You would search for the day and time, sit down with a piping hot pizza and realize that you couldn’t watch it anyway. Hopefully, another network will pick up this gem.

As far as Notes from the Underbelly, this comedy packed with well-timed punchlines and ridiculous scenarios (a la Seinfeld.) The cast was ideal. What else can you say? It is a shame that the people don’t get a vote!!!

http://www.tv.com/ncis/show/16772/episode_listi…

This of course assumes that there will not be an actor’s strike…if there is a strike, the production of the rest of Season 7 which is scheduled to take most of the summer of 2008 to complete all 11 episodes ordered would once again be interrupted…so stay tuned to the news on the actors unions negotiations.

There is no official word as to whether CI will be renewed for an eighth season (i.e. the 2008-2009 TV season)…that announcement should be made in the next few days.

As far as NBC airing CI episodes is concerned, NBC only airs them after USA Network airs them. With the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing expected to air on NBC for a lot of the summer, CI fans who watch their episodes on NBC might have to wait to see CI remaining seventh season episodes until the fall of 2008 (and even then NBC’s committment to putting CI’s episodes into a fixed predictable time slot on NBC’s schedule has been lacking)

So if you don’t get USA Network but want to watch CI, you’re just going to have to be patient…sorry!

That being the case, Big Shots falls into the category of a show that has been generally agreed to have been cancelled even though ABC never explicitly announced it. In fact networks often, and Fox is probably the worst offender, pull shows from their schedules and make no announcement at all, ever.

Regardless, all doubts will soon be dispelled, ABC, Fox, CBS, and the CW will announce their 2008 schedules next week.

It makes perfect sense to me, and think it’s a likely outcome but we’ll wait until it’s official (or at least more than once source) before changing the status. Here’s a link to the story from Kristen for those interested:

http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/detail/index.jsp?uuid=bd9fad33-af54-4a7b-a662-13f87d0d4669