Fall Preview: CBS' Partners

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Partners stars (l-r):
Brandon Routh, Michael Urie,
David Krumholtz, Sophia Bush

ByDavid Kohan’s estimation, he and Max Mutchnick have been friends for over 35years, and writing partners for more than 20. Such a multi-purpose relationship can have its challenges, but Kohan andMutchnick’s has yielded impressive results; in 1998, drawing on Max’s ownreal-life experiences, the creative duo brought us TV’s first gay leading man inthe landmark sitcom Will & Grace.
Now, much like that long-running hit was the first tocapture the age-old relationship between a gay man and his devoted best galpal,the writers’ new, equally autobiographical comedy Partners corners the market on friendship between two men ofdiffering sexual orientations.
Of course, as Kohan notes, their real-life relationship –and thus the one between their Partnersalter egos Louis (Ugly Betty’sMichael Urie) and Joe (Numb3rs’ DavidKrumholtz) – can be muddied by much more than just that one superficial distinction.  “The fact is, our sensibilities abouteverything are really different.” True to stereotype, Kohan admits, he lovessports, whereas Mutchnick’s tastes run more towards clothes and design.  But their true spark comes more fromdifferences in temperament.  “Max hasnever met a boundary that he didn’t want to smash, and I deal with my resentmentpassive-aggressively.  It makes for aninteresting contrast.  And so the factthat one of us is straight and one is gay is part of our deal, but it’s not theessential factor.”
As the writer explains, he and Mutchnick were motivated toturn the mirror on themselves in recent years, as they have suddenly found themselvesseriously romantically involved with other people.  “For us, it raised a lot of questions aboutwhat makes for a great partnership,” Kohan says.  “Where are the pressures?  What are the best forms ofcommunication?  What are the lies that wetell each other?  What are the truthsthat we tell each other?  And where dothe conflicts arise?”  In parsing all ofthis out in their own real lives, “we realized this seemed like a rich, fertilearea for comedy.”
In all, Partnersdepicts the dynamics of three relationships -- not just between New York architecturaldesign firm partners Louis and Joe, but also those of Louis and his nurseboyfriend Wyatt (Brandon Routh) and of Joe and his now-fiancée Ali (Sophia Bush)– and shows how the multiple couplings both cross-pollenate and complicate.  As meddlesome Louis, “I get to be MaxMutchnick,” enthuses Urie.  The part, hewas pleased to discover, “comes with a lot of inspiration, because these twoguys, in their real-life dynamic together, are so entertaining.”
“It’ll be interesting to mine their relationship further asthe show goes forward, because they put on a show,” Krumholtz agrees.  “Max and David don’t know it -- or maybe theydo -- but their working relationship is very out there for everyone to see, andit’s hilarious.  It’s really just amatter of capturing it on paper, and there’s a lot more there.  I don’t think we’ve scratched the surfacewith them yet.”
Indeed, Kohan says the nicest surprise so far for him hasbeen to witness how Urie and Krumholtz effortlessly come off as bickering oldfriends.  But neither actor is surprisedby the instant chemistry.  “Any greatbromance I’ve ever had is with someone who makes me laugh,” Urie says.  And, Krumholtz adds, “We have the same headfor funny.”
PartnersPremieres Monday, September 248:30 PM Eastern / 7:30 PM CentralCBS

Fall Preview: CBS' Vegas

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Vegas stars (l-r) Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis

Thispast spring, after actor Michael Chiklis met with Ralph Lamb, the real-life inspirationfor Chiklis and Dennis Quaid’s new western drama Vegas, “I walked away from lunch, called my wife, and said, ‘Wow!We have stories for years!”
In the mid 2000s, the MGM movie studio had commissioned abig-screen bio based on Lamb, a fourth-generation rancher who served as LasVegas’ Sheriff from 1960 to 1978, the period in which the soon-to-be gamblingand entertainment mecca was rising from empty desert.  The studio turned to author and screenwriterNicholas Pileggi, who had already depicted the period in his 1995 film Casino. But even as the writer’s first outline was delivered, everyone involved realizedthat with Lamb’s wealth of amazing stories, his life would make a great ongoingseries instead.
“It’s kind of what I call the low-hanging fruit of SheriffLamb,” says Greg Walker, who, after Pileggi then turned the idea intotelevision, was brought on board as the showrunner of Vegas.  “Every story Lambtells, you just realize it’s a no-brainer. They’re filled with such rich detail. With such vivid characters, you can’t help but think about how his worldcould come to life on screen.”
Reading Pileggi’s pilot, “I got to page five, and washooked,” Walker remembers.  “As soon asthe DC-6 flew over Lamb’s cattle, I was in. I loved the clash between the modern world and the Old West.”  Quaid, too, cites that first script as whatlured him to play the colorful sheriff in this, his first television series.  Vegaspits Quaid’s Lamb against Chiklis’ Vincent Savino, a Chicago gangster and savvybusinessman with designs on the budding gaming empire.  “It’s a story about how all that powercorrupts on both sides,” says Quaid. “Because the lines in Vegas were hazy back then.  It was a different set of rules.”
“In Vegas, youhave two men who are thrust into the spotlight of being kings,” Walkerexplains.  “One who wants it, in Savino,and one who’s reluctant, in Lamb.”  Withthe face-off between the two men and their allies – including on Lamb’s side,his younger brother Jack (Jason O’Mara) and the town’s Assistant DistrictAttorney Katherine O’Connell (Carrie Ann Moss) – as its underlying construct,“we created a hybrid procedural and character-based drama,” Walker says.  “The show has the adrenaline and satisfactionof solving a mystery, but at the same time, there are multiple characters’stories getting more and more complicated, with greed, envy and desire whirlingaround this world of crime.”
With Vegas’ 1960setting, Lamb and his deputies won’t be enforcing the law using fingerprints orcomputers or cell phones like in that other Vegas-set mystery, CSI. “He is also not a guy who’s going to put a gun in people’s faces week toweek,” Walker says. “He’s going to solve things with his own hands,man-to-man.”  That type of character, theshowrunner says, “is something Dennis is uniquely equipped to play.  There are very few men who have that kind ofstillness, that raw, masculine power.  Wejust don’t build them like that anymore.”
Vegas’ pilot wasshot, coincidentally, in the small town of Las Vegas, NM, where an oldcommercial row, last updated in the early 20^th Century, could begussied up with props and CGI neon to look like the Fremont Street of ‘60s SinCity; the series will build it all from the ground up in Santa Clarita,CA.  Undoubtedly, today’s audience willbe paying close attention to all that period detail, because we’re so intriguedby the town’s formative years.
“We’re all interested in how Vegas became Vegas.  Today it’s a fantasy world where you can getanything you want, and to watch how that was made is very captivating,” Walkernotes.  Like Lamb, the town itself is anatural for a Hollywood treatment, its story comprising two cinematic archetypes,the cowboy and the mobster.  “These aretwo worlds that we’re very familiar with, but we haven’t ever seen themtogether.  When they collide, there’ssomething very electric.”
VegasPremieres Tuesday, September 2510 PM Eastern / 9 CentralCBS

Fall Preview: CBS' Elementary

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Elementary stars Lucy Liu and
Jonny Lee Miller

Whenproducer Carl Beverly first posed the idea to Rob Doherty of transplantingSherlock Holmes to present-day New York, the writer’s response was Elementary.
“I daresay Sherlock is the most popular character inliterary pop culture from the last 100 years,” enthuses Doherty; perhaps that’swhy there have been so many prior filmic depictions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’sprototypical detective.  Doherty says itwas “one of the wonderful little details that Doyle crafted a very long timeago” that became the key to Elementary,his new CBS series adaptation starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu.  The 19^th Century Holmes wasfamously addicted to opiates, “and that’s the way I’ve always looked at him, asan addict,” the writer explains – and not just to drugs.  “He’s driven by and very much addicted towhat he does for a living.  He enjoysunfolding the origami of a crime, matching wits with someone who thinks he’ssmart enough to get away with something horrible, and bringing that person tojustice.”
Yes, this new Holmes does have a literal addiction to dealwith, too.  Having just returned fromrehab – a vanishing he explained to his local police contact, Captain TobyGregson (Aidan Quinn), as a holiday in his native London – the hyper-observant detective“was previously used to being so ahead of everyone, and oozed confidence,”Doherty says.  “Now he’s left rattled,concerned that he may not be what he used to. I liked the idea of a person like him feeling a little bit of doubt forthe first time.”
That’s where Lucy Liu’s Dr. Joan Watson comes in.  As a former surgeon haunted by her role inthe death of a patient, Watson has now gone into business as a sober companion,hired by Holmes’ concerned dad to keep him in line.  That means accompanying him everywhere, wherethe new duo finds that “as a doctor, obviously she has many skills in forensicscience,” Miller says.  “So Holmes beginsto realize that she’s not just a companion, but she’s very useful.”
It was Doherty’s innovation both to alter this Watson’soccupation and to make Watson for the first time a female, who, he says, “hasmuch of the empathy Holmes is missing. In that way, she completes him.”  Asthe writer praises, Liu brings her innate strength to Watson, who needs to beable to stand up to this quirky and demanding Holmes. But it’s also theircharacters’ more vulnerable moments that both Miller and Liu say attracted themto Elementary.  Watson, Liu says, “is not going in withher ‘sober companion’ coat on.  I likethat she’s trying to bring a certain sense of humanity and understanding to herclient.”
Miller adds that “one of the things that struck me, reading[Doyle’s] books, is how colorful and funny the characters are.”  Doherty fully intends to weave that same witinto Elementary, which is why he isexcited that Miller’s embodiment of Holmes exhibits “a warmth, intelligence, anda fantastic sense of humor.”
But perhaps the most important quality that both Miller andLiu are bringing to their new show is  appreciation.  In filming Elementary’s pilot, “the first time I heard Jonny say ‘Watson!’ itwas a thrill to be creating that, to be part of history,” Liu reveals.  The British-born Miller feels it, too.  “There’s a reason why the Holmes stories keepbeing retold and redone,” he theorizes. “People play Hamlet a lot, and always want to play Shakespeare.  Good stories and good characters come back.” 
ElementaryPremieres Thursday, September 2710 PM Eastern / 9 PM CentralCBS

Fall Preview: CBS' Made in Jersey

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Made in Jersey stars British import Janet Montgomery

Lastseason, her second working on the Los Angeles writing staff of Franklin & Bash, the cable drama abouttwo wisecracking men, Dana Calvo realized she had something a little softer tosay.
A lifelong fan of female-focused shows like Sex and the City, Calvo says she enjoyedwatching that show’s fabulous foursome frolic around Manhattan, “and yet Ialways felt, ‘Wait, where’s the family?’ So I decided to write a show about a young woman and her life in full –friends, family and work.  I know it’snot really cool to say, but I wanted to write about a family that is warm andloving and wholesome.”
Drawing on memories of Christmases spent with herItalian-American extended family, the Moorestown, NJ native created the comedicdrama Made in Jersey and its heroineMartina Garretti, whose life and career straddle both sides of the HudsonRiver.  A lawyer like Calvo’s own sister,Martina crosses between her homespun life in the Garden State and her new jobas a first-year associate at a prestigious New York law firm.  Right away, just as in Working Girl – one of Calvo’s inspirations – Martina catches theattention of the firm’s founder, Donovan Stark (Kyle MacLachlan) with herunique body of knowledge.
Calvo knew that making Madein Jersey work would depend on finding just the right leading lady toconvey Martina’s combination of street and book smarts.  “I had a dream that we were going to cast aJersey girl right off a turnip truck, and her real story would mirror MartinaGarretti’s,” Calvo remembers with a laugh. Instead, after considering more than 100 candidates, producers consultedwith their casting director in the UK. There, in a video audition, was 26-year-old British actress JanetMontgomery.  As Calvo explains, “I sawthe tape, and knew right away ‘That’s her!’”
New Jersey has been heating up for more than a decade, fromthe time of The Sopranos to today’scurrent spate of reality shows featuring big hair and even bigger drama.  And that’s lucky for an English girl whoneeds to learn how to tawk.  Montgomery says she’d never previously spentany Jerseylicious time with the state’s Real Housewives – but once she startedher research, “those shows are totally addictive.  I watched a lot of them – and then I was toldnot to, because we don’t want our show to be that over-the-top.  Still, I feel they gave me a good idea ofwhat Martina would have grown up around.”
Montgomery worked with a dialect coach, and says that onceshe stepped out of her trailer in Martina’s considerable coif and jangly charmbracelet, she was able to find the character’s voice, which she says “now issecond nature.  I deliberately startedbig, but reined it back in to something that, while it’s obviously aworking-class accent, shows that she’s also an educated lawyer.”  The actress says she loves that Made in Jersey is a unique hybrid of lawprocedural and family drama – and so does CBS, so much so that after viewingthe original pilot, the impressed network requested the addition of a few morescenes with Martina’s mom (Donna Murphy) and the rest of the garrulous Garrettis.
“Family is really important to knowing who Martina is,”Montgomery explains, adding that her own working-class upbringing as thedaughter of a postal worker has given her a particular appreciation for thecharacter.  “I don’t have anyone else inmy family working in this industry.  Andso this character whose lives at work and at home are so different, and who hasa family who are very supportive and yet don’t fully understand her job – it’sbeen so much like my own life, it’s really amazing.”
Made In JerseyPremieres Friday, September 289 PM Eastern / 8 PM CentralCBS

ABC Renews DON'T TRUST THE B- IN APT. 23 And PRIVATE PRACTICE

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Finally some good news again after all this axe-whopping in ABC's series department.

The Alphabet has officially renewed its freshman comedy "Don't Trust The B- In Apt. 23" for a second season. according to Variety's Cynthia Littleton.

And Shonda Rhimes has just tweeted that "Private Practice" has been renewed for a sixth season.

The new season has an order of 13 episodes, and is considered to likely be the final season.

ABC renews The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Castle

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ABC ANNOUNCES EARLY PICK-UPS FOR NEXT SEASON

“Castle,” “Cougar Town,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family”

And “Private Practice” Receive Early Pick-ups for the 2011-12 Season

ABC announced early pick-ups for the 2011-12 season of “Castle,” “Cougar Town,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family” and “Private Practice.”

A solid mix of promising new series and proven returning hits helped the network achieve a strong start to the 2010-11 TV season. Season to date among Adults 18-49, ABC delivers 4 of the Top 10 highest-rated TV shows, the most for any network, including the Top 2 scripted programs. In fact among young adults, the network claims TV’s No. 1 comedy (“Modern Family”), the No. 1 drama (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and the No. 1 unscripted series (“Dancing with the Stars”). In Total Viewers, the network airs 2 of the Top 4 programs, including America’s No. 1 most-watched TV show overall with “Dancing with the Stars.” Led by Emmy-winning “Modern Family,” ABC’s 2-hour Wednesday night comedy block continues to resonate with viewers in its second year, surging by 15% in Total Viewers and by 14% in the key Adult 18-49 sales demographic from the same point last season.

“CASTLE”

When viewers first met Richard Castle -- a famous mystery novelist and divorced father raising his teenage daughter, while being kept grounded by his Broadway diva mother -- he was creatively blocked. But when the NYPD questioned him in connection with a series of murders staged to imitate crime scenes from his books, Castle found inspiration in NYPD Detective Kate Beckett, a bright and aggressive homicide detective with a fascination for odd and offbeat cases stemming from the years-old unsolved murder of her own mother. Though they instantly clashed, sparks of another sort began to fly, leading both to danger and a hint of romance as Castle stepped in to help find the copycat killer. Once that initial case was solved, Castle and Beckett continued to investigate strange homicides in New York, combining Castle’s writer intuition and Beckett’s creative detective work.

The series stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, Stana Katic as Detective Kate Beckett, Ruben Santiago-Hudson as NYPD Captain Roy Montgomery, Tamala Jones as Medical Examiner Lanie Parish, Jon Huertas as NYPD Detective Javier Esposito, Seamus Dever as NYPD Detective Kevin Ryan, Molly Quinn as Alexis Castle, with Susan Sullivan as Martha Rodgers.

“Castle” is produced by ABC Studios. Andrew Marlowe is creator/executive producer, with Rob Bowman, Laurie Zaks, David Amann and Armyan Bernstein also executive producers.

“COUGAR TOWN”

Courteney Cox stars as Jules Cobb in her Golden Globe®-nominated role as a recently divorced mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life’s next chapter. Along for the journey are her son – a college freshman -- ex-husband and friends who, together, make up her dysfunctional but supportive and caring extended family… even if they have a funny way of showing it sometimes.

“Cougar Town” stars Courteney Cox as Jules, Christa Miller as Ellie, Busy Philipps as Laurie, Dan Byrd as Travis, Josh Hopkins as Grayson, Ian Gomez as Andy and Brian Van Holt as Bobby and is executive produced by Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs”), Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Kevin Biegel (“Scrubs”).

“GREY’S ANATOMY”

“Grey's Anatomy” is the recipient of the 2007 Golden Globe® Award for Best Television Series – Drama, and multiple Emmy nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series.

The doctors of Seattle Grace Hospital deal with life-or-death consequences on a daily basis – it’s in one another that they find comfort, friendship and, at times, more than friendship. Together they’re discovering that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.

“Grey’s Anatomy” stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres, Eric Dane as Mark Sloan, Chyler Leigh as Lexie Grey, Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt, Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins, Kim Raver as Teddy Altman, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery and Sarah Drew as April Kepner.

“Grey’s Anatomy” was created and is executive-produced by Shonda Rhimes. Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Krista Vernoff, Rob Corn, Mark Wilding, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater are executive producers. “Grey’s Anatomy” is an ABC Studios production.

“THE MIDDLE”

Two-time Emmy winner Patricia Heaton stars in this warm and witty single-camera comedy about raising a family and lowering your expectations. Middle-aged, middle class and living in the middle of the country in Orson, Indiana, Frankie Heck is a harried wife and working mother of three who uses her wry wit and sense of humor in an attempt to get her family through each day intact. Her work life’s no easier. With her friend and co-worker, Bob, she struggles day to day as the least successful sales woman at the town’s only surviving car dealer. Frankie’s unflappable husband, Mike, is manager at the local quarry and her sardonic partner in the daily grind that is raising their average – yes, most definitely average – family.

Between juggling shifts and picking up fast food dinners eaten in front of the TV, Frankie and Mike raise their kids with love, humor and solid Midwestern practicality. Axl, the oldest, is a teenage jock who eats them out of house and home and walks around the house in his underwear. Then there’s Sue, their extraordinarily ordinary teen daughter, who fails at just about everything she tries with great gusto – although she’s hoping her recent acceptance on the school’s beleaguered no-cut cross country team might just turn things around. And last is Brick, their quirky third-grader, who reads constantly, whispers to himself and has a best friend who’s his backpack. But through all the madness shines a loving family, and together, the Hecks are putting THE MIDDLE on the map.

“The Middle” stars Patricia Heaton as Frankie, Neil Flynn as Mike, Charlie McDermott as Axl, Eden Sher as Sue, Atticus Shaffer as Brick and Chris Kattan as Bob.

“The Middle” was created and is executive produced by Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline. The series is from Warner Bros. Television.

“MODERN FAMILY”

ABC’s Emmy Award-winning hit comedy “Modern Family” takes a modern and often hilarious look at the complications that come with being a family today. Jay Pritchett, with his much younger wife Gloria and her son Manny, sits as the patriarch of a large blended family that includes his grown daughter Claire, who has three kids of her own with her husband Phil, and a grown son Mitchell, who adopted a Vietnamese baby with his gay life partner Cameron. These three families are unique unto themselves, and together they give us a window into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted embrace of the modern family.

“Modern Family” stars Ed O’Neill as Jay, Sofía Vergara as Gloria, Julie Bowen as Claire, Ty Burrell as Phil, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell, Sarah Hyland as Haley, Ariel Winter as Alex, Nolan Gould as Luke and Rico Rodriguez as Manny.

The series is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television in association with Levitan Lloyd Productions. Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd are executive producers/creators.

“PRIVATE PRACTICE”

From Shonda Rhimes, the Golden Globe-winning creator of “Grey’s Anatomy,” comes the story of a team of gifted doctors working together to change the lives of their patients for the better as they look to one another for friendship and love.

The doctors of Oceanside Wellness and Pacific Wellcare work on the most difficult cases, patients whose medical needs often pose moral and ethical dilemmas. Though they may heatedly disagree at work, and though their personal lives may complicate matters, at the end of the day they are the best of friends , always ready to be there for each other.

“Private Practice” stars Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery, Tim Daly as Dr. Pete Wilder, Audra McDonald as Dr. Naomi Bennett, Paul Adelstein as Dr. Cooper Freedman, KaDee Strickland as Dr. Charlotte King, Brian Benben as Dr. Sheldon Wallace and Caterina Scorsone as Dr. Amelia Shepherd, with Taye Diggs as Dr. Sam Bennett and Amy Brenneman as Dr. Violet Turner.

“Private Practice” was created by Shonda Rhimes and is executive-produced by Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Mark Tinker, Steve Blackman and Craig Turk. “Private Practice” is an ABC Studios Production.

Fall Preview: CBS' Partners

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Partners stars (l-r):
Brandon Routh, Michael Urie,
David Krumholtz, Sophia Bush

ByDavid Kohan’s estimation, he and Max Mutchnick have been friends for over 35years, and writing partners for more than 20. Such a multi-purpose relationship can have its challenges, but Kohan andMutchnick’s has yielded impressive results; in 1998, drawing on Max’s ownreal-life experiences, the creative duo brought us TV’s first gay leading man inthe landmark sitcom Will & Grace.
Now, much like that long-running hit was the first tocapture the age-old relationship between a gay man and his devoted best galpal,the writers’ new, equally autobiographical comedy Partners corners the market on friendship between two men ofdiffering sexual orientations.
Of course, as Kohan notes, their real-life relationship –and thus the one between their Partnersalter egos Louis (Ugly Betty’sMichael Urie) and Joe (Numb3rs’ DavidKrumholtz) – can be muddied by much more than just that one superficial distinction.  “The fact is, our sensibilities abouteverything are really different.” True to stereotype, Kohan admits, he lovessports, whereas Mutchnick’s tastes run more towards clothes and design.  But their true spark comes more fromdifferences in temperament.  “Max hasnever met a boundary that he didn’t want to smash, and I deal with my resentmentpassive-aggressively.  It makes for aninteresting contrast.  And so the factthat one of us is straight and one is gay is part of our deal, but it’s not theessential factor.”
As the writer explains, he and Mutchnick were motivated toturn the mirror on themselves in recent years, as they have suddenly found themselvesseriously romantically involved with other people.  “For us, it raised a lot of questions aboutwhat makes for a great partnership,” Kohan says.  “Where are the pressures?  What are the best forms ofcommunication?  What are the lies that wetell each other?  What are the truthsthat we tell each other?  And where dothe conflicts arise?”  In parsing all ofthis out in their own real lives, “we realized this seemed like a rich, fertilearea for comedy.”
In all, Partnersdepicts the dynamics of three relationships -- not just between New York architecturaldesign firm partners Louis and Joe, but also those of Louis and his nurseboyfriend Wyatt (Brandon Routh) and of Joe and his now-fiancée Ali (Sophia Bush)– and shows how the multiple couplings both cross-pollenate and complicate.  As meddlesome Louis, “I get to be MaxMutchnick,” enthuses Urie.  The part, hewas pleased to discover, “comes with a lot of inspiration, because these twoguys, in their real-life dynamic together, are so entertaining.”
“It’ll be interesting to mine their relationship further asthe show goes forward, because they put on a show,” Krumholtz agrees.  “Max and David don’t know it -- or maybe theydo -- but their working relationship is very out there for everyone to see, andit’s hilarious.  It’s really just amatter of capturing it on paper, and there’s a lot more there.  I don’t think we’ve scratched the surfacewith them yet.”
Indeed, Kohan says the nicest surprise so far for him hasbeen to witness how Urie and Krumholtz effortlessly come off as bickering oldfriends.  But neither actor is surprisedby the instant chemistry.  “Any greatbromance I’ve ever had is with someone who makes me laugh,” Urie says.  And, Krumholtz adds, “We have the same headfor funny.”
PartnersPremieres Monday, September 248:30 PM Eastern / 7:30 PM CentralCBS

Fall Preview: CBS' Vegas

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Vegas stars (l-r) Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis

Thispast spring, after actor Michael Chiklis met with Ralph Lamb, the real-life inspirationfor Chiklis and Dennis Quaid’s new western drama Vegas, “I walked away from lunch, called my wife, and said, ‘Wow!We have stories for years!”
In the mid 2000s, the MGM movie studio had commissioned abig-screen bio based on Lamb, a fourth-generation rancher who served as LasVegas’ Sheriff from 1960 to 1978, the period in which the soon-to-be gamblingand entertainment mecca was rising from empty desert.  The studio turned to author and screenwriterNicholas Pileggi, who had already depicted the period in his 1995 film Casino. But even as the writer’s first outline was delivered, everyone involved realizedthat with Lamb’s wealth of amazing stories, his life would make a great ongoingseries instead.
“It’s kind of what I call the low-hanging fruit of SheriffLamb,” says Greg Walker, who, after Pileggi then turned the idea intotelevision, was brought on board as the showrunner of Vegas.  “Every story Lambtells, you just realize it’s a no-brainer. They’re filled with such rich detail. With such vivid characters, you can’t help but think about how his worldcould come to life on screen.”
Reading Pileggi’s pilot, “I got to page five, and washooked,” Walker remembers.  “As soon asthe DC-6 flew over Lamb’s cattle, I was in. I loved the clash between the modern world and the Old West.”  Quaid, too, cites that first script as whatlured him to play the colorful sheriff in this, his first television series.  Vegaspits Quaid’s Lamb against Chiklis’ Vincent Savino, a Chicago gangster and savvybusinessman with designs on the budding gaming empire.  “It’s a story about how all that powercorrupts on both sides,” says Quaid. “Because the lines in Vegas were hazy back then.  It was a different set of rules.”
“In Vegas, youhave two men who are thrust into the spotlight of being kings,” Walkerexplains.  “One who wants it, in Savino,and one who’s reluctant, in Lamb.”  Withthe face-off between the two men and their allies – including on Lamb’s side,his younger brother Jack (Jason O’Mara) and the town’s Assistant DistrictAttorney Katherine O’Connell (Carrie Ann Moss) – as its underlying construct,“we created a hybrid procedural and character-based drama,” Walker says.  “The show has the adrenaline and satisfactionof solving a mystery, but at the same time, there are multiple characters’stories getting more and more complicated, with greed, envy and desire whirlingaround this world of crime.”
With Vegas’ 1960setting, Lamb and his deputies won’t be enforcing the law using fingerprints orcomputers or cell phones like in that other Vegas-set mystery, CSI. “He is also not a guy who’s going to put a gun in people’s faces week toweek,” Walker says. “He’s going to solve things with his own hands,man-to-man.”  That type of character, theshowrunner says, “is something Dennis is uniquely equipped to play.  There are very few men who have that kind ofstillness, that raw, masculine power.  Wejust don’t build them like that anymore.”
Vegas’ pilot wasshot, coincidentally, in the small town of Las Vegas, NM, where an oldcommercial row, last updated in the early 20^th Century, could begussied up with props and CGI neon to look like the Fremont Street of ‘60s SinCity; the series will build it all from the ground up in Santa Clarita,CA.  Undoubtedly, today’s audience willbe paying close attention to all that period detail, because we’re so intriguedby the town’s formative years.
“We’re all interested in how Vegas became Vegas.  Today it’s a fantasy world where you can getanything you want, and to watch how that was made is very captivating,” Walkernotes.  Like Lamb, the town itself is anatural for a Hollywood treatment, its story comprising two cinematic archetypes,the cowboy and the mobster.  “These aretwo worlds that we’re very familiar with, but we haven’t ever seen themtogether.  When they collide, there’ssomething very electric.”
VegasPremieres Tuesday, September 2510 PM Eastern / 9 CentralCBS

Fall Preview: CBS' Elementary

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Elementary stars Lucy Liu and
Jonny Lee Miller

Whenproducer Carl Beverly first posed the idea to Rob Doherty of transplantingSherlock Holmes to present-day New York, the writer’s response was Elementary.
“I daresay Sherlock is the most popular character inliterary pop culture from the last 100 years,” enthuses Doherty; perhaps that’swhy there have been so many prior filmic depictions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’sprototypical detective.  Doherty says itwas “one of the wonderful little details that Doyle crafted a very long timeago” that became the key to Elementary,his new CBS series adaptation starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu.  The 19^th Century Holmes wasfamously addicted to opiates, “and that’s the way I’ve always looked at him, asan addict,” the writer explains – and not just to drugs.  “He’s driven by and very much addicted towhat he does for a living.  He enjoysunfolding the origami of a crime, matching wits with someone who thinks he’ssmart enough to get away with something horrible, and bringing that person tojustice.”
Yes, this new Holmes does have a literal addiction to dealwith, too.  Having just returned fromrehab – a vanishing he explained to his local police contact, Captain TobyGregson (Aidan Quinn), as a holiday in his native London – the hyper-observant detective“was previously used to being so ahead of everyone, and oozed confidence,”Doherty says.  “Now he’s left rattled,concerned that he may not be what he used to. I liked the idea of a person like him feeling a little bit of doubt forthe first time.”
That’s where Lucy Liu’s Dr. Joan Watson comes in.  As a former surgeon haunted by her role inthe death of a patient, Watson has now gone into business as a sober companion,hired by Holmes’ concerned dad to keep him in line.  That means accompanying him everywhere, wherethe new duo finds that “as a doctor, obviously she has many skills in forensicscience,” Miller says.  “So Holmes beginsto realize that she’s not just a companion, but she’s very useful.”
It was Doherty’s innovation both to alter this Watson’soccupation and to make Watson for the first time a female, who, he says, “hasmuch of the empathy Holmes is missing. In that way, she completes him.”  Asthe writer praises, Liu brings her innate strength to Watson, who needs to beable to stand up to this quirky and demanding Holmes. But it’s also theircharacters’ more vulnerable moments that both Miller and Liu say attracted themto Elementary.  Watson, Liu says, “is not going in withher ‘sober companion’ coat on.  I likethat she’s trying to bring a certain sense of humanity and understanding to herclient.”
Miller adds that “one of the things that struck me, reading[Doyle’s] books, is how colorful and funny the characters are.”  Doherty fully intends to weave that same witinto Elementary, which is why he isexcited that Miller’s embodiment of Holmes exhibits “a warmth, intelligence, anda fantastic sense of humor.”
But perhaps the most important quality that both Miller andLiu are bringing to their new show is  appreciation.  In filming Elementary’s pilot, “the first time I heard Jonny say ‘Watson!’ itwas a thrill to be creating that, to be part of history,” Liu reveals.  The British-born Miller feels it, too.  “There’s a reason why the Holmes stories keepbeing retold and redone,” he theorizes. “People play Hamlet a lot, and always want to play Shakespeare.  Good stories and good characters come back.” 
ElementaryPremieres Thursday, September 2710 PM Eastern / 9 PM CentralCBS

Fall Preview: CBS' Made in Jersey

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Made in Jersey stars British import Janet Montgomery

Lastseason, her second working on the Los Angeles writing staff of Franklin & Bash, the cable drama abouttwo wisecracking men, Dana Calvo realized she had something a little softer tosay.
A lifelong fan of female-focused shows like Sex and the City, Calvo says she enjoyedwatching that show’s fabulous foursome frolic around Manhattan, “and yet Ialways felt, ‘Wait, where’s the family?’ So I decided to write a show about a young woman and her life in full –friends, family and work.  I know it’snot really cool to say, but I wanted to write about a family that is warm andloving and wholesome.”
Drawing on memories of Christmases spent with herItalian-American extended family, the Moorestown, NJ native created the comedicdrama Made in Jersey and its heroineMartina Garretti, whose life and career straddle both sides of the HudsonRiver.  A lawyer like Calvo’s own sister,Martina crosses between her homespun life in the Garden State and her new jobas a first-year associate at a prestigious New York law firm.  Right away, just as in Working Girl – one of Calvo’s inspirations – Martina catches theattention of the firm’s founder, Donovan Stark (Kyle MacLachlan) with herunique body of knowledge.
Calvo knew that making Madein Jersey work would depend on finding just the right leading lady toconvey Martina’s combination of street and book smarts.  “I had a dream that we were going to cast aJersey girl right off a turnip truck, and her real story would mirror MartinaGarretti’s,” Calvo remembers with a laugh. Instead, after considering more than 100 candidates, producers consultedwith their casting director in the UK. There, in a video audition, was 26-year-old British actress JanetMontgomery.  As Calvo explains, “I sawthe tape, and knew right away ‘That’s her!’”
New Jersey has been heating up for more than a decade, fromthe time of The Sopranos to today’scurrent spate of reality shows featuring big hair and even bigger drama.  And that’s lucky for an English girl whoneeds to learn how to tawk.  Montgomery says she’d never previously spentany Jerseylicious time with the state’s Real Housewives – but once she startedher research, “those shows are totally addictive.  I watched a lot of them – and then I was toldnot to, because we don’t want our show to be that over-the-top.  Still, I feel they gave me a good idea ofwhat Martina would have grown up around.”
Montgomery worked with a dialect coach, and says that onceshe stepped out of her trailer in Martina’s considerable coif and jangly charmbracelet, she was able to find the character’s voice, which she says “now issecond nature.  I deliberately startedbig, but reined it back in to something that, while it’s obviously aworking-class accent, shows that she’s also an educated lawyer.”  The actress says she loves that Made in Jersey is a unique hybrid of lawprocedural and family drama – and so does CBS, so much so that after viewingthe original pilot, the impressed network requested the addition of a few morescenes with Martina’s mom (Donna Murphy) and the rest of the garrulous Garrettis.
“Family is really important to knowing who Martina is,”Montgomery explains, adding that her own working-class upbringing as thedaughter of a postal worker has given her a particular appreciation for thecharacter.  “I don’t have anyone else inmy family working in this industry.  Andso this character whose lives at work and at home are so different, and who hasa family who are very supportive and yet don’t fully understand her job – it’sbeen so much like my own life, it’s really amazing.”
Made In JerseyPremieres Friday, September 289 PM Eastern / 8 PM CentralCBS

Walt Disney Studio’s Disneynature Unveils "Bears" Roaring into Theaters Spring 2014

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DISNEYNATURE IS WILD ABOUT “BEARS” -- Cinematographer Warwick Sloss films two brown bears as they graze in the meadows of Katmai National Park , Alaska. The stunning imagery is being captured for Disneynature¹s 2014 motion picture release “Bears,” directed by Keith Scholey (“African Cats”) and Alastair Fothergill (“Earth,” “African Cats” and “Chimpanzee”).

The future looks wild, as the Walt Disney Studio’s Disneynature label unveils its new film slated for the big screen in Spring 2014.
Disneynature’s 2014 motion picture “Bears” cozies up to the brown bears who call Alaska’s stunning coastal mountains and shores their home, revealing through tender moments and entertaining imagery how these animals are far from grizzly creatures. This shooting location provides some of the most spectacular visuals ever for a Disneynature film. The film is directed by Keith Scholey (“African Cats”) and Alastair Fothergill (“Earth,” “African Cats” and “Chimpanzee”).

“Our commitment to the production of Disneynature films is to capture nature on its own terms and its own schedule. These films are never rushed so that we can tell never-before-seen stories in our natural world that both astound and charm audiences,” said Alan Bergman, president, The Walt Disney Studios. “Disneynature's next adventure 'Bears' promises to continue this storytelling tradition by introducing audiences to a phenomenal variety of wildlife and offering rare glimpses into the day-to-day lives of these incredible animals.”

“Bears” is currently in production in Alaska’s Katmai National Park.

ABOUT DISNEYNATURE
Disneynature was launched in April 2008. Its mission is to bring the world’s top nature filmmakers together to share a wide variety of wildlife stories on the big screen in order to engage, inspire and educate theatrical audiences everywhere. Walt Disney was a pioneer in wildlife filmmaking, producing 13 True-Life Adventure motion pictures between 1948 and 1960, which earned eight Academy Awards®. The first four Disneynature films, “Earth,” “Oceans,” “African Cats” and “Chimpanzee,” are four of the top five highest overall grossing feature-length nature films to date, with “Chimpanzee” garnering a record-breaking opening weekend for the genre. Disney’s commitment to conservation is a key pillar of the label and Disneynature films empower the audience to help make a difference. Through donations tied to opening-week attendance for all four films, Disneynature, through the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund, has planted three million trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, established 40,000 acres of marine protected area in The Bahamas, protected 65,000 acres of savanna in Kenya, protected 129,236 acres of wild chimpanzee habitat, educated 60,000 school children about chimpanzee conservation and cared for chimpanzees. For more information about Disneynature, like us on Facebook: facebook.com/Disneynature and follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/Disneynature.

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Dancer Oola in "Return of the Jedi"

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Femi Taylor is best known for playing Jabba the Hutt's dancer Oola who inevitably gets fed to the underground Rancor in Star Wars' final film "Return of the Jedi." Guess what she looks like now!


Femi Taylor was spotted on the red carpet looking outta this world!
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‘Captain America’ sequel to film in Ohio

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‘Captain America’ sequel to film in Ohio



Taking advantage of the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit program to film scenes for Captain America: The Winter Soldier in the state.
Movie crews will film over about 150 days at locations in northeast and southern Ohio, the state said, bringing an estimated 2,778 jobs tied to the production. The work is expected to generate an economic impact of $35 million, the Ohio Development Services Agency’s Film Office said. That should result in $9.5 million in tax credits returned to the producers.
Filming in Ohio is expected to begin in February, with a release date for the movie in spring 2014.
Marvel Studios, a unit of the Walt Disney Co., (NYSE:DIS), used state tax credits when filming The Avengers in downtown Cleveland in summer 2011. That movie capped a string of hits in recent years for the studio, including Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger.
A Cleveland State University study this year on the economic impact of the motion picture tax credits found more than 9,000 jobs and $19.5 million in wages resulted from 27 projects that took advantage of the tax credit since its introduction in 2009, although little of that reached Central Ohio.

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Walt Disney Co Stock Buy Recommendation Reiterated (DIS)

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Walt Disney Co Stock Buy Recommendation Reiterated (DIS)



NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) has been reiterated by TheStreet Ratings as a buy with a ratings score of A+ . The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
DISNEY (WALT) CO has improved earnings per share by 31.2% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, DISNEY (WALT) CO increased its bottom line by earning $2.52 versus $2.02 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($3.09 versus $2.52).
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Mattel taps Disney veteran to head licensing

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Mattel taps Disney veteran to head licensing



The company has hired Jessica Dunne, the former executive vice president of licensing for Disney classic characters and Disney baby. Mattel cited her experience with infant and pre-school brands in announcing the appointment.
She will serve as general manager and senior vice president of consumer products for Mattel, where she is responsible for overseeing licensing for Mattel's powerhouse brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price and American Girl.
Dunne said in a statement that she will also aim to cultivate and develop Mattel's newer properties.
Prior to Disney, Dunne worked in marketing and branding for the Cartoon Network and at consumer products companies.

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ABC renews The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Castle

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ABC ANNOUNCES EARLY PICK-UPS FOR NEXT SEASON

“Castle,” “Cougar Town,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family”

And “Private Practice” Receive Early Pick-ups for the 2011-12 Season

ABC announced early pick-ups for the 2011-12 season of “Castle,” “Cougar Town,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family” and “Private Practice.”

A solid mix of promising new series and proven returning hits helped the network achieve a strong start to the 2010-11 TV season. Season to date among Adults 18-49, ABC delivers 4 of the Top 10 highest-rated TV shows, the most for any network, including the Top 2 scripted programs. In fact among young adults, the network claims TV’s No. 1 comedy (“Modern Family”), the No. 1 drama (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and the No. 1 unscripted series (“Dancing with the Stars”). In Total Viewers, the network airs 2 of the Top 4 programs, including America’s No. 1 most-watched TV show overall with “Dancing with the Stars.” Led by Emmy-winning “Modern Family,” ABC’s 2-hour Wednesday night comedy block continues to resonate with viewers in its second year, surging by 15% in Total Viewers and by 14% in the key Adult 18-49 sales demographic from the same point last season.

“CASTLE”

When viewers first met Richard Castle -- a famous mystery novelist and divorced father raising his teenage daughter, while being kept grounded by his Broadway diva mother -- he was creatively blocked. But when the NYPD questioned him in connection with a series of murders staged to imitate crime scenes from his books, Castle found inspiration in NYPD Detective Kate Beckett, a bright and aggressive homicide detective with a fascination for odd and offbeat cases stemming from the years-old unsolved murder of her own mother. Though they instantly clashed, sparks of another sort began to fly, leading both to danger and a hint of romance as Castle stepped in to help find the copycat killer. Once that initial case was solved, Castle and Beckett continued to investigate strange homicides in New York, combining Castle’s writer intuition and Beckett’s creative detective work.

The series stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, Stana Katic as Detective Kate Beckett, Ruben Santiago-Hudson as NYPD Captain Roy Montgomery, Tamala Jones as Medical Examiner Lanie Parish, Jon Huertas as NYPD Detective Javier Esposito, Seamus Dever as NYPD Detective Kevin Ryan, Molly Quinn as Alexis Castle, with Susan Sullivan as Martha Rodgers.

“Castle” is produced by ABC Studios. Andrew Marlowe is creator/executive producer, with Rob Bowman, Laurie Zaks, David Amann and Armyan Bernstein also executive producers.

“COUGAR TOWN”

Courteney Cox stars as Jules Cobb in her Golden Globe®-nominated role as a recently divorced mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life’s next chapter. Along for the journey are her son – a college freshman -- ex-husband and friends who, together, make up her dysfunctional but supportive and caring extended family… even if they have a funny way of showing it sometimes.

“Cougar Town” stars Courteney Cox as Jules, Christa Miller as Ellie, Busy Philipps as Laurie, Dan Byrd as Travis, Josh Hopkins as Grayson, Ian Gomez as Andy and Brian Van Holt as Bobby and is executive produced by Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs”), Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Kevin Biegel (“Scrubs”).

“GREY’S ANATOMY”

“Grey's Anatomy” is the recipient of the 2007 Golden Globe® Award for Best Television Series – Drama, and multiple Emmy nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series.

The doctors of Seattle Grace Hospital deal with life-or-death consequences on a daily basis – it’s in one another that they find comfort, friendship and, at times, more than friendship. Together they’re discovering that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.

“Grey’s Anatomy” stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres, Eric Dane as Mark Sloan, Chyler Leigh as Lexie Grey, Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt, Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins, Kim Raver as Teddy Altman, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery and Sarah Drew as April Kepner.

“Grey’s Anatomy” was created and is executive-produced by Shonda Rhimes. Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Krista Vernoff, Rob Corn, Mark Wilding, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater are executive producers. “Grey’s Anatomy” is an ABC Studios production.

“THE MIDDLE”

Two-time Emmy winner Patricia Heaton stars in this warm and witty single-camera comedy about raising a family and lowering your expectations. Middle-aged, middle class and living in the middle of the country in Orson, Indiana, Frankie Heck is a harried wife and working mother of three who uses her wry wit and sense of humor in an attempt to get her family through each day intact. Her work life’s no easier. With her friend and co-worker, Bob, she struggles day to day as the least successful sales woman at the town’s only surviving car dealer. Frankie’s unflappable husband, Mike, is manager at the local quarry and her sardonic partner in the daily grind that is raising their average – yes, most definitely average – family.

Between juggling shifts and picking up fast food dinners eaten in front of the TV, Frankie and Mike raise their kids with love, humor and solid Midwestern practicality. Axl, the oldest, is a teenage jock who eats them out of house and home and walks around the house in his underwear. Then there’s Sue, their extraordinarily ordinary teen daughter, who fails at just about everything she tries with great gusto – although she’s hoping her recent acceptance on the school’s beleaguered no-cut cross country team might just turn things around. And last is Brick, their quirky third-grader, who reads constantly, whispers to himself and has a best friend who’s his backpack. But through all the madness shines a loving family, and together, the Hecks are putting THE MIDDLE on the map.

“The Middle” stars Patricia Heaton as Frankie, Neil Flynn as Mike, Charlie McDermott as Axl, Eden Sher as Sue, Atticus Shaffer as Brick and Chris Kattan as Bob.

“The Middle” was created and is executive produced by Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline. The series is from Warner Bros. Television.

“MODERN FAMILY”

ABC’s Emmy Award-winning hit comedy “Modern Family” takes a modern and often hilarious look at the complications that come with being a family today. Jay Pritchett, with his much younger wife Gloria and her son Manny, sits as the patriarch of a large blended family that includes his grown daughter Claire, who has three kids of her own with her husband Phil, and a grown son Mitchell, who adopted a Vietnamese baby with his gay life partner Cameron. These three families are unique unto themselves, and together they give us a window into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted embrace of the modern family.

“Modern Family” stars Ed O’Neill as Jay, Sofía Vergara as Gloria, Julie Bowen as Claire, Ty Burrell as Phil, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell, Sarah Hyland as Haley, Ariel Winter as Alex, Nolan Gould as Luke and Rico Rodriguez as Manny.

The series is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television in association with Levitan Lloyd Productions. Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd are executive producers/creators.

“PRIVATE PRACTICE”

From Shonda Rhimes, the Golden Globe-winning creator of “Grey’s Anatomy,” comes the story of a team of gifted doctors working together to change the lives of their patients for the better as they look to one another for friendship and love.

The doctors of Oceanside Wellness and Pacific Wellcare work on the most difficult cases, patients whose medical needs often pose moral and ethical dilemmas. Though they may heatedly disagree at work, and though their personal lives may complicate matters, at the end of the day they are the best of friends , always ready to be there for each other.

“Private Practice” stars Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery, Tim Daly as Dr. Pete Wilder, Audra McDonald as Dr. Naomi Bennett, Paul Adelstein as Dr. Cooper Freedman, KaDee Strickland as Dr. Charlotte King, Brian Benben as Dr. Sheldon Wallace and Caterina Scorsone as Dr. Amelia Shepherd, with Taye Diggs as Dr. Sam Bennett and Amy Brenneman as Dr. Violet Turner.

“Private Practice” was created by Shonda Rhimes and is executive-produced by Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Mark Tinker, Steve Blackman and Craig Turk. “Private Practice” is an ABC Studios Production.