Must admit I almost forgot about this one, but it starts airing on Fox Sunday January 21st and then continues its life on Monday evenings. As you know, the spy does not usually do medical drama, but this one THE RESIDENT, does have our favourite boys, always lovely Manish Dayal, and always charismatic Matt Czuchry, in a powerful new medical drama focusing on the final years of a young doctor’s training that rips back the curtain to reveal the truth of what really happens, both good and bad, in hospitals across America.
THE STORY OF THE RESIDENT
revolves around an idealistic young doctor
Devon Pravesh (played by always delightful Manish Dayal whom you fell in
love with in A 100 Foot Journey
Manish Dayal is young Doctor Devon Pravesh
and Viceroy's House) who begins his
first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident
Conrad Hawkins (played by Gilmore Girls
Matt Czuchry is senior resident Conrad Hawkins
superstar Matt Czuchry) who
pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day
medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will
Emily VanCamp is Nurse Nicolette
always be
shattered. Bruce Greenwood plays Dr Soloman the head of their hospital
with Melina Kanakaredes as Dr. Lane Hunter and Emily
It premieres after NFC Championship and then moves to Monday nights
VanCamp as Nurse
Nicolette! Written by Amy Holden Jones (Black Box), Hayley Schore, and
Roshan Sethi the series had its pilot directed by movie director Philip Noyce!
NBC is to release the first trailer for the comeback of their WILL & GRACE sitcom, which will return to Thursday nights with This Is Us this Autumn with 12 and possibly even more new episodes. Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Eric McCormack and Sean Hayes, are all returning in their original roles. I will replace the US only trailer below as soon as the non geoblocked one appears.
CBS ORDERS '9JKL' SITCOM CBS has ordered new multicamera sitcom 9JKL. Starring
Mark Feuerstein it is inspired by the time he lived in apartment 9K in
the building he grew up in, right between his doting parents’ apartment
9J, and his brother, sister-in-law and their baby’s apartment 9L, and
his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive but well-meaning
family. Linda Lavin, Elliott Gould, David Walton play his parents and
his brother.
FOX ORDERS 'ORVILLE' SETH MACFARLANE SF COMEDY
Fox has ordered 13 episodes of Seth MacFarlane's sf comedy THE ORVILLE in which the story is set 300 years in the future. It follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar Fleet. Facing cosmic challenges from without and within, this motley crew of space explorers will boldly go where no comedic drama has gone before. MacFarlane stars, writers, creates and executive produces the series which will air on Thursdays this Autumn.
FOX ORDERS 'THE RESIDENT'
STARRING MANISH DAYAL AND MATT CZUCHRY
Fox has also ordered Manish Dayal's medical series THE RESIDENT which follows a tough, brilliant senior resident who guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine. Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp and Bruce Greenwood also star.
LATEST SITCOM CANCELLATIONS! ABC has put Carol Burnett's sitcom HOUSEHOLD NAME to a 'rework' stage
but it did order the return of ROSEANNE after cancelling their six year
long, 2nd best watched, sitcom LAST MANSTANDING! CBS has ordered BY
THE BOOK (aka Living Biblically) multi camera sitcom while cancelling 2
BROKE GIRLS after 6 years and THE ODD COUPLE! CBS has also passed on DISTEFANO and
BROTHERED UP sitcom pilots. FreeForm has cancelled their own 6 year
long sitcom BABY DADDY last weekend to the shock of fans since it was
their best watched comedy ever and will end on its 100th episode.
I've announced tons of TV comedy news yesterday, but here's another one, this time from a multi camera sitcom front: Galavant's Timothy Omundson has just scored the lead role in Carol Burnett's new sitcom HOUSE HOLD NAME which got a pilot order over at ABC.
It follows a family who gets the deal of a lifetime on a house, but
it comes with an unusual caveat: the original owner of the home, ageing
former movie star Vivian Valmont (Carol Burnett), has to live in it with
them until she dies. Timothy Omundson will play Edward Von Glimpse,
Vivian’s longtime, gay best friend. Edward’s her confidant, hype man,
and apologist, sometimes all within the span of a single sentence. He’s
droll with a dry wit and seen it all attitude, a throwback to a more
civilized, elegant time.
MATTHEW JAMES THOMAS
JOINS PAUL HAGGIS' NEW EXTREME EVENT MEDICAL SHOW
I'm sure you all loved Paul Haggis Oscar winning master piece Crash and now the amazing director is preparing a catastrophe medical TV series for NBC which is still without a title but it has Matthew James Thomas and Paola Lazaro in the cast. Set as a real time “extreme event” medical series it will follow the nurses and doctors of an understaffed Brooklyn hospital that becomes the borough’s last viable trauma centre after a catastrophic hurricane wreaks havoc on the city. Thomas will play a young doctor and Lazaro will play a triage nurse!
MATT CZUCHRY JOINS
MANISH DAYAL IN 'THE RESIDENT'
Speaking of medical series, two days ago I announced Manish Dayal as the lead in Fox THE RESIDENT medical pilot and now another sinfully gorgeous hunk is joining as he co-lead - Gilmore Girls' Matt Czuchry! It centres on Devon Pravesh (Dayal), an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant and cocky senior resident, Conrad Hawkins (Czuchry) who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered. Brian Greenwood plays Chief of Surgery Dr. Soloman Bell.
We're talking all Netflix today, starting with the news coming from 'Variety' that Justin Theroux has joined Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard in their sf movie MUTE! To be directed by Warcraft helmer Duncan Jones the movie will see Skarsgard portraying a mute bartender in Berlin, 40 years in the future in what has become a roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West. His character will be looking for a woman who has disappeared — and when his search takes him deep into the city’s underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons seem to be the only recurring clue.
'GILMORE GIRLS' FINAL SEASON
SEASONAL POSTERS ARE HERE!
A treat for the ladies, today! Netflix has released the first four posters for their farewell four episodes for legendary GILMORE GIRLS series which will start airing all of its four new and last ever episodes from November 25th with each episode done in a form of a hour and a half long television episode set in four different seasons, so you will follow the important moments in Lorelai's (Lauren Graham) and Rory's (Alexis Bledel) lives in a spring, summer, autumn and winter setting (hence the title A YEAR IN LIFE), nine years after we last saw the events in Stars Hollow. As you know Lorelai is probably getting back together with Luke, Rory is pursuing her career in politics, and rumour has it one of them might be expecting a baby, but it might just be a rumour!
OLD CAST IS BACK It is interesting that all of the original cast members are returning
for the finale from Lorelai's best friend and business partner Sookie
played by Melissa McCarthy to her love played by Scott Patterson, her
mother played by Kelly Bishop, Rory's friends played by Keiko Agena and
Lisa Weil and the trio of her old boyfriends played by Milo Ventimiglia,
Matt Czuchry and Jared Padalecki! Yanic Truesdale returns as Lorelai's
concierge.
We've only mentioned him a few days ago and now Dan Stevens is here again! You've probably heard by now that he has been cast to lead the new LEGION series pilot set in Marvel's universe and tied with X MEN! He will play David Haller who has struggled with mental illness since he was a teenager. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real. Aubrey Plaza will play his friend, while Jean Smart will be his therapist. In the comics, David is the son of Professor X.
DOUGRAY SCOTT JOINS
'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD' In other TV news, Scottish star Dougray Scott has joined the second
season of FEAR THE WALKING DEAD series. In the prequel series to WALKING
DEAD, he will play a confident man who is still learning to be a leader
and regrets but accepts the necessary violence for a new vision! As you
know, the series, which follows the early outbreak of zombie virus in
Los Angeles, will return with the two part 15 episode second season at
AMC from April 11th with the characters boarding a ship to escape the
zombies in the final episode of the first season.
'ME & MEAN MARGARET' SITCOM
Over at NBC they've ordered new multicamera sitcom ME & MEAN MARGARET from WILL & GRACE writer Adam Barr. An unlikely buddy comedy follows a fiercely candid and often offensive legendary actress and the ambitious 27-year-old lawyer forced to babysit her.
MATT CZUHRY RETURNS TO 'GILMORE GIRLS'
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed today that Matt Czuchry's Logan will also return in the farewall season of GILMORE GIRLS which will be produced by Netflix in the form of four TV movies each set in different season. Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Scott Patterson and Kelly Bishop are all returning, while Melissa McCarthy said earlier this week she wasn't invited to return. As you remember Rory rejected Logan's marriage proposal in the series finale.
Must admit I almost forgot about this one, but it starts airing on Fox Sunday January 21st and then continues its life on Monday evenings. As you know, the spy does not usually do medical drama, but this one THE RESIDENT, does have our favourite boys, always lovely Manish Dayal, and always charismatic Matt Czuchry, in a powerful new medical drama focusing on the final years of a young doctor’s training that rips back the curtain to reveal the truth of what really happens, both good and bad, in hospitals across America.
