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"Nashville" just got canned (ok, it's not totally canceled, just pulled til "later," but we all know what that means) after only 2 weeks. Looks like that plucky team of aspiring country-music and reality-TV stars should stick to CMT. The only question in my mind: will "Cavemen" get even that far?
On the plus side, sci-fi fans will be happy to know that "Eureka" just got picked up for a third season.
Three new shows, all at 9 p.m., and one of them premieres tonight. Yet it's a returning show that's about the only thing I can recommend on Friday night. Still, Fridays are better than "random repeat Saturdays."
Beginning on Oct. 12, ABC will air "20/20" at 8 and put on "Men In Trees" at 10 on Fridays. I'm baffled at the endurance of the latter, a shotgun wedding between "Northern Exposure" and "Sex And The City" - She's a writer of romantic advice! She needs it herself! And there are bears! It's not a formula I get, and star Anne Heche just strikes me as weird. But whatever. The one new show bowing that night on the network is "Women's Murder Club," a rote drama based on novels by the serial-killer-novel hack James Patterson. It stars Angie Harmon as a cop who's assisted in solving murders by her circle of friends in other professions. I will not be watching.
CBS rolls out its Friday schedule on Sept. 28, with the inexplicably popular bit of Jennifer Love Hewitt nonsense "Ghost Whisperer" at 8 and the modest procedural success "Numb3rs" at 10. At 9, the eye will offer "Moonlight," a new series with Alex O'Loughlin (pictured) as a vampire private eye. Yup.
Remember when country wasn't cool? A lot of country singers claim to look back fondly on those days, but spend their time turning country into just another Hollywood product. They're all hat, no cattle, as the saying goes.
Now Hollywood is bringing the glitz to Nashville. Friday at 9, Fox premieres "Nashville," which it touts as a "high-stakes, high-drama docu-soap" from "the creative minds behind the series 'Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.'"
Fox's cameras follow nine camera-friendly young up-and comers, most of them seeking fame and fortune though music. Some of them try it the old-fashioned way, by writing good songs and performing them well. Others try all kind of alternate routes, attempting to social-climb their way into the right circles in Music City. And of course there might be a romance or two along the way.
"They're showing Nashville as a great town and a great place where people go to follow their dreams," said hopeful Lindsey Hager. "We're just proud to be a part of this because we're all - I mean, it's real. We're all struggling and trying to make it."
