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When the creators of a new sitcom called The Loop pitched their show to executives at the Fox television network, the broadcast moneymen liked the idea of a sitcom about young guys living in Chicago. But what they loved was the fact that products on the set wouldn't be an afterthought brought in by a prop master. Instead, viewers would see the same products every week, cleverly woven into the plot throughout the season, and characters would discuss the brands-a bit like a 13-week ad campaign. Sure enough, the network picked up the show. Co-creator Will...
...surprise, NBC is keeping The Office, the mockumentary workplace sitcom that got low ratings but was the best new sitcom on any broadcast network last fall. Also returning will be critics' darling Scrubs -but not until later in the season, after star Zach Braff shoots a movie. Fear Factor, that offal-laden young-man magnet, is off the fall schedule, but will come back -presumably after one of those surefire hit shows is canceled. Next year is the last for Will & Grace, and The West Wing will probably be term-limited out at the end of next season...
...most interesting was a sitcom (NBC's only new one scheduled for fall), My Name Is Earl. Jason Lee plays a "redneck" -Reilly's word, and frankly an accurate one -petty thief who wins $100,000 in the lottery, gets hit by a car, has a spiritual experience involving Carson Daly and decides to make amends for every bad thing he's done. The feel is very Raising Arizona, and it's anyone's guess if red-state viewers will laugh or be offended, but at least NBC has made a sitcom about people who don't drink merlot...
...bigger life for his family and always doing it by some kind of get-rich-quick scheme." Want to see what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been doing onscreen? Catch them as rival government hit men in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, suggested by the 1996 CBS sitcom with Scott Bakula and Maria Bello. A remake of The Bad News Bears was nearly inevitable: that one was three movies and a TV series...
...like Lithgow, are absolutely legendary among “Theater People” and who had “That One Thing” that made them somewhat famous among the general population (in Lithgow’s case, his starring role on the late-’90s sitcom “3rd Rock from the Sun”), but who never quite attained the cultural ubiquity of a pretty face like, say, Ashton Kutcher...