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...then laid into NBC's longstanding claim to be the "quality" network, grossing out the advertisers with a reel of clips of contestants eating offal and vomiting on "Fear Factor." "Product placement, anyone?" Moonves asked. A few minutes later, they played a trailer for the new Jason Alexander sitcom "Listen Up" - he plays a sports columnist - whose big punch line involved Alexander spitting up milk into a glass, twice. CBS: home of classy effluvia...
...other new sitcom is "Center of the Universe," a family comedy starring John Goodman, who voices the lead character in NBC's new family sitcom "Father of the Pride." (He plays a lion there, but still.) "Center of the Universe," says Moonves, went over extremely well with test audiences, though that's usually just a synonym for "somebody famous is in the pilot." (CBS's Charlie Sheen hit, "Two and a Half Men," tested well - but so did "Emeril...
...wait, never mind - they're doing that one already. That's right, Mel Gibson is following up "The Passion" with "Savages," a new ABC sitcom about a widowed dad raising his sons alone. (Theologically speaking, I guess "The Passion" was also about a father-son relationship, so maybe it's not such a stretch.) But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Before ABC executives announced their new fall schedule at the New Amsterdam theater in New York, they first had to explain to the assembled advertisers why they should have faith ABC would deliver anyone to actually watch their commercials...
...Aside from "Savages," ABC picked up only one other sitcom, "Rodney," a star vehicle for Rodney Carrington - a standup comic who you may not have known was famous - about a man who wants to be a standup comic. But the network made up for it with dramas, planning so many new ones that I am forced to employ bullet points...
...Dramas always tend to preview better than sitcoms, so it's hard to say what might be good or bad here - although "Housewives," "Life As We Know It" and "Lost" all inspired curiosity. In other news, "NYPD Blue" ends after next season, having apparently run out of bad things to make happen to Sipowicz. Oprah Winfrey is producing an ABC movie of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," starring Halle Berry. Jessica Simpson, whose sitcom pilot got rejected by ABC, has instead signed a deal to do variety specials for two years, for at least one month...