April 2008
Over the course of its 18 seasons, Law & Order has gone through more than a dozen cast changes, but it's almost never had a new character interact with the person he or she is replacing.
When The Office executive producer Greg Daniels and actor Rainn Wilson talked to reporters a couple weeks ago about the show's return, NBC had yet to announce that it will spin off the Emmy-winning comedy. Still, Wilson sounded up for the idea.
It is a chilly, wet Friday morning in New York, and I've just walked the only four blocks in Midtown without a Duane Reade drugstore, feeling the persistent drizzle seep into my coat, when I hear the first screams.
George Lucas knows how to make an entrance. The Star Wars mastermind walked in to Cartoon Network's upfront Thursday morning to the movie's theme music, with smoke machines billowing clouds of fog onto the stage. And, oh yeah, he was flanked by four clone troopers.
For all the talk about NBC doing a year-round schedule and it being a bold new way of doing business -- even though it isn't entirely new -- the schedules the network presented Wednesday look pretty conventional.
Count My Name Is Earl star Jason Lee and creator Greg Garcia among those excited at the prospect of scripted TV shows returning in the next couple weeks.



Sorry, Bones-n-Booth 'shippers. Just because they were last seen in a contrived Christmas-themed liplock, the two lead characters on FOX's 