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  • Yahoo plans ‘Wow House’ reality show

    MUMBAI: Online major Yahoo has announced plans for an online reality TV show Wow House.
    The show follows two families as they refurbish their homes with $10,000 in new electronics. Media reports state that it is the most concrete example of Yahoo’s Hollywood ambitions.
    The pilot costs $100,000 to produce, which is much less than what it took to make the pilot for ABC’s hit adventure show Lost. The format of Wow House could offer technology companies a chance for product placement and integration.

  • ABC’s upcoming series sees a woman US President

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC has announced that production work has begun on the drama series Commander In Chief.

    The show will star Oscar winner Geena Davis The Acccidental Tourist as the first female president of the US. The series will air Tuesdays at 9 pm at a later date.

    Davis’ character Mackenzie Allen the 45-year-old Independent Vice President of the US is about to venture into territory no woman has entered before. While at an official ceremony with husband and Chief of Staff Rod Allen (Kyle Secor), she is informed by the President’s Chief of Staff and the Attorney General that President Bridges is about to undergo emergency brain surgery for a tumor.

    Mackenzie is stunned when she is told that in the event the President does not recover, the party doesn’t want her to succeed him. Instead, she’s asked to step down in order to allow the Speaker of the House to assume the post, as he shares the party’s ideals.

    Mackenzie’s doubts are confirmed when she visits President Bridges at the hospital and hears from him directly that he wants her to resign. Bridges dies before transition plans are finalised. However after sitting through an insulting and sexist conversation with Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland), Mackenzie decides to forge ahead and assume the presidency, despite the obstacles that lie ahead.

    Aside from the challenges Mackenzie faces, her husband has his own hurdles to overcome, as he finds himself being ushered into a pink and feminine office by the First Lady’s aide. Her children, six-year-old Amy (Jasmine Anthony), as well as twins Horace (Matt Lanter), one of the most popular kids in school, and Rebecca (Caitlin Wachs), a rebellious teenager with raging hormones. They must also learn to deal with their mother’s new role as leader of the free world.

  • Aftra to recognises ABC’s micro mini series initiative

    MUMBAI: The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Aftra) will give broadcaster ABC the 2005 American Scene Award for Television Entertainment Programming for its Micro-Mini Series concept. The award will be given at Aftra’s convention of Friday 15 July.

    TV’s first scripted Micro-Mini Series is a joint effort of ABC and Touchstone Television, with the cooperation of the WGA, DGA, Aftra and other industry guilds and unions. The Micro-Minis which was an experiment last year were a series of interstitial short programmes that are integrated into ABC’s primetime and late-night lineup.

    They provided a unique entertainment experience and expanding the potential for television programming into a new arena. Each Micro-Mini programme was three minutes long. It played in three one-minute interstitial acts spread over the course of a single evening.

    In this concept each of the three acts was thematically connected to the others, with a storyline that will track over the course of an evening. But individual acts stood alone as an entertainment experiences in and of themselves. The Micro-Minis come from all genres and are either comedic or dramatic in tone.

    The Aftra award recognises work that portrays the diversity of the American scene in a realistic and balanced manner in their programming. This award is the highest honour that Aftra bestows on its industry partners. The “Micro-Mini Series aimed at giving participants in various ABC/Disney Talent Development programmes the opportunity to have original work produced and broadcast across the US.

  • ABC’s new show ‘The Evidence’ puts a twist to the standard police drama

    MUMBAI: People lie. The Evidence doesn’t. US broadcaster ABC has announced that it will launch this new show that puts a twist on the standard police procedural drama.
     

    At the start of each episode, all of the clues (a locket, a phone, a severed finger) are revealed in a videotaped evidence log. The show then flashes to the day the crime was committed and invites viewers to play along with the heroes as they find each clue, determine its meaning, put the pieces of the puzzle together and figure out who done it.

    No one knows the importance of evidence more than the lead character Inspector Sean Cole. After he lost his wife in a brutal murder, the only evidence the cops had was accidentally destroyed, and it ruined his faith in the system. Fortunately his partner and best friend, Bishop, is there for him, pulling him back to work, pushing him forward, as they both try to solve these complex cases set against the streets of San Francisco.

    The show stars Oscar winner Martin Landau Ed Wood and Nicky Katt. In total ABC’s 2005-2006 fall schedule will have 12 new series. Oscar winner Geena Davis Thelma And Louise will try her hand on the small screen with Commander-in-Chief. She plays Mackenzie Allen has a lot on her plate. She has twin teenagers and a six-year-old at home, an ambitious husband at the office, and she is about to become the first female President of the US.
     
     

    Before that happens, however, Mackenzie, who serves as VP has to decide whether or not to go against the dying wishes of the current President, who has asked her to step down and let someone “more appropriate” fill his shoes in the Oval Office. Not only does the President want her to resign, so does the entire party that elected her in the first place.

    Actor Freddie Prinze Jr gets to star in the comedy Freddie. Four women to every man are great odds when you’re a single guy out on the town, but not ideal when it comes to your living situation. Freddie is a young, successful chef with his own restaurant, a stylish bachelor pad and a trust fund baby for a best friend. The world should be Freddie’s oyster at this stage in life, but bachelorhood isn’t working out exactly as he envisioned.

    Freddie loved growing up in a house full of women. He loved the energy of everyone running around, loved cooking for them all, but now

    He is finally starting to realise why his father used to lock himself in the bathroom just for some peace and quiet. Still, Freddie believes family always comes first, which is why he insisted his sister, sister-in-law, niece and grandmother come live with him after his brother passed away. Slowly but surely they are taking over his domain, and voicing their many opinions about his love life. Freddie will have to learn to balance his role as provider, brother, grandson and uncle, all while trying to enjoy what should be his swinging single days.