LONDON -- Channel 5 CEO Jane Lighting on Wednesday unveiled the network's heavily acquisitions-led fall schedule and said that the strategy of acquiring U.S. shows had contributed to its increased year-on-year audience share. Headlining the acquisitions slate for the fall are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, The Shield, Boomtown and Law & Order: SVU, which Lighting said had transformed the network's weekend ratings, particularly on Saturday nights. Five will continue its strategy of premiering mainstream U.S. dramas into the next year, including new Rob Lowe starrer The Lyon's Den, which will air next year. It also has already picked up Angel, the spinoff from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Alias, which will begin airing in the fall.
Veteran hunk Rob Lowe has reportedly been ditched from the cover of American magazine Details - only to be replaced by heart-throb Ashton Kutcher. Rob - who has a new TV show The Lyon's Den out later this year - was due to grace the cover of Details' September issue before Ashton took his place. And the 25-year-old Just Married star - whose is romancing Demi Moore - still adorned the cover despite refusing to partake in a photo shoot or interview. An insider tells Page Six, "The September cover of Details was supposed to be Rob Lowe. But then (Details editor-in-chief) Dan Peres realized what Us Weekly readers have long known - that Ashton Kutcher sells magazines. So they ditched Rob for Ashton. They ended up using the outtakes of a photo shoot that Tom Monroe shot for Face magazine in Britain. Ashton is almost unrecognizable - he is all dirty and dressed like a coal miner." But Peres insists he never planned to put 39-year-old Rob on the cover of Details' September issue. He says, "Any editor would be foolish not to want Ashton on their cover because of the heat he has right now. Rob Lowe is one of the most sellable celebrities and he wasn't supposed to be on the September cover. We want to wait to see how his television show does."...
- 7/28/2003
- WENN
Emmy-winning writer-producer Kevin Falls has inked a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. As part of the seven-figure pact, which has an option for a third year, Falls will join 20th TV/Brad Grey TV's new drama series for NBC, The Lyon's Den, starring Rob Lowe, and will develop new projects for the studio. Lyon's Den, an ensemble law drama, reunites Falls, who was a co-executive producer on NBC's The West Wing the past three seasons, with former West Wing co-star Lowe. In fact, it was Lowe who first approached Falls to join Lyon's Den immediately after the show was picked up by NBC last month. Soon thereafter, he received a call from the studio, which offered him an overall deal that included co-running Lyon's Den with the show's creator, Remi Aubuchon.
Emmy-winning writer-producer Kevin Falls has inked a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. As part of the seven-figure pact, which has an option for a third year, Falls will join 20th TV/Brad Grey TV's new drama series for NBC, The Lyon's Den, starring Rob Lowe, and will develop new projects for the studio. Lyon's Den, an ensemble law drama, reunites Falls, who was a co-executive producer on NBC's The West Wing the past three seasons, with former West Wing co-star Lowe. In fact, it was Lowe who first approached Falls to join Lyon's Den immediately after the show was picked up by NBC last month. Soon thereafter, he received a call from the studio, which offered him an overall deal that included co-running Lyon's Den with the show's creator, Remi Aubuchon.
The new Rob Lowe legal drama The Lyon's Den and a sitcom headlined by Whoopi Goldberg were among the first shows to be sold to Canadian broadcasters in town for the annual Los Angeles Screenings. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. International Television sealed a deal late Thursday sending a package of five of its syndicated strips north of the border. The Canadians were set to return home today after working late into the night to buy new U.S. shows for their fall TV schedules. As last call approached at the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Canucks were expected to have shelled out a cool couple of hundred million dollars on American fare. At press time, CTV Inc. had picked up Whoopi, the sitcom from NBC Studios and Carsey-Werner International that stars Goldberg as a one-hit singer running a New York hotel. CTV also picked up Warner Bros.' Cold Case and Sony Pictures' Joan of Arcadia.
- 5/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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