Muslim theme show for CW, new edge for CBS
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 | 2:19 PM ET
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CW, the U.S. network formed by the merger of WB and UPN, is adding a comedy about a Pakistani Muslim teen who comes to live with a U.S. family as an exchange student to its fall lineup.
Aliens in America will be the first attempt by a U.S. network to draw laughs out of the Muslim experience in the U.S.
Tim Doyle, who worked on Ellen, Grace Under Fire, Roseanne and Jake in Progress, will be executive producer.Chris Rock, shown in March, will return to CW in Everyone Hates Chris.
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CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie, a Canadian comedy about the Muslim community in the fictional Prairie town of Mercy, has sold in France, but has yet to net a U.S. deal.
CW, which is to release its full fall lineup on Thursday, also has ordered new drama series Gossip Girl, based on a popular book series, and Reaper, about a man who becomes the devil's bounty hunter, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It cancelled African-American comedy All of Us, but renewed Everyone Hates Chris and Girlfriends.Actor Jimmy Smits, shown in June 2006, will play the head of a Cuban-American family in a new CBS series, Cane.
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On Wednesday, CBS unveiled a fall season with five new shows, including several with themes that give a new edge to a network seen as rather stodgy.
Among the new shows:
- Swingtown: starring Molly Parker, about Chicago-area couples navigating the sexual freedom of the 1970s.
- Cane: starring Jimmy Smits as the head of a powerful Cuban-American family in Florida.
- Viva Laughlin: a drama about a former gambler who wants to run a casino, starring Lloyd Owen and X-Men star Hugh Jackman. The series contains musical interludes.
- Moonlight: about a vampire who helps the living.
Only one new comedy is on the CBS list. The Big Bang Theory is about two intellectuals with no social skills who go looking for love.
Kid Nation,a new reality show will give 40 kids 40 days to build a new world in a ghost town in New Mexico.
The Amazing Race and The New Adventures of Old Christine will return in mid-season and the network will stick with all three CSI dramas, Shark and How I Met Your Mother.
CBS has cancelled the nuclear apocalypse drama Jericho.
Jericho started last fall strong for CBS, but like many serialized dramas, lost viewers when it went into hiatus midseason.
The Class and Close to Home also got the boot.
Over at Fox, which releases its full schedule on Thursday, 24 is back for another two years, but the network promised to recreate the show after losing viewers this year.
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