The Benefactor
Mondays at 8:00PM
What would you do for a million dollars? Billionaire businessman
and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is about to find out because
he is "The Benefactor," and he's set to give away a million bucks
to a complete stranger. Why has he agreed to give away such a large
sum of money? Because he can't wait to figure out how America's
applicants will prove to him that they deserve it! Sixteen contestants
will vie for the money in a competition full of emotional, dramatic
challenges - tests of character, intelligence, heart and maybe a
little bit of luck.
Credits:
Executive Producers: David Young, Clay Newbill and Todd Wagner
Production Entities: 12 Yard Productions, 29 29 Productions
Rodney
Tuesdays at 9:30PM
Stand-up comedian Rodney Carrington would like to take you to the
middle of real, everyday America. In the tradition of "Home Improvement"
and "Roseanne" comes a down-to-earth guy's guy who, with his own
heartland intelligence, speaks the truth. Rodney is quitting or
getting fired from jobs he hates while doing stand-up in dive bars
at night. He may not have much money, but he still finds excitement.
He's not afraid to walk into a department store naked on a dare.
Not afraid to take credit for flowers someone else sent his wife.
Not afraid to get between his fighting boys. Not afraid to tell
his wife he wants to make stand-up his career. He's going to figure
out how to find happiness while being the best damn husband, dad
and son he knows how to be.
Cast:
Rodney Carrington: Rodney Hamilton
Jennifer Aspen ("Party of Five"): Trina Hamilton
Amy Pietz ("Caroline in the City"): Charlie
Nick Searcy: Barry
Oliver Davis: Jack Hamilton
Matthew Josten: Bo Hamilton
Credits:
Executive Producer/Writer: Ric Swartzlander ("The Ellen Show")
Executive Producer: David Himelfarb ("My Wife and Kids")
Pilot Director: Robert Berlinger
Production Entity: Touchstone Television
Lost
Wednesdays at 8:00PM
Out of the blackness the first thing Jack senses is pain. Then
burning sun. A Bamboo forest. Smoke. Screams. With a rush comes
the horrible awareness that the plane he was on tore apart in mid-air
and crashed on a Pacific island. From there it's a blur, as his
doctor's instinct kicks in: people need his help. Stripped of everything,
the 48 survivors scavenge what they can from the plane for their
survival. Some panic. Some pin their hopes on rescue. A few find
inner strength they never knew they had - like Kate who, with no
medical training, suddenly finds herself suturing the doctor's wounds.
The band of friends, family, enemies and strangers must work together
against the cruel weather and harsh terrain. But the intense howls
of the mysterious creatures stalking the jungle fill them all with
fear. Fortunately, thanks to the calm leadership of quick-thinking
Jack and level-headed Kate, they have hope. But even heroes have
secrets, as the survivors will come to learn. From J.J. Abrams,
the creator of "Alias," comes an action-packed adventure that will
bring out the very best and the very worst in the people who are
lost.
Cast:
Evangeline Lilly: Kate
Ian Somerhalder ("Life As a House"): Boone
Dominic Monaghan ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy): Charlie
Jorge Garcia: Hurley
Maggie Grace ("Oliver Beene"): Shannon
Malcolm David Kelley ("Antwone Fisher"): Walt
Naveen Andrews ("The English Patient"): Sayid
Harold Perrineau ("Oz"): Michael
Josh Holloway: Sawyer
Matthew Fox ("Party of Five"): Jack
Terry O'Quinn ("Primal Fear"): Locke
Daniel Dae Kim ("24"): Jin
Yunjin Kim: Sun
Credits:
Executive Producers/Writers: J. J. Abrams ("Alias," "Felicity"),
Damon Lindelof ("Crossing Jordan")
Executive Producer: Bryan Burk ("Alias")
Pilot Director: J. J. Abrams
Production Entities: Bad Robot, Touchstone Television
Wife Swap
Wednesdays at 10:00PM
Already a smash hit in the UK and most recently awarded a BAFTA,
the UK's most prestigious television award, "Wife Swap" gives two
families the rare opportunity to witness what it's like to live
someone else's life and experiences. Two matriarchs from two households
trade places for 10 days. For the first five days of the challenge,
they must obey the rules of the new family's lifestyle and adopt
their daily routine - parenting, shopping, housework, creating budgets
and social life. For the remaining five days, these women get to
run the new house their own way - a radical shock to both families.
This intense new series taps into America's voyeuristic tendencies
and desires to judge how others run their households, raise their
children and treat their spouses. Never before has a reality series
taken such an honest inside look at the American family.
Credits:
Executive Producers: Michael Davies, Stephen Lambert, Jenny Crowther
Production Entities: RDF Media, Diplomatic
Life As We Know It
Thursdays at 9:00PM
They say teenage boys think about sex every 15 seconds. That's
240 times an hour. And in between they cram everything else: Cheating
moms. Interfering dads. Sex. Secret crushes. Pop quizzes. Sex. Clueless
teachers. School cliques. Sex. It's enough to make a kid's head
explode. Melvin Burgess' breakthrough novel is the basis for this
series about three hormone-charged teenage boys who are trying to
do something even harder than losing their virginity, and that's
to grow up without totally freaking out. There's Dino, the handsome
jock with the secret sensitive side; Jonathan, the artist who sees
life through a camera lens; and Ben, the straight-A student who
still can't make his parents happy. You know them. You grew up with
them. Maybe you were them. This coming of age drama in the tradition
of "Stand By Me" and "The Outsiders" comes to ABC from the writers
of "Freaks & Geeks" and "Just Shoot Me."
Cast:
Sean Faris (MTV's "Undressed"): Dino Whitman
Jon Foster ("Life As a House"): Ben Conner
Chris Lowell: Jonathan Fields
Missy Peregrym: Jackie
Kelly Osbourne (MTV's "The Osbournes"): Deborah
D.B. Sweeney ("Brother Bear"): Michael Whitman
Lisa Darr ("Popular"): Annie Whitman
Marguerite Moreau ("Runaway Jury"): Ms. Monica Young
Jessica Lucas: Sue
Credits:
Executive Producers/Writers: Gabe Sachs ("Freaks & Geeks," "Just
Shoot Me"), Jeff Judah ("Freaks & Geeks," "Just Shoot Me")
Executive Producers: Stu Bloomberg, Francie Calfo
Co-Executive Producer/Pilot Director: Michael Engler ("Keen Eddie")
Production Entities: Sachs/Judah, Cabloom!, Touchstone Television
Savages
Fridays at 8:30PM
Meet the Savage brothers. They smell. They're slobs. And they love
it that way. Executive producer Mel Gibson's real life experiences
of raising a brood of boys provide the basis for a take-no-prisoners
comedy. Raised by their single dad, the Savage boys have had a succession
of housekeepers - over 20 at last count - to pick up after them.
Well, today that comes to an end. Dad Nick wants his boys to learn
the skills women don't seem to take so much joy in anymore - you
know, cooking, cleaning, laundry. Somehow this dad is going to turn
his loutish boys into independent men, the kind any girl could take
home to her mother. This is going to be some battle because Nick,
just like his sons, is still a boy at heart. Producers Mike Scully
and Julie Thacker Scully, writers for "The Simpsons," add their
own family experience into the mix for a funny, honest take on raising
kids. It reminds us that children come with their own personalities
and problems, and that none of them comes with instructions.
Cast:
Keith Carradine ("Deadwood"): Nick
Andrew Eiden: Sam
Shaun Sipos ("Final Destination 2"): Jack
Erik von Detten ("The Princess Diaries"): Chris
Evan Ellingson: Kyle
Jason Dolley: T.J.
Vincent Ventresca ("Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion"): Jimmy
Credits:
Executive Producers/Writers: Mike Scully ("The Simpsons," "Everybody
Loves Raymond"), Julie Thacker-Scully ("The Simpsons")
Executive Producer/Pilot Director: Mel Gibson
Executive Producer: Bruce Davey
Production Entities: Nothing Can Go Wrong Now Productions and Icon
Productions in association with NBC Universal Television
Desperate Houswives
Sundays at 9:00PM
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for
Mary Alice Scott. It's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house,
in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's
taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting
from her elevated POV. Her husband's acting suspicious, the neighbors
are talking, and her girlfriends are wondering why one of their
own would do something so rash... and so messy. There's Susan, the
divorce who goes to extraordinary lengths for love. Lynette, the
ex-career woman who traded the boardroom for boredom, mixed with
moments of sheer panic. Bree, the Martha Stewart on steroids, whose
family is about to mutiny. And Gabrielle, the ex-model with everything
she always wanted - a rich husband, a big house - so what is she
doing with the 17-year-old gardener? As for Mary Alice's husband,
Paul, there must be a good reason why he's digging up the pool in
the middle of the night. From her unique vantage point, Mary Alice
sees more now than she ever did alive, and she's planning to share
all the delicious secrets that hide behind every neighbor's closed
door in this seemingly perfect American suburb. The writer of "Melrose
Place" and "General Hospital" (executive producer Charles Pratt
Jr.) has helped create a primetime soap with a truly contemporary
take on happily ever after.
Cast:
Sheryl Lee ("Twin Peaks"): Mary Alice Scott
Mark Moses ("Saving Jessica Lynch"): Paul Young
Cody Kasch ("Normal, Ohio"): Zack Young
Teri Hatcher ("Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman"): Susan
Mayer
Andrea Bowen ("That Was Then"): Jenna Mayer
Marcia Cross ("Melrose Place," "Everwood"): Bree Van De Kamp
Michael Reilly Burke ("Providence"): Rex Van De Kamp
Felicity Huffman ("Sports Night"): Lynette Scavo
Eva Longoria ("Dragnet"): Gabrielle Solis
Ricardo Antonio Chavira ("The Alamo"): Carlos Solis
James Denton ("The Pretender"): Mike Delfino
Kyle Searles ("7th Heaven"): John
Credits:
Executive Producer/Writer: Marc Cherry ("The Golden Girls")
Executive Producers: Charles Pratt Jr. ("Melrose Place"), Michael
Edelstein ("Threat Matrix"), Tom Spezialy ("The District," "Ed")
Pilot Director: Charles McDougall
Production Entity: Touchstone Television
The Practice: Fleet Street
Sundays at 9:00PM
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead the brigade of high-priced civil
litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on
the professional and personal lives of brilliant, but often emotionally-challenged,
attorneys. Fast-paced, darkly comedic, the series will confront
social issues, moral conscience, safe sex, pursuit of happiness
and money, with varying degrees of priority. Escape to the law firm
on One Fleet Street...where anything goes... and often will.
Cast:
James Spader ("The Practice"): Alan Shore
William Shatner ("The Practice," "Star Trek"): Denny Crane
Rhona Mitra ("The Practice," "Sweet Home Alabama"): Tara Wilson
Lake Bell ("The Practice," "Miss Match"): Sally Heep
Credits:
Executive Producer/Writer: David E. Kelley ("The Practice," "Ally
McBeal," "Picket Fences")
Executive Producer: Bill D'Elia ("The Practice," "Chicago Hope")
Production Entities: David E. Kelley Productions in association
with Twentieth Century Fox Television
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