Word slipped out late yesterday that
NBC was axing both Lipstick Jungle and My Own Worst Enemy from its schedule, but there's some good news today: There are reports that
both shows will at least get to air their remaining episodes in their current time slots. Lipstick will have 13 episodes and is wrapping production on them this week, while Enemy will end after nine episodes.
According to The Futon Critic,
Friday Night Lights could take over the Lipstick slot in January, to which I can really only say "hooray!"
The third and final piece of NBC's Monday night sci-fi block falls into place tonight, when
My Own Worst Enemy makes its debut.
The show stars Christian Slater as Edward, a man who has volunteered for an experimental government program . .
This Fall, NBC is creating a spy sandwich — or, as Ben Silverman put it,
"a male hero sandwich" — by slotting in the new Christian Slater drama
My Own Worst Enemy after
Chuck and
Heroes on Monday nights. I got a brief look at the show with a few clips at
TCA this month, and now those clips have finally turned up online.
The show stars Slater as Henry Spivey .
NBC started off this year's
Upfronts more than a month early this afternoon, kicking off the frenzy of Fall TV announcements with its no-frills presentation (which took the form of either a PowerPoint presentation or a
conference call, depending on where you were). While the format of the announcements wasn't thrilling, the content will give us much to speculate about over the next few months. Here are some of my initial thoughts:
