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After months of speculation and suggestions from everyone and their mother, executive producer Bill Lawrence says Cougar Town will not be getting a new name. Talking to EW’s Ausiello, Lawrence said, “I’m not changing the title. We never thought of a good new one, which kind of sucks. And when you look at the modern landscape of television, changing the …

After teasing us with the prospect of airing the final two Eastwick episodes next week, ABC changed their minds and yanked them off the schedule again. The network will air episodes of new summer series The Gates and Scoundrels on July 10 instead.

The last unaired episodes of Eastwick have finally received an airdate on ABC. Episodes 1.11, “Red, Bath and Beyond”, and 1.13, “Pampered and Tampered”, will air back-to-back on Saturday, July 10 beginning at 9/8c. Episode 1.12 aired out of sequence in December 2009. Eastwick, based on the novel The Witches of Eastwick, premiered on ABC in fall 2009. Starring Rebecca …

Congratulations to our new Nice Boy of the Week, Michael Urie! We’ve chosen Michael in honor of the Ugly Betty series finale, which aired last night. Michael played Marc St. James on the show, which ran for four seasons. Marc was Wilhelmina Slater’s (Venessa Williams) assistant  at Mode and although Michael was only scheduled to appear as a guest star, …

Buried in last week’s Ask Ausiello was a rather startling piece of news: ABC is considering changing the name of the Courteney Cox comedy Cougar Town. While I agree that the name does not reflect the series, I’m surprised that the network is seriously considering a change. Cougar Town started out as a show focused on Cox’s Jules, “a recently …

In celebration of the ABC television series Castle, the Paley Center hosted an evening recognizing the cast, writers and producers with a special screening and Q&A panel on March 16th at its Beverly Hills location. Attending the panel were cast members Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Molly Quinn, Susan Sullivan, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Tamala Jones, Jon Huertas and Seamus Dever, as well …

For fans of the television show FlashForward, it comes as no surprise to hear the show described as ambitious and addictive. From the very start, the show landed on the television landscape with a “shock and awe” campaign with the premise of a worldwide blackout during which each person saw a vision of their future. It is a show that …

Last week I attended the Cougar Town panel at the Paley Festival, a two-week long celebration of television. After a clip from The Lucy Show from the Paley Center’s archives and a quick introduction by Bill Lawrence, the lights dimmed for a preview of an upcoming episode of Cougar Town, much to the audience’s delight. Not wanting to spoil the …

This week’s Nice Boy fell into our laps as a very pleasant surprise. Tom Schanley is scheduled to appear in the next episode of Castle entitled The Mistress Always Spanks Twice. In this epsidoe, William Carraway, played by Schanley, becomes a suspect when one of his known sexual “turn-ons” matches the evidence in the homicide of a New York dominatrix. …

When the latest round of Dancing With the Stars competitors were announced, I went to skim through as usual, expecting to draw a blank on most of them, a chuckle on a couple, then shrug and not think about the show again until the next cast list was announced. I’ve never watched a single episode of DWTS, but ABC got …