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BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL TV

Hope & Faith (ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
)

Production Team: Guymon Casady, Michael Edelstein, Emile Levisetti, Joanna Johnson

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Two adult sisters who are opposites must live together, with Kelly Ripa and Faith Ford.

Line of fire (fka Lines of Duty) (ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: Rod Lurie, Marc Frydman

Format: One-Hour Drama

The FBI tries to stay on top of the Mob.

Threat Matrix (ABC)

Production Team: Daniel Voll, Emile Levisetti, Michael Edelstein, Keith Addis

Format: One-Hour Drama

A task force takes on terrorists.

CARSEY-WERNER INTERNATIONAL

Whoopi (NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
)

Production Team: Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Whoopi Goldberg, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Whoopi Goldberg stars as a scheming hotel co-owner.

Tracy (NBC) (midseason)

Production Team: Jim O'Doherty, David Israel, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach, Lorne Michaels, Dave Becky, David Miner

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Tracy Morgan heads a blue-collar family and runs a small NYC NYC
abbr.
New York City


NYC New York City
 auto repair shop.

MGM MGM
 in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925.
 INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION

Happy Family (NBC)

Production Team: Moses Port, David Guarascio

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

A couple's adult children return to live at home, with John Larroquette.

Las Vegas (fka Casino Eye) (NBC)

Production Team: S. Steindorff, G.S. Thompson, J. Falvey, D. Frank

Format: One-Hour Drama.

James Caan and Josh Duhamel play surveillance experts in Las Vegas.

MONKEY SKA ska  
n.
Popular music originating in Jamaica in the 1960s, having elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, and calypso and marked by a fast tempo and a strongly accented offbeat.
 PARTNERSHIP

Make My Day (WB) (midseason)

Production Team: Sue Fellows

Format: Half-Hour Hidden Camera Show

U.S. version of U.K. hidden camera series.

PARAMOUNT TV INTERNATIONAL

10-8 (ABC)

Production Team: Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent, Jorge Zamacona

Format: One-Hour Drama

Rookie cops at the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept.

A Minute with Stan Hooper A Minute with Stan Hooper, also simply known as Stan Hooper, was a short-lived sitcom on the FOX Network starring Norm Macdonald. The central character, Stan Hooper, was taken from Macdonald's work on Saturday Night Live. It ran in 2003 & 2004.  (Fox)

Production Team: Barry Kemp, Norm MacDonald, Lori Jo Hoekstra

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Former Saturday Night Live This article is about the American television series. For the show related to Big Brother (UK), see Saturday Night Live (UK).

Saturday Night Live (SNL
 star Norm MacDonald plays a big-city TV reporter who moves to the country.

It's All Relative It's All Relative is an ABC sitcom about a man who dates the adoptive daughter of a gay couple, which forces their very different families to learn to coexist. Overview  (fka Flett-Giordano/Ranberg project) (ABC)

Production Team: Ann Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg, Neil Meron, Craig Zadan

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

A man from a conservative family is engaged to the daughter of a gay couple.

The Handler (fka Street Boss) (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. )

Production Team: Christopher Haddock

Format: One-Hour Drama

Former Soprano Joe Pantoliano stars as a man who trains undercover cops.

Jake 2.0 (fka Weapon X) (UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000)
UPN United Paramount Network
UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union)
UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation
)

Production Team: Gina Matthews, Grant Scharbo, Silvio Horta

Format: One-Hour Drama

An NSA NSA
abbr.
National Security Agency

Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign
 agent gets injected with computer chips.

Navy CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.)


(1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe.

(2) (Card Information S
 (fka NC/S) (CBS)

Production Team: Don Bellisario, Don McGill

Format: One-Hour Drama

JAG spin-off about U.S. Navy criminal investigation, with Mark Harmon.

SONY PICTURES TELEVISION Sony Pictures Television, Inc. (SPT) is an American television production and distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In turn, the latter is part of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.  INTERNATIONAL

Joan of Arcadia Joan of Arcadia is an American television fantasy/family drama, which aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS from September 262003 until April 222005. It is currently in syndication with episodes airing in high definition on HDNet.  (CBS)

Production Team: Barbara Hall

Format: One-Hour Drama

Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Fr. Jeanne D'Arc (zhän därk), 1412?–31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans; daughter of a farmer of Domrémy on the border of Champagne and Lorraine.  story updated to the present day.

The Mayor (fka Kid Mayor) (WB) (midseason)

Production Team: Adam Sandler, Doug Robinson, Adam Resnick, Jack Giarraputo

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

An 18-year-old mayor, played by Ben Feldman.

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital(ABC) (midseason)

Production Team: Stephen King, Mark Carliner

Format: One-Hour Drama

Doctors work in a haunted hospital.

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TV DISTRIBUTION

Arrested Development (Fox)

Production Team: Mitch Hurwitz, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, David Nevins

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Jason Bateman stars as a man who must take over the family business when dad goes to jail.

Back to Kansas (ABC)

Production Team: Tom Hertz, Brad Grey

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

A cynical New Yorker marries a woman from a large, close-knit Kansas family.

The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. (CBS)

Production Team: David E. Kelley and Michael Pressman

Format: One-Hour Drama

Three brothers in a small New England town The New England town is the basic unit of local government in each of the six New England states. An institution that does not have a direct counterpart in most other U.S. states, New England towns are conceptually similar to civil townships in that they were originally set up so , starring Randy Quaid.

Cracking Up (Fox) (midseason)

Production Team: Mike White, Jay Roach, Brad Grey

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

A psychology grad student moves in with a nutty family.

Luis (Fox)

Production Team: Will Gluck

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Luis Guzman as a neo-con doughnut shop owner in the big city.

The Lyon's Den (NBC)

Production Team: Remi Aubuchon, Brad Grey, Bernie Brillstein, Rod Holcomb

Format: One-Hour Drama

Rob Lowe stars in an ensemble legal drama.

Miss Match (NBC)

Production Team: Darren Star, Jeff Rake, David Nevins, Brian Grazer

Format: One-Hour Drama

Alicia Silverstone plays an attorney by day and a matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker.  by night.

Still Life (Fox) (midseason)

Production Team: K. Koenig, N. Moritz, M. Adelstein, D. Parouse

Format: One-Hour Drama

A spiritual drama from a dead son's point of view.

Tru Calling (Fox)

Production Team: J. Feldman, R. Cohen cohen
 or kohen

(Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male.
, N. Moritz; M. Adelstein, D. Parouse

Format: One-Hour Drama

A grad student discovers she can relive any given day, starring Buffy regular Eliza Dushku.

Wonderfalls (Fox) (midseason)

Production Team: Bryan Fuller, Todd Holland

Format: One-Hour Drama

Amelie meets Donnie Darko, with Diana Scarwid as the mother of a college grad who hears inanimate objects talking to her.

UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION

Coupling(NBC)

Production Team: Ben Silverman, Beryl Vertue, Sue Vertue, Steven Moffat, Phoef Sutton

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

U.S. version of U.K sitcom that follows the intimate exploits of a group of thirtysomethings.

Karen Sisco (ABC)

Production Team: M. Dinner, J. Landgraf, D. DeVito, S. Sher, M. Shamberg

Format: One-Hour Drama

Cop drama based on J. Lo's character in feature film Out of Sight, starring Carla Gugino.

WARNER BROS. INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION Warner Bros. International Television (also known as Warner Bros. Worldwide Television and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution) is the Global television arm of Warner Bros. Television and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment formed in 1996.  

All About the Andersons All About the Andersons is a TV show that aired on The WB network during the 2003-04 season. It featured Anthony Anderson as a single father and struggling actor who moves back into his parents' house only to find that his room has been rented out to a nursing student.  (WB)

Production Team: James Widdoes, Marco Pennette, Adam Glass, Anthony Anderson

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

An out-of-work actor moves back to his parents' home with his eight-year-old son.

All of Us (UPN)

Production Team: Betsy Borns, Will' Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith and James Lassiter

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Loosely based on the life of hip-hop star/actor Will Smith and his actress wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.

Cold Case (CBS)

Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Meredith Stiehm

Format: One-Hour Drama

Drama about the female topper of Philly's cold case squad.

Fearless (WB)

Production Team: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Jeremy Littman

Format: One-Hour Drama

Drama about a female FBI agent who has no fear gene.

The Help (WB) (midseason)

Production Team: Ron Leavitt

Format: Half-Hour Comedy The staff of an estate.

I'm With Her (ABC)

Production Team: Chris Henchy, Marco Pennette, Joe Davola, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

A teacher dates a celebrity.

Like Family (fka Family Friends) (WB)

Production Team: Kenny Schwartz, Rick Wiener, Warren Littlefield, Dan Fogelman

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

A woman and her son move in with a friend.

The Mullets (fka The Mullet mullet: see silversides.
mullet

Any of fewer than 100 species (family Mugilidae) of abundant, commercially valuable schooling fishes found in brackish or fresh waters throughout tropical and temperate regions.
 Brothers) (UPN)

Production Team: Bill Oakley, Josh Elvis Weinstein, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Two brothers sport the awful, just-won't-die hairstyle and own a contracting/roofing company.

The O. C. (Fox) Production Team: Josh Schwartz, McG

Format: One-Hour Drama

A street-smart teen winds up in the high-class environs of Orange County, CA.

One Tree Hill (fka Ravens) (WB) (midseason)

Production Team: Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Joe Davola

Format: One-Hour Drama

Chad Michael Murray Chad Michael Murray (born August 24, 1981) is an American actor, former male fashion model and teen idol. He is perhaps best known for his role as Lucas Scott in The CW series One Tree Hill.  stars in a drama about estranged es·trange  
tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es
1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate.

2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
 half-brothers living in a small town.

The Opposite Sex (UPN)

Production Team: Bob Greenblatt, David Janollari, Meg DeLoatch, Eve, Troy Carter

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Rapper Eve stars as a fashion designer on the lookout for in search of; looking for.

See also: Lookout
 love.

Rock Me Baby (UPN)

Production Team: Timothy D. Kelleher, Tony Krantz Krantz is the name of two persons:
  • Kermit E Krantz Physician and inventor
  • Grover Krantz Bigfoot researcher
 

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Comedy about a radio DJ trying to balance his career with his family life.

Run of the House (WB)

Production Team: Betsy Thomas, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

A younger sister is raised by her older siblings.

Skin (Fox)

Production Team: Jim Leonard, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman

Format: One-Hour Drama

Two kids fall in love; her dad's a porn producer, his dad's the county D.A.

Steve Harvey's Big Time (WB)

Production Team: S. Harvey, R. McDonald, M. Smithberg

Format: Half-Hour Talk/Variety

Unknowns show off their skills for comedian Steve Harvey on this combination talk/variety show.

The Stones (CBS)

Production Team: Jenji Kohan, David Kohan, Max Mutchnick

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

Twentysomethings must cope when their parents get divorced.

Tarzan and Jane (WB)

Production Team: Laura Ziskin, David Gerber, David Nutter, Eric Kripke

Format: One-Hour Drama

Remake that moves the title character from the jungle to New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, with Travis Fimmel and Sarah Wayne Callies Sarah Wayne Callies (born Sarah Anne Callies on June 1, 1977 in La Grange, Illinois) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Dr. Sara Tancredi in the American television series, Prison Break. .

Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men is a North American television sitcom centered around a freewheeling bachelor, Charlie, whose carefree lifestyle is interrupted when his newly separated brother, Alan, moves in, along with his son Jake.  (CBS)

Production Team: Chuck Lorre, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Lee Aronsohn

Format: Half-Hour Comedy

A bachelor's brother and nephew come to live with him, starring Charlie Sheen.

Untitled Gilmore Girls spin-off' (WB) (midseason)

Production Team: Amy Sherman-Palladino

Format: One-Hour Drama

Gilmore Girls spin-off finds Milo Milo, athlete of ancient Greece
Milo (mī`lō) or Milon (mī`lŏn), fl. 500 B.C., athlete of ancient Greece, b. Crotona.
 Ventimiglia's Jess moving in with his estranged father.

INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR T.B.A.

The Apprentice (NBC) (midseason)

Production Team: Mark Burnett

Format: One-Hour Reality

Competitors vie to become the "apprentice" to a "master" of business in New York City's corporate jungle.

Banzai ban·zai  
n.
A Japanese battle cry or patriotic cheer.



[Japanese, (may you live) ten thousand years : ban, ten thousand (from Middle Chinese muanh, uan) + zai,
 (Fox) (midseason)

Production Team: Tim Breadin, Gary Monaghan

Format: Half-Hour Reality

U.S. version of Japanese interactive entertainment show that invites viewers to predict the outcome of various bizarre betting scenarios.

The Ortegas (Fox)

Production Team: Hat Trick Int'l, Jimmy Mulville, Denise O'Donoghue, Wally Wolodarsky, Gavin Polone

Format: Half-Hour Comedy/Reality

U.S. version of U.K. sitcom/reality series The Kumars at No. 42.

2003-2004 New Season Series (in Alphabetical Order and with Distributor)

10-8 (Paramount)

All About the Andersons (WBITV)

All Of Us (WBITV)

A Minute With Stan Hooper (Paramount)

The Apprentice (tba) (midseason)

Arrested Development (20th Century Fox TV Dist.)

Back to Kansas (20th Century Fox TV Dist.)

Banzai (tba) (midseason)

The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. (20th Century Fox TV Dist.)

Cold Case (WBITV)

Coupling (Universal)

Cracking Up (20th Century Fox TV Dist.) (midseason)

Fearless (WBITV)

(Untitled) Gilmore Girls spin-off

(WBITV) (midseason)

The Handler (Paramount)

Happy Family (MGM Int'l TV)

The Help (WBITV) (midseason)

Hope & Faith (BVITV BVITV Buena Vista International Television )

I'm With Her (WBITV)

It's All Relative (Paramount)

Jake 2.0 (Paramount)

Joan of Arcadia (SPTI SPTI Sony Pictures Television International
SPTI SCSI Pass Through Interface
)

Karen Sisco (Universal)

Las Vegas (MGM Int'l TV)

Like Family (WBITV)

Line of Fire (BVITV)

Luis (20th Century Fox TV Dist.)

The Lyon's Den (20th Century Fox TV Dist.)

Make My Day (Monkey ska Partnership) (mid season)

The Mayor (SPTI) (midseason)

Miss Match (20th Century Fox TV Dist.)

The Mullets (WBITV)

Navy CIS (Paramount)

The O.C. (WBITV)

One Tree Hill (WBITV) (midseason)

The Opposite Sex (WBITV)

The Ortegas (tba)

Rock Me Baby (WBITV)

Run of the House (WBITV)

Skin (WBITV)

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (SPTI) (midseason)

Steve Harvey's Big Time (WBITV)

Still Life (20th Century Fox TV Dist.) (midseason)

Tarzan and Jane (WBITV)

The Stones (WBITV)

Threat Matrix (BVITV)

Tracy (Carsey-Werner International) (midseason)

Tru Calling (20th Century Fox TV Dist.)

Two and a Half Men (WBITV)

Whoopi (Carsey-Werner International)

Wonderfalls (20th Century Fox TV Dist.) (midseason)
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Publication:Video Age International
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Date:Jun 1, 2003
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