Original Programming Gets Plenty of Buzz at Critics Tour

Cable World,  July 14, 2003  

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Byline: SHIRLEY BRADY

The Television Critics Association Tour kicked off last week with an $11 billion bang - representing the massive investment cable networks made in the last year in original programming.

In addition to a luncheon promoting cable's commitment to high-definition programming, more than 36 networks previewed the best of what they have coming up for the journalists assembled in Hollywood to check out their stuff. Among the shows generating ink and buzz at TCA:

* MI-5 on A&E

* Dance Fever on ABC Family

* The AMC Project: Hollywood and the Muslim World on AMC

* Beverly Hills Vet on Animal Planet

* 3 Non-Blondes, British comediennes coming to BBC America

* Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Bravo

* Kid Notorious, Comedy Central's animated series on producer Bob Evans

* Smoking Gun TV on Court TV

* Nefertiti Resurrected on the Discovery Channel

* Buff Brides on Discovery Health Channel

* The Cheetah Girls, original movie at Disney Channel

* Dream Job, offering aspiring sportscasters a one-year hosting gig on ESPN

* National Lam-poon's Funny Money on Game Show Network

* K Street, executive produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh for HBO

* Hey Remember!, on nostalgic decor on HGTV

* Extreme History With Roger Daltrey on the History Channel

* A Decade Under the Influence on IFC

* Merge and new Saturday night shows on Lifetime

*The return of The Osbournes to MTV

* Worlds Apart on the National Geographic Channel

* Romeo!, bringing Master P and his son Lil' Romeo to Nickelodeon

* A Tale of Two Wives, Oxygen's first original movie

* The Twelve, a miniseries by director Martin Scorsese for Sci Fi

* The L Word on Showtime

* The Joe Schmo Show (and official rebranding from TNN) at Spike TV

* Style Court's eccentric Judge Henry Roth, on style

* Keeping Time: New Music From America's Roots on Sundance Channel

* Unscrewed With Martin Sargent, a late-night series on TechTV

* Date Patrol on TLC

* The Goodbye Girl remake directed by Richard Benjamin for TNT

* The Brilliant, But Cancelled nightly strip starting Labor Day on Trio

* DC Sniper, USA's original movie

* Mix It Up, the home decorating series produced by Courteney Cox and hubby David Arquette for WE.

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