[Televisionary]

The CW has released its newest promo for its upcoming 90210 spinoff... and this one features Shannen Doherty AND Jennie Garth together in a shot. Strike up some Sophie B. Hawkins and it might just be the early 90s all over again... 90210 launches September 2nd at 8 pm on the CW.

Good morning and welcome to your Friday morning television briefing. I can't believe the weekend is nearly within reach, though yesterday's heat here in LA is still making me woozy. Matthew Fox has successfully negotiated a raise for his role on ABC's hit drama Lost , replacing his $150,000 per episode price tag with a new pay check of about $225,000/episode, a raise that puts him on equal footing with the stars of the Alphabet's Desperate Housewives . Look for the other cast members on Lost --which starts production on Season Five on Monday--to receive boosts as well. ( Hollywood Reporter ) Katie Holmes has some company. Sigourney Weaver will be the latest A-list star to sign on for a guest appearance on next season's Eli Stone , following the ABC series' coup in signing Holmes for an upcoming episode. Weaver will play a therapist to whom Eli (Jonny Lee Miller) turns to for help. ( Entertainment Weekly 's Hollywood Insider ) Alan Taylor ( Mad Men ) will dir

As much as the designers might loathe it, I do love when Project Runway forces its contestants to work together to design a garment. While the results might sometimes be truly awful, the process does sometimes produce some truly mind-blowing creations (I'm thinking of Chris March and Christian's pairing last season). So I was curious to see how this latest crop of designers would fare in their first team challenge on this week's episode of Project Runway ("Welcome to the Jungle"). Were the results runway-ready or just plain also-ran? Let's discuss. Brooke Shields stopped by as this weeks' guest judge/corporate synergy icon as the designers were tasked with creating a look for Shield's character Wendy to wear on Season Two of the NBC drama Lipstick Jungle . (I loved the way the designers seemed to silent acknowledge that they had never heard of the series, nor that it had been given a second season order.) In an echo of the Sarah Jessica Parker challe

Good morning and welcome to your Thursday morning television briefing. I'll be concise today as I am still feeling a little worse for wear from last night's outing to Father's Office in Culver City... and passed out before I could finish watching this week's episode of Project Runway . (So come back to discuss that tomorrow.) ABC has invented its own national holiday in the form of National Stay at Home Week, urging people to stay home and conserve fuel the week of September 21st. Lest you think that the Alphabet is being purely altruistic, note that that very same week just happens to be fall premiere week at the network... ( Variety ) Speaking of ABC, the network is expected to order one drama and one comedy series for midseason by Friday and later pick up three additional orders each in comedy and drama down the line. The likely contenders are: Nathan Fillion-starring drama Castle , in which he plays a womanizing horror novelist turned police consultant from ABC Stud

Good morning and welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. (Is it really Wednesday already? Wow.) Doc Jensen has the scoop on the title of the fifth season premiere of Lost : "Because You Left." Wowsers, that's a fantastic title, no? You'll have to brave reading through Jeff's write-ups of the Lost panel at Comic-Con and the new Dharma Initiative-based ARG (along with an important message about the upcoming Stand Up 2 Cancer television special on September 5th) but it's right there at the very end of Doc's latest treatise on the ABC drama. ( Entertainment Weekly ) Sigh. Yet another feature film en route to the small screen: ABC has given a put pilot commitment to a series adaptation of the 2002 Jennifer Lopez feature film Maid in Manhattan , about a maid--not the Jennifer Lopez character but a different maid--and single mother who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and falls for a politician who mistakes her for a guest. (I guess those new maid

Did anyone else watch last night's reunion special for Bravo's deliciously addictive reality series Flipping Out ? While not a hell of a lot was revealed that we didn't already know about Flipping Out 's quirky cast, it was great to catch up with Jeff, Jenni, Ryan, and Zoila, even if we had to sit through annoying host Andy Cohen's inane chatter for an hour. Yes, I get that he's one of the executive producers on the series (and a VP at Bravo, to boot), but it doesn't make it any easier to sit through his uncomfortable interviews and endless mugging for the camera. And that's not to say anything about Andy nearly falling out of his chair. Sigh. I was surprised that the reunion special really did downplay Chris Elwood's firing and the NannyCam incident; I half-thought that the producers would trot out Chris for the cameras and make him say a few things about the surveillance incident and the dissolution of his marriage, but I am glad, for Jenni's s

Good morning and welcome to your Tuesday morning television briefing. Remakes seem to be all the rage these days, with several US networks remaking not only UK scripted formats but also recycling old US dramas (ahem, Knight Rider ) and feature films. So what's in the pipeline? Besides AMC's recent announcement that they are developing a series based on 1970s surveillance flick The Conversation , lots. CBS is developing a series remake of Streets of San Francisco with Sheldon Turner and a remake of the long-running procedural cop drama Hawaii Five-O --which ran from 1968 to 1980 and introduced the catchphrase "Book 'em, Danno!"--with Criminal Minds executive producer/showrunner Ed Bernero attached to write. Updated version of Hawaii Five-O will follow the exploits of Chris McGarrett, the chief of the fictional Hawaiian state police department and son of the original's Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord). (Aside: Bernero is also working on another CBS project, Washing