WHO: Jaime Ray Newman, Lindsay Price, Rebecca Romijn, Sara Rue, Paul Gross, and exec producer Maggie Friedman.
PREMISE: Lipstick Jungle meets Desperate Housewives set in Stars Hollow. Oh, and they’re witches.

4:44 pm/PST: It’s literally set in Stars Hollow: Eastwick is using the same town square set as Gilmore Girls.

4:45 pm: Holy gams! Ninety percent of the panel is comprised of Romijn and Price’s legs.

4:49 pm: Eastwick is very different than the 1987 movie Witches of Eastwick. Except the title is essentially the same. And both feature Veronica Cartwright. And both are about magic. And… READ FULL STORY »

WHO: Courteney Cox, Busy Phillips, Dan Byrd, Christa Miller, Josh Hopkins, Ian Gomez, Brian Van Holt, and exec producers Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel
PREMISE: Single mom decides to re-enter the dating game in her 40s. My third favorite comedy pilot behind Modern Family and Community. (Watch the trailer)

3:47 pm: Lawrence says Cougar Town employs more female writers than probably any comedy on TV.

3:48 pm: Cox’s character won’t be shagging a different boy toy every week. Bottom line: Samantha Jones she’s not.

3:54 pm: Yes, that’s really Cox’s loose belly skin in the bathroom scene. Ditto the arm flab. Bottom line: She’s human!

3:57 pm: “I think it’s great to be a cougar, if that’s what it’s called,” says Cox. “I just don’t know what the [male version] of that is called. “A man,” cracks a male reporter in the audience. READ FULL STORY »

WHO: Sonya Walger, Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Courtney B. Vance, Dominic Monaghan, and exec producers Jessika Borsiczky Goyer, David S. Goyer, and Marc Guggenheim.
PREMISE: The world’s population blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, during which they see a glimpse of their future on April 29, 2010. Compelling, suspenseful pilot with two fantastic leads in Walger and Fiennes. (Watch the trailer)

1:01 pm/PST: “By the end of the first season most of the questions in the pilot will be answered,” says e.p. David Goyer. The exception: The “overarching cause of why the blackout happened” won’t be revealed until the end of the series.

1:06 pm: David Goyer is an “enormous fan of Lost” and says the show “proved to me that there could be a place on network television for” dramas with large ensembles featuring different shades of morality. Damon Lindelof’s advice to him: “Tell your story. Stick to your guns.” READ FULL STORY »

WHAT: The Middle
WHO: Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher, Atticus Shaffer, Chris Kattan, and exec producers Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline

PREMISE: It’s Malcolm in the Middle starring Patricia Heaton instead of Jane Kaczmarek! Liked it. Didn’t love it. (Watch the trailer)

10:39/PST: Scoop! The Janitor will return! Flynn says, “There’s a good chance I’ll pop up on Scrubs [one more time].” He adds that, “The show ended. We were free to go. But then [it] started up again… I’m now playing a different character who has a name from the get-go.”

10:42 am: Stalker alert! Heaton shops at the Pavilions on Vine and Melrose (directions) at least three times a week. She also buys her sweatpants in “the boys department at Target.” Assuming she hits Target after Pavillions, she most likely goes to the West Hollywood store (directions).

WHAT: Hank
WHO: Kelsey Grammer, Melinda McGraw, David Koechner, Sasha Pieterse, Nathan Gamble, and exec producers Tucker Cawley and Mike Clements.
PREMISE: Wall Street tycoon loses everything and is forced to relocate his family back to his hometown and start over. Haven’t seen it but sources confirm to me exclusively that it’s horrible. (Watch the trailer)

11:19 am: The pilot is being reshot. Presumably to make it less horrible. READ FULL STORY »