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• TV Squad lists your season and series premieres and finales
  

  Filed under: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, HBO, Showtime, Programming, The CW, USA, FX, Sci Fi, Comedy Central, TNT

  Hola, mi muchachos and muchachoettes! It is I, Schedule Boy, back from wherever the hell I was. I'm here this time to present a comprehensive list of upcoming season and series premieres and finales for you, my adoptive TV Squad family.

  What a crazy season its been! Shows that had so much potential (The Nine, Studio 60) struggled to stay on the air, while others (Ugly Betty, Friday Night Lights,...
  




• Talisman could become a regular series
  

  Filed under: Cable, TNT, Pickups and Renewals

  As we all know, the Stephen King / Peter Straub novel The Talisman is being made into a six-part miniseries for TNT for the 2008 season.

  Now TNT has told advertisers that the Stephen Spielberg-produced miniseries could also become a regular series in 2009.

  The original novel, the first collaboration between King and Straub, focused on a young boy named Jack Sawyer who flips back and forth between two worlds: our world and a mystical but malevolent world known as the Territories as he attempts to secure the titular talisman that may save his dying mother. A sequel, Black...
  




• TNT adds miniseries and two new series
  

  Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TNT

  As Brett mentioned last December, TNT has two new series planned: Heartland, starring Treat Williams; and Saving Grace, starring Holly Hunter (the series was originally called Grace). In Heartland, Williams plays a brilliant heart transplant surgeon who struggles with his family life. Hunter plays a police detective who's visited by an angel.

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  When a man gets older and he finds himself vulnerable to mortality, and that which affects his heart and his mental health, there are no proper words to describe the fear and anticipation.
  
  By now, the news has been announced that Regis will be leaving the show to undergo bypass surgery. Although you might have read articles about the situation, there really isn't anything like watching the exact moment he describes it. Something about the delicate nature and his soft spoken voice that reminds you of how fragile life is,...
  



• SAG Awards to feature Mary Tyler Moore Show reunion
  

  Filed under: Cable, Industry, Programming, Celebrities, TNT, Awards

  A classic sitcom with have a reunion of sorts when cast members of The Mary Tyler Moore Show gather at the Screen Actor's Guild Awards this Sunday night.

  Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Betty White, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, and Georgia Engel will give out the Best Ensemble In A Comedy Series award. Ted Knight died in 1986. Chuckles the Clown died in 1975.

  The show airs on TNT at 8pm. Julie Andrews will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the show, and Dick Van Dyke will be a presenter as...
  




• The Golden Globes: Best Actress -- Drama
  

  Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, NBC, HBO, OpEd, Lost, Medium, Grey's Anatomy, The Sopranos, TNT, The Closer, Awards

  The species known as television viewers (scientific name blearyeyeus videoboxus) are an odd sort. When it comes to comedies we tend to converge on the same watering hole . . . in other words, we all like to laugh and we watch many of the same shows as our friends do. When it comes to dramas, though, the species can be a bit picky. Take me, for example....
  




• Screen Actors Guild nominees announced
  

  Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Industry, Celebrities, TNT

  The nominees for the 13th annual Screen Actors Guild awards were announced earlier this morning. Like the Golden Globes, the SAG awards focus on both movies and television. We don't give a darn about the movie nominees (that's what our sister site Cinematical is for), but we very much care for the television nominations. That's because we are, you know, TV Squad. So, here they are:

  Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

  James Gandolfini, The Sopranos

  Michael C. Hall, Dexter

  Hugh Laurie, House

  James Spader, Boston Legal

  Kiefer...
  




• Things I Hate About TV: Workaholics in Christmas specials
  

  Filed under: OpEd, Things I Hate About TV, Watercooler Talk, Festivus, TNT

  I had trouble sleeping the other night (there were sugar plums dancing through my head - angry, murderous sugar plums), so I turned to the best TV option I had available to me: TNT HD's replay of A Perfect Day starring Rob Lowe.
  
  Here's the plot: lower middle class guy writes a book that becomes a best seller. As he climbs the economic ladder, he becomes a workaholic and is thus estranged from his family. A mysterious stranger then appears and...
  



• TNT dumps Saved, adds two new shows
  

  Filed under: Other Drama Shows, TNT, Cancellations, Pickups and Renewals

  While Saved garnered quite a few good reviews, and some respectable ratings, it's no The Closer. And apparently the press and numbers weren't enough to convince TNT that there should be a second season of the Tom Everett Scott drama. Instead, the network is looking to bring two different pilots to series.
  
  Holly Hunter stars in Grace as an Oklahoma City police detective who is visited by an angel and given a chance to redeem her life. It also stars Tom Irwin (Related), and Laura San Giacomo (Just Shoot Me). I'll watch...
  



• TNT will air entire Lord of the Rings trilogy
  

  Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, TNT

  Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King will make its network television debut on December 15th on TNT. The cable network has already aired the first two movies, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers over the last two years. The Return of the King, for those of you living under a rock, wraps up the series. TNT is airing it in HD. It'll be available on VOD beginning Dec. 24th.
  
  As is customary with TNT, The Return of the King will air for three nights in...