Best of the Best

Okay, first the lord giveth, then the lord taketh away, and then giveth again. (Don’t worry, this will all make sense at the end of this post).
So, every year some quality shows that people never really gave a fair shake get dropped (Firefly, Arrested Development, Get a Life, The Family Guy) which gives us something to bitch about regularly. And yet mindless entertainment like “Joey”, “Law and Order”, and “Two and a Half Men” live on FOREVER. And usually, at the start of the fall season people are searching for those one or two good shows that make the dull winter worthwhile.
It appears as if the stars have aligned, and the gods have converged upon next falls television line-up, and I tell ya what, it’s pretty dang exciting. A lot of people we haven’t heard from in a long time are coming to television, and much of it’s deserved, and also Calista Flockhart is getting a show.
The following stars will be on TV in fall (not necessarily on the same shows):
Ted Danson
Anne Heche
David Arquette
Salma Hayek
Fred Willard
Mena Suvari AND Fairuza Balk
Billy Baldwin
Jay Mohr
Andy Richter
John Lithgow
Matthew Perry AND Steven Weber (!) in an Aaron Sorkin production
Here are the jaw dropping revelations:
1st the teaser –
You’ve Reached the Elliots
Chris Elliot plays a husband and father who tries to find a way to spend more time with his family without totally abandoning his modest showbiz career.

I’m excited because Chris Elliot is AWESOME and this has a lot of potential.

2nd the BOMB-
Southern Comfort
A woman is forced to take over the family business when her husband is thrown in jail; she soon finds out that the family business is actually the Dixie Mafia. The series stars Eric Roberts and Madeline Stowe.

THAT’S RIGHT! The gods over at Fox gave us Arrested Development, strangled it to death, and abandon its carcass and now are giving us ERIC FUCKING STAR ’80 ROBERTS in what appears to be one of those bad ideas that end up to be great ideas, like “I’m With Busey”. It feels like someone went to Fox and said “Hey, how about we do something kind of like Arrested Development, BUT we make it a drama AND hire Eric fucking star ’80 Roberts.” And Fox was like “That’s a crazy idea. CRAZY GOOD!! Shit yes!!! Call Eric, bring him in!”

Oh god, it’s only March. I. Can’t. Fucking. Wait.