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Jaime SommersNBC has decided to renew Friday Night Lights and Vegas (which is adding Tom Selleck to the cast), and will cancel Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Black Donnellys and Crossing Jordan, and will add a 21st-century version of the seventies’ Bionic Woman.
Scrubs, which has become prohibitively expensive, will also likely be cancelled, reports The New York Times. A decision has not yet been made about Law & Order and Criminal Intent.
In addition to the Bionic Woman, which will star Michelle Ryan, the network has ordered four more dramas: Journeyman, which stars Kevin McKidd as a journalist in San Francisco who travels back in time; Chuck, about a computer whiz who becomes a reluctant government agent; a police drama called Life about a former police detective who returns to his old job; and Lipstick Jungle, based on the book by Candace Bushnell, whose previous book was made into HBO’s Sex in the City series.
Other shows given a green light for next season are comedies The Office, My Name Is Earl, and 30 Rock, dramas E.R., Heroes, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Medium, and the game show Deal or No Deal.”
NBC will announce its complete lineup on Monday.
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