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Here comes the
new-in-name-only CW
Updated 5/19/2006 3:07 AM ET
By Gary Levin, USA TODAY
CW will launch as a brand-new network
in mid-September, but its schedule will
look awfully familiar to fans of WB and
UPN.
The network, which replaces both and
is jointly owned by CBS Corp. and
Warner Bros., is adding just one new
comedy and one new drama for fall.
Most of its schedule, which is being
announced to advertisers today, will
consist of shows already airing on WB
and UPN, and most of them are
expected to continue airing in their
current time slots.
So WB's Gilmore Girls will be paired
with UPN's Veronica Mars on
Tuesdays, and UPN's top series,
America's Next Top Model, will lead
into WB's One Tree Hill on
Wednesday. UPN's wrestling will
remain on Fridays.
And WB's resurrected 7th Heaven,
which was pronounced dead last
month after a 10-season run, will
return in its longtime Monday home.
UPN's Monday block of urban
comedies will shift to Sundays, led by
Everybody Hates Chris, the sitcom
from Chris Rock inspired by his
Brooklyn childhood.
New series are Runaway, a drama
produced by Darren Star (Sex and the
City) about a family on the lam after
dad (Donnie Wahlberg) is wrongly
convicted of murder, as they try to
prove his innocence; and The Game, a
Girlfriends comedy spinoff about
women attached to pro football players.
Another drama, due in midseason, is
Palm Springs, a soap about a troubled
teen who moves with his family to the
California enclave, from Dawson's
Creek creator Kevin Williamson. Gail
O'Grady (NYPD Blue, American
Dreams) is among the stars.
Left in the dust are WB's Everwood,
Pepper Dennis, Modern Men, Bedford
Diaries, What I Like About You, Twins,
Living with Fran and Related, and
UPN's Eve, One on One, Half and Half,
Cuts and Love, Inc. (UPN had seven
comedies with largely black casts at
the start of this season; CW will now
have only four.)
And the fate of the comedy Reba is
now unclear: It was promised a
two-year renewal last spring, but CW is
now balking at paying for a year's
worth of unproduced episodes and
may decide to keep the show for
midseason.
Lots of familiar faces for debut season
For the debut season of the CW
network, which takes the place of WB
and UPN, Beauty and the Geekwill
replace America's Next Top Model at
midseason. Here's the tentative fall
schedule, to be announced Thursday
(new shows in bold, new time slots in
italics, times ET/PT):
Daily Variety 5.22.06
In a Slice of the 60's, Hold the
Nostalgia
By KATE AURTHUR
Published: March 9, 2005
NY Times
Jonathan Prince, the creator of "American
Dreams," the family drama that takes place
during the 1960's, recently recounted how he
pitched the show to NBC: "I said, 'This is
about 10 years in our country's history, from
Camelot to Watergate.' "
The pitch continued, "What did we lose and
what did we learn in those 10 years?"
That was in the summer of 2001. Now, after
a five-week hiatus, the show resumes its
third season but in a new time period: tonight
at 8 , Eastern and Pacific times; 7, Central
time. Mr. Prince, in a telephone interview
from Los Angeles, said he had always
imagined that "American Dreams" would be
a topical show. Its plots would dramatize the
whiplash-inducing changes of the
1960's before a nostalgic backdrop of the
music of "American Bandstand," on which
two teenage characters are dancers. He
planned to end the pilot episode with
the main characters - a Philadelphia family -
hearing the news that President John F.
Kennedy had been assassinated.
After Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Prince said, he
realized that the show would no longer be
rooted in nostalgia: that in the series's fall
2002 debut, the mourning in the aftermath of
Kennedy's death would remind viewers
of the days following the terrorist attacks the
previous year. "After 9/11, suddenly there
were people saying, 'I know what it's like to
have that sense of loss in our country,' " he
said. With this new idea of making "American
Dreams" reflect today's political landscape,
Mr. Prince went forward. " 'A nation
grieves' became the first parallel," he said.
But not the last. In its two and a half years on
television, "American Dreams" has illustrated
the struggles of the 1960's - over roiling
issues like civil rights, women in the
workplace and abortion - through their effect
on the show's characters. Throughout, the
central character, Meg Pryor (Brittany
Snow), has continued to dance on "American
Bandstand," which, on the series, stands
apart from the political turbulence she's
witnessing.
Kevin Reilly, the president of NBC
Entertainment, said
that narrative touchstone had allowed
"American Dreams" to achieve a tonal
balance between comfort and
cultural disarray. "It started in a relatively
benign place and has had to evolve with the
chronology of history," he said in a recent
telephone interview. "It's true to the tumult of
the era, but it still leaves you with a warm
feeling."
The show was moved from the Sunday slot it
had occupied since its debut because after
two years of decent ratings, it lost a chunk of
its audience last fall to ABC's "Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition."
Mr. Reilly said he was committed to giving
"American Dreams" a chance, having paired
it with another topical drama, "The West
Wing." "Anytime you have a show of quality
that is also advertising-friendly - and there
are several significant advertisers that
have really backed the show - that's a
business we can live with even if it's not a
major hit by the numbers," he said.
In the last year, the show has focused on the
Vietnam War, both overseas and on the
home front, as the conflict expanded in 1965
and 1966. Meg's brother, J. J. (Will Estes),
became a marine and viewers watched
his experience in Vietnam. In turn, worried
about his enlistment, the high school student
Meg was swept up in the burgeoning antiwar
movement.
In telling this 40-year-old story, Mr. Prince
said, the series "became the most
contemporary show on the network." He
listed the analogous threads between then
and now, as he has written them into the
show: "This nasty little war we're fighting in
'63 and '64, like the war in Iraq, starts to feel
like this isn't going to be a quickie. You have
a country that's divided. And if you don't agree
with the Texas president, you're
un-American."
To chronicle a realistic story about a soldier's
experience in Vietnam, as well as how that
reflected on Iraq, Mr. Prince said, he had to
send J. J. away for a length of time that made
him uncomfortable as a producer. But when
it became clear that the United States military
was not leaving Iraq anytime soon, he
decided it was safe to put J. J. in combat for a
year to show "the grunt's-eye view," he said.
In episodes that began last January, J. J.
was in Saigon and the Cambodian jungle,
held captive, wounded and eventually sent
home.
Sgt. Maj. James Dever, the show's military
consultant and a retired marine who served
in Vietnam, said in a telephone interview
from California that he brought in as extras
marines who had served in Iraq, to make the
action scenes realistic. "Nobody has really
shown the earlier version of Vietnam,"
Sergeant Major Dever said of "American
Dreams." A lot of the Vietnam veterans
I've talked to love that it shows how things
were changing at home."
Through the series's family prism, what was
changing at home was Meg's political
awareness. In the finale of the second
season, she was arrested at a protest.
Last fall, she directed a school play, "Henry
V," and turned it into an antiwar parable. Mr.
Prince chose Meg as the activist character
because "when Meg is screaming about the
war, it comes from her body and her heart
because of her brother," he said.
"It's not an intellectual treatise about Abbie
Hoffman and the boys at Brandeis," he
added. "We've seen that a million times."
Mr. Prince described his political bent without
hedging: "I'm a staunch left-leaning liberal
Democrat." But he said the show wasn't
meant to
reflect those views. "The red states think that
this is their show, because it's about family
values," he said. "And the blue states think
it's their show because it's about a sister
protesting an unjust war that her brother's
fighting in. I'm content to live on both sides of
the aisle."
He will need viewers of all party affiliations to
watch "American Dreams" for the rest of the
season if it is to be renewed. He said he was
hopeful. "I've produced a lot of shows, and
I've had a lot of failures," he said. "And I know
how and when to give up. With this one, I
can't give up."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/arts/televi
sion/09drea.html
Nostalgia
By KATE AURTHUR
Published: March 9, 2005
NY Times
Jonathan Prince, the creator of "American
Dreams," the family drama that takes place
during the 1960's, recently recounted how he
pitched the show to NBC: "I said, 'This is
about 10 years in our country's history, from
Camelot to Watergate.' "
The pitch continued, "What did we lose and
what did we learn in those 10 years?"
That was in the summer of 2001. Now, after
a five-week hiatus, the show resumes its
third season but in a new time period: tonight
at 8 , Eastern and Pacific times; 7, Central
time. Mr. Prince, in a telephone interview
from Los Angeles, said he had always
imagined that "American Dreams" would be
a topical show. Its plots would dramatize the
whiplash-inducing changes of the
1960's before a nostalgic backdrop of the
music of "American Bandstand," on which
two teenage characters are dancers. He
planned to end the pilot episode with
the main characters - a Philadelphia family -
hearing the news that President John F.
Kennedy had been assassinated.
After Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Prince said, he
realized that the show would no longer be
rooted in nostalgia: that in the series's fall
2002 debut, the mourning in the aftermath of
Kennedy's death would remind viewers
of the days following the terrorist attacks the
previous year. "After 9/11, suddenly there
were people saying, 'I know what it's like to
have that sense of loss in our country,' " he
said. With this new idea of making "American
Dreams" reflect today's political landscape,
Mr. Prince went forward. " 'A nation
grieves' became the first parallel," he said.
But not the last. In its two and a half years on
television, "American Dreams" has illustrated
the struggles of the 1960's - over roiling
issues like civil rights, women in the
workplace and abortion - through their effect
on the show's characters. Throughout, the
central character, Meg Pryor (Brittany
Snow), has continued to dance on "American
Bandstand," which, on the series, stands
apart from the political turbulence she's
witnessing.
Kevin Reilly, the president of NBC
Entertainment, said
that narrative touchstone had allowed
"American Dreams" to achieve a tonal
balance between comfort and
cultural disarray. "It started in a relatively
benign place and has had to evolve with the
chronology of history," he said in a recent
telephone interview. "It's true to the tumult of
the era, but it still leaves you with a warm
feeling."
The show was moved from the Sunday slot it
had occupied since its debut because after
two years of decent ratings, it lost a chunk of
its audience last fall to ABC's "Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition."
Mr. Reilly said he was committed to giving
"American Dreams" a chance, having paired
it with another topical drama, "The West
Wing." "Anytime you have a show of quality
that is also advertising-friendly - and there
are several significant advertisers that
have really backed the show - that's a
business we can live with even if it's not a
major hit by the numbers," he said.
In the last year, the show has focused on the
Vietnam War, both overseas and on the
home front, as the conflict expanded in 1965
and 1966. Meg's brother, J. J. (Will Estes),
became a marine and viewers watched
his experience in Vietnam. In turn, worried
about his enlistment, the high school student
Meg was swept up in the burgeoning antiwar
movement.
In telling this 40-year-old story, Mr. Prince
said, the series "became the most
contemporary show on the network." He
listed the analogous threads between then
and now, as he has written them into the
show: "This nasty little war we're fighting in
'63 and '64, like the war in Iraq, starts to feel
like this isn't going to be a quickie. You have
a country that's divided. And if you don't agree
with the Texas president, you're
un-American."
To chronicle a realistic story about a soldier's
experience in Vietnam, as well as how that
reflected on Iraq, Mr. Prince said, he had to
send J. J. away for a length of time that made
him uncomfortable as a producer. But when
it became clear that the United States military
was not leaving Iraq anytime soon, he
decided it was safe to put J. J. in combat for a
year to show "the grunt's-eye view," he said.
In episodes that began last January, J. J.
was in Saigon and the Cambodian jungle,
held captive, wounded and eventually sent
home.
Sgt. Maj. James Dever, the show's military
consultant and a retired marine who served
in Vietnam, said in a telephone interview
from California that he brought in as extras
marines who had served in Iraq, to make the
action scenes realistic. "Nobody has really
shown the earlier version of Vietnam,"
Sergeant Major Dever said of "American
Dreams." A lot of the Vietnam veterans
I've talked to love that it shows how things
were changing at home."
Through the series's family prism, what was
changing at home was Meg's political
awareness. In the finale of the second
season, she was arrested at a protest.
Last fall, she directed a school play, "Henry
V," and turned it into an antiwar parable. Mr.
Prince chose Meg as the activist character
because "when Meg is screaming about the
war, it comes from her body and her heart
because of her brother," he said.
"It's not an intellectual treatise about Abbie
Hoffman and the boys at Brandeis," he
added. "We've seen that a million times."
Mr. Prince described his political bent without
hedging: "I'm a staunch left-leaning liberal
Democrat." But he said the show wasn't
meant to
reflect those views. "The red states think that
this is their show, because it's about family
values," he said. "And the blue states think
it's their show because it's about a sister
protesting an unjust war that her brother's
fighting in. I'm content to live on both sides of
the aisle."
He will need viewers of all party affiliations to
watch "American Dreams" for the rest of the
season if it is to be renewed. He said he was
hopeful. "I've produced a lot of shows, and
I've had a lot of failures," he said. "And I know
how and when to give up. With this one, I
can't give up."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/arts/televi
sion/09drea.html
'Runaway' melds '24,' '7th Heaven'
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A family on the lam: Donnie Wahlberg, right,
with Nathan Gamble, center, and Dustin
Milligan.
By Gary Levin, USA TODAY
The show:Runaway
The premiere: Sept. 25, 9 ET/PT, CW
The concept: A man wrongly convicted of
murder goes on the lam with his family while
trying to prove his innocence.
The challenge: Giving a new network a
jump-start.
A man in a troubled marriage is wrongly
convicted of murder. With his wife and three
kids in tow, he goes on the lam, and the
family assumes new identities and takes
refuge in small-town Iowa, where they hide
as he seeks to find the true killer and
exonerate himself.
NEW BEGINNING: CW builds on old favorites
That's the setup of Runaway, one of just two
new shows that will usher in the CW network.
Due Sept. 25 (9 ET/PT) as a Monday
companion to 7th Heaven, the show is a
hybrid: The family drama gussied up as a
thriller.
"I wanted to find a way to marry the two," says
29-year-old creator Chad Hodge (Tru
Calling). "We can tell those same stories but
with a twist. It's a family drama with the
screws tightened."
Why? "There's not just one man running
around trying to prove himself or go from
town to town to town," says Donnie Wahlberg
(Boomtown), who plays imperiled Paul
Rader. "There are five different people who
are trying to survive in this situation. And so
there's a wealth of stories to be had in that
because each person has their own
dilemma." Leslie Hope (24) plays Rader's
wife, Lily.
Like many other series this fall, Runaway is
serialized, and weekly episodes slowly
unravel the murder mystery. But identifying
the real killer won't solve Rader's problems:
"Just when he thinks he has solved this
case, something turns and there's another
huge reason why he has to stay on the run,"
says Hodge, who was inspired by the real
case of a fugitive family and his own father's
jailing for a white-collar crime.
The show pairs executive producers Darren
Star, known for family soaps such as Beverly
Hills, 90210, with Ed Zuckerman, who
tackles the criminal elements from his years
on Law & Order.
"It's about a family under these trying
circumstances," says Star, which is "familiar
turf for me, but the suspense elements are
something I haven't been involved with. There
are more interesting thematic and character
developments in this show."
CW president Dawn Ostroff doubts "a plain
family show these days could launch and
sustain the way it could a few years ago. This
is something that makes people feel like
there's an urgency to watching, a ticking
clock. They need something to be driving
them." At least until another ticking clock, 24,
returns in January.
Posted 8/17/2006 9:32 PM ET
Updated 8/17/2006
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/
2006-08-17-runaway_x.htm?csp=34
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A family on the lam: Donnie Wahlberg, right,
with Nathan Gamble, center, and Dustin
Milligan.
By Gary Levin, USA TODAY
The show:Runaway
The premiere: Sept. 25, 9 ET/PT, CW
The concept: A man wrongly convicted of
murder goes on the lam with his family while
trying to prove his innocence.
The challenge: Giving a new network a
jump-start.
A man in a troubled marriage is wrongly
convicted of murder. With his wife and three
kids in tow, he goes on the lam, and the
family assumes new identities and takes
refuge in small-town Iowa, where they hide
as he seeks to find the true killer and
exonerate himself.
NEW BEGINNING: CW builds on old favorites
That's the setup of Runaway, one of just two
new shows that will usher in the CW network.
Due Sept. 25 (9 ET/PT) as a Monday
companion to 7th Heaven, the show is a
hybrid: The family drama gussied up as a
thriller.
"I wanted to find a way to marry the two," says
29-year-old creator Chad Hodge (Tru
Calling). "We can tell those same stories but
with a twist. It's a family drama with the
screws tightened."
Why? "There's not just one man running
around trying to prove himself or go from
town to town to town," says Donnie Wahlberg
(Boomtown), who plays imperiled Paul
Rader. "There are five different people who
are trying to survive in this situation. And so
there's a wealth of stories to be had in that
because each person has their own
dilemma." Leslie Hope (24) plays Rader's
wife, Lily.
Like many other series this fall, Runaway is
serialized, and weekly episodes slowly
unravel the murder mystery. But identifying
the real killer won't solve Rader's problems:
"Just when he thinks he has solved this
case, something turns and there's another
huge reason why he has to stay on the run,"
says Hodge, who was inspired by the real
case of a fugitive family and his own father's
jailing for a white-collar crime.
The show pairs executive producers Darren
Star, known for family soaps such as Beverly
Hills, 90210, with Ed Zuckerman, who
tackles the criminal elements from his years
on Law & Order.
"It's about a family under these trying
circumstances," says Star, which is "familiar
turf for me, but the suspense elements are
something I haven't been involved with. There
are more interesting thematic and character
developments in this show."
CW president Dawn Ostroff doubts "a plain
family show these days could launch and
sustain the way it could a few years ago. This
is something that makes people feel like
there's an urgency to watching, a ticking
clock. They need something to be driving
them." At least until another ticking clock, 24,
returns in January.
Posted 8/17/2006 9:32 PM ET
Updated 8/17/2006
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/
2006-08-17-runaway_x.htm?csp=34
Family Friendly Forum Supports Five
Prime Series
John Consoli
JUNE 09, 2006 -
The Family Friendly Programming Forum
has five new broadcast network prime
time series that were developed through
the support of the Forum's Script
Development Fund.
The shows are ABC's Betty the Ugly,
Notes from the Underbelly, and Brothers
& Sisters, NBC's Friday Night Lights, and
the CW's Runaway. This is the most
number of shows in one season that
made it on the air via the FFPF Script
Development Fund route.
The Forum is made up of more than 40
national advertisers, which represent
about 30 percent of all U.S. TV ad dollars.
The Forum also announced that Pat
Gentile, national television programming
manager at Procter & Gamble, and
Carole Millsaps, manager, advertising, at
FedEx Services, were appointed chairs of
the Forum, joining Kaki Hinton, vp,
advertising services, Pfizer Consumer
Healthcare.
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/net
worktv/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id
=1002651394
Prime Series
John Consoli
JUNE 09, 2006 -
The Family Friendly Programming Forum
has five new broadcast network prime
time series that were developed through
the support of the Forum's Script
Development Fund.
The shows are ABC's Betty the Ugly,
Notes from the Underbelly, and Brothers
& Sisters, NBC's Friday Night Lights, and
the CW's Runaway. This is the most
number of shows in one season that
made it on the air via the FFPF Script
Development Fund route.
The Forum is made up of more than 40
national advertisers, which represent
about 30 percent of all U.S. TV ad dollars.
The Forum also announced that Pat
Gentile, national television programming
manager at Procter & Gamble, and
Carole Millsaps, manager, advertising, at
FedEx Services, were appointed chairs of
the Forum, joining Kaki Hinton, vp,
advertising services, Pfizer Consumer
Healthcare.
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/net
worktv/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id
=1002651394
Arts & Entertainment 9.17.06
TV Reviews: It's A New Season
"Runaway" (9 p.m., The CW): Donnie
Wahlberg plays a lawyer dad charged
with a murder he didn't commit who
goes on the run with his family. Call it:
"The Fugitive Family." Leslie Hope
("24") plays his wife and Sarah Ramos
(Patty on "American Dreams") is his
teenage daughter. This edgy attempt
at a family drama may draw some "7th
Heaven" fans, but the fact that dad
had an affair with the murder victim
makes him less sympathetic than one
might expect. (Sept. 25)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06260/72215
6-237.stm
TV Reviews: It's A New Season
"Runaway" (9 p.m., The CW): Donnie
Wahlberg plays a lawyer dad charged
with a murder he didn't commit who
goes on the run with his family. Call it:
"The Fugitive Family." Leslie Hope
("24") plays his wife and Sarah Ramos
(Patty on "American Dreams") is his
teenage daughter. This edgy attempt
at a family drama may draw some "7th
Heaven" fans, but the fact that dad
had an affair with the murder victim
makes him less sympathetic than one
might expect. (Sept. 25)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06260/72215
6-237.stm
• "Runaway" (9 p.m., the CW, Sept. 25): After
being falsely accused of murder, a father
(Donnie Wahlberg) takes his family on the
lam. Bottom line: An awkward mix of "Prison
Break" and "7th Heaven."
http://www.contracostatimes.
com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/
15542090.htm
being falsely accused of murder, a father
(Donnie Wahlberg) takes his family on the
lam. Bottom line: An awkward mix of "Prison
Break" and "7th Heaven."
http://www.contracostatimes.
com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/
15542090.htm
"Runaway" (9 p.m., CW, Sept. 25). Going on
the lam with Mom and Dad. Donnie
Wahlberg ("Boomtown") plays an attorney
framed for murder who grabs his wife (Leslie
Hope, "24") and three kids and takes off in a
promising, unconventional family drama
mash-up of "Running on Empty" and "The
Fugitive."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne
ws/entertainment/15525737.htm
the lam with Mom and Dad. Donnie
Wahlberg ("Boomtown") plays an attorney
framed for murder who grabs his wife (Leslie
Hope, "24") and three kids and takes off in a
promising, unconventional family drama
mash-up of "Running on Empty" and "The
Fugitive."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne
ws/entertainment/15525737.htm
From CWTV.com
SARAH RAMOS
as HANNAH RADER
Familiar to television audiences from her
role on American Dreams, Sarah Ramos
stars as Hannah Rader, a shy former
outcast who sees possibilities in her new
life on the run on The CW's new drama
Runaway.
Born in Los Angeles, Ramos began
developing her acting abilities at the tender
age of 9, entering into formal training at
Center Stage L.A. She soon began
pleading with her parents to get her an
agent. Her perseverance was rewarded
and Ramos not only landed an agent, but
also a prime role on the drama American
Dreams.
Other television appearances include a
guest stint on Scrubs, as an epileptic
teenager who refused to take her medicine,
and a teenage runaway on the drama
Close to Home.
Ramos has appeared in a variety of
television commercials as well as
numerous student films, including Gel,
Advertising is Hell and Rule of Thumb.
Ramos also volunteers for JFS/The Family
Violence Project and is actively involved in
their new program, Teen Violence
Prevention Program, which is designed to
address risk factors affecting teens in the
hopes that early intervention and education
might prevent adult relationships marked by
domestic violence.
In her spare time, Ramos enjoys going to
the beach and writing. Ramos currently
resides in Los Angeles with her family.
SARAH RAMOS
as HANNAH RADER
Familiar to television audiences from her
role on American Dreams, Sarah Ramos
stars as Hannah Rader, a shy former
outcast who sees possibilities in her new
life on the run on The CW's new drama
Runaway.
Born in Los Angeles, Ramos began
developing her acting abilities at the tender
age of 9, entering into formal training at
Center Stage L.A. She soon began
pleading with her parents to get her an
agent. Her perseverance was rewarded
and Ramos not only landed an agent, but
also a prime role on the drama American
Dreams.
Other television appearances include a
guest stint on Scrubs, as an epileptic
teenager who refused to take her medicine,
and a teenage runaway on the drama
Close to Home.
Ramos has appeared in a variety of
television commercials as well as
numerous student films, including Gel,
Advertising is Hell and Rule of Thumb.
Ramos also volunteers for JFS/The Family
Violence Project and is actively involved in
their new program, Teen Violence
Prevention Program, which is designed to
address risk factors affecting teens in the
hopes that early intervention and education
might prevent adult relationships marked by
domestic violence.
In her spare time, Ramos enjoys going to
the beach and writing. Ramos currently
resides in Los Angeles with her family.
CW hopes young network, young
viewers mix
The CW's first new series, Runaway, will debut Monday
night at 9 on WNUV (Channel 54). The drama includes
Donnie Wahlberg (Boomtown) and Leslie Hope (24) as
parents of a family of five on the run after the father, a
controversial defense attorney, is framed for murder.
But, like Running on Empty (1988), a film with River
Phoenix that told the story of a family on the run
because of its radical politics, the focus in Runaway is
on the anger and angst of the kids -- particularly the two
good-looking teens (Dustin Milligan and Sarah Ramos).
"Runaway is a family drama, but we wanted to do it with
new twists for young viewers," Ostroff said. "Even
though this terrible thing happened to the family, there
is a lot of wish fulfillment for young viewers. ... The kids
get to reinvent themselves totally in their new high
schools."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bal-to.cw20sep20
,0,7978032.story?coll=bal-features-headlines
viewers mix
The CW's first new series, Runaway, will debut Monday
night at 9 on WNUV (Channel 54). The drama includes
Donnie Wahlberg (Boomtown) and Leslie Hope (24) as
parents of a family of five on the run after the father, a
controversial defense attorney, is framed for murder.
But, like Running on Empty (1988), a film with River
Phoenix that told the story of a family on the run
because of its radical politics, the focus in Runaway is
on the anger and angst of the kids -- particularly the two
good-looking teens (Dustin Milligan and Sarah Ramos).
"Runaway is a family drama, but we wanted to do it with
new twists for young viewers," Ostroff said. "Even
though this terrible thing happened to the family, there
is a lot of wish fulfillment for young viewers. ... The kids
get to reinvent themselves totally in their new high
schools."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bal-to.cw20sep20
,0,7978032.story?coll=bal-features-headlines
The CW's first new series, Runaway, will
debut Monday night at 9 on WNUV (Channel
54). The drama includes Donnie Wahlberg
(Boomtown) and Leslie Hope (24) as
parents of a family of five on the run after the
father, a controversial defense attorney, is
framed for murder. But, like Running on
Empty (1988), a film with River Phoenix that
told the story of a family on the run because
of its radical politics, the focus in Runaway is
on the anger and angst of the kids --
particularly the two good-looking teens
(Dustin Milligan and Sarah Ramos).
"Runaway is a family drama, but we wanted
to do it with new twists for young viewers,"
Ostroff said. "Even though this terrible thing
happened to the family, there is a lot of wish
fulfillment for young viewers. ... The kids get
to reinvent themselves totally in their new
high schools."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv
/bal-to.cw20sep20,0,2015645.story?coll=bal-f
eatures-specials
debut Monday night at 9 on WNUV (Channel
54). The drama includes Donnie Wahlberg
(Boomtown) and Leslie Hope (24) as
parents of a family of five on the run after the
father, a controversial defense attorney, is
framed for murder. But, like Running on
Empty (1988), a film with River Phoenix that
told the story of a family on the run because
of its radical politics, the focus in Runaway is
on the anger and angst of the kids --
particularly the two good-looking teens
(Dustin Milligan and Sarah Ramos).
"Runaway is a family drama, but we wanted
to do it with new twists for young viewers,"
Ostroff said. "Even though this terrible thing
happened to the family, there is a lot of wish
fulfillment for young viewers. ... The kids get
to reinvent themselves totally in their new
high schools."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv
/bal-to.cw20sep20,0,2015645.story?coll=bal-f
eatures-specials