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Updates on WILFRED, LOUIE, IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY, POWERS, More

* In 2011, FX is on track to achieve the highest ratings in all measures, in the 17-year history of the channel, up 17% in adults 18-49 and 18% in total viewers in prime. They have also achieved their goal of programming original dramas and comedies, all year round.
* FX has ordered a Season 8 and 9 of the acclaimed hit comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia with an option for a Season 10, making it the longest-running live-action comedy in basic cable history. In addition, FX Productions is entering into a three-year exclusive television overall deal with RCG – the production company run by Sunny creators/executive producers Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton.
* The full 13-episode third season of Archer will return in January 2012, with three episodes airing this Fall, behind the first three episodes of Season 7 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which premieres on September 15th. The Season 3 premiere of The League will debut after Sunny on October 6th.
* Wilfred was the highest-rated first season of a comedy ever on FX, leading them to renew it for a second season of 13 episodes, while Louie has also been renewed for third season of 13. * American Horror Story, from Glee executive producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, is being established as a serialized saga that can go on for multiple years, with subsequent seasons either taking place in the past or in the present, depending on how the story unfolds.
* Powers (in the vein of David Fincher’s Seven or Zodiac), based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming and starring Jason Patric, and Outlaw Country, a family drama set against the backdrop of Southern organized crime, are the next two drama pilots that FX will be looking at for possible pick-up
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TCA: ‘Sunny’ Creators On Breaking The Network Model, Longevity, ‘Office’ Influence – Deadline.com

It caps a remarkable rise for the trio who, as struggling young actors, walked into FX with a $200 video they had shot in their backyard that was inspired by the British Office, which they though looked very cheaply shot with 2 cameras. "They had no experience, literally no experience writing, no experience producing or directing or doing anything, but they were talented and ambitious and eager to learn," FX president John Ladgraf said earlier, noting that McElhenney didn't quit his job as a waiter until Season 2.
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Great read!
 
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OK Rescue Me...all is forgiven. After a shaky first 2, the last 3 episodes have been vintage RM. Why, because the show is centered around the station and the guys therein. Great comedy, some decent drama...and before you go off on


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Franco's all of a sudden high moral stance, think about it. Brotherhood be damned, if your livelihood were constantly threatened by the shenanigans of others, at some point...your patience would break. I think they should have introduced that a little sooner because the suddeness is what is making it so jarring, but it works. I have high hopes that this season will be a fine farewell to an(overall) great show.
 
I have a good feeling...Ryan Murphy may be to blame for Glee, but he also made Nip/Tuck which always flirted with illicit sex and horror. This has a great cast b.t.w. and yeah, those ads are awesome.
 
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Best episode so far.
 
FX Releases Teaser For Ryan Murphy’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY!!
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Premiering Oct. 5, it follows a couple and their teen daughter after they move in to a really haunted house. Its cast includes Connie Britton (“Friday Night Lights”), Dylan McDermott (“The Practice”), Francis Conroy (“Six Feet Under”), Denis O’Hare (“True Blood”), Taissa Farmiga (kid sister of Vera) and Jessica Lange (“Tootsie”).

Its pilot screened at the Television Critics Association event early this month. Here’s what NPR’s Linda Holmes wrote :

American Horror Story is emphatically not for everybody. It's a genre piece, it's very campy, and a significant number of critics in the theater with me didn't like it at all. I, on the other hand, did.
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Always Sunny and The League need to start soon. Can't wait another month and a half. I need my Charlie and Taco fix.
 
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I couldn't stop worrying about the duck. Don't you think it was a little bit manipulative?
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The stuff with the duck? Yeah, maybe. But I couldn't help but feel like all the stuff with the troops and with Louie interacting with them, and that one guy's song, were really fantastic. It made me all Proud To Be An American, you know?

Also, I always love Louie's character and look at him as kind of a grown up Charlie Brown, but when he was talking to that 18 year old cheerleader it was a little bit icky.
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I agree. It was pretty damn funny.
 
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