Hank

editor@buddytv.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:21:36 GMT

Taking on contemporary economic issues, Kelsey Grammer returns to the small screen with Hank, an upcoming comedy on ABC centered on a Wall Street executive who loses his job and has to reconnect with his small-town family. Hank, set to premiere on late September and occupy ABC's Wednesday timeslot, follows Hank Pryor (Grammer), a successful businessman and Pryor Sports CEO, who used to enjoy all the perks of his enormous paycheck - "the yachts and the maids" - until the day when he loses it all.

Jobless, savings dried up, and trying to start over, Hank heads from New York to the site of his first store-turned-global empire River Bend, Virginia after 17 years, but everyone in the family is not exactly amenable to the change in lifestyle, including his wife Tilly (Melinda McGraw), spoiled daughter Maddie (Macey Cruthird), and his son Henry (Ryan Wynott). Hank is not fazed, however, as it is his first real chance to reconnect not only with his roots, but with the rest of his family as well - if only his son knew how to catch a baseball.

ABC'S 2009-2010 Lineup: 11 New Shows

editor@buddytv.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:10:07 GMT

ABC unveiled its Fall schedule today and it features an ambitious lineup of new series to premiere all season long.?? The schedule features eight new shows, including a Wednesday night that contains nothing but new programs.?? This is identical to the strategy ABC used two years ago when it premiered three new hour-long shows on Wednesdays.

The new Wednesday, however, features four new half-hour comedies which I will tentatively title the Back to You reject lineup, as three of the sitcoms star former cast members of that failed FOX sitcom, including Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Heaton and Ty Burrell.?? The other big change to the schedule is that Ugly Betty has been bumped to Fridays, wedged between Supernanny and 20/20.

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