PREVIEW: MOCKINGBIRD LANE & GRIMM

As Halloween nears, NBC turns Friday, October 26 into Fright Night when it premieres the pilot of the much-anticipated MOCKINGBIRD LANE (8-9 p.m. ET) -- based on executive producer Bryan Fuller’s (PUSHING DAISIES, HEROES) script and directed by executive producer Bryan Singer (X-Men film series, HOUSE). The special program leads into a haunting “La Llorona” Halloween episode of “Grimm” (9-10 p.m. ET), which will also enjoy special airings on NBCUniversal’s Telemundo and mun2.

MOCKINGBIRD LANE is a new reimagined version of the classic 1960s comedy THE MUNSTERS now as a visually spectacular one-hour drama with a darker edge and tone. The cast includes Jerry O’Connell (THE DEFENDERS) as Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT) as his wife Lily, Eddie Izzard (UNITED STATES OF TARA) as Grandpa, Mason Cook (Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D) as Eddie and Charity Wakefield (The Raven) as Marilyn.

Fright Night On NBC Will Feature MOCKINGBIRD LANE & GRIMM

As Halloween nears, NBC turns Friday, October 26 into Fright Night when it premieres the pilot of the much-anticipated MOCKINGBIRD LANE (8-9 p.m. ET) -- based on executive producer Bryan Fuller’s (PUSHING DAISIES, HEROES) script and directed by executive producer Bryan Singer (X-Men film series, HOUSE). The special program leads into a haunting “La Llorona” Halloween episode of “Grimm” (9-10 p.m. ET), which will also enjoy special airings on NBCUniversal’s Telemundo and mun2.

MOCKINGBIRD LANE is a new reimagined version of the classic 1960s comedy THE MUNSTERS now as a visually spectacular one-hour drama with a darker edge and tone. The cast includes Jerry O’Connell (THE DEFENDERS) as Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi (ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT) as his wife Lily, Eddie Izzard (UNITED STATES OF TARA) as Grandpa, Mason Cook (Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D) as Eddie and Charity Wakefield (The Raven) as Marilyn.

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Neve Campbell joins GREY'S ANATOMY
Campbell is set to appear in multiple episodes of ABC’s long-running medical drama as one of Derek’s (Patrick Dempsey) four sisters.

NASHVILLE's Connie Britton on trusting her voice and the Friday Night Lights movie
"The Grand Ole Opry has been through many various hardships and renovations over the years, and so there’s this circle of wood floor from the original Grand Ole Opry on the stage where you stand and sing, and you can really feel the energy of all the people who’ve been there over so many, many years. It’s really exciting. I kind of lay down and wriggled around all over it. [Laughs.]"

On the FNL movie: "I actually have a script. But I haven’t read it yet. Your readers will be so disappointed to know that I’ve been so busy working on NASHVILLE, I haven’t had time to read it yet. But there is a script. And where there’s a script, there’s a way. [Laughs.] I think there’s some serious movement forward on this. It’s just about finding a time when everyone can do it. Or at least time for everyone to read the script."

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How television portrays the 'wife'
Army, prison, mob, sister, footballers: These are the first words of television show titles in which wives is the second word. There’s THE GOOD WIFE; then, if she’s not good enough, WIFE SWAP. There’s DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, but who cares any more, because now we have THE REAL HOUSEWIVES franchise (granted, it is the desperate housewives who seem real and the real housewives who seem desperate, but that’s why we have adages about truth and fiction). There are Housewives in Orange County, New York City, Atlanta, New Jersey, Beverly Hills, Miami and now Vancouver; that Canadian debut was the highest-rated premiere in Slice network history, drawing 1.2 million North American viewers.

There is one show called HUSBANDS and it’s the Indie Soap Award-nominated web series in which all the husbands are men.

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