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TV Tidbits: Creasey family got a lot more than just a new house
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Published: November 22, 2009
The Creasey family didn't just get a new house in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition -- they were also showered with gifts from local businesses.
The Lexington family -- mother Tricia, father William, 12-year-old daughter Brittany and 5-year-old twins Makayla and Makenzie -- returned to their home Tuesday, having been sent on vacation last weekend to Walt Disney World while their old home was torn down and a new one built in its place.
The community turned out to support the family, which has been struggling because of medical bills from Tricia Creasey's cancer treatments.
The three Creasey daughters got scholarships for Davidson County Community College and Catawba College, plus tickets to tonight's Miley Cyrus concert in Greensboro. The family also received gifts including a year's worth of groceries, gas, cable service, lawn maintenance and home-owner's insurance.
The episode of Extreme Makeover will air early next year, most likely in February.
The theme song of Gilligan's Island was selected as the best TV theme in a recent poll from AOL TV (television.aol.com), nudging out runners-up Happy Days (which came in second), The Andy Griffith Show (third) and Mission Impossible (fourth).
Rounding out the top 10 were, in order from fifth to 10th, Bonanza, M*A*S*H, The Addams Family, Green Acres, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Hawaii Five-O. The most recent show to make it into the top 20 was Friends, at number 20.
TNT has picked up the series Southland, which NBC dropped before its second season could begin.
The series, a gritty crime drama from producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing), was partway through production of its second season when the plug was pulled. "After screening the finished episodes from the coming second season, the show's content was deemed too dark and gritty for broadcast TV," according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. NBC has fewer time slots available this season, and none in the 10 p.m. time slot that Southland filled in its first season, because of The Jay Leno Show.
In addition to the six episodes that had been produced for season two, TNT has picked up the rights for the seven episodes from the show's first season. Southland will air on TNT Tuesdays at 10 p.m. starting Jan. 12. There is no word yet if new episodes will be produced. That decision will be made based on the ratings for the show once it airs on TNT, according to a report in The New York Times.
Fans of Hogan's Heroes will be able to get the whole series in one convenient box on Tuesday. Hogan's Heroes -- Kommandant's Kollection: The Komplete Series, a 28-disc boxed set, will have all six seasons of the series and a new DVD of rarities, including an extended version of the pilot episode, preview clips from when the show originally aired, other TV appearances by the cast and a digital copy of a Mad magazine parody.
Also new on DVD this week: Life on Mars: Series 2, the acclaimed British series about a modern police detective thrown back to the 1970s.
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