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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
A peek at new season of “Damages”
“Damages,” last summer’s big-buzz talker, is now slated to return in the winter. Thank you, writers strike. You’ve ruined my summer!
A few details about the new season have leaked out to whet our appetites for the long, long wait.
The FX thriller, starring Glenn close as steely-eyed Patty Hewes, likely will return in late January or early February with 13 episodes.
No word on what the new legal case will be, but last summer’s complicated villain, Arthur Frobisher (played by Ted Danson), is rumored to be decidedly not dead. He may have been shot in a field in the finale, but apparently he survived.
We know this because Danson is listed in the credits for the second season.
Patty’s traumatized junior attorney Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), accused but eventually vindicated in the murder of her fiance last season, also has survived and remains in Patty’s orbit. But ambitious Ellen is not likely to be quite so starry-eyed about her boss next season.
Patty’s husband and son also will return, along with trusty (or not-so-trusty?) Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan). He double-crossed so many different people last season it’s impossible to know where his true loyalty lies.
Joining the cast will be William Hurt, Timothy Olyphant (last seen in “Deadwood”) and an unnamed actress who will play a legal adversary to Patty.
Can’t wait … but, sadly, must.
Reality tops Nielsens … so what?
Well, of course a dozen of the Top 20 shows on the latest Nielsen survey are reality shows. That’s because the networks have absolutely nothing else on. If that’s the argument for this suffocating swell, it doesn’t hold up.
And keep in mind that the No. 1 show last week, “America’s Got Talent,” attracted a relatively mediocre audience of 11.7 million viewers. That’s about half what a top-rated show would get during the regular season, when new episodes of “CSI” and “Grey’s Anatomy” are on the schedule.
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