GHOST WHISPERER & MEDIUM TOGETHER! AND CROSSING OVER?


	GHOST WHISPERER & MEDIUM TOGETHER! AND CROSSING OVER?

Release Date:

August 3, 2009

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iF Magazine and Sci Fi Wire

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From iFMAGAZINE.com

Breaking TCA 2009 News: THE SCOOP ON SEASON 6 OF 'MEDIUM' AND ITS MOVE FROM NBC TO CBS

Allison Dubois will end up in the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD movie for a special Halloween episode

by CARL CORTEZ,
Contributing Editor

Pasadena, CA - THE SKINNY: While MEDIUM aired for five seasons on NBC, this Spring, after protracted negotiations, NBC cancelled the show and CBS picked it up.

Of course, it was a no brainer, considering the show itself is produced and owned by CBS, which made the transition quite smooth according to creator Glenn Gordon Caron.

“A number of people at CBS said [over the years] that would be a great show for us -- wouldn’t it be wonderful to be at CBS,’” says Caron speaking from today’s CBS TCA Press Tour. “When the negotiation for NBC for renewal went south, it’s been a possibility that’s always been out there.”

The see-saw negotiations for MEDIUM was a big surprise for star Patricia Arquette as well.

“At one point I had been told we were picked up, then I told we got dropped, then I got a job,” says Arquette. “’You’re hired, you’re fired, you’re hired.’”

Of course Arquette is thrilled to be paired with THE GHOST WHISPERER on Friday nights and think the two supernatural-tinged series are a great fit. Caron also thinks this is a great pairing as well.

“GHOST WHISPERER is a show people clearly like, given our history, it’s nice to follow a show people really like,” says Caron making a little jab at NBC’s history of giving MEDIUM less than stellar lead-ins. “GHOST WHISPERER is a very good show -- who wouldn’t want to follow that. It’s nice to be part of a night that clearly people like.”

With MEDIUM’s Season 5 finale ending in Allison Dubois (Arquette) in a coma, Caron teases how the new season will pan out.

“She comes out of the coma and she’s on a different – it’s the damnest thing,” says Caron dead-pan.

While Caron is careful not to spoil too many plot points, he does say that Allison will be place (via computer trickery) into classic 1968 horror film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for one of her dream sequences in a special Halloween-themed episode.

“We got the rights to the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and we’re going to be inserting Patricia into it,” says Caron.

Caron is also quick to note that he’s still very grateful to NBC for keeping them on the air for five years.

“There were times along the way, where everyone even inside NBC [went], ‘gee, if we gave show a little more attention, it might do better for us,’” says Caron. “I don’t think that’s been any great secret there. Having said that, we had five fairly fruitful years at NBC. The good news, we’re on CBS now. For the first time in three years. We’re doing 22 episodes, knowing in the fall it’s going to air in the fall. That’s a luxury we haven’t had in three years. We’re thrilled to be with CBS. One more dig -- CBS has already one more promos that NBC in the entire five years. Why look back. Here we are and really excited to be here.”

From Scfi Wire

Is a Medium/Ghost Whisperer crossover possible?

Fans of Medium were relieved when CBS decided to pick up the show after NBC did not renew it for the fall schedule, and today, president of CBS Entertainment Nina Tassler told reporters that her network will do Medium better than its original broadcaster.

"On behalf of the studio, I don't think NBC really treated the show the way it should have been treated, where it was put on the schedule, how it was supported," Tassler said in a press conference at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif. "To get Emmy winner Patricia Arquette on Friday night for us was a home run."

Tassler did not remember the specific chronology of when NBC let Medium go and when CBS swooped in, but she recalls proactively chasing the show. "When we did know that we had an opportunity, we jumped at it," Tassler continued. "We're thrilled with the show. I can't remember the actual chronology, but it was pretty fast."

Medium joins Ghost Whisperer on CBS Friday nights in the fall. The two shows create a supernatural block for CBS, with both Patricia Arquette and Jennifer Love Hewitt playing characters with the power to communicate with spirits of the dead. For now, that is where the similarities will end, but Tassler remained open to the possibility of crossovers in the future.

"It's never too soon [to consider]," Tassler said. "Their mythologies are different, and we haven't talked about a crossover, but it's possible. I think right now the shows have a different language. They have a different skill set, different rules, etc., but once we get the show launched and comfortable in its time period, we could certainly talk about it."

Ghost Whisperer Season 5 premieres on September 25, 2009 at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Medium Season 6 premieres on September 25, 2009 at 9:00 PM ET/PT. Both shows on CBS and CTV Television networks.