
Nancy Travis scored a double at the upfronts this week as both pilots she appeared in, the ABC comedy Last Man Standing the the CW light drama Hart of Dixie, were picked up to series. She was the female lead opposite Tim Allen in Last Man Standing and was a guest star/recurring in CW’s Hart of Dixie but was prominently featured in the clip for the medical drama screened at the CW’s upfront presentation. While regulars on series often recur on other shows, I hear that Last Man Standing producer 20th Century Fox TV wouldn’t allow Travis to recur on Dixie and her role will now be recast.
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How about Janine Turner or Julie Warner? It would be a wink to Northern Exposure or Doc Hollywood.
Now those are inspired choices. Why can’t execs think more like you? BTW, from everything I’ve seen thus far of Hart of Dixie, it’s a winner in my book. Keep the snarky humor coming!
Julie Warner would be great!
Run,Nancy,run as far away from Hart of Dixie as you can – Last Man Standing was a better movie title with Bruce Willis and its a pretty boringly standard sitcom without any originality but it is still better than Doc Hollywood.. I mean Heart of.. I mean that piece of…
20TH Century Fox should have let Travis do both shows. She’s worked hard for many years and would be deserving of being on 2 shows if she was up for it.
Are four episodes of “Hart of Dixie” even going to air?
Even for network television, the extent of the cliches and stereotypes in Hart of Dixie is appalling. It was all done before in Doc Hollywood, Baby Boom, Everwood, Northern Exposure, etc etc etc.
Nancy is better off without it.
Maybe they should also recast Rachel Bilson. A NY doctor? seriously?
What’s Kelly Rowan doing these days?
I don’t want to see Tim Allen. I want to see GERALD MCRANEY!!
You trolls just LIVE to come on this site and rip The CW, don’t ya? They could print money and pass it out, produce Emmy-winning shows, bring peace to the world, and you’d STILL want to criticize the network…for some bizarre, inexplicable reason. I can only assume you were all let go from jobs when WB & UPN merged, and now you are simply embittered, unemployed idiots.
Well, thankfully there are many of us who appreciate and stand behind the network’s fall shows, including Hart of Dixie. Did you also diss Gilmore Girls? I must wonder. Seriously, you folks need to get a life or a new whipping-boy, because your predictable, continual moronic comments here are wayyyy beyond tired and cliched, themselves.
I will give it a chance but as the well educated wife of a physician in Alabama, I really hope they do not make all residents of Alabama look like ignorant fools. We really don’t sit on verandas drinking mint juleps. We also aren’t all beer drinking rednecks either. Please don’t stereotype us to death.