EW's 20 Hot TV Shows for Summer
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20 Hot TV Shows for Summer
In the spirit of polygamy drama ''Big Love,'' there are a LOT of promising series we're itching to see -- like spacy Paula and ''Flash Gordon,'' ''Mad Men'' and ''My Boys,'' and the returns of David Duchovny and Glenn Close
11. CALIFORNICATION
Starts Aug. 13 · 10:30 p.m. · Showtime
David Duchovny is returning to TV in a role that's anything but Fox Mulder. In his new series, he'll play a novelist who spends more time sleeping around, insulting people, and extracting his preteen daughter from sex- and drug-addled parties than he does writing. Even more surprising: The show is a half-hour comedy. ''It's the kind of adult comedy I've been searching for and think I can do well,'' says Duchovny. ''It's interesting to take a character who's really unlikable and sell his lows as being real and funny.''
It's also exactly the kind of edgy, grown-up work creator/exec producer Tom Kapinos, late of Dawson's Creek, had been itching to do. ''I was trying to come up with a modern-day answer to Shampoo,'' he says. ''I wanted to create this character who was not going to go so gently into the good night of domestic bliss.''
Throughout the season, Duchovny's Hank Moody, a successful but blocked novelist, will struggle to win back his ex (Natascha McElhone) while trying to keep their daughter (Madeleine Martin) from veering into wild teendom. And he'll start to get back on track — how else? — by blogging for a Salon-type website, lending itself to a Sex and the City-style structure ''with an overarching theme to most episodes,'' Duchovny says. Meaning bad dating puns and Manolo references? ''He's supposed to be a serious writer,'' Duchovny corrects, ''so he's gotta blog well.'' —Jennifer Armstrong
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