Tim Allen Don Johnson and Jimmy Smits among old favorites making new
Tim Allen, Don Johnson and Jimmy Smits among old favorites making new ... TV for Grownups
Home Improvement star Tim Allen, 57, is making an ABC sitcom. Miami Vice heartthrob Don Johnson, 61, and still sexy Ellen Barkin, 56, are doing an hour-long NBC pilot set in a Beverly Hills beauty salon. L.A. Law partner , 55, is among the stars of an untitled NBC drama. Christine Lahti, 61, Eric Roberts, 54, Marcia Gay Harden, 51, Donald Sutherland, 75, and Morgan Fairchild, 61, are in the pilot mix as well. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 50, has a much-buzzed-about HBO satirical comedy, Veep, on the way. She plays the bespectacled vice president of the United States. Cybill Shepherd, 61, is in an ABC culture clash comedy pilot about an American-and-Indian family. Terry O'Quinn of Lost, 58, stars along with 79-year-old Della Reese in ABC's Hallelujah pilot that uses a gospel choir as a sort of Greek chorus.
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Touchstone Television/20thCentFox//Courtesy Everett Collection From left: Jimmy Smits on NYPD Blue, Don Johnson on Miami Vice and Tim Allen on Home Improvement. Television is aging upward in a dramatic way. Thanks to the success of current shows starring Tom Selleck, and William Shatner, a parade of stars in their 50s, 60s and 70s is making TV pilots now with hope of getting on the air in the fall. See also:Home Improvement star Tim Allen, 57, is making an ABC sitcom. Miami Vice heartthrob Don Johnson, 61, and still sexy Ellen Barkin, 56, are doing an hour-long NBC pilot set in a Beverly Hills beauty salon. L.A. Law partner , 55, is among the stars of an untitled NBC drama. Christine Lahti, 61, Eric Roberts, 54, Marcia Gay Harden, 51, Donald Sutherland, 75, and Morgan Fairchild, 61, are in the pilot mix as well. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 50, has a much-buzzed-about HBO satirical comedy, Veep, on the way. She plays the bespectacled vice president of the United States. Cybill Shepherd, 61, is in an ABC culture clash comedy pilot about an American-and-Indian family. Terry O'Quinn of Lost, 58, stars along with 79-year-old Della Reese in ABC's Hallelujah pilot that uses a gospel choir as a sort of Greek chorus.