By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In 2005, CBS premiered “How I Met Your Mother,” a sitcom starring Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan and Neil Patrick Harris. An instant hit with viewers, it ran for nine seasons. Now, Elizabeth Berger and Isaacs Aptaker, writers and executive producers on “T [...]

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Based on the comic book of the same name by Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker, The CW’s “Naomi” follows a comic book-loving teenager portrayed by Kaci Walfall (“Power,” “The Lion King” on Broadway.) When a supernatural event occurs in her hometow [...]

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Michael Landon’s popular TV series “Highway to Heaven” ran from September 1984 to August 1989. Now Lifetime has updated the drama in a new format of two-hour event movies starring Jill Scott and Barry Watson. Scott, a three-time Grammy Award-winning sin [...]

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—On Oct. 1, 2006, Showtime premiered a new series called “Dexter.” The psychological thriller starred Michael C. Hall in the role of Dexter Morgan, a blood splatter pattern analyst for the Miami police department, who moonlights as a serial killer. The u [...]