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American Dad Bordertown Ask TV Week 8 TV Week f o x , h b o Write to: Ask TV Week, TV Week, 4th Floor, 4180 Lougheed Hwy, Burnaby, BC V5C 6A7 email: AskTVWeek@canadawide.com Does Seth MacFarlane have any new shows cooking? It seems like all his Fox cartoons are getting cancelled. T.J., West Vancouver Despite a burgeoning film career, the Family Guy creator isn't planning to abandon his Animation Domination block. This spring will see the Fox debut of Bordertown, about two mismatched Texas neighbours — one a border agent, the other a Mexican immigrant — and their families, voiced by Simpsons star Hank Azaria and Family Guy's Alex Borstein. Far more intriguing, though, is MacFarlane's latest stab at live-action. Admittedly, his last attempt, the widely reviled Dads, doesn't inspire much confidence; but that show lacked the presence of Captain Jean-Luc Picard himself Patrick Stewart (frequent guest on MacFarlane's American Dad) as a hard-partying British newsman who comes Stateside to "conquer cable news." Blunt Talk, as it's called, has already received a two-season order from Starz, which will debut the show this summer; we'll let you know when it finds a Canadian network to call home. over the line CoWboys & Fixers Deadwood is my favourite series ever. I'm still so peeved that it was cancelled. With all these other shows coming back nowadays, could it get a second life? I.D., via email Rumours of a continuation of hbo's beloved Western series have been floating around ever since its 2006 cancellation. but the truth is, the show's very large ensemble are all wrapped up in other projects (case in point: Kim Dickens, who played prostitute Joanie Stubbs, was just cast as the lead of the Walking Dead spinoff), and the financial cost of doing a period show of this nature is much higher than your average series. That being said, you can look forward to a reunion of sorts on the upcoming third season of Ray Donovan, as Ian McShane, who played foul-mouthed bar owner/criminal mastermind Al Swearengen on Deadwood, has just joined the Showtime hit as a billionaire who gets tangled up in the titular fixer's affairs after enlisting him to protect his family; fans will recall that Paula Malcolmson, who plays Ray's put-upon wife Abby, worked closely with McShane on Deadwood, as Trixie, the object of Swearengen's affection/abuse. While we're on the topic of Ray Donovan, it's been announced that erstwhile Dawson's Creek star Katie Holmes will return to TV to play the "shrewd and chic businesswoman daughter" of McShane's character. Looking For LoWe When Rob Lowe left Parks and Rec, you wrote that he'd be in a new NBC sitcom about a tennis pro. When can we expect it? C.V., Richmond Alas, the pilot wasn't picked up. but you will definitely see Lowe get goofy again, along with Jenna Fischer and Megan Mullaly, in NbC's Apocalypse, an upcoming comedy about "a foul-mouthed priest, an unhinged white supremacist, a meek bank manager, a germ-phobic cyber-terrorist, a five-star general and a child who (possibly) rose from the dead" dealing with the aftermath of a world-ending comet strike. Deadwood