Kat Dennings, Simon Cowell
The 2011-2012 TV season ended with a whimper, as all five broadcast networks posted year-to-year drops in viewership during May sweeps. But the season as a whole wasn't too bad: Sure, some big swings (Pan Am, Terra Nova) missed, but a solid 15 freshman shows (out of 45) were renewed. Here's a roundup of this year's winners and losers.
Winners
Funny girls
CBS' 2 Broke Girls was the year's highest-rated new comedy, averaging a strong 5.6 million viewers with adults 18-49. The show has already been upgraded to a plum 9pm time slot for fall. "That shows enormous...
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Courteney Cox
Newly promoted TNT/TBS president/head of programming Michael Wright made a few new friends when he sealed a deal to pick up fan favorite comedy Cougar Town from ABC. After a quick negotiation, TBS ordered 15 episodes of the show, which will premiere its fourth season next winter. The network will also start airing Cougar Town repeats. Wright, who previously saved Southland after NBC canceled it, says there will be no changes to the sitcom. Meanwhile, over at TNT, Wright says he's eager to change the perception that the network's dramas only dabble in "self-seriousness or earnestness." Frank Darabont's L.A. Noir isn't ready to be ordered as a series, but Wright expects to air it on Sundays, where the network is specializing in genre shows like Falling Skies.
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Two and a Half Men
CBS has renewed Two and a Half Men for a 10th season, the network announced Saturday.
The renewal was expected after Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones signed new contracts to ...
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Judy Greer
Move over, Patti Stanger! There's a new matchmaker hitting the small screen.
Royal Pains has tapped Judy Greer to play a matchmaker on an...
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Demi Moore
Demi Moore is officially no longer Mrs. Kutcher — on Twitter, at least.
Six months after her split from husband Ashton Kutcher, Moore finally dumped her @MrsKutcher handle for @JustDemi on Thursday.
Sarah Jessica Parker to replace Demi Moore in Lovelace
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Ashton Kutcher
An advertisement for the snack food Popchips has been pulled from YouTube and Facebook after many viewers called Ashton Kutcher's impersonation of an Indian man racist.
In the ad, the Two and a Half Men star plays a Bollywood producer named Raj who is "looking for love."
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Ashton Kutcher
Just after the announcement that Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones will return to Two and a Half Men should it be renewed, showrunner Lee Aronsohn is stepping down from his current role, EW reports.
Aronsohn, the show's longtime co-creator and showrunner, will become an executive consultant on the comedy. In his place, writer-producers Don Reo and Jim Patterson will get bumped to co-showrunners alongside co-creator Chuck Lorre.
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Mila Kunis, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Kiefer Sutherland
Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Wilmer Valderrama and Laura Prepon will be feeling groovy on Fox again.
The network is bringing back cast members from its past hit shows That '70s Show and In Living Color, among others, for a night of celebration on its 25th Anniversary Special, airing Sunday, April 22 at 8/7c.
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Steve Jobs, Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher plays a wealthy techie on the small screen, and now he's about to play one of the most famous techies on the big screen as well.
The Two and a Half Men star will play the late Steve Jobs in the indie film Jobs, Variety reports.
Report: Kutcher, Cryer offered two more years on Men ... but no raise!
Jobs will follow the Apple co-founder from...
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