Tia Mowry on The Game's Possible Rescue: "The Show Would Be Taken to Another Level"

• Jul 8, 2009 05:33 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Tia Mowry, The Game

Tia Mowry credits The Game's vocal fan base for the BET Network's interest in resurrecting the canceled CW series for a fourth season.

"I never fully appreciated how impressive the fans can be and are, until there were rumors swirling that the CW was going to take us off the air," Mowry said not long after TVGuide.com reported that BET is trying to obtain rights to the half-hour comedy. "I put it on my Twitter almost every other day, saying how the Game fans rock and rule."

Review our round-up of season-finale cliffhangers 

The Game cast first learned of BET's interest in developing new episodes back in ... read more

Exclusive: The Game On? BET May Save Canceled Series

• Jul 1, 2009 03:16 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

The Game

The BET Network could send The Game into overtime, in a deal that would pluck the canceled CW series from the ashes.

"BET is doing everything it can to acquire the rights to Mara Brock Akil's The Game," a source at the cable network tells TVGuide.com.

Review our wrap-up of season-finale cliff-hangers

With the entire cast on board for a fourth season, BET and CBS Television Studios are now trying to ... read more

A&E Cancels Patrick Swayze's The Beast

• Jun 16, 2009 08:48 AM ET
• by Anna Dimond

Patrick Swayze

A&E has canceled Patrick Swayze's FBI drama The Beast, TVGuide.com confirmed Tuesday.

"The Beast has truly been a labor of love for everyone associated with the project and we couldn't be more proud of the series and are in absolute awe of Patrick, his passion and tenacity," A&E president Bob DeBitetto said. read more

Terminator Exec Teases Future Shocks That Were to Come

• Jun 15, 2009 01:45 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Thomas Dekker

James Middleton, an executive producer on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, has shed light on where the Fox series was heading, had it not been terminated.

In what would be the series' last moments, John Connor (played by Thomas Dekker) had traveled with Catherine Weaver to a time when the war against the machines was in full tilt. There, the lad came face to face with Brian Austin Green's Derek Reese, who surprisingly failed to recognize humankind's "savior" ... read more

My Name Is Earl Is Officially Dead

• Jun 11, 2009 05:38 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor

My Name Is Earl

Twentieth Century Fox, the producers of My Name Is Earl, want to make it clear that the sitcom is officially dead, despite reports of talks with TBS earlier this week.

So they issued the following very specifically worded statement: "Greg Garcia's brilliant My Name is Earl kept America laughing for the past four seasons and certainly deserved to continue for many more. While we had hoped to find a way to produce additional episodes for TBS, in the final analysis we simply could not make the economics work without seriously undermining the artistic integrity of the series. As none of us, Greg included, want the show to go out on anything but a high note, we regret that we must put to rest any speculation that Earl will continue. We are grateful to everyone at TBS for their enthusiasm for the series and wish to offer our heartfelt thanks to the cast and crew of My Name is Earl for their incredible work."

'Nuff said. Post you condolences below.

My Name Is Earl in Talks to Move to TBS

• Jun 10, 2009 01:04 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor

My Name Is Earl

Call it karma: My Name Is Earl may be reincarnated on cable.

Following NBC's unceremonious dumping of Earl this spring, the show's creators are in talks with TBS, TVGuide.com has confirmed. The cable network and Earl producer 20th Century Fox are in "preliminary conversations" about creating 13 new episodes of the sitcom together, a TBS spokesperson said.

It's unclear when these new episodes might air. Moving a show from network to basic cable would surely require budget cuts, and while the cast is still "on hold" with Fox TV, they would still have to renegotiate lower salaries. So don't cross this off Earl's to-do list just yet.

The good news? In a separate deal, TBS will start running repeats of Earl in the fall.

Is A&E Giving Up on The Beast?

• Jun 4, 2009 06:19 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant

Patrick Swayze

Things aren't looking great for a second season of The Beast.

A&E isn't expected to renew the Patrick Swayze-fronted cop drama, sources told Variety. A rep for the cable network, however, told TVGuide.com that no official decision about the show's future has been made.

The series' first season ran for 13 episodes, and the finale aired April 23.

The show has overcome its share of obstacles. Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after the pilot was shot, but the actor received a doctor's OK to complete filming once the series was picked up. Swayze also ... read more

Pushing Daisies: Where Were We?

• May 29, 2009 07:43 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor

Pushing Daisies

Pushing Daisies is back!

Well, for three weeks anyway, as ABC fulfills its promise to the fans to schedule the three unaired episodes. The end of the Daisies drama unspools over the next three Saturdays at 10 pm/ET.

The facts were these: Some time in December 2008, after months of disappointing ratings, ABC pulled the plug on our beloved Pushing Daisies. Shortly after its cancellation, the network atoned by announcing that it would air the three unaired episodes at a later date, probably over the summer. It was even reported that series creator Bryan Fuller (who has since decamped for his other baby, Heroes) was given the opportunity to recut the season-finale episode so that it could act more like a series finale.

Which is all well and good, but... does anyone even remember what was happening on Pushing Daisies back in December?

Fall TV: NBC's "Split" Sked Offers Surprises for Fans of Chuck, FNL & Medium

• May 19, 2009 12:08 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Chuck, Friday Night Lights and Medium

NBC's 2009-10 schedule effectively cleaves the TV season in half, meaning that some shows will premiere in the fall and then vanish, while others will not return or premiere until midseason.

That means that recent flourishes of good news for Chuck and Friday Night Lights have been tempered by news likely to disappoint the shows' fans.

How so? Though Chuck was picked up for a third season, the action-comedy's fervent fans will have to wait until midseason (after the Winter Olympics, specifically) to get their fix. NBC boss Ben Silverman said in a Tuesday conference call, however, that Chuck's cast will not be whittled down.

And while NBC recently trumpeted news of Friday Night Lights' two-season renewal, Coach Taylor won't call another play until ... read more

No Amount of Movie Buzz Will Offer TV's Terminator Salvation

• May 18, 2009 01:41 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Christian Bale (Terminator Salvation)

Christian Bale's John Connor can make as much noise as he wants at the Cineplex this weekend, but his TV counterpart, Thomas Dekker, has been silenced.

After two seasons, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles "has completed its run — and I think it had a nice little run," Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly told TVGuide.com when asked if boffo box office for Bale's Terminator Salvation (hitting theaters Friday) might make Fox reconsider the series' cancelation.

New hope for Terminator's return emerged over the weekend when Fox ... read more