It's not summer yet, but the new season of Royal Pains is already heating up.
American Horror Story vet Frances Conroy is checking in to the USA medical series for...
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James Van Der Beek might not be off TV for long. The former Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 star has been cast in the CBS comedy pilot Friends with Better Lives, TVGuide.com has learned.
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Krysten Ritter may not be off the air for long: The Apartment 23 star has landed the leading role in NBC's Assistance pilot.
In the comedy based on Leslye Headland's play of...
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The second-season return of Smash on Feb. 5 was always going to be a tough sell. But ABC's decision to schedule a last-minute special Tuesday-night edition of The Bachelor against it helped to crush NBC's musical drama, which attracted just 4.5 million viewers. Meanwhile, Sean Lowe and his roses brought in 7.9 million.
In this age of time-shifted and on-demand viewing, TV network scheduling seems like an antiquated idea. Yet as the networks fight over smaller pieces of the Nielsen ratings pie, scheduling — and the strategy behind how and when programs run — continues to play a critical role.
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We knew it wouldn't be all grins and giggles when three networks decided to stake out comedy ground on Tuesdays this season, cannibalizing the audience with too much of a quirky thing. Sure enough, the laughter ended last week for two of the night's more offbeat sitcoms: Fox's Ben and Kate and ABC's Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, both abruptly if not unexpectedly yanked from the schedule.
If there's an upside, it's that we get more to love, at least for now, of Fox's underappreciated Raising Hope (8/7), now airing back-to-back episodes off and on for several weeks.
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