Giovanni Ribisi and Seth Green
Seth McFarlane's freshman comedy Dads, which has caused a stir because of its possibly offensive material, has been given a full-season order, Fox announced Friday.
"Fox has been looking to break into the multi-camera format for some time," Fox's Chairman of Entertainment, Kevin Reilly, said in a statement. "With...
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Keith Urban, Jenifer Lopez, Harry Connick, Jr.
American Idol and The Following will return in mid-January, and Idol's Thursdayresults shows will be shortened to 30 minutes, Fox announced Friday.
Idol will kick off its 13th season with a four-hour, two-night premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 15 and Thursday, Jan. 16 at 8/7c.
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The Following will begin its sophomore season after the season finale of Sleepy Hollow, on Monday, Jan. 20 at 9/8c.
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David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel
Bones saw a small boost for its big wedding.
The long-awaited episode drew 7.5 million viewers and a 2.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Monday, up one tenth from last week.
NBC won the night with The Voice (13.4 million, 4.2), which fell three tenths, and The Blacklist (11.4 million, 3.0), which ...
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Karl Urban
Fox is giving Almost Human a special two-night launch!
Originally slated to premiere on Monday, Nov. 4, the futuristic procedural will now debut on...
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Federico Dordei and Kat Dennings
CBS saw some minor improvement with its revamped Monday lineup.
Airing behind How I Met Your Mother, which was flat with 8 million viewers and a 3.0 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, 2 Broke Girls (7.9 million, 2.5) rose 9 percent from last week's ...
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Tom Mison and Nicole Beharie
The premise of Sleepy Hollow is absurd, but thanks to its cheeky sense of humor and some genuinely creepy monsters, the freshmen drama has become the breakout hit of the season.
"The key to this world is, if you keep it grounded in this emotional reality it'll feel authentic, but it has to be funny," executive producer Alex Kurtzman said at New York Comic-Con on Sunday. "We know how crazy our show is going to be. We know we are one molecule away from insane every second and that's the balance that were constantly holding."
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Dylan McDermott
CBS' Monday lineup continues to struggle.
Hostages slid even further Monday to a dangerously low 5.2 million viewers and 1.2 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, dropping 20 percent. Save for How I Met Your Mother (7.4 million, 2.9), the rest of CBS' comedies ...
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Nicole Beharie, Tom Mison
Question: So we had the first cancellation of the season with Lucky 7 after two showings. There are no tears from me as I never watched it. My question is: On what planet did anyone ever perceive this show's premise to be interesting or sustainable? Out of the hundreds of pilots, it is sometimes hard to believe someone at ABC thought this was one of the best. What do you think is next? — Rob
Matt Roush: Next for ABC, or next in the long annals of "what were they thinking" pilots? (That sound you hear is ABC kicking itself for not keeping Body of Proof around as a back-up, because for the time being, Scandal repeats will be airing in place of the unlucky 7.) To be fair, Lucky was based on a more successful British series, The Syndicate, but something clearly got lost in translation. (Same thing must have happened regarding ABC's equally mediocre Betrayal, based on a Dutch series and adapted by the same exec producer, who's batting 0 for 2 right now.) Your point about the sustainability of a pilot's premise is a good one, and comes up frequently when analyzing the failure of shows as disparate as last season's Last Resort and (though it may be premature) this season's Hostages — more on that one later. But from the moment many of us saw clips of Lucky 7 at last spring's upfront presentation, it felt like nothing we could imagine almost anyone would want to see. And we were right.
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Anna Faris
Until CBS stops going for Broke, it may be hard for Mom, one of the season's more promising and pungent new comedies, to get the break it, and the title character, deserves. What's happening to CBS on Monday with its once-dominant comedy lineup is a slow-fade version of the freefall NBC experienced with its Thursday lineup in the wake of Friends. Holding on to shows too long (How I Met Your Mother, which could have wrapped this whole thing way earlier), promoting shows too soon with too little to offer (the shrill and increasingly charmless 2 Broke Girls), making odd decisions like keeping the award-winning Mike & Molly on the shelf in favor of an insta-dud like the abysmal We Are Men, this is one of those rare nights when CBS's programming acumen has mostly crapped out. (Monday's loss is, of course, Thursday's gain, with former Monday anchors The Big Bang Theory and, to a lesser degree these days, the played-out Two and a Half Men helping get early sampling for newbies The Millers and The Crazy Ones.)
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James Spader and Megan Boone
Is Red the new black?
NBC has ordered an additional nine episodes of The Blacklist, making it the first freshman drama of the 2013-2014 season to get a full 22-episode season.
The Blacklist is centered on the unique working relationship between one of the...
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