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Profession Producer, Assistant director

Mega Buzz: Will Castle Really Continue Without Castle and Beckett?

See what the producers are planning

Sun, Jan 24, 2016

Mega Buzz: Will Castle Really Continue Without Castle and Beckett?

Critic's Notebook: ABC at TCA

The verdict is still out regarding ABC's middling batch of new shows for the fall — as often happens, many of the network's more tantalizing projects are being held until midseason — but as ABC stepped into the TCA press-tour spotlight on Tuesday, the vibe was unusually positive because of one overarching hot-button issue: diversity. (For more ABC news, go here.)

Wed, Jul 16, 2014

ABC Boss on Canceling Trophy Wife, Diversity, and the End of Grey's Anatomy

ABC President Paul Lee is very excited about the network's new batch of comedies, but at Tuesday's Television Critics Association fall previews, he spent some time defending a comedy he had to cancel last year.See all the news from ABC's TCA dayLee fielded several questions about the cancellation of Trophy Wife, a low-rated comedy that some critics believed ABC never gave a chance to succeed by putting it in the network's successful Wednesday night comedy block. "We were always disappointed... not to get a pulse for it," Lee said...

Tue, Jul 15, 2014

ABC Boss on Canceling Trophy Wife, Diversity, and the End of Grey's Anatomy

The Five Burning Questions of Upfronts

1. How do you solve a problem like Thursday Night Football? CBS won the bidding war against NBC, ABC and ESPN to broadcast the NFL's Thursday schedule and will begin airing the games September 11 for seven weeks, delaying the launch of the Eye's Thursday lineup. For CEO Les Moonves and CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler, the no-brainer course of action would be to shift monster hit The Big Bang Theory to Mondays during that period to help launch new comedy How I Met Your Dad, then send it back to Thursdays after the Chargers face the Broncos in the final matchup on October 23.

Mon, May 12, 2014

Ask Matt: Grey's Anatomy, Broadchurch, Killing, Longmire

Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter!Question: I just read the news that Sandra Oh has decided to leave Grey's Anatomy at the end of the season. I'm sure a lot of fans will be upset or disappointed, but I actually respect her choice to leave and am grateful she has given so much notice to the writers so that they will be able to find a way to write her out effectively, which Grey's has not always had in the past. However, the broader question here is how much longer the show should run. I can't really imagine right now what it will be like without Christina, but there was also ...

Mon, Aug 19, 2013

Ask Matt: Grey's Anatomy, Broadchurch, Killing, Longmire

ABC Pulls Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

ABC is moving out of Apartment 23. With eight episodes left to air in its sophomore season, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 has been pulled from the schedule, TVGuide.com has confirmed. In its place, ABC will air back-to-back episodes of Happy Endings. ABC boss on fall failures, revitalizing Dancing and looking forward to S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC ran additional episodes of the Tuesday night comedies on...

Tue, Jan 22, 2013

ABC Pulls Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

ABC Boss on Fall Failures, Revitalizing Dancing and Looking forward to S.H.I.E.L.D.

For ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee, the Alphabet network's fall schedule was a bit of a mixed bag. "We have a lot to shout about and we also have a lot to do," Lee told reporters at the Television Critics Association winter TV previews on Thursday. The network, which finished 2012 in third place behind NBC and Fox, struggled to launch new shows  -- new dramas Last Resort and 666 Park Avenue were canceled; Nashville is solid, though Lee wishes he had more viewers in the 35-to-49 demographic — and saw previous ratings juggernaut Dancing with the Stars slide to new lows. "Turns out people like to...

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

ABC Boss on Fall Failures, Revitalizing Dancing and Looking forward to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Network Honchos Survey the New TV Season

The next few weeks will be rough for the networks, as they parse what works — and what doesn't — among this year's crop of new shows. We asked the five broadcast network heads, plus a few key cable bosses, to give us their thoughts on what will big on the small screen.

Thu, Sep 20, 2012

Network Honchos Survey the New TV Season

Decision Time for the Networks: What To Keep An Eye On

The network fall lineups are starting to take shape. As execs lick their wounds, dust off their failures and prepare to try it again with a whole new crop of shows, this is the time of year when they tell themselves — and more importantly, try to convince advertisers — that next season will be different. And sometimes it is. Witness ABC's 2004 turn-around year, when Lost and Desperate Housewives hit the air, or the 1994 season, when NBC was blessed with ER and Friends. But those game-changing years don't come along often. As we head into the mid-May network "upfront" presentations (when new series are unveiled to media buyers and bubble shows are fed their fates), here's a network-by-network guide on what to look out for.

Wed, May 9, 2012

Decision Time for the Networks: What To Keep An Eye On

Pilot Season: Eva Longoria's First Post-Desperate Housewives Gig Is….

Eva Longoria is staying close to her ABC and Desperate Housewives roots for her first new gig following the end of the drama series. The star is set to executive-produce ABC's Devious Maids pilot from Housewives creator Marc Cherry, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Deadline first reported the news. Everybody Loves Raymond's Doris Roberts to visit Desperate Housewives Based on...

Mon, Mar 26, 2012

Pilot Season: Eva Longoria's First Post-Desperate Housewives Gig Is….