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#101
CBS Picks Up ‘CSI: Cyber’ To Series

CBS Picks Up ‘CSI: Cyber’ To Series

The planted CSI spinoff will join offshoot NCIS: New Orleans on the CBS schedule next season. CSI: Cyber was not on the list of four drama pilots picked up to series by CBS earlier today but as we reported, the project was in final negotiations for a pickup, which now has become a reality. Written-executive produced by the CSI team of Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony Zuiker and Ann Donahue, CSI: Cyber stars Patricia Arquette as Avery Ryan, Special Agent in Charge at the Cyber Crime Division of the FBI in Quantico, VA, who is tasked with solving major crimes that start in the mind, live online, and play out into the real world. The planted spinoff aired recently as an episode of CSI to a great response. It is a departure from the forensic DNA of the CSI franchise and is darker as it focuses on cyber crime. Another CSI veteran, former CSI: NY showrunner Pam Veasey, is expected to run the new series. Mendelsohn will continue to be in charge of the mothership series as she has been since the beginning. The pickup marks Arquette’s return to primetime at the network where she last starred in Medium.
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#102
#102
Took all day negotiating but....

'Nashville' Renewed for Third Season at ABC

'Nashville' Renewed for Third Season at ABC

Following prolonged negotiations, the country music drama will return for another run.

It's official: Nashville is returning for a third season.

Following prolonged negotiations, the Connie Britton-Hayden Panettiere country music drama rebounded from a critically maligned freshman season finale and held onto much of its first-year viewership. ABC's Ben Sherwood announced the renewal late Friday via Twitter. It's unclear just how many episodes the renewal is for, with more details expected to come next week when ABC presents its fall schedule to Madison Avenue ad buyers in New York.

In the key adults demo, the Lionsgate TV-produced series from Callie Khouri is down four-tenths of a point and about 500,000 viewers. Also working in the musical's favor is ABC's largely forgettable freshman crop of dramas, with limited series The Assets as well as Betrayal, Killer Women, Lucky 7, Mind Games and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland all failing to make the cut.

Meanwhile, Nashville breakouts Charles Esten, Clare Bowe, Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio, Chris Carmack and Will Chase hit the road for a small multi-city tour on the back of multiple albums and music downloads, which help provide ancillary revenue to support the series.

Nashville joins a roster of returning dramas including Castle, Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Scandal, Resurrection and Agents of SHIELD. The network has already picked up eight new dramas -- even with last year. They are Shonda Rhimes' How to Get Away With Murder, Secrets and Lies, Astronaut Wives Club, Agent Carter, The Club, American Crime, The Whispers and Forever.
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#105
CBS’ ‘The Mentalist’ Renewed For Season 7

CBS’ ‘The Mentalist’ Renewed For Season 7

There will be a happy ending for The Mentalist. After sitting heavily in grave danger of cancellation, the veteran drama has gotten a reprieve with an eleventh-hour renewal. CBS does not specify the size of the order but I hear it is likely for a 13-episode seventh and final season. That also would make sense given the enormous (for CBS standards) volume of new dramas that the network is adding with the pickup of six new series: NCIS: New Orleans, CSI: Cyber (likely one for fall one for midseason), Stalker, Scorpion, Madam Secretary and the straight-to-series Battle Creek.

The Mentalist creator Bruno Heller is segueing to his new Fox series Gotham, but one of his lieutenants will take over, possibly Tom Szentgyorgyi. Simon Baker is set to return as he has one more year on his current contract. With the renewal of The Mentalist, CBS will be bringing back all 10 drama series that were on its fall schedule last season, plus 6 new ones vs 3 last season. Expect multiple split windows/limited runs and possibly dramas reclaiming a comedy hour.

With the futureMentalist-season6-newslogan at CBS in serious doubt, The Mentalist producer Warner Bros TV had been quietly shopping the series to other networks. Mentalist is a very important property to the studio with its $2 million-plus-per-episode off-network deal at TNT and big international sales including in France, where it is the No. 1 scripted series. The Mentalist started off as a CBS darling, landing the post-NCIS Tuesday PM slot for its launch before moving to Thursdays 10 PM. But after four seasons on Thursday, the series was moved to the Sunday 10 PM slot. Despite often airing outside of primetime because of sports overruns, in its current sixth season, Mentalist has averaged of more than 11 million viewers and a 2.1 rating among adults 18-49, outrating in the demo its Sunday night lead-in The Good Wife, which has been renewed.

The Mentalist underwent a largely well received creative reboot midway through the current season, wrapping the 5 1/2-season-long Red John mystery and moving some of the key players to Texas.
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#106
#106
Kinda concerned that they dropped LMS!!

ABC & 20th TV Reach Deal: ‘Cristela’ & ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Picked Up To Series, ‘Last Man Standing’ Renewed
ABC & 20th TV Reach Deal: ‘Cristela’ & ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Picked Up To Series, ‘Last Man Standing’ Renewed

After intense negotiations, ABC has closed a deal with 20th Century Fox TV for the pickup to series of two comedy pilots, multi-camera Cristela, starring Cristela Alonzo, and Nahnatchka Khan’s single-camera Fresh Off The Boat, as well as the fourth season renewal of comedy series Last Man Standing starring Tim Allen. The holdup had been a request from the network for a license fee reduction on Last Man Standing, something 20th had already agreed last season for what was supposed to be a one-time thing and was unwilling to do it again. The studio had leverage with Cristela and Fresh Off The Boat, which ABC was looking to pick up. After some back-and-forth, a deal has been reached, with all three shows safely on ABC’s schedule next season. Both Cristela and Fresh Off the Boat reflect the immigrant experiences of their creators, Cristela Alonzo, who co-wrote the script with Kevin Hench, and Khan, who based her show on Chef Eddie Huang’s memoir. (Both Khan and Alonzo are first generation Americans.) Both Cristela and Last Men Standing hail from 21 Laps/Adelstein.

This is a fairytale ending for Alonzo’s Cristela, which had been a true Cinderella story this season. It was sold to ABC last summer with penalty. But with several high-profile multi-camera sitcoms landing pilot orders at the network, including two from 20th TV – The Winklers starring Henry Winkler, and Kevin Hart’s Keep It Together – Cristela didn’t make the cut. However, 20th TV brass and 21 Laps/Adelstein, led by Becky Clements, took the $500,000 penalty, a fraction of what a normal pilot costs, and used it to shoot a presentation with ABC’s blessing (the network called it “proof of concept”). Cristela ended up filming a full-length pilot on the stage of Last Man Standing using that sitcom’s crew, led by director/co-exec producer John Pasquin, with two days of rehearsal and prep time, doing the blocking in a windowless room using paper plates and metal chairs. Cristela, originally not even budgeted to get a testing or a photo shoot, tested through the roof, with Alonzo, who has no previous acting experience, scoring higher than Allen, New Girl’s Zooey Deschanel and The Crazy Ones’ Robin Williams. What’s more, Cristela snagged the only multi-camera comedy pickup at ABC for 20th TV, edging The Winklers and Keep It Together.

A fourth season renewal for Last Man would help 20th TV sibling Twentieth TV, which had been shopping the comedy for a syndication sale. 20th TV is heading into next season with the most diverse slate of new shows — it has hip-hop drama Empire at Fox, which has a largely Black cast, the Latino-themed Cristela and Asian American-focused Fresh Off the Boat. Here are descriptions of the newly picked up series.

CRISTELA
In her sixth year of law school, Cristela (Cristela Alonzo) is finally on the brink of landing her first big (unpaid) internship at a prestigious law firm. The only problem is that her pursuit of success is more ambitious than her traditional Mexican-American family thinks is appropriate. She’s stuck straddling the old culture she’s trying to modernize at home with her working-class family and the modern world she’s trying to embrace in her professional career. Breakout comedian Cristela Alonzo stars in this hilarious comedy about laughing your way down the path to the new American dream.

“Cristela” stars Cristela Alonzo as Cristela, Carlos Ponce as Felix, Terri Hoyos as Natalia, Andrew Leeds as Josh and Sam McMurray as Trent.

“Cristela” is written by Cristela Alonzo and Kevin Hench. Executive Producers are Kevin Hench, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements and Shawn Levy. “Cristela” is produced by 20th Century Fox Television.

FRESH OFF THE BOAT
It’s the 90s and 12 year old, hip-hop loving Eddie (Hudson Yang) just moved to suburban Orlando from DC’s Chinatown with his parents (Randall Park and Constance Wu). It’s culture shock for his immigrant family in this comedy about pursuing the American Dream. “Fresh Off the Boat” is based on Chef Eddie Huang’s memoir Fresh Off the Boat.

“Fresh Off the Boat” stars Randall Park as Louis, Constance Wu as Jessica, Hudson Yang as Eddie, Forrest Wheeler as Emery and Ian Chen as Evan.

“Fresh Off the Boat” is executive produced and written by Nahnatchka Kahn and executive produced by Jake Kasdan for 20th Century Fox Television.
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#107
TBS Renews ‘Cougar Town’ For Sixth & Final Season

TBS Renews ‘Cougar Town’ For Sixth & Final Season

Prepare to say good-bye to the wine-loving gang from Cougar Town. TBS has ordered a 13-episode sixth season of the comedy series, which will be its last. It will air in 2015.

Cougar Town, starring Courteney Cox, joined the TBS lineup in January 2013 after three seasons on ABC. It finished the year as one of basic cable’s Top 10 original sitcoms with adults 18-49. In the most recent Season 5, the series averaged more than 2 million viewers and ranked as one of cable’s Top 10 comedies with adults 18-49 (1.3 million) and adults 18-34 (639,000) for Q1 2014. Cougar Town was created by executive producer Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel. The series is produced by ABC Studios, with Lawrence, Cox, David Arquette and showrunner Blake McCormick serving as executive producers. Christa Miller, Busy Philipps, Dan Byrd, Ian Gomez, Josh Hopkins and Brian Van Holt co-star.
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#108
#108
I believe it was confirmed today that next season will be the last for both Parks and Recreation and Parenthood.
 
#109
#109
Did anyone else catch the new summer series on NBC called The Night Shift?

I don't usually like medical shows like ER or Private Practice so I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
 
#110
#110
NBC has cancelled there first two shows of the year!

Bad Judge (starring Kate Walsh) and A to Z (starring Cristin Milioti) will not continue beyond their initial 13-episode runs!
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I actually liked Bad Judge but did not give A to Z a try.
 
#112
#112
Rookie Blue is one of my guilty pleasures...always glad when I see it's name.
 
#116
#116
VolsSportsFan said:
I couldn't believe The Millers got a second season. It was terrible, and I generally like Will Arnett.
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I like him too but he's had a bad run of TV shows since AD. The Miller's, Running Wilde, Up All Night, I feel like I'm forgetting one. I did like The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret though he wasn't the star.
 
#117
#117
Good news!

At the 2015 winter TV press tour, The CW announced Sunday (Jan. 11) that it has picked up eight of its shows for the 2015-16 television season.

The shows being renewed are "Arrow" (Season 4), "Jane the Virgin" (Season 2), "Reign" (Season 3), "Supernatural" (Season 11), "The 100" (Season 3), "The Flash" (Season 2), "The Originals" (Season 3) and "The Vampire Diaries" (Season 7). Specific premiere dates for each series will be announced at a later time.

CW president Mark Pedowitz tells the press tour audience that they don't yet know exactly how many epsiodes of each show and that not each show will be back in the fall of 2015. But they all have been picked up for sometime in the 2015-16 season.

"Each of these series have helped define what The CW is today, a network that is home to smart, provocative, quality programming, targeting a savvy adult audience," says Pedowitz. "By picking up these shows now, our executive producers can start planning next season's storylines, and rolling these shows out throughout next season guarantees The CW will have more proven original series for our fall, midseason and summer 2016 line-ups."

As for "Beauty and the Beast," that will be returning late May/early June. Pedowitz also says this is "not necessarily" the last season of "Hart of Dixie."
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#118
#118
This is a bit shocking!!


via press release:

THE THIRD SEASON OF "Beauty And The Beast"

PREMIERES THURSDAY, MAY 21 ON THE CW


The CW Orders a Fourth Season of "Beauty And The Beast" for 2015-16



February 13, 2015 (Burbank, CA) — The third season of fan favorite drama Beauty And The Beast will begin its 13-episode run on Thursday, May 21 (8:00-9:00 pm ET) on The CW Network. In addition, The CW announced today that Beauty And The Beast has also been renewed a fourth season, which will air later the 2015-2016 season.

As season three begins, Cat (Kristin Kreuk) and Vincent (Jay Ryan) are able to focus on their love, finally free from Muirfield, manhunts and beasts. However, that love will be tested as new and more dangerous threats await. When they learn that innocent victims are being used to test the boundaries of the impossible, Cat and Vincent will uncover a deeper conspiracy, one which Vincent can fight only by turning to the beast he carries within. But unleashing the beast will risk Vincent’s life – along with his and Cat's love – as they struggle to build a normal life together.
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#119
#119
CBS is the first to release their Summer Schedule!

2015 CBS SUMMER SCHEDULE


CBS Wednesday, June 24

8:00-9:00 PM BIG BROTHER (Season Premiere, Night 1)
9:00-10:00 PM Criminal Minds (Repeat)
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: CYBER (Repeat)

CBS Thursday, June 25

8:00-9:00 PM BIG BROTHER (Season Premiere, Night 2)
9:00-11:00 PM UNDER THE DOME (Two-Hour Third Season Premiere)

CBS Sunday, Effective June 28

7:00-8:00 PM 60 Minutes (Repeat)
8:00-9:00 PM BIG BROTHER (Sunday Premiere)

CBS Tuesday, Effective June 30

8:00-9:00 PM NCIS (Repeat)
9:00-10:00 PM ZOO (Series Premiere)
10:00-11:00 PM NCIS: NEW ORLEANS (Repeat)

CBS Wednesday, Effective July 1

8:00-9:00 PM BIG BROTHER
9:00-10:00 PM Criminal Minds (Repeat)
10:00-11:00 PM EXTANT (Second Season Premiere)

CBS Thursday, Effective July 2

8:00-8:30 PM The Big Bang Theory (Repeat)
8:30-9:00 PM THE ODD COUPLE (Repeat)
9:00-10:00 PM BIG BROTHER (Regular Thursday Time Period Premiere)
10:00-11:00 PM UNDER THE DOME (Regular Thursday Time Period Premiere)
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