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‘Coach’ Comes Back As 13-Episode NBC Series Starring Craig T. Nelson

‘Coach’ Comes Back As 13-Episode NBC Series Starring Craig T. Nelson

A signature 1990s sitcom is coming back for a new chapter. NBC has given a straight-to-series 13-episode order to Coach, with original star Craig T. Nelson on board to reprise his role and creator Barry Kemp set to write.

A sequel to the original series, the new Coach will be set in present day, picking up 18 years after the ABC sitcom went off the air after nine seasons. Coach Hayden Fox (Nelson) — now retired from coaching — is called back to become assistant coach to his own grown son, who is the new head coach at an Ivy league school in Pennsylvania that is just starting up a new team. Though the original series focused on Fox’s relationship with his college-age daughter, towards the end of the show he and his wife adopted a son who will grow up to follow in his father’s footsteps. Kemp and Nelson are executive producing the comedy, which, like the original, will be multi-camera. No other talent is attached.

NBC’s deal for Coach keeps Nelson at the network where he starred on the family drama Parenthood for six seasons. As Parenthood was wrapping its final episodes, Nelson and Kemp got together to brainstorm ideas of bringing Coach back. They homed in on a premise for the project, which was set up at Universal TV, the studio behind the original series.

I hear all four major broadcast networks lined up to hear the pitch, which was taken out to NBC first because of its ties to Uni TV. I hear the network went aggressively after the comedy, buying it pre-emptively with a 13-episode on-air commitment.

Comedy has been going through a rough time at the broadcast networks, which have been struggling to launch new hits for the past couple of years, particularly in the traditional multi-camera format that has produced some of the biggest shows in TV history.

Nelson, repped by Paradigm, Tom Hoberman and Forward Entertainment, won an Emmy in 1992 for Coach. He will be seen in the comedy Get Hard, which opens tomorrow. Kemp, repped by ICM Parners and Bill Jacobson, also co-created the 1982-90 series Newhart.

Coach is the second popular 1990s ABC sitcom to get a sequel series with the original creators and stars. Last year, Disney Channel successfully launched Boy Meets World offshoot Girl Meets World, which has been renewed for a second season.

The Coach pickup comes as two other signature 1990s series, dramas Twin Peaks and The X-Files, are getting new chapters — also with the original auspices attached — as event series at Showtime and Fox, respectively. They are joining three series from the 2000s that have been brought back for new installments: 24 (Fox), Heroes (NBC) and Arrested Development (Netflix).
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#134
Its that time of tear again!

New Girl Renewed for Season 5 at Fox as John Cho Joins Guest Cast

New Girl Renewed for Season 5 at Fox as John Cho Joins Guest Cast

New Girl, old/familiar story: Jess & Co. are returning for another season.

Fox has renewed the Zooey Deschanel comedy for a fifth season, TVLine has learned.

Oddly enough, the pickup comes as work on Season 5 is already underway. The show remained in production after wrapping Season 4 in order to get a jump on Season 5 ahead of Deschanel’s maternity leave (the actress’ pregnancy is not being incorporated into the show).

Meanwhile, TVLine has exclusively learned that at least one (but likely more) of those Season 5 episodes will feature a guest turn by John Cho. The Selfie and Sleepy Hollow vet will play a guy Jess meets when she excitedly reports for Jury Duty. SNL‘s Taran Killam is also set to guest star, as we reported last week.

“Four seasons in, New Girl continues to be one of the smartest and most relatable comedies on television,” said Fox entertainment president David Madden. “The writing is razor-sharp, the ensemble is consistently hilarious, and we couldn’t be more proud of… the entire New Girl team. We absolutely love this show and we’re so excited to bring it back for Season Five.”

Fun fact free of charge: The series will celebrate its landmark 100th episode during Season 5.
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Good News here!

FX renews 'The Americans' for season 4

FX renews 'The Americans' for season 4

Low ratings and lack of Emmy love don't matter for one of TV's best dramas

Great news, comrades: FX has renewed "The Americans" — aka one of the very best shows in all of television — for a fourth season.

“Remarkably, this season of 'The Americans' has achieved even greater acclaim than that of its first two seasons," FX original programming president Nick Grad said in announcing the order for a 13-episode fourth season, to air next year. "The series has cemented it status with critics as television’s best current drama and arguably the best show on TV, and we couldn’t agree more. That universal critical praise is a tribute to the talents of Joe, Joel, Keri, Matthew, Noah and the entire cast and crew. We look forward to the final four episodes of season three, and beyond, in Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' riveting journey.”

FX boss John Landgraf has repeatedly put his support behind the Cold War spy drama, despite its meager ratings and complete shunning by the Emmys and showbiz guild awards. At the TV critics press tour in January, he said "I think it will be at least five" seasons for the series. This puts it within striking distance.

"The Americans" was my number two overall show for 2014. I don't know where it'll rank this year — 2015 has been absurdly strong so far — but I've liked season 3 even more than its predecessor. This is a great drama that I wish more people watched — even as I recognize that the subject matter can be off-putting (each week, the comments seem to pivot into a discussion of how hard it is for people to invest in the adventures of two Soviet agents) — and I'm relieved that it will get to stick around and presumably tell the full story that Fields and Weisberg have in mind.
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Seeing the returning shows makes me wonder who at A&E made the dumbass decision to cancel "Longmire".
 
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MG1968 said:
Seeing the returning shows makes me wonder who at A&E made the dumbass decision to cancel "Longmire".
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Apparently they wanted to get away from scripted programing.

It did get picked up by Netflix for Season 4.

I have yet to see a premier date but I follow Katee Sackhoff on Twitter and she posted about a month ago (I think) that they had begun filming so probably want be till Summer or Fall.
 
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Well this was unexpected!

NBC Orders 10 Episodes of Previously Canceled Series 'Emerald City'

NBC Orders 10 Episodes of Previously Canceled Series 'Emerald City'

NBC has resurrected Emerald City, the drama based on The Wizard of Oz that was previously given a straight-to-series order then scrapped before it commenced production. This go round, the network has greenlit ten episodes. David Schuldner takes over as showrunner from Matthew Arnold and Josh Friedman. NBC has not announced when the series will premiere.
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Not sure what the new showrunner will/has changed but below was the original premise when it was announced with other shows last spring before it was scrapped!


EMERALD CITY

Desperate for clues that will lead to the identity of her biological mother, a young woman breaks into a sinister underground facility somewhere in the Midwest. Unable to complete her mission and surrounded by security, our feisty heroine steals a K9 police dog and drives away into the night... and headlong into the path of a raging tornado. In the blink of an eye, she is transported to another world, one far removed from our own - a mystical land of competing kingdoms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. This is the fabled Land of Oz in a way you've never seen before, where wicked witches don't stay dead for long and 20-year-old Dorothy Gale becomes a headstrong warrior who holds the fate of kingdoms in her hands. You're not in Kansas anymore, and this is not your Grandmother's Oz.

Writer Matthew Arnold ("Siberia") serves as executive producer with Josh Friedman ("Terminator" The Sarah Connor Chronicles"). "Emerald City" is a production of Universal Television.
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I've been liking this one, good to see it getting an early renewal!

‘Younger’ Renewed For Second Season By TV Land

‘Younger’ Renewed For Second Season By TV Land

Four episodes into Younger‘s freshman season, TV Land has renewed the single-camera comedy for a second season with a 12-episode order. Created and executive produced by Darren Star,

Younger stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor and Nico Tortorella.
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TV Land has gone to hell, why they feel the need to compete with every other network in the mindless garbage department is beyond me. I can't remember the last time I turned there hoping for Andy Griffith without quickly leaving due to rubbish.

Animal Planet used to be about animals, interesting, exotic animals. Now it's nothing but inane nonsense focused on dogs, cats, and people, and while all three are animals, programming of this nature is neither entertaining nor informative.

The History Channel provides perhaps the most flagrant example of a once distinguished network prostituting itself. Long gone are the days of documentaries and Modern Marvels; today a near 100% chance of encountering fruitless crap dealing with rednecks or ancient aliens precludes my patronage.

I'll spare everyone the same song and dance regarding TLC, A&E, Discovery, etc.

If I could voluntarily watch sports on a grainy picture provided by FirstRow via my laptop, I would've ditched cable a long time ago, but HD sports on a big screen is on par with water, food, clothing, video games, shelter, and porn in my book.
 
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Deputy Fife said:
TV Land has gone to hell, why they feel the need to compete with every other network in the mindless garbage department is beyond me. I can't remember the last time I turned there hoping for Andy Griffith without quickly leaving due to rubbish.

Animal Planet used to be about animals, interesting, exotic animals. Now it's nothing but inane nonsense focused on dogs, cats, and people, and while all three are animals, programming of this nature is neither entertaining nor informative.

The History Channel provides perhaps the most flagrant example of a once distinguished network prostituting itself. Long gone are the days of documentaries and Modern Marvels; today a near 100% chance of encountering fruitless crap dealing with rednecks or ancient aliens precludes my patronage.

I'll spare everyone the same song and dance regarding TLC, A&E, Discovery, etc.

If I could voluntarily watch sports on a grainy picture provided by FirstRow via my laptop, I would've ditched cable a long time ago, but HD sports on a big screen is on par with water, food, clothing, video games, shelter, and porn in my book.
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You gotta throw The Weather Channel in there too.
 
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gordonr24 said:
You gotta throw The Weather Channel in there too.
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I was about to add this. It was bad enough when they had on the "It Could Happen" type doomsday shows and the shows where people talked about tornadoes and all. But a couple of nights ago they actually had some show on about weather and hauntings/curses/supernatural bullcrap.

I think Comedy Central is about the only genre specific channel around that has actually stuck to its genre.
 
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NBC Picks Up Comedy ‘People Are Talking’

NBC Picks Up Comedy ‘People Are Talking’

NBC kicked off its comedy series pickups with a nod to one of the front-runners, multi-camera People Are Talking, from writer DJ Nash, producer Will Packer, director Pam Fryman and Universal TV.


People Are Talking is described as an unabashed comedy about two diverse couples who are neighbors and best friends. As they go through life side-by-side, they can’t help but analyze and obsess about everything. From topics such as sex and race to the fact that the trusted new baby-sitter might just be a porn star, nothing is out of bounds for this wildly outspoken foursome. The cast includes Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Franklin & Bash), Meaghan Rath (Syfy'S Being Human, Tone Bell and Bresha Webb.
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