Posts with tag renewal
Posted Oct 6th 2008 1:05PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Entourage, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Just five episodes into Entourage's long-awaited fifth season, and HBO has already pulled the trigger on a sixth. This morning the pay cable network announced that a sixth season of the popular comedy is in the works with a summer 2009 premiere planned.
So far, season five has seen Vince and the gang head into a downward spiral as he tries to rejuvenate his career in the wake of his last poorly received film, Medellin.
Even though I've seen plenty of positive reviews of the new season (I even gave it one), I still have a bit of an issue with HBO renewing the show. It's not that I disagree with a renewal, but I'm not so sure the timing is right.
Continue reading HBO renews Entourage for sixth season
Posted Jul 18th 2008 1:02PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
Sure, going to jail may be a poor life choice, but when you're a reality TV star, it's certainly not going to hurt your career. Despite the fact that
Khloe Kardashian is headed to the slammer for a 30-day stint, E! has just announced that it is
renewing Keeping Up with the Kardashians for a third season.
Keeping Up follows Khloe, her sister Kourtney and the infamous
Kim Kardashian as they deal with their family (mom Kris Jenner is married to former Olympic champion
Bruce Jenner) and life in LA as they try to stay in the public eye. Previous episodes have dealt with the fallout from Kim's sex tape, Kourtney's underage naked photos, and Khloe's DUI arrest. As Lisa Berger, E!'s executive VP original programming and series development understates, "There is never a shortage on drama, and we are certain the new season will be another wild ride,"
People are definitely watching. While its numbers would get a network show canceled in a heartbeat,
Keeping Up with the Kardashians' 1.6 million viewer average makes it a hit on E! Ten episodes have been ordered for season 3, which will premiere early next year.
Posted Jul 12th 2008 12:06PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free, Army Wives
The
success of Army Wives has been huge for Lifetime. Currently, the second season is doing gangbuster ratings so it's no surprise the CEO Andrea Wong announced yesterday that
Army Wives has been renewed for season number three.
Commencing in early 2009, there will be 18 new episodes of the military-oriented, drama set in Fort Marshall around the lives of the families of Army personnel. Currently, the tale of the "tribe" has been a grand slam, Sunday night success for the cable net, the number one cable show among women 25-54 and women 18-49, Lifetime's key demographics.
Continue reading Lifetime drafts Army Wives for a third tour of duty
Posted Apr 24th 2008 12:41PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Back in February, when
CBS announced a bunch of renewals for next season as well as which shows would be back with new shows this season, one that was in limbo was
The Unit. That led to many emails and questions about the Dennis Haysbert drama and whether CBS was going to stick with the military drama. It's with some hope that I tell you that things are looking up.
Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan reported that while the decision has yet to be made, and won't be made for a few more weeks,
Shawn Ryan, The Unit's executive producer, is "pretty optimistic." He and his staff of writers have presented an outline for the fourth season explaining where the storylines will be going and how it'll play out. CBS's reaction was very positive. Ryan said things couldn't have gone any better. That's great news for the fans of
The Unit who feel like they've been twisting in the wind waiting for word about the show.
Continue reading Hopeful news about The Unit
Posted Apr 18th 2008 5:40PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
It's with a big sigh of relief that I report that Michael Logan at
TV Guide has confirmed that
CBS has booked Guiding Light for one more year. That'll make it 72 years of continuous broadcasting -- radio and television. No program can match
Guiding Light's longevity, and I would hate to see CBS cancel a show with this kind of legacy.
That said,
Guiding Light needs to have a better year going forth than they've had looking back. In fact, since tying with
The Young and the Restless last June as Outstanding Daytime Drama at the Emmys, the show has been going through major transitions.
The new style of filming, shooting on locations in a New Jersey town that's being used as the fictional Springfield, began on February 29, and it hasn't been welcomed by the critics or viewers.
Continue reading CBS renews Guiding Light for another year
Posted Feb 13th 2008 6:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, ER, Law and Order, Medium, Scrubs, The Office, Heroes, Pickups and Renewals, 30 Rock, Chuck, Life, WGA Strike
When I posted about CBS's post strike announcement, I said it would be great if the other networks followed the Eye's lead. Well, almost as soon as I hit "Publish" on that post, NBC came out with two press releases discussing some of
their post-strike plans.
The first release confirms what we had been guessing at since we got the news of the settlement:
Chuck, Life and
Heroes have all been picked up for 2008-09, but none of the shows will return until the fall.
The second release discusses the return dates of several shows (list after the jump). It's not as helpful as CBS's release because it doesn't tell us how many episodes are left (so, for all we know, we'll see the
Scrubs conclusion on DVD,
as Bill Lawrence told Mike Ausiello). But at least we know when all of these shows are coming back -- April 10 seems to be the big day for fans of
30 Rock and
The Office, for example.
Now we have FOX, CW, and ABC left. Think they're going to step up to the plate soon?
Continue reading NBC post-strike: some series return soon, Chuck, Life, Heroes return in the fall
Posted Feb 11th 2008 5:42PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Pickups and Renewals, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Dirty Sexy Money, WGA Strike, Samantha Who?
ABC decided to use the
expected end of the writers' strike
to announce the renewal of nine shows for the 2008-09 season. The list of returning series are mostly those you'd expect to see:
Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, and
Lost are the veteran shows on the list, joined by rookie shows
Pushing Daisies, Samantha Who?, Private Practice and
Dirty Sexy Money. Unchanged is the speculation that most of the newer shows won't have a spring return, as ABC will hold them for a more publicized fall re-launch.
Continue reading With strike over, ABC decides to renew nine shows for 2008-09
Posted Aug 8th 2007 5:30PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Pickups and Renewals
Well, it looks like two of TNT's Monday primetime dramas are coming back for another season. Last week we reported that The Closer was returning for a fourth season. Now it looks like Saving Grace will be returning as well.
Grace, which stars and is produced by Holly Hunter, has received a network order for an additional 15 episodes. Since premiering on July 23rd the show has ranked tops among new cable shows. With its lead-in of The Closer the show has averaged 5.5 million viewers each week.
This leaves Heartland, which stars Treat Williams, as the only TNT Monday night drama yet to be renewed. Hopefully the curse of Everwood doesn't hang over this medical drama.
Posted Jun 6th 2007 11:36AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Video, The Office, Celebrities
The folks at NBC sent us a link to a funny little video that they've put up on their Dot Comedy video site. In the video, shot at the 2005 upfront presentation, Steve Carell has a very positive (and obviously pre-planned) reaction to the renewal of
The Office for a second season. He bounds down the aisle at Radio City Music Hall, overjoyed that his struggling little mid-season replacement was picked up. He's so overjoyed that he finds NBC Universal chairman Bob Wright and kisses him on the lips.
The ironic thing about this video is that two of the main players in it, Wright and Kevin Reilly, who you see announcing
The Office's renewal, are no longer with the network; if you recall, Wright's replacement, Jeff Zucker,
just fired Reilly last week. By the way, Dot Comedy has
a whole Carell channel set up to promote his upcoming movie,
Evan Almighty. They also have vlogs from various comedians (
including our own Paul Goebel). It's a good way to blow an entire day at work. The video is after the jump.
Continue reading Steve Carell gets "familiar" with Bob Wright - VIDEO
Posted May 17th 2007 12:56PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Veronica Mars, Pickups and Renewals, Upfronts
Fresh from The CW's post-
upfront press conference this afternoon comes some sad news:
Veronica Mars will not live on for a new season.
The CW has kept us on the edge of our seats for months now, not really making much of a peep about the fate of one of my favorite shows. This season definitely had its hits and misses, but I felt another season with the
reported possible retooling would bring it back to first-season-like greatness.
Unfortunately for all of us this means we'll be left with a rather lackluster series ender next week, as everyone involved with the show seemed to think it was premature to write an episode that worked as a series ender. Even if the season finale could "work" as a series ender, I'll be surprised if it'll cut it.
Then again, maybe a miracle will happen and the show will move to another network in the future. Ah who am I kidding.
Posted May 10th 2007 7:18PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals
Fans of
Friday Night Lights will be very happy to hear this: Diane Holloway of the
Austin American-Statesman is reporting that NBC is
renewing the show for a second season.
Holloway, the paper's TV writer, got her information from the assistant to executive producer and Austin, TX resident Sarah Aubrey. Apparently the assistant -- and by extension, Holloway -- knew before Aubrey did, since she was in a meeting when her assistant got the news. The production will stay in Austin, which is a good thing; can't get that authentic Texas feel in California, know what I mean?
Continue reading Friday Night Lights is coming back, says Austin paper
Posted Jan 19th 2007 8:31PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Everybody Hates Chris, Celebrities, The CW, TCA Press Tour
I have to tell you, the CW had some pretty lively sessions today at the press tour. The session for the Pussycat Dolls series devolved into a women's lib argument as I walked into it, and both
Supernatural and
Hidden Palms had their moments. Most were helped along by the comic stylings of Paul McGuire, the network's head of communications, who would come to the podium usually toting a funny line or two. "Even Jean-Paul Satre was a freak in his day," he quipped after the spirited debate over use of the word in the Pussycat Dolls' hit "Don't Cha."
But not even a funny executive could hold a candle to Chris Rock.
Continue reading Rock brings the funny with the Everybody Hates Chris cast - TCA Report
Posted Jan 18th 2007 1:10PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Industry, OpEd, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars, Ratings
Joel
reported from the TCA event earlier this week that ABC is moving
Dancing with the Stars to Monday night in order to dodge
American Idol. I'm a little disappointed in that, simply because I wanted to see what would happen if the two were to go head to head. I think
Idol would come out on top, but
DWTS might be able to make a dent in their off-key armor.
Monday night is probably much safer for the
DWTS ratings, but it might be the best news for fans of
What About Brian. We've talked
before about the struggles the show has had with growing an audience. This week found
Brian and friends failing to draw even 5 million viewers once again. That's bad for a big three show. And worse, it makes it difficult to renew the series for another run next fall.
Continue reading Will Dancing with the Stars save What About Brian?
Posted Nov 16th 2006 3:28PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Showtime, Pickups and Renewals
It's official,
Weeds fans! Right when everyone was getting paranoid that Showtime might leave viewers in a lurch, they've given the
greenlight for a season three with fifteen new episodes in the works.
The
show's recent season finale was the most watched in the series' short history. It was the kind of cliffhanger
Lost only wishes it could muster these days. Nancy and Conrad are screwed in the Tarantino, multiple guns pointed at them kind of way. Silas is on the verge of being busted with enough weed in his trunk to keep Snoop Dogg's crew happy for a long time. Shane is halfway to Costa Rica with Andy's loony tunes ex-girlfriend. Doug and Dean are mid-tussle on the Botwin floor, and poor Peter is nowhere good.
Continue reading Showtime orders more Weeds
Posted Nov 10th 2006 2:32PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Veronica Mars, The CW, Pickups and Renewals
Whether you think the whole shorter mystery arc is working for
Veronica Mars or not, the CW has
ordered three more scripts of the cult fav. Also eluding the chopping block this week is soapy
One Tree Hill, which also received a three script order.
I'd love to see
Veronica Mars stick around so long as it doesn't head down that strange, slow death path that took the life out of
Alias when the creators were pressured to make its twisty plotlines more accessible to newcomers. It's hard for me to care about the continuation of
One Tree Hill only because I'm old and do not understand the ways of these so-called teenagers -- at least teenagers who aren't also noirish super sleuths. It's great news for the fans, however, who couldn't even be sure they'd see their favorite shows back post-WB and UPN merger.
Now we'll just have to keep our eye on the
Gilmore Girls to see whether The CW will issue a mercy killing on behalf of Team Palladino.
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