NBC wound up trailing the other networks by a day with their midseason announcements. Among the details is the coveted post-Super Bowl slot going to an hour-long episode of The Office. The following day, February 2, Chuck will air it’s 3-D episode and Heroes kicks off its new volume. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC…
At the Screenwriters Expo in Los Angeles, Heroes’ creator Tim Kring addressed the criticism heaped on not only the second but the current third season of the NBC series. “The problem is you run into a whole series of issues,” he said. “Where show and business run into each other. The network falls in love…
NBC may have been hasty. Apparently, the plans to shelve Lipstick Jungle were premature as it sparked an uptick in ratings last Friday night. Rabid fans have also been vocal about trying to salvage the female-centric drama starring Brooke Shields. The series was shuffled from Wednesday nights to Fridays and in addition to the stronger…
USA Network will air the eighth and final season of Monk during the summer of 2009. The beloved series’ concluding season will include 16 episodes. With luck, he will continue to live on in Lee Goldberg’s delightful novels. CBS’s Gary Unmarried was blessed with a full-season order while the network ordered three additional episodes of…
Freshman series My Own Worst Enemy, starring Christian Slater, has been canceled by NBC, along with sophomore entry Lipstick Jungle, according to The Hollywood Reporter. At present their final airdates and replacements have not been formally announced but both shows saw declining ratings throughout the season. Enemy was considered important to peacock network but its…
Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Yancey Arias and Bruce Davison are being left at the curb as NBC orders a major retooling of its Knight Rider revival. The network has shown faith in the show, giving it a full season’s order, only to watch the ratings go into a death spiral. "It’s a reboot," executive producer/showrunner Gary…
We love NBC’s Chuck. It’s a fresh take on spies and nerds that is appealingly cast and produced. The show has a great ensemble headed by Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, and Adam Baldwin. That it continues to perform well in a television season that most call tepid is a good thing. NBC agrees and continues…
E!’s Kristin dos Santos writes, “I’ve just been told by reliable insiders at NBC that Heroes most likely will replace Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander with at least one new writer-producer, and one of the names being tossed around is Bryan Fuller, the creative genius who served as a consulting producer for the first half…
Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science thrillers as Jurassic Park, Timeline and The Andromeda Strain has died of cancer, his family said. He died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 66 after a long battle with the illness. Michael started his career writing under the pseudonyms "John Lange" and "Jeffrey…
Tim Kring, creator and executive producer for NBC’s Heroes, watched the dust begin to settle after the network insisted on changes which resulted in the dismissal of Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb on Sunday. According to a story in Variety, the peacock network was concerned that Kring had delegated too much of the show’s storyline…
The networks are showing remarkable patience as we enter the November sweeps period. As audiences continue to sample new shows, the ratings from DVR usage continue buoy shows once seen as vulnerable. NBC’s reviled Kath & Kim was given an order for the back nine episodes, giving the freshman sitcom a full season order. Hammocked…
Writer/Producer Michael Green has signed a two-year deal Universal Media Studios where he is showrunning the NBC midseason series Kings. "There is no more important new show to the network and the studio than that," UMS president Katherine Pope told The Hollywood Reporter. The series, inspired by the Biblical story of King Saul and King…
