October 23rd, 2009 | 0 Comments
NBC has picked up full seasons of Thursday-night comedies Community and Parks and Recreation, as well as its Wednesday night medical drama Mercy. All three have shown stability in their time periods in recent weeks. Absent from the pickup list: Monday night medical thriller Trauma.
Community, Parks and Recreation and Mercy have been modest performers, but this back-nine order gives the shows some breathing room to potentially improve. NBC, the final broadcaster to order additional episodes of their new shows this fall, also has a limited inventory of scripted content to fill any open slots. The network has Chuck ready, which has been speculated might replace Trauma should NBC pull the medical thriller.
NBC has Parenthood and Day One for set midseason.
October 23rd, 2009 | 0 Comments
To take up some time during her True Blood hiauts, Rutina Wesley will be voicing a character on the Family Guy spinoff. She will voice Yvette, Cleveland’s wife’s best friend. Wesley describes Yvette as “They’ve known each other since they were kids. She has a big butt, big earrings and a real big voice. I love her.”
The episode entitled Ladies Night is set to air on November 15. The episode finds Cleveland upset when he finds out that Donna is still attending a single mothers’ support group.
October 23rd, 2009 | 0 Comments
HBO has renewed In Treatment for a third season. The show will begin production in New York in early 2010 for a premiere later in the year. Gabriel Byrne is set to return as Dr. Paul Weston, with casting on the other roles expected to begin shortly. Anya Epstein and Danny Futterman are joining the therapy-themed drama as executive producers/co-showrunners. That follows the July departure of Warren Leight, who served as executive producer/showrunner on the second season of the show, which earned three Emmy nominations.
Also complicating the pickup decision was the fact the Israeli series on which the HBO show is based only ran for two seasons, so a third season had to be written from scratch.
October 22nd, 2009 | 0 Comments
Bravo has ordered a second season of Top Chef Masters, the spinoff series of Top Chef. Food journalist Kelly Choi returns as host, with restaurant critic Gael Greene, culinary expert James Oseland and critic Jay Rayner as judges. Top Chef regular Gail Simmons will also serve as a judge. The first season rose to become the highest-rated first season of a competition series yet for the network, averaging 2.2 million viewers and 1.5 million adults 18-49.
October 22nd, 2009 | 0 Comments
Sebastian Roche has been cast in a recurring role as a new nemesis. His Fringe character doesn’t have a name yet, but the storyline is that he’s from another dimension, not entirely human or android, and he’s on a mission. He’s a soldier who’s supposed to collect data to open a “stable door to the other side.”
Roche is replacing Thomas Kretschmann, who appeared in the October 8 episode. He wasn’t able to continue in the role because of schedule conflicts.
October 21st, 2009 | 0 Comments
Tonight on Law and Order: SVU, the prime suspect in a child-rape case seeks amnesty by offering to give up the leader of a civil-rights group that supports child-adult sexual relationships. Rosie Perez guest stars.
Watch a preview after the jump.Law and Order: SVU airs tonight on NBC at 9:00 PM/ET.
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