After recently moving Kings to Saturday night, NBC has decided to pull Kings from the schedule. Starting this Saturday, NBC will air reruns of Law & Order: SVU, Southland and Law and Order. The show will return to its Saturday 8 pm slot June 13 and will finish its run through July 25.
NBC is pulling Kings from Sunday nights starting this week. The show will be replaced with a second hour of Dateline, which will now run for two hours starting at 7 pm. Last Sunday’s episode received a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, while Dateline had a 1.5 in its half-hour leading into the drama. The network believes that Dateline will provide a better lead-in for Celebrity Apprentice at 9pm, which has been losing viewers recently.
The remaining eight episodes of “Kings” will air on Saturday nights at 8 p.m. starting April 18.
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NBC is expected to schedule John Wells’ new police drama Southland in the Thursday 10 pm slot following the conclusion of the Wells-produced veteran medical drama ER. The heavily promoted new drama Kings, originally scheduled to air Thursdays at 10 pm, is said to be moving to 8 pm Sundays as a lead-in to The Apprentice. NBC recently greenlighted three additional episodes of ER and picked up six episodes of Southland, fueling speculation that it may keep the 10 pm Thursday slot Wells-branded for the rest of the season .
Emmy winner Brian Cox has been tapped to co-star opposite Katee Sackhoff on the network’s Dick Wolf-produced drama pilot Lost and Found. The hourlong drama centers on Tessa (Katee Sackhoff), an offbeat LAPD detective who, after butting heads with the higher-ups, is sent as a punishment to the basement to work on John Doe and Jane Doe cases. Cox will play Tessa’s fractious partner Burt Macey, a foul-mouthed, racist dinosaur of a cop who does things the old-fashioned way: with blunt force and bigoted rants.
Cox has also landed a major four-episode arc on NBC’s midseason drama series Kings. The show centers on David (Christopher Egan), an idealistic soldier who joins the court of King Silas (Ian McShane), monarch of the modern nation of Gilboa. Cox will play Silas’ nemesis, former King Vesper.
