Television

ABC has ordered two more comedy pilots. The first is an untitled multi-cam with Leslie Odom Jr. set to star and executive produce. Inspired by real life progressive pastors Touré Roberts & Sarah Jakes-Roberts, the show revolves around Omari (Odom Jr.) and Hope, who together run a modern ministry and share an even more eclectic and

February 4, 2019 3:06PM PT Freeform has ordered the planned “Party of Five” reboot to series. In a reimagining of the original series, the new show will focus on the siblings as they struggle to survive as a family after their parents are deported to Mexico. Freeform gave the project a pilot order back in September. The new

February 4, 2019 2:50PM PT “The Walking Dead” has been renewed for Season 10. AMC made the announcement Monday in the form of a video post, which can be viewed below. The renewal comes just under a week ahead of the Season 9 midseason premiere, which will build on the reveal of the comic book

In a personal Instagram post, Sarah Paulson announced that Rosanna Arquette is joining the cast for Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series, “Ratched.” Paulson wrote that there will be a “multi-episode arc for” Arquette, whom she called an “extraordinary actress.” Paulson also said she was affected by Arquette’s statement that she struggled to get jobs after she

Veteran CAA agent Scott Lonker has been named president of Kimmelot, the new media entity created by Jimmy Kimmel and Wheelhouse Entertainment CEO Brent Montgomery. “I have had the dream job at CAA – not just because of our talented, maverick clients, but also because of the incredible team of friends who I’ve been in

February 4, 2019 1:30PM PT HBO is developing the one-hour drama series “Dirty Thirty” from Courtney A. Kemp. Set in present day New York, the project is inspired by a true story of a gang of bad cops operating out of New York’s 30th Precinct in the 1990s. It begins as a story of a

Michael B. Jordan and his Outlier Society Productions banner have signed a first-look television deal at Amazon. As part of the deal, Amazon Studios and Outlier Society projects will contain an inclusion rider, stipulating inclusive and representative hiring for cast and/or crew. “It’s an exciting moment for Outlier Society,” said Jordan. “On behalf of myself

FX Networks CEO John Landgraf is preparing for a big transition in the coming weeks as Disney completes its purchase of 21st Century Fox. Landgraf told the crowd at the winter Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Monday that he expects FX’s mandate to produce distinctive high-end programming stay the same even

The producers behind “Fosse/Verdon” are not concerned that the still-living subjects of their upcoming FX limited series will be so upset over their depiction they will respond with a lawsuit, as Oliva de Havilland did after “Feud: Bette and Joan.” “We’re incredibly careful when we talk about living people and it’s not our desire to

In a different era, Budweiser and Bud Light never needed help during the Super Bowl. So powerful was the beer’s owner, Aneheuser-Busch, that in 1992 its executives pressured CBS to run one of its commercials a second time because family scion August Busch III noticed a technical glitch while watching Super Bowl XXVI from Florida,

February 4, 2019 8:01AM PT Lifetime started 2019 with “Surviving R. Kelly” a docuseries aimed to shine light on violence against women, and inspired by new original movie “I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story,” the next group for which the network wants to advocate is those in the foster care system, Variety has

When the folks behind Disney Junior’s reboot of “Muppet Babies” were asked to build the new show, they wanted not only to introduce a new generation to the wonders that are the Muppets, but to tell meaningful stories that beyond what many shows for preschoolers feature. “When Disney talked to me about the show, I

February 4, 2019 7:53AM PT The early ratings for Super Bowl LIII have the NFL championship at a 10-year low. The low-scoring matchup between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams on CBS averaged a 44.9 rating in metered market households. That is the lowest household rating for a Super Bowl since 2009, with

Kristoff St. John, the actor best-known for portraying Neil Winters on CBS’ long-running daytime soap “The Young and the Restless,” has died. He was 52. His attorney Mark Geragos confirmed the news to Variety. Geragos also posted on Twitter, saying, “Few men had the unique strength, courage & sensitivity that @kristoffstjohn1 lived every single minute of

Movistar+ hit a home-run when the first season of historical-fiction thriller “The Plague” – the most ambitious original series of the most forceful push into high-end series production of any telecom in Europe – bowed in Spain in January 2018 to the best results of any series, aired or available, on the Telefonica-owned pay TV

February 4, 2019 2:22AM PT Hulu has acquired the hit Israeli vampire series “Juda,” as well as U.S. remake rights to the show, from Banijay. The eight-part series was originally produced by the Israeli company United Studios for HOT. It will premiere in U.S. on Hulu early this year. Written by and starring Zion Baruch,

Calling any show “The World’s Best” is a bold move. Calling a reality competition show “The World’s Best” is a veritable gauntlet throw, challenging countless bombastic rivals. But CBS’ new series, which debuted Sunday night after Super Bowl LIII, had some solid reasons to feel confident going into the first episode. It’s the brainchild of

The future is here. And it invaded the nation’s most-watched present. Madison Avenue ladled out visions of days to come in 30- and 60-second increments Sunday night, offering hundreds of millions of Americans watching Super Bowl LIII on CBS a colorful glance of things once meant to arrive in decades that are instead manifesting themselves

“The Twilight Zone” fans got a first taste of what the series’ reboot under Jordan Peele will be like during the Super Bowl, when CBS’ telecast appeared to be glitch out, only for viewers to enter the Twilight Zone. The spot begins with an outside view of the stadium as an announcer narrates, but the

February 3, 2019 4:52PM PT It was two- two! – two ads in one. But one of the commercials was decidedly stronger than the other. HBO and Anheuser-Busch shattered many Super Bowl commercial conventions Sunday night by running a 60-second promo in which the brewer’s famous Bud Knight was killed in violent fashion in a

February 3, 2019 3:46PM PT The long-awaited and much anticipated third season of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is just around the corner, and the streaming service released the first full-length trailer for the new season during a Super Bowl commercial slot Sunday. Hulu provided the first glimpse at what’s in store for Offred on Friday, releasing

The 71st Directors Guild of America Awards are underway. The ceremony, being held on Saturday at the Hollywood & Highland Center’s Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood, honors achievement in film and television. The DGA nominated Alfonso Cuaron for “Roma,” Bradley Cooper for “A Star Is Born,” Spike Lee for “BlacKkKlansman,” Adam McKay for “Vice,” and Peter

In the midst of increasingly competitive streaming wars, PBS used its time at the winter Television Critics Association press tour to declare that the network is confident that it will always have a unique space in the television landscape. Though PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger acknowledged that there is a challenge in “punching through

You’d think Jim Rikhoff would plan a special breakfast or lunch for Sunday, something that will fortify him the whole day. After all, he’s about to lead the media industry’s biggest broadcast of the year. All he wants to have is a few Twizzlers at the ready. “Just red – I’m a purist,” he notes

Spoiler alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched the first season of Netflix’s new series, “Russian Doll.” When I finished “Russian Doll,” I had to remember how to breathe. The show took both me and its shattered characters completely by surprise. What at first looks like a slick hangout comedy built around Natasha Lyonne’s

Kristin Chenoweth, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Charlie Sheen are all vying for the same job on Super Bowl Sunday. Each will try to get it done in a different way. Gellar will display amazing range, going from frightened out of her wits to calm and confident – all in the space of 30 seconds. Chenoweth will

February 1, 2019 7:14PM PT Hulu is apparently the first marketer to, ahem, crack a sponsorship deal with the World Record Egg — the Instagram account that has drawn internet fame for having the most-liked post on the service in a matter of days last month. On Friday, the @world_record_egg account posted an image of

Get ready for a grand ole doc’ry. Country fans have been thirsty for years just to get a release date for, much less see, Ken Burns’ characteristically epic documentary on the genre. A delivery date for “Country Music” was finally provided Friday in PBS’ presentation for the film at the Television Critics Association conference in Pasadena:

Fathom Events isn’t pleased with a Television Academy stipulation that may limit the number of TV properties that appear on its theater screens going forward. As clarified earlier this week via its revised Emmy Rules and Procedures handbook, the Academy will disqualify a program for Emmy eligibility if it is seen in a Fathom theatrical

February 1, 2019 4:04PM PT In today’s TV Roundup, Netflix prepares to launch a special Valentine’s episode of “Big Mouth,” and a number of new actors have been cast in an untitled Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day project set within a video game development studio. FIRST LOOKS Valentine’s Day is coming early, thanks to Netflix and