CBS is tweaking its summer schedule – moving BrainDead to Sundays at 10/9C. As well, Scorpion airs at 9/8C on Mondays – leading into CBS news coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions – before switching to 10/9C, effective August 1st. Follow the jump to see how these changes play out on the actual CBS […]
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American Gothic, BrainDead Lead CBS’ Summer Premieres!
BrainDead – a sci-fi/political comedy/thriller from the creators of The Good Wife – and American Gothic – a murderously suspenseful new thriller – make their debuts in June on CBS. Long-running Big Brother returns with three (count em! three!) weekly episodes following a two-hour premiere, and season two of ZOO opens with a two-hour premiere – […]
Emmy Award Winning Actor Tony Shalhoub Joins Cast of BrainDead!
Tony Shalhoub – three-time winner of the Primetime Emmy Award for his portrayal of Adrian Monk on the long-running USA Network hit Monk – has joined the cast of CBS’ upcoming summer comic-thriller, BrainDead. Shalhoub will play Red Wheatus, a fun-loving, hard-drinking Republican senator with twenty years of deal-making experience who undergoes a radical ideological […]
Tony Award Winner Nikki M. James Joins BrainDead Cast!
CBS’ summer series BrainDead has added Tony Award-winning actress Nikki M. James to its cast. James will play a medical resident whose father died from a mysterious infection that is plaguing DC in the comic-thriller. BrainDead stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Tveit and comes from the creators of The Good Wife, Robert and Michelle […]
Graceland’s Aaron Tveit To Star In CBS’ BrainDead!
Graceland’s Aaron Tveit has been cast as the male lead in CBS’ upcoming summer series BrainDead. In the series, he will play a ‘Republican operative whose wit is only trumped by his pragmatism’ and will work with Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s character to save the world from an insidious alien invasion in which the aliens have […]
Amazon-CBS Deal Gives Prime Subscribers Access To Summer Series!
Amazon and CBS have announced a multi-year, multi-series content deal that will give Amazon Prime subscribers unlimited access to CBS summer series – including three new summer shows beginning with BrainDead, the comic thriller from the creators of The Good Wife that is planned for a Summer 2016 premiere. Prime subscribers will be able to […]
Mary Elizabeth Winstead To Star In 2016 Summer Series Braindead!
Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been cast as the lead in CBS’ 2016 summer season Braindead. Created by The Good Wife’s Robert and Michelle King, Braindead is described as ‘a new comic-thriller set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics.’ Winstead will play a documentary filmmaker who is pulled back into the family business when her brother, […]
The Good Wife Showrunners Sell Comedy-Thriller To CBS!
The creators of The Good Wife, Robert and Michelle King, have sold a comedy-thriller call BrainDead to CBS. The network has ordered BrainDead stright-to-series with a 13-episode order. “BrainDead” follows a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer getting her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn […]