The Player (Thursdays, 10/9C) is NBC’s latest ludicrous crime show – like The Blacklist and this season’s other off-the-wall series Blindspot it’s meant to be an action-packed hour that takes an almost reasonable sounding premise and blow it up for our entertainment. Ludicrous, I might add, does not mean bad – The Blacklist is one […]
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FX Kicks Out The Jams With Second Season Order of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll will return for more rock & roll comedy and excellent music. FX has renewed the show for a 10-episode second season. For details and Leary’s response to the news, follow th jump.
Limitless Premiere Takes Top Spot In Tuesday Ratings!
Limitless premiered to Tuesday night’s top ratings with the most viewers for a new series – 9.76 and a 1.8 on the 18-49 demographic, building on its NCIS: New Orleans lead-in. NCIS won the overall for butts in seats/eyes on the tube battle with 17.69 viewers. Follow the jump for more.
Rosewood: Chestnut and Ortiz Rise Above the Material!
FOX’s Rosewood (Wednesday, 8/7) is a procedural teaming a ‘private pathologist’ with a Miami detective. Do they solve crimes? Damn Skippy! Does the show work? Well, the pilot suggests possibilities – mostly variations on buddy/cop shows where the partners start off not getting along but having chemistry – but despite the potential for clichés, the […]
Bravo Media Greenlights Two Scripted Pilots!
Bravo Media has greenlighted pilots for two new scripted series – My So Called Wife and True Fiction. My So Called Wife follows a female con artist with a matrimonial bent and is written and co-executive produced by Adam Brooks (Definitely, Maybe) and Paul Adelstein (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce). True Fiction follows a writer-turned-university-professor who […]
Stitchers’ Halloween Epsiode Finds Heroine Haunted – By a Stitch!
One of the best parts of ABC Family’s 13 Nights of Halloween is the holiday themed episode of one of its hit shows. For 2015 that show is Stitchers. In When Darkness Falls, Kirsten begins to think she’s being haunted by the subject of the team’s latest stitch as they look for a missing college […]
Mila Kunis & Rob Zombie Sell Horror/Comedy To Starz!
Mila Kunis and Rob Zombie have sold a half-hour horror-comedy series to Starz. They will executive produce Trapped – a series created and written by Joey Slamon (Arrested Development, Those Who Can’t). What kind of series would Mila Kunis and Rob Zombie work on? (I hear you ask…) Follow the jump for details.
CuriosityStream Launches Roku® Channel!
Subscription-based nonfiction streaming service CuriosityStream has launched a Roku® channel. The service provides high-quality programming from the world’s best documentary filmmakers, with an eye to providing entertainment, education and inspiration. Follow the jump for further details.
Limitless – CBS’ Sequel Series Is Unlimited Fun!
Limitless (CBS, Tuesdays, 10/9C) follows up on the events of the movie of the same name, which starred Bradley Cooper as Edward Mora, a man who discovered the mindbending properties of a drug called NZT. Mindbending because it enabled him to use his brain’s full capacity. In the series premiere, down and out musician Brian […]
Scream Queens: High School May Hell But College Is a Killer!
There’s a serial killer on the Wallace University campus and he/she/it is targeting the sisters of Kappa Kappa Tau – as is the school’s Dean Munsch, though in a completely different way. Scream Queens (FOX, Tuesday 8/7) is almost as funny and as horrific as it thinks it is, but it’s still hugely entertaining as it […]
NCIS: Season of Change for Gibbs!
NCIS (CBS, Tuesdays, 8/7C) opens its thirteenth season (!) with the conclusion of the 12th season’s cliffhanger conclusion. In Iraq, chasing down leads on terrorist organization The Calling, NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs had just been shot by the boy he had tried to befriend.