AMERICAN CRIME: Sunday 9PM Midseason on ABC THE FACTS: John Ridley, this year’s Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner for 12 Years A Slave, has written a serialized crime drama very specifically about race, in which a Latino teen is arrested for the murder of the son of Timothy Hutton and Felicity Huffman. WHAT IT’S […]
MANHATTAN LOVE STORY: Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC starting September 30 – Change the Channel PLAYERS: Series creator Jeff Lowell, who’s been a writer/producer on sitcoms going back to Cybill two decades ago, but who’s creating a series himself for the first time. Stars Jake McDorman and Analeigh Tipton. Pilot director Michael Fresco. Brillstein Entertainment […]
MULANEY: Sunday 9:30PM on FOX THE FACTS: John Mulaney, in real life a stand-up comic and TV comedy writer (most notably on SNL, where his biggest claim to fame may be co-creating Bill Hader’s Stefon character), plays one in the sitcom he created for himself, too. His TV show boss is Martin Short, and […]
After last night’s atrocious 0.9/0.7 pairing, it was clear that the writing on the wall for NBC’s BAD JUDGE and A TO Z was scrawled in blood. The network chose Halloween afternoon to announce the burials. Those very few who enjoyed the shows needn’t start weeping just yet, though: since The Blacklist was already […]
Last week, the glamorous part of the network “Upfronts” took place, largely for viewer and media purposes: hordes of new shows were announced, stars were trotted out, executives madly spun this past season’s numbers so that every decline looked like a triumph, gala parties were held. This week, however, the real Upfronts kick into […]
SECRETS AND LIES: Midseason TBD on ABC THE FACTS: Another ABC murder soap, this one starring Ryan Phillippe as a man who finds the body of a neighbor’s child in the woods, KaDee Strickland as his wife, and Juliette Lewis as the homicide detective who thinks he’s the killer. It’s based on an Australian […]
Other Nielsenwar Network Report Cards: NBC One massive hit can make up for an awful lot of failure. Have you met EMPIRE? Full Season To Date (thru May 3) 18-49 Rating Average: 1.53 (#4), down 26.2% from last season (Note: FOX aired the Super Bowl in 2014-15; with that excluded, the year-to-year drop was […]
GRACEPOINT: Thursday 9PM on FOX starting October 2 – Potential DVR Alert PLAYERS: Broadchurch, the wildly successful limited (and now continuing) British TV series, of which Gracepoint is a remake. Broadchurch returnees, including series creator Chris Chibnall, director James Strong and star David Tennant. A cast surrounding Tennant that includes Anna Gunn, Nick Nolte, […]