The latest CBS drama pick-up for 2013-14 comes a bit out of left field: RECKLESS, a legal soap about an illicit romance between a defense attorney (Cam Gigandet) and a prosecutor (Anna Wood) against the background of a police sex scandal. This doesn’t just sound like an ABC show, it sounds like a specific […]
Here it is, your Fall 2013 network TV schedule. Watch this space, because next week we’ll be bringing you night-by-night ratings predictions of which shows will win their hours and which are likely to perish. But for now, peruse the below and figure out what you plan to watch, DVR or ignore starting in […]
CBS was, for the most part, very CBS in its choice of new series for next season, with a pair of spin-offs, some additional procedurals, one retread sitcom and another that fits right into the network’s multi-camera family comedy sweet spot. The biggest surprise was the omission, at least for now, of How I […]
The big news at CBS is that the network is reducing its Monday comedy block to 1 hour, while leaving 2 sitcom hours on Thursday. Consequently, the network is adding only one new half-hour in the fall. (There was no last-minute pick-up for How I Met Your Dad, which until last week was regarded […]
We have a short clip from CW’s midseason series THE 100, about a group of teens returning to a post-apocalyptic Earth. Our heroine, it seems, is Octavia, the rebellious standout in the (as usual for CW, very pretty) group. She also appears to be the only one with a living relative, her brother. The […]
Just a day after NBC announced the end of its Thursday Must-See-TV block of comedies, FOX is breaking up its Animation Domination Sundays with a pair of live-action sitcoms. There are plenty of changes to the FOX line-up on the way, and here’s a quick breakdown: MONDAY: Matching the new Batman prequel GOTHAM with […]
According to Advertising Age, advertisers have begun to buy time on the broadcast networks for the 2014-15 TV season, which is the whole reason the hoopla of the “Upfronts” exists in the first place. There are two basic components to each of these sales (although they can become quite intricate): the rate that buyers […]
THE GOLDBERGS, as it will be described in roughly 10 billion places between now and September, is The Wonder Years set in the 1980s, based on the childhood of series creator Adam F. Goldberg, with Jeff Garlin as gruff but loving dad, Wendi McLendon-Covey as mom, and George Segal as grandpa, who’s losing it […]