Reba McEntire is returning to the sitcom world — and reuniting with the team behind her last two comedies as well. NBC has given a pilot order to an untitled multi-camera comedy starring McEntire, who will also executive produce.
The show, from Universal Studio Group’s Universal TV division, stars McEntire as a woman who “inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.” Kevin Abbott is the writer and exec producer, while Michael Hanel, Mindy Schultheis and Julie Abbott are non-writing exec producers.
It’s a reunion for most of the group, who previously worked together on McEntire’s signature series for The WB, “Reba,” as well as her follow-up sitcom for ABC, “Malibu Country.” Hanel and Schultheis were exec producers for the entire run of “Reba,” while Abbott joined after the...
The show, from Universal Studio Group’s Universal TV division, stars McEntire as a woman who “inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.” Kevin Abbott is the writer and exec producer, while Michael Hanel, Mindy Schultheis and Julie Abbott are non-writing exec producers.
It’s a reunion for most of the group, who previously worked together on McEntire’s signature series for The WB, “Reba,” as well as her follow-up sitcom for ABC, “Malibu Country.” Hanel and Schultheis were exec producers for the entire run of “Reba,” while Abbott joined after the...
- 1/30/2024
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Since its debut on CBS on September 11, 1967, there was something distinctively special about "The Carol Burnett Show." This sketch comedy series spanned 279 episodes during its initial run, featuring acclaimed performances and comedic skits that were witty, sharp, and heavy on detail. Every actor who was a part of the show slipped into the shoes of a variety of characters that still remain memorable, including Carol Burnett's Charwoman (her signature role), and her parody of silent-film actress Nora Desmond. Some sketches were parodies of classic films such as "Gone With The Wind" or "Sunset Boulevard," while others mimicked soap opera structures or commercial spoofs.
By 1977, the popularity of the show had spiked, leading to some of the outstanding sketches being re-edited into standalone programs compiled in "Carol Burnett and Friends," which mashed the best skits into half-hour episodes. While the show relied on guest stars such as Jim Nabors and...
By 1977, the popularity of the show had spiked, leading to some of the outstanding sketches being re-edited into standalone programs compiled in "Carol Burnett and Friends," which mashed the best skits into half-hour episodes. While the show relied on guest stars such as Jim Nabors and...
- 10/24/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
As passionate fans of “The Masked Singer,” Gold Derby’s editors would like to offer our condolences to the friends and family of the celebrities who’ve passed away through the years. Fox’s wild and wacky reality TV show tasks famous faces with dressing up in extravagant costumes and singing for audience votes. The regular panelists are Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger, though special guest judges also pop up from time to time, including the late Leslie Jordan.
To honor the memories of the show’s fallen stars, tour our “The Masked Singer” deaths photo gallery above (or click here for direct access) that remembers all of the contestants we’ve lost.
See ‘The Masked Singer’: Most famous celebrities of all time
Jerry Springer as Beetle
February 13, 1944 – April 27, 2023 (age 79)
Though he initially rose to fame thanks to his self-titled daytime talk show, which...
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Jerry Springer as Beetle
February 13, 1944 – April 27, 2023 (age 79)
Though he initially rose to fame thanks to his self-titled daytime talk show, which...
- 4/27/2023
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
“The Masked Singer” staple Ken Jeong is set to lead a new Fox single-cam sitcom based on Dan Harris’ popular book and podcast “10% Happier,” Variety has learned.
Hailing from Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment, the comedy, which has a script-to-series commitment at the broadcaster, the centers on a family man and mid-level juice company executive who finds himself in a major life rut. After a panic attack at work, he has an epiphany where he realizes he needs to change everything about the way he lives in order to become…”10% Happier.”
Apple’s “Acapulco” and Fox’s “The Cool Kids” writers and producers Michael Lisbe and Nate Reger are penning the script and executive producing alongside Jeong, author Harris, Brett Carducci and The Tannenbaum Company’s Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Jason Wang.
Fox most recently ordered the medical drama “Doc,” based on an Italian format. The broadcaster also has...
Hailing from Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment, the comedy, which has a script-to-series commitment at the broadcaster, the centers on a family man and mid-level juice company executive who finds himself in a major life rut. After a panic attack at work, he has an epiphany where he realizes he needs to change everything about the way he lives in order to become…”10% Happier.”
Apple’s “Acapulco” and Fox’s “The Cool Kids” writers and producers Michael Lisbe and Nate Reger are penning the script and executive producing alongside Jeong, author Harris, Brett Carducci and The Tannenbaum Company’s Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Jason Wang.
Fox most recently ordered the medical drama “Doc,” based on an Italian format. The broadcaster also has...
- 4/5/2023
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
David Alan Grier is the latest sitcom vet to scrub in at St. Denis Medical, NBC’s mockumentary comedy pilot.
Written by Justin Spitzer and Eric Leding (the duo behind American Auto and Superstore), St. Denis Medical follows doctors and nurses in an underfunded Oregon hospital as they juggle trying to help patients while holding on to their own sanity.
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Written by Justin Spitzer and Eric Leding (the duo behind American Auto and Superstore), St. Denis Medical follows doctors and nurses in an underfunded Oregon hospital as they juggle trying to help patients while holding on to their own sanity.
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- 3/29/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Actor and comedian Leslie Jordan died of sudden cardiac dysfunction, it was confirmed on Thursday.
According to the coroner’s report, Jordan was was taking heart medication, specifically for severely clogged arteries.
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When Jordan’s death was first reported on Oct. 24, he was suspected to have suffered some sort of medical emergency while driving, then crashed his car into the side of a building.
According to the coroner’s report, Jordan was was taking heart medication, specifically for severely clogged arteries.
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When Jordan’s death was first reported on Oct. 24, he was suspected to have suffered some sort of medical emergency while driving, then crashed his car into the side of a building.
- 1/20/2023
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
Remember when rock stars were flamboyant, excessive, larger-than-life libertines? Neither do we, but Måneskin want to jog everyone’s recall. Rush!, the third album by these former Eurovision winners and would-be rock saviors from Rome, works hard at living up to the exclamation point in its title. If we’re to believe them, Måneskin’s world is one wicked bacchanalia after another, where weed, beer, cocaine and “hot chicks” are all readily available and lead singer Damiano David is, in his words, “a lion tamer/of indecent behavior/making love with danger.
- 1/17/2023
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Call Me Kat will say goodbye to Phil, played by Leslie Jordan, next month.
Fox announced this week that the special episode will air Thursday, December 1 at 9:30/8:30c.
Deadline revealed Thursday that Jordan's former Cool Kids castmate Vicki Lawrence will appear in an upcoming episode as Phil's mother, Lurlene Crumpler.
“We know the spirit of Phil will certainly be with her,” executive producer Jim Patterson tells Deadline.
“It’s going to be fun to have that character doing some of the same in-jokes we did when Phil was there."
Lawrence is set to appear in one episode at this stage but could appear in more episodes down the line.
News of Jordan's final episode comes just weeks after the tragic news of his passing following a car accident.
“There aren’t words to convey the loss we are experiencing as a cast and a Call Me Kat family.
Fox announced this week that the special episode will air Thursday, December 1 at 9:30/8:30c.
Deadline revealed Thursday that Jordan's former Cool Kids castmate Vicki Lawrence will appear in an upcoming episode as Phil's mother, Lurlene Crumpler.
“We know the spirit of Phil will certainly be with her,” executive producer Jim Patterson tells Deadline.
“It’s going to be fun to have that character doing some of the same in-jokes we did when Phil was there."
Lawrence is set to appear in one episode at this stage but could appear in more episodes down the line.
News of Jordan's final episode comes just weeks after the tragic news of his passing following a car accident.
“There aren’t words to convey the loss we are experiencing as a cast and a Call Me Kat family.
- 11/18/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Fox has confirmed that Leslie Jordan‘s final episode of Call Me Kat will air on Thursday, December 1, and it will feature Emmy Award winner Vicki Lawrence in a special guest role. Jordan, who sadly passed away on October 24 in a car accident, starred in the hit sitcom as Phil, a newly single gay man who works as the head baker at Kat’s café. The show will officially say goodbye to Phil in the upcoming episode, where, according to Deadline, Jordan’s former The Cool Kids castmate, Lawrence, will play Phil’s mother, Lurlene Crumpler. Described as “no-nonsense,” Lurlene will fill in for her son at Kat’s café while he is “on vacation.” While Lawrence is only slated to appear in one episode, for now, executive producer Jim Patterson has hinted that the door has been left open for a potential return down the line. “We know the...
- 11/18/2022
- TV Insider
Call Me Kat fans will see the last of Phil when Fox airs the late Leslie Jordan‘s final episode on Thursday, Dec. 1 (at 9:30/8:30c).
Additionally, Deadline reports that Jordan’s former Cool Kids castmate, Emmy Award winner Vicki Lawrence, will appear in an upcoming episode as Phil’s mother Lurlene Crumpler. The “no-nonsense” Lurlene fills in as the cafe’s baker while her sweet-as-cherry-pie son is “on vacation.”
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Additionally, Deadline reports that Jordan’s former Cool Kids castmate, Emmy Award winner Vicki Lawrence, will appear in an upcoming episode as Phil’s mother Lurlene Crumpler. The “no-nonsense” Lurlene fills in as the cafe’s baker while her sweet-as-cherry-pie son is “on vacation.”
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- 11/17/2022
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Emmy Award-winner Vicki Lawrence is set to guest star in an upcoming episode of Fox’s Call Me Kat‘s third season.
Following the death of series regular Leslie Jordan, who Lawrence co-starred alongside in Fox’s The Cool Kids, she will portray his character Phil’s mother Lurlene Crumpler. Lurlene is a no-nonsense woman who fills in as the cafe’s baker while he’s on vacation.
“Leslie’s death absolutely affected the storylines,” series executive producer Maria Ferrari revealed to Deadline. “We can exclusively confirm that Phil’s mother will be featured in an episode that we’re shooting right now. We cast Leslie’s friend Vicki Lawrence in the role.”
Added executive producer Jim Patterson, “The first person we thought of to play his mom— who is a character in and of herself— was Vicki Lawrence. They had that Cool...
Following the death of series regular Leslie Jordan, who Lawrence co-starred alongside in Fox’s The Cool Kids, she will portray his character Phil’s mother Lurlene Crumpler. Lurlene is a no-nonsense woman who fills in as the cafe’s baker while he’s on vacation.
“Leslie’s death absolutely affected the storylines,” series executive producer Maria Ferrari revealed to Deadline. “We can exclusively confirm that Phil’s mother will be featured in an episode that we’re shooting right now. We cast Leslie’s friend Vicki Lawrence in the role.”
Added executive producer Jim Patterson, “The first person we thought of to play his mom— who is a character in and of herself— was Vicki Lawrence. They had that Cool...
- 11/17/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is working on a new single-camera comedy, Dumped, from writer Heather Flanders (Mixed-ish), director Liz Friedlander (The Rookie), manager-producer Robyn Meisinger (Love in the Time of Corona), and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. According to Deadline, the streamer has opened up a writers room for the show, which is part of the Netflix development process as it does not do pilots. Dumped remains in development with an eye toward a potential straight-to-series order. The half-hour comedy revolves around a hopeless romantic and her best friends who find themselves playing amateur detectives when they investigate her recent ex. This snooping soon sends the group of friends falling down a rabbit hole of lies, deceit, and danger. Flanders, known for her work on Paramount+’s iCarly, ABC’s Mixed-ish, and Fox’s The Cool Kids, wrote the script on spec before Meisinger brought it to Kapital, who attached Friedlander as director.
- 6/7/2022
- TV Insider
Exclusive: Netflix is opening a writers room for Dumped, a single-camera comedy from writer Heather Flanders, director Liz Friedlander, manager-producer Robyn Meisinger and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, sources tell Deadline. This is part of the streamer’s development process since Netflix does not do pilots, even on the comedy side, so Dumped remains in development with an eye toward a potential straight-to-series order. A rep for Netflix declined comment.
Dumped (A Love Story) is a half-hour comedy about a hopeless romantic and her best friends who become amateur detectives when they investigate her recent ex, only to fall down a rabbit hole of lies, deceit and danger.
The project, in the popular serialized comedy-mystery genre, originated as a spec script by Flanders. Meisinger brought the project to Kapital and developed it with the company, which attached top TV director Friedlander, who was EP/director on the first season of...
Dumped (A Love Story) is a half-hour comedy about a hopeless romantic and her best friends who become amateur detectives when they investigate her recent ex, only to fall down a rabbit hole of lies, deceit and danger.
The project, in the popular serialized comedy-mystery genre, originated as a spec script by Flanders. Meisinger brought the project to Kapital and developed it with the company, which attached top TV director Friedlander, who was EP/director on the first season of...
- 6/6/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: CBS has taken in for development Fulfilled, a multi-camera workplace comedy, from writer Morgan Lehmann (Bless This Mess), Eric and Kim Tannenbaum’s The Tannenbaum Company (Two and a Half Men), and Lionsgate TV, where The Tannenbaum Co. is under a deal.
Written by Lehmann, Fulfilled is an ensemble comedy that is an honest exploration of the underpaid workers at the Rockford, Il fulfillment center and the absurd micromanagement they face to pack and ship the salad tongs you ordered drunk at 2 Am.
Lehmann executive produces with Erik and Kim Tannenbaum and Jason Wang for The Tannenbaum Co. Rob Rosell executive produces and will serve as supervisor. Lionsgate Television in association with The Tannenbaum Co. is the studio.
Lehmann began her career as a production assistant at 2 Broke Girls shortly after moving to Los Angeles from her home in small-town Minnesota. An...
Written by Lehmann, Fulfilled is an ensemble comedy that is an honest exploration of the underpaid workers at the Rockford, Il fulfillment center and the absurd micromanagement they face to pack and ship the salad tongs you ordered drunk at 2 Am.
Lehmann executive produces with Erik and Kim Tannenbaum and Jason Wang for The Tannenbaum Co. Rob Rosell executive produces and will serve as supervisor. Lionsgate Television in association with The Tannenbaum Co. is the studio.
Lehmann began her career as a production assistant at 2 Broke Girls shortly after moving to Los Angeles from her home in small-town Minnesota. An...
- 11/19/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about dozens of shows including Seal Team, Insecure, The Good Doctor and American Crime Story!
1 | On Saturday Night Live, did the way Jason Sudeikis’ Satan joked about hacking Michael Che make you laugh or cringe? And with Kieran Culkin set as the next host and Nicholas Braun’s cameo this weekend suggesting the Succession cast-at-large is handy in New York, dare we hope for a Family Feud sketch pitting the Roys against either the Kardashians or,...
1 | On Saturday Night Live, did the way Jason Sudeikis’ Satan joked about hacking Michael Che make you laugh or cringe? And with Kieran Culkin set as the next host and Nicholas Braun’s cameo this weekend suggesting the Succession cast-at-large is handy in New York, dare we hope for a Family Feud sketch pitting the Roys against either the Kardashians or,...
- 10/29/2021
- by Vlada Gelman, Matt Webb Mitovich, Kimberly Roots, Dave Nemetz, Rebecca Iannucci, Ryan Schwartz, Nick Caruso, Mekeisha Madden Toby, Keisha Hatchett and Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: A Soldier’s Play, which is heading into Sunday’s Tony Awards with seven nominations, is getting a TV adaptation as a limited series by Sony Pictures Television. David Alan Grier, a Tony nominee for his role in the play, is set to star and executive produce the limited series, which will be titled A Soldier’s Story.
The series adaptation, spanning multiple wars and several decades, will center on Sgt. Vernon Waters and the emotional impact he is subjected to as a soldier in the 1940s. Grier, who plays Sgt. Waters in the play, will play the character’s father in the limited series.
The Pulitzer-winning A Soldier’s Play, written Charles Fuller, is set at a Black army base in the segregated Louisiana of 1944. Sergeant Waters – played on Broadway by Grier in a production directed by Kenny Leon – has been murdered, and Army captain Davenport – played by Blair Underwood...
The series adaptation, spanning multiple wars and several decades, will center on Sgt. Vernon Waters and the emotional impact he is subjected to as a soldier in the 1940s. Grier, who plays Sgt. Waters in the play, will play the character’s father in the limited series.
The Pulitzer-winning A Soldier’s Play, written Charles Fuller, is set at a Black army base in the segregated Louisiana of 1944. Sergeant Waters – played on Broadway by Grier in a production directed by Kenny Leon – has been murdered, and Army captain Davenport – played by Blair Underwood...
- 9/23/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
David Alan Grier (Coffee and Kareem), Julianna Guill, Sharon Lawrence, Mustafa Speaks, Paul Sparks, Skywalker Hughes and Kamryn Pliva are set as series regulars in Joe Pickett, Spectrum Originals’ hourlong drama series based on C.J. Box’s bestselling novels. They join Michael Dorman, who stars as the title character in the series, from Waco creators John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, Paramount Television Studios and Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher’s Red Wagon Entertainment.
Joe Pickett follows a game warden (Dorman) and his family as they navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered. The series will air...
Joe Pickett follows a game warden (Dorman) and his family as they navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered. The series will air...
- 4/19/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Punam Patel, who starred in Netflix comedy Special, and Matt Rogers, host of HBO Max’s dog-grooming competition series Haute Dog, have joined I Love This for You, Showtime’s comedy pilot written by and starring Vanessa Bayer.
If picked up to series, the pair would appear as series regulars. Cybill Shepherd, Molly Shannon, Ayden Mayeri and Paul James also star.
Co-created and executive produced by Bayer and Jeremy Beiler (Saturday Night Live), I Love This for You is a grounded comedy in which Bayer plays a character, inspired by her own past, who overcame childhood leukemia to achieve her lifelong dream of landing a job as a successful home-shopping channel host.
Patel will play Tami, an offbeat backstage producer, while Rogers will play Darcy, the ingratiating right-hand man to the CEO of a home-shopping network.
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If picked up to series, the pair would appear as series regulars. Cybill Shepherd, Molly Shannon, Ayden Mayeri and Paul James also star.
Co-created and executive produced by Bayer and Jeremy Beiler (Saturday Night Live), I Love This for You is a grounded comedy in which Bayer plays a character, inspired by her own past, who overcame childhood leukemia to achieve her lifelong dream of landing a job as a successful home-shopping channel host.
Patel will play Tami, an offbeat backstage producer, while Rogers will play Darcy, the ingratiating right-hand man to the CEO of a home-shopping network.
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- 1/25/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The fog of reruns from the 2020 holidays has lifted. On Sunday night, networks returned to their regularly scheduled programming (more or less) with a combination of new shows and the return of some favorites.
One of the only programs that didn’t take a holiday break was NBC’s Sunday Night Football, which held steady with last week delivering a 3.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 13.77 million viewers who watched Washington beat Philadelphia and secure a postseason berth in the regular-season finale.
The SNF numbers are likely to be adjusted in finals, with NFL overrun also impacting programming on CBS and Fox.
Fox started the new year with the series premiere of Call Me Kat starring Mayim Bialik, which did Ok. Boosted by an outsized NFL lead-in, the comedy topped the evening in non-nfl fare in early Nielsen Live+Same Day numbers, for now making it the best...
One of the only programs that didn’t take a holiday break was NBC’s Sunday Night Football, which held steady with last week delivering a 3.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 13.77 million viewers who watched Washington beat Philadelphia and secure a postseason berth in the regular-season finale.
The SNF numbers are likely to be adjusted in finals, with NFL overrun also impacting programming on CBS and Fox.
Fox started the new year with the series premiere of Call Me Kat starring Mayim Bialik, which did Ok. Boosted by an outsized NFL lead-in, the comedy topped the evening in non-nfl fare in early Nielsen Live+Same Day numbers, for now making it the best...
- 1/4/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Leslie Jordan is reaching for his sponge and rubber gloves.
The legendary TV actor has signed on to host “Squeaky Clean,” a cleaning competition series in the pipeline at Quibi, Variety has learned exclusively.
“Squeaky Clean” will pit three cleaning-obsessed contestants against each other in two competitive rounds – “Quick Scrub” and “The Big Clean” – from shiniest floor in studio competition history. Jordan will be joined in the show by lifestyle host and designer Sabrina Soto, who will serve as the resident cleaning and organization expert, appearing in every episode alongside a celebrity judge.
The show is being produced by Shine TV and 51 Minds Entertainment. Executive producers for the series are Christian Sarabia, Dean Houser and Nicole Elliott for 51 Minds Entertainment, and Tanya Shaw for Shine TV.
Jordan is arguably best known for playing Beverley Leslie across multiple seasons of “Will & Grace,” winning an Emmy for the role back...
The legendary TV actor has signed on to host “Squeaky Clean,” a cleaning competition series in the pipeline at Quibi, Variety has learned exclusively.
“Squeaky Clean” will pit three cleaning-obsessed contestants against each other in two competitive rounds – “Quick Scrub” and “The Big Clean” – from shiniest floor in studio competition history. Jordan will be joined in the show by lifestyle host and designer Sabrina Soto, who will serve as the resident cleaning and organization expert, appearing in every episode alongside a celebrity judge.
The show is being produced by Shine TV and 51 Minds Entertainment. Executive producers for the series are Christian Sarabia, Dean Houser and Nicole Elliott for 51 Minds Entertainment, and Tanya Shaw for Shine TV.
Jordan is arguably best known for playing Beverley Leslie across multiple seasons of “Will & Grace,” winning an Emmy for the role back...
- 10/6/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
There is great news afoot, and you might not even know it.
ShoutFactory TV has worked together with Carol Burnett to get the full series of The Carol Burnett Show ready for streaming, and you can now watch every episode that was ever made.
A celebration is in order, and to help with that, we had a chance to chat with Vicki Lawrence about the release and so much more.
If you're unfamiliar with Vicki Lawrence, well, shame on you! But even if her name isn't familiar, I can guarantee you've seen her work.
She began starring on The Carol Burnett Show at 18. She was hired after a letter she sent during her senior year of high school prompted Carol to visit Vicki on the evening she participated in the Miss Fireball pageant because their similarity was uncanny.
Best known for her roles as Burnett's sister Chrissie and Thelma Harper...
ShoutFactory TV has worked together with Carol Burnett to get the full series of The Carol Burnett Show ready for streaming, and you can now watch every episode that was ever made.
A celebration is in order, and to help with that, we had a chance to chat with Vicki Lawrence about the release and so much more.
If you're unfamiliar with Vicki Lawrence, well, shame on you! But even if her name isn't familiar, I can guarantee you've seen her work.
She began starring on The Carol Burnett Show at 18. She was hired after a letter she sent during her senior year of high school prompted Carol to visit Vicki on the evening she participated in the Miss Fireball pageant because their similarity was uncanny.
Best known for her roles as Burnett's sister Chrissie and Thelma Harper...
- 6/4/2020
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
In today’s TV news roundup, Quibi released the official trailer for “Nikki Fre$h” and Leslie Jordan has been cast as a series regular on “Call Me Kat.”
Casting
Leslie Jordan has joined the cast of “Call Me Kat” as a series regular. Jordan will play Phil, who works for Kat (Mayim Bialik) and bakes all the pastries at the Cat Cafe. Kat is helping Phil get a new lease on life after his recent breakup with his longtime partner. The role brings Jordan back to Fox, as he previously starred in the multi-cam comedy “The Cool Kids” for the network. The half hour series is executive produced by Darlene Hunt, Bialik, Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak, Angie Stephenson and Miranda Hart.
Dates
AMC has announced Season 2 of “NOS4A2” will premiere on Monday, June 1 at 10 p.m. Et/ 7 p.m. Pt. The second season picks up eight years after the...
Casting
Leslie Jordan has joined the cast of “Call Me Kat” as a series regular. Jordan will play Phil, who works for Kat (Mayim Bialik) and bakes all the pastries at the Cat Cafe. Kat is helping Phil get a new lease on life after his recent breakup with his longtime partner. The role brings Jordan back to Fox, as he previously starred in the multi-cam comedy “The Cool Kids” for the network. The half hour series is executive produced by Darlene Hunt, Bialik, Jim Parsons, Todd Spiewak, Angie Stephenson and Miranda Hart.
Dates
AMC has announced Season 2 of “NOS4A2” will premiere on Monday, June 1 at 10 p.m. Et/ 7 p.m. Pt. The second season picks up eight years after the...
- 4/2/2020
- by Klaritza Rico
- Variety Film + TV
Former The Cool Kids star Leslie Jordan is returning to Fox as a series regular opposite Mayim Bialik in Call Me Kat (fka Carla), the network’s multi-camera straight-to-series comedy, from The Big Bang Theory alums Bialik and Jim Parsons and Warner Bros. TV. Jordan also joins Swoosie Kurtz, Kyla Pratt and Cheyenne Jackson in the project based on Miranda Hart’s BBC series Miranda.
Written by Darlene Hunt, Call Me Kat centers around Kat (Bialik), a 39-year-old woman who struggles every day against society and her mother Sheila (Kurtz) to prove that you Cannot have everything you want — and still be happy. Which is why she spent the money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a Cat Café in Louisville, Ky.
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Written by Darlene Hunt, Call Me Kat centers around Kat (Bialik), a 39-year-old woman who struggles every day against society and her mother Sheila (Kurtz) to prove that you Cannot have everything you want — and still be happy. Which is why she spent the money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a Cat Café in Louisville, Ky.
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- 4/2/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Leslie Jordan has been cast in Fox’s “Call Me Kat” half-hour, multi-camera comedy pilot, which currently has a series commitment at the broadcast network.
He joins Mayim Bialik, who plays the title character, Kat, “a 39-year-old woman who struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that you can Not have everything you want — and still be happy. Which is why she spent her life savings to open a Cat Café in Louisville, Kentucky.”
Jordan will play Phil, who works for Kat and bakes all the pastries at the cat cafe. According to Fox, “Kat is helping Phil get a new lease on life after his recent breakup with his longtime partner.”
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He joins Mayim Bialik, who plays the title character, Kat, “a 39-year-old woman who struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that you can Not have everything you want — and still be happy. Which is why she spent her life savings to open a Cat Café in Louisville, Kentucky.”
Jordan will play Phil, who works for Kat and bakes all the pastries at the cat cafe. According to Fox, “Kat is helping Phil get a new lease on life after his recent breakup with his longtime partner.”
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- 4/2/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Leslie Jordan has found the purr-fect next role on Fox’s upcoming Call Me Kat., TVLine has learned.
The show follows Kat (played by The Big Bang Theory‘s Mayim Bialik), a 39-year-old woman who struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that you can not have everything you want and still be happy. That’s why she spent the money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a cat café in Louisville, Kentucky.
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The show follows Kat (played by The Big Bang Theory‘s Mayim Bialik), a 39-year-old woman who struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that you can not have everything you want and still be happy. That’s why she spent the money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a cat café in Louisville, Kentucky.
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- 4/2/2020
- TVLine.com
Below, you'll find a list of Fox's recent/current/upcoming primetime TV shows and their current status. To see a series' ratings (if any), click the links in the middle column.
The shows include 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Almost Family, Beat Shazam, BH90210, Big Bounce Battle, Bless the Harts, Bob's Burgers, Call Me Kat, The Cool Kids, Cosmos, Deputy, Duncanville, Empire, Family Guy, Filthy Rich, First Responders Live, Flirty Dancing, The Four: Battle for Stardom, The Gifted, Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, Gotham, The Great North, Hell's Kitchen, Housebroken, Hypnotize Me, I Can See Your Voice, Last Man Standing, Lego Masters, Lethal Weapon, Paradise Hotel, The Passage, The Masked Dancer, The Masked Singer, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, Mental Samurai, The Moodys, neXt, The Orville, Outmatched, The Passage, Phenoms, Proven Innocent, The Resident, The Simpsons, So You Think You Can Dance, Spin the Wheel, Star,...
The shows include 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Almost Family, Beat Shazam, BH90210, Big Bounce Battle, Bless the Harts, Bob's Burgers, Call Me Kat, The Cool Kids, Cosmos, Deputy, Duncanville, Empire, Family Guy, Filthy Rich, First Responders Live, Flirty Dancing, The Four: Battle for Stardom, The Gifted, Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, Gotham, The Great North, Hell's Kitchen, Housebroken, Hypnotize Me, I Can See Your Voice, Last Man Standing, Lego Masters, Lethal Weapon, Paradise Hotel, The Passage, The Masked Dancer, The Masked Singer, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, Mental Samurai, The Moodys, neXt, The Orville, Outmatched, The Passage, Phenoms, Proven Innocent, The Resident, The Simpsons, So You Think You Can Dance, Spin the Wheel, Star,...
- 3/10/2020
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Exclusive: David Alan Grier has been tapped as a lead opposite Hunter King in Prospect, ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer; director-producer Randall Einhorn; and ABC Studios.
Written by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and to be directed by Einhorn, Prospect is described as a comedic Western with a feminist twist. An idealistic young woman, Abigail Lansing (King), moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals quickly are tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.
Grier will play Mayor Ambrose. Bigger than life, a bit of a scoundrel but super charming with a good heart, Mayor Ambrose is the mayor of the tiny western prairie town of Prospect. Known as somewhat of a wheeler-dealer, he will do anything to make his town work. And he knows that educating its inhabitants is the only way they,...
Written by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and to be directed by Einhorn, Prospect is described as a comedic Western with a feminist twist. An idealistic young woman, Abigail Lansing (King), moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals quickly are tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.
Grier will play Mayor Ambrose. Bigger than life, a bit of a scoundrel but super charming with a good heart, Mayor Ambrose is the mayor of the tiny western prairie town of Prospect. Known as somewhat of a wheeler-dealer, he will do anything to make his town work. And he knows that educating its inhabitants is the only way they,...
- 3/5/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The 24th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, which honors the best production design in film and television, took place Saturday, February 1. All eyes were on the Period Film category, which this year had four nominees match up with the Oscars for Best Production Design: “The Irishman,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “1917” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” The other two Adg period contenders were “Ford v Ferrari” and “Joker,” while the Oscars’ fifth bid went to “Parasite,” which was up for Contemporary Film at the guild. Scroll down to see the full winners list for the 2020 Adg Awards.
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- 2/2/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Netflix has canceled the musical drama “Soundtrack” after one season, Variety has confirmed.
The series had originally been set up as a pilot at Fox before moving to the streamer with a series order. It was described as a romantic musical drama that looked at the love stories connecting a diverse, disparate group of people in contemporary Los Angeles through the music that lives inside their hearts and minds. The first and only season debuted on Dec. 18.
It starred Paul James, Callie Hernandez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jenna Dewan, Jahmil French, Megan Ferguson, Isaiah Givens, Madeleine Stowe, and Campbell Scott. It was created by Joshua Safran, who also executive produced along with Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, and Ali Krug. Annapurna Pictures produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios.
The show, which was originally titled “Mixtape” when it was at Fox, had strong buzz behind it early on last pilot season,...
The series had originally been set up as a pilot at Fox before moving to the streamer with a series order. It was described as a romantic musical drama that looked at the love stories connecting a diverse, disparate group of people in contemporary Los Angeles through the music that lives inside their hearts and minds. The first and only season debuted on Dec. 18.
It starred Paul James, Callie Hernandez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jenna Dewan, Jahmil French, Megan Ferguson, Isaiah Givens, Madeleine Stowe, and Campbell Scott. It was created by Joshua Safran, who also executive produced along with Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, and Ali Krug. Annapurna Pictures produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios.
The show, which was originally titled “Mixtape” when it was at Fox, had strong buzz behind it early on last pilot season,...
- 1/31/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Between the much-savaged final season of “Game of Thrones,” the decimation of Marvel’s TV universe and the dozens of other shows either concluded or canceled, 2019 saw more than its fair share of TV casualties. Here are 117 shows that won’t live to see 2020.
“A Series of Unfortunate Events” (Netflix) Final episode January 1
“Friends from College” (Netflix) Final episode January 11
“Rel” (Fox) Final episode January 13
“Happy Together” (CBS) Final episode January 14
“Wayne” (YouTube Premium) Final episode January 16
“The Punisher” (Netflix) Final episode January 18
“Steven Universe” (Cartoon Network) Final episode January 21
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix) Final episode January 25
“Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television” (YouTube Premium) Final episode January 30
“Counterpart” (Starz) Final episode February 17
“Berlin Station” (Epix) Final episode February 17
“Lethal Weapon” (Fox) Final episode February 26
“The Gifted” (Fox) Final episode February 26
“Crashing” (HBO) Final episode March 10
“The Passage” (Fox) Final episode March 11
“Teachers” (TV Land) Final episode March 19
“Deadly Class...
“A Series of Unfortunate Events” (Netflix) Final episode January 1
“Friends from College” (Netflix) Final episode January 11
“Rel” (Fox) Final episode January 13
“Happy Together” (CBS) Final episode January 14
“Wayne” (YouTube Premium) Final episode January 16
“The Punisher” (Netflix) Final episode January 18
“Steven Universe” (Cartoon Network) Final episode January 21
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix) Final episode January 25
“Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television” (YouTube Premium) Final episode January 30
“Counterpart” (Starz) Final episode February 17
“Berlin Station” (Epix) Final episode February 17
“Lethal Weapon” (Fox) Final episode February 26
“The Gifted” (Fox) Final episode February 26
“Crashing” (HBO) Final episode March 10
“The Passage” (Fox) Final episode March 11
“Teachers” (TV Land) Final episode March 19
“Deadly Class...
- 12/14/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Disney led the pack with eight production design nominations for the 24th annual Art Directors Guild Awards. These included Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame” and “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” for fantasy, and animation entries “Frozen II,” “Toy Story 4,” and “The Lion King”.
All of the Oscar contenders were well represented, including Bong Joon Ho’s Lafca Best Picture winner, “Parasite,” and period standouts “1917,” Sam Mendes’ innovative, single-shot, World War I thriller, “Joker,” Todd Phillips’ blockbuster origin story, which channeled gritty ’70s New York as Gotham City; Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which gave a 50-year facelift to Hollywood Blvd.; and Martin Scorsese’s sprawling mob epic, “The Irishman,” which crammed 117 locations for 309 scenes.
Contemporary nominees included Marielle Heller’s “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” Chad Stahelski’s “John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum,” Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” and Jordan Peele’s “Us.” The other...
All of the Oscar contenders were well represented, including Bong Joon Ho’s Lafca Best Picture winner, “Parasite,” and period standouts “1917,” Sam Mendes’ innovative, single-shot, World War I thriller, “Joker,” Todd Phillips’ blockbuster origin story, which channeled gritty ’70s New York as Gotham City; Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which gave a 50-year facelift to Hollywood Blvd.; and Martin Scorsese’s sprawling mob epic, “The Irishman,” which crammed 117 locations for 309 scenes.
Contemporary nominees included Marielle Heller’s “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” Chad Stahelski’s “John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum,” Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” and Jordan Peele’s “Us.” The other...
- 12/9/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
The Resident will stage a family reunion in Season 3, with the help of David Alan Grier.
The TV vet will recur on the Fox drama’s upcoming season as Lamar Broome, Dr. Aj Austin’s biological father, TVLine has exclusively learned.
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Lamar is described as a larger-than-life businessman with a prideful manner and substantial ego — not unlike the son he gave up for adoption 35 years ago. But...
The TV vet will recur on the Fox drama’s upcoming season as Lamar Broome, Dr. Aj Austin’s biological father, TVLine has exclusively learned.
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Lamar is described as a larger-than-life businessman with a prideful manner and substantial ego — not unlike the son he gave up for adoption 35 years ago. But...
- 9/5/2019
- TVLine.com
Below, you'll find a list of Fox's recent/current/upcoming primetime TV shows and their current status. To see a series' ratings (if any), click the links in the middle column.
The shows include 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Almost Family, Beat Shazam, BH90210, Big Bounce Battle, Bless the Harts, Bob's Burgers, The Cool Kids, Cosmos, Deputy, Duncanville, Empire, Family Guy, Filthy Rich, First Responders Live, The Four: Battle for Stardom, Ghosted, The Gifted, Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, Gotham, The Great North, Hell's Kitchen, Hypnotize Me, La to Vegas, The Last Man on Earth, Last Man Standing, Lego Masters, Lethal Weapon, Love Connection, The Masked Singer, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, Mental Samurai, A Moody Christmas, New Girl, neXt, The Orville, Outmatched, Paradise Hotel, The Passage, Phenoms, Proven Innocent, Rel, The Resident, The Simpsons, So You Think You Can Dance, Spin the Wheel, Star, The X-Files,...
The shows include 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Almost Family, Beat Shazam, BH90210, Big Bounce Battle, Bless the Harts, Bob's Burgers, The Cool Kids, Cosmos, Deputy, Duncanville, Empire, Family Guy, Filthy Rich, First Responders Live, The Four: Battle for Stardom, Ghosted, The Gifted, Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, Gotham, The Great North, Hell's Kitchen, Hypnotize Me, La to Vegas, The Last Man on Earth, Last Man Standing, Lego Masters, Lethal Weapon, Love Connection, The Masked Singer, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, Mental Samurai, A Moody Christmas, New Girl, neXt, The Orville, Outmatched, Paradise Hotel, The Passage, Phenoms, Proven Innocent, Rel, The Resident, The Simpsons, So You Think You Can Dance, Spin the Wheel, Star, The X-Files,...
- 8/17/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The question of whether multi-camera sitcoms are a dying breed isn’t a new one. The few remaining purveyors of the format, including “The Big Bang Theory” executive producer Chuck Lorre, have been asked that question for years.
But even as Lorre ventures into the single-camera world with such shows as the Golden Globe-winning “The Kominsky Method” and has gotten a taste of success in that arena, he’s not turning his back on multicam.
Lorre, along with Al Higgins, Eddie Gorodetsky and Gina Yashere, is behind “Bob Hearts Abishola,” a new multicam sitcom for CBS this fall that aims to balance laughs — yes, the studio audience is there, chuckling along — with the serious subject of immigration and tolerance.
Whether or not “Bob Hearts Abishola” will be awards fodder remains to be seen — there’s a fart joke within the first five minutes of the pilot, after all — but it...
But even as Lorre ventures into the single-camera world with such shows as the Golden Globe-winning “The Kominsky Method” and has gotten a taste of success in that arena, he’s not turning his back on multicam.
Lorre, along with Al Higgins, Eddie Gorodetsky and Gina Yashere, is behind “Bob Hearts Abishola,” a new multicam sitcom for CBS this fall that aims to balance laughs — yes, the studio audience is there, chuckling along — with the serious subject of immigration and tolerance.
Whether or not “Bob Hearts Abishola” will be awards fodder remains to be seen — there’s a fart joke within the first five minutes of the pilot, after all — but it...
- 8/16/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Prolific multi-cam director Jody Margolin Hahn is set to helm the pilot and additional episodes of The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia, Netflix’s new multi-camera Latinx comedy series co-created by Mario Lopez and Speechless and Melissa & Joey producer Seth Kurland.
The Expanding Universe will center on Ashley Garcia (newcomer Paulina Chavez), the world’s only 15-and-a-half-year-old robotics engineer and rocket scientist, who gets the chance to work for Nasa. She moves across the country to live with her fun-loving Uncle Victor (Jencarlos Canela), a pro football player-turned-high school coach who’s never met a responsibility he can’t shirk.
Kurland is writing with Melissa & Joey creator David Kendall and will showrun the series. Kurland, Lopez and Kendall are executive producers. Mark Schulman at 3 Arts Entertainment will serve as a consultant.
Hahn’s recent and upcoming credits include The Conners for ABC, Fox’s The Cool Kids,...
The Expanding Universe will center on Ashley Garcia (newcomer Paulina Chavez), the world’s only 15-and-a-half-year-old robotics engineer and rocket scientist, who gets the chance to work for Nasa. She moves across the country to live with her fun-loving Uncle Victor (Jencarlos Canela), a pro football player-turned-high school coach who’s never met a responsibility he can’t shirk.
Kurland is writing with Melissa & Joey creator David Kendall and will showrun the series. Kurland, Lopez and Kendall are executive producers. Mark Schulman at 3 Arts Entertainment will serve as a consultant.
Hahn’s recent and upcoming credits include The Conners for ABC, Fox’s The Cool Kids,...
- 7/30/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox is the latest broadcast network to unveil its fall premiere game plan for the 2019-20 TV season (following CBS, NBC and The CW), and Season 3 of 9-1-1 will kick things off on Monday, Sept. 23, leading into the launch of new Tom Payne-Michael Sheen drama Prodigal Son.
The sixth and final season of Empire will debut in its new Tuesday-at-9 pm perch on Sept. 24, following the also-relocated The Resident at 8 pm.
Last season’s rookie reality smash The Masked Singer will kick off Season 2 with a special two-hour episode on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The following week, the new...
The sixth and final season of Empire will debut in its new Tuesday-at-9 pm perch on Sept. 24, following the also-relocated The Resident at 8 pm.
Last season’s rookie reality smash The Masked Singer will kick off Season 2 with a special two-hour episode on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The following week, the new...
- 6/24/2019
- TVLine.com
Lee Daniels’ Fox music drama “Empire” will be entering its sixth and final season later this year. The broadcast network announced in May the final season for one of its flagship series, but “Empire” was hardly the only Fox series featuring black leads that got the plug pulled. Nearly every Fox series with a black lead got canceled, including Daniels’ “Star,” the Damon Wayans-led “Lethal Weapon,” Lil’ Rel Howery’s “Rel,” the Russell Hornsby-starring drama “Proven Innocent,” and the David Alan Grier comedy “The Cool Kids.” Daniels recently told Vulture he’s troubled by what all the cancellations have in common.
“Clearly, there’s obvious stuff going on,” Daniels said when asked about Fox dropping the ax on its original series with black leads. “I think it’s very obvious. I was disturbed by it. But I don’t think ‘Empire’ had anything to do with [a possible whitewashing of the network]. ‘Empire’ sort of...
“Clearly, there’s obvious stuff going on,” Daniels said when asked about Fox dropping the ax on its original series with black leads. “I think it’s very obvious. I was disturbed by it. But I don’t think ‘Empire’ had anything to do with [a possible whitewashing of the network]. ‘Empire’ sort of...
- 6/11/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
At the Upfronts earlier this month, a spate of freshman and sophomore series led by actors of color that were initially greenlit seemingly in order to address broadcast TV’s representation problem were canceled, including “The Passage,” “The Fix” and “Happy Together.” This caused some initial concern that networks may not be as enthusiastic about ongoing attempts at diversity, but as Fall 2019 new series orders were unveiled, the picture proved to be more assuring.
As broadcast TV networks set their 2019-2020 programming lineups, diversity concerns still very much remain at the fore, as Hollywood overall continues to be under pressure to address its historical erasure of characters of color in front of and behind the camera. TV continues to outpace film in both regards, with recent improvement on how voices and stories from all walks of life are embraced within the space.
The good news is that, on all five...
As broadcast TV networks set their 2019-2020 programming lineups, diversity concerns still very much remain at the fore, as Hollywood overall continues to be under pressure to address its historical erasure of characters of color in front of and behind the camera. TV continues to outpace film in both regards, with recent improvement on how voices and stories from all walks of life are embraced within the space.
The good news is that, on all five...
- 5/28/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Every year, the Fox television network airs new and continuing TV series. Many are cancelled and many are renewed by the season's end. Although everyone understands that Nielsen ratings usually play a big role in TV cancellations and renewals, most fans do not get to participate in that system. So, we are offering you the chance to rate Fox TV shows here, instead.
Fox TV series that have premiered (so far) during the 2018-19 television season: 9-1-1, Beat Shazam, Bob's Burgers, The Cool Kids, Empire, Family Guy, The Gifted, Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, Gotham, Hell's Kitchen, Last Man Standing, Lethal Weapon, The Masked Singer, MasterChef Junior, Mental Samurai, The Orville, The Passage, Proven Innocent, Rel, The Resident, The Simpsons, and Star.
Here's a ranking of how the Fox TV shows from...
Fox TV series that have premiered (so far) during the 2018-19 television season: 9-1-1, Beat Shazam, Bob's Burgers, The Cool Kids, Empire, Family Guy, The Gifted, Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, Gotham, Hell's Kitchen, Last Man Standing, Lethal Weapon, The Masked Singer, MasterChef Junior, Mental Samurai, The Orville, The Passage, Proven Innocent, Rel, The Resident, The Simpsons, and Star.
Here's a ranking of how the Fox TV shows from...
- 5/21/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Upfronts weeks has come and gone, and that means broadcast networks have canceled many a show to make room for their newly-ordered series. But not every program that got the ax went out with bad Nielsen numbers. And then, of course, there are the series that had planned endings, like “Gotham” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the latter of which boasts some of the most impressive ratings of any show currently on TV. Scroll through the TheWrap’s gallery to see the highest-rated TV shows of the 2018-19 season that have been canceled or came to a plotted conclusion at Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC — so far. All ratings in this story come from Nielsen’s “most current” data, which includes a week’s worth of delayed viewing where available. Lowest-rated is first, highest-rated last. And, yes, there are ties. Readers can see the complete list of all the broadcast...
- 5/17/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Veteran actor and comedian David Alan Grier is set to play opposite Taraji P. Henson and Ed Helms in the Michael Dowse-directed Netflix comedy, Coffee & Kareem. Based on Shane McCarthy’s 2014 Black List script, the film follows a Detroit cop who reluctantly teams with his girlfriend’s 11-year-old son to clear his name and take down the city’s most ruthless criminal.
Also part of the cast is Betty Gilpin, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, RonReaco Lee, and rising star Terrence Little Gardenhigh.
Helms and Mike Falbo are producing via their Pacific Electric Pictures Co banner. Sanford Nelson, Jordon Foss, Linden Nelson, Don Foss, and Dan Clarke will serve as executive producers.
Grier starred on Fox’s short-lived comedy series, The Cool Kids, and was recently seen in the HBO film, Native Son. Up next, the In Living Color alum has a guest-starring arc on Own’s Queen Sugar this summer.
Also part of the cast is Betty Gilpin, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, RonReaco Lee, and rising star Terrence Little Gardenhigh.
Helms and Mike Falbo are producing via their Pacific Electric Pictures Co banner. Sanford Nelson, Jordon Foss, Linden Nelson, Don Foss, and Dan Clarke will serve as executive producers.
Grier starred on Fox’s short-lived comedy series, The Cool Kids, and was recently seen in the HBO film, Native Son. Up next, the In Living Color alum has a guest-starring arc on Own’s Queen Sugar this summer.
- 5/16/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadcast networks’ upfront presentations are upon us and that means many TV shows that were in limbo for the last few months were renewed or got the ax last week. Here TheWrap has rounded up the 15 unlucky series which were canceled by ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox during the bloodbath to make room for new comedies and dramas for the fall. Read our list of every broadcast TV show renewed, canceled and ordered here.
“I Feel Bad,” NBC
“For the People,” ABC
“The Fix,” ABC
“The Kids Are Alright,” ABC
“Speechless,” ABC
“Splitting Up Together,” ABC
“Whiskey Cavalier,” ABC
“The Cool Kids,” Fox
“Lethal Weapon,” Fox
“The Passage,” Fox
“Proven Innocent,” Fox
“Murphy Brown,” CBS
“Fam,” CBS
“Life in Pieces,” CBS
“Happy Together,” CBS
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“I Feel Bad,” NBC
“For the People,” ABC
“The Fix,” ABC
“The Kids Are Alright,” ABC
“Speechless,” ABC
“Splitting Up Together,” ABC
“Whiskey Cavalier,” ABC
“The Cool Kids,” Fox
“Lethal Weapon,” Fox
“The Passage,” Fox
“Proven Innocent,” Fox
“Murphy Brown,” CBS
“Fam,” CBS
“Life in Pieces,” CBS
“Happy Together,” CBS
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- 5/13/2019
- by Tony Maglio and Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Fox chief Charlie Collier has addressed the challenge of diversity at the network following the cancellation of a number of shows with African American leads.
Collier, speaking on the Fox upfronts press call, said that the “effort continues, it never stops”.
This comes after Fox cancelled shows including Lethal Weapon, Lil Rel Howery-fronted Rel from Jerrod Carmichael, Russell Hornsby-fronted legal drama Proven Innocent from Danny Strong and Stacy Greenberg, David Alan Grier-fronted comedy The Cool Kids, and Lee Daniels’ Star, which is ending after three seasons.
Fox revealed that Empire is also ending after its forthcoming sixth season.
Collier said, “The diversity of Fox is an issue that is so important and an ongoing effort for us to make sure we’re best in class. As I was looking at Fox and joining, what’s remarkable is that the history of this company and what it’s done in terms of diversity…...
Collier, speaking on the Fox upfronts press call, said that the “effort continues, it never stops”.
This comes after Fox cancelled shows including Lethal Weapon, Lil Rel Howery-fronted Rel from Jerrod Carmichael, Russell Hornsby-fronted legal drama Proven Innocent from Danny Strong and Stacy Greenberg, David Alan Grier-fronted comedy The Cool Kids, and Lee Daniels’ Star, which is ending after three seasons.
Fox revealed that Empire is also ending after its forthcoming sixth season.
Collier said, “The diversity of Fox is an issue that is so important and an ongoing effort for us to make sure we’re best in class. As I was looking at Fox and joining, what’s remarkable is that the history of this company and what it’s done in terms of diversity…...
- 5/13/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox is closing the case on Proven Innocent.
The crime drama has been canceled after one season, less than 24 hours after the conclusion of Proven Innocent Season 1.
The series averaged 2 million viewers and a 0.4 rating in the demo on Fridays this season.
Among Fox's sixteen scripted series, the show came in dead last, so the odds were always stacked against it making the cut for a sophomore season.
Related: Proven Innocent Season 1 Episode 13 Review: In Defense of Madeline Scott
The show starred Rachelle Lefevre (Under the Dome) as Madeline Scott, a defense attorney dedicated to the issue of wrongful convictions.
The key driving force for her in the world of law was that she and her brother were wrongfully found guilty as teenagers for the murder of their friend.
Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Russell Hornsby (Grimm), Nikki M. James (BrainDead), Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men) and Riley Smith (Frequency) were also part of the show's cast.
The crime drama has been canceled after one season, less than 24 hours after the conclusion of Proven Innocent Season 1.
The series averaged 2 million viewers and a 0.4 rating in the demo on Fridays this season.
Among Fox's sixteen scripted series, the show came in dead last, so the odds were always stacked against it making the cut for a sophomore season.
Related: Proven Innocent Season 1 Episode 13 Review: In Defense of Madeline Scott
The show starred Rachelle Lefevre (Under the Dome) as Madeline Scott, a defense attorney dedicated to the issue of wrongful convictions.
The key driving force for her in the world of law was that she and her brother were wrongfully found guilty as teenagers for the murder of their friend.
Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Russell Hornsby (Grimm), Nikki M. James (BrainDead), Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men) and Riley Smith (Frequency) were also part of the show's cast.
- 5/12/2019
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Fox has ordered one more pilot to series, the Kim Cattrall-led southern Gothic dramedy “Filthy Rich.”
Written and directed by “The Help” filmmaker Tate Taylor, the show is a family drama in “which wealth, power and religion collide – with outrageously soapy results.”
Here’s the logline for “Filthy Rich”: When the patriarch of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune. With monumental twists and turns, “Filthy Rich” presents a world in which everyone has an ulterior motive – and no one is going down without a fight.
“Filthy Rich” stars Cattrall as Margaret Monreaux, Gerald McRaney as Eugene Monreaux, Aubrey Dollar as Rose Monreaux, Corey Cott as Eric Monreaux, Benjamin Aguilar as Antonio Rivera,...
Written and directed by “The Help” filmmaker Tate Taylor, the show is a family drama in “which wealth, power and religion collide – with outrageously soapy results.”
Here’s the logline for “Filthy Rich”: When the patriarch of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune. With monumental twists and turns, “Filthy Rich” presents a world in which everyone has an ulterior motive – and no one is going down without a fight.
“Filthy Rich” stars Cattrall as Margaret Monreaux, Gerald McRaney as Eugene Monreaux, Aubrey Dollar as Rose Monreaux, Corey Cott as Eric Monreaux, Benjamin Aguilar as Antonio Rivera,...
- 5/12/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Fox’s Last Man Standing and CBS drama Blue Bloods usually dominate the Friday ratings, and that proved to be the case yet again this week, as both season finales topped the night.
It was also a night for farewells, as several shows that closed their seasons have been consigned to the cancellation dustbin.
In the 8 Pm slot, Last Man Standing drew an 0.8/5 and 4.67 million total audience, dominating the competition. Unfortunately, its strong pull couldn’t help its followers, as the season finales of The Cool Kids (O.6/4 and 3.43 million) and legal drama Proven Innocent (0.4/2 and 1.74 million) marked the end for both series, which received pink slips from the network this week.
At NBC, a new episode of The Blacklist (0.6/4 and 3.95 million) continued performing, matching its season high and holding an 0.6 audience share for its new broadcasts. The two-hour NBC Dateline is benefiting from that lead-in, checking in as the...
It was also a night for farewells, as several shows that closed their seasons have been consigned to the cancellation dustbin.
In the 8 Pm slot, Last Man Standing drew an 0.8/5 and 4.67 million total audience, dominating the competition. Unfortunately, its strong pull couldn’t help its followers, as the season finales of The Cool Kids (O.6/4 and 3.43 million) and legal drama Proven Innocent (0.4/2 and 1.74 million) marked the end for both series, which received pink slips from the network this week.
At NBC, a new episode of The Blacklist (0.6/4 and 3.95 million) continued performing, matching its season high and holding an 0.6 audience share for its new broadcasts. The two-hour NBC Dateline is benefiting from that lead-in, checking in as the...
- 5/11/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox has pulled the plug on “Proven Innocent” after a single season, Variety has learned.
The legal drama was Fox’s lowest-rated show for the 2018-19 season, with an Live+Same Day average of a 0.4 rating in the key adults 18-49 demographic. The legal drama also averaged just over 2 million viewers per episode. The Season 1 finale aired on Friday night.
“Proven Innocent” centered around a legal team who worked at a wrongful conviction firm. The team, which was led by Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre), a fierce and fearless female lawyer with a hunger for justice, reopened investigations, putting their own lives in danger to exonerate the innocent that were ‘proven’ guilty.
The series also starred Kelsey Grammar as Gore Bellows, the prosecutor who previously put Madeline away for murder, as well as Vincent Kartheiser, Russell Hornsby, Riley Smith, Clare O’Connor, Francis Guinan, Persia White, Shanesia Davis, Karin Anglin, Caitlin Mehner,...
The legal drama was Fox’s lowest-rated show for the 2018-19 season, with an Live+Same Day average of a 0.4 rating in the key adults 18-49 demographic. The legal drama also averaged just over 2 million viewers per episode. The Season 1 finale aired on Friday night.
“Proven Innocent” centered around a legal team who worked at a wrongful conviction firm. The team, which was led by Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre), a fierce and fearless female lawyer with a hunger for justice, reopened investigations, putting their own lives in danger to exonerate the innocent that were ‘proven’ guilty.
The series also starred Kelsey Grammar as Gore Bellows, the prosecutor who previously put Madeline away for murder, as well as Vincent Kartheiser, Russell Hornsby, Riley Smith, Clare O’Connor, Francis Guinan, Persia White, Shanesia Davis, Karin Anglin, Caitlin Mehner,...
- 5/11/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Lethal Weapon is canceled.
There will be no fourth season to the Fox drama.
Rebooting the already rebooted franchise after the Clane Crawford debacle was always a big bet.
After Crawford got canned as a result of still wholly unknown drama behind the scenes and between him and series star, Damon Wayans, many expected the show to get canceled after 13 episodes.
Renewal Scorecard 2018-19
Seann William Scott, always a fan favorite, entered the show at the most unflattering time possible but made a great showing as a new character named Cole.
Things must have perked up for Wayans upon his arrival, too, because he signed on for an additional three episodes despite earlier saying he would be done with the show for good after 13.
That's most unfortunate for the remaining fans of the action-packed drama, however, as the Lethal Weapon Season 3 ended on a cliffhanger.
Lethal Weapon: Was Martin Riggs Killed Off?...
There will be no fourth season to the Fox drama.
Rebooting the already rebooted franchise after the Clane Crawford debacle was always a big bet.
After Crawford got canned as a result of still wholly unknown drama behind the scenes and between him and series star, Damon Wayans, many expected the show to get canceled after 13 episodes.
Renewal Scorecard 2018-19
Seann William Scott, always a fan favorite, entered the show at the most unflattering time possible but made a great showing as a new character named Cole.
Things must have perked up for Wayans upon his arrival, too, because he signed on for an additional three episodes despite earlier saying he would be done with the show for good after 13.
That's most unfortunate for the remaining fans of the action-packed drama, however, as the Lethal Weapon Season 3 ended on a cliffhanger.
Lethal Weapon: Was Martin Riggs Killed Off?...
- 5/11/2019
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Can Margaret keep the guys in line in the first season of The Cool Kids TV show on Fox? As we know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like The Cool Kids is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because of that, many viewers are frustrated their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered before a show is cancelled or renewed. So, we invite you to rate all of the season one episodes of The Cool Kids below. *Status update below.
A multi-camera sitcom on Fox, The Cool Kids stars David Alan Grier, Martin Mull, Vicki Lawrence, and Leslie Jordan. The TV show revolves around a loyal but motley crew who live at a retirement community and will break any rule to have fun. Though they may be older, this quartet is far...
A multi-camera sitcom on Fox, The Cool Kids stars David Alan Grier, Martin Mull, Vicki Lawrence, and Leslie Jordan. The TV show revolves around a loyal but motley crew who live at a retirement community and will break any rule to have fun. Though they may be older, this quartet is far...
- 5/11/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
There are a lot of people feeling a lot of pain all over Hollywood today with the annual ruthless round of Black Friday cancellations but, Donald Trump and Clayne Crawford may be pretty pleased.
The former Celebrity Apprentice host was relentless mocked by CBS’s Murphy Brown revival and the ex-Rectify star was pink slipped from Fox’s Lethal Weapon small screen reboot last year after two allegedly difficult seasons. Now both those shows and many others are as dead as Crawford’s Lethal Weapon Martin Riggs character in what looks to be an expanded new normal on the small screen
Click on the photo above to launch our gallery of the canceled shows so far.
Days before the Upfronts start in NYC, the broadcast networks today killed off the Candice Bergen-led sitcom and the Damon Wayans co-starrer, plus a slew of newbies over the past 24 hours like CBS...
The former Celebrity Apprentice host was relentless mocked by CBS’s Murphy Brown revival and the ex-Rectify star was pink slipped from Fox’s Lethal Weapon small screen reboot last year after two allegedly difficult seasons. Now both those shows and many others are as dead as Crawford’s Lethal Weapon Martin Riggs character in what looks to be an expanded new normal on the small screen
Click on the photo above to launch our gallery of the canceled shows so far.
Days before the Upfronts start in NYC, the broadcast networks today killed off the Candice Bergen-led sitcom and the Damon Wayans co-starrer, plus a slew of newbies over the past 24 hours like CBS...
- 5/11/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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