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‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Finale Ratings Steady With 2015, ‘Shark Tank’ & ‘Originals’ Rise
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There were NBA Playoffs on Espn and Day 2 of the 2016 NFL Draft on the NFL Network last night but neither seemed to score much over the Big 4 and the CW. Though on another level, things will be simmering a bit less on Friday nights with the Season 15 finale of Hell's Kitchen (1.0/4). Up a tenth from last week among 18-49, the Gordon Ramsay cooking competition picked a winner but also held pretty steady with its last ender too. Usually dropping a show onto Fridays is the… »
Daytime Emmys Creative Arts Winners: PBS & CBS Dominate
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Winners were named tonight in 66 categories at the Creative Arts portion of the two-night Daytime Emmy Awards, with CBS and PBS dominating with a total of 26 wins between them. CBS came in with 11 wins, among them 5 for The Young and the Restless, and a win for This Morning in the talk show/morning program directing category. The Creative Arts ceremony was held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The second night of Emmy bestowing, which will not be… »
USA To Redevelop ‘Brooklyn Animal Control’ Pilot, Passes On ‘Poor Richard’s Almanack’
29 April 2016 6:00 PM, PDT
USA Network has made decisions on its two outstanding drama pilots, Brooklyn Animal Control, based on the Idw Publishing comic created by Jt Petty, and Poor Richard’s Almanack. According to sources, none of the two is going forward. I hear Brooklyn Animal Control, from Universal Cable Prods., will be redeveloped with Petty, who also wrote the original pilot and executive produced it with David S. Goyer, Circle of Confusion's Rick Jacobs & David Alpert, and Idw… »
Kelly Macdonald To Star In ‘Black Mirror’ Episode On Netflix
29 April 2016 5:26 PM, PDT
Boardwalk Empire alumna Kelly Macdonald is set to star in an episode of Netflix's Black Mirror reboot. No details on her character as plotlines are being kept under wraps, but the episode, titled “Hated in the Nation,” will be directed by James Hawes. Created and written by Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror taps into our collective unease with the modern world and each stand-alone episode is a suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia. The original… »
Ashton Kutcher Sitcom ‘The Ranch’ Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix
29 April 2016 4:40 PM, PDT
Updated: Ashton Kutcher, joined by co-stars Danny Masterson and Sam Elliott, just made the announcement for Season 2, which will consist of 20 episodes, in a video on Twitter: It's official: Season 2 of @TheRanchNetflix, coming 2017!https://t.co/a582aydDgy — ashton kutcher (@aplusk) April 29, 2016 The Ranch, toplined by former That ’70s Show co-stars Kutcher and Masterson, from 2.5 Men co-showrunners Don Reo and Jim Patterson, introduced a new model at Netflix with… »
Allison Janney Revives C.J. Cregg For White House Press Briefing
29 April 2016 4:40 PM, PDT
Celebrities pop up in the darndest places in Washington during White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend. Today, for instance, former West Wing star Allison Janney made a surprise appearance at Friday’s White House press briefing, announcing that Press Secretary Josh Earnest “is out today. I believe he has a root canal. But let’s be honest, I’m better at this than he is, anyway.” Some press in the room seemed to know it was a nod to the Ww episode in which her C.J. Cregg… »
Larry Wilmore On White House Correspondents’ Dinner: “I’m Going To Open With A Yo Mama So Fat Joke”
29 April 2016 3:36 PM, PDT
Doing his umpteenth interview this week about hosting President Obama’s final White House Correspondents Dinner tomorrow night, Larry Wilmore seemed finally to toss the script, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I know [former Whcd host] Jimmy Kimmel ran a couple of jokes by you, and you were very kind to let me try out a few Yo Mama jokes on you – and I really appreciate that. I'm going to open with a Yo Mama So Fat joke.” After being told for the fourth, or maybe it was the… »
John Krasinski To Star In ‘Jack Ryan’ Amazon TV Series From Carlton Cuse & Paramount TV
29 April 2016 3:24 PM, PDT
Exclusive: John Krasinski is the next Jack Ryan. The Office alum has closed a deal for the title role in Jack Ryan, the TV series project based on Tom Clancy's popular CIA hero, which is set at Amazon through Paramount TV. In a competitive situation, the package, which includes the former Lost duo of co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland, Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and Skydance Media, landed at Amazon with a series commitment and the intention to go… »
‘Son Of Zorn’ Co-Creator/Co-Showrunner Eli Jorne Exits Fox Comedy Series
29 April 2016 3:00 PM, PDT
There is a second behind-the-scenes change at Fox’s hybrid live-action/animated comedy series Son Of Zorn, from Last Man On Earth executive producers Phil Lord & Chris Miller and former Wilfred showrunners Reed Agnew and Eli Jorne. Jorne, who co-created the project with Agnew and had served as co-showrunner, is departing the series over creative differences, leaving Sally McKenna as the sole showrunner at the moment. Production on the series won’t be affected by the… »
Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys Video: Chelsea Handler & EPs Talk Delivering Info With Humor In Docu-Series
29 April 2016 2:59 PM, PDT
"I just said, just tell me what to do and I'll do it," Chelsea Handler said of working on her Netflix docu series Chelsea Does. "Make me uncomfortable, I don't want to be in charge of anything," the past and future talk show host added. "I wanted to give information or get information with a sense of humor." The 4-part Chelsea Does series debuted at the Sundance Film Festival this year and went up in one swoop on Netflix on January 23. Tackling topics of marriage, racism… »
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Ratings Now Even, ‘Big Bang’ Up, ‘Mom’ & Game Of Silence’ Adjusted Down In Final Numbers – Update
29 April 2016 2:24 PM, PDT
Update, 2:24 Pm: We saw more adjustments than usual with the final ratings for Thursday night. ABC and Tgit can breathe a little easier as Grey’s Anatomy moved up to a 2.0/7, which makes it even with last week and no longer matching a series low. CBS’s The Big Bang Theory still the top show of the night but the comedy blockbuster was adjusted up a tenth to a 3.4/12 or 6% over last week. CBS comedy Mom and NBC drama Game Of Silence both went down a tenth to 1.7/6 and a… »
The A.V. Club Sets Up At Fusion; Weekly Show To Bow This Year
29 April 2016 1:35 PM, PDT
Exclusive: Univision-owned Fusion continues to expand its original content, partnering with The Onion to develop a weekly television series based on its spinoff site The A.V. Club, Deadline has learned. Expected to premiere later this year on the millennial-focused news and satire channel, the new series will offer curated pop culture content for Fusion viewers including recommendations on film, TV and other entertainment. The show also will highlight popular content from… »
NFL Draft Day 1 Viewership Down From 2015; ‘Big Bang Theory’ Wins Demo
29 April 2016 1:35 PM, PDT
Updated, 1:35 Pm: There will be more picks tonight, but the final numbers are in for Day 1 of the 2016 NFL Draft and it was not a win for Espn. Down double digits from last year, the three-hour-plus broadcast of Round 1 from Chicago drew a total of 6.29 million total viewers and a 2.7 rating among adults 18-49. While easily the top show on cable on Thursday, last night's Draft Day 1 is down 10% in overall audience and sacked by 11% in the key demo from last year. Unlike… »
Ryan Reynolds Pens Moving Tribute To ‘Deadpool’ Fan Who Died Of Cancer
29 April 2016 1:34 PM, PDT
Ryan Reynolds has written an emotional tribute to Connor McGrath, a 13-year-old Deadpool fan who died this week in Edmonton, Canada, after a three-year battle with cancer. Reynolds met McGrath through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, when Reynolds traveled to Edmonton to surprise the boy with a rough cut of Deadpool. “Because of his wish, Connor was the first person to see Deadpool,” Reynolds writes. "I traveled up to Edmonton, Alberta to surprise him with a rough cut of the… »
Elisabeth Moss To Star In Straight-To-Series Drama ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ On Hulu
29 April 2016 12:43 PM, PDT
Hulu has given a straight-to-series order for drama The Handmaid’s Tale from MGM Television based on Margaret Atwood’s bestselling novel, with Elisabeth Moss (Top of the Lake) attached to star. Ilene Chaiken wrote the original script that was bought by Hulu, but she could no longer render services when she became showrunner on Fox’s Empire. The 100‘s Bruce Miller is listed by Hulu as creator, writer and executive producer, with Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears (Sophisticated Gent… »
Joy Reid Takes Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC Timeslot Starting May 7
29 April 2016 12:41 PM, PDT
MSNBC made it official today, announcing that Joy Reid will host a new weekend program on Saturdays and Sundays 10 Am-Noon Et, starting May 7. Yes, that’s the timeslot formerly held by Mhp, hosted by Melissa Harris-Perry, who left in a hail of tweets and emails after refusing to return to the slot to host election-cycle coverage, saying she was “not hungry for empty airtime.” Reid’s untitled show will “tackle the most important news and political topics of the week and… »
Home Entertainment Spending Fell 9% In Q1 Not Including Streaming Services
29 April 2016 12:09 PM, PDT
Depending on how you look at it, home entertainment spending was either stable — or seriously declined — in Q1 based on data out today from the Digital Entertainment Group. The industry organization says that consumers spent $4.55 billion in the period, down just 1.8% from early 2015. In addition to being “in line with the same period 2015,” Deg lauds the number for “outpacing the box office value on video release by nearly 10 percentage points.” But that folds in… »
Pilots 2016: Pre-Screenings Buzz Edition
29 April 2016 11:39 AM, PDT
We are heading into the pilot screening stage of pilot season, an annual binge-viewing ritual that started long before binge viewing existed. Over the next week or so, the broadcast networks will hold marathon screenings of their pilots for some extra feedback before the final pickup and scheduling decisions are made. Here is where things stand according to industry chatter. ABC's legal drama Conviction checks many boxes for ABC — it’s a procedural, a genre the new… »
Tony Disanto’s Diga Ups Tommy Coriale To General Manager, Sets ‘Jerky Boys’, Neil Strauss, Jay Sankey, Traci Stumpf Shows
29 April 2016 10:29 AM, PDT
Tommy Coriale has been promoted to General Manager of Diga, reporting to the production company’s co-founder and CEO Tony Disanto. The new role expands Coriale’s current responsibilities as VP of Production to include oversight of business development and growth of the company. Additionally, the company has set up a development slate that includes unscripted projects featuring the Jerky Boys from the popular comedy prank calls, author Neil Strauss, magician Jay Sankey… »
Kristen Hager Joins ‘The Kennedys: After Camelot’ Miniseries On Reelz
29 April 2016 8:00 AM, PDT
Being Human alumna Kristen Hager has been cast opposite Matthew Perry and Katie Holmes in Reelz miniseries The Kennedys: After Camelot, the network’s follow-up to its 2011 mini The Kennedys. The four-hour project is set to air in spring 2017. Hager will play Joan Kennedy, the beautiful blond wife of Ted Kennedy (Perry). Joan’s struggle with her own insecurities and her husband’s indiscretions leads her on a journey through alcoholism and depression and then out the other… »
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