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2016 Directors Guild of America Documentary and TV Nominations: The Year of O.J. Continues
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The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominees in the documentary and television categories for this year’s DGA Awards, with O.J. Simpson present in both fields: “O.J.: Made in America” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” both picked up nods. Other contenders include “Atlanta,” “Westworld” and “The Eagle Huntress.” The feature film nominees, meanwhile, are scheduled to be announced tomorrow.
This year’s ceremony takes place on February 4 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Full list of nominees below:
Read More: 2016 Producers Guild Awards TV Nominations: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Atlanta’ and ‘Westworld’ All Land Nods
Dramatic Series
The Duffer Brothers, “Stranger Things,” “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”
Ryan Murphy, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” “From the Ashes of Tragedy”
Jonathan Nolan, “Westworld,” “The Original”
Miguel Sapochnik, “Game of Thrones,” “The Battle of the Bastards”
John Singleton, “The People v. »
- Michael Nordine
‘The X-Files’ Update: Renewal Talks are Progressing, But It’s Not Likely to Return Next Season
11 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Fox Entertainment president David Madden told reporters Wednesday that he had hoped to have an “X-Files” announcement to announce on Wednesday.
But alas, as Fox TV Group chairman/CEO Gary Newman told IndieWire later, a deal with stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, as well as executive producer Chris Carter, continues to be a logistic challenge for the network and sister studio 20th Century Fox TV.
As a result, Newman said he doesn’t expect the show to return during the upcoming 2017-18 TV season.
“My expectation is we will not have something next season,” he said. “It could be Fall 2018 or [Winter] 2019. It isn’t impossible that it couldn’t turn around and happen next year, but the clock is getting pretty tight. There’s no negativity, there’s no issues, I think they’d all like to do it. But it isn’t an easy decision for them. We »
- Michael Schneider
‘Prison Break’, ‘Making History’, ‘Shots Fired’, Others Get Spring Premiere Dates On Fox
12 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Fox has announced spring premiere dates for its new time-travel comedy series Making History, new unscripted series Kicking & Screaming and new event series Shots Fired and Prison Break, which originally was scheduled for January and was delayed, and return dates for The Last Man On Earth, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Gotham and Lucifer. Making History premieres Sunday March 5 at 8:30 PM. It will be followed by Family Guy at 9 PM and the return of Last Man on Earth at 9:30 PM. New… »
Jamie Foxx to Host Fox Game Show Based on Shazam Music App
12 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Fox’s newest game show will test your ear, your reflexes — and possibly your phone’s battery life.
The network on Wednesday announced Jamie Foxx as the host an interactive game show called Beat Shazam, in which teams of two race to identify some of music’s biggest hits. Whichever team racks up the most points moves on to face Shazam — a mobile app programmed to recognize tracks — for the chance at a fat cash prize.
Premiering this summer, Beat Shazam‘s executive-producing team includes Foxx, Mark Burnett »
‘The Mick’ Gets Four More Episodes from Fox
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Fox has ordered four more episodes of freshman comedy “The Mick,” Variety has learned, bringing the series’ first season order up to 17.
Only three episodes of the Kaitlin Olson comedy have aired thus far, but the premiere, which bowed after a hotly contested NFL game with playoff implications, has now notched a 3.7 rating in the advertiser-coveted demo in Nielsen’s Live+7 numbers, making it the biggest comedy debut of the 2016-17 season. The second episode drew a 1.3 demo rating in Nielsen’s Live+Same Day numbers, and tacked on an extra 0.6 once three days of viewing was counted.
“The Mick” stars Olson as a degenerate who suddenly finds herself stuck raising her spoiled niece (Sofia Black-d’Elia, “The Night Of”) and nephews (Thomas Barbusca, “Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life;” newcomer Jack Stanton) in affluent Greenwich, Ct after her sister flees the country to avoid being locked away in prison.
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- Oriana Schwindt
Love Connection Reboot Ordered at Fox With Andy Cohen Set as Host
12 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Sit tight, singles: Love Connection will be back on TV in two and two. (Meaning, two months, and another two months, approximately.)
Fox is reviving the classic 1983-94 dating show this summer, the network announced Wednesday at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. Bravo’s Andy Cohen will take over hosting duties from original matchmaker Chuck Woolery, and The Bachelor guru Mike Fleiss is onboard as an executive producer.
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The format will stick pretty close to the original show, with a »
Meredith Eaton Joins ‘MacGyver’ as New Phoenix Foundation Head
13 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Lucas Till will be answering to a new boss on “MacGyver” starting Friday. Following the departure of series regular Sandrine Holt, Meredith Eaton has joined the series as Matty Webber, the new director of operations at the Phoenix Foundation. Holt, who ended her run on the show last Friday, played Patricia Thornton, former head of the same foundation. “We couldn’t be more excited to have Meredith Eaton join the cast,” said executive producer and showrunner Peter Lenkov. “Matty Webber is a tough cookie and, despite her history with Jack, she’ll have no problem finding her place in the Phoenix team. »
- Greg Gilman
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce Ep Talks Abby's Next Chapter, Phoebe's Folly
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Everyone put on a flower crown and get in a goddess circle, because the Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce Season 3 premiere on Wednesday gave us plenty of fodder for discussion.
At the top of the list is Jake’s generous, episode-ending offer to Abby: Now that she’s been dropped by her publisher and fired from SheShe (thanks to that whole male prostitute snafu), Abby’s ex says he’ll bankroll their lives, courtesy of his new producing gig in Vancouver. Think of it as a payback for all those years she worked so he could get his professional life together, »
Fox TV CEO Dana Walden Talks Drama Prospects, ‘Empire’ and Comedy Challenges
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
It’s been a bumpy fall for Fox Broadcasting Co., with rave reviews but weak ratings for its newcomer “Pitch,” a string of unavoidable preemptions for tentpole “Empire” and challenges in bringing younger viewers to linear screens for live-action comedies. On the plus side, frosh drama “Lethal Weapon” has lived up to expectations, the network hosted a once-in-a-generation World Series and is looking forward to the Super Bowl on Feb. 5.
Dana Walden, who is Fox Television Group chairman-ceo alongside Gary Newman, spoke of the hurdles and opportunities faced so far this season in an interview Wednesday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena.
Walden stressed that Fox is gearing up for a super-charged second half that hopefully will restock the network’s drama bench. “24: Legacy” launches behind the Super Bowl and another high-octane drama, “Apb” bowing the following night. The provocative “Shots Fired” bows March 22 in tandem with the midseason return of “Empire.” And »
- Cynthia Littleton
The Making History Cast Lays Out the Rules of Fox's Time-Travel Comedy
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Ever want to travel back to colonial times? On Making History, all you have to do is… hop into an old gym bag, apparently.
Fox’s new time-travel comedy — premiering Sunday, March 5 at 8:30/7:30c — stars Happy Endings alum Adam Pally as a slacker who has a magical duffel bag that allows him to travel through time. (His father was a brilliant physicist, you see.) He ends up in Lexington, right before the American Revolution, and uses modern-day song lyrics (and giant hunks of ham) to charm a colonial girl played by Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester.
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‘Making History’ Looks At The Lighter Side Of Time Travel – TCA
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The creator of Fox's Making History is not worried about all the other time-travel series across the primetime landscape because his is a comedy, Julius Sharpe told weary TV critics on the final Q&A of Fox's time at TCA. "We're not dealing with serious implications," he said. On the other hand, they're planning an episode in which they travel back in time and kidnap the cast of NBC's Timeless and ABC's Time After Time, joked cast member Yassir Lester. The characters on… »
‘Bones’: Will There Ever Be a Reunion After Season 12?
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
The final chapter of “Bones” premiered earlier this month, and with Season 12 underway, only 10 episodes of the long-running crime procedural are left to air.
But, is this season really the end — or could the cast return for a reunion down the road?
Given the current nostalgia-filled television landscape, especially on Fox, which is home to revivals for “24,” “Prison Break,” and “The X-Files,” reporters asked the “Bones” cast and producers if they would ever be interested in a reboot or reunion series in the future.
“I think those things are always possible, and very desirable,” creator Hart Hanson responded at the Television Critics Association press tour on Wednesday in Pasadena, Calif.
With no real plans for a reunion underway — the show hasn’t even ended yet, after all — the cast weighed in on whether they would return for any sort of revival.
David Boreanaz said, “It’s very hard for me to answer that question, honestly »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
Bones Cast, Producers Reflect on Cancellation: 'It Wasn't Our Decision'
3 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Turns out the decision to end Bones was not exactly a mutual one.
During the series’ final Television Critics Association press tour panel on Wednesday, series creator Hart Hanson revealed that the network made the final call to conclude the show after 12 years.
“It wasn’t our decision,” Hanson shared. “We were told it was our last year. It wasn’t that we called the network and said, ‘We’d like to finish it.’ [But] I’m not sure anyone was terribly upset or terribly shocked that it would be our last year.”
Added leading lady Emily Deschanel: “We had a really good run. »
Fox Hits Back Again At “Futile” Netflix Efforts In Executive Poaching Suit
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Less than a week after Netflix filed paperwork to further blunt Fox’s lawsuit over the poaching of two executives under contract, the studio today struck back again. As it has before, Fox reiterated it wants the streaming service’s October 19 cross-complaint tossed and an anti-slapp motion granted by the court. "There are no 'do overs' under the Slapp statute," says 20th Century Fox and Fox 21 TV Studios in the latest installment of a legal drama that started last Septembe… »
‘Bones’ Celebrates Surviving Fox For 12 Years At TCA
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Bones ends its 12-season on Fox when its current 12-episode season wraps. "It wasn't our decision," star Emily Deschanel told TV critics, cryptically, today. "We had a very good run," she added diplomatically during the show's final TCA panel. (Watch clips from Bones‘ first 11 seasons above.) Creator Hart Hanson said he fought with Fox for the entire life of the series. "We were on the bubble all the time,” he said. “We were angry all the time, calling the network asking… »
‘Young & Hungry’ Spinoff Not Going Forward At Freeform
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Freeform has opted not to proceed with its planned Young & Hungry spinoff toplined by Ashley Tisdale and Aimee Carrero. The multi-camera comedy project, titled Young & Sofia, was ordered as a planted spinoff pilot, which aired as the eighth episode of Young & Hungry's most recent fourth season. In Young & Sofia, Carrero reprises her co-starring role from the original series, Sofia Rodriguez, an ambitious banking intern and best friend and roommate to Gabi (Emily Osment)… »
‘In the Heat Of the Night’ TV Series Being Redeveloped With ‘People v. O.J.’ Writer
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In The Heat Of The Night, a present-day drama series based on the Oscar-winning 1967 United Artists feature, is back in development with a new writer. Joe Robert Cole, writer-producer on FX’s People v. O.J. Simpson, is writing the new series adaptation, which is being developed internally at MGM Television. MGM TV previously had set up an In the Heat of the Night TV series — described as an exploration of character and race set in modern-day Mississippi – at Showtime in… »
Teamsters Ratify Commercials Contract
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Members of Teamsters Local 399 have voted to ratify the terms of a new five-year commercials contract covering drivers and location managers. The new deal with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, which goes into effect on February 5, provides for 3% raises in each year of the pact and the maintenance of the current level of pension and health benefits for the life of the contract. Under new provisions that give some idea of the long hours that crews are… »
TV News Roundup: ‘The Good Wife’ Star Chris Noth and ‘Game of Thrones’ Sand Snake Keisha Castle-Hughes Join ‘Manifesto’
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In today’s TV news roundup, “The Good Wife” star Chris Noth and “Game of Thrones” Sand Snake Keisha Castle-Hughes join Discovery Channel’s scripted series “Manifesto,” and more.
Casting
Golden Globe nominee Chris Noth (“The Good Wife”) and Academy Award nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes (“Whale Rider,” “Game of Thrones”) have both been cast in Discovery Channel’s upcoming scripted series “Manifesto,” set to air later this year. The series will tell the story of how the FBI brought down Ted Kaczynski (Paul Bettany), also known as the “Unabomber,” one of the most infamous criminal masterminds in the world. Noth will play Don Ackerman, the Bay Area Divisional Head of the FBI, who supervised the Unabomber Task Force, while Castle-Hughes will star as Tabby, a street agent who partners with FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald (Sam Worthington), one of the most decorated profilers in the history of the bureau whose radical approach ultimately took Kaczynski down. Production »
- Will Thorne
Fox’s ‘X-Men’ TV Show: Creator Matt Nix on How He’ll Introduce New Characters and Avoid the Wolverine Question
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As Fox gets close to ordering its pilot set in the “X-Men” universe, creator Matt Nix revealed a handful of details on Wednesday.
The new, as-yet untitled show follows two ordinary parents who must go on the run after they discover their children have mutant powers. The show fits into the “X-Men” cinematic universe to some degree, Nix told reporters during Fox’s portion of the Television Critics Association press tour for “Apb” (which he also executive produces).
“Without getting into specifics, which I’ll get murdered for getting into, I would say that a fan of the movies but also the comic books would not be disoriented at all,” he said. “Where this fits in the mythology, if you look at the movies, which started around 2003 to now, they don’t all line up perfectly. So I’m not slavishly fitting myself into a particular slot. But at the same time, »
- Michael Schneider
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