NEWS ABOUT SHOWS GETTING RENEWED
... Fox has ordered a ninth season of So You Think You Can Dance, the reality competition show that's 99 percent about dancing and only one percent about thinking. Look for another round of people impressively jumping about sometime next summer. [Fox, via press release]
... Fox has also officially ordered a third season of Masterchef, the reality cooking competition for people who don't know the Food Network exists. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay stars/yells. Open casting calls begin October 29 in Los Angeles, so get that recipe for toast perfected! [Fox, via press release]
... Cinemax has ordered a second season of its original action drama Strike Back. The series will return for ten more episodes sometime in 2012. I've heard some good things about this one, but haven't gotten around to watching it. One of the selling points was an episode where guest-stars Mr. Eko and Ser Jorah Mormont fought each other. Cool! [Cinemax, via press release]
... Adult Swim has fulfilled its acronym quota by renewing NTSD:SD:SUV:: for a second season. The live-action procedrual spoof stars Paul Scheer as the leader of an anti-terrorist group. Look for it to return in 2012. [Adult Swim via press release]
NEWS ABOUT SHOWS THAT ARE MAYBE COMING BACK IN SOME FORM
... Netflix reportedly wants to help Reno 911! make a comeback. Then again, Netflix is in discussions to bring back every show that ever went off the air. [Vulture]
... During an interview to support her new show Crazy Sex with Ghosts in Gimp Suits, Connie Britton said that the rumored Friday Night Lights movie, to be based on the show that was based on the movie that was based on the book is, and I quote, "happening for realsies." Just when I thought I couldn't love her anymore... <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 U Connie!!! [US Magazine]
NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE COMING TO SHOWS YOU LOVE
... Ringer will host a mini Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion when Amber Benson guest-stars as a stripper. Benson played Willow's girlfriend Tara Maclay on Buffy. [TV Guide]
... The October 24 episode of How I Met Your Mother will bring back several former guest-stars in what looks to be an epic family reunion. Chris Elliot, Wayne Brady, Frances Conroy, and Bill Fagerbakke will all return to the CBS comedy. Yes, even Fagerbakke, who played Marshall's now-dead father, is coming back. Zombie episode? [EW]
... NBC's upcoming musical drama Smash, which is generating a lot of positive buzz, is lining up lots of guests. The show, about the production of a Broadway musical, will welcome Bernadette Peters and Nick Jonas, people whose respective fan bases know nothing about each other. [THR]
... Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong will guest-star on Nurse Jackie for some reason. [E! Online]
... Chuck continues to aim for a world record in number of guest-stars hosted, and has booked Tim DeKay (White Collar) as Sarah's former handler. Handler!? He barely even knows her! Yuk yuk yuk. I'd like to handle Yvonne Strahovski if you know what I'm saying! *rimshot* Tim, get a handle on yourself! Fine. ☹ [EW]
NEWS ABOUT LESS IMPORTANT YET STILL ENTERTAINING STUFF
... American Horror Story got off to a solid start, freaking the absolute shit out of 3.2 million viewers during its first airing last night. Once you add the encore airing, the thriller was seen by 5 million viewers. But that may just be because 1.8 million viewers from the original audience wanted to see Dylan McDermott crysturbate again. [Deadline Hollywood]
... Are you ready for some royalties to stop coming in? ESPN has dumped Hank Williams Jr.'s theme some permanently in the wake of his comments that compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler on Fox News. [Deadline Hollywood]
... Fox is developing an adaptation of Lev Grossman's novel The Magicians. It's described as "Harry Potter for grown-ups," as is every project that involves magic but no nerdy kids. The book is about 20-year-olds in New York who dabble in the dark arts. [Deadline Hollywood]
NEWS ABOUT A SHOW I'VE NEVER HEARD OF
... MTV is close to renewing Electric Barbarellas for a second season. I've never heard of this show, have you? [Deadline Hollywood]
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I'm surprised to see the word 'shit' uttered in the news blurb here
Isn't it supposed to be NTSF:SD:SUV?
SYTYCD renewed. Great!
Absolutely great pure entertainment!
Some SPOILERS for Friday Night Lights:
I don't want there to be a Friday Night Lights movie. It will either take place in Philadelphia with Eric and Tami and a bunch of new high school students, with the possibility of Matt and Julie appearing. Or they will come up with some contrived way of getting Eric and Tami back to Dillon, which would ruin the end of the series for me.
There are a lot of TV shows that should have a movie made to wrap up storylines, but FNL is not one of them.
i'm with you there. I LOOOOVE Friday Night Lights, but the way the show ended, there's no possible way to do a legit movie that wouldn't compromise something about the amazing show.
This show is boring cancel it already FOX.
NTSD:SD:SUV: being renewed is good news. In fact it's the only good in a long time among news of good shows being cancelled and bad ones being renewed.
Hilarious as always- You should write your own tv-show Tim. It would be a hell of a lot better than the trash "Whitney" serves up.
Forgive me for not being excited about Tara reuniting with Buffy. Oz was so much more interesting/cooler/better for Willow than Tara. Sorry, ranting...
YAY Bernadette Peters! WOW! I might be able to stomach Nick Jonas by just tunnel visioning on Bernadette.
I had my first threesome dream with Tara and Willow. My daily requirement of TMI has now been filled.
Wait, so what are they going to title the new Friday Night Lights movie, since there's already been a movie? lol
I've been waiting for news for a second season of Strike Back. That show kicks a**.Never heard of Electric Barbarellas. Hey MTV when is My Life As Liz coming back, now that show I like.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS MOVIE. That is all. There will never be better news ever. Except for a cure for cancer. But that will only be marginally more exciting.
Wait didn't they make one already?
Very cool to hear about SYTYCD, also MasterChef. And, no never heard of that MTV show.
So Tim Dekay is going from FBI agent to CIA agent, thats cool. Good to see Amber Benson on the show with Sarah. Then again, she is really the only member of the cast not at least doing some recurring or starring role on another network. Hannigan and Brendon are on CBS with HIMYM and Criminal Minds, Boreanez is at Fox with Bones, and up until today, Anthony Head was at NBC with Free Agents. Marsters seems available though and I would love to see Spike and Buffy share the screen again.
A***w Amber Benson on Ringer!!! How awesome. Can't wait to see her on screen with Sarah Michelle Geller!