SO MUCH CASTING NEWS YOU'LL PUKE ... Scrubs star Sarah Chalke is returning to ABC, if all goes well. Chalke has landed the lead role in the pilot How to Live with Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life,… more
A big part of running a network is establishing a brand identity. And a big part of establishing a brand identity involves creating ridiculous promos featuring all your stars in one goofy video. Using its broadcast of the Super Bowl… more
Remind me never to ever make Lost or Fringe the subject of Throwdown again. You guys commented in record numbers for the feature, amassing more than 600 responses. And for the most part, the discussion was remarkably civil and only… more
The problem with excellent TV series is that we tend to wish they would stay on the air forever. Unfortunately, we often have to be careful what we wish for. Frequently we're forced to deal with a once-terrific show becoming… more
Sometimes the people speak up and demand things, and once every 4,000 years, we listen. Earlier this week, in my review of J.J. Abrams' Alcatraz, I naturally drew comparisons to his most popular work, Lost. But given that Alcatraz has… more
What to watch on Monday, January 16... This is it, the first PERFECT week of 2012. The week in which we do everything perfectly, we get all our work done, we pay compliments to strangers, we remember to feed our… more
The dawn of 2012 means it's time for TV to get back to work! But with schedules shifting all over the place to make room for new midseason series, it's difficult to keep track of when and where your favorite… more
This week's episode of Revenge, "Loyalty," had the steely focus of a ninja. Ninjas like thee pair above, dressed in their gis, throwing each other around like rag dolls over the "Atlantic" Ocean. In the wide shot, we saw Emily… more
Today is 11/11/11, which means a meteor will probably crash into the earth, the dead will rise from the grave, or the Rapture will finally happen. But in the small chance that none of it does, today is just a… more
BIG NEWS ... What's the worst-rated show in primetime among the major networks? It's NBC's Chuck, which hasn't settled in too nicely to its new Friday time slot. Last week's episode, the second of the show's fifth and final season,… more
RATINGS NEWS ABOUT COSTUMED CREATURES ... ABC's fairytale spectacular Once Upon a Time debuted Sunday night and kicked all sorts of ass in the ratings, even though it was up against Sunday Night Football and the World Series. More than… more
THE IMPORTANT NEWS ... The Walking Dead returned for Season 2 on Sunday and promptly made a wasteland of the record books. 7.3 million people (editor's note: !!!) tuned in to watch the season opener, and of that ginormous number,… more
COOL NEWS ... We all know what Damon Lindelof has been up to since Lost went off the air: being defensive about the ending of Lost on Twitter. But his showrunning partner Carlton Cuse has stayed pretty quiet. No longer!… more
Last week's episode of Community featured two awesome-sounding fake TV showsCougarton Abbey and Inspector Spacetimethat we found ourselves wishing we could watch in real life. Which of course got us thinking, "What other fake TV shows from within real TV… more
Toddlers & Tiaras: The High School Years" link="/make-it-or-break-it/show/77036/summary.html" target="_blank" loc="left"> NEWS ABOUT SHOW DEVELOPMENT: ... After canceling The Nine Lives of Chloe King and ordering more episodes of The Lying Game ABC Family continued to check items off its to-do… more
Apologies for the tardiness of this story, but my last vacation before the fall season starts delayed my recapanalysis by a few days. Next time I go camping I promise to bring my own personal wi-fi satellite. After a fairly… more
PROGRAMMING NOTES: Syfy has renewed superhero drama Alphas for a second season. [EW] ABC bought a pitch for The Seven Wonders, a "globetrotting adventure" based on the Jack West, Jr. book series by Matthew Reilly. [Deadline] Jimmy Kimmel opened his… more
Swell: Three-day weekend! Unless you have to hurry back from fishing trip to write about Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy story on Monday (poor Tim, but he does it all for you)then it's just a normal weekend. And for… more
THE BIG NEWS ... Remakes, re-dos, reboots, whatever you call them, they're still really hot. NBC is re-somethinging the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, for television. Like the original, the small-screen version will… more
What to watch on Monday, August 29... Here we go, another work week! Don't be too sad, though, you're only two days away from Wednesday, which is only two days away from Friday. See what I'm saying? Me neither. Hello,… more
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