ABC has handed out early renewals to its three promising freshman comedy series, “Modern Family,” “Cougar Town” and “The Middle.”
The decision was announced Tuesday by entertainment president Steve McPherson at the Television Critics Assn.’s semi-annual press tour.
The pickups follow Monday’s early renewal by Fox of its breakout freshman dramedy “Glee.”
In the fall, ABC made a [...]
The Directors Guild of America has released its list of TV nominees.
While usual favorites “The Office” and “30 Rock” are conspicuously absent from the Comedy category, AMC drama “Mad Men” dominates the Drama category with three nominations. “Lost” and “In Treatment” nab the other two slots.
The full list of nominees is as follows:
Movies for Television
Bob Balaban, [...]
ABC has ordered even more episodes of the freshman comedy Cougar Town.
The network added two more episodes of the Bill Lawrence-produced show, bumping the first season order to 24, zete.tv has confirmed.
The only trouble ahead for the show will be going up against juggernaut American Idol once the Fox reality series kicks off its ninth [...]
SUNDAY
The new docu-soap “Secrets of Aspen” charts the lives of sexy single ladies Star, Erin, Shana, Robin, Laura and Brooke as they search for Mr. Right — or Mr. Right Now — among the male population of the tony but tiny Colorado resort town. (VH1, 10 p.m.)
MONDAY
Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert engages famous faces — [...]
Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009
CBS’ “11th Annual Home for the Holidays” adoption-awareness special hosted by Faith Hill and NBC’s hour of “Jay Leno” were the only fresh programming for Wednesday night, but it was CBS’ reruns of crime procedurals that eventually gave it the ratings win.
CBS topped the evening with 8.9 million [...]
Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
Although FOX’s finale of the sixth season of ”So You Think You Can Dance” finished fairly strong, CBS still ruled on Wednesday night, thanks to its crime procedurals.
CBS topped the evening with 11.99 million viewers and a 7.4 rating/12 share in households. Second place went to FOX with 7 [...]
It’s good to see that Ugly Betty has a pretty healthy respect for continuity.
The resurgent ABC comedy has inked a deal with Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson to reprise his season 1 role as Betty’s orthodontist.
Ferguson returns in the Jan. 6 episode, the show’s first in its new Wednesday at 10 pm time-slot. Might his [...]
Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
CBS owned Wednesday night among households with its crimetime lineup, but barely edged out strong competition from ABC and FOX for the adult demo title. In particular, ABC’s ”Modern Family”at 8 p.m. and the second half of FOX’s ”Glee” midseason finale at 8:30 p.m. pulled in high numbers for the [...]
ABC has locked in its scripted commitments for the 2009-10 season.
The news, which was confirmed to the site exclusively by network and studio sources, includes some adjustments to its previously indicated episode orders.
Newcomers “V” and “FlashForward” are set to film 12 and 24 total hours, respectively, both one episode shy of numbers reported earlier this [...]
Elizabeth Banks continues to exhibit impeccable taste when it comes to the company she keeps on the tube.
Fresh off her memorable guest turn on ABC’s Modern Family, my former Scrubs co-star is headed to 30 Rock to play the latest notch on Jack Donaghy’s belt, sources confirm to me exclusively.
NBC declined to comment, but I’m [...]
