Jericho is back from the dead again. Executive producer Jon Turteltaub says that there is a feature in development and, if the show’s ratings on the CW network are a success, the show might even get a third season.
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CBS posts midseason schedule
CBS has announced mid-season schedule changes that include the return of the drama Flashpoint, the premiere of the mystery event Harper’s Island, the debut of the new game show Game Show in My Head and the returns of the Network’s reality hits Survivor and The Amazing Race. Flashpoint, last summer’s top original scripted series, premieres [...]
Jericho moves to the CW this Sunday, TV ad goes national
The CW Network announced its new Sunday schedule this week with a lineup that includes Jericho, the science fiction drama set in post-nuclear America, starring Skeet Ulrich, Lennie James, Alicia Coppola, Brad Beyer, Kenneth Mitchell and Sprague Grayden. Jericho was cancelled by CBS for the second time when season two had run its course in [...]
CBS Interactive launches the Social Viewing Room
CBS Interactive today announced its latest online video innovation, the Social Viewing Room, which launches with Intel as its premier sponsor. The Social Viewing Room lets TV fans watch the most popular CBS Network TV shows online at the same time as their friends, and interact as if they were all sitting together in the [...]
Most popular primetime shows now available in HD on iTunes
The most popular shows airing on all four major television networks – “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Lost” from ABC, “CSI” and “CSI: Miami” from CBS, “Bones” and “Prison Break” airing on FOX, and “Heroes” and “The Office” from NBC Universal – are now available in HD in the iTunes store, Apple announced today. “We’ve got an [...]
Netflix to stream hit Disney and CBS TV series
Netflix, Inc. has announced two new agreements with the CBS Television Network and Disney-ABC Television Group. The agreements will allow current episodes of several popular TV shows to be streamed at Netflix. Netflix members now have instant access to a library of 12,000 choices on their computers and TV sets. The CBS shows to be [...]
Flashpoint gets a second season on CBS
CBS has renewed the Canadian cop procedural Flashpoint for a second season. The 13 new episodes will be broadcast next year. Flashpoint, originally developed by CTV and Pink Sky Entertainment, is the top scripted show this summer, with 7.73 million viewers on average. It was broadcast simultaneously on CBS and CTV. Last week’s episode scored [...]
Vampire alert: True Blood gets season two, Moonlight gets DVD release
HBO has renewed the new vampire series True Blood for another season after airing only two episodes. The second episode drew over four million viewers. Moonlight, which had twice as many viewers on CBS and got cancelled a few months ago, may finally get a definite DVD release date in the U.S. (NBC’s Journeyman, mind [...]
New television shows in the fall season – hits and misses
In the aftermath of the writers’ strike and fewer pilots being developed this year, the major networks are launching only 13 new shows this season, which is half as many as a year ago. Experts at the independent media buying agency TargetCast tcm believe that the fall season may lack any breakout hits. “We are [...]
Flashpoint headed for season two, Swingtown for new home
It seems only yesterday that two new shows airing on CBS this summer, cop thriller Flashpoint and adult family drama Swingtown, had their premieres, and yet their fate already looked decided about a month ago, when the network switched the time slots and moved Flashpoint from Friday to the more desirable Thursday slot. Needless to [...]