Writers Guild announces WGA Award winners
The Writers Guild announced the winners of this year’s WGA Awards at simultaneous ceremonies at the Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theater in New York on Saturday. Here is the complete list of winners: FILM ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Milk, written by Dustin Lance Black ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Slumdog Millionaire, screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, based [...]
Forget the odds, Jericho lives!
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Megalyn Echikunwoke promoted to regular on CSI: Miami
Megalyn Echikunwoke has been cast on CSI: Miami as the new medical examiner and will become a series regular when the series returns for the seventh season on CBS on September 22. “Megalyn Echikunwoke is an exciting addition to CSI: Miami. She brings savvy humor to her role of Dr. Tara Price, a young medical [...]
Jericho fans deliver a fitting finale to the May sweeps
Television viewers are more than willing to invest money in quality programming. If a show is as successful at inspiring loyalty as Jericho has been over the last couple of years, it doesn’t even matter that it has been cancelled. Not in this particular case anyway, since Jericho producers Carol Barbee and Jon Steinberg have [...]
Blood, peanuts and the future of television
It’s been two months since CBS cancelled one of its most popular scripted dramas, Jericho, starring Skeet Ulrich and Lennie James, the show that fictionalizes a possible aftermath of nuclear fallout in the U.S. Even if there has not been much concrete news lately, the hope that the Jericho story may be continued is still [...]
Esai Morales and Paula Malcomson cast as leads on Caprica
Jericho star Esai Morales is the leading man on the upcoming Caprica pilot, a prequel to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series and hopefully a beginning of another successful sci fi saga. The pilot is scheduled to start filming in the summer. Morales has been cast as Joseph Adama, a successful and influential lawyer introduced – [...]
Jericho ‘mayor’ addresses fans, more campaigns underway
Michael Gaston, who plays mayor Gray Anderson on the CBS series Jericho, posted on the CBS’ official board yesterday, following the confirmation that the show would not see another season on CBS. He thanked the fans for their ongoing support, saying: ”It has a been a very painful week for us as we all got [...]
