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Few actors have as extensive a filmography as Steven Weber, and his best movies and TV shows reveal an astounding level of variety that stands as a testament to the Wings and Chicago Med star's versatility. Born in 1961 with a career that started in 1984, Steven Weber has starred in dozens of movies and TV shows across the decades. He got his earliest experience as a child actor in TV commercials, but his big break came in the 1984 romantic comedy Flamingo Kid.

From this early appearance, Steven Weber went on to star in a variety of movies and TV shows throughout the 1980s, including the acclaimed Vietnam War movie Hamburger Hill. However, it was landing a leading role in the 1990-1997 sitcom Wings that truly kick-started Steven Weber's career, and decades later the actor is still enjoying an incredibly successful and active career. Picking out the best Steven Weber movies and...

Exclusive: The Bear star Abby Elliott has signed with Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment for representation.

Elliott plays Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto in FX’s Emmy-winning breakout hit The Bear, which is currently streaming its third season and has been renewed for a fourth. She was just announced as a series regular in Sarah Snook’s upcoming Peacock series All Her Fault, alongside Snook, Dakota Fanning, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis and Michael Peña.

Elliott joined Saturday Night Live as the youngest female cast member in the show’s history at 21, where she was a cast member for four seasons. She also starred on Bravo comedy Odd Mom Out and NBC sitcom Indebted.

Elliott is a third generation actor, following in the footsteps of her father, actor and comedian Chris Elliott and her grandfather, radio comedian Bob Elliott.

She continues to be repped by Paradigm and Melissa Fox at Hansen Jacobson Teller et al.

As this slow broadcast network pilot season continues, ABC has ordered its second comedy pilot of the year: “Forgive and Forget,” a multi-camera comedy set to star Emmy-winning “Modern Family” alum Ty Burrell.

Burrell is also on board as an executive producer (through his Desert Whale Prods. shingle) on “Forgive and Forget,” while Eugene Garcia-Cross is writer/exec producer and Robin Shorr is on board as showrunner and exec producer. 20th Television is behind the project, which stars Burrell as Hank, a perennial “life of the party.” According to the logline, Hank gets an unexpected diagnosis, leading him to reconnect with his responsible adult son Ben.

ABC has also ordered the comedy pilot “Shifting Gears,” starring Tim Allen, for this season. That means both of the network’s comedy pilots are multi-camera sitcoms from 20th TV starring veteran ABC stars.

“Forgive and Forget” would rep Burrell’s return to the Alphabet web — where,...

ABC is piloting a new comedy starring and exec produced by Ty Burrell.

Deadline revealed that the multicamera project Forgive & Forget was in the works a year ago and the project, which comes from Punky Brewster duo Eugene Garcia-Cross and Robin Shorr, is now moving forward.

It is the latest pilot order for the Disney-owned network; Deadline revealed that Tim Allen was returning to ABC for a family comedy from Duncanville co-creators Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Sully. That marked the first pilot order of the season for ABC, which has instead been focusing on year-round development.

The show, which comes from 20th Television, follows perennial life of the party Hank (Burrell). After an unexpected diagnosis, Hank reconnects with his responsible adult son Ben in hopes of making new memories together.

Garcia-Cross will write with Shorr as showrunner. They will exec produce alongside Burrell via his Desert Whale Productions banner.

Exclusive: After it emerged that over 300 actors had written to SAG-AFTRA leadership that they are “prepared to strike” if the guild doesn’t “get all the way there” during talks with the studios, the number of actors signing the letter has more than tripled overnight.

Deadline can reveal that the letter has now been signed by over 1,000 actors, including stars such as Charlize Theron, Joaquin Phoenix, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cobie Smulders and Pedro Pascal, as well as, curiously SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher.

Other names recently added include Paul Giamatti, Bradley Whitford, Rose Byrne, Olivia Wilde, Ewan McGregor, Aubrey Plaza, Rooney Mara and Sarah Paulson.

Given that Drescher, the star of long-running sitcom The Nanny, is essentially leading the charge during negotiations with the AMPTP, alongside chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, her signature is an interesting move.

Having said that, Drescher, who also starred in This Is Spinal Tap and NBC comedy Indebted,...

Since starting on "Saturday Night Live" in 2008, Abby Elliott has established herself as a successful actor. After departing the beloved sketch show, Elliott starred in the Bravo sitcom "Odd Mom Out" as Brooke Von-Weber and as Rebecca Klein in the NBC sitcom "Indebted." Most recently, Elliott has garnered attention and acclaim for her role as Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto on Hulu's "The Bear" alongside Jeremy Allen White.

When she isn't busy working, though, Elliott shares parenting duties with her husband, "House of Cards" writer Bill Kennedy. The two began dating in 2014 and tied the knot in the presence of 200 guests in September 2016, as reported by People. Elliott and Kennedy have since welcomed two children together, daughter Edith Pepper and son William Joseph. While "The Bear" actor is now a happy mom of two, the journey to motherhood was initially a tough one. She underwent IVF prior to the birth of her first child,...

Abby Elliott has come a long way since her "Saturday Night Live" days. Since leaving the sketch comedy series in 2012, Abby has landed the sitcoms "Odd Mom Out" and "Indebted," as well as films like "Sex Ed" and "Better Off Single." Currently, she stars in the award-winning series "The Bear." In the show, Abby plays Natalie "Sugar" Berzatto, who is the coowner of The Beef restaurant. "It's really exciting to be a part of something that has touched so many people," Abby said about her involvement on the show during an August 2022 episode of "The Last Laugh" podcast. "[It's the first time I've been a] part of a project that people have really responded to in this sort of way."

Abby's success as an actor isn't surprising since she comes from a family of entertainers. Her father is comedian Chris Elliott, while her mother is actor and talent coordinator Paula Niedert Elliott. Abby is also the granddaughter of radio personality Bob Elliott,...

Led by Fran Drescher's Fran Fine, The Nanny cast is composed of veteran actors from both television and film. The classic '90s sitcom The Nanny aired for six seasons and over 140 episodes on CBS between 1993 and 1999. It was the show that made star Fran Drescher a household name. Co-created with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, The Nanny was partly inspired by a trip Drescher took to London to visit her former Princesses co-star Twiggy. After spending a lot of time with the British model-actress' kids, Drescher got the idea for a show riffing on The Sound Of Music but with her as a nanny instead of some Julie Andrews type.

And so The Nanny was born, with Drescher starring as Fran – the loud-mouthed nanny to the three children of a stuffy British widower and Broadway producer living in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It was a role that...

Exclusive: Punky Brewster duo Eugene Garcia-Cross and Robin Shorr have teamed up with Modern Family star Ty Burrell on a new multi-camera comedy for ABC.

Deadline understands that the trio are developing Forgive and Forget for the Disney-owned network, a family comedy about Alzheimer’s.

The show, which comes from 20th Television, follows Ben Flemings, who, when his life-of-the-party father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, is forced to take in the one man he’s worked his whole life not to become.

Garcia-Cross will write with Shorr as showrunner. They will exec produce alongside Burrell via his Desert Whale Productions banner.

Garcia-Cross is a co-producer on Disney+’s reboot of The Santa Clause and previously worked on Punky Brewster for Peacock and Indebted for NBC. He was a member of the 2018 NBC Writers On The Verge Program.

Forgive and Forget is inspired by his experiences of caring for a parent...

Exclusive: Before Kevin Hart was a top comedian, a global movie star and a media mogul, he was a lost 20-year-old in Philly working at a sneaker shop in a 90s mall. That early chapter in Hart’s life is the inspiration for True To Size, a half-hour single camera comedy, which, in a competitive situation, has landed at Peacock for development. The project hails from stand-up comedian and writer Dan Levy (The Goldbergs), Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat Productions, Doug Robinson and Sony Pictures Television, where Robinson and his Drp Productions are based.

Hart has spoken openly about his stint as a sneaker salesman, which he took very seriously at the time and strived to be the best at despite only taking the job to make his mom happy and keep him out of trouble. The gig would eventually change his life when the store manager convinced him to try standup at an open mic.

FX has picked up a half-hour comedy called The Bear, starring Shameless alum Jeremy Allen White, to series.

The show centers on a young chef (White) who returns to Chicago to run his family’s restaurant. The FX Productions series also stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach (NOS4A2, Girls), Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth), Lionel Boyce (Hap and Leonard), Abby Elliott (Indebted, SNL) and Liza Colón-Zayas (In Treatment). Edwin Gibson and Matty Matheson will recur.

Joanna Calo (Bojack Horseman) executive produces with Atlanta‘s Hiro Murai (who has a first-look deal at FX) and his Super Frog partner Nate Matteson, Christopher Storer (Ramy, Eighth Grade) and Josh Senior. Matheson is ...

FX has picked up a half-hour comedy called The Bear, starring Shameless alum Jeremy Allen White, to series.

The show centers on a young chef (White) who returns to Chicago to run his family’s restaurant. The FX Productions series also stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach (NOS4A2, Girls), Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth), Lionel Boyce (Hap and Leonard), Abby Elliott (Indebted, SNL) and Liza Colón-Zayas (In Treatment). Edwin Gibson and Matty Matheson will recur.

Joanna Calo (Bojack Horseman) executive produces with Atlanta‘s Hiro Murai (who has a first-look deal at FX) and his Super Frog partner Nate Matteson, Christopher Storer (Ramy, Eighth Grade) and Josh Senior. Matheson is ...

Exclusive: National Hispanic Media Coalition welcomes 10 new Latinx writers to its 2021 Series Scriptwriters Program: Linzy Beltran, April M. Sanchez, Diego Moreno, Michel Lichand, Eli Vazquez, Ana Defillo, Rolando Gomez, Desiree Carcamo, Samantha Renee Cordero, and Linda Dillon Moya.

The civil rights non-profit organization provides writers at various stages of their careers with networking opportunities with industry pros with the goal of finding staffing opportunities and learning how to sell their scripts to top studios and networks. The program is part of Nhmc’s commitment to making Hollywood a more inclusive industry by supporting Latinx creatives to navigate in a competitive market.

“Nhmc is proud to cultivate the next generation of storytellers. We are always elated to see a new group of writers start this program. They are the future of the industry. From the next staff writers to your favorite show’s showrunners,” said Brenda Victoria Castillo, President & CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition.

ABC’s promising-if-unformed new comedy Home Economics wants to be a timely show about the importance of family in a precarious post-quarantine world, when it’s actually a comedy slightly out of sync with its time.

Home Economics is launching at least a year late, since it could have been hailed as the best comedy in a midseason 2020 pack full of shows about how family is the best cure for economic insecurity. Through three episodes sent to critics, it’s leaps and bounds better than Outmatched, Indebted, Broke and United We Fall, a quartet of half-season series that even TV critics may not remember. All four ...

ABC’s promising-if-unformed new comedy Home Economics wants to be a timely show about the importance of family in a precarious post-quarantine world, when it’s actually a comedy slightly out of sync with its time.

Home Economics is launching at least a year late, since it could have been hailed as the best comedy in a midseason 2020 pack full of shows about how family is the best cure for economic insecurity. Through three episodes sent to critics, it’s leaps and bounds better than Outmatched, Indebted, Broke and United We Fall, a quartet of half-season series that even TV critics may not remember. All four ...

In recent years, class has been the great unspoken element of TV family comedies.

The genre that gave us the Bundys, the Conners and the Simpsons — all families who were whose neighborhoods lay an unbridgeable distance from great wealth — had moved, in the past decade, onto “Modern Family’s” Pritchetts and “Black-ish’s” Johnsons. These families, the standard-bearers for the family sitcom in the 2010s, had enough concerns to fuel multiseason runs, but money rarely seemed to be one. This left on the table one of the major stories of American family life in an age of increasing precarity, and also created a strange sort of airless feeling. If these folks could afford to do anything, where was the tension?

If nothing else, it’s refreshing to see the sitcom take up social class as a concern once again. The next step is to come up with something worth saying.

TBS announced that it has cast Damon Wayans Jr., Jessy Hodges, Alex Karpovsky, and Nate Torrence in its upcoming scripted comedy pilot, “Kill the Orange-Faced Bear”. The pilot is scheduled to begin shooting in Portland in May. “Kill the Orange-Faced Bear” is […]

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Outlander has cast three pivotal Season 6 characters, Starz announced Friday.

Relative newcomer Jessica Reynolds will play Malva Christie, whom readers of Diana Gabaldon’s books will recognize as the young woman who becomes Claire’s apprentice and eventually causes great trouble on Fraser’s Ridge. Meanwhile, Mark Lewis Jones (Chernobyl) will play Tom Christie, Malva’s father and one of Jamie’s not-so-friendly acquaintances from his Ardsmuir Prison days. Alexander Vlahos (Merlin) will play Allan Christie, Malva’s brother, who is wary of strangers.

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Damon Wayans Jr. has signed on to star in “Kill the Orange-Faced Bear,” the TBS comedy pilot about a man bent on revenge after a bear eats his girlfriend.

Wayans Jr., whose credits include the much-beloved “Happy Endings” as well as his disappearance and then reappearance on the hit “New Girl,” will be joined by Jessy Hodges (“Indebted”), Alex Karpovsky (“Girls”) and Nate Torrence (“Hello Ladies”).

Wayans Jr., who will also serve as an executive producer, plays Hank, described as a “charming, funny and grieving man who’s hell-bent on tracking down the bear who attacked his girlfriend on a camping trip.” “Kill the Orange-Faced Bear” will be told both from Hank’s point of view, as well as the Pov of the bear, “who is just trying to move on from the incident and navigate the other idiot bears in her life.”

Hodges was cast as Stacy, the girlfriend who becomes the bear snack,...

“Anne With an E” (Netflix)

Final Episode Jan. 3 “Harvey Girls Forever!” (Netflix)

Final episode Jan. 10 “Limetown” (Facebook Watch)

Canceled Jan. 16 “Sorry for Your Loss” (Facebook Watch)

Canceled Jan. 16 “The Ranch” (Netflix)

Final episode Jan. 24 “Flirty Dancing” (Fox)

Final episode Jan. 25 “Star Wars Resistance” (Disney Channel)

Final episode Jan. 26 “Arrow” (The CW)

Final episode Jan. 28 “Homicide Hunter” (ID)

Final episode Jan. 29 “The Good Place” (NBC)

Final episode Jan. 30 “New Looney Tunes” (Boomerang)

Final episode Jan. 30 “Bojack Horseman” (Netflix)

Final episode Jan. 31 “Soundtrack” (Netflix)

Canceled Jan. 31 “Spinning Out” (Netflix)

Canceled Feb. 3 “Ray Donovan” (Showtime)

Canceled Feb. 4 “If Loving You Is Wrong” (OWN)

Canceled Feb. 5 “Power” (Starz)

Final episode Feb. 9 “Shimmer and Shine” (Nick Jr.)

Final episode Feb. 9 “Insatiable” (Netflix)

Canceled Feb. 14 “Mike Tyson Mysteries” (Adult Swim)

Final episode Feb. 16 “Criminal Minds” (CBS)

Final episode Feb. 19 “Fresh off the Boat” (ABC)

Final episode Feb. 21 “High Noon” (ESPN)

Canceled Feb. 25 “Hawaii Five-0” (CBS)

Canceled Feb.

Latinx arts advocacy group Nosotros and NBC have selected Pierre Jean Gonzalez and Desiree Carcamo as the winners of the 2nd Annual Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam. The annual event, which streamed on December 9, showcased a diverse group of Latinx Writers and Actors with original well-rounded monologues and performances that covered a diverse range of subjects in their storytelling, providing different perspectives of the Latinx experience while using universally relatable themes such as love, loss, hope, language, family, and female empowerment.

Gonzalez was the winner of the Acting Competition for Monologue with Brown Billiards while Desiree Carcamo was announced as the winner of the Writing Competition for Monologue with Not All Tamales Look the Same.

The 2020 Nosotros Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam kicked off May 1 with its open call submissions in search of diverse Latino Writers both nationally and internationally. It continued in August with the open call submissions of...

After a series of hit shows that streamed on their platform, Sony Liv is now gearing up for their next big one, Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story. Expected to arrive in early October, the web series is special since it is based on the true story of stock broker Harshad Mehta, who had made headlines back in 1992 when the big stock market scam ranging in thousands of crores was unveiled.

There was good intrigue created around mid-August itself when the teaser of the web series was revealed. With director Hansal Mehta at the helm of affairs, one was rest assured that there would be quite some content coupled with style that would be the hallmark of Scam 1992. Moreover, to bring in good realism in this fact meets fiction tale, Gujarati actor Pratik Gandhi is the chosen one to enact the part of Harshad Mehta.

Actors who play the part...

During the regular 2018-19 season, NBC launched six new scripted TV shows and four of them were cancelled. Which TV shows will be cancelled or renewed during the 2019-20 television season? Stay tuned.

NBC shows this season (so far): America's Got Talent, America's Got Talent: The Champions, The Blacklist, Blindspot, Bluff City Law, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago Pd, Council of Dads, Dateline NBC, Ellen's Game of Games, Ellen's Greatest Night of Giveaways, Good Girls, The Good Place, Hollywood Game Night, Indebted, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector, Little Big Shots, Making It, Manifest, New Amsterdam, Perfect Harmony, Songland, Sunnyside, Superstore, This Is Us, The Titan Games, The Voice, The Wall, Will & Grace, World of Dance, and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

There's lots of data that NBC execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel...

NBC, hot on the heels of CBS and ABC doing same, has released its own Fall TV premiere plan, and it includes actual, autumnal return dates for This Is Us, each and every #OneChicago, and Superstore.

Also locked in — or as “locked in” as anything can be mid-pandemic — for fall are The Voice, Svu and Blacklist; the new, socially distanced comedy Connecting; and the Jane Lynch-hosted Weakest Link.

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In the wake of the unleashed 'Covid-19' pandemic virus plague, film studios have canceled a slew of TV series, including shows from Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, A&e, USA, Pop TV, Starz, CBS All Access, History, Paramount, Syfy, Showtime, Facebook Watch and Freeform:

Canceled Series

Lost in Space (Netflix)

Turn Up Charlie (Netflix)

Osmosis (Netflix)

Mortel (Netflix)

Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show (Netflix)

Marianne (Netflix)

Soundtrack (Netflix)

Spinning Out (Netflix)

Aj and the Queen (Netflix)

Messiah (Netflix)

V Wars (Netflix)

October Faction (Netflix)

Next in Fashion (Netflix)

Cops (Paramount)

Live Pd (A&E)

Tell Me a Story (CBS All Access)

Project Blue Book (History)

Knightfall (History)

The Purge (USA)

Treadstone (USA)

Dare Me (USA)

The Magicians (Syfy)

Vagrant Queen (Syfy)

Reprisal (Hulu)

Harlots (Hulu)

Emergence (ABC)

Single Parents (ABC)

Schooled (ABC)

Bless This Mess (ABC)

Kids Say the Darndest Things (ABC)

Broke (CBS)

Carol's Second Act (CBS)

God Friended Me...

NBC has canceled the family drama “Council of Dads” after one season.

Series star J. August Richards broke the news in an Instagram post on Thursday. “I want to thank @joanrater and @tvphelan for the willingness to give voice and representation to #gayfamilies, #blacklgbt, #qpoc and the worldwide #lgbtq community by telling the story of Oliver, Peter and Tess Post-Richards,” he wrote in the post, also thanking the show’s fans for watching.

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So that’s a series wrap on @nbccouncilofdads (aka the show has been cancelled)… I want to thank @joanrater and @tvphelan for the willingness to give voice and representation to #gayfamilies, #blacklgbt, #qpoc and the worldwide #lgbtq community by telling the story of Oliver, Peter and Tess Post-Richards… I also want to thank You! Yes, You! I took a big risk and you let me know you have my back… And, in truth,...

NBC has opted not to renew family drama Council of Dads, sources confirm to Deadline. The decision comes two episodes before the end of the drama’s Season 1 run. Co-star J. August Richards revealed the cancellation in an Instagram post, noting that “tonight is my favorite episode of the season!!!” (You can read his message to fans below)

Council of Dads premiered on March 24 following the season finale of This Is Us. It was the second consecutive drama series in the mold of This Is Us launched by NBC that did not go beyond one season, following last season’s The Village. Council of Dads ranks as one of NBC’s lowest rated drama series of the season. It joins fellow freshman NBC series Bluff City Law, Lincoln Rhyme, Perfect Harmony, Indebted and Sunnyside which all have been canceled. The one NBC first-year scripted show to make it to Season 2 is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

Will Dave evict his parents in the first season of the Indebted TV show on NBC? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Indebted is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Indebted here. Status update below.

An NBC family sitcom, the Indebted TV show stars Adam Pally, Abby Elliott, Jessy Hodges, with Steven Weber and Fran Drescher. Young parents Dave (Pally) and Rebecca (Elliott) are ready to reclaim their life after years of diapers and sleepless nights with their young kids. However, things take an unexpected turn when Dave’s parents, Stew (Weber) and Debbie (Drescher), show up...

With production slowly but surely getting underway on TV shows that were shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, NBC has announced its fall schedule.

Unlike Fox and The CW, the network is planning on bringing back much of its original programming later this year, with one new drama joining the fall lineup.

Law & Order: Organized Crime is the Svu spinoff starring Christopher Meloni, and it will be paired with its parent series on Thursday nights.

This will allow the two shows to have natural crossovers in a similar way to the #OneChicago franchise on Wednesday nights.

Chicago Fire, Med, and P.D. will be staying put on Wednesdays, which makes sense.

All three have posted solid ratings, so NBC does not need to do anything with them.

Mondays will see Manifest return in the fall after being banished to midseason for the 2019-20 TV season. This is great news for...

NBC is the latest broadcast network (following CBS, Fox and The CW) to unveil its coronavirus-delayed game plan for the 2020-21 TV season, and, like CBS, the Peacock network is taking a business-as-usual approach

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NBC’s pandemic-era fall slate boasts 16 returning programs, including Sunday Night Football (which kicks off with Cowboys/Rams on Sept. 13), the top-rated This Is Us and its #OneChicago trifecta.

NBC has picked up a third season of missing plane drama series Manifest, from Jeff Rake and Warner Bros. TV.

The season 2 finale drew solid numbers, earning a 0.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.58 million viewers, with the series averaging a 1.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 7.7 million viewers in live plus seven, according to Nielsen.

Deadline understands that the renewal came down to the wire as the network and the studio, in this case Warner Bros Television, worked out financial details.

Clearly influenced by the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, in Manifest, when Montego Air Flight 828 landed safely after a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers were relieved. Yet in the span of those few hours, the world had aged five years and their friends, families and colleagues, after mourning their loss, had given up hope and moved on. Now, faced with the impossible, they’re all given a second chance.

NBC has decided that “Manifest”‘s destiny is to have a third season.

The network has renewed the drama for a third season, while at the same time sources have confirmed to to Variety that a trio of its freshman series, namely “Sunnyside,” “Bluff City Law” and “Indebted,” have all been canceled after a single season.

“Manifest” centers around the crew and passengers of Flight 828 who disembark after a turbulent flight to find the world has aged five-and-a-half years and their friends, families and colleagues had given up hope of ever seeing them again. Now, faced with the impossible, the passengers’ dreams of a second chance at life evaporate as they encounter the imminent danger surrounding them, both tangible and unexplained. With the stakes higher than ever, the passengers of Flight 828 will embark on an unexpected journey into a world grounded in hope, heart and destiny.

The show’s cast includes Melissa Roxburgh,...

NBC has finalized decisions on some of its remaining shows, picking up another season of “Manifest” and cancelling “Indebted,” “Bluff City Law” and “Sunnyside,” TheWrap has learned

The network, which has not yet unveiled its fall schedule, has held off on making renewal and cancellation decisions this year beyond the typical May upfronts deadline, with the freshman drama “Council of Dads” still in limbo as its 10-episode season finishes out its run.

The cancellations for “Sunnyside” and “Bluff City Law” come long after both shows were taken off the network’s schedule. “Sunnyside” was moved to digital last fall after a handful of episodes, while “Bluff City” law was passed over for a full-season pickup in November. “Indebted” completed airing its 12-episode season in April.

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“Manifest,” which is currently in its second season, has averaged a 1.5 rating in adults 18-...

NBC is firming up the remainder of its scripted lineup.

The network on Monday night handed out a third-season to bubble drama Manifest as it also canceled three rookie series: Bluff City Law and comedies Sunnyside and Indebted.

Manifest, a co-production between Warner Bros. TV and Universal TV and from creator Jeff Rake, averaged a 1.5 rating among the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demo and 7.7 million total viewers with seven days of delayed viewing. The sophomore plane crash drama starring Melissa Roxburgh and Josh Dallas also improved NBC's Monday at 10 p.m. slot 88 percent in the ...

NBC has announced the fate of two bubble shows, and it's not good news. 

The Peacock network has canceled Lincoln Rhyme and Perfect Harmony after their freshman runs. 

Lincoln Rhyme starred Grimm's Russell Hornsby as the titular criminal profiler, who became paralyzed after a run-in with a serial murderer known as The Bone Collector years before the series started.

When The Bone Collector became active again, Lincoln was called back into service, with his police partner Amelia (played by The Vampire Diaries' Arielle Kebbel) playing his right hand in the quest to find and take down the killer. 

Across its 10-episode run, Lincoln Rhyme averaged a 0.5 demo rating and 3.7 million total viewers. These were decent numbers for Friday, so the series was thought to be in the running for a renewal. 

Unfortunately, the delayed ratings were not as strong as NBC had hoped, and that is likely to blame for...

Perfect Harmony and Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector will not be returning to NBC.

The broadcaster has canceled both the freshman comedy and freshman drama series.

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector, which launched in January, ran for 10 episodes and is based on Jeffrey Deaver’s Bone Collector book series. It starred Russell Hornsby as Lincoln Rhyme, a brilliant but hardheaded forensic criminologist who suffers near-fatal injuries while on the job, leaving him a tetraplegic. He nevertheless continues his work remotely, working with others to solve cases. It also stars Arielle Kebbel, Roslyn Ruff, Ramses Jimenez, Brooke Lyons, Tate Ellington, Brian F. O’Byrne, Courtney Grosbeck and Michael Imperioli.

Written by VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli, the pair exec produce with Keshet’s Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan. Sony Pictures TV and Universal TV produce in association with Keshet Studios.

Musical comedy Perfect Harmony,...

Every year, the NBC television network airs new and continuing TV series. Many are cancelled and many are renewed by the season's end. Although everyone understands that Nielsen ratings usually play a big role in TV cancellations and renewals, most fans do not get to participate in that system. So, we are offering you the chance to rate NBC TV shows here, instead.

NBC TV series that have premiered (so far) during the 2019-20 television season: America's Got Talent: The Champions, The Blacklist, Bluff City Law, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago Pd, Council of Dads, Ellen's Game of Games, Ellen's Greatest Night of Giveaways, Good Girls, The Good Place, Hollywood Game Night, Indebted, Law & Order: Svu, Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector, Little Big Shots, Making It, Manifest, New Amsterdam, Perfect Harmony, Songland,...

May is almost over, and NBC is yet to announce the fate of several bubble shows. 

Typically, these decisions are already made by now, but this is no normal year. 

With the spread of the novel coronavirus bringing TV production, as well as the traditional pilot season to a grinding halt, we need answers. 

While NBC has already renewed This Is Us, New Amsterdam, Chicago Fire, Med, P.D., Superstore, Law & Order: Svu, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Blacklist, and Good Girls, several shows are still in limbo. 

The shows in limbo are:

- Manifest

- Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

- Lincoln Rhyme: The Hunt for the Bone Collector

- Council of Dads

- Perfect Harmony

- Indebted

The biggest shocker on the list is Manifest. 

Yes, Manifest Season 2 took a big tumble in the ratings vs. Manifest Season 1. Still, the show continued to be a force in delayed viewing. 

NBC factors in Live + 35 day ratings,...

NBC, which opened the 2020 renewal season with a massive three-season pickup for New Amsterdam back in January, still has quite a few shows on the bubble.

Leading the pack is sparkly newcomer Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, a co-production between Lionsgate TV and Universal TV. The musical dramedy has a passionate following and just topped USA Today’s annual Save Our Shows poll with record support.

It has a lot in common with Sunday night companion Good Girls. Both are female-driven vehicles that combine drama and comedy, and both get the bulk of their ratings from delayed and digital viewing. One thing that separates the two is that Good Girls, fully owned by NBCUniversal via producing studio Universal TV, has a lucrative Netflix library streaming deal, which sealed another renewal for the caper earlier this month.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is a digital phenom with huge online/social media following whose very...

Since mid-March, the coronavirus pandemic has upended every aspect of life in the United States, causing stay-at-home mandates in most states in an attempt to contain the spread of Covid-19.

As a consequence, the entertainment industry — a multi-billion-dollar global business — has come to a grinding halt, with every television show and movie indefinitely shut down, putting most of the tens of thousands of people employed by those productions out of work. The shutterings hit the broadcast networks — Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, and The CW — toward the end of the traditional TV season, so some shows had already completed production before the summer hiatus. Others — such as ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” which had shot 21 episodes of its 25-episode order — simply had to adjust accordingly, concluding its season early on April 9.

The bigger concern for the networks is what to do with their fall 2020 schedules, which under normal circumstances would have been unveiled to advertisers,...

There are two nights left to count until the 2019-2020 television season is in the books and, as usual, some shows had a better year than others. This time around, broadcast’s lowest-rated entertainment series among adults 18-49, which is the demographic beloved by advertisers, was the Melissa McCarthy-hosted kids’ talent show “Little Big Shots,” with several series tying for second-to-last place. Click through TheWrap’s gallery to see this season’s 22 lowest-rated broadcast TV shows ranked by their “most current” Nielsen ratings, which include a week’s worth of delayed viewing where available. For the purposes of this story, we elected not to count shows on The CW and newsmagazines like “20/20,” “48 Hours” and “Dateline,” which would have gobbled up several slots. The list goes highest to lowest and there are ties.

Rank: 17 (tie) Show: “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector” Net: NBC 18-49 Rating: 0.8

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NBC has renewed the dramedy series “Good Girls” for a fourth season, Variety has learned exclusively.

The news comes after the show’s third season was cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, which forced many productions to fall short of their episode orders after production was suspended across the board. Thus Season 3 of the show only consisted of 11 episodes, with the finale airing on May 3.

The series has averaged a 0.9 rating in adults 18-49 and 3.4 million viewers overall in the Nielsen Live+7 ratings. It has performed well in multi-platform viewing, with the first two seasons currently available on Netflix.

It stars Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman along with Reno Wilson, Manny Montana, Lidya Jewett, Isaiah Stannard and Matthew Lillard. Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs write and executive produce. Michael Weaver directs and executive produces, with Mark Wilding also executive producing. Universal Television is the studio.

NBC gave out a...

We are headed into what may be the most surreal couple of weeks yet in the TV business during the coronavirus pandemic. The broadcast networks are expected to step up their renewals for next season while also making some straight-to-series orders to (mostly) unproduced pilots.

But, as the Covid-19-related Hollywood shutdown is approaching the two-month mark, there are more cuts looming. Creators and producers, who normally sit by the phone this time of year, anxiously waiting to find out whether their pilot has been picked up or whether their show has been renewed, may be dreading calls from their studios even more this time because it could be the news that their overall deal has been terminated. The force majeure axe is expected to start falling soon, with dozens of writer and non-writing producer pacts possibly suspended or killed.

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CBS’ S.W.A.T. team oughta bust down a lot more doors next season, if TVLine readers have any say in the matter.

As dozens of broadcast-tv series wrap their seasons, leaving the networks to decide each show’s fate (and in such unusual times), we asked you to name as many as three yet-to-be-renewed shows that you hope to see picked up for another season. (Keeping in mind, of course, that the May Upfronts may look significantly different this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, potentially tweaking the timeline of these renew/cancel decisions.)

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ABC provided a spoonful of sugar to make the self-isolation medicine go down on Thursday night with the “Disney Family Singalong,” which scored massive numbers for the network.

The singalong scored a 2.6 rating among adults 18-49, more than doubling its nearest competitors on the night, and drew 10.3 million total viewers. That rating is the largest Live+Same Day number scored by any show since the Oscars. The show was hosted by Ryan Seacrest and featured a star-studded lineup of performances from the likes of Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande, and Christina Aguilera, and fans were even treated so a small cameo from Beyonce. It was followed by an episode of “Station 19” in a new time slot, which scored a 1.3 rating and just under 7 million total viewers. “How to Get Away With Murder” rounded off the night with a 0.6 and 3.1 million viewers.

ABC’s nearest competitor was CBS, which was led...

“The Disney Family Singalong” was a dream come true for ABC on Thursday, scoring a 2.6 rating among adults 18-49 and 10.3 million total viewers, according to initial data from Nielsen. Those gaudy returns put ABC in first place in both the key demo and overall eyeballs for last night’s primetime.

You can watch the “Disney Family Singalong” performances given by Beyonce, Ariana Grande, Darren Criss, Derek Hough, Josh Groban, the “High School Musical” cast and more celebs here.

ABC was first in ratings with a 1.5 rating/7 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and in total viewers with an average of 6.8 million, according to preliminary numbers. At 8 p.m., “The Disney Family Singalong” earned the above mentioned impressive 2.6 rating and 10.3 million viewer tally, plus a 13 share. At 9, “Station 19” posted a 1.3/6 and 7 million viewers. “How to Get Away With Murder” at 10 got a 0.6/3 and 3.1 million viewers.

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Comcast and NBCUniversal are pushing Peacock out of the nest starting Wednesday, April 15, promising to unfurl a rich plume of 15,000-plus hours of streaming content, first for the cable giant’s own TV and internet customers.

Peacock is then slated to be available across the U.S. on July 15 — while NBCU is mulling the possibility of moving that up sooner — in various three tiers across mobile, web and connected-tv devices: paid with ads ($4.99 monthly); paid with no ads ($9.99 monthly); and completely free with ads with a truncated content lineup. With the national launch, Comcast (and Cox) subscribers also will have the option to get an ad-free version of the service for an additional $5 per month.

So what’s on the menu? Peacock will include live and on-demand content across current and past TV shows, movies, news, and late night programming, with some live sports once they resume post-pandemic. Most of...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings.

With more than 530 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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ABC topped Thursday in both viewers and the key adults 18-49 demo, as the early season finale for “Grey’s Anatomy” drew the show’s best viewership of the season.

The April 9 episode of “Grey’s,” which was turned into the longrunning drama’s season finale after the coronavirus shut down production, notched 7.31 million viewers and a 1.4 rating in the demo, which tied its second-best output in that metric this year.

ABC finished Thursday with an overall 1.1 rating and 5.93 million viewers.

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Elsewhere on ABC, “Station 19” drew a 1.3 rating and 7.51 million viewers, while “How to Get Away With Murder” notched a 0.6 and 2.97 million.

CBS took second with a 0.7 rating and 5.7 million viewers. In its second week, “Broke” dropped to a 0.7 and 5.22 million viewers, while “Man With a Plan” aired back-to-back episodes at 8:30 p.

“Grey’s Anatomy” was forced to cut its season short due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the season 16 finale scored a decent audience given the circumstances.

The finale topped Thursday night with a 1.4 rating among adults 18-49 (the same score as last week) and 7.3 million total viewers, which represents the show’s largest audience since March 2019. Meanwhile its spinoff series “Station 19” delivered a season high 1.3 rating and a whopping 7.5 million viewers, its largest viewership tally ever. “How to Get Away With Murder” rounded off the night with a 0.6 and 3 million viewers, the same score in both demos as last episode.

Over on NBC, a Halloween heist episode of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” ticked up fractionally to a 0.6 rating and 2.1 million total viewers. New episodes of “Will & Grace” and “Indebted” both came in even episode-to-episode, scoring a 0.6 and 2.7 million viewers, and a 0.3 and 1.4 million pairs of eyeballs respectively. The network’s lineup...