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Murder in a Small Town just added an Oscar winner to the Season 2 cast, which will boost the show's energy!

One of Fox's nicer surprises in 2024 was Murder in a Small Town. Based on the books by L.R. Wright, the series stars Rossif Sutherland as Karl Alberg, a former big-city cop who moves to the small British Columbia town of Gibsons to become its police chief.

Alberg soon starts a relationship with librarian Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) as he solves a variety of murders and other crimes in the town. The show has had a notable guest star cast that includes Stana Katic, Erica Durance, and others. It was a good success that landed a second-season renewal.

Who is joining Murder in a Small Town?

Now, Season 2 will be a big deal as Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden is joining as a series regular. She'll play Christie Holman, the Mayor of Gibsons who,...

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Family Law is a Canadian legal drama series created by Susin Nielsen. The Global series follows Abigail Bianchi, a talented lawyer struggling with alcoholism who begins working for her estranged father and two half-siblings in family law. She soon finds herself overwhelmed with the pressures of family law and the dysfunction of her own family. Family Law stars Jewel Staite, Zach Smadu, Genelle Williams, Lauren Holly, and Victor Garber. So, if you loved the familial bonds, legal drama, and compelling characters in Family Law, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Good Fight is a legal political drama series created by Robert King, Michelle King, and Phil Alden Robinson. The CBS series is a standalone sequel series to the popular CBS series The Good Wife, and it follows Diane Lockhart,...

The small town that is home to more than a murder or two now has a mayor.

Four-time Emmy nominee Marcia Gay Harden, most recently of CBS’ So Help Me Todd, has boarded Season 2 of Fox’s Murder in a Small Town in the series regular role of Mayor Christie Holman, our sister site Variety reports.

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Exclusive: NBC is developing a drama starring Jon Huertas, who will executive produce alongside The Rookie and The Recruit creator Alexi Hawley.

Former Arrow co-showrunner Wendy Mericle is writing the untitled project based on the novel Fire with Fire by bestselling author Candice Fox.

Executive producer Sherry Marsh acquired the rights to the book while under her deal at eOne. The company’s Mike Lombardo and Jackie Sacerio optioned the title. It comes from Lionsgate Television, where Hawley is under an overall deal, and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Huertas and Mericle executive produce alongside Hawley, through Perfectman Pictures and Marsh for Marsh Entertainment. Perfectman’s Rachel Abarbanell will co-executive produce.

This is Huertas’ return to acting following a two-year break while focusing on directing, and to NBC where he starred on their smash hit series This Is Us in...

CBS today delivered great news for the fans of some of its biggest scripted series, handing early renewals to all NCIS dramas: flagship NCIS, NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney; as well as Tracker, Fire Country and Elsbeth, alongside comedies Ghosts, which got a two-season pickup, and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. They join previously renewed freshman drama Matlock and the mothership FBI, which has two more seasons on its 3-year deal.

As usual, the news set alarm bells for fans of the series that didn’t make the early renewal list, dramas FBI: Most Wanted, FBI: International, The Equalizer and yes, the twice-canceled S.W.A.T., as well as veteran comedy The Neighborhood and freshman sitcom Poppa’s House. (It’s too early for new drama Watson which just premiered.)

If history — and simple math — is any indication, it is certain that several of the series that were not picked up today won’t be back next season.

Marcia Gay Harden is the latest addition to the cast of the upcoming Apple series “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”

Variety has learned that Harden will guest star in the series, the cast of which already includes Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, and Thaddea Graham. Based on the Rufi Thorpe novel of the same name, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” was picked up for eight episodes at Apple TV+ in February 2024.

Per the description of the novel’s plot, it focuses on Margo Millet (Fanning), the daughter of a Hooters waitress (Pfeiffer) and an ex-pro wrestler (Offerman). Now an unemployed single mother in her early 20s, Margo is struggling to make ends meet, leading her to launch an OnlyFans account. When her father reenters her life, she starts incorporating his lessons from the pro wrestling world into her OnlyFans work, leading to unexpected success.

Harden is no stranger to Apple audiences,...

Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden is set for a guest-starring role in Margo’s Got Money Troubles, joining Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer and Nick Offerman in the Apple TV+ series based on Rufi Thorpe’s novel. The eight-part series, set in the world of OnlyFans with a wrestling twist, hails from David E. Kelley and A24, with Fanning and Kidman also executive producing.

Fanning stars as Margo Millet, the child of a Hooters waitress (Pfeiffer) and an ex-pro wrestler (Offerman), who becomes pregnant after a brief affair with an English professor at the local junior college she attends. Now, at 20, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. When her estranged father Jinx shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Margo starts an OnlyFans as an experiment and soon finds...

Grant Gustin felt that, like speedster Barry Allen, The Flash‘s musical episode arrived on the scene a bit quickly.

The 17th episode of The Flash‘s third season, “Duet” aired March 21, 2017, and featured crossover appearances by Supergirl‘s Melissa Benoist and Jeremy Jordan, Arrow‘s John Barrowman and Legends of Tomorrow‘s Victor Garber. The Flash‘s Jesse L. Martin and Carlos Valdes also sang in the episode, as did Glee grad Darren Criss, guesting as the villainous Music Meister.

More from TVLineTVLine Items: Grant Gustin at Tonys, So Help Me Todd Vet Joins Watson and MoreGrant Gustin Marks...

Back in the day, you didn’t need much to make a medical drama that people could relate to.

All you had to do was combine some interesting characters with strange illnesses and hope everything mixed just fine.

Watson doesn’t have it as easy.

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TV has come a long way from the likes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman but even that show had the gimmick of being set in the Wild West.

Thankfully, CBS has been in the medical drama business since the ’50s with City Hospital, one of the first medical procedurals on television.

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Now that the network has added Watson to its catalog of primetime shows, does the series have enough to offer audiences something fresh?

Well, despite numerous medical dramas about genius doctors who favor knowledge over feelings, none of them had the classic character of Sherlock Holmes’ trusted right-hand man.

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CSI: Vegas, the fifth and final series in thefranchise, debuted on CBS in 2021 as a revival of the core CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series, with William Petersen and Jorja Fox reprising their roles as Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation during the first season of CSI: Vegas, while Marg Helgenberger reprized her role as Catherine Willows from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at the beginning of the revival’s second season.

While CSI: Vegas was intended to serve as an epilogue series, itwas renewed for a second season without Fox and Petersen, who departed the show at the end of the first season. Despite Fox and Petersen’s absence, the series gained an enthusiastic audience following through its assortment of interesting new characters,...

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Does any major network do wacky show titles as well as CBS? I don't think so. It's the home of such creatively, chaotically named shows as "Jake and the Fatman," "Gary Unmarried," "Joan of Arcadia," "United States of Al," "Syzyszynk," and -- my personal favorite, name-wise -- "God Friended Me." The network's wacky titles go all the way back to TV's golden age, but their schedule still features several weirdly named shows today. Without giving each of them a watch, it's hard to tell your "Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage" from your "Bob Hearts Abishola," but one unusually named show made its mark recently with a short but loved two-season run: "So Help Me Todd."

The name of "So Help Me Todd" gives few hints about the show's premise, but it was actually about a flailing private detective ("Pitch Perfect...

CBS, the longtime home of Elementary, is hoping the game is afoot once more with another Sherlock Holmes-inspired procedural drama: Watson, which premiered Sunday after the NFL’s AFC Championship Game. (It’ll settle into its regular time slot on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 9/8c.)

But did the new series from Elementary‘s Craig Sweeny scratch your Holmesian itch, even without Sherlock present? We’ll want to hear what you think in a moment; first, check out a recap of the premiere.

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In this golden age of broadcast television, medical procedurals are a dime a dozen, and new ones are released every season.

So, leave it to CBS to revive the classic character Watson and give audiences something ironically refreshing.

It also doesn’t hurt that the network has given viewers the tall drink of water, Morris Chestnut.

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Making it all the way to the end of the pilot episode certainly had its benefits.

However, despite numerous things that work for Waston, a few ends still need tightening if this show is to become a long-standing series.

Watson Rounds Out Its Cast with Some Truly Interesting, Albeit Odd, Character Choices (Colin Bentley/CBS)

The story itself seems pretty cut and dry. Holmes left Watson a bunch of money so the doctor could return to medicine. It’s all very straightforward, which is exactly what Sherlock Holmes is Not known for.

Immediately following the AFC Championship Game on CBS today (January 26), we’ll be able to see the debut episode of the new TV show drama series Watson.

The new procedural is a Sherlock Holmes spinoff series with an excellent cast! One of the cast members exited another CBS hit – FBI – last year, while another co-starred on the canceled fan fave comedy So Help Me Todd.

The show is set just a few months after the death of the titular character’s friend and partner Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty. The show focuses on Dr. John Watson who resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders. Watson’s old life isn’t done with him, though – Moriarty and Watson are set to write their own chapter of a story that has fascinated audiences for more than a century. Watson is a medical...

During her Jan. 13 Q&a with She Media CEO Samantha Skey (hosted by TVLine sister site Flow Space), Brooke Shields spoke warmly of recently acting alongside three-time Emmy winner/eight-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close and two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts.

TVLine now hears that Shields worked with Close and Watts as a guest star on All’s Fair, the “glossy” legal drama that the prolific Ryan Murphy has in the works at Hulu. (Neither Hulu nor 20th Television would confirm Shields’ casting.)

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John Watson. Sherlock Holmes. James Moriarty. Shinwell Johnson.

Each of those familiar names from Sherlock Holmes lore is checked in TVLine’s exclusive sneak above from Watson, CBS’ upcoming new medical drama headlined by Morris Chestnut.

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Watson stars Chestnut as Dr. John Watson, who — six months after the death of Holmes at...

Morris Chestnut and his wife Pam Byse are the latest stars to arrive at the Globes!

The 56-year-old actor will be taking the stage to present later tonight at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday (January 5) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Rumor has it he’ll be presenting the Best Screenplay for a Motion Picture award this evening.

If you don’t know, Morris has a big month coming up – his new CBS drama Watson is debuting on Sunday (January 26) on CBS after the much-anticipated AFC Championship Game. Morris is starring as the lead in the Sherlock Holmes spinoff series as Dr. John Watson.

There are some fan favorite stars who have leading roles in Watson – including an FBI star who exited the series, a So Help Me Todd alum, and more.

Make sure to tune in for the Golden Globes at 8/7 on CBS. The show...

Some cancellations always hurt more than others. It’s usually because they end abruptly, and that was certainly the case for three out of the six CBS shows canceled in 2024.

Three of the shows at least got endings to give us chance to say goodbye to the shows. Then there was another technically canceled show, but CBS opted to reverse the decision. Yes, we’re talking about Swat, and there were certainly other shows on the network that deserved the same.

We’re taking a look back at each of the cancellations of 2024 across the broadcast networks. We start with CBS because honestly I’m still the most salty about one cancellation in particular.

The CBS shows that ended in 2024

Three of the shows technically ended. While CBS opted to cancel the likes of Bob Hearts Abishola and Blue Bloods, the network gave them notice and time. Fans had the...

Blue Bloods already ended, but it already has the perfect replacement with a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Coming into the new TV cycle, CBS went through a series of cancelations that included even some of its most beloved shows, resulting in So Help Me Todd, NCIS: Hawai'i, and CSI: Vegas getting axed. Prior to those announcements, however, the network already decided to pull the plug on one of its longest-running shows fronted by the Raegan family. Blue Bloods' cancelation remains controversial, with both fans and the people directly involved in the series coming out to oppose the move.

Premiering in 2011, Blue Bloods was no regular cop show. Aside from its procedural aspect, which is already a tried and tested successful TV formula, it puts a family of public servants at the center of its narrative. Blue Bloods also boasts a stacked cast, spearheaded by Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, and Bridget Moynahan.

2024 was a rough year to be a CBS fan. While CBS is typically one of the networks with the best renewal rates, the network was forced to make a lot of difficult decisions this year which led to the cancellations of many amazing series including some of the network’s biggest shows.

In total, seven CBS shows were given the boot in 2024 which was up a bit from the total number of shows canceled by CBS the year before in 2023. Of course, of the seven shows canceled only six actually came to an end with CBS deciding to reverse its decision on Swat which was set to end with its seventh season but ended up getting a surprise renewal at the final hour ensuring the show continued into the 2024-25 season with season 8.

While Swat was lucky enough to evade cancellation and was given another season, six other shows were...

Now that your broadcast-tv favorites are on holiday break, TVLine is looking at how each network’s shows are stacking up thus far in the 2024-25 TV season. We kicked off with ABC, and today turn our attention to CBS.

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Listed below is the average Total Audience for each CBS series (including delayed Live+7 playback). Alongside that is the Demo Rating (Adults 18-49) for each program, as well as any noteworthy Performance Notes.

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A new year means new shows — and saying goodbye to your favorites. The 2023-2024 broadcast season is really just getting underway — with season premieres of scripted shows mostly in January, February, and March this year — but we already know more than a handful that will be signing off in the coming months. Below is the list of all the TV shows we’re saying goodbye to this year. ABC Station 19, seven seasons Not Dead Yet, two seasons AMC Orphan Black: Echoes, one season Parish, one season Apple TV+ Schmigadoon!, two seasons Constellation, one season Still Up, one season The Big Door Prize, two seasons Sunny, one season CBS Blue Bloods, 14 seasons Bob Hearts Abishola, five seasons S.W.A.T., seven seasons Young Sheldon, seven seasons So Help Me Todd, two seasons CSI: Vegas, three seasons NCIS: Hawai’i, three seasons The CW Superman & Lois, four seasons Walker, four seasons Disney+ Andor, two seasons Renegade Nell,...

Exclusive: Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden (The Morning Show) is set to star opposite Game of Thrones‘ Sophie Turner and Kit Harington in The Dreadful, a gothic horror film on which we were first to report, which is now in production in England.

Set against the backdrop of the War of the Roses, The Dreadful follows Anne (Turner) and her sinister mother-in-law Morwen (Harden), who live a solitary, harsh life on the outskirts of society. But when a man (Harington) from their past returns, he sets off a sequence of horrifying events that become a turning point for Anne.

Launching sales at EFM earlier this year, through UTA Independent Film Group and Film Bridge International, the film’s cast will also include Laurence O’Fuarain (The Gentlemen) and Jonathan Howard (Godzilla: King of the Monsters). Natasha Kermani (Lucky, V/H/S/85) is directing from her own script.

In addition to Turner,...

Exclusive: So Help Me Todd fans still mourning the cancellation of the CBS series after two seasons, has something to cheer about. Series creator Scott Prendergast is back with Pennies, another light broadcast procedural that has two immediate family members at the center. In a competitive situation, Fox has landed Pennies with a script commitment plus penalty. The project hails from Kapital Entertainment, which will serve as the co-studio with Fox Entertainment.

Written by Prendergast, the hourlong Pennies is about a reclusive forensic pathologist named Penny who is more comfortable with the bodies under her (dogged) care than with real people. Penny solves mysteries and murders stemming from the San Francisco morgue, aided by her over-confident extrovert sister, also named Penny, an attorney in the D.A.’s office.

Prendergast executive produces with Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment and Brian Morewitz of Morewitz Media.

In addition to creating and executive...

General Hospital (Gh) spoilers and updates tease a behind the scenes glimpse at Finola Hughes and Vinessa Antoine’s amazing reunion. Anna Devane (Finola) and Jordan Ashford (formerly Vinessa) are best friends on Gh, and Finola posted on social media about their amazing meet up.

General Hospital Spoilers – Vinessa Antoine Was The First Jordan-There Have Been Three

Antoine played Jordan Ashford on General Hospital from 2014-2018. The character originally came as a DEA agent trying to infiltrate the Jerome crime family-or what was left of it-to take down Julian Jerome (William DeVry).

At that time Julian, Olivia Jerome (Tonja Walker) and Ava Jerome (Maura West) were all alive-now, only Ava is left of the original siblings.

Jordan was the widow of Tommy Ashford (mentioned character) the brother of Curtis Ashford, (Donnell Turner) who she later married.

Tj Ashford (Tajh Bellow) is her son, who was raised believing Tommy was his...

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Airing as part of Hallmark Mystery’s Miracles of Christmas, Christmas Under the Lights premieres on the Thanksgiving weekend.

As Christmas programming continues, the latest upcoming movie to premiere on Hallmark Mystery is Christmas Under the Lights. The movie, part of the Miracles of Christmas, airs on Thanksgiving weekend.

Moreover, Christmas Under the Lights stars, Heather Hemmens, Marco Grazzini and Antonio Cayonne. Read on to find out more about the upcoming movie and its cast, and enjoy a trailer.

Christmas Under The Lights On Hallmark Mystery Photo: Heather Hemmens

Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtney Julien

Famously starring Heather Hemmens, Marco Grazzini, and Antonio Cayonne, Christmas Under the Lights kicks of Thanksgiving weekend on Hallmark Mystery as part of the network’s Miracles of Christmas programming event.

According to TV Insider, the new, original holiday movie tells the story of Emily,...

One of Anna Devane’s General Hospital besties is Jordan Ashford. The women have been known to unload their problems over dinner and drinks or unite to fight the good fight against the big bads of the world. Recently, Finola Hughes, who plays Pcpd Commissioner Devane, reunited with the original Jordan Ashford, aka the former Pcpd Commissioner, Vinessa Antoine. And she referred to the meet-up as “amazing.”

Catching Up

The actresses smiled big and bright for the selfie that Hughes posted to Instagram. She wrote about the experience: “Spent the afternoon chatting with this absolute beauty and pillar of creativity!! I can’t tell you how Amazing it was to spend time talking and cracking up! Love you always and forever @therealvinessaantoine...

Lisa Rinna’s time on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills came to a polarizing conclusion in 2022, and it doesn’t sound like she’s interested in an encore.

In a new interview with Us Weekly, the 61-year-old admitted she is done with the Bravo hit show.

“I think that there’s certain things that you do in life, and you finish that chapter and we did that,” she dished, but confirmed that she still has some friends on the cast.

“I have made some great friends over there, so I definitely talk to my girls.”

Lisa caught a lot of heat during her eight-season run on the reality series because of her willingness to throw her co-stars under the bus.

By the end of her time with the show, it was clear she wasn’t enjoying it as much and was just there for the paycheck.

Instead of forging connections with new cast members,...

The world premiere of Paramount Global’s “Watson” raised the curtain on this year’s Mipcom in Cannes. The series, set to premiere on Jan 26 on the CBS Television Network, sees “Reasonable Doubt” star Morris Chestnut as the iconic Dr. John Watson in a Sherlock Holmes spin focusing on Watson’s medical career.

“Watson” follows the titular character after the death of Holmes as he resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic specialized in rare disorders. The series is described as “a medical show with a strong investigative spine, featuring a modern version of one of history’s greatest detectives as he turns his attention from solving crimes to solving medical mysteries.”

“Watson” is produced by CBS Studios and distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution. Craig Sweeny (returning to the world of Sherlock after serving as a writer and executive producer on CBS’s “Elementary”) wrote the...

Watson has a premiere date. CBS has announced that the upcoming Sherlock Holmes adaptation will premiere early next year, following the AFC Championship game.

Per Deadline, Watson, starring Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson, is set to premiere on CBS on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, at approximately 10 p.m. Et (depending on the game's end time). The medical drama series will then return to its regular time slot on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 10:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Inspired by the characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Watson takes place six months after the death of the titular character's friend and partner Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty. Watson was created by Craig Sweeny, who previously worked on CBS' other Sherlock Holmes series, the Jonny Lee Miller-led Elementary.

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Morris Chestnut’s Watson will take the handoff from this season’s AFC Championship Game, when it debuts on CBS in January 2025.

The freshman medical mystery series will premiere after the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 (at approximately 10 pm Et, 9 pm Ct, 8 pm Mt and 7 pm Pt).

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Watson will begin airing in its regular Sundays-at-10 pm time slot on Sunday,...

The CBS schedule typically looks about the same year after year. That's all changed for the 2023-24 television season because of the writers and actors strikes. None of the network's usual scripted shows are on the fall schedule. How will this alternate programming perform in the ratings for the 2023-24 season?  Will CBS decide to focus more on reality shows moving forward? Stay tuned!

CBS shows this season (so far): 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race, Big Brother, Big Brother Reindeer Games, Blue Bloods, Buddy Games, CSI: Vegas, Elsbeth, The Equalizer, FBI, FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, FBI: True, Fire Country, Ghosts, Ghosts UK, Lingo, Lotería Loca, NCIS: Sydney, Raid the Cage, The Real CSI: Miami, Seal Team, So Help Me Todd,  Survivor, Swat, Tracker, and Young Sheldon.

There's lots of data that network execs look at when deciding whether...

Every year, the CBS 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 CBS TV shows here, instead.

CBS TV series that have aired (so far) during the 2023-24 television season: The Amazing Race, Big Brother, Big Brother Reindeer Games, Blue Bloods, Bob ♥ Abishola, Buddy Games, CSI: Vegas, Elsbeth, The Equalizer, FBI, FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, FBI True, Fire Country, Ghosts, Ghosts (UK), Lingo, Lotería Loca, The Neighborhood, NCIS, NCIS: Hawai'i, NCIS: Sydney, Raid the Cage, The Real CSI: Miami, So Help Me Todd, Survivor, Swat, Tracker, and Young Sheldon.

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Matlock is a mystery legal comedy-drama series created by Jennie Snyder Urman. Based on the 1980s iconic series of the same name created by Dean Hargrove, the CBS series follows the story of Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a brilliant lawyer who decides to rejoin the workforce in her 70s. She begins working in a prestigious law firm alongside a few highly competitive lawyers but soon we discover that Madeline is hiding some secrets that her colleagues don’t know. Matlock stars the always-brilliant Kathy Bates in the titular role with Jason Ritter, Skye P. Marshall, Leah Lewis, David Del Rio, Nicole de Boer, and Eme Ikwuakor starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the interesting storyline, thrilling courtroom scenes, and compelling characters in the Matlock reboot series here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Two petitions to bring back So Help Me Todd have crossed a big milestone in response to the controversial cancellation by CBS. Debuting in September 2022, from creator Scott Prendergast and showrunner Elizabeth Klaviter, the lighthearted procedural drama follows a private investigator (Skylar Astin) as he agrees to work for his mother and her law firm despite their uneasy relationship. So Help Me Todd was cancelled in April of this year, lasting only two seasons.

Now, two petitions to bring back So Help Me Todd have gained traction. The first petition, from Change.org, calls for the procedural to be renewed for a third season. Addressed to networks like NBC, ABC, and The CW, the petition praises the show and pushes back on the fact that it was axed on a cliffhanger.

The second petition, also from Change.org, takes a more critical tone on CBS. It suggests the network behaved...

////////Below, you'll find a list of CBS recent/current/upcoming primetime TV shows and their current status. To see a series' ratings, click the links in the middle column (where applicable).

Shows include 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race, Big Brother, Big Brother Reindeer Games, Blue Bloods, Bob ♥ Abishola, Buddy Games, Cold Shoulder, CSI: Vegas, Elsbeth, The Equalizer, FBI, FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, Fire Country, For Heaven’s Sake, Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Ghosts, The Greatest #AtHome Videos, Guilty Party, The Harper House, Hollywood Squares, Interrogation, The Lincoln Lawyer, Lingo, Lotería Loca, Love Island, Matlock, NCIS, NCIS: Hawaii, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Sydney, The Neighborhood, The Never Game, Raid the Cage, The Real CSI: Miami, The Real Love Boat, Secret Celebrity Renovation, Seal Team, Smallwood, So Help Me Todd, The Summit, Superfan, Survivor, Swat, Tough As Nails, Undercover Boss, The Unicorn, Watson, Young Sheldon,...

So Help Me Todd has a promising replacement slated for the fall 2024-2025 TV cycle: a new crime drama called High Potential starring Kaitlin Olson. CBS' legal dramedy So Help Me Todd was canceled ahead of season 3, despite its success as a sleeper hit in its first two seasons. Its cancelation frustrated many fans, who enjoyed seeing Marcia Gay Harden's straight-faced Margaret character interact with her former Private Investigator son, Todd, played by Skylar Astin.

The quirky dynamic between So Help Me Todd's legal minds, Todd and Margaret, would be impossible to replicate, considering that much of it hinged on the actors' chemistry. Despite getting mixed reviews following season 2, CBS pulling the plug on it was controversial, as it had built a solid following throughout its run. While the CBS series remains canceled, another humorous legal drama show that So Help Me Todd fans might enjoy will emerge in the fall.

CBS' fun legal sitcom So Help Me Todd was canceled after just two seasons, leading fans to wonder why. The show starred Skylar Astin as the titular Todd, and Marcia Gay Harden as Margaret, Todd's mother and a high-powered attorney. Todd is bright but a slacker, and he reluctantly agrees to work at his mother's law firm as an in-house private investigator. Thanks to the premise, So Help Me Todd earned praise for being just as much a family drama as it was a legal comedy.

Unfortunately, So Help Me Todd season 3 won't be happening as CBS pulled the plug on the well-received show after just two seasons. The news, announced in April, came as a shock to fans, who didn't expect So Help Me Todd to be canceled so soon or at all. It's all the more disappointing as the reason given for the cancellation is incredibly flimsy, even...

Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden has boarded Renner, the new sci-fi thriller from writer, director and producer Robert Rippberger.

The Pollock and Mystic River star joins an ensemble cast led by Frankie Muniz, Violett Beane and Taylor Gray. Harden will voice the role of Salenus, an artificially intelligent companion designed by computer genius Renner (Muniz).

The story centers on Renner, who after trying to court his new neighbor Jamie (Beane) with the help of Salenus, he realizes too late he accidentally programmed his manipulative mother into it. Rippberg will helm Renner based on a script he co-wrote with Martin Medina and Luke Medina, while sharing the producer credits with Medina, KT Kent, Devin Keaton and Jay Burnley of Slated.

“I’m incredibly honored to have an acclaimed performer like Marcia be voice to the very piece of technology that is reshaping Hollywood,” Rippberger said in a statement. “We have always had oracles in society.

Bridget Forrester is going to make a comeback on Bold & Beautiful soon. Soap actress Ashley Jones has confirmed the character’s return and even given details on when B&b fans can expect to see her back on the small screen. Continue reading to see what she revealed.

When Is Bridget Forrester Is Returning To Bold & Beautiful?

Ashley Jones shared a clip on Instagram showing herself on the soundstage for Bold & Beautiful. She set the video to the song “It Was A Good Day” by Ice Cube. In the video, she walks toward the camera, blowing a kiss. The B&b actress captioned the post, “It was a good day.” She tagged the soap, hinting at her character Bridget Forrester’s return.

In the comments, a fan asked if they’ll see Bridget back on the show soon. The soap star confirmed that she’ll be back on the show “In September.

Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock has found its Moriarty. Dnal Finn has been cast as the notorious archnemesis of Sherlock Holmes in the forthcoming Prime Video series.

According to Variety, The Wheel of Time alum has been added to the cast of Young Sherlock as James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind who first appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story, "The Final Problem", in 1893. Young Sherlock marks Finn's second series for Prime Video after The Wheel of Time, where he has starred as Mat Cauthon since Season 2. Finn's other acting credits include Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, The Witcher, and How to Build a Girl.

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Showrunners Jan Nash, Christopher Silber, and Matt Bosack admit to being blindsided by CBS' decision to cancel NCIS: Hawai'i. Despite being one of the most beloved spinoffs, CBS justified the cancellation by citing the programming schedule and cost-cutting. The cancellation of NCIS: Hawai'i has sparked controversy, with fans vocal on social media and even starting an official petition to bring it back.

NCIS: Hawai'i's cancellation by CBS gets a candid response from its showrunners, Jan Nash, Christopher Silber, and Matt Bosack. The latest, US-based spinoff from the franchise introduced Vanessa Lachey's Jane Tennant, as she led her team on the island focusing on crimes involving military and national security. Despite having just been on the air since 2021, it became one of the most beloved offshoots in the NCIS universe. So, when news broke out that CBS was pulling the plug, the backlash came quickly, especially after it was revealed...

Camilla Luddington wanted Skylar Astin's character, Todd Eames, to stay longer on Grey's Anatomy. Luddington has played Jo Wilson since season 9. The Todd-Jo romance was short-lived.

Grey's Anatomy star Camilla Luddington pushed for one actor to remain on the show longer, believing he was the right guy for her character. Luddington has portrayed Jo Wilson since season 9, developing relationships with the likes of Alex Carev and Atticus Lincoln. But ahead of Grey's Anatomy season 21, which premieres Thursday, September 26 at 10 Pm Et on ABC, Luddington reveals that one of her favorite on-screen pairings did not last too long.

On a recent episode of Call It What It Is, the podcast hosted by Luddington and fellow Grey's actor Jessica Capshaw, the guest was Skylar Astin. Known for his roles in the Pitch Perfect movies and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Astin had a guest role during season 18 as Todd Eames. Luddington discussed...

Ryan Murphy’s upcoming Hulu legal drama All’s Fair has lost one of its big stars: Halle Berry is exiting the series, just a week after her casting was announced, a source confirms to TVLine. Our sister site Variety first reported the news, adding that Berry dropped out “due to a scheduling conflict.”

Glenn Close and Kim Kardashian remain in the cast, with both set to serve as executive producers. As previously reported, the Hulu series — touted as “a high-end, glossy and sexy adult procedural” — is eyeing a late 2024 production start date for an early 2025 launch. Kardashian will take on...

CBS on Saturday became the fourth broadcast network (after ABC, The CW and NBC) to lock down premiere dates for the Fall TV season.

Survivor is first out the gate when it returns for Season 47 on Wednesday, Sept. 18. Meanwhile, two of the Eye network’s high-profile launches will receive “sneak peeks” later that month, with Kathy Bates’ Matlock reimagining premiering on a special night, Sunday, Sept. 22, followed by reality competition series The Summit, which will bow Sunday, Sept. 29.

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CBS on Saturday became the fourth broadcast network (after ABC, The CW and NBC) to lock down premiere dates for the Fall TV season.

Survivor is first out the gate when it returns for Season 47 on Wednesday, Sept. 18. Meanwhile, two of the Eye network’s high-profile launches will receive “sneak peeks” later that month, with Kathy Bates’ Matlock reimagining premiering on a special night, Sunday, Sept. 22, followed by reality competition series The Summit, which will bow Sunday, Sept. 29.

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When the Nielsen streaming charts for the week of June 3 were revealed Monday, the overall ranking was led by Your Honor which originally ran for two seasons on Showtime from Dec. 2020 until March 2023. The legal thriller starring Bryan Cranston, which has been streaming on Paramount+, was No. 1 by a wide margin, amassing 1.5B minutes viewed in its first full week of also being available on Netflix in the U.S.

Your Honor, from CBS Studios and studio-based Robert and Michelle King, joined on the list perennial Nielsen Top 10-er, long-running CBS/CBS Studios procedural NCIS, which also streams on Paramount+ and Netflix, as well and another CBS Studios drama from the Kings that has been a recent staple on the Originals Nielsen chart, Evil, with its current Season 4 on Paramount+ supplemented by the first two seasons streaming on Netflix.

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Emulating what many are expecting at next week’s Emmy Awards nominations, FX’s “The Bear” topped the field with 15 bids followed by Max’s “Hacks” and Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” with 13 apiece for the Astra TV Awards. The above comedies were followed in the overall nominations tally by ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” CBS’s “Ghosts” and Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” with 11 honors each, while the Prime Video freshman drama “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” also came in at double-digits with 10. Leading the way for limited series were a pair of Netflix offerings, “Baby Reindeer” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” along with Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry” and HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country” – all with seven bids apiece.

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Sherlock Holmes is one of the most profitable and adapted works, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyles famous character. Guy Ritchie, who helmed Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes films, is expanding the universe with a series heading to Prime Video, and has just added a new cast member.

Per Deadline, Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock Holmes series, titled Young Sherlock, has just tapped 3 Body Problem actress Zine Tseng as a lead for the series. The new series is based on Andy Lane's novels, and Guy Ritchie will direct and executive produce. The upcoming prequel has already found its new Holmes in Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who previously worked with Ritchie on his latest film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

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Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman is among the most popular adaptations of the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories about the iconic detective. While the series ended in 2017, its creators are still holding out hope for continuing the story one day.

The series was created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. In an interview with Metro.co.uk, Moffat addressed the possibility of bringing back the show. He said he'd personally be up for revisiting Sherlock any day, but it's not up to him. The biggest "problem" with holding up a revival series or reunion film is that the show's stars are so busy these days with their own respective filming schedules, and that makes getting everybody on the same page to film Sherlock more difficult.

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