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‘Chicago Med’ Showrunners Stepping Down
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‘The Neighborhood,’ ‘NCIS’ Renewed at CBS
The two shows anchor the network's Monday night.
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TV Ratings: Men’s NCAA Final Falls Short of Women’s Title Game for First Time
The audience for Monday's matchup was up slightly year-to-year.
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‘FBI’ Scores Three-Season Renewal at CBS
Spinoffs 'International' and 'Most Wanted' will also return on one-year pickups for 2024-25.
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‘Chicago Med’ Showrunners Stepping Down
NBC’s Chicago Med will have new leadership heading into its 10th season. Co-showrunners Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, who have been with the drama since it debuted in 2015, are stepping down at the end of the show’s current run. The married couple have helmed Med for nine seasons and more than 170 episodes to […]
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‘The Neighborhood,’ ‘NCIS’ Renewed at CBS
CBS is continuing to fill out its roster for the 2024-25 season. The network has picked up two of its Monday night staples, The Neighborhood and NCIS, for next season. The renewals will take The Neighborhood into its seventh season and NCIS to its 22nd. With Young Sheldon ending this season, The Neighborhood will also […]
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TV Ratings: Men’s NCAA Final Falls Short of Women’s Title Game for First Time
The audience for the NCAA men’s basketball championship ticked up from last year’s low — but for the first time, the men’s game drew a smaller TV crowd than the women’s final. Connecticut’s 75-60 victory over Purdue on Monday — a result that was not in doubt for most of the second half — averaged 14.82 […]
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‘FBI’ Scores Three-Season Renewal at CBS
CBS is locking in its FBI franchise for next season — and in the case of the flagship series, well beyond that. The network has given FBI a three-season renewal, which will take the series through its ninth season in 2026-27. Spinoffs FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International each received single-season pickups for 2024-25, which will […]
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Sue Naegle, Ali Krug Set Up Shop at Universal Content Productions
Sue Naegle and Ali Krug are re-teaming for a new venture. The former Annapurna duo and longtime collaborators have launched Dinner Party Productions and signed a multiple-year overall deal with Universal Content Productions. Naegle, the former content chief at Megan Ellison’s company, and Krug, who was co-head of TV alongside her at Annapurna, will develop […]
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Hope for ‘Heels’? Canceled Wrestling Drama Licensed to Netflix (Exclusive)
Heels might be headed back to the ring. The drama, which was unceremoniously canceled along with a couple more series as Starz cleaned house in September, has been licensed to Netflix by Lionsgate Worldwide Television Distribution. With the acquisition, Netflix will have nonexclusive rights to the two-season, 16-episode library of the wrestling drama starring Stephen […]
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Sylvester Stallone Allegedly Mocked “Ugly” Actors on ‘Tulsa King’ Set; Director Denies Claims
Tulsa King is embroiled in a controversy surrounding the treatment of its background actors. An Atlanta-based casting agency has quit the Paramount+ dramedy amid claims posted online that background actors were verbally abused on the set by star Sylvester Stallone. The show is produced by 101 Studios, which is actively looking into the claims, The […]
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‘Tokyo Vice’: Fan-Favorite Star Unpacks Season 2 Finale Fate and Future
[This story contains spoilers from the season two finale of Tokyo Vice.] Many heroes brought down ruthless yakuza crime lord Shinzo Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida) in the season two finale of Tokyo Vice. But for many faithful fans of the Japan-set and American-produced crime drama on Max, watching Akiro Sato (played by Show Kasamatsu), the young […]
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TV Ratings: NCAA Women’s Final Sets Another Record
For the third time in seven days, the NCAA women’s basketball tournament drew its largest audience ever. Some 18.87 million people watched South Carolina cap an undefeated season by beating Iowa, 87-75, in Sunday’s championship game, according to final same-day Nielsen ratings (that’s an uptick from 18.7 million in preliminary results). The audience is the […]
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‘Hacks’ Star Hannah Einbinder Sets Max Stand-Up Special (Exclusive)
Hacks star Hannah Einbinder is expanding her relationship with Max. The comedian has set her first stand-up comedy special for the streamer behind the hit show. Einbinder, aka Ava Daniels on Hacks, will perform in front of a live audience at the El Rey Theatre in L.A. on April 20 with the streamer set to […]
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Bruce Springsteen’s Lewd ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Line Debuts at His Concert
Festivus. Anti-dentite. Bad-breaker-upper. Pretty, pretty, pretty good. From Seinfeld to Curb Your Enthusiasm, for 35 years, Larry David has helped to contribute dozens of phrases to the pop culture lexicon. And in the penultimate episode of the final season, Curb may have offered up his career piece de resistance with returning guest star Bruce Springsteen’s […]
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‘Evil’ Releases Final Season Official Trailer and Premiere Date
Paramount+ has released its final trailer for Evil. The streamer has also announced the fourth season will premiere Thursday, May 23. The streamer has ordered four additional episodes for the season, so creators Robert and Michelle King can give the drama a sense of conclusion. The official description: “In the upcoming season, Kristen (Katja Herbers), David (Mike […]
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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Boss Can Finally Talk About That Ending, “A Joke 26 Years in the Making”
[This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “No Lessons Learned.”] Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s ending was long in the making. After 12 seasons and more than 20 years, Larry David’s HBO comedy gem signed off on Sunday night with a classic callback to the Seinfeld series finale, which aired in […]
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Amazon’s ‘Fallout’ Series Nabs $25M in Tax Credits to Relocate to California
Amazon’s Fallout series has picked up a $25 million tax credit offer from the California Film Commission to practically assure a second season and relocate production from New York State to Los Angeles. Set in the future post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and world of Fallout, the series from Amazon MGM Studios is projected by the California Film […]
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‘The Regime’ Creator on Crafting an Ending to Kate Winslet’s Reign
[This story contains major spoilers from The Regime‘s finale.] Will Tracy initially wrote the lead character of The Regime as a man. But then he used a writer’s trick: change one thing in the script and see what comes of it. “It seemed to present a lot of interesting possibilities,” the series creator told The […]
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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Series Finale Puts Larry David on Trial — With a ‘Seinfeld’ Plot Twist
[This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “No Lessons Learned.”] And, that’s a wrap on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. The series finale of the Emmy-winning HBO improv comedy kicked off with a big circle back to how the final season began, with the ensemble heading to Atlanta to […]
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