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ABC has passed on drama pilot New York Undercover, a contemporary sequel-spinoff from original show creator Dick Wolf, Ben Watkins (Hand of God), and director Anthony Hemingway (Underground, American Crime Story) Wolf and Universal TV are expected to shop the project to other networks/streaming services. Written by Watkins based on a story co-created with Wolf, New York Undercover picks up 20 years[...]

As fans of ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D ready themselves for the series' sixth season return, the fine folks at Marvel Entertainment's Earth's Mightiest Show – and in particular show host Langston Belton – are here to make your launch time prep a wee bit smoother So if you have 5:31 to spare and need[...]

The XFL is set t0 have televised back-to-back games on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, with broadcast time on ABC and FOX and cable airings on ESPN, ESPN2, FS1 and FS2 The league is expected to make announcements regarding additional programming and on-air talent as the launch date nears. "We look forward to showcasing the XFL on[...]

But while their future post-walker apocalypse shenanigans were cut short by the business end of Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) "Lucille," viewers will get one more chance to see the duo together when McDermitt guest stars on this week's episode of Cudlitz's ABC series The Kids Are Alright. While information on his role in the episode is[...]

Joining the cast this season are Anthony Edwards as Mars Harper, Lorraine Zimmer as Julie White, Dontae Evans as Ben Watson, and Isabel Pardo as Elena Tovar. To get caught up on the first two seasons before Sutherland and Designated Survivor return for a third season on Netflix on June 7th, here's a recap to help[...]

ABC continues to do its part to ensure that every single game show in existence gets its very own reboot, so Press Your Luck is the latest summer game show revival heading our way – but this one already has a major bonus going for it: actor/director Elizabeth Banks is taking on the hosting role[...]

When ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns for its sixth season on May 10, it returns with a new mission – and some new faces joining the cast – and you'll get to meet some of them in the first official trailer below They're set to join Clark Gregg's mysterious Sarge and the rest of our agents when Marvel's Agents[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's review of ABC's Schooled As discussed in our review of the previous episode, Schooled feels like it's treading water until next week's season finale Everything appears to be building toward Lainey's reunion with Barry, which we get a taste of at the end of this episode, and having to choose between Barry and CB[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's review and recap of ABC's The Goldbergs This week, the series takes us to that most hallowed holiday… Smother's Day Barry blows $100 on groceries to create a mess of a breakfast for Bev so that he can get off the hook for having to go through the family ritual of having a painfully[...]

When ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D returns for its sixth season on May 10, it returns with a new mission – and some new faces joining the cast Karolina Wydra's Izel is a mercenary from another galaxy who joins forces with our team in order to survive the perils of space, while Christopher James Baker's[...]

What do you do if you are the season's best new show, but you reach your season finale without having been renewed for a second season? You bring in the big guns… Walking on shift in the beginning of ABC The Rookie's season 1 finale "Free Fall," rookies Nolan (Nathan Fillion), Chen (Melissa O'Neil), and West (Titus[...]

As Beta readies for his killing blows, he feels the barrel of a gun dig into the back of his head – from behind the door he's now seriously regretting not having checked thirty seconds earlier. 'Why do I have a feeling you're just as ugly – if not uglier – with that mask off?' Ezekiel and[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's review of ABC's Schooled As mentioned in this week's review of The Goldbergs, it appears that ABC's sister shows are foreshadowing a build toward Schooled's season finale In that review, we talked a little about what The Goldbergs is potentially setting up In this review of Schooled, we're going to take a look[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's review and recap of ABC's The Goldbergs This week, ABC's sister shows The Goldbergs and Schooled were all about foreshadowing Foreshadowing what? We'll get there; just stay with me on this one… Erica's feeling the pressure to do something with her life on the one year anniversary of dropping out of college and moving back[...]

A deadly blaze leaves a member of Station 19 fighting for their life at Grey Sloan Memorial, as the worlds of ABC's Grey's Anatomy and its firefighting spinoff series Station 19 collide on Thursday, May 2, for a two series, two hour crossover event The story begins at 8 p.m ET with Grey's Anatomy episode[...]

ABC's upcoming Card Sharks, one of the many game shows revived for the network's themed summer lineup, has found a host in comedian, Community star, and suprisingly skilled (and Bleeding Cool-beloved) FOX's The Masked Singer judge Joel McHale McHale (Santa Clarita Diet, upcoming DC Universe Stargirl) will be playing ringmaster for ABC's incarnation of the 1978[...]

With Jon Cryer stealing every scene on CW's Supergirl, let's see how he ranks up against other great (and not-so-great) Lex Luthors from TV and film.

Visiting ABC's The View on Thursday to promote her new movie The Best of Enemies, the actress confirmed Smollett return to the series if it's renewed for a sixth season: "Yes, I haven't heard anything else." You can check out Henson's visit to The View below: https://youtu.be/7aPw3DXIfKUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Taraji P[...]

Two weeks after ABC's The Rookie suffered a heartbreaking loss in "Greenlight," the show is right back in its sweet spot After letting some plot points hang fas the show recovered, this week's "Homefront" picked up right where things left off Once again, the show is heartwarming, challenging, funny, and engaging However, unlike previous episodes, not everyone[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's reviews of ABC's Schooled This week's episode involves cheerleaders and an underground fight club for students Sounds hot for Disney, right? Don't get worked up It's Schooled, not Cinemax. First up, Lainey takes over as cheerleading coach, which puts Mellor over the moon But, this is the 90's: Cheerleading isn't just decorating lockers and treating[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's review and recap of ABC's The Goldbergs This week's main story revolves around Erica's band – The Dropouts – getting a gig to play at a charity event at the Philadelphia Spectrum The problem? Barry does what Barry does and inserts himself into the band in order to achieve all of his dreams by[...]

WonderCon 2019 continued to be a weekend of announcements, teasers, and trailers… ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D made the most of their time in the spotlight With Clark Gregg, Elizabeth Henstridge, Iain De Caestecker, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward in attendance – along with executive producers Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Jeff Bell, and Jeph Loeb –[...]

WonderCon 2019 continued to be a weekend of announcements, teasers, and trailers… and this time it was ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D time in the spotlight Speculation over when the serirs would return for its sixth season were put to a rest during the show's Saturday afternoon panel In attendance at the event were Clark[...]

– (ABC/Matthias Clamer) That is also the first picture of the new character that Clark Gregg will be playing Coulson went off to die at the end of season five but there is someone or something that will be returning in this upcoming season that looks a lot like our favorite agent Summary: The missions of[...]

The earthquake that happens about halfway through the episode brings about two minutes of drama, but is more of a plot device than a major event. ABC/Richard Carwright Captain Weatherby (Greg Cromer) is incompetent and cares more about efficiency than efficacy Sergeant Grey (Richard T Jones) is put in the position of announcing and enforcing the new[...]

ABC's New York Undercover has tapped rapper and part-time actor Fat Joe to join the contemporary sequel-spinoff pilot Original show creator Dick Wolf, Ben Watkins (Hand of God), and director Anthony Hemingway (Underground, American Crime Story) are spearheading the project Wolf Films, Universal TV, and ABC Studios are set to produce. Netflix Written by Watkins based on a story co-created[...]

Following up on reports earlier in the week that the series was close to receiving an official second-season greenlight pending final contract negotiations, ABC confirmed on Friday that Roseanne spinoff The Conners will return While the number of episodes has yet to be finalized, speculation is that the network will order 13 episodes – an[...]

Readers, if you have friends who are fans of ABC's The Rookie, now is a good time to check in on them, because they are not okay As a devout fan myself, I can tell you, none of us are okay. The Rookie, still in its first season, has been our light and respectfully funny cop dramedy procedural[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's thoughts on ABC's Schooled, continuing with this week's episode "Lainey and Erica's High School Reunion." The setup for this week's episode is simple Former classmates, including The Goldbergs's Erica, return for their ten year high school reunion Lainey and Erica are initially planning to skip the reunion, but decide they're going to go and[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's review and recap of ABC's The Goldbergs After taking a break last week for the two hour premiere of American Idol, The Goldbergs picks up where it left off in the previous episode, with Bev trying to achieve her dream of having a cookbook published in "The Beverly Goldberg Cookbook." The setup for this[...]