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ABC has decided that The Good Doctor truly is good, renewing the hit medical drama for a second season The series stars Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel) as an autistic surgeon named Shaun Murphy, who moves to California to work at a prestigious hospital Also in the cast are Nicholas Gonzalez, Antonia Thomas, Chuku Modu, Beau Garrett, Irene[...]

Credit: ABC It's mid-season series premiere time, and ABC is hoping it has a new trick up its sleeve (spoiler: probably won't be the last magic pun) in action/drama-series-with-a-twist Deception From the creative minds of writer/executive producer Chris Fedak (Chuck) and executive producers Greg Berlanti, Martin Gero, and Sarah Schechter, Deception takes one of those righteously cool[...]

The 90th Annual Academy Awards ceremony has come and gone, the Oscars have been handed out, and thankfully host Jimmy Kimmel didn't have to weather another EnvelopeGate storm. That said, on Monday morning it was widely reported that the ceremony had brought in the lowest Oscars ratings since the Nielsen ratings had been utilized. THE OSCARS¨ – Late-night[...]

Those same sources also say that contrary to initial reporting, Cohan is not seeking an equal pay rate to male co-stars Andrew Lincoln (Rick) and Norman Reedus (Daryl), and the actress is not using the ABC drama pilot Whiskey Cavalier (to which she recently signed on) as a negotiating tactic The ABC dramedy pilot also[...]

ET on ABC. https://youtu.be/mydEjVqTEgYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 10 Favorite Gadgets – Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D 100 (https://youtu.be/mydEjVqTEgY) This may be my favorite Top 10 list that Marvel has produced yet Normally I pick on them a little because they seem to be slightly skewed towards the current editorial path… but this one[...]

Somedays it really does seem like there are no original ideas left in Tinseltown, and while the ABC Roseanne revival may be proof of that, it feels like a timely choice to bring back the series. ABC/Robert Trachtenberg The Connors were an all American family, struggling to make ends meet while interacting with their biting humor and love[...]

Now we're sure you woke up Sunday morning thinking, "Gee, I hope Bleeding Cool lets us know when and where we can watch tonight's Academy Awards red carpet and show." As if that wasn't bad enough, it was probably followed up with an even more pressing concern: "Wait a minute! How can I watch the[...]

The Weekly Static is our look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective. THIS WEEK: Weird Al, Ronda Rousey, M. Night Shyamalan, John Oliver and networks behaving badly.

Brain damage from a betrayal by a friend, going undercover in a HYDRA facility, traveling to an alien planet, obsessing until you got them back, finally hooking up, and then building an android who replaced you and then one getting flung into the future and the other going into cryo-sleep just to catch up. Photo by[...]

Spoilers below if you don't want to know. . . . Photo by Byron Cohen/ABC – © 2017 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc All rights reserved. The Clip shows Colson (Clark Gregg), May (Ming-Na Wen), Fitz (Iain de Caestecker), and the unconscious Daisy (Chloe Bennet) coming through the portal to the Lighthouse Then a moment later Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), Yo-Yo (Natalia[...]

You may recall seeing her ghostly face floating in a crystal ball above a table in the 'seance room' on the ride since 1969. ABC's long-running Disney properties-utilizing series Once Upon a Time is gearing up for its 7th (and final) season, and they're invoking Leota as a new character The series has brought in other famous[...]

But with that news and some of the prophecies from earlier this season, folks are thinking that it may be the end of the line for Coulson. Photo by Byron Cohen/ABC – © 2017 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc All rights reserved. EW.com did some digging to find out just how worried we should be for the world's[...]

ET on ABC. https://youtu.be/3lWdZedU29MVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD 5×11 Sneak Peek "All The Comforts Of Home" (HD) Season 5 Episode 11 Sneak (https://youtu.be/3lWdZedU29M) In a sneak peek at the upcoming Marvel's Agents of SHIELD episode, 'All the Comforts of Home', we are introduced to Ruby (Dove Cameron), the daughter[...]

Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com ABC has found Christie Love (Kylie Bunbury) a best friend and ally in Daytime Divas' Camille Guaty, who is set to join the cast of the remake pilot for action-drama series Get Christie Love. Written and developed by Power's Courtney Kemp, the series is inspired by the cult 1974 "blaxploitation" television movie Get Christie[...]

Credit (left): Leonard Zhukovsky – Shutterstock.com / (right): ABC From a "shiny, happy" perspective, the announcement represents another example of television's (broadcast, cable and streaming) appreciation for the art form that is podcasting From a slightly more "snarky, glaring" perspective, the announcement represents television's continuing efforts to ensure that talk shows remain a safe haven for middle-aged[...]

ABC's president Channing Dungy said she was cautiously optimistic about the show's chances of renewal back during the TCA's winter press tour But as no decision has been made and it's time to write the season five finale, the series executive producers are making sure that it will work as a satisfying series finale as[...]

The Night Court alum has signed on to star opposite Annaleigh Ashford in ABC's Three Rivers, that comes from the I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer who also wrote the pilot that will be directed by Tristam Shapeero. According to Deadline, the series focuses on Rebecca Watts (Ashford) who left her[...]

Credit: CBS The precinct at ABC's The Rookie continues to get crowded, with word that Ray Donovan's Alyssa Diaz has been charged as a series regular in the light crime drama series. Written by former Castle executive producer/co-showrunner Alexi Hawley and executive produced by series star Nathan Fillion (Castle), the Mark Gordon/Entertainment One and ABC Studios production[...]

Presidential Election (…keep it movin'…) and a nightly talk show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGI-fRRiEScVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Weekly Static s01e28: Kylie Jenner, Walking Dead, Muppets & More! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGI-fRRiESc) FOX Orders Season 15 of So You Think You Can Dance What Lauren Cohan's New ABC Pilot Means for The Walking Dead Disney Plans The Muppets Reboot for New[...]

August Richards). Marvel's Agents of SHIELD returns March 2nd with the 100th episode airing March 9th on ABC. The 100th episode of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD is fast approaching and we've already know that we will learn what the deal Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) made with Ghost Rider to borrow the powers of the Spirit[...]

Credit: Disney/ABC Disney may not know what it's everyone-else-is-calling-it-a-Netflix-rival-so-I-guess-I-will-too Netflix rival streaming service is going to be called Or when it's set to premiere Or how much it's going to cost But the one thing Disney does know? You can never have too much felt in your streaming diet. For their direct-to-consumer streaming service to succeed, Disney is[...]

ET on ABC. We are getting very close to the 100th episode of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD And a while back there were some teases that the 100th episode would be something grand and maybe even cataclysmic… there wasn't enough information to even make a guess But now the team seems to be headed back[...]

First? Cue the pointless speculation in 5…4…3… While the actress continues negotiating with AMC to return for The Walking Dead's ninth season, Lauren Cohan is trading walkers for wiretaps with her lead role in the ABC dramedy pilot Whiskey Cavalier Written and executive produced by Dave Hemingson, Cohan will star opposite Scandal's Scott Foley; with Bill Lawrence and[...]

Another one that is coming up in conversation is Blindspot on NBC and the new ABC series Deception, both from executive producer Martin Gero. People: Jaimie Alexander Photo by NBC/Sandro/NBC – © 2015 NBCUniversal Media, LLC — People: Jack Cutmore-Scott If you're not familiar with Deception, it's a new series that debuts on March 11th and[...]

Earlier this week it was announced that New Girl's Hannah Simone would be leading ABC's new single-camera comedy reboot of the Greatest American Hero Now we get word that Cheers' alum George Wendt has joined the pilot The reboot comes from the Fresh Off the Boat duo of Rachna Fruchbom and Nahnatchka Khan with Fruchbom writing[...]

Now she will be getting measure for a pair of "red pajamas" as she has been cast as the lead in ABC's single-camera comedy pilot for The Greatest American Hero, a reboot of the Steven J Cannell 1981 cult classic The new gender-switch take comes from the Fresh Off the Boat creators Rachna Fruchbom and[...]

The two-episode event will serve as the first meeting between Kerry Washington's Scandal fixer Olivia Pope and and Viola Davis's HTGAWM law professor Annalise Keating. Here's ABC's first-look at the Scandal/HTGAWM crossover: https://youtu.be/i9jxffdAfJQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: TGIT Crossover Event – THURSDAY March 1st (https://youtu.be/i9jxffdAfJQ) "Lahey v[...]

Justin Timberlake's comparably tame Super Bowl halftime show, Chrysler's questionable decision to use MLK in an ad, what the Game of Thrones creators' new Star Wars project could mean for HBO's Confederate, and more from the realm of TV this week!

Today, the new ABC straight-to-series project has announced that Melissa O'Neil (Dark Matter) has been signed to play Lucy, an intelligent, confident, tough, and compassionate LAPD rookie and love interest for Fillion's 40-year-old rookie cop. DARK MATTER — "Episode Thirteen" Episode 113 — Pictured: Melissa O'Neil as Two — (Photo by: Steve Wilkie/Prodigy Pictures/Syfy) The character comes[...]

Now that the Agents of SHIELD have returned to their own time, does that mean the show is done with new characters Tess, Flint, and Deke?