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CBS announced today the renewal of 11 series for the 2018-2019 season Some come as no surprise, others answer some lingering questions… the the series not renewed may be the most interesting of all Six series had already been renewed prior to today, including Big Bang Theory, Mom, NCIS and three freshman programs Young Sheldon,[...]

Just one day after the world learned that CBS had purchased Ariel Winter boob article emporium ComicBook.com, a new report suggests friction could lead to the departure of CBS CEO Les Moonves According to THR, Moonves is gripped in a desperate struggle against Shari Redstone, Vice Chairman of CBS and Viacom and daughter of billionaire[...]

I'm a Star Trek fan, but Discovery wasn't enough to get me to sign up for CBS All Access… but this series is Strange Angel tells the real-life story of Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and sex-cult leader whose life reads like a the most twisted science fiction thriller imaginable Deadline is reporting that Karl Makinen[...]

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. So The Weekly Static's "Justice League" (myself, Rocky, Trejo, Bat-Murr and Margo Staten) makes you these three promises…

Editorial credit (left): Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com CBS All Access is hoping that Star Trek: Discovery's second season goes boldly where no other Star Trek series has gone before, and they're looking to executive producer Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek) to make it so Based on exclusive reporting from Variety, the series co-creator is set to direct[...]

And the streak continues next season as CBS has announced early renewals for their top two freshman dramas, SEAL Team and S.W.A.T These two, along with the already renewed Young Sheldon are 3 of the 5 top watched new shows of the season marking a good season for the network. SEAL Team stars Boreanaz and follows[...]

The overnight ratings on the Anderson Cooper interview of Stormy Daniels are some of the best numbers 60 Minutes have seen in almost a decade.

Since we know you're going to be watching Anderson Cooper's 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels anyway (admit it), why not let your friends here at Bleeding Cool ride shotgun on the spiraling roller-coaster we call: Stormy of the Century: Bleeding Cool's 60 Minutes/Stormy Daniels Live-Blog!

Deadline is reporting that the actor who once appeared on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as Lemond Bishop will be reprising that role on the upcoming second season of the CBS All Access series The Good Fight. Bishop was a rather controversial client for Lockhart/Gardner as he is a powerful Chicago drug lord[...]

But things have changed a bit, and the now 41-year-old O'Loughlin is telling TVLine that if CBS wants to do another season and they're being reasonable, he would be reasonable as well. Photo: Art Streiber/CBS © 2014 CBS Broadcasting Inc All Rights Reserved. O'Loughlin has moved behind the camera for the first time, making his directorial debut[...]

Jerry O'Connell has been cast to play George Cooper Jr., Sheldon Cooper's brother in the season 11 finale of The Big Bang Theory.

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CBS' upcoming revival of their late 80s / early 90s series Murphy Brown will feature Candice Bergen reprising her role as the tough-as-nails TV journalist trying to make a comeback in a very different new climate And in the 30 years since the show originally debuted, the character had a son who is now all[...]

Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Zachary Knighton (Happy Endings) has been added to the cast of CBS's pilot reboot of Magnum P.I The Peter Lenkov-led project has already added Jay Hernandez and Perdita Weeks to the cast The pilot is being written by Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim with Justin Lin scheduled to direct. Based on the classic 1980s Tom[...]

for CBS The series focuses on the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations It's a co-production between Universal Television and CBS TV Studios Wolf is best known for creating both the Law & Order and Chicago TV franchises, which are now a shared universe. Peregrym will be the female lead,[...]

Credit (Drew, left): ABC / (Hurd, right): DFree – Shutterstock.com Looks like what's ABC's loss could be CBS' gain in a very big way Less than a week after it was announced that Grey's Anatomy star Sarah Drew would not be returning the show's expected 15th season, the actress has been tapped to join Michelle Hurd[...]

Among Cast for CBS All Access Series '$1' "CBS All Access has set the main cast for its upcoming original series "$1," Variety has learned. The series is a mystery set in a small rust belt town in post-recession America, where a one-dollar bill changing hands connects a group of characters involved in a shocking multiple murder[...]

Noah Wyle (Falling Skies) has gotten the lead in CBS drama pilot called Red Line According to Variety, In the pilot, a white cop in Chicago mistakenly shoots and kills a black doctor The show follows three different families that are all connected to the case, telling the story from each perspective He joins a[...]

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.

I wonder if Leonard is trying to get the elevator fixed. The Big Bang Theory airs Thursdays on CBS. There was a brilliant episode of The Big Bang Theory last season that led to speculation that new neighbors would be moving into the building What happened was the government had suddenly come in and took all of[...]

Season 36 of CBS's Survivor titled "Ghost Island" premieres tonight, and (18 years strong) host Jeff Probst promises it'll be a doozy of a season This year's big twisty turny theme of "Ghost Island" is a play on the ongoing Exile Island thing, where a voted-off tribe member is sent to an island. The 20 castaways competing on[...]

Credit (Velez, left): lev radin – Shutterstock.com / (Sharda, right): Ga Fullner / Shutterstock.com CBS understands that Detectives Mason Garrity (Michael Chiklis) and Ayana Lake (Teyonah Parris) aren't going to be able to solve this Murder on their own, signing up Luna Lauren Velez (Dexter) and Pulse's Pallavi Sharda as series regulars in the pilot for the upcoming crime mockumentary series[...]

The Weekly Static is our righteously desperate-yet-endearing look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting, unique and entertaining perspective. At least that’s how it reads on paper… let’s see how this goes.

We've known for a while now that this would be the final season for Pauley Perrette on the CBS series NCIS The actress has played Abby Sciuto for 15 seasons and is only one of three actors to appear in every episode so far (Mark Harmon and David McCallum being the others) But Perrette announced[...]

Editorial credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com The recently announced CBS drama pilot L.A Confidential has found its lead Walton Goggins (Vice Principals) has been tapped to star in the television series adaptation of the James Ellroy noir classic novel. Arnon Milchan, producer of the critically acclaimed 1997 L A Confidential film is part of the new production along[...]

By Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsQuantico's Aunjanue Ellis has been choosen as the second of three leads in the CBS drama pilot Chiefs, from David Hudgins and Carol Mendelsohn Ellis joins already cast Alana De La Garza (Forever) in the pilot that is written by Hudgins and directed[...]

The worlds of science and magic come crashing together in the upcoming original drama series Strange Angel, as CBS All Access continues to cast the players in play at that crossroads Created by Mark Heyman and based on George Pendle's book, Peter Mark Kendall (The Americans, Girls), Michael Gaston (The Man in the High Castle, The Leftovers),[...]

Comedy Central renews Tosh.0, The CW expands their Sunday programming, first look at the new Karate Kid series Cobra Kai, and more from the past week in TV!

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Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com CBS is now one step closer to solving a murder — well, more specifically, closer to solving their Murder — with Survivor's Remorse star Teyonah Parris cast as the female lead in The Eye Network's new drama pilot Produced by Dan Lin (It, The LEGO Movie) and written by Lethal Weapon's Amanda[...]