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The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool‘s 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. In this special edition, we look at our top takeaways from ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, and Freeform's upfronts.

Credit (top left): Sam Aronov-Shutterstock.com/(bottom left): USA Network/(top right): Curtis Brown/(bottom right): Eugene Powers / Shutterstock.com Portlandia co-creator Carrie Brownstein has signed up four more for her semi-autobiographical Hulu comedy pilot Search and Destroy Brad Morris (Great News), Leah Harvey (On the Road), Jessica Hecht (Red Oaks) and Imogen Tear (When Calls the Heart) are set to[...]

Credit: BBC While it would be tempting to throw in a "I don't want to go" joke here or something cutesy about The Doctor and his companions always finding their way back to one another, David Tennant and Catherine Tate are facing a deadly-serious menace unlike any they've face before: America. The Doctor Who alums are returning to[...]

Now that the CW has released their Fall 2018-2019 television schedule, it's time for first-looks and official images from the shows coming our way over the next few months. First up, we get an extended look at Jane the Virgin creator/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman's reboot of supernatural series Charmed.

The upfronts to advertising executives are always a season of giving and taking -- so with the release of their Fall 2018-2019 television schedule, The CW also confirmed that Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and iZombie will not be renewed after their upcoming seasons.

With the network's upfront presentation set for Thursday morning, the CW has released its Fall 2018-2019 schedule. Expanding its week to six nights with 12 hours of original scripted series, the network is using some of series like Riverdale and Supergirl to help jump-start a number of promising new projects.

and Amber Stevens West in a comedy about a 30-something happily married couple who begin to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when Cooper (Felix Mallard), an exuberant young pop star drawn to their super-ordinary suburban life, unexpectedly moves in with them Austen Earl, Tim McAuliffe, Ben Winston, Harry Styles, Michael Rotenberg and Jonathan Berry[...]

Less than a week after the CW ordered the Charmed reboot from Jane the Virgin creator/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman to series, we're getting our first look at "The Charmed Ones". Actress Madeleine Mantock (Macy) took to Twitter to share a first-look image from the upcoming CW series.

and Amber Stevens West in a comedy about a 30-something happily married couple who begin to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when Cooper (Felix Mallard), an exuberant young pop star drawn to their super-ordinary suburban life, unexpectedly moves in with them Austen Earl, Tim McAuliffe, Ben Winston, Harry Styles, Michael Rotenberg and Jonathan Berry[...]

Lucy Dreaming finds Welz and Lucy trying to come to grips with their shared dreams, and Lucy goes to her mom for information. Does it make for a good read?

With 10 half-hour comedy series on their slate, the network continues to lead the broadcast networks when it comes to comedy; and that includes revisiting some older initiatives ABC is reopening their Friday 8-9 pm comedy block; and adding its first regular prime time talk show in nine years on Sunday night. Here's a look at ABC's[...]

Comedies The Cool Kids, Rel, and the returning Last Man Standing will debut in fall 2018; while dramas The Passage and Proven Innocent will premiere alongside the next installment of Cosmos during midseason. https://youtu.be/xsUa5ObfCMsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: REL | Official Trailer | FOX ENTERTAINMENT (https://youtu.be/xsUa5ObfCMs) Inspired by the life of Lil Rel Howery[...]

Jimmy's Bastards are searching their island for thier hated father. He is hunting them as well, but he is still shaken and worried for Nancy. Does it make for a good read?

Looks like you can't keep a good - or bad- zombie down, especially now that the CW has renewed Rob Thomas' iZombie for a fifth season.

The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool's 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.

Credit: Fox Philly just got a little less "sunny" today, with news that Fox is cancelling midseason comedy series The Mick Created by John and Dave Chernin and starring It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Kaitlin Olson, The Mick was only one of three series cancelled by the network today; with The Last Man on Earth and Brooklyn Nine-Nine also[...]

Scooby Apocalypse focuses in on the struggle of Daphne and Fred in clearing out the mall of the "Consumerites" while Shaggy and Velma eagerly await their return. Is it a good read?

If it's summer, then it must be time for the next chapter in Syfy's sweeping saga of love, loss, and D-level actors: Sharknado 6. Premiering Sunday, August 19 at 8 p.m., the sixth (and Syfy claims "final") film in the franchise also sees Ian Ziering, Tara Reid and Cassie Scerbo returning

Deadpool has reported his own position and is readying himself for the coming superhero assault. Captain America and Agent Preston just want to help Wade though. Will he let them? Does it make for a good read?

Castle fans barely had time to mourn the loss of star Nathan Fillion's presence from their ABC screens before today's news that the network has givena formal series order to former Castle executive producer/co-showrunner Alexi Hawley's light crime drama series The Rookie.

Credit: truTV With news of three new projects either ordered to series or in development, truTV announced a 2018-2019 programming slate that includes: a series pickup for Tacoma FD, from two members of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe; a pilot greenlight for a new comedic medical advice show from actor Ken Jeong (The Hangover); and an animated[...]

It's a 6 part, dark comedy, in which I play a man who, after the death of his wife, becomes suicidal but decides to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever the fuck he likes from now on pic.twitter.com/7AwmV6rEbd — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) May 7, 2018 Though Netflix is officially making the[...]

The Sex Criminals are at it again as Suzanne attempts to get to the bottom of her father's financial activities and Jon begins destroying his relationships left and right. Is it a good read?

This issue seems like less of an attempted homage, and it instead focuses on comedy and satirizing modern US media and society. This could work, and you could even have a heartwarming center to it all with the Fighting American trying to still do the right thing However, it's all undercut by the humor just not[...]

I found 'Mac-Liv-Moore' -- The CW's iZombie season 4, episode 9 -- to be an especially dark and quite brilliant surprise with its direction. I was even more impressed that the episode addressed so many issues, which was a pet peeve of mine with this season: lack of consistency and dangling major topics.

Ware, the limited webseries is described as an offbeat surreal comedy that's directed by Amanda Cowper and executive produced by Trish Harnetiaux, with music by Missy Mazzoli, Rob Cantor, and Rob Erickson. To see if Driver Ed is a road we want to continue travelling down or something painfully on par with our first experience with[...]

In honor of 2018's edition of Star Wars Day, Bleeding Cool wants to remind you that television's had a love affair with legendary sci-fi franchise for years -- but we don't play around with the "standards" or clichés around here, people!

Credit: NBC Welcome back to Bleeding Cool's recap/review of NBC's Thursday night comedy series A.P Bio, starring It's Always in Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton and Happy!'s Patton Oswalt With last episode's surprising turn of events for Jack (Howerton) – in a good way for once – we're back with the season finale 'Drenching Dallas.' And from[...]

AMC is urging viewers to "join the revolution" in the first official trailer and poster art for their series adaptation of Sarai Walker‘s 2015 darkly comic novel Dietland, scheduled to premiere at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, June 4th, with back-to-back episodes

Credit: Patrick McElhenney / FX Further proof that life can be "sunny" in more places than just Philly. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creator Rob McElhenney, Rob Rosell (New Girl), and 20th Century Fox TV have received a pilot order from Fox for their half-hour, as-yet-untitled comedy series. Written and executive produced by McElhenney and[...]