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Even with Netflix set for its Upfronts this Thursday, the streamer is dropping some big news early for fans of David Benioff & D.B Weiss and Alexander Woo's 3 Body Problem The trio's series take on Cixin Liu's international bestseller will be returning for more episodes – with Benioff, Weiss, and Woo also returning[...]

More great news coming out of today's Upfronts, with Amazon's Prime Video confirming that Donald Glover & Francesca Sloane's Mr & Mrs Smith will be back for a second season – but will Glover and Maya Erskine also be returning as leads? Casting for the second season wasn't confirmed, with Variety reporting that the duo[...]

With The CW set to unveil its upcoming programming slate at next week's UpFronts, today turned into a day of major disappointment for fans of a number of shows That includes the Kaci Walfall-starring Naomi from Ava Duvernay and Jill Blankenship as well as the Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery, Lucy Barrett & Rupert Evans-starring Charmed[...]

With CBS joining in with this week's Upfronts fun by releasing its Fall 2021 primetime schedule on Wednesday, there were two series in particular that made the cut that are on our radar Set for Wednesdays at 10 pm, the sequel series CSI: Vegas brings William Petersen, Jorja Fox, and Wallace Langham returning to the[...]

NBC's award-winning sitcom 30 Rock is returning for a one-time-only event in July to help promote NBCUniversal's 2020-2021 television season.

Less than 48-hours after Quibi announced it had cancelled its April 5 launch party in Culver City and word that FreeWheel Media, FOX News,A+E Networks, and AMC Networks had cancelled or changed plans for this season's Upfronts, NBC and CBS are also cancelling their Upfronts plans – for May, shifting to online outreach to advertisers[...]

This season's "Upfronts" – when media outlets polish up their short-term and long-term programming plans to advertisers and media buyers during live presentations in New York City – is already seeing events canceled, postponed, or modified. FreeWheel Media's presentation was scheduled for this week, but has been postponed FOX News will not have an event, as[...]

Sad as it is to admit, Supernatural's farewell tour officially began during CW's 2019 May Upfronts – with journalists, advertisers, and fans all asking the same question: how will the series end? When asked this very question several seasons back, series leads Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki responded that they'd like to see the Winchester Brothers[...]

There must be something about a red carpet that gets the pair to talk, especially when it's WarnerMedia's 2019 May Upfronts, where their animated anti-heroes announced their return via video (posted below). But when that talk turns to having rapper/artist Kanye West guest on the show, that "talk" gets some attention West hasn't exactly made his[...]

One day after it was reported the CW and Netflix would not renew their first output deal, CW President Mark Pedowitz has responded to the news...

With news breaking that the righteously popular series was set to return for a fourth season in November 2019, WarnerMedia's 2019 May Upfronts turned out to be pretty squanchy affair for fans of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty Series creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland were there for the reveal, which had our animated anti-heroes announcing their return via[...]

WarnerMedia's 2019 May Upfronts were pretty squanchy for fans of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, with news that the righteously popular series is set to return for a fourth season in November 2019 Series creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland were in attendance for the event, with the news sent out over social media via a message[...]

WarnerMedia held its 2019 May Upfronts on Wednesday morning, and they revealed via the terrible twosome – the news fans of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty have been waiting for: the long-awaited season 4 will return to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in November 2019. You can check out the announcement video below –[...]

During Tuesday's Walt Disney Company Upfronts presentation, fans of FX's Fargo received two interesting updates on the upcoming fourth season.

With Lauren Cohan and Scott Foley's 'Whiskey Cavalier' not returning season 2, ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke explains the "tough decision"...

ABC has cancelled Lauren Cohan and Scott Foley's action-spy dramedy Whiskey Cavalier, with series EP Bill Lawrence confirming the news on Sunday.

NBC's 'This Is Us' will around to make us cry a little longer, receiving a three-season renewal that will take the hit series through a sixth season.

With the pilot now heading to series, the decision was made to take the character "in a different direction" – which means Webber was out… and he wasn't happy. Over the course of a series of tweets last week, Webber expressed his anger and disappointment by calling out ABC and network executives for the "degrading" way[...]

On Friday evening, Wu took to Twitter once again, this time to explain that her previous tweets came on "the heels of a rough day & were ill timed" and that she was "grateful for FOTB renewal" – even thanking those who support her use of the word "fuck": ORIGINAL REPORT: During May Upfronts, there's always[...]

While network executives appear very high on its series prospects, ABC has ordered reshoots for 'NYPD Blue' and will consider it for the midseason schedule.

After weeks of waiting and hours of announcements regarding other shows, ABC has confirmed a second season order for police drama The Rookie.

During May Upfronts, there's always going to be a certain level of sadness, anger, and awkwardness surrounding the whole experience Because as excited as we all are to find out which shows made the cut, those greenlights usually come at the expense of a pilot that wasn't picked up or series that wasn't renewed –[...]

The news comes as FOX announces series pick-ups and cancellations as part of the May 2019 Upfronts cycle: having picked up four (possibly five) new dramas, there was speculation that Lethal Weapon wouldn't make the renewal cut (joining The Passage, which was also cancelled today). LETHAL WEAPON: L-R: Kevin Rahm, Keesha Sharp, Damon Wayans, Seann William[...]

ABC has passed on drama pilot New York Undercover, a contemporary sequel-spinoff from creator Dick Wolf, Ben Watkins and director Anthony Hemingway.

Not willing to be left out of May's "Upfronts-a-palooza," the fine folks at TruTV had some announcements of their own to make ahead of next week's WarnerMedia presentation First up, 2020 will see the cable network's first animated series with This Functional Family as well as a sports-themed studio show from comics Clayton English and[...]

While next week marks the official start of May Upfronts, the networks are starting things a little early First, there was NBC with two series greenlights – and now, the CW has made some series announcements of their own: ● Greg Berlanti-produced, Ruby Rose-starrer Batwoman has received a series order and will join the DCU line-up[...]

NBC got a start on May Upfronts with series orders for Memphis legal drama Bluff City Law, starring Jimmy Smits; and comedy Sunnyside, starring Kal Penn.

Presidential Election… and a three-pack of John Cusack Funko POPs from Better Off Dead, High Fidelity, and Grosse Pointe Blank! https://youtu.be/U7D_NjmdhU0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox and Freeform: Our Upfronts Thoughts [The Weekly Static s01e40] (https://youtu.be/U7D_NjmdhU0) Lauren Cohan's 'Whiskey Cavalier', 'Grand Hotel' Get ABC Series Order ABC Officially Cancels Marvel's Inhumans and[...]

Credit: CW 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 The Gina Rodriguez-starring Jane the Virgin will end its run after five[...]

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.