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Grey's Anatomy's Jeanine Mason is set to trade EKG's for UFO's, tapped to lead the CW's immigration-theme-with-a-twist sci-fi reboot pilot Roswell. Mason will taking on the role of Liz Ortecho, a biomedical researcher and daughter of undocumented immigrants who must deal with secrets new and old.

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!

The Vampire Diaries' boss, Julie Plec, has been tapped to direct and executive produce the CW's reboot of Roswell based on the novel by Melinda Metz.

Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle‘s Ser’Darius Blain is trading the magical mayhem of the jungle for a college town with its own "witchy" secrets. Blain will serve as co-lead in the CW’s recently confirmed Charmed reboot pilot from Jane the Virgin creator/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman.

The CW network has announced plans to expand their programming to Sunday nights, increasing their output to 12 hours a week.

Rachel Bloom and the cast of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are heading out on a eight-city musical tour where they will do live performances of the series' original songs.

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!

We're turning over this edition of The Weekly Static: Extras! to our good friend Margo Staten, who found herself binge-crushing the first three seasons of The CW's iZombie; and she really wants to tell you about why you should be watching it, too!

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, so let’s see how this goes…

Though the network had formally expressed interest in the project in October 2017, the CW has officially given a pilot order for a reboot of popular sci-fi series Roswell.

So that didn't last long. Less than 24 hours after the CW announced it was ordering a pilot for a high-profile reboot of the long-running WB series Charmed, the original series' own Piper Halliwell - Holly Marie Combs - took to Twitter to conjure up some ill will towards the project.

ABC orders Get Christie Love pilot, Oprah debunks rumors of a 2020 presidential bid, Vince McMahon has some inflammatory comments regarding the new XFL, and more from the past week of TV!

The CW has conjured up the first two pilots for its 2018-2019 pilot season slate, announcing on Thursday that an order has gone out for a high-profile reboot of the long-running WB series Charmed; and the hour-long crime-drama-with-a-twist Dead Inside.

An encore presentation of Black Lightning beat the ratings numbers for new episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that normally airs in the same time slot.

Welcome back! It's The Weekly Static, so that’s what you call us. That or - uh - "His Weekness", or - uh - "Weeker," or "El Weekerino," if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.

An upcoming episode of the CW series Riverdale season 2 shares a title with a famous Edgar Allan Poe short story and taps the Vampire Diaries boss to direct.

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 what an interesting, unique and entertaining perspective. At least that's how it reads on paper - let's see how it goes...

The CW has released premiere dates for returning series iZombie, the Originals, and the 100 plus new comedy Life Sentence

Netflix has found its teenage witch in the form of Mad Men alum Kiernan Shipka, who is set to take the lead in the streaming network's upcoming series based on Archie Comics' supernatural heroine Sabrina.

We'll be getting back to the regular The Weekly Static grind next week; but this week, we're wrapping up 2017 in a pretty little bow with a look back at the five biggest television screw-ups from the past year.

With the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards less than a week away, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and Dick Clark Productions are making sure viewers get as immersed in the experience as possible.

Welcome to the third and final act in The Weekly Static‘s three-part mid-season finale! As we wrap up this little shindig, we hit the gas and don't look back as we charge into 2018 with a series that's giving us enough of the feels that it's earned the distinction of being our 2018 "Cusack" Series*: Hulu's Castle Rock.

Welcome back to The Weekly Static‘s three-part mid-season finale! Today we take a look at a little basic cable network that's been quietly churning out a quality lineup of some very cool and original programming: TruTV.

Welcome to The Weekly Static's three-part mid-season finale — here, we take a look at one of the biggest television disappointments from 2017: Spike's The Mist.

The CW has released a new trailer for their upcoming series Black Lightning. The trailer sets the theme for the show and includes new footage.

The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool's righteously desperate-yet-endearing attempt at finding the lighter side of and an interesting perspective on the past week in our TV news coverage.

Actor/writer/director Jessie Kahnweiler (The Skinny) will apply her "triple threat" skills to CW's adaptation of Barbara Rose Booker's The Viagra Diaries.

The Originals Season 5: Jaime Murray Joins the Cast For the Finale Season

With the Wayward Sister backdoor pilot on the horizon, Supernatural will be making some changes to the life of Sheriff Donna Hanscum

The Walking Dead mid-season finale drama, Hulk Hogan's possible return to WWE, Chris Hardwick's new scripted comedy, and more from this week in TV news!