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The CW announced today that Reign has been renewed for a third season. The period drama is one of the network's lower-rated series but has amassed a decent fan base that keeps its ratings fairly steady from week to week. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article

The fifth season, which concluded with "The Big One" Sunday night (Dec. 12), averaged more than 5 million viewers per week, making it the series' highest-rated season to date. The finale itself nabbed 2.9 million viewers from the 9 p.m. (2.5 million) and 11 p.m. (401,000) airings combined. This is on par with the series' stellar Season 4 finale and a good 40 percent up from the premiere's 1.77 million viewers. When all is said and done and watched On Demand/Live+7, the Season 5 finale could boast as many as 6 million viewers. In "The Big One," Dexter (Michael C. Hall) concludes his search for Lumen (Julia Stiles) , who's been kidnapped by Jordan, the leader of a group of …

ABC has picked up Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a full first season, ordering nine additional episodes to top its total up to 22. The freshman action drama is off to a solid start for the network, performing well against its Tuesday night competition in the 8:00pm time slot through its first three episodes. (Source: ABC) Click here to view the article

The CW announced today that Jane the Virgin has been renewed for a second season. The freshman dramedy is off to a decent start over the first half of its season. While not the breakout hit that the network's other new series, The Flash, has become, Jane has quickly pulled in strong critical acclaim including taking home the People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article

Tasty treats from the world of television ... Virginia Madsen is joining the cast of "The Event" when it returns from its three-month hiatus next year. She'll play the widow of a senator from Alaska who takes his place in Washington; the show initially apporached "Friday Night Lights" star Connie Britton before hiring Madsen, an Oscar nominee for "Sideways." [Deadline] David Hasselhoff will be back on "Got Talent" -- just not in this country. The Hoff is takingPiers Morgan's spot as a judge on "Britain's Got Talent" next year; Morgan will be too busy with his CNN show and "America's Got Talent" to do "BGT" as well. ComedianMichael McIntyre is also joining "BGT." [Gu…

At New York Comic-Con last weekend, MTV announced that Teen Wolf has been renewed for a fourth season. The network has ordered 12 new episodes of the supernatural drama for 2014. The show is currently in the middle of its third season, with the second half of its episodes set to return on Monday, January 6, 2014. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

The CW announced today that The 100 has been renewed for a third season. The sophomore drama has fared well for the network on Wednesday nights, with its second season ratings pretty much on par with its first season numbers. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article

We were pretty shocked that The Hollywood Foreign Press had no love for "True Blood's" Season 3 in the Golden Globes 2011 nominations. The Zap2it obsession was neither nominated in the best drama category nor did any of the actors get a nomination. The series was previously nominated for both Season 1 and 2. And Anna Paquin has been nominated twice, and took home a trophy. So, what's up with the Season 3 snub? Season 3 focused on some pretty heavy relationship stories between Sookie, Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and literally broke down the Vampire hierarchy in a brutal season-long battle. Plus, we're always shocked that Nelsan Ellis' complete tra…

It is being reported that TNT has renewed Franklin & Bash for a fourth season. The summer dramedy is expected to return for 10 more episodes in 2014. (Source: The Hollywood Reporter) Click here to view the article

The CW announced today that Arrow has been renewed for a fourth season. The veteran action drama continues to be one of the network's best-performing shows. It helped pave the way for spin-off series The Flash, which launched last fall as The CW's newest breakout hit. With the two series set in the same universe, they can benefit from occasional crossover episodes, one of which has already occurred for each show. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article

Deadliest Catch is a documentary series chronicling the real-life high-sea adventures of the Alaskan crab fishermen. The series follows life on "the vast Bering Sea" aboard six crab fishing boats during two of the crab fishing seasons, the October king crabseason and the January opilio crab. With an Emmy under its belt it continues to be a strong performer and has been renewed for a twelvth season. Click here to view the article

Boosting its meta quotient just a bit,"30 Rock" is up for 3 Golden Globes -- including nods for starsTina Fey and Alec Baldwin and best comedy -- despite the fact that a recent episode focuses on how easily swayed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is by attention and bribes. November's "Brooklyn Without Limits" features a storyline about Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) trying to earn a nomination for his film, "Hard to Watch," after an interview with a few members of the HFPA. This reminds Jenna (Jane Krakowski) of the time she tried to do it herself, when she starred in the Lifetime original movie "Sister, Can You Spare a Breast?" She tells him to invite th…

CBS announced today that it has ordered nine additional episodes of The Crazy Ones. The order tops up the freshman comedy's first season to a full 22 episodes. Four weeks into its run, The Crazy Ones is off to a solid start for the network. The show currently ranks as this season's #1 new comedy in viewers, averaging 13.7 million, as well as in the key adults 18-49 demographic. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

The CW announced today that The Flash has been renewed for a second season in 2015-2016. The freshman action drama has been a huge breakout hit for the network, spinning off from Arrow last fall and drawing strong viewership and critical acclaim over the first half of its season. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article

Barely Famous is an American reality television parody on VH1. The daughters of David Foster a well respected musician in HollyWood, want to do a "non-reality" show about life in Los Angeles with the famous, craziness, plastic surgery, "celebrity for doing nothing" etc.. But they can only get the reality show division of VH-1 to take it on. The 215 season has done well and the network has renewed it for a second seasn to premiere in 2016. Click here to view the article

Friday night has long been known as the place where good television goes to die, but "Fringe" is refusing to go quietly into that good night. When the series returns after the holidays, you can find Walter, Olivia, and Peter at 9 p.m. on Friday on FOX, right after "Kitchen Nightmares." In a new promotional trailer, the "Fringe" team pokes fun at the nay-sayers, acknowledging that historically, shows that get bumped to Friday don't tend to fare well when upfronts roll around in the spring. "Death! Delicious, strawberry flavored death!" rants Walter (John Noble) in a memorable clip that will forever haunt us. While showing us ominous clips about TV's graveyard, the pr…

CBS announced yesterday that it has ordered nine additional episodes of The Millers, topping up the freshman comedy's first season to a full 22. The show is three weeks into its run and currently ranks as this season's #2 new comedy in viewers with 12.4 million. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

The CW has announced that The Originals has been renewed for a third season. The sophomore drama was picked up for the 2015-2016 seasons along with The Vampire Diaries. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article

Revenge is an American primetime television series that airs on ABC, starringMadeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp, which debuted on September 21, 2011. It portrays an emotionally troubled young woman that makes it her mission to exact revenge against the people who wronged her father. ABC has confirmed that the series has been cancelled. Story lines seam to be wrapping up and ratings have taken a hit in recent seasons, it seams to be a good time to end the series. Click here to view the article

Late Tuesday, Dec. 14, Julia Stiles finally chimed in on her Golden Globe nod, hours after the nominations were announced and all the other stars had already given their statements of varying amounts of glee. The actress, who nabbed the nomination for her guest starring turn in "Dexter," was apparently at some "undisclosed location out of the country," according to a Showtime publicist. "It's bizarre receiving the news in such a remote place where internet access is difficult and phones are impossible, but I'm glad I checked my email," Stiles says in a statement. "I'm beyond thrilled! It was an honor to be part of the show, and to have my work reco…

CBS announced yesterday that it has ordered nine additional episodes of Mom, which brings the comedy's total up to 22 for its debut season. Mom, which stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney, is currently averaging just under 8 million viewers through its first four episodes. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

The CW announced today that The Vampire Diaries has been renewed for a seventh season in 2015-2016. The long-running drama continues to be a solid performer for the network, drawing impressive ratings for a veteran show. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article

Helix is an American science fiction thriller-drama television series. A team of scientists are thrust into a potentially life-or-death situation in this thriller, which begins with the group being deployed to the Arctic to secretly investigate what could be a disease outbreak. The network has decided not to bring the series back for a third season. Click here to view the article

RIP Marv. On the special two-hour season finale of "Burn Notice" Thursday, Dec. 16 (beginning an hour earlier at 9 p.m. ET), Brennan (Jay Karnes) -- who was last seen in the back of a car with men who had just killed Marv (Richard Kind) -- is trying to put the pressure on Mike (Jeffrey Donovan) to take out some government agents. The wounds, they're still fresh, so Mike is really not happy with this request. But Brennan has the flash drive with the list of burners and is threatening to release some data. Hmm. You know what also sucks? Larry (Tim Matheson) is pro-killing too. Let's see how this argument plays out: ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"…

NBC has cancelled freshman series Ironside after just three episodes. The police drama premiered earlier this month but failed to catch on with viewers in its 10:00pm Wednesday time slot. The show is NBC's first drama of the 2013-2014 season to get the axe. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article