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Fox announced today that nine additional episodes have been ordered for freshman comedy The Mindy Project. This brings its total up to a full season of 22 episodes. The show has aired two episodes to-date, averaging a decent 2.2 rating among adults 18-49. It is also the #1 new comedy of the season with adults 18-34. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

NBC announced today that it has issued a full season order of new sitcom Go On. The series is Matthew Perry's latest venture into prime time comedy - the previous being last year's Mr. Sunshine, which was cancelled after a 9-episode first season. Go On has aired three episodes since premiering on September 11 and has so far averaged a 3.2 rating among adults 18-49, making it the #1 new comedy so far this fall season. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

NBC announced today that it has picked up a full season of The New Normal. The freshman comedy is the latest offering from Glee creator Ryan Murphy. Over its first three episodes, the series has averaged a 2.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

NBC announced today that it has picked up freshman series Revolution for a full season. The sci-fi adventure drama is three episodes into its first season and has pulled in strong numbers for each airing in its Monday 10:00pm time slot, so far averaging a 3.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. “We’re impressed with the imagination and creative direction of the entire team on ‘Revolution,’ not to mention the immediately strong response we got from the audience,” said NBC Entertainment president, Jennifer Salke. “Ordering the full season of this show is a pleasure. Thanks to J.J. Abrams, Erik Kripke, Jon Favreau, and everyone at Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television…

HBO announced today that Boardwalk Empire has been renewed for a fourth season. The Emmy Award-winning drama, which chronicles the life of "Nucky" Thompson during 1920s prohibition in Atlantic City, only recently began its third season on September 16, 2012. “Terry Winter, Martin Scorsese and the rest of their outstanding team continue to produce a stunning show that never fails to surprise and entertain,” said the network's president of programming, Michael Lombardo. “We are excited to bring this unique series back for a fourth season.” No time frame has been announced for the show's fourth season at the time of this writing. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click…

TNT has announced that sophomore drama Franklin & Bash has been renewed for a third season. The series stars Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as two street-smart lawyers and longtime friends who are recruited into a legendary, but uptight, law firm. “Franklin & Bash, with its winning cast and some of the sharpest dialogue on television, is a refreshingly clever, light-hearted take on the courtroom drama,” said network executive VP Michael Wright in a press release. “We look forward to spending another season with Breckin, Mark-Paul and the rest of the terrific cast and crew of Franklin & Bash.” The number of episodes ordered is not known, nor is the…

TNT has renewed freshman drama Major Crimes for a second season. 15 new episodes have been ordered for summer 2013 after a successful start to its first season that saw the show rank as cable's #1 new series for the year-to-date. The first season of Major Crimes is scheduled to conclude on October 15, 2012. (Source:TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

USA Network announced today that it has renewed Covert Affairs for a fourth season. The Toronto-produced drama was picked up for 16 episodes, although no time frame has been set for its return. The network also announced renewals of White Collar and Royal Pains for additional seasons. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

Showtime announced that the sophomore sitcom Episodes has been renewed for a third season. The network has picked up nine more half-hour installments of the Matt LeBlanc comedy, in which he plays a fictionalized version of himself. No return date has been set for Season 3 of Episodes, but production is slated to begin in 2013. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

USA Network announced today that it has renewed White Collar for a fifth season. The network ordered 16 additional episodes of the dramedy. No return date has been set, but filming will begin in 2013. White Collar is currently in the middle of its fourth season. 10 episodes have aired so far, with the remaining six episodes scheduled to start airing in January 2013. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

NBC has taken Saving Hope off its schedule effective immediately. The low-rated medical drama still has two episodes remaining in its first season, which will now only be shown online for US audiences at NBC.com. The Canadian-based series will still continue for viewers in its native land, as the show has already been picked up for a second season by CTV. (Source: TV Line) Click here to view the article

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But, as with other AMC series The Walking Dead, sometimes the dead rise from the grave. According to TVLine, DirecTV and Netflix might just be interested in reviving the show. Both companies are famous for sustaining shows that were axed on other networks. DirecTV saved Friday Night Lights and Damages, while Netflix performed perhaps the most lauded television resurrection of all time by bringing back adored sitcom Arrested Development for a fourth season, which will premiere next year. DirecTV and Netflix are reportedly talking to Fox TV Studios about picking up The Killing for a third season, though both companies were characteristically coy about any negotiations. …

Series 7 will contrinue the trend started by series 6, in that the episodes will air the same day in the UK and US. The UK will get the episodes a few hours earlier due to the time differences, but Americans won't have to wait for weeks at a time to be on the same footing as the Brits (even though, to be fair, the Brits paid for it). The first five episodes of series 7 will air this fall, with a Christmas special in December, and then the remaining eight episodes airing next spring. Here's a glimpse at the schedule of episodes: September 1: "Asylum of the Daleks" (Season Premiere) September 8: "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" September 15: "A Town Called Mercy" S…

Perception stars McCormack as a brilliant but mentally damaged neuroscientist/professor named Dr. Daniel Pierce, who is brought in to help the FBI with some of its harder to solve cases. He was recommended for the job by his former student Kate Moretti (Rachel Leigh Cook), who now works as a special agent at the bureau. Other cast members include Arjay Smith (Nickelodeon's former "Allen Strange"), The O.C.'s Kelly Rowan, Battlestar Galactica's Jamie Bamber, and Star Trek: TNG's LeVar Burton as Dr. Pierce's boss at the university. Click here to view the article

Referencing the network's hit zombie drama The Walking Dead in his comments, Ergen noted that most of their customers "live on farms and ranches" and apparently wouldn't want to watch AMC programming because of their rural location. The other metric the esteemed chairman used to determine viewer interest was his family, as Ergen couldn't recall anyone in his family ever watching "one second" of the other channels that were to be bundled with AMC, including IFC, WEtv, and Sundance. Regarding AMC's other critically-acclaimed series such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad, Ergen claimed that they weren't widely viewed by Dish's audience and that customers could go to iTunes and …

The character will be encountering an older version of himself the second episode of season 2, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, the elder version of the character won't be played by actor Jake Johnson in make-up. Instead, he'll be played by Justified actor Raymond J. Barry. Barry will play a character who claims to be an older version of inventor Nick. When he shows up at Nick's bar claiming to be from the future, Nick is fascinated to hear the drunken man's version of his future. New guest stars for New Girl's second season include Parker Posey, Anna Maria Horsford, and Nelson Franklin. Click here to view the article

It was a long-anticipated episode that proved to be one of the best of the season, and left many fans wondering about how long it would take for Gaiman to come back to the show with another episode. The answer is, apparently, sooner than you'd think. According to some new spoilers released from DoctorWhoTV, Gaiman will be penning an episode of the season's second half. And while "The Doctor's Wife" was a quirky one-off story featuring an all-new villain, it appears Gaiman's next entry will feature one of the show's most famous monsters: the Cybermen. According to DoctorWhoTV, Gaiman's installment will "totally reimagine" the Cybermen, the great metallic monsters who la…

Because it airs on Starz, a premium cable network, viewership for Boss was never going to be high. But the series managed to attract around half a million viewers (if that) throughout its first season. Compared to the 1.2 million viewers that Spartacus: Vengeance, another Starz series, averaged, Boss's viewership is paltry. Creator Farhad Safinia knows this fact, he informed reporters at the show's TCA panel on Thursday. "I am completely aware of what the numbers are and I'm heartbroken," he said. "There are so many great things about the show that I feel it deserves a larger audience." The series was renewed for a second season before the show even premiered, so fans o…

Boss, while one of the best on TV, is a low-rated show that will have to work hard to get a third season. And while freshman period piece Magic City was renewed before its first season aired, its ratings are just as bad (if not worse) than Boss's. It too will have to work for a third season. So what does Starz have coming down the pipeline of original programming? Some pretty intriguing stuff, as it turns out. Five new series in various stages of development have been announced, and some of them actually sound really, really promising. First is Black Sails, an eight-episode pirate series headed up by Transformers director Michael Bay. With Bay's name attached, you prob…

The trailer features clips from what looks like the first five episodes of the series. One taken from "Asylum of the Daleks," or example, features the Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy (Karen Gillan), and Rory (Arthur Darvill) surrounded by hundreds -- no, thousands -- of Daleks, arranged in what looks like an auditorium or colosseum. "You've got me," the Doctor says, angrily. "At long last, here I am!" The Daleks apparently decide to exile the Doctor and his companions to a snowy planet, where they meet a new friend. We get a glimpse of the second episode of the series, "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship," which features exactly what the title says. He's so excited that Amy has to drag…

“There isn’t a film. That was all some weird fantasy going on somewhere. Look, we hopefully will do a Doctor Who film someday. It will be absolutely run by the Doctor Who production office in Cardiff. It will feature the same Doctor as on television," he assured EW. "It will not be a rebooted continuity. All of that would be insane.” Then Moffat delivered a speech not dissimilar from the famous "I am the Doctor!" speech the show's lead character delivered back in series 5: “So that whole proposal was not true, did not happen. I can say that with authority because, as far as the BBC is concerned, I’m the voice of Doctor Who. So if I say it, it’s true. The BBC own Doctor…

CBS has cancelled its new dating series 3, pulling it from the schedule after only two episodes. The show premiered to dismal ratings just five days ago, where it became one of the network's lowest rated debuts ever with just over 2 million total viewers. In its place on Sunday nights at 9:00pm CBS will air repeat dramas until the fourth season premiere of The Good Wife on September 30. (Source: TV Guide) Click here to view the article