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[imgleft] [/imgleft] It looks like current "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell will be influencing the entertainment world for quite some time. Simon Cowell and Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment have signed on for a long-term venture to produce TV, music and film, starting with the U.S. version of "The X Factor." According to the Financial Times (via Reuters), it is a five-year deal wherein Sony relinquishes 100% ownership of Simon Cowell's record label, Syco Records, in exchange for a 50% ownership in this new venture. Cowell said in a statement, "I have had a fantastic relationship with Sony for many years and I'm delighted we are launching this venture toget…

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom. The show continues to pull in healthy ratings, even after an unpresidented 600 episodes. It continues to be televisions longest running prime time series and the network has announced that it has been renewed for two more seasons. Click here to view the article

Sirens is an American comedy television series loosely based on the British series of the same name. Season two ended on April 14th and it is being reported that the series is being cancelled after two seasons. Click here to view the article

Sister Wives is an American reality television series broadcast on TLC that began airing in 2010. The show documents the life of a polygamist family, which includes patriarch Kody Brown, his four wives, and their 17 children. From their unconventional family structure and living arrangements to financial challenges, each half hour episode exposes the inner workings of a polygamist household, revealing the unexpectedly tight-knit and loving relationships between Kody's wives. TLC has announced that it will be renewed for a sixth season. Get Your Very Own Self Defense Keychain: just click here Click here to view the article

Sleepy Hollow is an American supernatural drama television series that premiered on Fox on September 16, 2013. The show has been renewed for a third season that will consist of 18 episodes. The network has also announced that thye show will get a ew executive producer. Click here to view the article

Amazon Studios confirmed today that Sneaky Pete has been renewed for a third season. The good news was delivered at this summer's TCA, with the streaming giant announcing that production on the upcoming season will be kicking off next week. It was more or less already understood that the drama would be returning for a third season, when a few months ago it was announced that its production would be moving from New York to California due to a tax credit approval it received on the west coast. Co-created by Bryan Cranston, Sneaky Pete stars Giovanni Ribisi as a con man who is on the run from a dangerous gangster. Recently released from jail, he assumes the identit…

Dance fans stand up and cheer. Next summer will see this show’s twelfth season. Jazz, contemporary, hip-hop, and even ballet will be featured for this show’s twelfth season. FOX will air it in 2015. Is My Show Cancelled contributed to this article Click here to view the article

Jax Teller's ride may be over, but Sons of Anarchy will live forever in ratings history. The show's final season was the network's most watched season of any series in the network's 20-year history. The seventh and final season averaged 7.54 million viewers, beating the previous network record of 6.98 million viewers set by the show last season. Additionally, the series finale ranks as Sons' highest-rated episode ever among total viewers, women 18-49, adults and men 18-34, and adults, men, and women 25-54. Factoring in Live+3 data, the nearly two-hour finale clocked in at 9.26 million total viewers, with 6.07 million in the coveted adults 18-49 demographic. It is also th…

The conclusion to the seven-season journey of Sons of Anarchy had a certain sense of inevitability to it and that's exactly what the show's creative team intended. In other words, the finale, which saw Jax Teller tying up a lot of loose ends for both the club and in his personal life before ultimately sacrificing himself to give his kids hope for a life away from the bullets and blood was always going to end with Jax dead, but even though Jax's fate was seemingly written in the stars, what about those he left behind? Will Jax's grand gesture be enough to save his boys from becoming outlaws? And will the club go back to the simpler organization it was originally intended t…

Commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Sony Corp. said that provisional results for its Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) unit show a profit of $20 million (￥24.3 billion) for fiscal third quarter ended December, during which the studio's computer systems were hacked by a group calling themselves Guardians of Peace. Sony Pictures saw a 90 percent fall in operating income compared to the same period in 2013 due to the hacking and lower theatrical revenue, according to the provisional earnings report. Its biggest box office hit during the quarter was Fury, which took more than $200 million worldwide.…

Canadian network Space has renewed freshman series Bitten for a second season in 2015. The supernatural drama, which airs on Syfy in the States, has been picked up for 10 more episodes that will begin filming this summer. The series is popular up north and has become Space's #1 original series of all time. US fans will surely be pleased with the news, as the show's return to Syfy appears likely - though no official statement has been made as of yet regarding a stateside pickup. (Source: Space) Click here to view the article

Starz has announced that Spartacus will be ending after its upcoming third season. The historical drama, which is the highest rated show on the network, aired its second season finale back on March 30, 2012. Plans to end the popular show were partially influenced by the loss of actor Andy Whitfield, who played the original Spartacus. The show's creator has said that the final season will run for 10 episodes and be titled Spartacus: War of the Damned. Production on Season 3 has already started, though no return date has been announced. (Source: TV Guide) Click here to view the article

In April The Pirate Bay Four were sentenced to a year in prison, and on top of that each of them was ordered to pay the entertainment industry $905,000 in damages. The defendants soon announced that they would appeal, and the date for the new trial has been set for November by the Appeal Court. Millions of BitTorrent users all around the world followed the Pirate Bay trial with great interest this February. Many had hoped that the Court would decide that operating a BitTorrent tracker is no offense, and indeed the ten day trial started off with a small victory for the defendants. On day two of the trial the prosecutor announced that half of the charges against the f…

Spectrum Originals announced today that L.A.'s Finest has been picked up for a second season. The good news comes just days ahead of the drama's freshman finale. The series premiered in May as Spectrum's first original series. It was initially commissioned by NBC for a pilot in early 2018, but the network ultimately ended up passing on it. For its first season, Spectrum has noted a strong audience response to the show, though critics have given it decidedly-mixed feedback. Headlined by Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union, L.A.'s Finestacts as an offshoot of the Bad Boys movie franchise. Union plays Miami DEA agent Syd Burnett, who leaves her complicated past behind…

The CW has cancelled freshman series Star-Crossed after its first season. The sci-fi drama premiered this February for a 13-episode run, but low ratings failed to convince the network to pick the series up for another season. The series finale is scheduled to air this coming Monday, May 12. Click here to view the article

Starz has announced that its latest original series Da Vinci's Demons has been renewed for a second season. The historical fantasy drama had a solid premiere for the network earlier this month, where it drew 2.14 million total viewers over its opening weekend. Production on the show's second season will begin in Wales next month, with a return expected in 2014. (Source: Starz) Click here to view the article

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…

“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…

ABC has cancelled Suburgatory. The satirical comedy has been an average performer for the network over its three seasons. Though its most recent season had its episode order reduced to 13 and premiered midseason for the first time in its run. Suburgatory's series finale is set to air next Wednesday, May 14. Click here to view the article

ABC has renewed sophomore comedy Suburgatory for a third season. The series is expected to return in the fall for the 2013-2014 season. (Source: ABC Publicity) Click here to view the article

USA Network has announced that sophomore series Suits has been renewed for a third season. The show has continued to be a solid performer, earning the distinction of being this summer's top drama on cable among adults 18-49. The network has ordered another 16 episodes for Season 3 of Suits, matching its current season total. The show is currently in a mid-season break, with a return scheduled for January to air its final six second-season episodes. No return date has been penciled in for Season 3 at this time. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

USA Network announced yesterday that Suits has been renewed for a fourth season. Sixteen additional episodes of the dramedy have been ordered for its new season in mid-2014. In the meantime, Season 3 will conclude beginning in the first quarter of 2014 following the Olympics, when it will start airing its final six episodes. (Source: TV by the Numbers) Click here to view the article

It was announced by USA Network that Suits has been renewed for a fifth season. The drama is currently airing Season 4, where it is averaging nearly 4 million total viewers for the cable network as well as continuing to be in the Top 10 summer scripted series in key demographics. USA has ordered 16 new episodes of Suits for summer 2015. Click here to view the article

TBS has announced that it has cancelled Sullivan & Son after only three seasons and thirty-three episodes that finished airing in September. One of the network’s original scripted comedies. Is My Show Cancelled contributed to this article Click here to view the article

Faster than a speeding sloth, more powerful than a shopping cart, able to sleep long hours in a single sitting! Look! Up in the sky, it's Superman's grandfather! Syfy announced on Monday that it's developing Krypton, a one-hour drama that will follow one of the man of steel's forebears in order to "reveal a chapter of the DC Comics universe that has rarely been told." But don't get excited about seeing an old man enter a phone booth to change his clothes and then fall asleep inside, because Krypton is going to be a prequel. According to the project's official logline, Krypton takes place years before Superman is born and centers on his grandfather as the elder superdude b…