Midseason is the new fall. As Hollywood and the broader industry continue to recover from the debilitating dual actors and writers strikes, the 2024 television landscape is coming into focus. All of the broadcast networks have set return dates for most of their shows, with the postponed Emmy Awards now set for January 15 and no
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CBS is using the Super Bowl on Sunday to promote its entire lineup of returning series which will roll out during the premiere week that will follow the sporting event. Two of them, comedy Ghosts and drama Fire Country, are getting special promos created specifically for the Big Game. The Ghosts spot features Jay (Utkarsh
Usher‘s performance next month during halftime of Super Bowl LVIII on CBS is getting an extra promo push from Apple – with a retro flourish. The tech giant, which took over from Pepsi last year as the lead sponsor of the halftime show, has released a one-minute trailer (watch it above) titled “30 Years in
Christmas is history, but there’s still some holiday celebrating to be done. New Year’s Eve festivities are being broadcast across the country Sunday, December 31 from Puerto Rico to Los Angeles to the famous Times Square ball drop in New York City. The official Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration will kick off at 6
After being forced to push the Season 3 premiere date for its hit comedy Ghosts to February 15, 2024 amidst this summer’s dual strikes, CBS is readying for its return to production, star Danielle Pinnock has revealed. “We start shooting on Saturday. I fly down to Montreal. We’re going back, baby!” exclaimed Pinnock tonight, in
David Letterman received an extended round of applause in his big return to the Ed Sullivan Theater, home of The Late Show. The former late-night show host came back to his old stomping grounds and was greeted with a standing ovation from the audience in attendance, including his successor Stephen Colbert. “Ladies and gentlemen, my
He’s always on country music fans’ minds, and now they’ll have a chance to celebrate him. Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration concert special was announced tonight during Nelson’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The two-hour show will air Sunday, Dec. 17 on CBS at 8:30 PT/ET on CBS, with streaming live and
For 18 seasons, CBS’ Tuesday lineup was anchored by NCIS before the venerable crime drama moved to Mondays in fall 2021 to make room for an FBI night. The NCIS franchise is returning to the Tuesday 8 PM time period this fall with the Paramount+ Australia series NCIS: Sydney, which will premiere in the slot
Bayo Akinfemi, who stars in Bob ❤️ Abishola, is reacting to the news that the CBS sitcom would be reducing most of its cast to recurring roles. Akinfemi plays the role of Goodwin and had been a series regular since its first season. However, ahead of its Season 5 renewal, Akinfemi and 10 of his
Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard not only reunited all of the Next Generation crew, but also gave them a fitting sendoff for which fans have been waiting since the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis. It wasn’t easy for anyone, including composer Stephen Barton. Barton admits, however, that he painted himself, or composed himself rather,
CBS has canceled cop drama East New York, starring Amanda Warren, after one season. The decision comes after CBS today reversed its Friday decision to cancel S.W.A.T., renewing the veteran drama for a 13-episode seventh and final season. It also follows lengthy renewal negotiations between the network and East New York‘s lead studio, Warner Bros.
In the highest-profile cancellation so far this upfront, CBS has opted not to renew S.W.A.T. for a seventh season. Its upcoming Season 6 finale will serve as a series finale. Inspired by the 1975 TV series and the feature film, S.W.A.T., starring Shemar Moore, was the most established — and most expensive — CBS scripted
KCAL meteorologist Alissa Carlson Schwartz fainted Saturday morning during a live TV broadcast. Schwartz was delivering the weather as part of the 7 AM updates when she was stricken. She began leaning forward, lost consciousness and slumped to the desk before she could even start her report. There was a slight delay before the show
EXCLUSIVE: CBS is taking an alternative approach to comedy development with A Lot, an improvisational-style multi-camera series starring June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer. The project hails from Grace and Frankie creator Marta Kauffman through her Okay Goodnight banner and Lionsgate Television. The project reunites Raphael with Kauffman after her run as a series regular
CBS has handed a pilot order to JumpStart, a multi-camera comedy based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip. Wayne Conley (The Best Man) penned the TV adaptation. The project, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Wendy Trilling’s TrillTV and CBS Studios, was among the first CBS buys for the 2023-24 season made last June. The order
CBS has made its first comedy pilot order this season, and it went to the network’s script with the highest-profile talent pairing attached, Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. Four months after Deadline broke the news of the father-son project being in development at CBS, the multi-camera comedy, co-written by the elder Wayans and former Last Man Standing executive producer
Another daytime fixture, Dr. Phil McGraw, is leaving after more than two decades as one of television’s most popular talk show hosts. His syndicated daytime show, Dr. Phil, will end its run of original episodes with the current 2022-2023 television season, the show’s 21st. McGraw’s decision comes as his most recent contract is coming to
Harry Styles is the newest performer confirmed to take the stage live at the Grammys 2023. The announcement was made during the AFC Championship Game on CBS where the Kansas City Chiefs faced the Cincinnati Bengals to see who would make it to the Super Bowl. Styles joins confirmed performers Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige,
Bob ♥ Abishola will be back for a fifth season. CBS said Wednesday that it has renewed the popular comedy for the 2023-24 broadcast season. Bob ♥ Abishola is the fourth top CBS comedy to be renewed for next season, joining Young Sheldon, Ghosts and The Neighborhood. In its fourth season, Bob ♥ Abishola is
NCIS fans could be in for a Tony and Ziva reunion in 2023. Michael Weatherly, who played Agent Anthony DiNozzo for 13 seasons on the CBS drama teased a possible return. In a reflective tweet about the year ahead, DiNozzo tweeted, “Happy New Year! It’s time to look at time and enjoy the moment!” A
CBS’ broadcast of the 45th annual Kennedy Center Honors — which recognized George Clooney, U2, Tania León, Gladys Knight and Amy Grant — took home a Wednesday night ratings win for the network. The two-hour special averaged about 5.1M total viewers, which was up 18% compared to last year’s audience of about 4.3M. It was
SPOILER ALERT: This story reveals details from the Survivor finale. Talk about a Christmas gift: Mike “Gabler” Gabler, a 51-year-old heart valve specialist from Houston, Texas, won Season 43 of Survivor. And he vowed to give all of his winnings to charity. Host Jeff Probst revealed the winner in the jungles of Fiji, not in
EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing St. Marks, a medical drama from David Marshall Grant (A Million Little Things), Megan King Kelly (Teenage Bounty Hunters), Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions and CBS Studios. Kelly penned the teleplay from a story she co-wrote with Grant. In St. Marks, a Muslim Chaplain reeling from a crisis
Newly installed entertainment president Amy Reisenbach sent a memo to staff today to bolster confidence in CBS and to remind her team that “broadcast is not dead.” “I want to let you in on my mantra. Despite what you may have read or heard; BROADCAST IS NOT DEAD,” she wrote in the memo obtained by Deadline.
A special episode of CBS’ freshman drama series Fire Country will air January 29 after the network’s coverage of the AFC Championship game. The announcement was made during CBS’ Sunday broadcast of the NFL game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Fire Country, starring Max Thieriot, has been a hit with
The New York Jets have endured some mighty strange happenings in the NFL. There was the “fake spike.” Bill Belichick’s one-day “HC of the NYJ” resignation. The infamous “Butt fumble.” So Jets fans could be forgiven if they were nodding their heads and expecting the worst when a CBS SkyCam cable broke during today’s game,
CMT and CBS have set the date for the 2023 CMT Music Awards, airing Sunday, April 2, 2023 live from Austin, Texas’ Moody Center for the first time. The fan-voted show and Paramount Global’s signature country music tentpole will again be on CBS and will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Kelsea Ballerini will
EXCLUSIVE: Christine Holder and Mark Holder are no longer executive producers of the new CBS drama series East New York, from Warner Bros Television. The studio would not comment, but according to sources, the duo was let go after WBTV conducted an investigation into allegations against Christine Holder involving inappropriate advances toward a crew member.
CBS continues to torch the ratings wars on Friday nights, as new hit Fire Country is again showing strongly in the Live+Same Day tallies. In the 9 PM slot, Fire Country episode #2 won in total audience with 5.57 million viewers, beating its closest competitor by +3 million viewers, albeit down slightly from last week’s
EXCLUSIVE: Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar and two-time Emmy nominee, has been tapped as a lead opposite Justin Hartley in CBS drama pilot The Never Game, an adaptation of Jeffery Deaver’s novel, from director Ken Olin and 20th Television. Written by Ben Winters, based on Deaver’s novel, The Never Game follows the adventures of Colter