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
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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
It’s pilot season in July! The lasting impact of the pandemic on the traditional broadcast pilot cycle continues to be felt as production and pickup decisions on a sizable number of broadcast pilots has shifted off-cycle. ABC and NBC have five and six off-cycle pilots this year, respectively, while CBS has a decision to make
Thursday’s primetime January 6 House select committee’s public hearing is prompting some programming shifts by the broadcast networks. CBS has moved Thursday’s eviction episode of Big Brother, originally scheduled for 8 pm ET, to Friday, July 22 at 8 PM ET, replacing the previously scheduled second season premiere of Secret Celebrity Renovation, which will now
Mishael Morgan made history Friday by becoming the first Black actress to win in the Outstanding Lead Actress category at the Daytime Emmys. She plays Amanda Sinclair on The Young and the Restless. After receiving a standing ovation, Morgan took the stage to thank her family and fans before acknowledging the significance of her win.
Emmy Award-winners Darren Criss and Julianne Hough will co-host The Tony Awards: Act One at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, an hour of exclusive content streaming live only on Paramount+ beginning 60 minutes prior to the live broadcast of the Tony Awards ceremony on CBS. Criss and Hough will kick off the evening celebrating the
CBS’ Monday slate had a fairly good night with nearly all series ticking up in both demo rating and viewership for their season finales. On Monday, CBS bid farewell to the current seasons of The Neighborhood, Bob Hearts Abishola, NCIS and NCIS: Hawai’i. All titles were up in both measures from the previous week, except
Ahead of the Season 2 premiere of CBS‘ Blood & Treasure on July 17, it was announced that the series will move exclusively to Paramount+. The first two episodes will drop on premiere night with new episodes dropping weekly on Sunday. It’s unlikely the action-adventure drama will be renewed for a third season. Series star Matt Barr is
On the eve of the 2022 Upfronts, broadcast networks cancelled more than a dozen series, adding to a long list of TV shows that have ended in the past year, are about to wrap or are going dark in 2023. The gallery above contains a compendium of the cancellations going back to August 2021, including
EXCLUSIVE: The Chuck Lorre-produced sophomore CBS comedy series United States of Al will not return for a third season. I hear the network made the calls to inform the series’ auspices this evening. For two years in a row, the Chuck Lorre-produced comedies B Positive and United States of Al have been on the bubble.
We are 10 days away from the start of the traditional upfront week and a day into the new series pickup window, which kicked off yesterday with NBC’s order to the Quantum Leap pilot. Getting intel on broadcast pilots is harder than ever as that marketplace has contracted over the last five years but here
An emotional James Corden made it official while taping Thursday’s edition of The Late Late Show — and he promised there will be tears. “I’ve some news of my own to share,” he began. “Seven and a half years ago, I started hosting this show. It has changed my life. I love it, I love all
Like every other facet of life, the broadcast pilot season has not been the same it was before the pandemic. Back in January, we did a story about the expected historic low volume of pilots, which has since became a reality with 30-something orders, and how some Covid-imposed changes were here to stay. A more
CBS’ FBI: Most Wanted welcomes Dylan McDermott as Remy Scott in the April 12 episode (10 p.m.), and Deadline has an exclusive look at his introduction to the FBI Fugitive Task Force team in the clip above. Remy is taking over as team leader following the death of Jess LaCroix (Julian McMahon), who was killed
EXCLUSIVE: Meg DeLoatch has left CBS’ The Neighborhood after serving as executive producer and showrunner on the current fourth season, which has wrapped production. Search is under way for a new showrunner of the popular multi-camera comedy, which already has been renewed for a fifth season. DeLoatch will focus on development under her overall deal
EXCLUSIVE: Madeline Wise (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and newcomer Inga Schlingmann are set as series regulars opposite Geena Davis and Skylar Astin in CBS’ mother-and-son legal drama pilot from writer/executive producer Scott Prendergast and executive producer Phil McGraw. Additionally, Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro (Charmed) have joined as showrunners and executive producers. The untitled drama follows
ABC’s The Bachelor and CBS’ FBI were the standouts for Tuesday primetime, which also featured season finales and a series premiere for NBC. The Bachelor with its dramatic Fantasy Suites episode was the highest-rated program of Tuesday evening, earning a 0.7 in the 18-49 demo rating and 3.37 million viewers, per fast affiliates. The Bachelor
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was sure that Chris Licht was the right person for the job of showrunner of his CBS late-night show when the pair met over a drink six years ago. But Colbert said, “I wasn’t sure whether I would like him, whether we would become friends, because we’re all show
Gerald “Jerry” Rubin, who went from the William Morris Agency to become VP Business Affairs at CBS and was an influential longtime entertainment lawyer, has died. He was 93. His client and friend Jerry Leider told Deadline today that Rubin died January 31 of heart failure in Los Angeles. A Bronx native who grew up
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, it’s Valentine’s day, so of course he talks about how Americans have lost their sexual mojo. Quoting CNN Health, Colbert states that Americans are at a 30-year low for sexual activity. Meaning Americans are less likely to have sex, get partnered up, or get married. In typical fashion,
EXCLUSIVE: The co-creator of The Amazing Race could find himself in a mad dash for the courthouse due to a fraud lawsuit filed today. Ex-CBS and Warner Bros executive Leigh Collier is alleging that Bertram van Munster formed and then dissolved production company New Media Collective with her. That’s the most innocuous part. More ruinously,
CBS has made its first order of the 2022 pilot season. The network has handed a pilot pickup to a mother and son legal drama from Scott Prendergast, who wrote on FX’s Wilfred and starred in HBO’s Silicon Valley, and Dr. Phil McGraw. The untitled drama, which comes from CBS Studios, is written and executive
There’s news from “deep in the heart of the Panamanian jungle.” CBS said today that its new celebrity-competition series Beyond the Edge will premiere at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. Watch the cold open for the Survivor-style show above. Speaking of that groundbreaking reality stalwart, Survivor serves as the lead-in for the new show, which is taking over the
EXCLUSIVE: This will come as a shocker for fans of the FBI franchise. Julian McMahon, star of FBI: Most Wanted, is exiting the CBS crime drama after almost three seasons. His final episode is slated to shoot next week and will air March 8. The show is expected to introduce a new character later this
EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing Unplanned In Akron, a multi-camera comedy from Picturestart and CBS Studios. Written by actor-writer Schuyler Helford (Call Me Kat) with Emily R. Wilson (Bucktown, The Conners) supervising, Unplanned In Akron is a series about two teenagers navigating parenthood in the best way they know how. With a little help from their
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the host discusses Indiana Senator’s comments regarding school teachers. Senator Scott Baldwin introduced a bill last month that would prohibit schools from teaching a variety of concepts related to sex, race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, color, or national origin. With so much left out of the curriculum, Colbert surmises
As another calendar year draws to a close, it’s time again for Deadline’s annual list of winter premiere dates for new and returning TV series. The list covers more than 250 broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting from January 1 through March 31 and includes series and season/half-season debuts, shows’ return from hiatus and some
Thursday primetime led into Christmas Eve with a five-way tie between Young Sheldon, Fantasy Island, A Very Boy Band Holiday and more earning the night’s highest demo rating. With primetime programming grinding to a slow halt as networks switch out new episodes and live coverage for repeats and holiday titles, Thursday’s highest rating was a