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Every year, American broadcast networks produce dozens of pilots, but only order a bunch of them as a weekly series. Only a few of those new shows then actually become a success and survive for multiple years. Last week the networks presented their new shows to advertisers, praising even their worst new shows as shows with the “highest testing results ever, as something you haven’t seen before, as something relatable and unique, as something that is character-based and certainly going to... Read Full Story

Major changes are in store for E4’s hit series Misfits , when it is returning later this year. Robert Sheehan, who has been the lead of the show since it began in 2009, is leaving the show and will be replaced by a character called Rudi. Casting for the new character is still ongoing. The show’s executive producer Petra Fried announced the news at the Kapow convention in London today. Both, the arrival of the new character and Sheehan’s exit will be dealt with in short films posted on the... Read Full Story

Last year I was less than pleased with the direction that “United States Of Tara” had taken in its second season. Storylines felt flat and aimless, conflicts felt rather contrived and forced than natural, some of the dialogue felt wooden and high-profile guest stars like Viola Davis or Joey Lauren Adams were wasted in unsubstantial storylines that not only led nowhere, but made little use of their talents. To make a long story short: The second season was a major disappointment and I pondered... Read Full Story

“Ringer” stars Sarah Michelle Gellar (”Buffy The Vampire Slayer”) as a troubled young woman named Bridget , who, while on the run from the mob, hides out by inhabiting the life of her wealthy twin sister Siobhan, until she learns that her twin’s life has a bounty on it as well. If picked up, “Ringer” would mark Gellar’s first return to television since Buffy has ended. She previously starred in the rejected HBO pilot “The Wonderful Maladys”. According to Deadline Hollywood , Carbonell is... Read Full Story

Season 3 of the critically-acclaimed and Award-winning dramedy will premiere on March 28th. “Nurse Jackie” stars Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton, a strong-willed and caring, but very flawed emergency room nurse in New York, who juggles patients, doctors, fellow nurses and her own indiscreations that include an addiction to Vicodin and Adderall. Last season ended with Jackie’s husband finding out about her addiction. Falco won an EMMY award for best lead-actress in a comedy last fall. “Nurse... Read Full Story

She won an EMMY for her role on NBC’s long-running “Will & Grace”, now Debra Messing is back at the peacock, as she has joined the pilot “Smash”, from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. “Smash” is a show-within-a-show vehicle about a group of people who come together to put on a Broadway musical about Marylin Monroe. Messing will play Julia, the musical’s good-natured lyricist who might be somewhat against the idea of a Marylin Monroe-themed musical. The... Read Full Story

The movie is based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name and teams up multiple Marvel superheroes including Captain America, the Hulk, Iron Man and Thor. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson are the leads in the ensemble. Zak Penn and Joss Whedon (”Buffy The Vampire Slayer”) are writing, with the latter one directing the movie, which is eyed for a release on May 4, 2012. Smulders is set to... Read Full Story

The show is scheduled to debut over two nights in May 2011, after which it is planned to continue on the network’s fall schedule in September. TERRA NOVA follows an ordinary family that travels back in time to prehistoric Earth in an effort to save the human race, as the world is dying in 2149. Jason O’Mara, Shelley Conn and Stephen Lang star. Watch the first trailer below. Read Full Story

Usually Americans are the ones to adapt foreign concepts for their markets. This year alone has seen three remakes of British television shows to hit the American airwaves and it’s only February: MTV adapted E4’s controversial teen-drama “Skins” for the American market, Syfy remade BBC Three’s “Being Human” and Showtime went with a new take on E4’s long-running drama “Shameless”. It’s rather unusual for a British network to adapt an American tv series, but that’s exactly what ITV did with... Read Full Story

Rita’s shocking death at the end of season four was something that Dexter fans had been talking about all year. It seemed like a major step to suddenly write out one of the show’s major characters. It seemed like a bold decision, like the show’s writers were trying to signalize that the show was about to evolve into something else. But was it really such a brave decision and not just getting rid of a character for which the show’s writers had no use anymore? Rita was interesting in season... Read Full Story