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Prime Video is gearing up for a strong Emmy push with Lulu Wang’s emotionally charged and intricately crafted miniseries “Expats.”

It was revealed exclusively to Variety that stars Nicole Kidman and Ji-young Yoo will be submitted for lead acting accolades, while Sarayu Blue and Ruby Ruiz will aim for supporting roles. Altogether, “Expats” will vie for 24 Primetime Emmy nominations, including outstanding limited or anthology series.

Set against the vibrant backdrop of Hong Kong, and adapted from the novel by Janice Y.K. Lee, “Expats” delves into the lives of a close-knit group of expatriates, navigating their affluent, yet complex world. The narrative centers around the mysterious disappearance of Margaret’s (Kidman) son during a market visit, intertwining the lives of three American women amidst the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests.

Read: All Primetime Emmy predictions in every category on Variety’s Awards Circuit.

Lulu Wang, the creator, writer and director of the...

Tyler Labine is speaking out about how he's "counting his blessings" after a medical emergency.

The New Amsterdam alum shared over the weekend via Instagram that he had a "potentially fatal" blood clot in his liver and intestines last week.

Thankfully, it was caught in time.

"Sometimes it's a Tuesday and you're walking around with a tummy ache so you try to sleep it off," he wrote on the social media platform.

"Then sometimes you wake up on a weds with a stomach ache so bad you decide to go to the ER at your local hospital."

"And then sometimes your tummy ache turns out to be a potentially fatal blood clot in your intestines and liver and you have to spend the next 3 days in the hospital trying not to die. Just sometimes," he continued.

The Reaper alum shared an update on how he's feeling after the traumatic event.

Zdf Enterprises and the U.K.-based Parsonage Productions are developing a new drama, “The Bronte Girls,” a fictional account of the last summer which the three Bronte sisters spent together.

The drama is based on the stage play of the same name by New York-based playwright Caroline Franklin (“Last Night at the Carmine”). Franklin will adapt the drama for the small screen with the British writer-director Darcia Martin.

The initial series, structured as a six-part drama, will be executive produced by Harvey Myman, Patty Lenahan Ishimoto and Patrick Irwin, who first worked together on A+E Networks’ U..K. period crime drama, “Miss Scarlet & The Duke.”

“The Bronte Girls” is set in the village of Haworth, Yorkshire, where Reverend Bronte’s three daughters, Charlotte (19), Emily (17) and 17-year-old Anne spent their last summer together as teenagers. Theirs was not a prim and proper youth, “The Bronte Girls” imagines, painting a...

Exclusive: Ethan Josh Lee is the latest confirmed addition to the cast of Wes Anderson’s upcoming film Asteroid City, which has wrapped production in Spain.

For now, the film’s plot is being kept under wraps. Lee joins a cast that includes Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Sophia Lillis, Adrien Brody, Maya Hawke, Fisher Stevens, Bill Murray, Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Jeff Goldblum, Liev Schreiber, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, Jason Schwartzman, Matt Dillon, Tony Revolori and Jake Ryan, as previously announced.

Anderson is producing with Jeremy Dawson and Steven Rales. While the seven-time Oscar nominee has distributed his last three films through Searchlight Pictures, Asteroid City has not been set up with a studio.

Lee has previously appeared on the film side in Adam Mason’s pandemic-themed sci-fi thriller Songbird, Miranda July’s oddball drama Kajillionaire and Alistair Legrand’s genre-bender, The Diabolical.

Liz Lemon. Leslie Knope. Mindy Lahiri. The past several years have been full of iconic comedy leading ladies, and they're about to have a new member of the club. On the new NBC comedy I Feel Bad, Emet Kamala-Sweetzer tries to juggle her family and her career and finds herself frustrated over not being able to achieve her idea of perfection and "having it all." There's a good chance you recognize the actress playing Emet, but an equally good chance that you can't quite remember what you recognize her from. Never fear - we've got the rundown of where you've seen actress Sarayu Blue before.

Known earlier in her career as Sarayu Rao, Blue has been acting since 2002's Leela, although she didn't snag a noticeable role until 2007. In that year, she joined the film Lions For Lambs, which starred Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, and Meryl Streep. Despite the film's starry cast,...

I generally pay as much attention to the broadcast network development season as I do to the baseball draft. Though the shows that actually survive development are much closer to airing chronologically than most baseball draftees are to the majors, the winnowing process is just as brutal in both cases. On average, a given network will hear 3-400 pitches a year, order scripts for 60-70 of them, make 8-12 pilots and put roughly between a half dozen and a dozen of them on the air. So I’ve usually found development not worth worrying about until shows are actually ordered to series and scheduled. That said, it’s been tough to ignore this fall’s development season, where it seems like every day for the past few weeks, my Twitter feed has blown up a few times an afternoon with news of a familiar movie or TV property being adapted...

At just 14 years old, Benjamin Stockham has already starred in three broadcast network TV shows. Fox's “Sons of Tucson” was cancelled after just four episodes in 2010. And NBC decided not to renew White House family comedy “1600 Penn” after its first season ended in early 2013. So Stockham knows how hard it is to make it to a second season and isn't taking his current series, NBC's “About a Boy,” for granted. “It is really, really great being on a second season,” Stockham told TheWrap. “With the first season, you're always a little bit worried that it might not...

The Mindy Project alum Tommy Dewey will star opposite Krysten Ritter in NBC’s pilot Mission Control, a Universal TV-produced comedy from executive producers Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. A workplace ensemble set in 1962, Mission Control examines what happens when a strong woman (Ritter) butts heads with a macho astronaut (Dewey) in the race to land on the moon. Dewey’s Tom is the newest member of Mission Control, a former test pilot who quickly bonds with the male crew and immediately bumps heads with Mary (Ritter). Dewey gets bonus points for his resemblance to the first man in space, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left). On Mission Control, Dewey joins recently cast Michael Rosenbaum who plays another astronaut. Dewey, who co-created Sons Of Tucson, starred in the original pilot for Fox’s Dads last season. He is with the Kohner Agency, New Wave and Myman Abel.

It happens all the time. We get attached to a show and for some reason, be it low ratings, high expense, departing actors, it gets cancelled. We’re left with a handful or episodes, or maybe a season or two if we’re lucky, and that’s it. Plot lines are unresolved, questions left unanswered, potential unreached.

But look at all the shows that were cancelled and then brought back, Futurama, Arrested Development, and Family Guy to name a few. Not to mention that a Veronica Mars movie was recently funded through Kickstarter solely by fans. The possibilities are growing as we have more methods to display our love for these shows in the hopes that someone will listen. So here’s to the cancelled shows of yesteryear. You may be incomplete but we still love you.

So click onward to check out my top ten favourite TV shows…that were cancelled too soon.

As you know, Rupert Grint was cast in a CBS pilot called 'Super Clyde'. Tonight we bring you more news in the form of casting of Clyde's older brother: Tyler Labine. This is according to Entertainment Weekly. Labine's other credits include The CW’s Reaper, Fox’s Sons of Tucson, CBS’ Mad Love and NBC’s Animal Practice. This also means that Rupert will most likely be putting on an American accent for the show. (While this seemed obvious to me, there were some out there wondering, so I think this news tells us he will be an American character.) For a recap, "Super Clyde centers" around a meek unassuming fast food worker who decides to become a super hero. We also want to remind you that while Rupert has been casted in this role, it does not mean that this will be picked up by CBS. This is only a pilot.

Tyler Labine and the Harry Potter saga’s Rupert Grint. Brothers?

Sure, why not. Labine has been cast as Grint’s older brother in the promising CBS comedy pilot Super Clyde by Greg Garcia (Raising Hope). The show is about a meek, unassuming fast food worker (Grint) who decides to become a super hero.

Labine has been funny and likable in a slew of recent short-lived shows — The CW’s Reaper, Fox’s Sons of Tucson, CBS’ Mad Love and NBC’s Animal Practice. Will Super Clyde break his streak?...

Call it a case of bad things happening to a good actor. Again and again. With the news this week that NBC had canceled Animal Practice — yet still allowing audiences to see it in its death throes until replacing it with Whitney in November — it marks another TV disappointment for actor Tyler Labine. Try as he might this affable bloke just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to finding a steady gig on TV. Here’s a list of his trail of boob-tube carnage: Animal Practice Mad Love Sons of Tucson Reaper Invasion That Was Then He [...]...

Exclusive: Fox has bought an untitled John Legend comedy project from 20th Century Fox TV, studio-based Chernin Entertainment and Legend’s production company Get Lifted. Written by Sons Of Tucson‘s co-creators Tommy Dewey & Greg Bratman, the single-camera comedy is based loosely on Legend’s upbringing. It is about a guy in his early 20s who becomes the guardian to his own siblings while having to manage his burgeoning career and social life. Get Lifted principals Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorious will executive produce with Katherine Pope and Peter Chernin. Dewey and Bratman will co-executive produce. The project is outside the pod deal Get Lifted recently signed with Universal Cable Prods. Singer-songwriter Legend, a nine-time Grammy winner, has been focused on television for the past several months. In addition to the development pact at Ucp, he hosted and executive produced a music special for Showtime and starred on the ABC summer reality series Duets.

NBC has released a bunch of trailers and clips for a new collection of TV series that they have been developing. We've got stuff from 1600 Penn, Infamous, Save Me, Next Caller, Do No Harm, The New Normal, Guys With Kids, and Go On. It will be interesting to what shows make it and what shows end up on the chopping block. Check out the trailers and clips and let us know which ones look good to you!

1600 Penn:

“1600 Penn” — The Gilchrists are just the average American family dealing with all the everyday issues – like a grown kid who’s forced to move back home, children who are smarter than their teachers and a stepmom (Jenna Elfman, “Dharma and Greg”) desperately trying to win over the kids. They’re loving, fun and a little crazy. In other words, just like everybody else. With one exception: they live in a very special house.

Chicago – NBC revealed their Fall schedule today and there were multiple surprises including comedies moving to Tuesday and Friday nights (we were wondering where all of the sitcoms would go) and a Fall cycle of the hit singing show “The Voice.” Other major news is that “Smash” is being held for mid-season. The network also revealed that six new shows — two dramas, four comedies — will premiere in the Fall.

The big news for comedy fans is that Thursdays have been tinkered with again as the final season of “30 Rock” will kick off the night at 7pm Cst, followed by “Up All Night,” “The Office,” and “Parks and Recreation.” In the 9pm Cst timeslot that was the kiss of death last season with “Prime Suspect,” “The Firm,” and “Awake,” the network has given up and will air the low-rated but inexpensive “Rock Center with Brian Williams.”

“Whitney” and “Community” move to Friday nights,...

TNT has ordered David E. Kelley's medical drama "Monday Mornings" to series, giving the prolific writer-producer his first show on cable.

The series, previously known as "Chelsea General," will debut next year on TNT and follow a group of doctors in their professional and personal lives, centering on their morbidity and mortality conferences that take place every Monday (hence the title). Kelley co-created the show with neurosurgeon and CNN regular Dr. Sanjay Gupta; it's based on Gupta's book of the same name.

The show stars Alfred Molina ("Law & Order: La"), Ving Rhames ("Mission: Impossible," "Pulp Fiction), Jamie Bamber ("Battlestar Galactica"), Jennifer Finnigan ("Better With You"), Keong Sim ("Glee"), Emily Swallow ("Southland," "Ringer"), Bill Irwin ("CSI") and Sarayu Rao ("Sons of Tucson").

"Monday Mornings" will be the first medical drama for TNT since it canceled "Hawthorne" last year. It's scheduled to premiere in summer 2013.

Exclusive: Tyler Labine is set to co-star opposite Justin Kirk in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Animal Kingdom. Also cast in the office comedy is actor-comedian Bobby Lee (Harold & Kumar). Animal Kingdom, from Universal TV and American Work, centers on a House-like veterinarian, Dr. George Coleman (Kirk), who loves animals but usually hates their owners. Labine will play Dr. Doug Jackson, George’s fellow veterinarian and friend who is trying to get over a breakup. Lee will play Dr. Kim, another vet who loves gambling and partying. Brian Gatewood and Alex Tanaka wrote the script and are executive producing with Anthony and Joe Russo, who are directing, Scot Armstrong and Ravi Nandan. Labine, whose series credits include Reaper, Sons Of Tucson and Mad Love, was recently seen in Rise Of The Planet of The Apes. He is with CAA and manager Tyman Stewart. MadTV alum Lee, repped by CAA, will...

Pilot season is here, meaning the networks are taking stock of their needs for 2012-13 and getting the ball rolling toward filling any gaps.

With development season about to get really interesting — meaning it’s time to start booking living, breathing actors for these wannabe series! — we thought it might help to define some of the lingo that gets tossed around.

Here are the basic terms you should know as pilot season forges on.

Also: Review Our Ongoing List of This Season’s Pilots for ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC

Pilot | You really want get basic, eh? When...

After all of the hype from the fall television premieres has died down, we are now in for the second wave of excitement that happens midseason. If all of the shows that begin airing in September are dinner, then the ones that come in the winter are dessert – of course, that dessert can be horrible, you know, maybe taste a little like Sons of Tucson. This metaphor is wearing thin, so before I start talking about oatmeal raisin cookies and non-fat yogurt, here’s a list of the midseason series premieres that I have my eye on. Napoleon Dynamite Though the film no longer stirs up the kind of powerful emotions it once did – I seldom draw ligers in the margins of my notebook paper these days – I’m intrigued by this animated series based on the 2004 cult hit. Launching on January 15 as part of Fox’s animation domination line-up, Napoleon Dynamite...

Next month, a new sitcom called "Work It," about two out-of-work salesmen who dress up as women to get jobs, will make its debut on ABC. There's nothing new about the premise -- Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari covered the same ground on the early-80s sitcom "Bosom Buddies" -- and the tone isn't exactly novel either. The stars of the show, Ben Koldyke and Amaury Nolasco, are operating in the prevailing frat-boy mode perfected by Bradley Cooper and Seann William Scott.

In May, an 84-second trailer of "Work It" hit the Internet, instantly attracting more blogger rage than most shows accumulate over the course of several seasons. Gobsmacked by the very fact that "This got made! And is going to series!", The Futon Critic lambasted the show's "limp attempts at misogyny," "groan worthy madcappery" and "Mrs. Doubtfire hijinx."

The Best Week Ever blog took special umbrage at the network's...

Next month, a new sitcom called "Work It," about two out-of-work salesmen who dress up as women to get jobs, will make its debut on ABC. There's nothing new about the premise -- Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari covered the same ground on the early-80s sitcom "Bosom Buddies" -- and the tone isn't exactly novel either. The stars of the show, Ben Koldyke and Amaury Nolasco, are operating in the prevailing frat-boy mode perfected by Bradley Cooper and Seann William Scott.

In May, an 84-second trailer of "Work It" hit the Internet, instantly attracting more blogger rage than most shows accumulate over the course of several seasons. Gobsmacked by the very fact that "This got made! And is going to series!", The Futon Critic lambasted the show's "limp attempts at misogyny," "groan worthy madcappery" and "Mrs. Doubtfire hijinx."

The Best Week Ever blog took special umbrage at the network's...

Ever since I heard (then saw the trailers for) Eli Craig’s “Tucker and Dale vs. Evil”, I’ve been curious about seeing the movie. Certainly, it wasn’t because Katrina Bowden promises to go skinny dipping in bra and panties. Ahem. Not at all. The film promises something familiar, and yet radically different. In this case, our heroes wouldn’t be those hunky high school teens/college kids and their nubile and perfectly complexioned girlfriends, but rather the oft-belittled rednecks that populate the woods/isolated locales of most horror movies, thus giving us a horror movie that, for once, is told from the perspective of the country yokels. Now that’s new. The Tucker and Dale of the title is Alan Tydyk (of “Firefly” fame) and Tyler Labine (“Sons of Tucson”), respectively, two good old boys headed out to their cabin in the woods for a little relaxation and beer drinking.

Tyler Labine has signed up to star in a new Fox project. Guidance is described as an "adult buddy comedy" but is set in a high school, Deadline reports. The project has received a put pilot commitment from Fox, meaning that the network will have to pay fines if the pilot does not make it to the screen. Labine recently appeared in the CBS comedy Mad Love and has also worked on shows such as Sons of Tucson, Boston Legal and Reaper. Guidance (more)...

The upcoming sitcom ‘Guidance,’ the first project from Ryan Reynolds and Allan Loeb’s recently launched TV company DarkFire, has been bought by Fox, Deadline is reporting. DarkFire had a first-look deal for the show, which is being penned by ‘Role Models’ screenwriter Tim Dowling, with 20th TV. With the deal in place, Tyler Labine has been cast in the lead role for ‘Guidance,’ which he’ll also produce. The sitcom brings Labine back to Fox after he lead the short-lived comedy series ‘Sons of Tucson’ in Spring 2010. The ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ actor has also appeared on The CW’s ‘Reaper’ and CBS’ ‘Mad Love.’ Reynolds has been...

Ryan Reynolds can add TV production to his resume. Variety reports that Reynolds' DarkFire banner has sold a script for a single-camera adult buddy comedy called Guidance. Tyler Labine is set to star and serve as executive producer on the show set in a high school. The studio snapped up the script before DarkFire could sell it to another network.

The show is written by Tim Dowling (Role Models), who will also serve as producer along with Jonathon Komack Martin, Steven Pearl and Allan Loeb, who started DarkFire with Reynolds earlier this year. They have a first-look deal at 20th TV. 

Labine has starred in short-lived series Mad Love, Sons of Tucson and Reaper in recent years. I think he is really funny and hope that this show will find it's footing. What are your thougths on this news?...

Ryan Reynolds and Allan Loeb's recently launched TV company DarkFire has made its first sale, and it was a quick one. The comedy project Guidance, from feature writer Tim Dowling (Just Go With It, Role Models), was just taken out by 20th TV where DarkFire has a first-look deal. In their first stop at Fox, the network took the show off the market and the rest of the pitch meetings were canceled. Tyler Labine (Reaper, Mad Love) is attached to star in and produce Guidance, which is described as an adult buddy comedy set in high school. Reynolds has been very involved in the project,  which has received a put pilot commitment from Fox, including attending pitch meetings. He is executive producing with the rest of the DarkFire principals, Loeb, Steven Pearl and Jonathon Komack Martin. Dowling has ties to both Loeb and Reynolds. He co-wrote comedy feature Just Go With It...

Fresh off an acclaimed run on the festival circuit comes the horror comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, starring Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine and Katrina Bowden. The film has a fairly clever premise, great word of mouth and three charismatic leading actors. I just wish the trailer was a little more — umm, what's the word — good.

Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine) are two gentle-hearted good ol' boys who buy that vacation home they've always dreamt of, which of course is a dilapidated cabin straight out of The Evil Dead. While enjoying their little slice of heaven, they cross paths with a group of boisterous college kids straight out of whatever horror movie contains a group of boisterous college kids — which is almost every horror movie, I suppose.

Anyway, misunderstandings occur, people die accidentally and, quicker than you can say "high concept," the college kids think Tucker and Dale are redneck psycho killers,...

USA Network is hoping to put together a "doctor in unusual circumstances" one-two punch with its new show Necessary Roughness following the new season premiere of Royal Pains. After HankMed has its way with you, Necessary Roughness will offer up a therapist who finds herself diving into less than the normal routine, and since the world of physical health doctor out of water did so well, hopefully the mental health world will perform as well.

Necessary Roughness has a few more chinks in its armor than most of the new shows that USA puts out, and what stands out most is that it is difficult to tell where it's going, and it's even more difficult to tell who exactly the show is for. The pilot sets us up with Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) as a therapist who is a fan of hypnotherapy, and the first thing that happens in...

Justin Long is known for being buddy-buddy with the Judd Apatow players.

Early on, he was a young, go-to straight man, playing with the comedic big boys in movies like "Dodgeball," "Anchorman," and "Accepted." Now that Long's eased in to the movie biz, he's been on a mission:  diversity. He's dabbled in a little of everything: rom-coms, action movies, horror flicks. He's played the good guy, the bad guy, the kooky bit part, even the voice of Alvin in the "Chipmunks" movies -- there's little the guy won't tackle.

Now with "Lumpy," a new indie comedy which Deadline reports is gearing up to shoot in Minnesota, he's returning to the oddball comedy of his roots.

Co-starring Jess Weixler ("Teeth"), Tyler Labine ("Sons of Tucson") and Addison Timlin ("Californication"), "Lumpy" is the directorial debut of TV writer/producer Ted Koland and follows an engaged couple (Long and Weixler) whose best man,...

Exclusive: Tommy Dewey (Roommates) has landed the younger lead opposite Gary Cole in Fox's comedy pilot Tagged. The hybrid comedy, from Sony TV, Reveille and writers David Guarascio and Moses Port, is a workplace ensemble set at the Los Angeles County's coroner's office that is loosely based on the life of Shiya Robowsky. It centers on Wally Percy (Dewey) who, just fresh out of medical school, scraps plans to work at an UCLA hospital to join his father, respected coroner James Percy (Cole), and his team at the coroner's office. Dewey also co-created the Fox comedy Sons of Tucson.

Edwin Bravo didn’t make the decision to pursue an entertainment career until he was in his 30’s, but the Filipino actor hasn’t looked back since. He’s quickly building a solid resume in Hollywood, with appearances in several hit film and television shows, including Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Hawaii Five-o, Sons of Tucson, Southland, and Mind of Mencia.

The actor has several cool projects lined up for 2011. The first one is the new series Harry’s Law co-starring alongside Academy Award winning actress Kathy Bates and then we’ll see him on Supah Ninjas later this year on Nickelodeon, did I mention Sulu (George Takai) is on that show? Check out my latest “Versus” to learn more about the cool and really down to earth Edwin Bravo.

Brian S- First off , you got into acting in your 30's. What took you so long? Is...

Sure, virtually no one had heard of Hailee Steinfeld when the Coen Brothers cast her as the lead of their now-hit movie True Grit, but she wasn't exactly an inexperienced actress. Steinfeld had credits on TV shows Back to You and Sons of Tucson as well as movies called She's A Fox and Grand Cru, but she had also done work in commercials like many other aspiring actors. And as much as Hailee might have thought her work for K-Mart wouldn't come back to haunt her as she's on the verge of what might be an Oscar nomination, well, YouTube strikes again. Check out the short video below, in which Steinfeld rocks a pair of bedazzled jeans and explains to the clueless kid sitting in front of her the definition of "blingatude." As embarrassing as the whole thing is, she's actually the star of the commercial, and manages to say...

Screenterrier reported back in February on the casting of 13 year old Hailee Steinfield in the Coen Brothers remake of the classic John Wayne Western True Grit.

Now turning 14, in an interview with ABC news, Hailee gives more details on the casting process that she went through to get the part.

To find their Mattie, casting directors Ellen Chenoweth and Rachel Tenner knew what they were looking for: "We had a prototype: Linda Manz from 'Days of Heaven,' or a young Holly Hunter, Tatum O'Neal, or Jodie Foster," said Chenoweth. "We didn't rule out better-known actresses - not that there are that many in that age range - and we did see some, but they weren't right."

The pair traveled to 10 cities throughout the South and Southwest, seeing more than 5,000 actors. "In the end, they found me in their own back yard," said Hailee.

She had heard of the job through her mother's cousin,...

Fast National ratings for Sunday, August 1, 2010

Another sleepy Sunday of reruns  helped "60 Minutes" and a new episode of "Big Brother" win the night for CBS in total viewers and tie Fox for strongest showing in adults 18-49.

CBS averaged 6.2 million viewers and a 4.0 rating/7 share in households, easily topping closest competition ABC (4.2 million, 2.6/5). NBC (3.9 million, 2.5/4) came in third, with Fox (3.5 million, 2.0/4) just behind it.

Fox and CBS led the way in the 18-49 demo, each scoring a 1.6 rating. ABC followed with a 1.1, and NBC came in last with a 0.9.

Sunday hour by hour:

7 p.m.

CBS: "60 Minutes"(7.8 million viewers, 5.1/10 households)

ABC: "America's Funniest Home Videos" rerun (6.2 million, 3.5/7)

NBC: "Dateline" (3.1 million, 2.0/4)

Fox: "Sons of Tucson" (1.7 million, 1.1/2)/"American Dad" rerun (2.1 million, 1.3/2)

18-49 leader: "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1.5)

8 p.m.

CBS: "Big Brother" (7.1 million, 4.2/8)

ABC: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" rerun (4.8 million, 3.0/5)

NBC: "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (4.3 million, 2.8/5)

Fox: "The Simpsons" rerun (3.9 million, 2.2/4)/"The Cleveland Show" rerun (3.7 million,...

Fox's comedy repeats, led by back-to-back Family Guy episodes (2.2/6) at 9 Pm, won another slow Sunday. ABC's original drama Scoundrels (0.7/2), was up a tenth from last week's low, edging Fox's original Sons of Tucson (0.6/2) and NBC's Dateline (0.6/2), which ranked as the lowest-rated programs of the night. ABC's other original drama, The Gates (0.9/2) was flat at 10 Pm, while CBS' Big Brother (2.4/8) at 8 Pm was down 4%...

Do you know what today is? It's the first day of Shark Week! A whole week full of seal chomping, chum spewing, great white leaping action over on the Discovery channel and I, for one, could not be happier. Shark Week always arrives just at that point in the summer when you're seriously considering giving up on TV. "All the shows I like I can watch on the internet or get on DVDs through Netflix" you think "what's the point of keeping up with cable?" Well, Shark Week is the point of keeping up with cable and for the rest of this week, Shark Week can be your reason for everything. When your alarm goes off you're not getting up just for work, you're getting up for Shark Week! When you're debating whether or not to make a nice dinner for yourself but you're not sure if it's worth the bother,...

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Here's tonight's lineup of new shows and events (all times Eastern). Check your local TV listings for additional information.

* = Series/Season Premiere

** = Series/Season Finale

Here's a scary fact: this week marks the 23rd annual Shark Week on Discovery Channel. Wowzers!

7:00 to 8:00

CBS: '60 Minutes'

Fox: 'Sons of Tucson'**

NBC: 'Dateline'

NatGeo: 'Secret Gorillas of Mondika' and 'A Bear's Story'

8:00 to 9:00

CBS: 'Big Brother'

AMC: 'Rubicon'*

Disney: 'Hannah Montana Forever' and 'Good Luck Charlie'

Food Network: 'Food Network Challenge'

The rest of the lineup after the jump.

 

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Filed under: TV Previews

Here's tonight's lineup of new shows and events (all times Eastern). Check your local TV listings for additional information.

* = Series/Season Premiere

** = Series/Season Finale

Here's a scary fact: this week marks the 23rd annual Shark Week on Discovery Channel. Wowzers!

7:00 to 8:00

CBS: '60 Minutes'

Fox: 'Sons of Tucson'**

NBC: 'Dateline'

NatGeo: 'Secret Gorillas of Mondika' and 'A Bear's Story'

8:00 to 9:00

CBS: 'Big Brother'

AMC: 'Rubicon'*

Disney: 'Hannah Montana Forever' and 'Good Luck Charlie'

Food Network: 'Food Network Challenge'

The rest of the lineup after the jump.

 

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If there are those of yout hat have been waiting for a time where I sit down to write this column and finally stop talking about Doctor Who than I’ve got some really good news for you: next week will finally be that column. This week, however, I’m still bubbling over having re-lived The Big Bang and just dying to speak about it in full now that it has finally aired in here in the Us of A.

Unlike season finale’s of the past this whacky bit of timey-whimey goodness did something that I wasn’t expecting at all in becoming a fairy tale by the episode’s end. It kicked off rather fast paced from the moment that young Amelia gets up from praying to Santa and doesn’t really stop until we finally learn how the Doctor plans on un-doing the event that caused all...

Fast National ratings for Sunday, July 25, 2010

A typically quiet summer Sunday night in the Nielsen ratings ended with CBS having the most viewers and Fox scoring the best in the adults 18-49 demographic.

CBS averaged 5.8 million viewers and a 3.6 rating/7 share in households for the night. NBC (4.1 million, 2.7/5) came in second overall, followed by ABC at 3.9 million and 2.4/4. Fox drew 3.5 million viewers and a 2.0/4.

Despite finishing fourth in viewers, Fox led the 18-49 demo with a 1.6 rating. CBS came in second with a 1.4, and ABC and NBC tied for third at 1.0.

Sunday hour by hour:

7 p.m.

CBS: "60 Minutes" (7.6 million viewers, 4.9/10 households)

ABC: "America's Funniest Home Videos" rerun (5.3 million, 3.1/6)

NBC: "Dateline" (4.7 million, 3.1/6)

Fox: "Sons of Tucson" (1.5 million, 0.9/2)/"American Dad" rerun (2 million, 1.1/2)

18-49 leader: "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1.4)

8 p.m.

CBS: "Big Brother 12" (7.2 million, 4.3/8)

ABC: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" rerun (4.4 million, 2.6/5)

NBC: "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (4.25 million, 2.8/5)

Fox: "The Simpsons" rerun (3.8 million,...

We might have seen the last episode of Scoundrels on Sunday after ABC's original scripted drama sunk to a 0.6 rating/2 rating in adults 18-49 at 9 Pm last night, down 14% from last week. That was an all-time low for the show and matched the 0.6 18-49 rating fellow ABC drama Happy Town pulled before being yanked from the schedule. ABC's other Sunday scripted summer series, The Gates (0.9/3) at 10 Pm, seems to have leveled off after the initial decline and was flat from last week. ABC's highest-rated program for the night was 7 Pm leadoff America's Funniest Home Videos (1.4/5 in rerun), followed by 8 Pm anchor Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (1.2/4, also in rerun). CBS' Big Brother (2.5/8) was up 9% from last week, followed by repeats of Undercover Boss (1.4/4) and Cold Case (0.8/3). Fox won the night with comedy reruns, led by back-to-back Family Guy episodes at 9Pm (2.3/7) and 9:30Pm (2.5/7). Its original Sons of Tucson at 7Pm...

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Here's tonight's lineup of new shows and events (all times Eastern). Check your local TV listings for additional information.

* = Series/Season Premiere

** = Series/Season Finale

7:00 to 8:00

CBS: '60 Minutes'

Fox: 'Sons of Tucson'

NBC: 'Dateline'

8:00 to 9:00

CBS: 'Big Brother'

Disney: 'Hannah Montana Forever' and 'Jonas L.A.'

Food Network: 'Food Network Challenge'

The rest of the primetime lineup after the jump.

 

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ABC's original scripted series Scoundrels (0.7 rating/2 share) and The Gates (0.9/3) both posted double-digit declines in the 18-49 demo from last week, 13% and 10% respectively, hitting all-time lows. Once again first-run scripted shows were the lowest-rated for the night, with Scoundrels and Fox's Sons of Tucson original (0.6/2) at 7 Pm. CBS' Big Brother (2.3/8) at 8Pm, the only other original entertainment option on broadcast, was the top-rated program for the night, down 4% from its Sunday premiere last week. Fox won the night in adults 18-49 on the strength of its animated comedy repeats, led by back-to-back episodes [...]...

Fast National ratings for Sunday, July 18, 2010

July heat continues to keep people away from their T.V. screens on Sunday nights, unless, of course, they're parked next to their air conditioners watching "Big Brother."

CBS took the night once again with "60 Minutes" and "Big Brother", giving the net an average of 6.3 million viewers and a 4.1/7 share in households. Following CBS was NBC (4.6 million, 3.0/5), then ABC (4.0 million, 2.6/5). Fox trailed with 3.2 million viewers and a 1.9/3 share.

Though Fox's half hour lineup couldn't get them a ton of viewers, it did secure them a win in the target 18-49 demo. They had a 1.5 share, followed by CBS with a 1.3. NBC scored a 1.1, followed by a 1.0 on ABC.

Sunday's hourly numbers:

7 p.m.

CBS: "60 Minutes" (7.6 million viewers, 5.0/10 households)ABC: "America's Funniest Home Videos" rerun (6.6 million, 3.2/7)NBC: "Dateline" (4.5 million, 3.0/6)Fox: "Sons of Tucson" (1.5 million, 1.0/2)/"American Dad" rerun (1.9 million, 1.2/2)

18-49 leader: "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1.4)

8 p.

Being home for the summer means attempting to take back my chair from our cats who appropriate it for their own purposes when I'm not around. Unfortunately, their response to finding me sitting in the chair working on my laptop is usually to sit on top of me and occasionally on top of the computer. I am, right now, writing this column without being able to see my keyboard because there is a cat in the way, kneading my stomach which has a protective layer of towel over it because otherwise her wee claws go through to my skin and leave tiny little pin holes all over my torso. It's an attractive look. Here's tonight's TV, from both the cat and I:

7:00 p.m.: "60 Minutes" on CBS.

"Dateline NBC" on NBC.

"Sons of Tucson" on Fox.

8:00 p.m.: "Big Brother" on CBS.

"Discovery Special: Powering the...

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* = Series/Season Premiere

** = Series/Season Finale

7:00 to 8:00

CBS: '60 Minutes'

Fox: 'Sons of Tucson'

NBC: 'Dateline'

BBC America: 'Search for Tigers' -- 7:30 start

8:00 to 9:00

CBS: 'Big Brother'

ABC Family: 'Revenge of the Bridesmaids' -- Starring Raven-Symoné and Joanna Garcia; two hours

Disney: 'Hannah Montana Forever' and 'Sonny With a Chance' -- 'Sonny' is a one-hour special

Food Network: 'Food Network Challenge'

Travel: 'Earth Wonders'

The rest of the primetime lineup after the jump.

 

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Fast National ratings for Sunday, July 11, 2010

Much of the TV-watching public apparently had better things to do Sunday night, as ratings across the board were pretty soft.

Someone had to win, though, and thanks to "60 Minutes" and "Big Brother" that was CBS, which averaged 6.4 million viewers and a 4.0 rating/7 share in households for the evening. NBC (4.9 million, 3.2/6) came in second, beating out ABC (4.1 million, 2.5/5). Fox trailed the overall race with 3.1 million viewers and a 1.8/3.

Despite finishing fourth in viewers, though, Fox's comedy lineup scored the highest adults 18-49 rating of the night -- although it was only a 1.4. CBS took second at 1.3, followed by NBC, 1.2, and ABC, 1.1.

Sunday's hourly numbers:

7 p.m.

CBS: "60 Minutes" (7 million viewers, 4.6/9 households)ABC: "America's Funniest Home Videos" rerun (5.3 million, 3.1/6)NBC: "Dateline" (4.9 million, 3.1/6)Fox: "Sons of Tucson" (1.6 million, 0.9/2)/"American Dad" rerun (2 million, 1.2/2)

18-49 leader: "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1.4)

8 p.m.

CBS: "Big Brother 12" (7 million, 4.0/7)NBC: "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (4.9 million,...

By the summer ratings math - you have multiple shows average just over 1.5 rating in adults 18-49, you win the night - Fox topped Sunday night with comedy repeats led by The Simpsons (1.7 rating/6 share in 18-49), The Cleveland Show (1.5/5) and Family Guy (1.7/5). The network also aired an original Sons of Tucson (0.7/2), which finished last in its 7Pm slot just like all the other original scripted shows last night: ABC's Scoundrels (0.8/2) at 9Pm, down 20% from its last original 2 weeks ago, and ABC's The Gates (1.0/3) at 10Pm, down a more modest 9%. Scoundrels [...]...

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** = Series/Season Finale

Another big Sunday night, with premieres of 'Hannah Montana Forever' and 'The Glades.' Plus, more crazy Gosselin antics on 'Kate Plus 8.'

7:00 to 8:00

CBS: '60 Minutes'

Fox: 'Sons of Tucson'

NBC: 'Dateline NBC'

8:00 to 9:00

CBS: 'Big Brother'

Cartoon Network: 'Unnatural History'

Disney: 'Hannah Montana Forever'* and 'Good Luck Charlie'

Food Network: 'Food Network Challenge'

NatGeo: 'Drugs Inc.'

Style: 'The Dish Presents Weddings Gone Wild'

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Here in Maryland we're experiencing the sort of unrelentingly hot, breathless summer weather that makes it basically unbearable to be outside unless you've got a pool handy to jump into every hour. Every day there are calls for thunder storms which would help with the heat, but it's been over a week now and we have yet to see any actual rain. The dogs are miserable, the cats are miserable, and all us people are feeling lazy and damp. Bleh. Here's your Sunday night TV:

7:00 p.m.: "60 Minutes" on CBS.

"Dateline NBC" on NBC.

"Sons of Tucson" on Fox. New time slot.

8:00 p.m.: "Bet Special: Bet Awards '10" on Bet. 180-minute special presentation.

9:00 p.m.: "Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business" on VH1. First season finale.

"CBS Special: The 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards" on CBS. Two hour special presentation.

"Drop Dead Diva" on Lifetime.