An Academy Award-winning actress has been cast to replace Rosemarie DeWitt on the HBO show "The Newsroom," reports TVLine.com. Marcia Gay Harden, who won an Oscar for best supporting actress in 2001 for “Pollock,” is joining the series. As previously…
NBC has ordered several projects to pilot, including one from “Law & Order” mastermind Dick Wolf and a show from "Lost" writer Carlton Cuse, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. Cuse’s project is "The Sixth Gun," an adaptation of…
CBS has given pilot orders to "Beverly Hills Cop" and the drama "Backstrom," with the latter from "Bones" creator Hart Hanson, reports Deadline.com. The network also gave a pilot order to the comedy "Friends With Better Lives," from writer Dana…
A comedic drama starring Greg Kinnear has received a pilot order from Fox, reports Deadline.com. The project, “Rake,” received the green light after Kinnear, who was given the right to sign off on the script, OK’d the script last week,…
ABC ordered four new pilots Tuesday, including a drama from “ER’s” David Zabel and a comedy executive produced by “Office” writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, TVLine.com reports. “The Zabel project, ‘Betrayal,’ centers on a beautiful but unhappily married female…
Ratings for President Obama’s second inauguration declined significantly from four years ago, reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder. CNN was the leader among the cable news networks while the oath of office was administered and Obama…
ABC has yanked one of its sitcoms from its schedule, effective immediately, reports our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The sitcom involved is "Don’t Trust the B– In Apt. 23." Writes Andreeva, "While ABC does not call this a cancellation,…
Fox scored the second-highest-rated drama premiere of the season with the debut Monday night of the new Kevin Bacon series “The Following,” TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The series turned in a time zone-adjusted 3.2 average rating in the key 18-49 demo, ranking…
An upcoming adaptation of the hit 1990s series “Baywatch” will feature a “Saturday Night Live” actor stepping into the role made famous by David Hasselhoff as the leader of a team of California lifeguards, TheWrap.com reports. Bill Hader — known…