Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” ended its first season Monday night. If you missed it, don’t worry, you can catch it again this fall on NBC under another name, “Mercy.” I’ve been seeing the TV spots for the new fall show, and after watching the entire season of “Nurse Jackie,” I’m shocked at all the similarities between […]

Bryan Fuller has decided he can’t “save the cheerleader” anymore as the “Pushing Daisies” creator announces he’ll be leaving “Heroes” in pursuit of greener pastures, reports EW: The acclaimed Pushing Daisies auteur tells me that he left to focus on developing new projects for NBC, and not (as some have speculated) due to creative differences […]

“My Name is Earl” has been canceled from NBC‘s roster for some time now, but there were rumblings that TBS might pick up the series for new episodes. Not so much, says 20th Century Fox: “While we had hoped to find a way to produce additional episodes for TBS, in the final analysis we simply […]

I told you “Lipstick Jungle” on NBC was canceled last November. Brooke Shields called me a liar a few days later with claims that it wasn’t true because they were still filming. Guess who was right? Suck it, Shields! Brooke Shields is available for work – her U.S. TV show Lipstick Jungle has been scrapped. […]

Hopefully you weren’t one of the three people watching NBC‘s knock-off of “Hell’s Kitchen”, “Chopping Block,” because it just got cut out of the peacock schedule. After just three weeks of episodes following its March 12th premiere the ratings continued to drop. Last week’s ratings for “Chopping Block” came in at 20th (out of 20) […]

Well this can’t be good. Nikki Finke shared a series of leaked market research screening reviews for NBC‘s upcoming comedy series “Parks and Recreation” and things weren’t good. Here are a few excerpts from the focus group results, but without having the entire set of results there is no way for me to tell you […]

There’s just a few more weeks until the Amy Poehler led comedy, “Parks and Recreation,” hits NBC‘s airwaves. I’m really looking forward to this new series and maybe even more so for Aziz Ansari’s supporting role than Poehler’s (though she’s still great). To help get you ramped up for the new series Pawnee, Indiana’s Director […]

As part of my extended coverage in the lead up to the premiere of NBC’s “Kings” I have an on-set discussion for you with one of the series’ stars, Ian McShane. McShane plays the role of King Silas, leader of Gilboa, who takes young David (Christopher Egan) under his wing only to have his throne […]

Not to be outdone by Christian Bale, Tracy Jordan loses his cool on the set of 30 Rock’s “TGS” and the whole thing was caught on tape. Let that be a lesson to all your cameramen out there. Yes, this was a joke.

This has not been the year for television and you can put two more names on the tombstones. NBC has cancelled two of its more hyped series starring one-time headliners: “My Own Worst Enemy” and “Lipstick Jungle”. Christian Slater’s “Enemy” was in its first season with nine episodes already in the can while “Lipstick” had […]