News, 2010-2011 Season

News Archive: 2010-2011 Season

March 2011

❁ Renewed: Fringe (22 eps.)
❁ Renewed: Futurama (26 eps.)
❁ Axed: Lights Out
❁ Renewed: Dan Vs., R.L. Stine's Haunting Hour and a bunch of other Hub shows
❁ Renewed: Real World (2 cycles)
❁ Renewed: Onion News Network (IFC)
❁ Renewed: SouthLAnd (TNT, 10 ep.)
❁ New Queen of Daytime: "Of the 155 markets in which Oprah is not being replaced by a newscast, more than 80, including two of the Top 5, went with Dr. Oz in the Oprah slot, more than all other talk shows combined." | Oprah finale May 25
❁ Paul Reiser gets 8:30 starting April 14
✪ Renewed: Community, Parks, and The Office
✪ Netflix gets original for the first time, orders 26 episodes of Kevin Spacey series
✪ Antonio “L.A.” Reid chosen as X Factor judge
✪ Renewed: Being Human (Syfy)
✪ FOX Summer Schedule: Hell's Kitchen, MasterChef, SYTYCD, and reruns
✪ Renewed: Face Off (Syfy)
✪ Renewed: Last Call with Carson Daly
✪ Renewed: Joan Knows Best (We)
✪ Tompkins and Scharpling Developing Show for Comedy Central
✪ Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition to debut Monday, May 30 at 10pm
✪ Renewed: The Bachelor / Bachelorette
✪ Terra Nova won't premiere in May
✪ TNT Sets Summer Premiere Dates
✪ The Whitest Kids U' Know Return April 15 at 10:30
✪ Renewed: Survivor (2 cycles)
✪ Sheen Fired for "Moral Turpitude"
✪ Law & Order: L.A. Returns Monday, April 11, at 10pm
✪ Renewed: How I Met Your Mother (two seasons)
✪ Elton John to host SNL April 2
✪ Take the Money and Run sent to summer March 4
✪ IT'S ALLWAYS SUNNY IN SHEENSVILLE USA, CAMPER March 1
✪ Alyssa Milano to play Christian Slater's ex-wife in Breaking In, starting with the second episode (April 13)
✪ Renewed: Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (Sundance)
✪ Ralph Macchio, others to compete on Dancing with the Stars

February 2011

✪ Renewed: Episodes and Shameless (Showtime) February 28
✪ Gadhafi interview with Amanpour to be spread over World News, Nightline, and GMA
✪ Renewed: Bachelor Pad (ABC)
✪ Renewed: Hot in Cleveland (TV Land) February 28
✪ NBC's The Voice airs 9-11pm on Tuesday, April 26 and May 3; gets The Biggest Loser's slot starting May 10
✪ Elton John to host SNL April 2
✪ Don Johnson to play Beverly Hills hairdresser in NBC dramedy pilot
✪ David Krumholtz joins NBC's Playboy pilot
✪ Beverly D'Angelo joins NBC sitcom pilot
✪ 20/20: Charlie Sheen bumps Detroit 1-8-7 March 1
✪ No Ordinary Family cut to 20 episodes; ends April 5
✪ 2½ Men done for this season
✪ Renewed: Hell's Kitchen (2 cycles)
✪ Netfix making big closed-captioning/subtitles effort
✪ Parker-Spitzer now In the Arena without Parker
✪ Renewed: Our America (OWN)
✪ Robbie Benson cast in NBC sitcom pilot, Brave New World
✪ David Krumholtz (Numb3rs) joins NBC's Playboy pilot
✪ Beverly D'Angelo joins NBC's Whitney Cummings sitcom
✪ Renewed: Todd Margaret (IFC, 6 eps.) February 24
✪ Renewed: Hell's Kitchen February 24
✪ ABC keeps Oscars through 2020 February 24
✪ X Factor audition schedule February 24
✪ Canceled: Glory Daze, TBS, February 24
✪ TV movie and miniseries Emmys merge February 24
✪ Renewed: American Dad February 23
✪ Amazon adds streaming service February 23
✪ CBS/Netflix make back catalog deal February 23
✪ ABC Family orders The Lying Game February 23
✪ Larry King refuses to fade away
✪ Kiefer Sutherland joins FOX drama pilot February 21
✪ Minnie Driver joins CBS drama pilot February 21
✪ Dave Foley joins CBS sitcom pilot February 18
✪ Tim Allen finally picks a pilot February 17
✪ ABC revives Billboard Music Awards from a 4-year coma February 17
✪ Lifetime throws Seriously Funny Kids out of primetime, to 11pm, where even fewer kids and parents will see it February 17
✪ American Dad given two more chances February 16
✪ 2½ Men goes back into production Feb. 28 for 4 more episodes, for a total of 20 February 16
✪ James Van Der Beek to star as himself in ABC sitcom pilot February 16
✪ Dumb IBM computerbot wins Jeopardy February 16
✪ Uncle Leo from Seinfeld dies February 16
✪ Laura Prepon cast as young Chelsea Handler in NBC sitcom pilot February 15
✪ Hulu Plus adds hundreds of Criterion movies
✪ Renewed: Portlandia (IFC, 10 eps.) February 12
✪ Nightline's Egypt coverage pushes Kimmel rerun to 12:30 Friday February 11
✪ Renewed: Top Gear (History)
✪ $100 million seed money for Oprah channel is now $239 million February 11
✪ Comedy Central orders 8 episodes of Sports Show With Norm Macdonald
✪ Renewed: Meteorite Men (Science)
✪ A look at Super Bowl 45's demos, 111 million viewers
✪ Sean McManus becomes chairman of CBS Sports, Jeff Fager becomes chairman of CBS News, and David Rhodes brought in as president of CBS News
✪ Outsourced novelties now being produced by Johnson Smith Co.
✪ Renewed: The League (FX)
✪ Lifetime orders Against the Wall and Exit 19
✪ Olbermann headed to Current TV; in related news, Dan Rather still on some channel named HD Net
✪ X Factor age limit 12, winner to get $5 million contract
✪ Norm Macdonald to start hosting GSN's High Stakes Poker February 26
✪ Beavis and Butt-Head returning, because Mike Judge doesn't have anything else to do
✪ Louis Theroux specials begin airing on BBC America March 1
✪ Law & Order: Criminal Intent and In Plain Sight to air Sundays starting May 1 on USA
✪ Hosni Mubarak interview extends Nightline to 12:30 Thursday
✪ Chase pulled, after Minute to Win It hit 3.0 in its slot
✪ NewsCorp looking to offload MySpace; hopefully MyNetworkTV goes with it
✪ Dave Foley appears on WTF
✪ Renewed: Top Chef: Just Desserts
✪ Daily Show and Colbert Report return to Hulu, as Viacom enters Hulu Plus
✪ NBC cuts The Cape to 10 episodes
✪ Renewed: NCIS
✪ Friday Night Lights to air April 15 to July 8 on NBC
✪ Renewed: Animal Hoarding and Pit Bulls and Parolees
✪ REELZ gets Kennedys, will premiere April 3
✪ NBC cuts The Cape to 10 episodes
✪ CBS orders two more episodes of Rules of Engagement, likely to order more episodes of other sitcoms to cover 2½ Men hiatus
✪ Dancing with the Stars returns March 21

January 2011

✪ OWN to start airing What Would You Do? reruns January 30
✪ Comcast/NBCU officially merged January 29
✪ Tribune wants Kennedys
✪ 2½ Men put on hiatus, but not to retool it in the hopes of making it funny
✪ Charlie Callas, talk show guest, dies
✪ ABC will try to save No Ordinary Family with Lucy Lawless
✪ ABC orders Missing for summer
✪ CW delays Friday's episodes one week
✪ HuluPlus launch publicity helps increase Netflix's 4Q revenue 34%
✪ Renewed: The Talk
✪ Lori Loughlin and Ryan Eggold leaving 90210 January 26
✪ SOTU: President makes Boehner cry with 'American Dream' rhetoric
✪ Hannah Storm re-signs with ESPN
✪ Rusty Wallace on ESPN through 2014
✪ Jersey Shore season 4 in Italy
✪ Oscar nominations
✪ ABC orders 13 episodes of Canadian/U.K. series Combat Hospital for summer
✪ Jack LaLanne finally kicks
✪ TNT wants more of The Closer
✪ Steelers, Packers to play poorly in Super Bowl
✪ Abrupt Departures: Olbermann | Bromstad
✪ Stations to fill Oprah void with more newscasts
✪ Flashpoint to air 13 more on CBS before moving to ION
✪ Wipeout to run through March
✪ Ebert to wear fake chin and beard on TV, no longer resembles Orville Redenbacher
✪ (Longer) Kimmel moving start time to midnight on January 31 and (shorter) Nightline getting 13 primetime specials
✪ Renewed: The Next Great Baker
✪ USA orders two new series: A Legal Mind and Necessary Roughness
✪ University of Texas/ESPN to make a channel out of 1 football game and 8 basketball games this Fall
✪ Cast of Amazing Race losers announced
✪ Renewed: The A-List: New York
✪ Regis to retire in the summer
✪ NBC/Comcast Merger Approved
✪ NBC Scheduling Shake-up: Parenthood staying on Tuesdays, Law & Order: L.A. on hiatus, America's Next Great Restaurant to air Sundays, The Marriage Ref in limbo, and Harry's Law will likely run 13 instead of 6 episodes
✪ Renewed: Sanctuary
✪ Discovery's FitTV gets upgraded to Fit & Health on February 1
✪ Watch this week's Episodes, Shameless, and Californication.
✪ Tim Goodman at TCA: FOX | ABC | NBC | Oprah | cable | PBS
✪ Renewed: Californication
✪ Watch Portlandia on hulu a week before it premieres on IFC
✪ Freaks of Celebrity Apprentice announced
✪ David E. Kelley basically says Harry's Law is doomed
✪ NBC/Comcast merger could be approved January 25.
✪ Renewed: Wendy Williams
✪ Off the Map pilot gets second chance--after Grey's Anatomy tonight (1/13)
✪ Skeet Ulrich, Regina Hall, and Megan Boone leaving Law & Order: L.A.
✪ Showtime rejects Kennedys drama too (joining History, HBO, Epix)
✪ Watch the pre-empted Cougar Town on Hulu
✪ Obama in Tucson cuts through primetime
✪ The Game returns with a 3.6
✪ Renewed: The Big Bang Theory for three years
✪ Terra Nova premieres May 23 & 24
✪ Last of the Nelsons dies
✪ Cable company map
✪ SNB Apr-May schedule
✪ Vitale on ESPN through 2015
✪ American Idol jan-feb schedule
✪ Top 25 Rated Programs of Fall
✪ Renewed: Raising Hope
✪ Top 25 Rated Programs of Fall 2010
✪ Renewed: Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy, Modern Family, Castle, The Middle, and Cougar Town
✪ Week: NBC 3.2, FOX 2.6, ABC & CBS 2.3
✪ Week: Top 25 Cable Programs
✪ The Bastard Machine is up and running.
✪ Renewed: Mad Men - season 5
✪ Renewed: The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Pretty Little Liars
✪ Suze Orman getting OWN show
✪ Canceled: The D-List
✪ Kennedys drama rejected by History
✪ Kathy Griffin to make four more Bravo stand-up specials January 5
✪ Renewed: Hardcore Pawn for a 3rd season, 13 episodes January 3
✪ Renewed: Spongebob Squarepants for a 9th season, 26 episodes January 3

December 2010

✪ Kimmel on ABC through 2013 December 13
✪ ABC/Disney content to stream on Netflix December 8
✪ AMC orders Hell on Wheels about constructing the Transcontinental Railroad December 15
✪ Renewed: Taboo, Locked Up Abroad, and Expedition Great White, ten episodes each December 8
✪ Joel McHale on E! through 2013 December 6

November 2010

✪ Early Show gets new cast
✪ Renewed: The Young and the Restless through 2014 November 29
✪ Renewed: Adventure Time, MAD, and Regular Show November 29
✪ Leslie Nielsen dies November 28
✪ Super Bowl half-time: Black Eyed Peas November 25
✪ Adult Swim orders NTSF: SD: SUV November 23
✪ Renewed: Singing Bee (CMT) November 21
✪ Renewed: Pair of Kings November 19
✪ FOX orders Breaking In November 19
✪ Starz orders Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer November 18
✪ Canceled: Medium November 18
✪ VH1 orders Mob Wives November 18
✪ 2½ Men reruns on Tribune stations through 2021 November 17
✪ Canceled: Dark Blue November 16
✪ Mayim Bialik becomes a regular on Big Bang Theory November 15
✪ Comcast's NBCU boss Steve Burke chooses Bob Greenblatt, Ted Harbert, and Pat Fili-Krushel to run NBC November 17
✪ Gaspin out at NBC November 15
✪ NBC orders 8 episodes of unscripted dating series Love in the Wild for summer November 14
✪ Renewed: Simpsons, through 2012, to episode 515 November 11
✪ Lou Dobbs signs with Fox Business Channel November 10
✪ Gene Shalit leaving Today Thursday November 9
✪ Nancy O'Dell to take Mary Hart's seat on E.T. November 8
✪ Renewed: Days of Our Lives for two years November 8
✪ Renewed: The Walking Dead, 13 episodes
✪ ABC orders Expedition Impossible (not to be confused with Bruckheimer's Take the Money and Run) November 4

October 2010

✪ Canceled: Big Love, after next season October 28
✪ Renewed: Eastbound & Down and Bored to Death October 27
✪ Medium's season cut to 13 episodes, cancellation likely; FOX's Ride-Along renamed The Chicago Code October 26
✪ Shepard Smith on FOX News through 2013 October 26
✪ ABC gives full-season orders No Ordinary Family, Detroit 1-8-7, Better with You October 25
✪ MSNBC hires Cenk Uygur as substitute anchor October 22
✪ CBS orders full seasons of Hawaii Five-0 and Mike & Molly, and orders more episodes of Blue Bloods, Shit My Dad Says, and The Defenders October 21
✪ Netflix 3Q revenues rose 31% to $553 million October 20
✪ NBC orders full seasons of Chuck, Chase, and Outsourced October 19
✪ Tom Bosley dies October 19
✪ FOX O&O stations buy Modern Family reruns October 18
✪ ABC pushes V to January 4 and Mr. Sunshine to next year, will premiere Skating with the Stars on November 22 October 18
✪ Conan's Universal studio to become KNBC/NBC News bureau October 17
✪ Barbara Billingsley dies October 16
✪ ABC orders winter Wipeout October 12
✪ FOX orders animation: 6 episodes of Napoleon Dynamite and 7 episodes of Allen Gregory October 11
✪ KCET in L.A. leaves PBS January 1 October 8
✪ Renewed: Sons of Anarchy season 4
✪ Kentucky Derby on NBC through 2015
✪ Renewed: Haven October 7
✪ FOX orders full season of Raising Hope October 7
✪ Canceled: Huge (ABC Family ) October 4
✪ FOX International to debut The Walking Dead in 120 countries in early November October 3
✪ The Cristina Show ended September 25, after 21 years on Univision
✪ Stephen J. Cannell dies October 1

September 2010

✪ Comic Greg Giraldo dies September 29
✪ Canceled: Lone Star September 28
✪ Renewed: White Collar, Psych, and Royal Pains (USA) September 28
✪ Max Weinberg won't play TBS September 27
✪ Zucker's legacy September 27
✪ Jeff Zucker to leave NBC after Comcast merger September 24 | Comcast chooses Steve Burke as NBCU CEO September 26 | Zucker's Shaky Tenure September 26
✪ Documentary crew finds Himalayan mountain tigers September 25
✪ Eddie Fisher dies September 23
✪ 24/7 to cover NHL Winter Classic/Pens/Caps September 23
✪ FCC looking into shoe mascots NickToon Zevo-3 September 22
✪ American Idol officially chooses Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez September 22
✪ At the Paley Center coming to PBS October 1 September 22
✪ Law & Order: Criminal Intent given one final season, on USA September 22
✪ D.C. Ent. film division moving to Burbank September 21
✪ Renewed: Big C and Weeds (Showtime) September 20
✪ ABC orders 6 episodes of midseason's Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition for next season. September 19
✪ Canceled: My Boys (TBS) September 15
✪ Renewed: Hawthorne (TNT) September 14
✪ Renewed: Glades (A&E)



Credit: Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, TV By the Numbers, and Variety