President Donald Trump tweeted this morning the three remaining American citizens held captive in North Korea have been freed and are flying back to the United States with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The release is being billed a a goodwill gesture by North Korea in advance of ruler Kim Jong Un’s meeting with…

CBS Studios International has closed a first-look deal with Alon Aranya's Paper Plane Productions, the man responsible for remaking global formats including Hostages and Red Widow in the U.S. The producer will develop and produce a raft of premium international programming with the global arm of the Hollywood…

After picking up five new drama series and two new comedy series yesterday — plus previously ordered straight-to-series Battle Creek — CBS proceeded with cancelling all of its freshman bubble shows. That includes fall comedy The Crazy Ones, which marked the TV return of Robin Williams; drama Hostages, and midseason…

ABC’s The Bachelor mounted a ratings rebound with its first Latino bachelor. The series’ 18th-season premiere last night drew a 2.7 in adults 18-49 and 8.5 million viewers — up 17% in the demo and 23% in total viewers. That is a three-year high for the show. The Bachelor‘s ratings resurgence began last season: After…

UPDATED, 9 AM: Broadcast network Premiere Week numbers for 30-day multi-platform playback on DVR, VOD, online, etc. are out, confirming that overnight Nielsen ratings are now very preliminary reads and the broadcast networks got off to a much better start this season than originally reported. CBS weighed in this…

UPDATE 1:30 PM: Things are looking brighter for 2 Broke Girls, which was adjusted up a tenth to a 2.7, the best Live+Same Day rating to date in the new 8:30 PM slot and only a tenth off the series’ season high number posted in the September opener. Also up .1 in the finals are the usual suspects, The Voice (4.3), How I…

CBS’ serialized new drama Hostages was designed for a limited run. The question is how limited. In its third week, the thriller fell to a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating, down 20% from last Monday. That is very low by CBS drama standards. It is the first in-season heavily serialized drama series on CBS in a long time, but Unde…

Joanne Kelly, who is finishing a five-year run on Syfy’s top–rated drama Warehouse 13, has been tapped for a major recurring role on the new CBS drama Hostages. She plays Vanessa, an ambitious ambassador and the sister of the First Lady of the United States (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). Kelly is with Domain and…

Fox and ABC already launched some of their shows last week, but the 2013-14 fall season formally kicked off last night with a fully loaded schedule from all of The Big 4. In a night of all originals with the return of heavyweights like The Voice and heavily hyped series premieres such as Hostages and The Blacklist,…

TV critics did not marvel at NBC doing a CBS-type drama, Mondays at 10 this fall in The Blacklist – they were more interested in ticking off the James Spader drama's similarities to the feature film The Silence Of The Lambs. But today at TCA they did marvel at CBS doing a highly serialized drama you’d see on NBC, ABC…

CBS has just released a sneak peek of the key art designs for the network's new fall 15-episode thriller Hostages, which it will begin touting at Comic-Con this week. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced series stars Toni Collette as a surgeon thrust into a chilling political conspiracy when her family is taken hostage by…

Here are the full looks advertisers got last week at CBS’ new fall series during the network’s upfront presentation in New York. Still to come is midseason drama Intelligence. Related: CBS 2013-14 Schedule The Crazy Ones – Comedy Hostages – Drama The Millers – Comedy Mom – Comedy We Are Men…