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On a rerun heavy night, Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown raised its arms in victory, scoring an 0.6 to outpace its somewhat lackluster competition and allow Fox to cop the overall network bragging rights. The SmackDown featured the return of AJ Styles to the Blue Brand, and Styles won his first-round match against…

For the past couple of years, ABC has had the largest comedy contingent on the schedule with three blocks, 8-10 PM on Tuesday and Wednesday and 8-9 PM on Friday, for a 10 half-hour series total. That will likely no longer be the case next season. Of the 10 comedy series that aired on ABC this past season, five will…

ABC on Thursday became the latest broadcast network to make the bulk of its renewal decisions, canceling five series ahead of the fall 2020 primetime TV season. They join a long list of broadcast series that were either canceled or are ended their runs during the 2019-20 broadcast season. Check out Deadline’s gallery…

ABC made some cuts today, canceling Single Parents, Bless This Mess, Schooled, Emergence and the reboot of Kids Say the Darndest Things. Many took to social media to express their disappointment and to say goodbye — and this includes the cast and creators of the shows. Liz Meriwether, who co-created Single…

ABC today made the bulk of their renewal decisions, picking up 13 more current series, eight of them scripted, for next season and canceling five, including scripted entries Emergence, Bless This Mess, Single Parents and Schooled. That left midseason freshmen For Life and The Baker and the Beauty, whose fate is yet to…

ABC has made its first official new scripted series selections for the 2020-21 season, handing straight-to-series orders to David E. Kelley’s drama Big Sky, starring Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick, and Kari Lizer’s multi-camera comedy Call Your Mother (fka My Village), headlined by Kyra Sedgwick. They will join 11…

ABC has canceled freshman drama Emergence and sophomore comedies Bless This Mess, Single Parents and Schooled, as well as the new Kids Say The Darndest Things revival with Tiffany Haddish. This cancellations are part of a big round of renewal decisions at the Disney-owned network today, which included the pickup of 13…

ABC has renewed 13 more series for 2020-21, eight of them scripted, including freshmen Stumptown and mixed-ish. The broadcast network has picked up American Housewife, black-ish, The Conners, The Goldbergs, A Million Little Things, mixed-ish, The Rookie, Stumptown; reality stalwarts The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars…

Turns out it wasn’t the last dance, after all. Hot on the heels of the ratings bonanza that was The Last Dance on ESPN, ABC will broadcast the 10-part sports documentary chronicling the life and career of NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and his championship Chicago Bulls' teams of the 1990s. ABC will begin the…

Business reality show Shark Tank swam off into the sunset Friday night, but managed an overall victory in the demo wars before departing. The season finale came in at a solid 0.7 and was highlighted by a pitch from The Mad Optimists, a brand that makes all vegan, organic and environment-friendly soaps that can be…

American Idol will sing another song for ABC after the network renewed the Fremantle talent contest for a fourth season. However, the network on Friday did not reveal whether the judges — Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie — along with host Ryan Seacrest, would return. Perry is pregnant and expected to have her…

Everybody in TV knows that fortune in a fickle beast, but today is a good day to be Lachlan Murdoch. After eight long years without topping the rankings, the Masked Singer- and Super Bowl-injected Fox is poised to take first place among adults 18-49 for the 2019-20 television season. While the leaner Fox will score…