CBS’ summer drama series BrainDead and American Gothic will not be coming back next year. This leaves renewed Zoo as the only existing CBS summer scripted series set to return in 2017.

Neither BrainDead nor American Gothic performed well in the ratings. Supernatural political satire BrainDead averaged 2.6 million…

Add The Big Bang Theory, Scorpion, American Gothic and MacGyver to CBS’ Comic-Con lineup. The network said today that the shows will be joining previously announced Star Trek events, featuring a 50th anniversary panel headlined by the original Capt. Kirk himself, William Shatner.

CBS also will offer free rides in elect…

CBS’s two-hour Big Brother return controlled Wednesday night ratings with a 1.8 demo rating and 6.14 million viewers, taking every half hour in those and other key metrics.  Not such a strong performance from the network’s launch of American Gothic, which fell to a 0.7 in the demo off its BB leadin (though a 1.0 among…

Once upon a time James Frey was the subject of intense scrutiny and controversy when it was revealed his Oprah-endorsed book A Million Little Pieces was not a memoir and instead full of fabrications, as was his follow-up My Friend Leonard. As I say in my video review above, the June 22-debuting American Gothic which…

CBS has announced its summer schedule, with premiere dates for new series BrainDead and American Gothic, the sophomore season of Zoo and the return of summer reality hit Big Brother.

BrainDead, from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King, is launching June 13 in the 10 PM Monday spot where Under The Dome had…

Banshee’s Antony Starr has booked a major role opposite Justin Chatwin and Megan Ketch in American Gothic, CBS’ upcoming murder mystery summer drama series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios.

Created by Corinne Brinkerhoff, American Gothic centers on a prominent Boston family that is…

Justin Chatwin and Megan Ketch have been cast as two of the leads in American Gothic, CBS’ upcoming murder mystery summer drama series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios.

Created by Corinne Brinkerhoff, American Gothic centers on the Hawthornes, a prominent Boston family that is…

CBS is keeping the number of its summer original drama series at three. As it recently opted to end Under The Dome after three seasons and Extant after two, the network has given a 13-episode straight-to-series order to American Gothic, a twisty family drama from writer Corinne Brinkerhoff (Jane The Virgin) and Under T…

CBS has put in development American Gothic, a family mystery drama from former Good Wife writer-producer Corinne Brinkerhoff and Amblin TV. CBS TV Studios, where Brinkerhoff is under an overall deal, is the studio.

Written/exec produced by Brinkerhoff, American Gothic — not related to the 1995 CBS series or the Grant…