It’s going to be quiet for a couple of weekends before Disney/Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens and gets moviegoers excited again, and while the post Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend frame is certainly one of the lowest in a given year, overall we should see stronger ticket sales than previous years for…

More inevitable cancellations at NBC, which formally pulled the plug of underperforming midseason dramas Believe and Crisis. The demise of Believe makes it two NBC cancellations of JJ Abrams dramas today, as Revolution also was not picked up. Abrams’ Bad Robot also lost Almost Human, cancelled by Fox after one season…

Not that there was any realistic chance for NBC’s midseason drama series Believe and Crisis, but whatever little hope the shows’ fans may have had for a renewal should be gone now that the network has pulled the two series for a Women of SNL special on May 18, the final Sunday of May sweep. In their most recent…

The ABC series that shares a title with the Easter holiday, Resurrection, was off last night, but two other shows dealing with spiritual and cosmic themes, NBC’s Believe and Fox’s Cosmos, got ratings bumps. Coincidentally, both air in Resurrection‘s 9 PM time slot and benefited from the benching of the midseason for a…

There was a lot of competition from cable last night with the return of AMC's Mad Men, Showtime's Californication and Nurse Jackie and Week 2 of the latest season of Game Of Thrones, plus Silicon Valley and Veep on HBO. However the networks weren't letting down their game with a slate of originals from everyone…

While AMC’s The Walking Dead wrapped its fourth season last night, there were no premieres or finales on primetime broadcast TV on Sunday, but there sure was a lot of action. For one thing, CBS‘ primetime was pushed back more than 20 minutes on the East Coast and the Central time zone due to overruns from the NCAA Tour…

Heather McComb has nabbed a recurring role in Season 2 of Showtime's Ray Donovan. She will play Patricia, a working-class mother who befriends Bunchy Donovan (Dash Mihok). She begins filming today. McComb’s recent TV credits include Shameless, Bones and Rizzoli & Isles, and she next stars in the feature Another Statesi…

If ABC last week was hoping for a little bit of luck with new drama Resurrection, which was sandwiched between established Sunday dramas Once Upon A Time and Revenge, NBC was praying for nothing short of a miracle last night, launching two new dramas, Believe and Crisis, with no original lead-in on a night on which it…

NBC’s high-concept new drama Believe is from J.J. Abrams and Gravity's Best Director Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón (who co-wrote the pilot and directed it) gets a special preview Monday, March 10 at 10 PM following The Voice before launching in its regular Sunday 9 PM slot March 16. Here’s the first two minutes of the…

The high-ish rate of showrunner churn on NBC‘s high-profile mid-season drama Believe before it has even premiered, is “creativity”  and “a process,” executive producer J.J. Abrams said this afternoon. The rap on the show is that it has had trouble trying to figure out what it should be. But Abrams, talking to TV…

NBC has set its post-Winter Olympics scheduling plans, setting premiere dates for new comedies About a Boy and Growing Up Fisher, dramas Believe and Crisis and unscripted series American Dream Builders. Like it did with the 2012 summer Olympics (Who can forget the interruption in the closing ceremony for Animal Practic…

NBC‘s high profile midseason drama series Believe, co-created and executive produced by Gravity director/co-writer Alfonso Cuaron and exec produced by J.J. Abrams, is undergoing a behind the scenes change. Executive producer/showrunner Dave Erickson is expected to depart. He will be succeeded by co-executive…