There were a number of winter finales on last night and football, football, and more football. The biggest game of primetime was, of course, Sunday Night Football on NBC. And if you are a New England Patriots fan then the 27-6 destruction of the Houston Texans must have felt good. Now back at the top of the AFC…

Another new drama series is seeing its original 13-episode order trimmed. ABC has downsized the pickup of Blood & Oil to 10 episodes. The series is currently filming Episode 8 and will wrap production after completing its tenth episode. Blood & Oil will end its freshman run in December and will remain in its Sunday 9…

Snapshot: New series premieres – ABC’s Quantico (1.9), Blood & Oil (1.4); all returning series premieres down double digits, Once Upon A Time drops -49%; CSI finale (1.8). Priyanka Chopra showed off her Bollywood/international superstar credentials with a solid premiere for her first American series, ABC drama Quantico…

Although the former Miami Vice star has shown up on HBO's Eastbound & Down and El Rey's From Dusk Till Dawn, it's been far too long since we've seen Don Johnson regularly on primetime Big 4 TV. Now the Emmy nominee is back as self-made ruthless oil baron Hap Briggs in Blood & Oil, which debuts at 9 PM on September…

The Wire alum Robert Wisdom has booked a heavily recurring role opposite Will Arnett in Netflix comedy series Flaked. Co-created by Arnett and Mark Chappell (The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret), Flaked is the serio-comic story of Chip, a celebrated long-time resident of the insular world of Venice, CA…

Wilson Bethel (The Astronaut Wives Club) has joined ABC’s new fall drama series Blood & Oil in a recurring role. Written by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne and executive produced by Tony Krantz, Blood & Oil centers on a young working-class couple (Chace Crawford, Rebecca Rittenhouse) who move to "The Bakken" in North…

Blood & Oil co-creator/exec producer Rodes Fishburne is a novelist. Reporters Who Cover Television were fascinated by his transition to television, as if they’d seen a hot-house flower suddenly turn into a dandelion. “This is the golden age of television,” Fisuburne responded firmly. “This is not the golden age of…

ABC's new fall series Blood & Oil is making a behind-the-scenes change. I’ve learned that Jon Harmon Feldman is in negotiations to join the sprawling drama as executive producer and sole showrunner as part of an overall deal with Blood & Oil producer ABC Studios. He would succeed at the helm Cynthia Cidre, who boarded…

Mekia Cox (Crazy, Stupid, Love) has been cast opposite Juliette Lewis and Michael Ealy in Season 2 of ABC's anthology crime drama series Secrets & Lies. Written by Barbie Kligman and directed by Adam Arkin, the second season will feature an all-new crime featuring Eric Warner (Ealy), a newly married heir apparent who…

When it comes to a big sprawling drama about oil, Dallas remains the gold standard. So it is fitting that Cynthia Cidre, co-creator executive producer of the well-received recent Dallas sequel series, has joined the latest entry in the field, ABC’s newly retitled fall drama series Blood & Oil (formerly Oil) as…