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The Voice hit all the right notes Monday night to finish as most-watched show in broadcast primetime among the Big 4 and the CW. Ratingswise, Voice held steady with last week with a 1.3 rating in adults 18-49 demographic, while 8.04 million viewers tuned in to the two-hour episode to watch Taylor Swift mentor the…

NBC has set a December 2 premiere date for the second season of its Amy Poehler-Nick Offerman DIY competition series Making It. The show will take over the 10 p.m. Monday slot from freshman drama Bluff City Law, which the network said today will not get a back order. Making It, from Universal Television Alternative…

NBC has opted not to order additional episodes from new series Bluff City Law. The legal family drama starring Jimmy Smits will complete its initial 10-episode order, remaining in its high-profile Monday 10 PM time slot. While the network has made no decision beyond that, a Season 2 renewal appears highly…

Snapshot, updated with finals 2:30 PM: New Series Week 2: Prodigal Son (Fox, 1.0 rating in Live+Same Day 18-49, even with premiere; 3.9 million viewers), Bluff City Law (NBC, 0.7, down -0.1; 4.3 million), Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS, 0.7 rating, -0.2; 5.4 million), All Rise (CBS, 0.6, -0.2; 5.6 million) There is some…

UPDATED with finals Snapshot: New series premieres: Prodigal Son (Fox, 1.0 rating in 18-49, 4.2 million viewers), Bluff City Law (NBC, 0.8, 4.8), Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS, 0.9 rating in 18-49 after upward adjustment in the finals, 5.9 million viewers), All Rise (CBS, 0.7, 6 million); Returning series: 9-1-1 holds stead…

The new NFL season is well underway and the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards have come and gone. Now comes the kickoff of the fall TV season beginning tonight. With more than a dozen new shows on CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox over the next couple of weeks plus more on cable and streaming, panning for gold in the river of content…

NBC has commissioned six additional scripts from new legal drama Bluff City Law starring Jimmy Smits. It is a very early vote of confidence for the series, which is now filming its second episode, based on the strength of the completed 5-6 scripts. Usually backup scripts are ordered around the premiere or after a few…

NBC has set fall premiere dates for its new and returning series. New comedies Perfect Harmony starring Bradley Whitford and Sunnyside with Kal Penn will join the Thursday lineup, and the freshman Jimmy Smits drama Bluff City Law gavels in on Mondays after The Voice. Check out the list below. As for the veteran…

Bluff City Law, Perfect Harmony and Four Weddings and A Funeral are among the new series heading to Canada's Citytv. The Rogers Media-backed broadcaster has unveiled its fall schedule and its recent shopping purchases from the LA Screenings. The network has picked up Fox's animated comedy Bless The Harts, Jimmy Smits…

If ever there was an expedient excuse to cite the proverb "the more things change the more they stay the same," the broadcast networks’ 2019-2020 fall schedule is such an occasion now that the annual hoopla of the upfronts are over. Gotham is gone on Fox, but Gotham City is swinging back to the small screen with the…

NBC has released some of the first trailers for its new comedies and dramas as part of its series orders for the 2019-20 season. You can watch above and below. We’ll update as more come in. Bluff City Law — Drama (see above) Coming from a famous Memphis family known for taking on injustice, brilliant lawyer Sydney…

As usual, NBC has kicked off its pickups of new series with orders to pilots from its sister studio Universal Television. The network has picked up to series Memphis legal drama Bluff City Law, starring Jimmy Smits, from The Brave creator Dean Georgaris and producer David Janollari; and Queens immigrant comedy Sunnysid…