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CBS has ordered additional episodes of all five of its freshman series. Drama Evil, which was designed to produce 13-episode seasons, has been renewed for a second season to premiere in 2020-2021. New drama All Rise and comedies Carol’s Second Act, The Unicorn and Bob ♥ Abishola all have received back orders for the…

In the wake of CBS and Viacom announcing their merger, both companies’ shares have dropped roughly 20%. At today’s Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills, Viacom president and CEO Bob Bakish was asked what exactly was up. When the deal was announced, the combined entity was valued at $30 billion. Now…

Stephen Colbert just returned to the Late Show from a lengthy vacation, and he’s already fed up with President Donald Trump. The CBS late-night host said he was glad to get away from the dizzying developments coming out of the White House each day. “I’ve been out of the country, I mean way out of the country, down in…

Wrestling won the demo battle, but CBS won the total viewership in the network Friday night ratings wars. Fox’s two-hour WWE Smackdown had an 0.8 among adults 18-49 and 2.44 million viewers, handily the night’s demo winner. But the results marked a decline from last week’s 1.0, and are way down from the show’s debut…

CBS has put in development Bent, a crime drama from writer Vaun Wilmott (Star Trek: Discovery, Prison Break), Jerry Bruckheimer TV and CBS Television Studios, where JBT is under a deal. Written by Wilmott, Bent revolves around an instinctive and streetwise Texas law enforcement officer who is caught between two…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime CBS casting executives, Los Angeles-based SVP Lucy Cavallo and New York-based SVP Amy Herzig, are leaving the network. Herzig most recently served as SVP Casting, East Coast, overseeing casting out of New York. She worked with VP Casting, East Coast, Katharina Eggman, who also is out, leaving CBS…

EXCLUSIVE: The current late-night king, Stephen Colbert, will remain at The Late Show through the 2020 election and beyond. CBS has reached a contract extension with the comedian to continue as host of its top-rated The Late Show with Stephen Colbert through August 2023. Colbert, who succeeded David Letterman as host…

Viacom and CBS said the merged company’s dual-class shares will trade on the Nasdaq. In parallel SEC filings, the companies amended their merger agreement from August, saying that when their merger closes, the combined company’s shares will trade under the ticker symbols VIACA and VIAC. National Amusements controls…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development The Three of Us, a multi-camera comedy from writer Frank Pines (Everybody Loves Raymond, The New Adventures of Old Christine); Late Late Show with James Corden producer Fulwell 73; and CBS Television Studios, where Fulwell 73 is under a deal. Written by Pines, The Three of Us…

A violent video recently shown at a Trump resort shows a gunman made to look like President Trump hunting down the president’s critics and members of the media. The video was shown last week during a conference of the president’s supporters at the Trump National Doral Miami, the New York Times reported Sunday…

Fox’s WWE SmackDown (1.0 adults 18-49 rating in Live+Same Day, 2.9 million viewers) was smacked down double digits from its premiere last week, which was a SmackDown 20th anniversary celebration featuring some of WWE's biggest past and present stars. Still, it won the night for the network in adults 18-40 (Live+SD)…

The team behind CBS format Million Dollar Mile hope that tweaks and international ratings success for the LeBron James-exec produced competition challenge can help give the show another life in the U.S. The ten-episode series, which is produced by James and Maverick Carter's Springhill Entertainment, Big…