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One of Cougar Town’s co-stars is moving on a little sooner than originally scheduled. Brian Van Holt, who has been a regular on the show since its launch, will not continue full-time on Cougar Town’s sixth and final season on TBS. He will wrap his character Bobby’s story as a guest star. He is slated for one episode…

Prepare to say good-bye to the wine-loving gang from Cougar Town. TBS has ordered a 13-episode sixth season of the comedy series, which will be its last. It will air in 2015. Cougar Town, starring Courteney Cox, joined the TBS lineup in January 2013 after three seasons on ABC. It finished the year as one of basic…

Cougar Town co-executive producers Chrissy Pietrosh and Jessica Goldstein have signed a two-year overall deal with Universal TV. Under the pact, which begins June 1, the duo will develop new projects. "Chrissy and Jessica are an inspired writing team with a unique comedy voice that fits perfectly for the type of shows…

EXCLUSIVE: Cougar Town writer-producer Blake McCormick has been elevated to showrunner of the ensemble comedy as it heads into its fifth season and second on TBS. McCormick replaces Ric Swartzlander, who ran Cougar Town last season. Additionally, McCormick has signed a blind script deal with Warner Bros TV through…

TBS has renewed its original comedy Cougar Town, which it took over from ABC for its current fourth season. The network has ordered 13 episodes for Season 5 which is set to air in 2014. The ABC Studios-produced series, which airs Tuesday at 10 PM, will have its Season 4 finale April 9. Since its launch on the network…

It was a decent but unspectacular ratings start for Cougar Town on its new network, TBS. The series’ fourth-season premiere at 10 PM last night drew a total of 2.2 million viewers and more than 1.3 million adults 18-49 and 613,000 adults 18-34 in Live+Same Day. That was on par or slightly lower than TBS’ recent comedy…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline's TCA coverage. Cougar Town co-creator and executive producer Bill Lawrence kicked off the winter TCA press tour this morning by offering up some wisecracks about ABC, the former home of his comedy that has since found a new home at TBS. Lawrence thanked TBS chief Michael Wright…

Led by Courteney Cox, Cougar Town‘s cast celebrates the show’s Season 4 launch Tuesday, January 8 on TBS. Cast includes Brian Van Holt, Christa Miller, Ian Gomez, Josh Hopkins, Busy Philipps, and Dan Byrd. Ric Swartzlander has joined the show as exec producer and showrunner. Series was co-created by exec producer Bill…

TBS made it official on its website today that new episodes of Cougar Town will begin airing Tuesday, January 8. The former ABC comedy made the jump to TBS in May, when the network also acquired rights to the first three seasons of 61 episodes. The debut will officially be the start of Season 4 of the series that…

UPDATE, 10:08 AM: Looks like the fast nationals for last night’s America's Got Talent (3.7/10 in 18-49) actually tied with the Live+Same Day rating for the show's May 14 premiere for a season high among adults 18-49. Since the talent reality show is often adjusted up in the finals — as was the case May 14, when it drew…

Comedy veteran Ric Swartzlander (Garry Unmarried) has been tapped as executive producer/showrunner of Cougar Town as the comedy is moving from ABC to TBS with a 15-episode fourth-season order. He succeeds Cougar Town co-creator/executive producer Bill Lawrence who is stepping down to focus on development under his…

No surprise here — as we reported last year when Cougar Town co-creator/executive producer Bill Lawrence moved from ABC Studios to Warner Bros. TV with a rich new overall deal, the agreement allowed him to continue as showrunner on the ABC/ABC Studios comedy for only one more season before focusing on his WBTV duties…