EXCLUSIVE: Erica Gimpel, who recurred last season on God Friended Me, has been promoted to series regular for season 2 of the CBS drama series from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV. Created by Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt and starring Brandon Micheal Hall, God Friended Me is a humor-tinged…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran writer-producer Robby Hull, who served as co-executive producer on the first season of CBS' drama series God Friended Me, has been promoted to executive producer and co-showrunner for season 2. Hull will serve as co-showrunner alongside God Friended Me creators/executive producers Steven Lilien and…

Airing in the teeth of HBO's 9 PM final Game of Thrones season opener,  broadcast networks had a remarkably steady Sunday. Ratings for HBO’s final-season starter won’t be in until Tuesday, but CBS’ Game of Thrones nodding 60 Minutes (0.9 demo rating, 8.537 million viewers) was Sunday’s most watched broadcast…

Adam Goldberg has been cast in recurring role as Simon Hayes, the techie billionaire Simon Hayes who may or may not be owner of the God Account on CBS series God Friended Me, EP Bryan Wynbrandt announced Wednesday at TCA. God Friended Me stars Brandon Micheal Hall as an outspoken atheist who receives a “friend&#8221…

CBS has ordered a second season of freshman hit drama God Friended Me for the 2019-2020 broadcast season. "We're thrilled with how God Friended Me has performed on Sundays. It's one of the top three new series on television, has improved its time period significantly, and continues a long tradition of prestige dramas…

CBS has handed back orders to three more freshman series, multi-camera comedy The Neighborhood and dramas Magnum P.I. and God Friended Me. The sizes of the pickups are not being revealed, but I hear that The Neighborhood‘s order is around nine episodes, which would bring its first season to a 22, and Magnum P.I. and Go…

CBS’ God Friended Me series opener (1.4 demo rating, 10.45 million viewers) appears to have been blessed, if not from above, by the NFL in overrun anyway. Also giving thanks to Sunday Night Football last night is Fox’s The Simpsons Season 30 starter (1.8, 4.85M), which was bestowed with an early fourth-tenths pop in…

Empire alum Malik Yoba is set for a recurring role opposite Brandon Micheal Hall in CBS drama series God Friended Me, from Alcatraz co-creators Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, director Marcos Siega, Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV. Written by Lilien and Wynbrandt and directed by Siega, God F…

In the spirit of its social media spin, the CBS drama God Friended Me will have a special premiere across multiple platforms including Twitter, Facebook Premieres, Instagram’s IGTV, CBS All Access, and CBS.com beginning Aug. 31 ahead of its Sept. 30 premiere. The new series will also be available on the CBS app as…

CBS’s new series God Friended Me is not Highway to Heaven or Touched By Angel, executive producers wanted to make very clear to TV critics at TCA. That, though both NBC’s Highway and CBS’s Touched were quite successful long-running series. Both those shows featured angels; this series does not. “There is nothing…

CBS ordered four dramas and three comedies to its 2018-2019 slate last week, as the annual Upfronts Week hit with full force with orders, renewals and cancellations. On the comedy side, they join fellow newcomer the Murphy Brown reboot on the all-multicam slate, and on the drama side join the legal series The…

The Flash‘s Violett Beane is set as the female lead opposite Brandon Micheal Hall in the CBS pilot God Friended Me, a light hourlong procedural from Alcatraz co-creators Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, director Marcos Siega, Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV. Written by Lilien and Wynbrandt…