Madam Secretary will end with its forthcoming sixth season. CBS revealed Wednesday that it will finish the Téa Leoni-fronted show with a 10-episode order this year. Created by Barbara Hall, Madam Secretary stars Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, determined U.S. Secretary of State who drives international…

CBS has renewed Madam Secretary for a sixth season. That would be great news for fans of the show, who had been vocal in their support as the political drama found itself heavily on the bubble for the first time. Madam Secretary recently topped USA Today’ annual Save Our Shows poll. The network today also renewed SEAL…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the season 5 finale of Madam Secretary. Based on the events leading up to the season finale of CBS’ Madam Secretary, it seems like this episode would be, for the most part, smooth sailing for Tea Leoni’s Elizabeth McCord. It seems like the climate migration treaty is…

Penultimate Sunday Night Football continued franchise’s upward trend. Seattle Seahawks’ 38-31 besting of Kansas City Chiefs (household metered market 12.6 rating/24 share), easily making it Sunday’s top-performing primetime program. It’s NBC’s top rated Week 16 game in four years –  up 40% compared to last year's Week…

ABC's Shark Tank (0.6 rating in 18-49 demographic, 3.05 million viewers), started Season 10 at a series low Sunday. The series followed the season launch of Dancing With the Stars: Juniors (0.7, 4.98M), which barely built on its America's Funniest Home Videos (0.7, 4.71M) lead-in; AFHV kicked off ABC's night matching…

Almost two years after Hillary Clinton and most of the world thought she was going to become America's first female President, it seems the candidate defeated by Donald Trump is making a new home on the small screen. As Deadline predicted in our Murphy Brown review yesterday, tonight saw Clinton appear on the debut of…

Alert the Diplomatic Security Service: There will be four U.S. Secretaries of State on the Season 5 premiere of Madam Secretary. CBS said today that Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell will appear in the October 7 episode as Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) turns to the former State leaders to ask their…

With the sudden departure of Bebe Neuwirth’s Nadine Tolliver, there is an opening at the State Department on CBS’ Madam Secretary. And now Grey’s Anatomy alum Sara Ramirez has joined the cast as a new series regular. Ramirez will play Kat Sandoval, a brilliant political strategist, legendary in D.C. for her talent and…

Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord’s Chief of Staff Nadine Tolliver is leaving the State Department — for good. Bebe Neuwirth announced Sunday night in a series of tweets that she has decided to leave CBS’ Madam Secretary. Neuwirth has been a series regular since the political drama premiered in 2014. 1/3 So…

Snapshot with Live+Same Day fast nationals: Week 2 of new series: CBS' Wisdom of the Crowd (1.0 in 18-49, -29%,  8.0 million), Fox's Ghosted (1.4, even, 3.6 million), ABC's Ten Days In the Valley (0.4, -33%, 2.6 million); Returning series premieres: CBS’ Madam Secretary (0.8, -27%, 7.3 million). As the late NFL game…

CBS has sealed a multiplatform syndication deal for its Téa Leoni-starring Madam Secretary, which comes ahead of the drama series’ Season 4 premiere on October 8. As part of the mulit-pronged pact, WE tv has acquired off-network rights beginning in 2018. Netflix has scored an SVOD deal that includes all previous…

"I think we’re fine in terms of the amount of women who are behind the camera, in front of the camera," a clearly defensive Les Moonves said this morning about the number of female leads in CBS’ newly announced schedule. “More women watch CBS percentage-wise than any other network, so our shows have a lot of female…