SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Blue Bloods Season 9 finale. "It's a wonderful experience to have a long run at a character where you're allowed to do a character-driven show, and I think that's why we're all so hooked into it," says Tom Selleck on why he thinks that Blue Bloods is so…

With fans clamoring for a crossover episode between CBS procedurals Hawaii Five-0, Magnum, P.I., and MacGyver, the co-creator of the three series says it may just happen. Peter M. Lenkov, the creative mind behind the reboots, sat down with the casts of the shows Saturday afternoon at PaleyFest in Los Angeles. After…

We have the first freshmen of the 2018-19 season to score pickups for next season. CBS has given early renewals to dramas FBI and Magnum P.I. and comedy The Neighborhood. The moves hardly are unexpected as CBS brass have been happy with the performance of the three newbies; the only surprise in today’s announcement is…

CBS this morning unveiled  plans to promote its late-night shows and new series in plum timeslots following the AFC Championship Game and Super Bowl LII. Stephen Colbert’s Late Show won the Super Bowl Sunday derby, nabbing a special episode to air on February 3. Colbert’s show will air after the post-game premiere of…

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…

There had been bad blood between Justin Sundquist and Jeff Cadiente before they landed plum stunt coordinating assignments within weeks of each other on two CBS reboots from executive producer Peter Lenkov, the network's most prolific writer-producer. All three men had been involved in a lawsuit stemming from a 2016 ac…

2nd UPDATE Oct. 10: The saga of the Monday Oct. 9 primetime ratings took another unexpected turn this morning when Nielsen revised those odd official Live+same ratings for The Good Doctor from 1.2 rating in 18-49 and 7.477 million viewers to a 1.1 and 7.176 million viewers. Nielsen served a head-scratcher yesterday…

Snapshot, updated with finals: New series premieres: Manifest (NBC, 2.2 rating in 18-49, 10.3 million viewers), Magnum P.I. (CBS, 1.2, 8.1 million); Returning series premieres: The Big Bang Theory (2.5, -39%, 12.9 million) tops night, Young Sheldon, The Good Doctor, The Voice, Dancing with the Stars, Bull also down dou…

SPOILER ALERT: The following article contains details about the pilot episodes of Magnum P.I. and Manifest If you were at San Diego Comic-Con in July, you might have been treated to an advance screening of the pilots for CBS’ reboot of Magnum P.I. and NBC’s Manifest. Both series premiere on Sept. 24 and one is an…

The Media Action Network for Asian Americans is condemning CBS' upcoming reboot of Magnum P.I. for featuring too few Asian/Pacific Islanders and is calling on the show's executive producer, Peter Lenkov, to be replaced. Lenkov, who is CBS' most prolific writer-producer, also is the EP on Hawaii Five-0, another reboot…

2nd UPDATE, 10:45 AM: CBS now says that production on Season 9 of Hawaii Five-O also has shut down as Hurrican Lane threatens the islands. The National Weather Service has posted a hurricane warning for the entire state through 2 PM local time today (5 PM PT). UPDATED, 7:10 AM:  CBS says Magnum P.I. is shutting down…

Magnum P.I. executive producer Peter Lenkov has reversed course on whether the CBS reboot has a Latinx writer, tweeting this afternoon that the series does have one, an alum of the CBS Writers Mentoring Program. The previous afternoon at TCA, when asked whether there were any Latinx writers on the series, Lenkov said…