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And then they were gone. As the Golden State Warriors fell 108-102 to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference Finals on TNT, ABC's Castle (1.3/4) and CBS' Mike & Molly both ended their runs last night. While a loss for the reigning champ Warriors, last night’s primetime game was a winner for…

The wait is finally over for Person Of Interest fans. The fifth and final season of CBS’ crime procedural drama will premiere May 3 and will get double-pumped, with originals in its old Tuesday 10 PM slot as well as Monday at 10 PM. For the first three weeks on Tuesday, POI will have originals of NCIS and NCIS: New Orl…

After keeping mum amidst statements from the cast of Mike & Molly last month that the show has been canceled, CBS today confirmed today that the comedy’s current sixth season will be its last. “These decisions are really challenging,” CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller said at TCA. “I have tremendous respect for…

Canceled by inaction. That is the fate that awaits CBS’ Mike & Molly, underscoring a conundrum six-year-old shows face when they come from outside studios and are not a runaway hit the size of The Big Bang Theory. Mike & Molly, starring Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell, received an early Season 6 renewal in March…

It appears Mike & Molly star Melissa McCarthy did not see the show’s cancellation coming. A day after Rondi Reed, who plays Peggy on the show, announced on her Facebook page that the CBS series’ upcoming sixth season would be its last, McCarthy tweeted that she’s “shocked and heartbroken” over the news. I was…

Actress Rondi Reed announced on her Facebook page today that the upcoming sixth season of CBS’s Melissa McCarthy-starrer Mike & Molly will be the last for the long-running comedy. “Before you hear it elsewhere (and some already have) this is the Final and 6th Season of MIKE & MOLLY on CBS,” Reed wrote. She said the…

CBS is relaunching a Wednesday 8-9 PM comedy block as a bridge between the fall and spring cycles of Survivor. Veterans Mike & Molly and 2 Broke Girls, which aired together as part of CBS’ now-defunct Monday comedy block, will reunite on their new night starting Jan. 6. For 2 Broke Girls, this will be a second new…

Taye Diggs (The Best Man Holiday) has landed a recurring role on Fox freshman drama series Rosewood. Created by Todd Harthan, Rosewood stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., a private pathologist in Miami who partners with Detective Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz). Diggs will play Mike Boyce, a…

EXCLUSIVE: I met Swoosie Kurtz for the first time in the brief lull between her first Tony nomination and her first win. Almost immediately I asked her to marry me. Didn’t matter that I was married at the time. Didn’t matter that we were somewhat blazed and not alone (everyone was blazed and as I recall, everyone of…

After word leaked yesterday that CBS has renewed Chuck Lorre comedies Mom for a third season and Mike & Molly for a sixth, the network this morning is confirming the pickups, along with a fifth season order for 2 Broke Girls. With The Big Bang Theory one year into a three-season pickup, CBS has locked in its…

CBS has given early renewals to comedy series Mom and Mike & Molly, meaning that all of Chuck Lorre’s series on the network will be back next season. (Flagship The Big Bang Theory is one year into a three-season pickup.) The network is yet to confirm the renewal but cast members and writers from both Warner Bros…

It was one of those mixed nights on primetime Monday with a debut, a near end, repeats and a rising original or two. The debut was the Season 3 premiere of The Following (1.6/4) at 9 PM after Gotham (2.0/6), with the near end being ABC's The Bachelor (2.4/7). Unsurprisingly, the return of Fox’s Kevin Bacon-led…