EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Lorre’s praised CBS comedy Mom has received a two-season pickup by CBS. The renewal follows the studio Warner Bros. TV securing new deals with stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney. After lengthy negotiations., the two actresses have inked new two-year contracts with major salary increases to continue…

At the summer TCA press tour in August, CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl faced a barrage of questions about the network’s culture just days after the first story about allegations of past sexual misconduct against CBS CEO Leslie Moonves came out. At the same event, Kahl also revealed that the network was in…

The Big Bang Theory is already set to end its run with its current 12th season. But could CBS lose both of Chuck Lorre’s long-running comedy series? The Lorre-executive produced Mom is in the midst of its sixth season, the last under stars Anna Faris and Allison Jamey's original contracts. I hear CBS would like to get…

Against Thursday NFL on Fox, CBS' Mom fall finale (1.2 rating in the 18-49 demo, 7.671 million viewers) was the night's highest rated non-pigskin show in the demo, but CBS' The Big Bang Theory repeat (1.1, 8.078M) topped Thursdaay in total viewers, followed by repeat Young Sheldon (1.1, 7.702M). Mom ticked up a tenth…

That Chuck Lorre — he’s such a card. The creator of The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon and Mom — along with three other popular CBS sitcoms of the past two decades — tonight unveils his 600th post-episode vanity card. If fact, it’s a two-parter. The first second-long card appearance came after tonight’s BBT original…

CBS has renewed praised comedy series Mom for a sixth season. The pickup makes it a clean sweep for top comedy producer Chuck Lorre, with all three of his CBS shows already renewed for next season five weeks before the May upfronts. Mom joins veteran The Big Bang Theory, which will be headed into its 12th season, and…

With a near-record seven Emmy wins over the course of three different series, Tony nominations, and finally Sunday a Golden Globe after five previous attempts, Allison Janney is riding high to say the least. And it is her newly minted Golden Globe-winning role as LaVona Golden, the mother from hell in I, Tonya, that…

Viacom’s TV Land quietly has acquired Warner Bros TV’s CBS multi-camera comedy series Mom in off-network cable syndication, shared with its sister network CMT. Once a hot commodity, broadcast comedy series are not that easy to sell in syndication these days unless they are a hit the size of The Big Bang Theory, even…

Mom stars Allison Janney and Anna Faris and series co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre are standing with Planned Parenthood. The praised comedy series is spearheading a donation campaign to support the organization in response to recent partisan political efforts to target the women's health care provider. In…

CBS is close to giving an early renewal to multi-camera comedy Mom for a fifth season. The pickup was never in doubt as Mom has been a solid ratings performer, earns Emmy nominations, has a strong social message, and comes from The Big Bang Theory boss Chuck Lorre who has been the single most important comedy producer…

Mike Schur’s comedy The Good Place wrapped its 13-episode first season with an hourlong finale last night, which drew a 1.1 rating in adults 18-49 and 3.9 million viewers in Live+same day. That was on pa with last weekr in the demo despite facing stiffer competition from an original The Big Bang Theory last night vs…

Chuck Lorre has used his show’s vanity cards for political purposes in the past, particularly during the recent unpleasantness when he called out Donald Trump on more than one occasion. (To the point that the first episodes of Big Bang Theory and Mom immediately after the election had vanity cards that just read…