NBC has renewed The Carmichael Show for a second season, while opting against a second season of Mr. Robinson. This is the second consecutive summer the network has launched new comedy series, both times leading to a renewal, following last year’s pickup if Undateable. Both Mr. Robinson and Carmichael have been decent…

Craig Robinson’s NBC comedy series has made a case for a second-season pickup with an OK summer run. The final two episodes last night drew a 1.0 in 18-49 and 4.2 million viewers at 9 PM and 0.9, 3.4 million at 9:30 PM. While the 9:30 PM results constitute lows for the series, the the demo dip was small and may be…

NBC inched ahead of CBS to win Wednesday night with a 1.3/5 rating and 5.53 million viewers, but otherwise it was a primetime of split decisions, declines and plateaus. The night’s top-rated show was Big Brother (2.1/9) and the most-watched show was slot rival America's Got Talent (1.6/6) with 8.30 million tuning in…

Even when America's Got Talent (1.4/6) takes a hit, it still delivers for NBC. Down 22% last night among adults 18-49 from its July 29 10th anniversary show, the "World's Got Talent" version of AGT still pulled in the second-highest rating and the biggest audience of Wednesday night with 6.88 million watching. That…

If Mr. Robinson is any indication, maybe NBC needs to vacate the comedy arena completely. Debuting on August 5 for a three-week, six-episode run, the series starring Craig Robinson and Peri Gilpin, as my video review above says, is distinctly unfunny and manages to swing from the nauseating way too nice to the…

With half-hour tentpoles a rare commodity on NBC these days, the network has started to treat its few half-hour comedy series like hourlong ones, often slotting them in one-hour time periods with back-to-back episodes. The strategy worked last summer for Undateable, whose promising freshman run led to a second-season…

"Can't you be funny without being crass or vulgar?" one journalist asked cast and creators of NBC's summer comedy series Mr. Robinson. “My generation has what's called the Internet," cast member Brandon T. Jackson responded patronizingly – almost as if he were speaking to an octagenarian who’d been dropped on her head…

NBC, which has struggled with comedy this season, is making a major push in the genre in the summer with two new series, Mr. Robinson and The Carmichael Show, set to debut in August. They will be joined by Welcome To Sweden, which will return for a second season in July. Last summer, NBC premiered Welcome To Sweden…

Baywatch star David Hasselhoff will be treading familiar waters. He’s been tapped to play Fin’s (Ian Ziering) father in the third installment of Syfy’s highly successful B-movie franchise. Premiering on Syfy in July, Sharknado 3 will cause mass destruction in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., than roar down the…

Meagan Good (Think Like A Man franchise) has signed on for a major recurring role on Mr. Robinson, NBC's upcoming six-episode comedy series starring The Office alum Craig Robinson. The series, from Universal TV, stars Robinson as a journeyman musician who gets a job as a music teacher at a middle school. Good will…

Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder) is set to co-star opposite Craig Robinson in Robinson’s upcoming NBC comedy series. Mr. Robinson, from Universal TV, centers on Craig (Robinson), who leads a double life — at night he jams in a rock band called Nasty Delicious that has been unsuccessfully trying to break out for a…

A to Z‘s Lenora Crichlow and Spencer Grammer have been cast as regulars in Mr. Robinson, NBC's midseason comedy series starring The Office alum Craig Robinson as part of the creative revamp of the project under executive producers/showrunners Mark Cullen and Rob Cullen. Mr. Robinson stars Robinson as a journeyman…