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Candice Bergen joins me today on my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side, and the five-time (in a row) Emmy winner starts us right off by explaining why, after winning so many times for her signature Murphy Brown character, she asked not to be considered for the role anymore. “I think the audience had probably had…

CBS is still open to rebooting classic shows despite the cancellation of Murphy Brown after one season. The Candice Bergen-fronted series made headlines as the second wave of revival fever hit new heights last year, with the Emmy winning show returning to CBS in September almost 20 years after the original run of the D…

There are a lot of people feeling a lot of pain all over Hollywood today with the annual ruthless round of Black Friday cancellations but, Donald Trump and Clayne Crawford may be pretty pleased. The former Celebrity Apprentice host was relentless mocked by CBS's Murphy Brown revival and the ex-Rectify star was pink…

The return of Murphy Brown will not be returning to CBS. The network officially canceled the Candice Bergen-led series Friday after weeks of speculation on a possible eleventh-hour comeback. In the second wave of revival fever fueling networks in recent years, the Emmy winning show returned to CBS last September…

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…

ABC’s 53-year-old A Charlie Brown Christmas (1.2 rating in the 18-49 demo, 5.14 million viewers) was Thursday night’s s No. 1 show among 18-49 year-olds, clocking the same demo rating it had last year. CBS’ Murphy Brown (0.7, 5.21M) wrapped its revival season in a field of CBS repeats, including lead-in The Big Bang Th…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s season and likely series finale of Murphy Brown If the revived Murphy Brown is really and truly ending for good with tonight's Season 11 finale, creator Diane English made sure the Emmy winning journalism comedy went out with a mix of fictionalized bigwigs and…

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…

Murphy Brown star Candice Bergen thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for her 12th Golden Globes nomination, calling it a “wonderful acknowledgement of my work in a show we are all so proud of bringing back this year.” But, giving credit where credit is due, Bergen on Thursday also acknowledged “it would…

Candice Bergen this morning received her 12th Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in CBS’ de facto 11th season of Murphy Brown, returning more than two decades after wrap of the comedy series’ most recent prior season. Bergen’s nomination tipped the scale in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Television…

CBS is using a different approach to unveiling its winter scheduling plans this year — by genre. After announcing its midseason unscripted slate yesterday, the network today is focusing on comedy. Coming off the schedule in January/February are freshmen Murphy Brown and Happy Together; coming on are new comedy Fam and…

CBS was Thursday's most watched network, getting a break when Fox and the NFL Network were saddled with losing teams the Denver Broncos and Arizona Cardinals and a lopsided game that plunged 38% in ratings week over week. The Big Bang Theory (2.0 rating in adults 18-49 demographic, 12.0 million viewers) was the…