In creating a show about women's wrestling, GLOW creators Liz Flahive (Homeland, Nurse Jackie) and Carly Mensch (Orange is the New Black, Weeds) were armed with inspiration from the 2012 documentary GLOW: The Story of The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which documented the sport in the ’80s, and the ability to craft…

Merritt Wever has been in many, many fan favorite shows and films—The Good Wife, New Girl, Birdman, The Walking Dead, and Nurse Jackie, for which she won an Emmy—but it perhaps wasn't until Scott Frank's Netflix Western Godless that we've seen a different side to her work; one that allowed her to really show a new…

Mirroring the trajectory of Vice President Selina Meyer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has taken home her 4th consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a comedy for Veep. The win, her fifth overall, ties her with Candice Bergen and Mary Tyler Moore for most wins ever in the category. She won for the final season four…

Literally bathed in blood, the Season 2 premiere of the John Logan-created Showtime series got a bite taken out of it on Sunday. With 575,000 total viewers watching on May 3 at 10 PM, Penny Dreadful fell 34% from its Season 1 debut on May 11, 2014. In fact, the Season 2 debut of the drama starring Eva Green, Timothy…

Nurse Jackie exec producer Clyde Phillips intended to have the show’s fictional All Saints Hospital in Manhattan burn down in the series’ upcoming series finale, but he changed his mind. Asked if he was a believer in happy endings, Phillips responded: “No, I’m not. I’m a believer in authentic endings, and I think the…

Brian Jordan Alvarez, (You Are What I Want), Ben Bledsoe (Spirited Away) and Derek Goh (The Brides Of March) have joined the cast of Self Promotion, MTV’s dark comedy pilot that will be directed by Zach Braff. Self Promotion centers on overworked assistant Katie Preston (Alexandra Krosney) who discovers that her…

Royal Pains‘ Mark Feuerstein has signed on as a recurring guest star opposite Edie Falco on the seventh and final season of Showtime comedy Nurse Jackie. Feuerstein will appear in six episodes as Barry Wolfe, a high-powered, cutthroat lawyer who will represent Jackie (Falco) as she pieces her life back together…

Showtime said today that it is ending its hospital dramedy that stars Edie Falco as a duplicitous, pill-popping ER nurse and mom. Nurse Jackie will hang up the stethoscopes after the upcoming seventh season, which was ordered in March and saw production begin this week. It’s the premium cable net’s longest-running…

Multiple Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub (Monk) has been tapped for a recurring role opposite Edie Falco in the seventh season of Showtime comedy Nurse Jackie. Shalhoub will play Dr. Bernard Prince, a new ER doctor who has a great bedside manner, a special touch with his boss, Gloria Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith), and who…

Showtime‘s Shameless switching from drama to comedy was part of the Emmy category rules debate of the past several months. “There is always a degree of arbitrariness,” Showtime boss David Nevins said about the Emmy category assignments. He argued that whatever genres and categories are out there, Showtime’s DNA would…

Nurse Jackie co-creator Liz Brixius is set as executive producer and showrunner of NBC‘s newly picked up comedy series Bad Judge. The gig is part of an overall deal Brixius has with Universal Television, which produces Bad Judge with studio-based Gary Sanchez Prods. Written by Chad Kultgen, Bad Judge stars Kate Walsh…

Ahead of Nurse Jackie‘s sixth-season premiere, Showtime has given the dark comedy starring Edie Falco an early seventh-season renewal. Clyde Phillips will continue as executive producer/showrunner after closing a new two-year overall deal with Lionsgate TV, which co-produces Nurse Jackie with Showtime. Phillips joined…