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A week after WGN America touted its most watched primetime month in history, the network has canceled its most watched series, drama Outsiders, after two seasons. The decision comes ahead of Outsiders‘ April 25 Season 2 finale, which will now serve as a series finale, at least on WGN America. I hear producing studio…

The second season of WGN America’s Outsiders opened to 932,000 total viewers and 414,000 adults 25-54 last night. That was off slightly from the drama’s series premiere (1.055 million, 443,000 in 25-54), though the 2016 opener aired commercial-free. The Season 2 debut was up 13% from the Season 1 average viewership…

Tonight, WGN America launches the second season of its drama Outsiders, which taps into the struggles of small town America. Along with hit Underground Railroad thriller Underground, Outsiders was a breakout, helping fledgling WGN America to post double-digit year-over-year ratings growth in 2016, up +16% in total…

Introducing the cast and creators of Outsiders at TCA, WGN chief Matt Cherniss made a point of tying the drama series about conflict between a small Appalachian town and the Farrell clan of “outsiders,”  to the current political climate. Not that TV critics needed to be nudged to ask a Trumpocalypse question of any…

WGN America has set Tuesday, January 24, for the second-season premiere of its hit original drama series Outsiders. We’re also getting a peek at Season 2 in a new trailer released ahead of the cast’s appearance Sunday at New York Comic-Con. It features newly named Bren'in, G'win (Gillian Alexy), letting us know in no…

Hulu has added the sixth and final season of Community, completing its library of the cult comedy series, as part of a new licensing agreement with Sony Pictures TV. In addition, the expanded agreement gives the streaming service SVOD rights to WGN America's drama series Underground and Outsiders. Past episodes of the…

Manhattan alum Ashley Zukerman has booked a recurring role on Designated Survivor, ABC's upcoming drama series starring Kiefer Sutherland from The Mark Gordon Company and ABC Studios. Created by David Guggenheim, Designated Survivor centers on Tom Kirkman (Sutherland), a lower-level cabinet member, who unexpectedly…

Underground debuted in March with record-breaking ratings for WGN America, and it looks to have wrapped up its first season with some pretty strong results. With Live + 3 numbers now in, the May 11 Season 1 finale of the series about Georgia plantation slaves who dash for their freedom via the Underground Railroad…

WGN America has given a second-season pickup to drama series Outsiders seven episodes into its freshman run. Production on the 13-episode second season will begin this summer. Outsiders is WGNA’s third original scripted series, following Salem and Manhattan. All have gone to a second season. The trio will soon be…

The Tuesday premiere of WGN America’s new drama series Outsiders logged 3.9 million total viewers in Live+3, making it the most-watched episode of original programming ever for the network. Including encores during its premiere week, Outsiders drew 5.5 million total viewers, according to WGN America. In Live+3, the 9…

WGN America's third original drama series, Outsiders, opened on Tuesday with 1.055 million viewers and 443,000 adults 25-54 in Live+Same Day. That was the best performance for a WGNA original series since the premiere of the network’s maiden drama Salem in April 2014. Outsiders, which drew 1.934 million viewers for…

Not having seen the pilot, it’s difficult to tell if Outsiders is a supernatural horror dressed up in hillbilly gothic or if it’s something closer to Sons of Anarchy meets Winter’s Bone. Either way, it’s brutal and sexed-up and muddy and, well — at least judging from the trailer seen here, and the discussion today…