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The CW has renewed two of its alternative series. Penn & Teller: Fool Us, which the network says is its highest-performing unscripted series, has been renewed for an eighth cycle. New clip show World’s Funnies Animals, whose November 27 telecast logged the network's best series performance in the time slot in almost…

The CW is looking ahead to sunnier days, setting season premiere dates for a quartet of its summer series: the unscripted Masters of Illusion and Penn & Teller: Fool Us and dramas Burden of Truth and Bulletproof. Season 7 of the magic-themed Masters of Illusion will appear at 8 p.m. Friday, May 15, while the…

The CW has finalized its summer plans as it continues to push for more year-round programming. The network today revealed its 2019 post-TV season schedule including a half-dozen new series and dates for two returning dramas and three unscripted veterans. The 11 summer premieres is the most ever for the 13-year-old…

Illusionist Vitaly Beckman, who fooled magicians Penn & Teller on their CW magic show Fool Us, will have an Off-Broadway run in the same theater where the duo launched their career in the 1980s. Vitaly: An Evening of Wonders, produced by Daryl Roth, will play the Westside Theatre on West 43rd Street from June 13 to…

The CW has made its summer plans. The network said today that its new action-adventure series Hooten & the Lady will premiere at 9 PM Thursday, July 13, and set the return of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Masters of Illusion and Penn & Teller: Fool Us for May, June and July, respectively. Spanning eight hourlong episodes…

The CW said today that it has renewed its summer series Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Masters of Illusion. All will return in 2017. Hosted by Alyson Hannigan, the hourlong magic competition series Penn & Teller: Fool Us will return for Season 4 with the duo inviting aspiring magicians to…

UPDATED, June 20: The CW said today that Season 3 of Penn & Teller: Fool Us now will premiere Wednesday, July 13, two days later than originally planned. PREVIOUSLY, April 5: In the summertime when the weather is hot, the CW has revealed just what it’s got. With apologies to Mungo Jerry, the broadcast net today set…

The CW’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us has pulled a new host out of its hat. The network announced today that How I Met Your Mother and Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Alyson Hannigan will be taking over as host for the competition reality show’s upcoming third season. The series sees aspiring magicians performing his or…

Digital content company Defy Media has partnered with Emmy Award winning game show producer/creator Andrew Golder for a development deal to create a slate of game show formats aimed at millennials. The partners will share executive production and development on the programs, which will distributed on Defy’s network of…

The CW has ordered new seasons of America’s Next Top Model, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and Masters Of Illusion to air during 2015. After acquiring the original British series from DCD Rights to air this past summer, network has ordered 13 brand new one-hour episodes of Penn & Teller: Fool Us, which will go back into…

It was a reality skirmish on primetime Wednesday, the day before the 2014 NFL 2014 season kicks off. Unlike last year's finale, there was no announcement of a new season on So You Think You Can Dance (1.3/5), but there was a winner and a hell of a lot of hoofing it. With Debbie Allen, Step Up alumni Jenna Dewan Tatum…

Unlike most of July, things were truly competitive on primetime last night, literally and figuratively. While ABC was all encores last night, the other networks had packed schedules and the CW had some more magic of its own. It was all conspiracy and aftermath on Extant (1.0/4) last night as the Halle Berry starrer…