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EXCLUSIVE: Person Of Interest creator and Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan has signed a new overall deal with Warner Bros Television, the studio behind the two series. I hear the new pact with Nolan and his Kilter Films is among the richest for a drama writer-producer. It solidifies Nolan’s spot among the top…

After five seasons on CBS, Person Of Interest (1.0/3) came to an end last night with the demise of one of its main characters. The finale of the abbreviated 13-episode season dipped 9% among adults 18-49 compared with the Season 4 ender of May 5 last year – which had an original NCIS as a lead-in. Even with last…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes spoilers about tonight’s series finale of Person of Interest. As teased by the series’ producers, CBS’ Person Of Interest ended its five-season run tonight with a bang, killing off one of the main characters, Reese, played by Jim Caviezel. Actually, two main characters saw their…

Person Of Interest, which wraps its five-season run on CBS tonight, June 21, has been an odd duck among CBS’ slate of procedurals, a sci-fi drama blending procedural elements with deep mythology and serialized arcs. Considered by many to be the best science fiction show on broadcast TV in recent years, the series did…

One week after its Season 11 debut and the return of Simon Cowell to Big 4 primetime, America's Got Talent (2.2/8) was still tops on TV, but not without a tumble and The Bachelorette (2.0/7) as competition. While the top-rated and, with 10.65 million tuning in, most-watched show of Tuesday night, AGT fell 15% among…

It was a steady night of comedy farewells on Fox on Tuesday as New Girl ended its fifth season with a wedding and Grandfathered (0.6/2) and The Grinder (0.6/2) went out with a bit of whimper. With NBA and NHL playoff action elsewhere on the dial last night, The networks’ John Stamos-led show was down a tenth from last…

A healed-up Stephen Curry was back in top form last night to help the Golden State Warriors beat the Portland Trail Blazers in overtime in Game 4 of the NBA playoffs on TNT, following the Miami Heat's overtime victory over the Toronto Raptors in the East. We mention this to you non-basketball fans because the games…

Exactly one year after Person of Interest‘s fourth season finale aired, the CBS drama last night opened its fifth and final season with 7.4 million total viewers and a 1.2 rating in adults 18-49. That was up a tick in the demo from the POI Season 4 finale and last week’s freshman season closer of Limitless in the time…

The charade is over — CBS has finally confirmed that the upcoming fifth season of Person of Interest will indeed be its last. “We're extremely excited to be able share this final season with the fans,” creator/executive producer Jonah Nolan and executive producer Greg Plageman said in a statement. “We're eternally…

The wait is finally over for Person Of Interest fans. The fifth and final season of CBS’ crime procedural drama will premiere May 3 and will get double-pumped, with originals in its old Tuesday 10 PM slot as well as Monday at 10 PM. For the first three weeks on Tuesday, POI will have originals of NCIS and NCIS: New Orl…

While the producers of Person Of Interest are treating the current 13-episode season as a last, CBS says it is not. The series, from Jonah Nolan and J.J. Abrams, was left off the CBS fall schedule, it was given a partial order and has not been scheduled yet. “We hope to get it on this spring,” CBS Entertainment…

CBS’ Person Of Interest was given a reduced, 13-episode order for Season 5, it was left on the bench for fall and as of today, still has not been scheduled, signaling a likely post-upfronts summer return. If all that wasn’t subtle enough, executive producer J.J. Abrams today articulated fans’ worst fear — that the…