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The source show for Fox’s well-reviewed but ill-fated drama Red Band Society won the top award tonight at the International Emmy Kids Awards. Spain’s Polseres Vermelles (The Red Band Society) was named best series during the ceremony at Pier 60 in New York. Fox’s version of the show about teenagers with…

Fox’s Red Band Society had a lot going for it — a well-reviewed pilot; an Oscar winner, Octavia Spencer, leading a cast of fresh-faced young actors; a super-successful Hollywood movie, The Fault In Our Stars, that had just tackled similar themes; and even a little pre-launch controversy with the removed racy bus billbo…

The networks closed the book on the November sweep on a quiet Thanksgiving eve. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is not acting its age. The 41-year-old cartoon extended its ratings streak with another impressive gain, helped by a move from Thursday to Wednesday. It tied CBS’ Survivor as the No.1 program of the night with…

Fox has opted not to order more episodes of freshman Red Band Society beyond the original 13-episode order, which will wrap production in mid-December. The network has stopped short of cancelling the hospital teen drama starring Octavia Spencer, which will air two more episodes, tonight (Episode 9) and next…

Fox is keeping its freshman drama Red Band Society in contention for a back episodic order with a pickup of four additional scripts. The  hospital drama launched to solid reviews but has been soft in the ratings. Still, a couple of weeks in, its numbers stabilized, and last Wednesday the series (1.0 among adults 18-49…

UPDATE PM: Two of the Wednesday freshman dramas whose fate is yet to be decided went each up a tenth in the finals — NBC’s The Mysteries of Laura (1.4) and Fox’s The Red Band Society (1.0). Both are now up a tenth from last week. In the case of Laura, last night’s performance was off just a tenth from its time period…

William Hurt (A History Of Violence, Damages) is set for a lead role in Humans, the upcoming AMC/Channel 4 eight-episode sci-fi drama series. An adaptation of the Swedish series Real Humans, the drama, produced by Shine's Kudos, is set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a…

After a new show has premiered, it’s all about holding the audience after the blitz of pre-launch promotion is over. Keeping steady is great — showing ratings growth is even better. After a 24% Week 2 drop for ABC’s new comedy Black-ish, it bounced back in Week 3 with a 2.8 in adults 18-49, up +12% from its fast…

UPDATE 2 PM: ABC’s Nielsen fast nationals nightmare continues. Once again, the entire ABC lineup last night was adjusted up — Modern Family went up two tenths to a 3.7 in 18-49, while The Middle (2.0), The Goldbergs (2.3), black-ish (2.6) and Nashville (1.6) each went up 1-tenth in the finals. There were only two…

Dancing With The Stars pirouetted to the top of Nielsen’s Twitter TV ratings for the week (and placed a second night of competition at No. 5), waltzing past Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, two nights of the WWE and the HBO broadcast of concert doc On the Run Tour: Beyonce and Jay Z. In a promising bit of news for its…

Daniel Sauli has joined the cast of HBO's miniseries Show Me A Hero from The Wire co-creator David Simon. Based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin, the six-hour mini stars Oscar Isaac as Nick Wasicsko, the youngest big-city mayor in the nation, who finds himself thrust into the center of a racial controversy when a…

Here’s the latest flap involving marketing for a new TV show that has offended some L.A. citizens. Metro Los Angeles today yanked ads for Fox’s Red Band Society from its buses today after activists complained about offensive language. The ad features the cast of the hospital drama with mini-captions like “Coma Boy&#8221…