SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's series finale of Royal Pains. Royal Pains, which ended its eight-season run tonight, was the epitome of USA Network's "blue skies" brand – fun, light shows in beautiful locales. Set in the posh summer enclave of the Hamptons, the series starring Mark Feuerstein…

It has been no secret that USA’s long-running medical drama Royal Pains — the last of the network’s blue-skies procedural brand — was closing out its run with the upcoming eight-episode eighth season. The network has now made it official, setting a premiere date and releasing the first promo for the final chapter…

After five years at USA and UCP, Royal Pains executive producer/co-showrunner Michael Rauch is returning to CBS TV Studios with a two-year overall deal at CBS Television Studios. Under the pact, Rauch has sold a project, drama Toward the Light, to CBS. Rauch is segueing to the CBS TV Studios deal after recently…

USA Network has picked up its veteran medical drama Royal Pains for Seasons 7 and 8, each consisting of eight episodes. Season 8 will feature the series’ 100th episode. The last renewal of the USA-owned Royal Pains, from Universal Cable Prods. was also for two seasons, each made of 13 episodes. The series, starring…

Tuesday's fifth-season starter of ABC Family‘s Pretty Little Liars premiered with 2.7 million viewers and a 1.1 demo rating, falling behind its fourth-season kickoff (3.0 million viewers and 1.3 demo rating) and that season's finale (3.1 million viewers and 1.3 demo rating). But, the network noted, it was Tuesday's…

Gillian Alexy (Damages, The Americans), Patrick Breen (Kevin Hill), Jeremy Davidson (The Americans), Martha Higareda (El Mariachi) and Natalie Hall (True Blood, Star Crossed) have landed guest star or recurring roles in the upcoming season of Royal Pains. Alexy will recur as the mysterious Charlotte, who Hank (Mark…

USA Network is shaking things up this summer with a schedule that features four returning series moving to new time slots, joined by two new shows, dramas series Rush and Satisfaction, paired together. This is a rare new drama series launch on USA where the newbies are not slotted behind established series. Rush and Sa…

Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein has teamed with longtime pals Adam Stein and Sam Friedlander to co-create hourlong drama Flipside, which tracks three best friends as they live out two distinct alternate paths after graduating from college – one that sees them staying in their Minnesota hometown and another in which…

The Season 5 premiere of USA Network's Royal Pains last night was watched by 3.682 million viewers. That's down from the 3.95 million total viewers who tuned in for the Season 4 debut of the Hamptons-based medical drama back on June 6, 2012. The show was also down among the key demos too. Last night’s Royal Pains drew…

EXCLUSIVE: As production on the fifth season of USA Network hit Royal Pains begins, the series’ executive producers and showrunners Andrew Lenchewski and Michael Rauch have renewed their individual overall deals with the studio behind it, Universal Cable Prods. Under the pacts, Lenchewski and Rauch will continue to…

Royal Pains, which stars Mark Feuerstein as the go-to Hamptons “doctor for hire”, has cast Frances Conroy (American Horror Story, Six Feet Under) in a multi-episode story arc for Season 5 of the USA Network series. She will star as Blythe Ballard, a member of the Hamptons “royalty” who lives in the estate next to Hank…

EXCLUSIVE: Paulo Costanzo has signed up for That Burning Feeling. The Royal Pains star will play the lead role of Adam Murphy in the independent romantic comedy. The film has Murphy as a guy who has it all, success, women, charm. One day he loses it and, in his fall, starts going through his book of exes to find out…