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EXCLUSIVE: A3 Artists Agency has signed CSI: NY and Station 19 writer-producer Trey Callaway. The television multi-hyphenate launched his career upon writing the 1998 horror flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. In the follow up to Jim Gillespie’s 1997 feature, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy…

“Which one of y’all kicked me?” Hard to believe it’s been nearly 20 years since LAPD Detective James Carter took a boot to the face from that unknown assailant in Rush Hour. Now it sounds like Chris Tucker’s manic character might be reunited with Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong Detective Inspector Lee for a fourth adventure…

We haven't had tonight's undoubtedly festive Closing Ceremonies yet, but it looks like the Rio Olympics is going out with a whimper and nowhere near a bang – at least in NBC primetime. Saturday's mix of host Brazil's victory over Germany in men's soccer, a women's 4X400-meter relay victory by Team USA, more track and…

No surprise here — seven ho-hum weeks into the midseason run of CBS’ series remake of the hit action-comedy movie franchise Rush Hour, the network has decided not to renew the show for a second season. The series will stay on the air until its first-season run ends. Meanwhile, still no official word on Limitless.…

On paper, Rush Hour was a pretty suitable addition to CBS’ Thursday lineup — an hourlong action comedy joining the network’s two-hour comedy block. But the remake of the hugely popular movie franchise stumbled in its premiere last night, opening to a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49 and 5.1 million total viewers in the…

Debuting on March 31 in the spot formerly occupied by Elementary, Rush Hour is the second big-screen adaptation that CBS has attempted this season. However, unlike Limitless the TV series, the small-screen version of Rush Hour based on the trio of films starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker goes nowhere fast. Stuck in…

CBS, a network that often gets dinged for lack of scripted primetime on-screen diversity, is about to debut an action comedy hour based on the popular movie franchise Rush Hour that featured Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan (In the series, the cops will be played by  Justin Hires and Jon Foo). On National Public Radio…

For years, CBS has drawn criticism about the lack of diversity in the lead casts of on its scripted series. At a previous TCA, a critic griped that on Extant, a rare CBS series with a minority lead (movie star Halle Berry), she was surrounded by a white cast including a white husband, and even her robot child was made…

CBS is tweaking its Thursday and Sunday lineups. The network will premiere Rush Hour at 10 PM Thursday, March 31. The new series based on the hit movie franchise will replace Elementary, which in turn will relocate to Sundays beginning March 20, pushing out CSI: Cyber from the 10 PM slot. Sophomore CSI: Cyber will get…

EXCLUSIVE: Real-life sisters Greer Grammer (Awkward) and Spencer Grammer (Rick And Morty) are set to guest star in an episode of CBS midseason drama Rush Hour playing, of course, sisters.  This is their first time playing opposite each other in a series. A re-imagining of the hit New Line feature franchise, Rush Hour…

Psych creator/executive producer Steve Franks is taking on another comedic buddy cop show, signing on to serve as showrunner on the midseason CBS series Rush Hour, working alongside Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick. A reimagining of the hit New Line feature franchise, Rush Hour, from Warner Bros. TV and Lawrence’s…

After months of developing and producing pilots in a vacuum beyond internal and test screenings to small groups, the broadcast pilots just picked up to series got their first wide exposure this week when they were shown to hundreds of international buyers in town for the annual LA Screenings. Like everything in the TV…