EXCLUSIVE: The stage veterans who shared screen time on NBC’s Smash have committed to one of the loopier-sounding offerings of the spring season on Broadway, the new musical comedy <a title="Michael Novick & Kevin McCollum Option YA Novel 'This Song' For Film, Theater"…

It is a big week for producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. They have the live staging of The Sound Of Music starring Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer on NBC tomorrow night, and four-hour miniseries Bonnie & Clyde starring Emile Hirsch and Holliday Grainger airing Sunday and Monday on History, A&E and Lifetime. While…

Arts cable channel Ovation has picked up off-network rights to NBC’s recently cancelled series Smash. The first season of the Broadway drama will debut on Ovation on July 19, airing Fridays at 8 PM, with Season 2 set for a November premiere. "Smash is exactly the kind of art-centric programming that Ovation's viewers…

EXCLUSIVE: Now that her TV series Smash has finished after a two-season run, Katharine McPhee is ready to try features. She has become attached to star in Depravity, a thriller with a script by Dennis Lehane and Paul Tamasy set to direct. A group of roommates accidentally kill an innocent man they thought was a thrill…

This was one of the most expected cancellations at NBC and yet it was probably one of the most difficult; that’s why it came down last. Smash was a passion project for NBC topper Bob Greenblatt, which he originally developed at Showtime and brought with him to NBC. It was one of his first pilot orders and the series…

NBC‘s Smash is getting a slot upgrade for its finale. The network has announced that the musical drama — which was banished to Saturdays after several very low-rated airings on Tuesday — will get a send-off on a Sunday. Smash will end its second season with a two-hour finale May 26, the first Sunday after the end of…

NBC’s Smash and CBS’ The Amazing Race were honored tonight at the 24th GLAAD Media Awards in New York City.  Smash was named best drama series and Amazing Race took the nod for best reality series. How To Survive A Plague, a film chronicling the rise of activism in the early years of AIDS, was named best…

NBC just made several scheduling changes, with low-rated Smash moving to Saturdays, and Go On getting a tryout on Thursday following the last episodes of the The Office. There is still some good news for loyal Smash fans — NBC is committed to airing all 17 episodes of the series’ second (and certain to be final)…

Like a reality TV bat out of Hell, Gordon Ramsey returned Tuesday for Season 11 of Hell's Kitchen (2.2/6). Taking over Fox's primetime last night, the two-hour cooking competition premiere saw 20 aspiring restaurateurs putting forth their signatures dishes to Ramsey and, in a new twist this season, a live Las Vegas…

NBC‘s Smash wrapped filming of Season 2 last night, with several cast members taking to Twitter to report the news and post a photo or two: Megan Hilty, Debra Messing, Katharine McPhee, Andy Mientus, Jeremy Jordan and Krysta Rodriguez. But some tweeters wondered whether messages about “closing another chapter” might…

After having been previewed online for a week, CBS' Golden Boy (1.8/5) premiered on TV last night. It won its 10 PM slot, but the news was not all good. The midseason cop drama was up 20% in the slot from last week's Vegas, which had tied a season low, but it was also down 28% from the Vegas premiere in the same time…

Retooled and returning last night for its third season, ABC's Body Of Proof (1.2/3) did not offer strong ratings evidence Tuesday. The drama was down a cratering 45% from its Season 2 premiere on September 20, 2011 and tied a series low. It was also down 37% from its Season 2 finale in April. Meanwhile, in another…