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NBC has canceled freshman comedy series Telenovela as well as Undateable, which experimented with live shows in its third and final season. Eva Longoria’s Telenovela debuted alongside another midseason NBC comedy, Superstore. While Superstore was a breakout, quickly landing a renewal, Telenovela got solid reviews…

“It comes down to real characters,” said Superstore actress and producer America Ferrera about the diversity that’s being presented on TV today. It’s often said, if you want to take a look at what’s going on in the U.S., turn on the television. As such, networks and streaming media services are embracing more…

Hard to tell if the truth was out there after all with the event series revival of The X-Files (2.4/7), but on a night of season finales, the David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson starrer went out with some bounce. Not facing the Grammys of February 15 and matching The Bachelor (2.4/7) as the highest-rated show of the…

After taking a dip against the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship on ESPN last Monday, new NBC comedies Superstore (1.6 in adults 18-49), Telenovela (1.1) and ABC’s The Bachelor (2.1) all rebounded,with the comedies inching up a tenth from last week, while The Bachelor rose by two tenths. Meanwhile…

There will come a time when a broadcast network having three primetime series with Latina leads will not be big news. This is not that time. NBC held TCA Q&A sessions last week for Shades Of Blue with Jennifer Lopez, America Ferrera-starrer Superstore and Eva Longoria’s Telenovela. During the latter session, one TV…

NBC last night previewed Telenovela, the second of two new midseason comedy series, behind an original episode of The Voice. The comedy starring Eva Longoria fared worse than fellow newbie Superstore did last Monday. With identical 2.8 adults 18-49 lead-in from The Voice, which was even week-to-week, Telenovela logged…

The former Desperate Housewives star's return to a primetime starring role is strong evidence that if you are looking for the role you were born to play, create it for yourself. Based on an idea by Eva Longoria, Telenovela is, as my video review about says, a sometimes very funny and stylized single camera half-hour…

NBC has set January premiere dates for new comedy series Telenovela, which is reverting to its original name after being titled Hot & Bothered for the past few months, and Superstore. Once again the network will use its top reality series The Voice to get sampling for the two newbies. Ahead of Telenovela and Superstore…

The duo behind last year’s NBC comedy pilot Old Soul have signed a two-year overall deal with the Peacock’s sister studio Universal TV. Josh Bycel and Jonathan Fener will serve as exec producers on Eva Longoria comedy Telenovela, which NBC ordered straight to series in January. The duo worked together on ABC’s Happy En…

Alano Miller has landed a lead role in WGN America’s straight-to-series drama Underground. From Sony Pictures TV and Tribune Studios, Underground follows a group of slaves who plan a daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom, aided along the way by a secret abolitionist couple running a…

Jose Moreno Brooks (MTV’s One Bad Choice), a former semi-pro soccer player-turned-actor, has been cast as a series regular opposite Eva Longoria in NBC's 13-episode single-camera comedy series Telenovela starring and executive produced by Eva Longoria. Written/executive produced by Chrissy Pietrosh and Jessica…

Steve Pink, director of the cult Hot Tub Time Machine feature franchise, has been tapped to helm the pilot episode of NBC’s single-camera comedy series Telenovela starring and executive produced by Eva Longoria. Telenovela has a 13-episode straight-to-series order but will shoot a pilot. Written/executive produced by…