Latest in The Brave

There is blood flowing in the streets of Hollywood tonight, as the television networks' annual Black Friday purge has cancelled a deluge of series, such as the shocker of Brooklyn Nine-Nine plus Designated Survivor, The Exorcist, Quantico, Lucifer and The Brave this week. Click on the photo above to launch our gallery…

The Brave has lowered its battle flag. NBC today canceled the freshman drama, one of three military-themed series introduced by the broadcast networks this season. Of them, only CBS’ SEAL Team made it to a second season. The CW freshman Valor also has been canceled. The Brave, which was relatively well received…

Two of the three new fall broadcast drama series, NBC’s The Brave and the CW’s Valor, made quiet exits last night with their Season 1 finales and little hope for renewal. The Brave drew a 0.7 adults 18-49 and 3.9 million total viewers (Live+Same Day), flat in the demo vs. last week despite the time-slot leader, ABC’s…

Jason Katims’ music-fueled high school drama Rise has often been compared to This Is Us for its emotional storytelling. So it was natural for the newcomer to take over hit This Is Us when the latter wraps its season. (This Is Us produces 18-episodes seasons vs. the standard 22.) There will be a passing of the baton…

Monday Night Football saw a small lift last night and on the Big 4 so did The Brave (1.0/4), Superior Donuts (1.0/4) and the CW's Valor (0.3/1) among others as ABC’s The Good Doctor was absent from the lineup. Coming off a night-topping The Voice (2.0/7), the NBC's military series rose 25% among adults 18-49 from last…

White Collar alum Marsha Thomason has been cast in a a guest-starring role on ABC's new drama series The Good Doctor, the Freddie Highmore-starrer that recently received a full-season pickup. She is set to play Isabel Barnes, the wife of Marcus Barnes (Hill Harper), the head of surgery at San Jose St. Bonaventure…

Following an impressive Live+same day debut, ABC’s new medical drama The Good Doctor, from House creator David Shore and executive producer Daniel Dae Kim, was even more impressive in its Live+3 delivery. After three days of playback, The Good Doctor‘s L+SD viewership increased bya whopping  +5.5 million viewers (from…

With the upcoming debuts of CBS' SEAL Team, NBC's The Brave and the CW's Valor, military dramas are flying the flag this season more than ever. However, at least two of the new series reveal why their broadcasters are good at what they do — and why one of them should stick to that. Premiering on September 27 right…

Snapshot, updated with finals 2 PM: New series premieres: Young Sheldon (CBS, 3.8 in 18-49, up from 3.7 in the fast nationals, 17.2 million viewers in preview), The Good Doctor (ABC, 2.2, 11.22 million, after downward adjustment over NFL pre-emptions), Me, Myself & I (CBS, 1.6, adjusted down a tenth, 7.5 million), The…

Cast and creatives of NBC’s new drama series The Brave came to the Beverly Hilton Hotel to talk about how humbled they were to be paying tribute to elite undercover military heroes on the series. EP/co-showrunner Dean Georgaris told critics at the summer TCA press tour that it was important to honor the men and women…

NBC and Universal TV have tapped Covert Affairs creators Matt Corman and Chris Ord as executive producers and co-showrunners of the new drama series The Brave, which landed the plum Monday 10 PM slot behind The Voice on the network’s fall schedule. On the series, from Universal TV and Keshet Studios, Corman and Ord…

Military dramas are this year’s time-travel shows. Four were ordered to pilot, NBC’s The Brave (fka For God and Country), CBS’ SEAL Team (fka Navy SEAL), Fox’s Behind Enemy Lines and the CW’s Valor. Of the four, three  — The Brave, SEAL Team and Valor –– have been picked up to series, with Behind Enemy Lines still in…