ABC is not moving forward with a second season of drama series The Crossing. The Crossing premiered April 2 with American Idol as a lead-in, but that episode of the revived singing-competition series happened to match a series-low demo rating for a regular telecast. Post-Idol, the midseason drama managed to eke out a…

ABC’s The Crossing won the 10 PM hour in its Monday launch, but it was no The Good Doctor. Against TBS' NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship Game, NBC's The Voice (1.9 demo rating, 9.91 million viewers) was the night's No. 1 entertainment program in both metrics, retaining 95% week-to-week in the demo and 94%…

Amazon has snapped up UK and European rights to two of Disney's latest series, Marvel youth drama Cloak & Dagger and supernatural refugee drama The Crossing. The SVOD service has struck a deal with Disney Media Distribution for the two series, which launched at last May's LA Screenings. It has acquired The Crossing in…

Creators and executive producers of ABC's new The Crossing found themselves hand-holding TV critics Monday who worried the midseason high-concept sci-fi drama series would be pulled prematurely by a network whose primetime past is littered with gone-too-soon genre dramas. Resurrection, which lasted two seasons on the…

Melinda McGraw (Mad Men, The Dark Knight) is set for a key recurring role opposite Steve Zahn in ABC’s new midseason drama series The Crossing. Written/executive produced by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, executive produced by Jason Reed and directed by Rob Bowman, The Crossing revolves around refugees from a war-torn…

ABC is releasing teasers for its new dramas and comedies as part of its 2017-18 series orders. We’re compiling them below for easy back-to-back viewing and will be updating as new ones arrive, so check back for the latest. The Mayor – Comedy Splitting Up Together – Comedy The Crossing – Drama The Good Doctor – Drama D…

ABC has kicked off the pickups of new series with nods to the hottest pilots from its sibling ABC Studios: comedy The Mayor, executive produced by Daveed Diggs and starring Lea Michele; and dramas For the People from Shondaland, The Crossing starring Steve Zahn, and The Gospel Of Kevin toplined by Jason Ritter whose…

Jamey Sheridan (Sully) has joined cast of ABC pilot Unit Zero, an action dramedy starring Toni Collette from the Black-ish duo of Kenya Barris and Lindsey Shockley. Written and executive produced by Shockley and directed by David Gordon Green, Unit Zero follows Jackie Fink (Collette), a brilliant but unassuming CIA…

David Warshofsky has booked a series-regular role opposite Meaghan Rath and Laverne Cox in The Trustee, ABC's comedic one-hour pilot from The Smurfs writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn, Warner Bros TV and Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman's studio-based Brownstone Productions. Written by Scherick and Ronn and directed…

Parvesh Cheena (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Goldbergs) and Ayden Mayeri (New Girl) have joined the series-regular cast of ABC pilot Unit Zero, an action dramedy starring Toni Collette from the Black-ish duo of exec producer Kenya Barris and supervising producer Lindsey Shockley. Written by Shockley and directed by David…

Jay Karnes, Simone Kessell and Grant Harvey have been cast in key roles opposite Steve Zahn and Sandrine Holt in the ABC drama pilot The Crossing. Written/executive produced by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, executive produced by Jason Reed and directed by Rob Bowman, The Crossing revolves around refugees from a…

Steve Zahn is set as the male lead opposite Sandrine Holt in the ABC drama pilot The Crossing. Also cast in the project, from ABC Studios, is Rob Campbell. Written/executive produced by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, executive produced by Jason Reed and directed by Rob Bowman, The Crossing revolves around refugees from…