The second season of NBC’s The Mysteries of Laura ended with a cliffhanger, as Detective Laura Diamond (Debra Messing), still in love with her ex-husband Jake (Josh Lucas), rushed to stop his proposal to his new girlfriend Jen (Jenna Fischer) but arriving a minute too late, with Jen already wearing the engagement…

NBC has canceled light crime drama procedural The Mysteries of Laura starring Debra Messing after two seasons. The Mysteries of Laura was one of few brights sports for NBC when it launched in fall 2014. While it has been older-skewing, the series has been a reliable 8 PM anchor to the network’s Wednesday lineup. A…

Wednesday was a night of beginnings, endings and returns that left primetime all over the map with highs and lows. The real beginning was the double-dose debut of The Real O'Neal's on ABC at 8:30 PM (1.8/6) and 9:30 PM (1.9/6). Compared to the last originals of The Goldbergs and black-ish in the slots last week, the…

The Office alum Jenna Fischer has booked a recurring a role on NBC’s comedy-drama series The Mysteries Of Laura. Developed by Jeff Rake based on a Spanish format, Mysteries Of Laura stars Debra Messing as a brilliant and messy detective and single mother of twins. Fischer will play Jennifer Lambert, an attorney and…

NBC has given a 3-episode back order to sophomore crime dramedy The Mysteries Of Laura, bringing its second season to 16 episodes. Mysteries Of Laura, starring Debra Messing, has been a solid utility player, delivering modest but consistent ratings in the Wednesday 8 PM slot, which had been challenging for NBC. The…

Following steady ratings performance for The Mysteries of Laura in the first weeks of the season, NBC has given the light crime procedural an order for five additional scripts. The Mysteries of Laura, the only NBC freshman series to get a second-season pickup, received a 13-episode renewal in May after airing 20…

After the bloodbath this afternoon when NBC cancelled a half-dozen shows, the network finished the day on a upbeat note, handing out renewals to freshman The Mysteries of Laura and sophomores Undateable and The Night Shift. The Mysteries of Laura is the only NBC freshman series to land a second season pickup. I hear…

Consistency paid off for rookie cop drama Mysteries Of Laura, which this morning became the first NBC fall series to get a full-season order with a pickup of nine additional episodes for a total of 22. Mysteries Of Laura starring Debra Messing is the only new series this season, whose ratings have stayed within .2 of…

Things certainly turned around in Game 2 of the World Series last night — at least for the Kansas City Royals. The Royals came back from a shattering loss in Game 1 to beat the San Francisco Giants 7-2 on Wednesday, but for Fox, the ratings were a lot like the less-than-winning results of Game 1. Last night’s game was…

UPDATE PM: Two of the Wednesday freshman dramas whose fate is yet to be decided went each up a tenth in the finals — NBC’s The Mysteries of Laura (1.4) and Fox’s The Red Band Society (1.0). Both are now up a tenth from last week. In the case of Laura, last night’s performance was off just a tenth from its time period…

Encouraging news for freshman NBC dramas Mysteries of Laura and Constantine. The network has ordered three extra scripts of each show. The script pickup for Laura comes after three episodes, for Constantine, it is being done ahead of the comic book drama’s debut later this month. Both series hail from Warner Bros…

Tara Lynne Barr has booked a recurring role in NBC's upcoming series Aquarius, a gritty 1960s drama about a cop (David Duchovny) who goes undercover to track Charles Manson and the Manson Family before their infamous murder spree. APA-repped Barr will play Katie (Patricia Krenwinkle), one of Manson's adoring acolytes…