24 was the first drama to get a revival treatment in the form of a limited series with the 2014 24: Live Another Day. It was followed by NBC’s Heroes Reborn and Fox’s Prison Break and The X-Files.  During Fox’s upfront press call, chairman Dana Walden revealed that 24 executive producer Howard Gordon is working with 24…

Fox's 9-1-1 season finale (1.7 demo rating, 6.581 million viewers) ticked up by 1/10th of a rating point, to tie CBS’s Survivor: Ghost Island (1.7, 8.52M) as the top show of the night in the demo for the first time in the four Wednesdays they've both been on the schedule. Survivor: Ghost Island was Wednesday’s No. 1…

Donald Trump hasn't ended up on Big Brother Celebrity Edition (1.8/7) yet, but the next best thing did, and Omarosa made it clear last night she didn't come to make friends. “There’s a lot of people (here) that want to stab me in the back, kind of similar to the White House," the former Apprentice contestant and…

Fox’s new 9-1-1 (1.6 demo rating, 6.123 million viewers) was Wednesday’s “1” in the key 18-49 age bracket. Fox held steady, week to week, on the night with this solid mid-season launch from Ryan Murphy; its 9 PM show’s performance is set against its 8 PM lead-in, Fox's The X-Files  revival, (0.9, 3.547M) which slipped…

Maybe ABC wants to reconsider that spinoff decision, as the show that looks never to be was the reigning demo king of Wednesday's primetime. After ordering a 1990s-set spinoff to The Goldbergs (1.7/7) last year, the Disney-owned net decided not to go ahead with the Time Meadows and Nia Long-led show. Well, last night…

“I know you think I’m crazy, but it’s not me, it’s the world. The world’s gone mad.” Sounds like something any one of us could say on any given day of the week, but those words kick off an extended midseason trailer for The X Files. The three-minute clip includes new footage from the next five episodes, including…

The second week of Fox’s 9-1-1 (1.5 rating in adults 18-49, 5.49 million total viewers) fared well Wednesday, ending as primetime’s second highest-rated show behind the 200th episode of ABC’s Modern Family (1.6/5.79M) facing off in the same 9-9:30 PM time slot for the first half-hour of the first responders drama. 9-1…

At the top of today’s The X-Files session on the Fox lot, Gillian Anderson got the elephant in the room out of the way: Why is this her last season of the The X-Files? “Why? There’s lots of things I want to do in my life and in my career,” she replied. “It’s been an extraordinary character, but there’s lots of things…

Will Fox be opening up more X-Files? According to Fox Television Group chairman and CEO Gary Newman at TCA today, it’s still TBD. “You could’ve asked Chris (Carter), David (Duchovny) and Gillian (Anderson) at various times since the show originally premiered whether they would do more. Some days you’d get a ‘yes&#8217…

Fox's new procedural drama 9-1-1 from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk opened at 9 PM last night to a 1.8 adults 18-49 rating and 6.8 million total viewers in preliminary Live+Same Day numbers. It edged veteran ABC comedy Modern Family (1.7) as night’s top program in the demo. While below the premiere of the breakout new…

With two weeks left before the return of Fox’s The X-Files, Chris Carter and his cast are dropping some serious hints in this “super-tease” trailer for the 10-episode second installment of the series return. With interview snippets of Carter, co-stars Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny and Mitch Pileggi, the trailer…

Fox’s new procedural drama 9-1-1 will bow at 9 PM Wednesday, January 3, following the debut of the 10-episode second season of The X-Files revival. The two series take the Wednesday night slots of the on-hiatus Empire and Star. The new series from creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear explores the…