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ABC’s freshman midseason comedy Uncle Buck will not return for Season 2. The news was announced by star James Lesure and confirmed by ABC. Disappointed. No more @ABCUncleBuck. Cancelled.Thankful to have worked with @ABCNetwork.Proud of what we've done. Thx 4 let us entertain u. — James Lesure (@JamesLesure) July 6, 2…

The night after the country celebrated its 240th birthday, NBC’s America’s Got Talent brushed aside original programming offered by broadcast competitors to dominate Tuesday primetime with its largest overall crowd since 2011. In addition to clocking 12.6 million viewers, the 8-10 PM talent competition show also…

The animals are truly on the loose in the Season 2 opener of Zoo (0.9/3), but unfortunately that apocalypse returned with a lot less roar and bite than last year. Clocking in at two hours on Tuesday, the narratively shameless CBS series based on James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge's 2012 book was down 25% among…

After five seasons on CBS, Person Of Interest (1.0/3) came to an end last night with the demise of one of its main characters. The finale of the abbreviated 13-episode season dipped 9% among adults 18-49 compared with the Season 4 ender of May 5 last year – which had an original NCIS as a lead-in. Even with last…

There wasn't an NBA Finals game on, but it was a good night for ABC nonetheless. The debut of the small screen version of Uncle Buck (1.5/6) scored the Disney-owned net the best summer comedy launch among adults 18-49 since the animated The Goode Family opened on May 27, 2009 with a 1.6/4. Uncle Buck also topped last…

ABC today unveiled its summer scheduling plans, and just like it did with its midseason 2016 schedule, the network left out drama Secrets & Lies. The second season of the anthology murder mystery, previously eyed for late spring or summer launch (the show presented at ABC’s winter TCA in January), is now being held…

In the fall of 1990, CBS was about to debut a TV adaptation of John Hughes’ Uncle Buck, and TV critics at TCA had their knickers in a knot because the pilot featured a 6-year-old girl bellowing “You suck!” and using the word “ovulating.” That was then. In 2016, ABC is about to debut its take on the old John Candy…

ABC has announced its scheduling plans for the January-May portion of the TV season, including return dates for all dramas that will go on winter hiatus: the Shondaland Thursday lineup, Nashville, Once Upon A Time, Quantico and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Thursday will become an unscripted night while Grey’s Anatomy, Scanda…

Since Fox’s House ended its run three years ago, ABC veteran Grey’s Anatomy has had the broadcast-TV medical drama field all to itself, with no serious challengers. That may change next season when four new medical dramas, NBC’s Chicago Med and Heartbreaker, CBS’ Code Black and, to some extent, Fox’s Rosewood join the…

After the avalanche of ABC new series orders last night, here is another one this morning. The network has picked up single-camera comedy Uncle Buck, a new take on the hit 1989 movie. I’m told the series starring Mike Epps is eyed for midseason. I hear its order came later than the other because of last-minute…

Ernie Hudson is set for a recurring role in ABC's multi-camera comedy pilot Delores & Jermaine. Written by comedian Jermaine Fowler based on his life, it stars Fowler as a millennial with big ideas, but very little drive, who moves in with his estranged grandmother (Whoopi Goldberg), a strict, football-loving, former…

James Lesure (Men At Work) is set to co-star opposite Mike Epps in Uncle Buck, ABC‘s single-camera comedy pilot based on the classic John Hughes film starring John Candy. Like the movie, the series adaptation, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, centers on Buck Russell (Epps), a childish man who learns how to…