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Welcome To Sweden and writer/executive producer/co-star Greg Poehler went out in a blaze of glory today, announcing via Instagram that NBC has cancelled the Sunday comedy after two seasons and “craptastically low ratings in the U.S.” The move was not totally unexpected: the Sunday comedy from Entertainment One…

A slow Sunday saw at least two primetime victories last night. For one, there was a winner on the freshman season of BattleBots (1.4/4) as one robot rules them all – though it was a close call by the judges. It was also a close call among adults 18-49 with the show rising 8% from last week. The finale of BattleBots…

NBC’s  Season 2 debut of Welcome to Sweden clocked a 0.3/1 in the demo and 1.4 million viewers from 8-8:30 PM last night, equaling the show's Season 1 finale in adult 18-49 rating and retained 92% of last summer's finale in total viewers (1.401 million vs. 1.530 million). A second telecast  at 8:30 PM scored same demo…

NBC, which has struggled with comedy this season, is making a major push in the genre in the summer with two new series, Mr. Robinson and The Carmichael Show, set to debut in August. They will be joined by Welcome To Sweden, which will return for a second season in July. Last summer, NBC premiered Welcome To Sweden…

On the last Thursday before the 2014 NFL season kicks off, primetime was a field of preseason preemptions on the Big 4. With 16 games in local markets all across the county, every network had a match-up, including Super Bowl champs the Seattle Seahawks who lost to the Oakland Raiders. That game was seen on Fox…

Television is barreling towards the Emmys on Monday, but on primetime last night a few other conclusions were reached as summer winds down. With a two-hour Season 5 finale, ABC's Rookie Blue (1.1/4) was full of explosions to happen and potential buns in the oven. The anticipation on the Canadian import police drama…

NBC continues to renew its summer freshman original series. Following orders to drama The Night Shift and comedy Undateable, the network has renewed comedy Welcome to Sweden for a 10-episode second season. Unlike The Night Shift and Undateable, which were developed at NBC, Welcome to Sweden is in import. It is…

Let's just call Thursday's primetime by the moniker "Elimination Night," why don't we? Because with a thinning of the contestants on both Hell's Kitchen (1.7.7) and Big Brother (2.1/8), that's exactly what was going on for the two top-rated Big 4 shows of the night. While the vet CBS reality show was even with last…

The television world was very busy yesterday with the announcement of the 66th annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, but it also was pretty packed in primetime last night as well. After a quiet Thursday last week because of the July 4th holiday, all of the Big 4 were playing originals last night. With just Big Brot…

NBC acquired the U.S. broadcast rights to comedy Welcome To Sweden last October and will debut it on July 10. The series, created by Greg Poehler, recently started airing on TV4 in the titular territory. After two weeks there, it’s been recommissioned for a second season. The network has ordered a further 10 episodes…

NBC today set unveiled its original summer lineup. It features six scripted series: comedies Undateable, Welcome To Sweden and Working The Engles, and dramas The Night Shift, Crossbones and the just-acquired Taxi Brooklyn. Of the six — which NBC notes is the most original scripted series a U.S. broadcast network has…

The man behind the fish-out-of-water series Welcome To Sweden has new representation. Greg Poehler, who created the comedy based on experiences falling for a Swedish woman and following her to her homeland, has inked with Paradigm. He also wrote, exec produces and stars in Welcome To Sweden, playing a New York…