Topic: 14/08/11 - TV News Weekly Review #49 - Someone to Watch Over Me
TV News Song of the Day:
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- Renewed:
Franklin & Bash (for a second season)
Happily Divorced (for a second season)
In Plain Sight (for a fifth and last season)
It's Always Sunny In Fillydelphia (for an eight & ninth season)
Leverage (for a fifth season)
Louie (for a third season)
Melissa & Joey (for a second season)
Real Time With Bill Maher (for a tenth season)
Rizzoli & Isles (for a third season)
Rookie Blue (for a third season)
South Park (for a sixteenth and seventeenth season)
Suits (for a second season)
Teen Wolf (for a second season)
True Blood (for a fifth season)
Warehouse 13 (for a fourth season)
Wilfred (for a second season)
- Canceled:
Source's: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
* - there still will be a fifth season, which is almost completed. But SyFy gave them a one additional episode to wrap up the series. [Source]
Casting news:
- Jewel Staite will guest star in Supernatural. (Source)
- Jennifer Finnigan will guest star in Psych. (Source)
- Ted Danson joined the cast of CSI as a series regular, replacing the spot left by Laurence Fishburne, and Jorja Fox will now be as a series regular, again. (Source 1, 2)
- Mark Valley joined the cast of Harry’s Law and Christopher McDonald was promoted to series regular. (Source 1, 2)
- Michelle Krusiec joined the cast of Fringe in a recurring role. (Source)
- Dylan Baker will guest star in White Collar. (Source)
- Matthew McConaughey and Will Ferrell will return to Eastbound & Down. (Source)
- Kal Penn joined the cast of How I Met Your Mother. (Source)
- Penny Johnson Jerald joined the cast of Castle. (Source)
- Lauren German joined the cast of Hawaii Five-0 as a series regular and Autumn Reeser in a recurring role. (Source 1, 2)
- David Gallagher will guest star in the first two episodes of The Vampire Diaries. (Source)
- Faran Tahir will return to Warehouse 13. (Source)
- Tyler Hilton will be back to One Tree Hill as a series regular. (Source)
- Idina Menzel will return to Glee and LaMarcus Tinker is joining the cast. (Source 1, 2)
- B.D. Wong is leaving Law & Order:SVU. (Source)
- And Kyle MacLachlan, T.R. Knight, and Paige Turco will guest star in SVU, while Michael Cutter will return for atleast one episode. (Source 1, 2, 3)
- Dillon Casey joined the cast of Nikita in a recurring role. (Source)
- Carice van Houten, Gemma Whelan, Roy Dotrice, Hannah Murray and Stephen Dillane joined the cast of Game of Thrones. (Source 1, 2, 3)
- Tony Bennett and Carrie Underwood will guest star in Blue Bloods, while Monica Raymund joined the cast in a recurring role. (Source 1, 2)
- Lily Tomlin and Scott Wolf will guest star in NCIS. (Source 1, 2)
- Megan Mullally and Derek Waters joined the cast of Happy Endings. (Source 1, 2)
- Jon Hamm will guest star in five episodes of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. (Source)
- Odette Annable joined the cast of House as a series regular. (Source)
- John Goodman and Martin Starr joined the cast of Community in recurring roles. (Source 1, 2)
- Patricia Clarkson joined the cast of Parks and Recreation. (Source)
- Eddie Izzard will guest star in The Good Wife. (Source)
- Jaime Ray Newman and Aly Michalka will guest star in CSI: NY. (Source 1, 2)
- Lucy Liu will guest star in Southland. (Source)
- John Corbett will return to Parenthood. (Source)
- Summer Glau, Garret Dillahunt, Rebecca Mader, Alaina Huffman and Brent Spiner will guest star in Alphas. (Source)
- Ray Romano will guest star in the premiere of The Middle. (Source)
- Devin Kelley joined the cast of Covert Affairs in a recurring role. (Source)
- Sarah Paulson is returning to Desperate Housewives. (Source)
- Bobby Cannavale joined the cast of Nurse Jackie in a recurring role. (Source)
In other news:
- The eight season of Desperate Housewives will be it's last. (Source)
- As it will be for How I Met Your Mother. (Source)
- Terra Nova (because 90% of the show is CGI :-P) will air only 13 episodes in the fall. (Source)
- Glen Mazzara is now the new showrunner of The Walking Dead. (Source)
- Eureka will have an animated christmas special, with guest voices of Jim Parsons, Chris Parnell, Matt Frewer and Edward James Olmos. (Source)
- The CW ordered two additional episodes for Gossip Girl and 90210 and one episode for Supernatural and Nikita. (Source)
- Doctor Who will return on August 27th. (Source)
Music time.
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