Topic: 07/02/12 - TV News Weekly Review #54 - The Nightman Cometh
- Renewed:
Californication (for a sixth season)
House of Lies (for a second season)
Luck (for a second season)
Shameless (for a third season)
Sons of Anarchy (for a sixth season)
The Exes (for a second season)
The Secret Life of the American Teenager (for a fifth season)
Top Chef (for a tenth season)
- Canceled:
Source's: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
- Casting news:
- Sanaa Lathan and Jonathan Groff have landed new regular roles on the second season of Starz’s drama series Boss. (Source 1, 2)
- Selma Blair will star opposite Charlie Sheen in his upcoming FX sitcom Anger Management. (Source)
- Bobby Cannavale joined the cast of Boardwalk Empire as a series regular. (Source)
- Gabourey Sidibe was promoted to series regular on The Big C. Also Susan Sarandon is joining the Showtime series for a multi-episode arc during the upcoming third season. (Source 1, 2)
- Rachel Miner will reprise her role as Meg Masters on Supernatural. (Source)
- Sean Astin is set to appear alongside already announced guest star Jamie Lee Curtis in an upcoming episode of NCIS, scheduled to air in late March. (Source)
- Heroes alum Sendhil Ramamurthy has been cast as a love interest for Kelly on The Office. (Source)
- Shirley MacLaine is joining the cast of Downton Abbey. (Source)
- Patton Oswalt will guest star in Two and a Half Men as an ex-business partner of Ashton Kutcher's Walden Schmidt. (Source)
- Barbara Hershey has landed the role of the Evil Queen's mother on Once Upon a Time. (Source)
- Terry O'Quinn will guest star in two-episode arc of TNT’s Falling Skies. (Source)
- Chris Klein has been tapped to guest star in an episode of Franklin & Bash. (Source)
- Vivica A. Fox is shooting a guest role for the Fox comedy Raising Hope. (Source)
- Annette O'Toole and John Ashton have been cast on The Finder as Elaine and Franklin Sherman, the mother and father of Geoff Stults' Walter Sherman. (Source)
- The WikiLeaks founder/editor Julian Assange will play himself in the 500th episode of The Simpsons. (Source)
In other news:
- CBS will launch its new Robert De Niro-produced police drama NYC 22 on Sunday, April 15 at 10/9c. (Source)
- Low-rated rookie drama The Firm is being banished to Saturdays effective immediately, and filling the 10 pm void beginning March 1 will be the anticipated new thriller Awake. Here's an Awake Extended Preview.
- Fox is making some springtime schedule tweaks that will “extend” Alcatraz which was to set to end it's season in mid-March, thanks to a series of doubled-up outings — now will only air back-to-back hours on March 5. Then, starting March 12, it will move to Mondays-at-8, where it will spell House and tee up Kiefer Sutherland’s Touch. Alcatraz will now air its season finale on March 26. House then reclaims its Mondays-at-8 berth on April 2, airing 100-percent originals for the remainder of Season 8.
- The return to television has already been booked for Arrested Development, but writer Dean Lorey took to his blog to confirm the incredible news: The beloved sitcom's full cast will return for episodes on Netflix in 2013.
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