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Exclusive: In a competitive situation, ABC has landed for development Sisters-in-Law, a multi-camera comedy created by former The New Adventures of Old Christine executive producers Sherry Bilsing Graham and Ellen Kreamer, with a significant penalty. Sisters-in-Law hails from A+E Studios, marking a rare half-hour project — and first multi-cam sitcom — from the company behind such dramas as ABC’s Big Sky and Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer.

In the comedy, two sisters-in-law who are struggling to get along finally bond together when they are faced with a common enemy: a new third sister-in-law.

Graham and Kreamer executive produce alongside A+E Studios’ Barry Jossen and Tana Nugent Jamieson.

Sisters-in-Law stems from an exploratory meeting Nugent Jamieson had with Graham and Kreamer where the duo pitched several ideas. Nugent Jamieson and Jossen, who has extensive experience in network comedy — including multi-cam – from his time as EVP at ABC Studios, had been looking...

Mia Goth and Shelley Duvall share physical similarities, leading to online petitions for Goth to play Duvall in a biopic. Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressly have similar face and nose shapes, leading to comparisons and speculation about their relation. Jeremy Allen White has been called a younger version of Gene Wilder due to their physical similarities, sparking social media discussions on their potential connection.

There are some young actors that look a lot like older stars, so much so that they could play their younger versions at some point. It’s not uncommon to find a couple of doppelgängers in the entertainment industry, and the similarities between many of them have been so obvious that they have played younger/older versions of each other’s characters, as happened with Kiernan Shipka and Mckenna Grace in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Others have already worked together, though not always as characters related to each other,...

Joy is one of the funniest characters on My Name is Earl, and she’s played by a familiar actress with an impressive filmography. My Name is Earl revolves around Earl Hickey, a small-time crook who renounces his life of crime, writes down a list of all his wrongdoings, and sets out to make amends after he’s introduced to the concept of karma. Joy is Earl’s ex-wife who left him to marry Darnell, the busboy at the Crab Shack. In spite of Joy’s dismissive attitude towards Earl (and her tendency to call him “dummy”) they remained close friends – Earl even took the fall for Joy’s crimes.

In stark contrast with Earl’s mission to do good and Darnell’s kind nature, Joy is bad-tempered, ill-mannered, and obnoxious. Joy does have a deep capacity for love, seen in the care and affection she has for her two sons,...

The Goldbergs vet Wendi McLendon-Covey is taking charge of St. Denis Medical at NBC.

Written by Justin Spitzer and Eric Leding, the duo behind American Auto and Superstore, the mockumentary comedy pilot follows doctors and nurses in an underfunded Oregon hospital as they juggle trying to help patients while holding on to their own sanity.

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Animal Kingdom‘s Christina Ochoa is set as a lead in ABC’s Promised Land, Matt Lopez’s Latinx family drama pilot.

Previously known as American Heritage, the project is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.

Ochoa will play Veronica Sandoval, the eldest daughter of the Sandovals, a wealthy vineyard-owning family in the Sonoma Valley. Veronica is the highly capable heir to the Heritage Wines empire and her father Joe’s trusted Number Two. But her drive and ambition have left her with some glaring personal blindspots, and Veronica’s seemingly perfect life soon starts to unravel.

Lopez writes and executive produces. Adam Kolbrenner of Lit Entertainment Group (Raised by Wolves) also exec produces. ABC Signature is the studio.

Up next for Ochoa is Boon, the western sequel pic from Yellowstone’s Neal McDonough. She stars as Renn...

Exclusive: Animal Kingdom actress Christina Ochoa will star in Boon, the upcoming western sequel pic from Yellowstone‘s Neal McDonough.

Boon is a spiritual sequel to the movie Red Stone that takes place in the distant future and picks up with henchman Nick Boon (McDonough) trying to get on with his life. At the same time we learn, our Preacher, the widowed Catherine, played by Christiane Seidel, is busy trying to protect herself and her son from a local criminal organization that is using her land for some unusual activities. When Boon and Catherine’s lives cross paths they find themselves leaning on each other to protect everything they stand for.

Derek Presley, who directed the first installment, Red Stone, returns to helm Boon and is co-writing. Red Stone producer Jason Starne also returns for the sequel.

In addition to Ochoa, the film features Jake Melrose, James Madio, and John Patrick Jordan.

Exclusive: Diana Maria Riva (Dead to Me) and Dale Dickey (Palm Springs) are set as series regulars opposite Hunter King and David Alan Grier in Prospect, ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer; director-producer Randall Einhorn; and ABC Studios.

Written by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and to be directed by Einhorn, Prospect is described as a comedic Western with a feminist twist. An idealistic young woman, Abigail Lansing (King), moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals quickly are tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.

Riva will play Delfina, Street smart, a tough beauty, pragmatic and nonchalant, Delfina works in the town’s saloon. She becomes friendly with Abigail when she comes to her for advice and Delfina tells her: “Welcome to the West. It ain’t for the faint of heart.

Exclusive: David Alan Grier has been tapped as a lead opposite Hunter King in Prospect, ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer; director-producer Randall Einhorn; and ABC Studios.

Written by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and to be directed by Einhorn, Prospect is described as a comedic Western with a feminist twist. An idealistic young woman, Abigail Lansing (King), moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals quickly are tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.

Grier will play Mayor Ambrose. Bigger than life, a bit of a scoundrel but super charming with a good heart, Mayor Ambrose is the mayor of the tiny western prairie town of Prospect. Known as somewhat of a wheeler-dealer, he will do anything to make his town work. And he knows that educating its inhabitants is the only way they,...

Exclusive: Newcomer Reagan Rozas, Kyanna Simpson (Chambers), Emma Meisel (American Horror Story: 1984), Lexi Simonsen (2nd), Kevin Rahm (Madam Secretary) and All American‘s Da’Vinchi are set as series regulars opposite Jordana Spiro and Josh Andrés Rivera in Vegas High, HBO Max’s coming-of-age period drama pilot from writer Sarah-Raquel Jimenez, director Gillian Robespierre and Michael Showalter’s Semi-Formal Prods.

Written by Jimenez and directed by Robespierre, Vegas High is inspired by Jimenez’s own experience. It is a 1990s-set coming-of-age story about Laura (Rozas), a girl who’s caught between two worlds: the fast-paced lifestyle of Las Vegas and her strong Mormon faith and community.

Rozas’ Laura Hernandez is a sweet, poetic soul and devout Mormon who lives in Las Vegas with her blended family while attending Vegas High.

Meisel will play Maddie, Laura’s best friend, Maddie is a devout Mormon girl, and is regularly seen attending events with...

Exclusive: Life in Pieces alumna Hunter King has been cast as the lead in Prospect, ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer; director-producer Randall Einhorn; and ABC Studios, where Einhorn is under an overall deal.

Written by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and to be directed by Einhorn, Prospect is described as a comedic Western with a feminist twist. An idealistic young woman, Abigail Lansing (King), moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals quickly are tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.

King’s Abigail Lansing is proper, smart, a little awkward and chatty but always positive, friendly and hopeful, with a healthy dose of 19th century feminism. Abigail is a young woman from Boston who is thrilled to be able to set off on her own adventure as a schoolteacher in...

ABC has handed out their first comedy pilot order of the 2020-2021 season.

ABC has ordered the single-cam project “Prospect.” It is described as a comedic western about an idealistic young woman who moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher. Her ideals are quickly tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.

“Prospect” hails from the team of Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer. Both will serve as writers and executive producers, with Randall Einhorn attached to direct the pilot and executive produce. ABC Studios, where Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and Einhorn are currently under overall deals, will produce.

Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer have previously worked together on shows such as “Friends,” “Joey,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” “Trial and Error,” and “American Housewife.” They also co-created the Fox series “I Hate My Teenage Daughter.”

Einhorn has previously directed multiple episodes of “The Office,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,...

ABC has given a pilot order to Prospect, a single-camera comedy from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer; prolific director-producer Randall Einhorn; and ABC Studios, where Einhorn is under an overall deal.

This is the first in-cycle comedy pilot by ABC this season. Also heating up for a pickup is Kari Lizer’s comedy script The Village.

Written by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and to be directed by Einhorn, Prospect is described as a comedic Western with a feminist twist. An idealistic young woman moves to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, but her ideals quickly are tested when she learns that her students are rowdy ranch hands, not children.

Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer executive produce with Einhorn. ABC Studios is the studio.

Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer co-created, wrote and executive produced I Hate My Teenage Daughter, which aired on Fox from 2011-13. The duo most recently served...

Exclusive: Actress/producer Christina Ochoa has signed with Buchwald. Ochoa can be seen in the key recurring role of Ren Randall on TNT’s Animal Kingdom. She most recently starred in ABC drama series A Million Little Things and was previously the lead of Valor for The CW. She also has appeared on Modern Family, I Hate My Teenage Daughter and The Neighbors. Off screen, Ochoa runs her production company- Qe Productions- which was behind the 2011 short film Stay with Me that garnered awards at film festivals in the U.S. and Europe. Ochoa continues to be managed by Anonymous Content.

Newcomer Benjamin Barrett, who currently can be seen in a key role on Ryan Murphy’s Netflix comedy series The Politician, has signed with Apa. Barrett joined the Golden Globe-nominated show in season 1 in the role of Ricardo, alongside Ben Platt, Gwyneth Paltrow,...

Rob DesHotel, writer/co-executive producer of CBS’ comedy series Man with a Plan, has passed away. He died suddenly yesterday of a suspected heart attack. The veteran TV writer-producer was 52.

Known mostly for his comedy series work, DesHotel segued seamlessly between half-hour and hourlong shows throughout his career.

He landed his first staff writing job on the NBC comedy series Hope & Gloria. DesHotel went on to work on the first two seasons of Joss Whedon’s WB drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer as story editor and executive story editor. He then joined Fox multi-camera comedy series That 70s Show at the start of Season 2 as co-producer and stayed on until the series’ end after eight seasons, rising to executive producer.

For the past decade, DesHotel worked on a string of CBS comedy series, Gary Unmarried, Mad Love, Mike & Molly and, most recently on the Matt LeBlanc starrer Man with a Plan,...

CBS has given a put pilot commitment to Halfway There, a multi-camera comedy co-written by and starring comedian Iliza Shlesinger. It comes from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Plummer-Kreamer, Avalon Television and ABC Studios.

Penned by Shlesinger, Bilsing-Graham and Plummer-Kreamer, Halfway There centers on a comic (Shlesinger) who prides herself on “guiding women” in her act. She is forced to put that to practical use when her half-sister moves in with her.

Shlesinger, Bilsing-Graham and Plummer-Kreamer executive produce with Avalon TV’s Kara Baker and David Martin. ABC Studios is the studio.

Coming off her fourth Netflix stand-up special, Elder Millennial, Shlesinger is on an international theater tour. She co-stars in the upcoming film Instant Family, starring Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, and is filming Wonderland, directed by Peter Berg and starring Wahlberg. Her first book, Girl Logic, was published last year. She is repped...

In its prime, “American Idol” was a show that made gold from pretty much everything it came in contact with on Fox. At the height of its power, it made household names out of the people sitting in the judges’ chairs and competing every week. It also saw ratings so astronomical that it became a coveted lead-in for a variety of shows. New series, returning favorites, and newly-minted hits all enjoyed the slot right after “Idol” on the Fox schedule, through its various seasons and placements.

“24,” The O.C.,” “Bones,” “Fringe,” “Glee,” and “Empire” all benefited from the “Idol” bump, either at the beginning of their runs or on their own respective ascents. And you could make the argument that shows like “Til Death,” “Lie to Me,” and even “Human Target” — shows that didn’t have mammoth success — still stayed on the air longer than they would have, were it...

Emmy winner John Larroquette has been tapped to star opposite Annaleigh Ashford in ABC's Three Rivers single-camera comedy pilot, from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer and ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and directed by Tristram Shapeero, Three Rivers centers on Rebecca Watts (Ashford), who left her family's Texas ranch years ago to work at an upscale hotel in New York, but after being…...

Masters of Sex alumna Annaleigh Ashford has been tapped as the lead in ABC’s Three Rivers single-camera comedy pilot, from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer and ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and directed by Tristram Shapeero (The Mayor), Three Rivers centers on Rebecca (Ashford) who left her family's Texas ranch years ago to work at an upscale hotel in New York, but after being promised…...

ABC has picked up two more pilots, soapy drama Grand Hotel based on the Spanish format, from former Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria and the hit ABC/ABC Studios dramedy's writer Brian Tanen, and single-camera comedy Three Rivers from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer. Both hail from ABC’s sister studio ABC Studios. Written by Tanen, Grand Hotel is a soapy drama set against the backdrop of a Miami Beach hotel, centering…...

In June 2014, comedian Pete Holmes’ TBS talk show “The Pete Holmes Show” was cancelled after just nine months on the air. But now, Holmes is set to make a comeback with a new stand-up special and a half-hour sitcom, executive produced by Judd Apatow. His new series “Crashing” follows a young comedian (Holmes) whose wife (Lauren Lapkus) abruptly leaves him for an Italian boxer. Holmes wrote the pilot and it will be directed by Apatow. Watch a sneak peek trailer from the series below.

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Holmes has performed stand-up for over ten years. He has appeared on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend” and “John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show,” and has previously performed a half-hour “Comedy Central Presents” special as well an hour-long special entitled “Pete Holmes: Nice Try, the Devil!” Holmes has also...

Fox has greenlighted two more single-camera comedy pilots, The Enforcers, from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham & Ellen Kreamer and Warner Bros. TV; and an untitled half-hour from Sin City Saints co-creator Chris Case and 20th Century Fox TV. Written by Bilsing-Graham & Kreamer and to be directed by Gail Mancuso, Emmy winner for Modern Family, The Enforcers is a female buddy comedy about two wildly different single mothers with dreams of being…...

NBC and Parenthood star Monica Potter are getting a divorce. Or is it a trial separation?

Either way, the Peacock network has decided not to move forward with its untitled comedy pilot starring Potter and exec-procuced by Ellen DeGeneres, TVLine has learned.

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According to multiple sources, NBC and Warner Bros. (the studio behind the project) mutually agreed to put the pause button on the potential series for creative reasons, with an eye towards redeveloping it next season.

The multi-cam project revolved around Potter’s Bridget,...

Monica Potter is one step closer to making NBC her home after Parenthood‘s end.

The network has given a pilot order to an untitled comedy pilot starring and produced by the actress.

The multi-cam project — of which Ellen DeGeneres is an executive producer — revolves around a woman juggling her busy family life and her three ex-husbands, which proves difficult when she starts dating again.

The pilot is penned by I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer.

Also receiving an NBC pilot order: Sharing, a single-cam workplace comedy from executive producer Jimmy Fallon about different groups...

Monica Potter might not be straying from NBC after Parenthood‘s end.

The Peacock network has given a pilot production commitment to a half-hour comedy starring the actress and executive-produced by Ellen DeGeneres, our sister site Deadline reports.

Related Parenthood Favorite Jason Ritter Returning in Season 6

Details about the project’s premise are not available, but according to Deadline it is loosely based on Potter’s own life.

The multi-cam pilot is penned by I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer. Potter will also serve as a producer.

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TV Land‘s gimmick of creating new sit-coms that are throwbacks to the style and general effort of those classic shows from the ’80s and ’90s is one that is proving more and more a hit-or-miss venture. What at first seemed a no-fail stroke of genius, has now put out its share of failures, and though it has led to some truly great shows, we’re learning that you can’t always spin success out of the concept.

For every Hot in Cleveland, there’s a Retired at 35. For every The Exes, we get a Happily Divorced. Not that those shows were terrible. They weren’t. They just didn’t work out, and were perhaps not as solid in their construction as the real hits. Now we have Kirstie, which I admit seemed like a good idea on paper, and that one is mostly difficult to watch. This leads us to Jennifer Falls,...

April Carver (Unnatural History‘s Italia Ricci) has a lot on her plate right now. She just landed her first reporting assignment, she’s making progress with a new guy at work and any extra free time is devoted to making sure her family doesn’t completely fall to pieces. Oh, and one more thing: April has cancer.

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That’s how we’re introduced to April in the first episode of ABC Family’s Chasing Life, which premiered Tuesday. After passing out at a blood drive,...

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TV Guide reports that Jessica de Gouw will be returning to Arrow as The Huntress in an episode titled “Birds of Prey”. There’s a Black Canary in Starling City now, so does that mean Felicity will start calling herself “Oracle“?

Steven Moffat talked with Vulture about this week’s Sherlock and said this was the scene he wanted to see ever since he was a boy reading Arthur Conan Doyle‘s stories. “I remember being a 12-year-old kid thinking, Oh, why didn’t we see Sherlock be the best man? Please, can we see that? That would be the best story in the whole world, and I don’t care if there’s a crime in it or not, because it must have been the best and worst speech of all time!”

TV Land has ordered eight episodes of Jennifer Falls, a single-camera comedy starring Jaime Pressly as...

I was never a huge fan of My Name Is Earl, despite being a big fan of most everyone involved, and Jaime Pressly has always been one of my favorites… for reasons that, to be completely honest, I don’t really understand. I couldn’t get behind I Hate My Teenage Daughter, but she almost made it work. With the right material, she has the charm and comedic timing to pull audiences in. Considering TV Land‘s solid record so far, this may be one to really watch out for.

That said, and considering TV Land‘s obvious bent toward the styles and sensibilities of sit-coms from 20-30 years ago, this one sounds like it could easily go too far toward the silly, milking cheap laughs at every turn (a la Mom). It will be interesting to see how the cast rounds out, but for now we have something to look forward to.

Comedian and actor Anthony Anderson will star in and executive produce the comedy pilot, “Black-Ish,” for ABC. Kenya Barris (“The Game,” “I Hate My Teenage Daughter”) will write the half hour, single-camera comedy. Also read: ’12 Years a Slave’ Writer John Ridley Lands Drama Pilot at ABC The project follows “an upper-middle class Black man who struggles to raise his children with a sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old school father and his own assimilated, color-blind kids.” “Black-Ish” is produced by Laurence Fishburne‘s Cinema Gypsy (“Akeelah and the Bee”) and Principato...

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Here’s some tentatively good news for gay TV. Fox has ordered six episodes of the John Mulaney comedy series that NBC rejected last spring. The original pilot included Martin Short, Nasim Pedrad and Elliott Gould as Mulaney’s gay neighbor. Currently, it sounds like Pedrad and Gould might not be a part of the Fox series. Let’s hope there’s still a gay neighbor on the show.

Fox’s version of Broadchurch will have David Tennant reprising his role from the original series, though he’ll play the part with an American accent. Meanwhile, Dan Futterman will help run the show.

FX’s upcoming Fargo miniseries has added Colin Hanks to the cast as a single dad who is a police deputy.

Bob Newhart will be returning to The Big Bang Theory and this time he’s seeking revenge — against rival TV host Bill Nye.

Wilfred has...

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MTV has found new showrunners for Awkward., and has ordered a fourth season of the scripted comedy.

More Awkward., more Matty!

Now that I know that infoMania alum Sarah Haskins co-created the upcoming ABC comedy Trophy Wife, I’m a lot more interested in it.

The TV Land comedy pilot Jennifer Falls has cast Jaime Pressly for its lead role, TVLine reports. The pilot follows a businesswoman who loses her job after losing control of her temper and moves in with her mother. I just hope the script has better punchlines than I Hate My Teenage Daughter.

Starz has cancelled Magic City. First Boss, now Magic City. I wonder if this will be the last time Starz quickly orders a second season of a series, only to cancel it after that second season airs.

Maybe if Magic City included a little male nudity to go with all that female nudity…...

My Name Is Earl alum Jaime Pressly has landed the lead in TV Land’s new half-hour comedy pilot, Jennifer Falls.

The multi-camera project follows Pressly’s character, Jennifer Doyle, a smart and successful mom businesswoman whose biggest liability is her temper — which has just gotten her fired from her high-paying job.

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Drowning in debt and having lost everything, Jennifer and her teenage daughter move in with her mother. The former career woman then takes a job as a waitress at her brother’s bar and reconnects with friends from her youth.

Slowly but shortly! Jaime Pressly had her long blond locks cut into a chin-length style on June 18. And just a little over a week later, on June 26, she went under the shears again, transitioning to an even shorter look. The I Hate My Teenage Daughter actress tweeted two photographs of her new Miley Cyrus-like 'do, courtesy of stylist Jonathan Hanousek (who was also responsible for her first chop in June). In one photograph, Pressly, looking gorgeous with minimal makeup on, sports a chic faux-hawk; it's [...]...

Advertisers were given their first big glimpse of the fall TV schedule Monday as NBC launched the annual Upfront Week in Manhattan. The upfronts are lavish (and longish) network presentations staged for the ad community with the hope of vacuuming up all their money with the promise of great, popular shows. The truth is, of course, that few shows manage to be great and/or popular. One could even call this a sad truth. But, to be philosophical, nothing ventured, nothing gained - and NBC could use some gaining. After applying advanced critical theorem to the brief clips presented at Radio City Music Hall,...

Advertisers were given their first big glimpse of the fall TV schedule Monday as NBC launched the annual Upfront Week in Manhattan. The upfronts are lavish (and longish) network presentations staged for the ad community with the hope of vacuuming up all their money with the promise of great, popular shows.

The truth is, of course, that few shows manage to be great and/or popular. One could even call this a sad truth.

But, to be philosophical, nothing ventured, nothing gained – and NBC could use some gaining. After applying advanced critical theorem to the brief clips presented at Radio City Music Hall,...

James Spader returns to NBC with "The Blacklist" on this fall.

The "Office" alum and longtime "Boston Legal" star returns to the spotlight on the Peacock network and this time, instead of upholding the law (albeit via blackmail, bribery and the like), he's breaking it. In NBC's upcoming series "The Blacklist," Spader stars as Raymond “Red” Reddington, the most wanted man in the world.

Check out Spader and his devilish ways below in NBC's new four-minute trailer for "The Blacklist", as well as two new preview clips, and scroll down for more previews and official descriptions of the new series on NBC's 2013-2014 schedule: the “Ironside" remake starring Blair Underwood, the new Mike O'Malley comedy "Welcome To The Family," Sean Hayes' return to sitcoms with "Sean Saves The World," and, of course, the highly-anticipated "Michael J. Fox Show."

"The Blacklist," Mondays at 10 p.m. Et

For decades, ex-government agent Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader,...

NBC is jumping into the fall pickup fray, ordering two dramas — the Gillian Anderson-Dermot Mulroney thriller Crisis and J.J. Abrams’ Believe — to series.

Also getting a green light are the Sean Hayes sitcom Sean Saves the World, DJ Nash’s Family Guide and Jason Katims’ comedy About a Boy. They join the previously-ordered Michael J. Fox Show and Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ Dracula.

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Among the noteworthy pilots not getting the go-ahead from NBC: Hatfields & McCoys, The Gates and The Sixth Gun. (NBC’s complete development slate can be found here.

Next month in New York City, the broadcast networks will unveil a whole new batch of comedies that could either follow in the footsteps of The Big Bang Theory — or fall flat like I Hate My Teenage Daughter.

So that got us thinking: Just how many half-hours over the years, failed or otherwise, have become go-to synonyms for bad TV sitcoms? We know what you’re thinking — by golly, I’ve lost count! But here are 10 that have (and always will) serve as convenient punchlines.

Baby Bob (CBS, 2002-03)

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ABC Family continues to expand its slate of original programming.

On Wednesday (April 24), the cable net announced that its given the greenlight to one-hour drama "Chasing Life" (formerly "Terminales"). The series, adapted from a successful Televisa Spanish-language Mexican television series will go into production in Santa Clarita in July, expected to premiere in early 2014.

The series follows twenty-something April (Italia Ricci, "Unnatural History"), a smart and quick-witted aspiring journalist whose life is upended after she is diagnosed with cancer. The cast includes Mary Page Keller ("NYPD Blue"), Aisha Dee ("I Hate My Teenage Daughter"), Richard Brancatisano ("The Elephant Princess") and Haley Ramm ("Red State").

Aaron Kaplan ("Gcb," "Terra Nova") will executive produce, along with Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz, who wrote the pilot.

"Chasing Life" joins the list of ABC Family's new series picked up this year that includes "The Fosters," "Twisted" and "Pretty Little Liars" spin-off "Ravenswood."...

It pays to ride with Rick Grimes.

Indeed, Chad L. Coleman and Sonequa Martin-Green, who recurred on Season 3 of The Walking Dead as Tyreese and Sasha, have been upgraded to series regulars for the fourth season of AMC’s zombie-apocalypse smash, TVLine has learned.

Additionally, Emily Kinney — who joined the show in Season 2 as Hershel’s youngest daughter Beth — has also been elevated to a regular.

Coleman and Martin-Green’s promotions come after Sunday’s Season 3 finale saw their brother-sister duo refuse to help The Governor carry out...

It's a peek at what could have been when The Office goes to "The Farm".

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I'm just thrilled at the news that Jonathan Del Arco has been promoted to a series regular for the second season of Major Crimes. Dr. Morales has been way too much fun for the little screen time he's gotten, so I've been hoping this would happen.

Last night, Ed Schultz announced that his show is moving to a two-hour weekend time slot next month, which opens up a major prime time slot on the news channel. If I'm reading the New York Times' item correctly, the new prime time host could be announced later this morning, with Chris Hayes, Ezra Klein and Joy Reid mentioned as front runners. That might explain why Klein has been making so many guest-hosting appearances lately.

Sex and the City alum Kristin Davis has joined the cast of CBS' Bad Teacher adaptation,...

The Emmy-winning Glee star will make her Broadway debut taking on the role of evil orphanage matron Miss Hannigan this spring in the Broadway production of Annie, currently playing at the Palace. Jane Lynch is stepping in for Katie Finneran, the original actor in the role, who is taking time off to shoot NBC’s new Michael J. Fox comedy series, which has a 22-episode order for a fall 2013 launch. It hasn’t been determined when Finneran is leaving; the Sony Pictures TV series already has shot its pilot and the show is being done out of NY but no schedule has been set. Lynch, whose stage experience includes a turn with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and The Second City, is set in the role from May 16-July 14. Finneran, a two-time Tony winner, starred on Fox’s sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter and landed the co-starring...

Oxygen kicks off its modeling competition The Face tonight,

to keep things simple, it's airing on the same night and time as Face Off.

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G4 will soon be gone from your cable line-up, replaced by The Esquire Network which aims to be "an upscale Bravo for men." The new channel's first show will be Knife Fight a cooking competition show hosted by Top Chef winner Ilan Hall, who absolutely no one was demanding to see on TV again. The network will also heavily feature Adam Scott with reruns of Parks & Recreation and Party Down. I have little interest in any show that brings back anyone from that awful second season of Top Chef (because I watched it once and Never Again), but I can suport putting plenty of Adam Scott on TV.

Fox's comedy pilot about a New York police prescient just picked its police captain casting Andre Braugher...

The final member of the family on Michael J. Fox's upcoming NBC comedy is in place.

Juliette Goglia ("Joan of Arcadia," "Easy A") will play Fox's daughter on the show, which is guaranteed a spot on NBC's 2013-14 schedule. Her character is the middle child in the family, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The untitled show's family  also includes Betsy Brandt ("Breaking Bad") as Fox's wife, Katie Finneran ("I Hate My Teenage Daughter") as his sister and Conor Romero and Jack Gore as his other children.

Fox's character is a New York news anchor who has taken time off to deal with Parkinson's disease but wants to return to work. Wendell Pierce ("The Wire," "Treme") will play his former boss at the TV station.

Goglia played the younger version of Emma Stone's character in "Easy A" (whose director, Will Gluck, is an executive producer of the NBC show...

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Meanwhile, the big industry news is that Fox might split American Horror Story's network into two channels. Broadcasting & Cable reports that FX would keep the dramatic content while the new network would focus on comedy (similar to the division between TNT and TBS) and inherit shows like Archer and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The new channel would take over the Fox Soccer channel.

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Hank Schrader's not gonna take this well, but Marie's leaving him for Michael J. Fox. Betsy Brandt follows The Wire's Wendell Pierce as the second player from an all-time great television show to join Fox's new NBC sitcom. Katie Finneran of I Hate My Teenage Daughter also got into the fray this week. NBC committed to 22 episodes of the series and will likely premiere it this autumn.

After several seasons spent being chipper about her fictional husband’s impairment on Breaking Bad, Betsy Brandt is now moving on to more of the same with a co-starring role on Michael J. Fox’s as-yet-untitled NBC sitcom. Brandt joins a quickly solidifying cast that also includes her fellow-cable-about-to-be-refugee, Treme’s Wendell Pierce, as Fox’s boss, I Hate My Teenage Daughter’s Katie Finneran as his sister, and Person Of Interest’s Conor Romero as his college dropout son—all of them revolving around Fox as he tries to juggle his family, his career as a newscaster, and his ...

Breaking Bad actress Betsy Brandt is coming to NBC.

Brandt will play Michael J. Fox’s wife on his upcoming sitcom. On the as-yet-untitled show, Fox plays Mike Burnaby, a New York City newscaster who goes back to work and has to juggle his family, career and Parkinson’s disease. It marks the five-time Emmy winner’s first TV series starring role since ABC’s Spin City. “Michael came in and pitched us the show, and it’s completely inspired by his life as a father and a husband and a family man who is grappling with [Parkinson's] disease,” NBC entertainment...

Fresh off of her Golden Globes win, Jennifer Lawrence is set to take the Saturday Night Live stage — and we have a sneak peek at what the Silver Linings Playbook starlet will bring to this weekend’s show.

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• Michael J. Fox’s buzzy new NBC comedy is rounding out its cast.

Michael J. Fox's upcoming NBC series has begun fleshing out Fox's on screen family and cast Katie Finneran as his sister and Conor Romero and Jack Goor as two of his children.

The as-yet-untitled series has a 22-episode commitment and will launch in the fall. It's a single camera comedy partly inspired by Fox's real life and stars the five-time Emmy winner as Mike Burnaby, a New York City newscaster who goes back to work and is forced to juggle his family, career and Parkinson's disease.

Two-time Tony winner Finneran ("Noises Off," "Promises, Promises") will play his unemployed, self-absorbed, single sister. Finneran also starred on Fox's "I Hate My Teenage Daughter" and "Wonderfalls."

Romero is set as Burnaby's college-dropout older son and Goor as Burnaby's 7-year-old youngest child.

"Treme" star Wendell Pierce is already part of the cast as Burnaby's boss.