Those eager to return to the apocalypse, and a certain police precinct in NYC, have a few reasons to be excited this week, as Fox has given new season renewals to both The Last Man on Earth and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The comedies are definitely two of the highlights for the network's live-action sitcom department - and well-liked by fans and critics - so it's not too surprising to hear they'll both be coming back.
Shonda Rhimes' glitzy Shondaland production company is slowly taking over ABC, and the network probably couldn't be happier. After deciding to wedge three of its killer appointment television juggernauts into one night and slap on a hashtag, the producer has yet to allow a new series admission into its twisted theme park (besides a "special preview" for The Family, but that hardly counts). As it stands, Shondaland is currently guarded over by the mile-high drop of Scandal, a somewhat amusing, always disorienting house of mirrors in How To Get Away With Murder, and the repetitive merry-go-round everyone's getting a little sick of, also known as Grey's Anatomy.
As if Netflix doesn't have enough going on today, the streaming service just announced it's grabbed two big names - Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant - to join its newest single-camera comedy series Santa Clarita Diet. This should be good news for fans of the short-lived Better Off Ted, since the showrunner of that series, Victor Fresco, will head up Netflix's newest sitcom.
Superbad cast members Emma Stone and Jonah Hill have been cast in Maniac, a new TV series from Cary Fukunaga, who directed the entire first season of True Detective. The show will be based off of a 2014 Norwegian comedy series of the same name, and is currently on the hunt for a showrunner.
Tense moments and a few well-drawn characters stand out in Heartbeat, but they're trapped behind the doors of a series as predictable and sterile as the operating rooms its characters roam through.
Negotiations are underway between Will Forte, David Wain (director of Wet Hot American Summer) and Netflix, regarding the creation of A Stupid And Futile Gesture. The project is set to follow the life and death of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney, whom Forte would portray in the film.
The prophecy has come true: Of Kings And Prophets has been axed by ABC after airing just two episodes this month, EW confirmed earlier today. The news comes a few weeks after ABC renewed a handful of shows, including Quantico and Once Upon A Time.
There's been plenty of hype surrounding the soon-to-launch second season of Marvel's Daredevil, but today Netflix decided to give fans one tiny glimpse into the 13-episode sophomore year before they go binge-happy tomorrow (or tonight at midnight, no doubt).
CBS has its procedural game down to a science. After ten seasons of success with the crime thriller Criminal Minds (and one not-so-successful spin-off, subtitled Suspect Behavior), the network has decided to section off a new segment of its FBI profiling world. Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders brings back the world-traveling team first introduced in the parent series and gives them their own cavalcade of off-putting psychopaths to chase down.
Following a slight uptick in the promising sitcom category with Superstore and Telenovela - not to mention the buzzy Carmichael Show - NBC is back to disappointing us again with the creatively inept new comedy Crowded. It's multi-camera, there's a laugh track, grandparents burst in unannounced, and the main duo are lovable scalawags that just want to be left alone, darn it!
