Jericho (tv program)

CBS has reportedly ordered six new shows for the 2008-09 season. According to the industry trade papers, CBS has ordered two new comedies -- "Project Gary" and "Worst Week" -- plus four new dramas -- "The Mentalist," "Harper's Island," "The Ex List"...

CBS would like you to know that it was a tough decision to cancel "Jericho," its entry into last season's plot-driven serial glut. That will probably be small consolation to the show's fans, who watched the show's first -- and only -- season end with the...

Esai Morales will take a recurring role on CBS' resurrected midseason drama "Jericho." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Morales has contracted for six of this season's scheduled seven episodes of "Jericho." Morales will be playing a career...

With a midseason premiere on the horizon and now a home on cable, the walls of "Jericho" won't be tumbling down anytime soon. The rights to the first two seasons of the beloved CBS show has been acquired by the Sci Fi Channel, and it will debut on the...

Fast National ratings for Sunday, Jan. 4, 2008 NBC got OK ratings for the premiere of "Superstars of Dance" Sunday, but an NFL playoff game gave FOX the night's biggest audience. CBS and FOX each drew a 7.2 rating/11 share among households, but FOX...

Are Julie Chen and her band of summer shut-ins ready for primetime in the regular TV season? According to Variety and Entertainment Weekly, CBS has already begun casting on the sly for a new season of "Big Brother," which could be rushed to the air as...

Fast National ratings for Friday, Aug. 17, 2007. A sluggish Friday night went to ABC in all key measures. Overall, ABC averaged a 3.7 rating/7 share, good enough to beat the 3.2/6 for CBS. The other three networks were tightly bunched with with NBC's 2....

"Gossip Girl": You know you love her, and so does The CW -- enough to want more of her around. The CW is seeking to develop a spinoff of "Gossip Girl" for next season, report the trades. At the WWD Style + Media conference in Manhattan Thursday, CW...

Before I begin this week's column, I'd like to have a little heart to heart chat with Sam and Dean Winchester. Boys, you're out there every week fighting demons and the like and I've been ignoring you. And that's not nice. So since "Supernatural" is the...

Throughout the 1990s, Jason Priestley was well known to devoted fans as teen Brandon Walsh, fraternal twin brother of Brenda (Shannen Doherty), on the hit Fox show "Beverly Hills, 90210." Despite the title, the show actually filmed on soundstages in...

"Veronica Mars" may live on ... but not on television. Creator Rob Thomas revealed that the teenaged private eye may continue her adventures on the big screen and in the pages of a comic book, reports the Toronto Star. "I have some ambition to write a...

Fast National ratings for Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. FOX premiered the fall's first new show on Friday night, but the early results for "Nashville" were rather devastating. Overall, ABC averaged a 3.8/7 to win the night, beating the 3.0/6 for CBS and the...