Lifetime Cancels Witches of East End
Lifetime has canceled their supernatural drama Witches of East End after just two seasons.
Witches‘ second season finale left viewers with several cliffhangers: Ingrid is pregnant! Jailed Dash swapped bodies with brother Killian! Wendy came face-to-face with her estranged sister in hell!
H/T: TVLine
Celebrity Apprentice Premiere Date Announced
The Celebrity Apprentice has been off the NBC airwaves since Spring 2013, but the Donald is back! The latest season of the celebreality competition series will return to NBC on Sunday, January 4, 2015 @ 9pm ET, before moving to it’s regular Monday @ 8pm ET timeslot.
NBC plans to air back-to-back one-hour installments each week (so double the boardroom showdowns and several firings per night).
The cast includes:
— two-time World Series champion Johnny Damon
— comedian Gilbert Gottfried
— star of Deadliest Catch Sig Hansen
— singer Kevin Jonas
— actor Lorenzo Lamas
— NFL star Terrell Owens
— talk show host Geraldo Rivera
— television and Beverly Hills 90210/Sharknado‘s Ian Ziering
— Gold Medal Olympic snowboarder Jamie Anderson
— actress Vivica A. Fox
— TV host Leeza Gibbons
— reality star Brandi Glanville
— reality star Kate Gosselin
— gold medal Olympian Shawn Johnson
— former Miss USA and star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta Kenya Moore
— and The Cosby Show‘s Keshia Knight Pulliam.
Trump’s children — Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump — will serve as his advisers. The winner of the competition will score a $250,000 donation to his or her designated charity.
H/T: TVLine
Marvel’s Phase Three Announced: Black Panther! Civil War! Captain Marvel!
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 3 has been announced! And it’s everything — everything you could ever want. Black Panther! Captain Marvel! Inhumans! And most importantly, a two-part Avengers: Infinity War!!!
Confirmed films include:
— Captain America: Civil War (2016)
— Doctor Strange (2016)
— Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (2017)
— Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
— Black Panther (2017)
— Avengers: Infinity War Part I (2018)
— Captain Marvel (2018)
— Inhumans (2018)
— Avengers: Infinity War Part II (2019)
Actor Chadwick Boseman has been confirmed as playing Black Panther. Captain America 3 has been subtitled Civil War and will feature Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man. Boseman will also co-star as Black Panther.
H/T: Marvel
CBS Picks Up Full Seasons of NCIS: New Orleans and 3 Others
CBS has given full-season orders to all four of its new fall dramas: NCIS: New Orleans, Scorpion, Stalker and Madam Secretary. All four series are guaranteed a 22 episode freshman season.
NCIS: NO is this fall’s No. 1 new series, averaging 18 million viewers and a 2.8 rating in the 18-49 demo. Scorpion is the No. 2 new series (15 million; 3.6). Madam Secretary ranks as Sunday’s top scripted drama among total viewers (13.5 million). Stalker regularly wins its Wednesday @ 10 time period among viewers (9.5 million) and 18-49ers (2.1).
H/T: TVLine
ABC Orders More Once Upon A Time, Grey’s Anatomy and 5 Other Series
ABC has rewarded seven of its current comedy and drama hits with additional episodes.
All of Wednesday’s comedies (Modern Family, The Middle, The Goldbergs and Black-ish) have received additional orders for two more episodes each. All four comedies will air 24 episodes this season.
Castle and Once Upon A Time have each received one additional episode order. Each series will have a total of 23 episodes. While, Grey’s Anatomy will receive two additional episodes bringing its Season 11 total to 24.
H/T: TVLine
DC’s Cyborg Headliner Ray Fisher Didn’t Know He Was Getting His Own Film
Rising star Ray Fisher had no clue his life was going to change in the matter of minutes. The 27-year-old thespian learned just hours before Warner Bros. publicly revealed its slate of mega-budget superhero movies tied to the DC Cinematic Universe, which includes Fisher headlining as the title character in a Cyborg movie set for release in 2020.
Ray Fisher: “I didn’t know the extent to which DC and WB had planned on taking my character. When I signed on, I just wanted to be part of this world. But that specific information, I found out then and there. I didn’t think I’d be getting my own stand-alone film.”
Fisher has become the first African-American actor to score a non-ensemble superhero film since Will Smith’s Hancock in 2008.
In July, the 6’4″ Fisher wrapped shooting his cameo role for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, scheduled for release in March 25, 2016. Cyborg will also turn up in two Justice League movies.
Ray Fisher: “It was surreal. You get this idea of going to work on a Hollywood set as being really stressful and nerve-wracking. But it blew that stereotype away. If they did have stressful times, it wasn’t while I was there.”
H/T: Inside Movies @ EW
The CW Gives Full-Season Orders to The Flash, Jane the Virgin
The CW announced on Tuesday that it has given freshman dramas The Flash and Jane the Virgin full-season orders. The Flash will have a total of 23 episodes, while Jane will have 22.
The Flash debuted as the most-watched series premiere ever on The CW. It received 6.1 million viewers in Live+3 ratings. The Flash was also the network’s highest-rated series premiere among Adults 18-49 in more than five years. While Jane‘s premiere doubled The CW’s year-ago performance in the Mondays @ 9 time slot, and held steady in Week 2.
H/T: TVLine
Netflix Revives Care Bears with New Series in 2016
Netflix has announced that the streaming service will revive the classic Care Bears brand with Care Bears and Cousins.
The first season is being planned for an early 2016 release.
The series may feature original bears (like Cheer Bear and Grumpy Bear), as well as their cousins, who are animals stylized in the classic Care Bear look.
The series will be one of several upcoming animated programs Netflix has that represent a revival of classic children’s franchises, such as Popples and The Magic School Bus.
H/T: Inside TV @ EW
AMC’s The Walking Dead Season 5 Premiere Hits Series High
The Season 5 premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead was viewed by a series high 17.3 million viewers (11 million fell in the 18-49 demographic).
The Season 5 premiere was the series’ most talked-about episode ever on Twitter with more than 1.32 million tweets. The Walking Dead is also one of the only shows in Twitter history to take up all 10 trending topics in the U.S. at once.
The zombie series’ previous record was 16.1 million viewers (10.4 in the 18-49 demo) for its Season 4 premiere.
Last week, AMC renewed The Walking Dead for a sixth season.
H/T: Inside TV @ EW
FOX Gives Gotham Full Season Order
FOX ordered six additional episodes of freshman series Gotham on Monday. The pre-Batman drama’s first season order has been bumped up to 22 episodes.
Gotham premiered in September to 8.2 million total viewers and a 3.2 demo rating (with Live+3 DVR playback increasing the demo to a 5.0 rating).
Gotham airs Mondays at 8/7c on FOX.
H/T: TVLine