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
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
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
The Bachelor Australia‘s Blake Garvey Becomes “Australia’s Most Hated Man”, Reveals “Stripper” Past
The United States has had their own “most hated Bachelor“, now it’s Australia’s turn.
After debuting over the summer as a Bachelor that all of the international community was swooning over, Blake Garvey has become the most-hated man in Australia after The Bachelor Australia aired its final installment of the season. Fans have labeled Garvey a “jerk” and a “douchebag“.
The 31-year-old and his former bride-to-be Sam Frost recorded tell-all interviews which aired on The Project to explain what happened after he dumped her just weeks after proposing during the reality series’ finale. Frost came out on top with viewers, while Blake’s comments failed to go down well with fans.
I’ve had my heart broken throughout this, because I’ve said goodbye to many, many incredible women — all of them, now.
Viewers quickly called him a “love rat”.
Australia was shocked to discover that as the series finale of The Bachelor went to air, Garvey had already called off his engagement to Frost. Garvey made the decision to call off the engagement after the pressures of maintaining a long-distance relationship proved too much.
Post-finale and post-proposal, information about what was occurring behind-the-scenes of the reality television series has come to light. A bachelorette has spoken exclusively to Australia’s Herald Sun anonymously due to the strict nondisclosure agreements that all 29 bachelorettes had to sign. Here are a few tidbits this “anonymous” castaway had to say:
— Halfway through the season Blake was nicknamed “Blake the Fake” by the women.
— Blake was “really vanilla” (aka boring).
— Blake was just a “producer’s puppet”.
— Sam Frost was the most likely to say yes to a proposal, so she was moved up the list, while Blake had his eye on others.
Perth Confidential revealed that Blake Garvey was not only a topless waiter in the past, he’s the owner of Alpha Male Entertainment – a “male entertainment provider”. The website allows people to book an extravagant “hunk-centered” party, involving services like topless waiters and strippers. Garvey had previously claimed he’d given the topless job “a whirl” for two years after falling into it as a favor to a friend. But, it appears as if his foray into the world of adult entertainment is much deeper than that. He registered Alpha Male Entertainment in June 2013.
H/T: Herald Sun
FX Renews American Horror Story: Freak Show Sets Ratings Record
FX has announced the fifth season renewal of American Horror Story. The 13-episode Season 5 will premiere in October 2015.
The news comes after the series reached new heights with the Season 4 premiere which is subtitled Freak Show. Overnight ratings showed that the premiere was watched by 6.1 million viewers and a 3.1 18-49 rating — both franchise highs. With Live+3 DVR playback now factored in, Freak Show‘s season premiere was viewed by 10 million total viewers, with 6.5 million landing in the 18-49 demo, becoming the most watched telecast in FX’s 20-year history.
H/T: TVLine
Starz Renews Survivor’s Remorse for Season 2
Starz has pushed freshman series Survivor’s Remorse into overtime!
On Friday, the premium cable network renewed Survivor’s Remorse for a second season.
The renewal comes one week after the LeBron James-produced series launched on the network.
Season 2 will be upgraded. Season 1 features just six episodes, while Season 2 will contain 10 half-hour installments.
H/T: TVLine
ABC Gives Full Season Orders to How To Get Away With Murder and Black-ish
ABC is the first network to grant full-season orders to freshman series. Ratings hits How To Get Away With Murder and Black-ish have been picked up for full seasons.
Murder‘s freshman run was always designed to last 15 episodes, while Black-ish will run 22 episodes.
Murder debuted to 14.3 million total viewers and a 3.9 demo rating, becoming fall’s No. 1-rated new series. Black-ish debuted to 11 million / 3.3 in the 18-49 demo, making it the fall’s No. 1-rated new comedy.
H/T: TVLine
AMC Renews The Walking Dead for Season 6
AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a sixth season just a few days before its fifth season premieres.
Scott M. Gimple will continue on as showrunner.
AMC President Charlie Collier in a statement said:
We could not be more excited for October 12 as we share new episodes of The Walking Dead with fans around the globe. In advance of Sunday’s Season 5 premiere, AMC proudly confirms a sixth season order of this extraordinary series. Thank you to Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple, the terrific executive producers, and the entire team who brings this compelling world and these rich characters to life. There’s plenty more Dead ahead thanks to their impressive, collective effort.
Last month, AMC ordered a pilot to be shot for a spinoff of the series.
H/T: TVLine
GAME OVER: BET Announces The Game Will End After Season 9
BET’s The Game will end following its ninth season. The series was renewed by the network earlier this year for Season 8 (which is currently filming for an early 2015 premiere).
BET posted the following statement:
All good things must come to an end, and after celebrating four successful seasons of The Game on BET, the network has announced production is underway on the show’s final two seasons.
The Game made its debut on The CW where it ran for three seasons before finding a second home on BET.
H/T: TVLine