TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland to End in 2015 After Historic Six-Season Run
TV Land confirmed on Monday that Hot in Cleveland‘s current 24-episode sixth season would be the series’ final.
TV Land president Larry W. Jones said this in a statement:
It’s been an honor to work with Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and the incomparable Betty White as well as our executive producers Suzanne Martin, Todd Milliner, Sean Hayes and the rest of our exceptional writers, production team and crew. The passion and talent they brought to the set each and every week over the past five years has put TV Land on the map as a network dedicated to quality original programming. We will continue to celebrate the show and are looking forward to a fantastic series finale.
Hot in Cleveland was TV Land’s first original scripted series. It premiered in June 2010. Its series premieree drew the highest ratings in the basic cable network’s 14-year history.
H/T: TVLine
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
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
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