Showtime has locked down their Summer schedule. The premium cable network, who just yesterday picked up their Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti fronted drama pilot Billions to series with a twelve episode order, has announced that the third seasons of both Ray Donovan and Masters Of Sex will premiere on Sunday July 12th. 
Looking has run its course at HBO. The critically acclaimed series will not be returning for a third season, the network announced today. Instead, HBO has given the greenlight to a one-off finale special, which promises to give closure to fans of the series. 
Starz has found their Blackbeard. Rome alum Ray Stevenson has joined the cast of the network's pirate drama Black Sails for its upcoming 10 episode third season. He will play Edward Teach, a man better known as Blackbeard who returns to settle some unfinished business and quickly finds that a great deal has changed during his absence. 
Showtime has picked up their hour-long drama pilot Billions, starring Damian Lewis (Homeland) and Paul Giamatti (Downton Abbey), to series with a twelve episode order. 
History is continuing their push into scripted drama. After testing the waters with scripted series Vikings (currently airing its third season) and a slew of miniseries that has included Hatfields & McCoys, Sons Of Liberty and the upcoming Texas Rising, History has put into development Knightfall – an hour-long series about the Knights Templar. 
It's Official: the BBC has lost the rights to Family Guy. Rival broadcaster ITV has poached the exclusive first run rights to the animated comedy for their digi-channel ITV2 as part of a wide-ranging deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution which gives ITV the rights to all of Seth MacFarlane's animated series.