Netflix is returning to Absaroka County. A little over a month after the fourth season of Longmire was released on Netflix in the Unites States, the streaming service has picked up the Robert Taylor fronted drama for a fifth season. The renewal, which is expected to be for ten episodes, was first announced on the official Longmire Facebook page. Read More
Law & Order veteran Elisabeth Röhm has joined the cast of TNT's genre drama series The Last Ship in a recurring role for its thirteen episode third season, TVWise has learned. She will recur on The Last Ship as Allison Shaw, the newly appointed White House Chief Of Staff, serving under President of the United State Jeff Michener (Mark Moses, Homeland). Read More
AMC has handed out a seventh season renewal to ratings juggernaut The Walking Dead, the network announced on Friday. Sixteen episodes have been ordered for season seven, which is set to premiere next fall. Read More
Fox has trimmed the order for midseason drama Lookinglass (formerly known as The Frankenstein Code) to eleven episodes, down from the 13 episodes they initially ordered back in May, TVWise has confirmed. Read More
ABC is extending the run of The Muppets. The network has ordered three additional episodes of the half-hour comedy series, bringing the total order for its first season to some 16 episodes.
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Longtime Fox exec Joe Earley, who last summer was promoted to the position of Chief Operating Officer for the newly aligned Fox Television Group, is exiting the company at the end of the year. Read More
HBO has firmed up launch dates for the new seasons of comedy series Girls and Togetherness, and the new Mick Jagger produced rock & roll drama Vinyl. Read More
ITV has made the case that the BBC should be banned from acquiring international formats as well as U.S. drama and comedy series and films. In a submission to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee for their review of the BBC Charter, ITV said that the BBC should not be acquiring U.S. content - ranging from feature films to drama and comedy series, "under any circumstance". Read More