Rick Porter

Godolkin University is closing its doors. Gen V, the spinoff of The Boys that focuses on college students with superpowers, has been canceled after two seasons at Prime Video. The second and now final season […]

Writer and proudcer Jez Butterworth is making a new home with Universal Entertainment. Butterworth has signed a five-year overall deal that will cover both TV/streaming and film projects. He’ll work with Universal Studio Group on […]

A week after its newest batch of episodes put the show in second place on Nielsen’s streaming charts, Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black moved into the top overall spot. The Netflix drama recorded 1.36 billion […]

Apple TV has greenlit a comedy series starring Elizabeth Banks as a recently divorced woman — but the show will go well beyond that basic premise. The currently untitled series comes from creators Liz Heldens (Will […]

Netflix is eyeing an early 2000s bestseller for its next series adaptation of a book. The streamer is developing a show based on The Nanny Diaries, a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. […]

The studio behind The Traitors is bringing another back-stabbing competition to life, with another indie-film favorite as its host. Parker Posey will take on a similar role to Alan Cumming in The Traitors as host […]

The latest iteration of Jeopardy! will focus on sports — and more specifically, the worldwide leader in sports. Sony Pictures Television, which produces Jeopardy!, and ESPN are teaming up for the aptly named ESPN Jeopardy!. […]

Hulu‘s Paradise is adding another Emmy winner to its cast. Julianna Margulies will join the post-apocalyptic drama for season three. It will be the former ER and Good Wife star’s first series work since a […]

Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated writer Terence Winter is taking on an animated series as his next TV project. Winter and his wife, Oscar-nominated producer Rachel Winter, are developing an adult animated show called Nouvelle with Bizaar […]

The coming split of Higher Ground, the production company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama, and Netflix will mark the end of — or at least a sizable change to — what’s been a productive relationship. […]

The conclusion of The Pitt‘s second season brought in the show’s biggest audience so far. The April 16 finale of the medical drama drew 9.7 million viewers on HBO Max through the weekend, more than […]

The week of March 16-22 featured a milestone in Nielsen’s streaming ratings. Grey’s Anatomy ranked among the top 10 acquired series for the 320th time, pulling in 918 million minutes of viewing time on Hulu […]

Law & Order: SVU will add another year to its record run on NBC. The network has formally announced a 28th season for the show, extending SVU’s mark as the longest-running primetime drama ever on […]

The organized crime task force in the Law & Order universe has worked its last case. NBCUniversal has canceled Law & Order: Organized Crime after five seasons. The series, in which Christopher Meloni reprised his […]

The long layoff between seasons of Euphoria apparently didn’t dull viewers’ enthusiasm for the show. The HBO drama’s April 12 premiere brought in 8.5 million viewers across all platforms in its first three days, its […]

[This story contains spoilers for “My Celebration,” the season finale of Scrubs.] The revival of Scrubs was never intended to be a one-and-done series. Evidence of that is all over the season finale. Wednesday’s episode, […]

CBS is extending its time Beyond the Gates by a significant amount. Along with unveiling its primetime schedule for 2026-27 on Wednesday, the network announced that it has renewed its daytime series Beyond the Gates […]

The CBS primetime schedule for 2026-27 isn’t all that different from the one for this season — but a couple of changes are notable. The network is moving two of its Thursday staples, Ghosts and Matlock, […]

That the final season of Stranger Things drew a huge audience isn’t news. New data from Nielsen, however, puts a new number on that — while also showing that a number of network series are among […]

Production on season four of The White Lotus has started in France, and HBO has released a tantalizing detail about the show. As has been the case in the previous three seasons, the Mike White-created […]

The return of the longest crewed space flight in history drew a big TV audience Friday evening, with ABC’s coverage leading the way. Just under 27.3 million people watched the re-entry and splashdown of the […]

Thanks to the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics, NBCUniversal — with an assist from the recently spun off Versant — dethroned YouTube for the largest share of TV viewing in February. Nielsen released both its […]

The revival of Malcolm in the Middle has turned out to be a welcome family reunion for viewers. Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, a four-episode update of the 2000-06 comedy, scored solid returns […]

[This story contains some spoilers for the first two episodes of The Audacity on AMC and AMC+.] The Audacity is not going to be the thing that breaks the grip big tech has on our […]

Two veteran ABC shows have locked in their places on the 2026-27 schedule. The network has renewed dramas The Rookie and Will Trent for next season. The pickups ensure a ninth season for The Rookie, […]

After several months of a pause in production, and the naming of a new showrunner earlier this year, Mr. & Mrs. Smith has started filming its second season for Prime Video. Season two is proceeding […]

[This story contains some spoilers for Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair.] A couple minutes into Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, there’s an establishing shot of the outside of Hal and Lois’ […]

Paramount has looked within for its next head of Nickelodeon’s animation efforts. The company has named CBS Studios executive Alec Botnick president of Nickelodeon Animation Studios. George Cheeks, chair of TV media for Paramount, announced […]

FX will be hanging around the Wrexham AFC pitch for the rest of the 2020s. The Disney-owned outlet has given a three-season pickup to Welcome to Wrexham, the docuseries from Rob Moc and Ryan Reynolds […]

CBS is adding a comedy to its lineup for the 2026-27 season. The network has given a series order to Eternally Yours, a show about a family of vampires. The series comes from Ghosts showrunners […]

Netflix’s One Piece returned from more than two years away to its best weekly streaming total, and Scarpetta had a solid opening week for Prime Video. Both shows, however, took a back seat to the […]

Hulu’s drama pilot Southern Bastards has found its leading man. Kevin Bacon will star in the project, based on a graphic novel of the same name by Jason Aaron and Jason LaTour. The pilot comes […]

Prime Video is headed to the Lone Star State with its latest series pickup. The Amazon-owned streamer has given a straight-to-series order for Calamities, a Texas-set crime thriller from Hunters creator David Weil. Glen Powell […]

[This story contains spoilers for “My Odds,” the April 8 episode of Scrubs.] Throughout the run of Scrubs — both the original series and this season’s revival — John C. McGinley’s Dr. Perry Cox has […]

A pair of powerhouse matchups in the NCAA basketball championships resulted in big audiences for the men’s and women’s finals. Both games showed year-to-year ratings gains — which is particularly notable for the men’s side, […]

FX’s Alien: Earth is adding a multiple Emmy winner to its cast for season two. Peter Dinklage has joined the series from creator and showrunner Noah Hawley. Details on Dinklage’s role are locked in a […]

A familiar face is returning to Dexter: Resurrection for its second season. Uma Thurman will reprise her role as Charley in the Paramount+ series. In the show’s first season, Charley, a former special operations officer, […]

The words “explosion of violence” are in the official description for Half Man, creator and star Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer. The trailer for the HBO limited series doesn’t depict it, but it feels […]

Fox will continue to probe the Memory of a Killer. The network has renewed its first-year drama starring Patrick Dempsey for a second season in 2026-27. Memory of a Killer joins fellow rookie Best Medicine […]

After The Late Show With Stephen Colbert ends — as in, one day after — CBS will usher in its next era of late night programming. The network will air Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen in the […]

Netflix is making a bigger play for young viewers with the launch of a games app for kids, the renewal of two preschool shows and a new series based on one of the most enduring […]

Hulu’s Vanderpump Villa will edit out Dakota Mortensen in its forthcoming season. The decision comes as Mortensen, a regular presence on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, is part of a domestic violence investigation in […]

The first week of March was a big one for streaming shows set in 19th century England. Prime Video’s Young Sherlock got off to a solid start in its premiere week, recording 678 million minutes […]

David E. Kelley’s next project for Apple TV will take on one of the quintessential novels of the 1980s. The prolific showrunner is teaming with director Matt Reeves for a series based on Tom Wolfe’s […]

The emergency department at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center will undergo a staffing change between seasons of The Pitt. Supriya Ganesh, who has played Dr. Samira Mohan in the first two seasons of the HBO Max […]

Major League Baseball’s new season — and its new media deal — got off to a solid start, with opening games on Netflix and NBC turning in multi-year highs for the first week of the season. […]

Sunday, March 18 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT: Actor Awards (Netflix)8 p.m.: Marshals (CBS)9 p.m.: Tracker (CBS, new time), DTF St. Louis (HBO/HBO Max), American Classic (MGM+), Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown (CNN)10 p.m.: Watson (CBS, new […]