Caffeine – TV News – May 22nd Edition

Welcome to our post-upfronts TV news roundup! We had some special upfronts posts this week with the networks’ fall schedules, so we’re not going to repeat those here. If you missed one, just click through: ABC, CBS, The CW, FOX, NBC.

But we’ve got one change to that already: FOX has moved Pitch to fall and Bones to midseason.

On to the rest of the news!

Premiere dates:
July 18th: Six
July 19th: Shooter
July 23rd: Looking: The Movie
February 5th: 24: Legacy (after the Super Bowl)
February 6th: 24: Legacy (regular timeslot)

Renewed: Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Code Black, The Odd Couple

Cancelled: Rush Hour, House of Lies, Limitless (though it’s being shopped elsewhere), Damien

The Gilmore Girls revival is officially called Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

Now that Supergirl has moved to the CW, we will in fact get a four-way superhero crossover.

Showrunner Frank Spotnitz has left The Man in the High Castle.

Ordered to series:
BBC Three: Futuristic genre drama Cleverman
CBS All Access: The Good Wife spinoff starring Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo
Netflix: Argentinian dramatic thriller Edha
Netflix/Univision: Drama series El Chapo
TNT: Young Shakespeare series Will

Amazon Prime has picked up British comedy Fleabag for the U.S.

Pilot orders:
Adult Swim: Historical comedy The Hindenburg Explodes! from Rob Corddry
TNT: Modern American Civil War drama Civil

In development:
HBO: Stanley Kubrick miniseries Napoleon
MGM: A Buckaroo Banzai series from Kevin Smith
MTV: Gregg Sulkin comedy F-Unemployed

Leaving their shows:
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Ciara Renee
Grey’s Anatomy: Sara Ramirez

Casting:
Babylon Berlin: Lars Eidinger, Frederick Lau, Karl Markovics, Christian Friedel, Hannah Herzsprung, Sebastian Urzendowski, Matthias Brandt
Claws: Niecy Nash
Fargo: Ewan McGregor
I’m Dying Up Here: Jake Lacy
Marvel’s Iron Fist: Carrie-Anne Moss
Mistresses: David Sutcliffe
One Mississippi: Rya Kihlstedt
Sherlock: Toby Jones

(Image courtesy of FOX.)

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