Caffeine – May 19th Edition

Happy Sunday! We’ve already brought you a ton of news this week in our network-specific posts from upfronts, so here they all are if you missed any: ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, and NBC. Here’s the rest of the news that didn’t already make its way into one of those posts . . .

Premiere dates:
June 16th: Inspector Lewis
July 7th: Endeavour
August 25th: Silk
September 8th: Last Tango in Halifax
January 5th: Downton Abbey

The BBC has confirmed that Steven Moffat will run Doctor Who season eight.

Warehouse 13 will return for a fifth and final season of six episodes.

Good news: unaired episodes of Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23 are now online! But only until June 2nd, so hurry up.

The big post-Super Bowl slot this year is going to New Girl and another comedy to be named later.

Mike & Molly creator Mark Roberts is leaving the show; he’ll be replaced as showrunner by Al Higgins. And David Eick is the new Falling Skies showrunner.

Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas will run Resurrection.

Picked up to series:
FOX: 24: Live Another Day, Wayward Pines starring Matt Dillon
HBO: A Silicon Valley comedy, Criminal Justice, an untitled LGBT-themed comedy starring Jonathan Groff
USA: Comedies Sirens and Playing House

Pilots ordered:
USA: Love Is Dead, Horizon

In development:
ABC: America Ferrera’s Pedro & Maria
FX: A comedy from Ray William Johnson
FOX: A Billy the Kid limited series
TBS/TNT: A whole lot of things
USA has a bunch of things too.

Promoted to series regular:
How I Met Your Mother: Cristin Milioti
Once Upon a Time: Michael Raymond-James
Person of Interest: Sarah Shahi

Michael Rapaport and Mary Elizabeth Ellis are leaving The Millers.

Guest stars!
The Newsroom: Lauren Tom

Casting:
Covert Affairs: Michelle Ryan
The Fosters: Brandon W. Jones
Ravenswood: Britne Oldford

(Image courtesy of PBS.)

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