Caffeine – January 19th Edition

Happy Sunday! Another big news week from TCA . . .

Premiere dates:
February 25th: Mind Games (meaning Killer Women is being pulled early)
March 11th: From Dusk Till Dawn
March 27th: Surviving Jack
April 13th: Nurse Jackie, Californication
April 15th: Fargo
April 20th: Salem
April 24th: The Black Box
May 5th: 24: Live Another Day
May 11th: Penny Dreadful
May 20th: Gang Related
June 30th: Under the Dome
July 2nd: Extant

The Newroom will return for a third and final season.

Justified will officially end after season six.

Renewed: Web Therapy, The Returned, Lilyhammer

CW Seed is making a Veronica Mars digital spinoff starring Ryan Hansen.

Hayley Atwell has been confirmed as the lead for Marvel’s potential Agent Carter series.

Ordered to series:
Netflix: Marco Polo
Showtime: Drama The Affair, comedy Happyish

The CW will air British miniseries Labyrinth.

Pilot orders:
ABC: Anthony Anderson comedy Blackish, supernatural drama Clementine, John Ridley drama American Crime
Comedy Central: Historical comedy Another Period
CBS: Comedy Taxi-22
FX: A Louis C.K./Zach Galifianakis comedy
NBC: Megachurch drama Salvation, comedies Ellen More or Less, Mission Control, Love Is Relative, dramas Mysteries of Laura, Constantine

In development:
A&E: A Highway to Heaven reboot
ABC: An interracial romantic comedy from Eve
Fox: Red Band Society, Runner

The CW is not going forward with their Wonder Woman prequel.

New EPs:
Agent Carter: Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas
Outcast: Sue Naegle

Promoted to series regular:
Backstrom: Thomas Dekker
Revenge: Karine Vanasse

Guest stars!
The 100: Dichen Lachman
The Big Bang Theory: Tania Raymonde, James Earl Jones, Carrie Fisher
Brooklyn 9-9: Joe Theismann
The Crazy Ones: Joshua Gomez
Drop Dead Diva: Colin Egglesfield
Elementary: Jane Alexander
The Good Wife: Eric Bogosian
Grey’s Anatomy: Keke Palmer
Grimm: Anne Dudek, Keith David
Intelligence: Michael Trucco, Peter Coyote
Law & Order: SVU: Mark Boone Junior, Rosanna Arquette, John Benjamin Hickey
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Jaimie Alexander, Bill Paxton
Mike & Molly: Kathy Bates
The Millers: Austin Mahone
New Girl: Prince
Parks and Recreation: John Hodgman, Dan Castellaneta
Raising Hope: Lesley Nicol

Returns:
Brooklyn 9-9: Fred Armisen, Dean Winters

Casting:
24: Live Another Day: Benjamin Bratt, Yvonne Strahovski
An American Education: Devin Ratray, Phil Morris, Dalpre Grayer
Awkward: Elizabeth Whitson, Kofi Siriboe, Evan Crooks, Monty Geer
Bones: Ignacio Serricchio
Fatrick: Zach Cregger
The Fosters: Jamie McShane
Gracepoint: Kendrick Sampson
Hieroglyph: Kelsey Chow
How & Why: Michael Cera, John Hawkes
Justified: Mary Steenburgen
The Killing: Joan Allen
The McCarthys: Tyler Ritter, Kelen Coleman
The Originals: Nathan Parsons
Playing House: Jane Kaczmarek
Public Morals: Lyndon Smith, Keith Nobbs, Wass Stevens, Elizabeth Masucci
Remember Me: Michael Palin, Mark Addy
Revenge: Olivier Martinez
True Blood: Nathan Parsons
Younger: Hilary Duff
Untitled Netflix thriller: Kyle Chandler
Untitled Tina Fey women’s college comedy: Brandon Jones, Fortune Feimster

(Image courtesy of WGN America.)

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