Caffeine – June 15th Edition

Happy Sunday, and happy Father’s Day! We’ve got a bunch of renewals to celebrate this week.

Renewed: Pretty Little Liars (for two seasons!), Sirens, Power, Faking It

DirecTV’s show Navy St is now called Kingdom and will premiere on October 8th.

The Crisis finale has been moved to Saturday, June 21st.

Co-showrunner Carol Mendelsohn has left CSI.

Pilot orders:
Amazon: Civil War drama Point of Honor
NBC: A new Jerrod Carmichael comedy

In development:
Cinemax: War drama Signal
Imagine TV: Assassin drama The Perfect Kill
NBC: An event series about The Beatles
Spike: Financial thriller The Chairman
Universal Cable Productions: Science fiction drama Spin
Xbox: Comedy East of Exurbia

FX is not going forward with Hoke.

New EPs:
The McCarthys: Pamela Fryman

Leaving their shows:
The Whispers: Brianna Brown

Promoted to series regular:
Beauty and the Beast: Nicole Gale Anderson
Last Man Standing: Jonathan Adams
The Mentalist: Joe Adler
Orange Is the New Black: Dascha Polanco, Samira Wiley, Yael Stone
Revenge: James Tupper

Guest stars!
Chasing Life: Ed Asner, Marion Ross
Royal Pains: Michael O’Keefe, Nick Gehlfuss, Spencer Grammer, Tyler Labine, Leonardo Nam, Brandon Quinn

Casting:
The Affair: John Doman
Daredevil: Vincent D’Onofrio
Dig: Angela Bettis
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce: Patrick Heusinger
Homeland: Raza Jaffrey, Michael O’Keefe
Mystery Girls: Kerri Medders
Orange Is the New Black: Mary Steenburgen
Red Oaks: Paul Reiser, Jennifer Grey
The Returned: Michelle Forbes, Tandi Wright
Suits: Eric Roberts
Tyrant: Wrenn Schmid

(Image courtesy of MTV.)

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