Caffeine – October 27th Edition

Happy Sunday! Lots of scheduling news, pickups, and renewals this week!

Premiere dates:
November 15: Bones (timeslot premiere), Raising Hope
November 17: Almost Human
November 18: Almost Human (timeslot premiere)
January 5: Downton Abbey
January 7: Being Mary Jane, Pretty Little Liars, Twisted
January 10: Enlisted
January 13: Switched at Birth, The Fosters
January 19: Rake, Sherlock
January 23: Rake (timeslot premiere)
March 30: Call the Midwife, Mr. Selfridge
April 13: The Bletchley Circle

Season finale dates:
January 20: Sleepy Hollow

Renewed: Homeland, Masters of Sex, Drop Dead Diva, Suits

Picked up for a full season: Dads

Additional scripts ordered: Super Fun Night, Back in the Game

Surviving Jack has been given a Thursdays at 8:30 post-American Idol timeslot and had its order trimmed to eight episodes.

ABC might bring back Body of Proof.

Ordered to series:
ABC: An adaptation of Australian drama Secrets & Lies

In development:
ABC: An adaptation of Korean drama Nine: Nine Time Travels, a Keenan Ivory Wayans comedy, a semi-autobiographical 1970s family drama from Rob Lowe, drama American Crime, beauty salon comedy Skin Deep, comedy The Alzheimer’s Project, an emergency room comedy, a Henry Winkler comedy
Amazon: Historical drama Grand Ave
CBS: A Charmed reboot, an adaptation of Austrian crime drama Fast Forward, undercover cop drama Vice, comedy Roommates, Nick Zano comedy Nicky, comedy On the Fence
CW: A 1960s Malibu surfing drama, 1930s Hollywood drama Players
Fox: A retirement home comedy, comedy Odd Couple Families, a Dan St. Germain comedy, comedy That Family
History Channel: A World War II miniseries
NBC: A Murder, She Wrote reboot starring Octavia Spencer, an adaptation of the Remy Chandler urban fantasy series, dental comedy Pulling Teeth, an organ donor superhero show
Starz: 1970s bank robber drama Most Wanted
TNT: Conspiracy drama Anonymous
TV Land: Comedy Younger

Promoted to series regular:
Cedar Cove: Brennan Elliott
True Blood: Adina Porter

Guest stars!
2 Broke Girls: Mary Lynn Rajskub
Arrow: Sean Maher
Back in the Game: Jane Seymour
Blue Bloods: Kirk Acevedo
Bones: Richard Schiff, McKayla Maroney
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Craig Robinson
The Crazy Ones: Special K Daily, Ant Atkinson, Highlight Bruton, Adriana Lima
CSI: Kristoffer Polaha
Falling Skies: Mira Sorvino
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce: Carrie Fisher
Melissa & Joey: Tricia O’Kelly
New Girl: Jessica Chaffin
Once Upon a Time: Stephen Lord
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Zuleikha Robinson
Raising Hope: Keith Carradine
Suits: Jamey Sheridan, Damon Gupton
Surviving Jack: Neil Flynn
Switched at Birth: David Castaneda

Casting:
2 Broke Girls: Gilles Marini
Ballers: John David Washington, Donovan Carter
Believe: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Nick Tarabay
Benched: Eliza Coupe
Bosch: Amy Aquino
Chicago PD: Stella Maeve
Crossbones: Ezra Buzzington
Deliverance Creek: Riley Smith
Extant: Pierce Gagnon
Finding Carter: Kathryn Prescott, Anna Jacoby-Heron, Zac Pullam, Nolan Sotillo, Cynthia Watros
Gang Related: Noah Bean, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce: Sophina Brown, Janeane Garofalo
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: Eddie Marsan, Bertie Carvel, Alice Englert, Marc Warren, Samuel West, Charlotte Riley, Enzo Cilenti, Paul Kaye
The Night Shift: Robert Hoffman
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Peta Sergeant, Whoopi Goldberg
Power: Lela Loren, Naturi Naughton, Joseph Sikora
Sleepy Hollow: Jill Marie Jones
Songbyrd: Robert Hoffman
Twisted: Jack Falahee, Ivan Sergei
Unreal: Francia Raisa, Breeda Wool
Work Mom: Brandon Scott, Renee Olstead
Young & Hungry: Rex Lee, Jonathan Sadowski

(Image courtesy of PBS.)