Caffeine – October 6th Edition

Happy Sunday! It’s been an exciting week, including our first pickups and cancellation of the new season.

Our first renewal of the new fall season is Sleepy Hollow!

And NBC has ordered a full season of The Blacklist.

Our first cancellation of the new season: Lucky 7

Fox has ordered more scripts for Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Renewed: Covert Affairs, Cedar Cove

Nikita‘s final set of six episodes will premiere on November 22nd.

Wilfred has been renewed for a fourth and final season, which will air on FXX.

ABC has picked up the second season of Canadian procedural Motive.

Canceled: Camp

NBC is not going forward with its Hillary Clinton miniseries.

Ordered to series:
Fox: Comedy Mulaney
The Hallmark Channel: Signed, Sealed & Delivered (formerly known as Dead Letters)
IFC: Comedy Garfunkel & Oates

Pilot orders:
Amazon: three comedies
NBC: Futuristic crime thriller Tin Man

In development:
ABC: A limited series based on A Slave in the White House, CIA drama Clandestine, mob drama Beverly Kills, musical fairy tale comedy Galavant, high-concept family drama Conviction, crime procedural Just Rewards, comedy Raising Mom, Brad Garrett comedy When the Balls Drop
CBS: Two Sony comedies, legal drama Tigers, James Patterson thriller adaptation Zoo, a family comedy
The CW: High school drug drama Exp
Fox: Bill Lawrence bounty hunter comedy Chasing Skips, family-friendly comedy Kindergarten Heroes, comedy Torched, an adaptation of Israeli spy drama Shkufim, comedy Last Man on Earth, drama How to Live a Life of Crime, sibling comedy Winners, a Harry Connick, Jr. comedy, Diablo Cody teen drama Prodigy
HBO: Comedy These Things Happen
Lionsgate: A Kevin James comedy
NBC: Legal drama Vega v. Vega, Rob Lowe comedy The Pro, comedy The Mason Twins, comedy The Money Pit, diner comedy The Bright Side

Pilot directors:
The Lottery: Danny Cannon
Unreal: Roger Kumble

Promoted to series regular:
Two and a Half Men: Amber Tamblyn

Guest stars!
Baby Daddy: Bailey Buntain
The Big Bang Theory: Bill Nye
Community: Nathan Fillion
The Crazy Ones: Ed Asner
CSI: Sherry Stringfield
Ground Floor: John McEnroe
Hart of Dixie: Danielle Bradbery
Hot in Cleveland: Jason Priestley, Thomas Lennon
The Michael J. Fox Show: Sting
The Mindy Project: Vanessa Bayer, Larenz Tate
Suits: Patrick Fischler
Trophy Wife: Dennis Haysbert
Us & Them: John Carroll Lynch
Witches of East End: Joel Gretsch

Returns:
The Big Bang Theory: Bob Newhart
Criminal Minds: Paget Brewster
Elementary: Rhys Ifans, Natalie Dormer, maybe Sean Pertwee and Malcolm Goodwin
Hot in Cleveland: Susan Lucci

Casting:
24: Live Another Day: Kim Raver, William Devane
The After: Jamie Kennedy, Adrian Pasdar, Aldis Hodge
Arrow: Jimmy Jean-Louis
The Black Box: Ditch Davey, David Ajala, Ali Wong
Broadchurch (U.S. version): David Tennant (reprising his role from the original British show)
Deadbeat: Tyler Labine
Deliverance Creek: Christopher Backus
Extant: Halle Berry
Fargo: Colin Hanks
The Following: Leslie Bibb, Montego Glover
Grimm: Sharon Leal
HR: Peter Fonda
Intelligence: Laura Wiggins
Jennifer Falls: Dylan Gelula
Justified: Alicia Witt, Edi Gathegi, AJ Buckley
The Knick: Grainger Hines
The Money: David Harewood, Andrea Riseborough, Patrick Kennedy, Dominique McElligott, Laila Robins
Mystery Girls: Jennie Garth (maybe?)
Nurse Jackie: Julie White
People in New Jersey: Sarah Silverman, Topher Grace, Patti LuPone
Remedy: Sara Canning, Sarah Allen, Dillon Casey
The Royals: Jim Piddock
Shameless: Brad Schmidt
Switched at Birth: RJ Mitte
Those Who Kill: Kyle Bornheimer
Unreal: Freddie Stroma, Josh Kelly
Work Mom: Emily Rutherfurd

(Image courtesy of Fox.)

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