Caffeine – September 14th Edition

Happy Sunday! We’ve got a few big early November premieres to add to your fall TV schedule . . .

Premiere dates:
November 5: Hot in Cleveland, The Exes
November 6: White Collar (the final season), Covert Affairs
November 9: The Newsroom, The Comeback, Getting On
December 7: The Red Tent

Nurse Jackie will end after season seven.

Renewed: Murder in the First, Instant Mom

Cancelled: Mystery Girls

General Hospital and Baby Daddy are having a crossover, as are NCIS: LA and Scorpion.

Ordered to series:
NBC: Anthology drama Manhunt

Pilot orders:
Fox: Arms dealing drama Runner

In development:
ABC: Shondaland cop drama Protect & Serve, a Chevy Chase/Beverly D’Angelo comedy, comedic mystery Couch Detective, comedy Nuclear Family, an adaptation of Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress, a buddy comedy starring Angela Kinsey
CBS: White collar criminal drama Public Integrity, a medical drama from Halle Berry, Stephen King adaptation The Things They Left Behind, real-time FBI drama Last Hour, comedy The Meatball Project
Fox: A family comedy from Scott Silveri, a female-led Minority Report sequel, action comedy 100 Grand, a ghost hunting drama, a John Stamos comedy
Marblemedia/Out East Entertainment: An adultery drama with site Ashley Madison
NBC: Magical Latino family drama The Curse of the Fuentes Women, legal drama Game of Silence, a pub quiz comedy, a blogging in suburbia comedy, a Jason Katims urban family comedy, a Las Vegas bar comedy
Slingshot Media: Virtual reality series New Angeles
Sony: A Married . . . with Children spinoff
Televisa USA: An adaptation of Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty trilogy
TNT: A drama adaptation of Shooter with Mark Wahlberg, superhero drama Titans

AMC is acquiring drama Humans, formerly with Xbox.

HBO is not moving forward with Open.

Promoted to series regular:
Hannibal: Gillian Anderson
Penny Dreadful: Helen McCrory, Simon Russell Beale

Guest stars!
Beauty and the Beast: Charlotte Arnold
Bones: Phyllis Logan
Galavant: Ricky Gervais
Ground Floor: Christa Miller
Hawaii Five-0: Charlie Carver
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Hayley Atwell, George Stephanopoulos
Modern Family: Kristen Johnston
Mom: Rick Fox
Penny Dreadful: Patti LuPone, Douglas Hodge, Sarah Greene, Jonny Beauchamp
Scorpion: Shohreh Aghdashloo

Returns:
American Horror Story: Freak Show: Naomi Grossman
The Big Bang Theory: Laura Spencer
Glee: Jenna Ushkowitz, Jayma Mays, Mark Salling, Dianna Agron

Casting:
About a Boy: Chris Diamantopoulos
Down Dog: Alysia Reiner
Hawaii Five-0: Greg Ellis
Mad Dogs: Steve Zahn, Romany Malco, Ben Chaplin
The Man in the High Castle: Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans
The McCarthys: Jessica St. Clair
Modern Family: Jon Polito
Mr. Robot: Rami Malek, Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin
Nashville: Mykelti Williamson
Odd Mom Out: Abby Elliott, Andy Buckley, Sean Kleier, KK Glick, Joanna Cassidy
Orange Is the New Black: Marsha Stephanie Black
Power: David Fumero
Red Band Society: Mandy Moore, Andrea Parker
Salem Rogers: Leslie Bibb
Shameless: Bojana Novakovic
The Slap: Zachary Quinto, Brian Cox
Sons of Anarchy: Arjay Smith
Turn: Owain Yeoman
Two and a Half Men: Maggie Lawson

(Image courtesy of USA Network.)

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