Caffeine – September 21st Edition

Happy Sunday, and happy premiere week! Let’s get right to it …

Renewed: Tyrant

Netflix has ordered two seasons of Judd Apatow relationship comedy Love, starring Paul Rust and Gillian Jacobs.

Brian Van Holt will be leaving Cougar Town early in the final season.

USA Network’s Dig has been pushed to next year.

Greg Berlanti’s Supergirl series has landed at CBS with a series commitment.

The new Bad Judge showrunner is Betsy Thomas.

Pilot orders:
TNT: A cocaine drama from Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Michelle Ashford

In development:
A&E: An adaptation of Mexican drama Nino Santo
ABC: An adaptation of Korean drama My Love from Another Star, a Quantico drama from Josh Safran and Mark Gordon, a credit union sitcom, Texas political drama Pair of Aces, a VJ comedy from Jimmy Kimmel and Carson Daly, a dramedy about a disgraced journalist, true crime procedural L.A. Crime
Amazon: Biblical drama Kingdoms
CBS: A workplace comedy, a matchmaking friends comedy, legal drama Acquittal, comedy Wife of Crime, family comedy Letters to My Daughter’s Future Therapist
Fox: An assassin drama, an auto-theft ring drama, an adaptation of Spanish blended family comedy Los Serrano, fantasy football comedy Fantasy Life starring Kevin Connolly, airline heist drama The Ultimate Getaway, a DC Comics Lucifer drama
HBO: Russian spy series The Commissar’s Report, a series adaptation of movie In America, miniseries Factory Man, a comedy about a French actress
Legendary TV: John Scalzi novel adaptation Lock In
NBC: A horror/sci-fi/thriller anthology drama, comedy The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, a Problem Child remake
Spike TV: Silk Road-esque drama Deep Web
TNT: Neil Armstrong miniseries One Giant Leap

Peter Segal will direct MTV’s pilot Ken Jeong Made Me Do It.

Promoted to series regular:
Veep: Sam Richardson

Guest stars!
About a Boy: Aimee Garcia
Backstrom: Ann Cusack
Battle Creek: Candice Bergen
Beauty and the Beast: Alan Van Sprang, Natasha Henstridge
Bones: Gil Bellows
Doctor Who: Nick Frost
Faking It: Derek Mio
The Flash: Amanda Pays
The Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce: Susan Walters
The Good Wife: Gloria Steinem
Grey’s Anatomy: Connie Ray, Nicholas D’Agosto
Grimm: Toni Trucks
Ground Floor: Emily Rutherford (rather than Christa Miller)
Marry Me: Nat Faxon
The Mindy Project: Yeardley Smith
Motive: Victor Garber, Jessica Lowndes
NCIS: Marisol Nichols
New Girl: Michael Stahl-David
Nurse Jackie: Mark Feuerstein
Once Upon a Time: Sally Pressman
Revenge: Joanna Sotomura
Scandal: Brian Benben
Sons of Anarchy: Alicia Coppola
Stalker: AnnaLynne McCord

Returns:
The Fosters: Rosie O’Donnell
Glee: NeNe Leakes
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Dylan Minnette

Casting:
Agent Carter: James D’Arcy
American Horror Story: Freak Show: Skyler Samuels
Arrow: Nick Tarabay
Banshee: Chike Okonkwo
Complications: Chris Chalk, Tim Peper, Eric Edelstein, Ronreaco Lee
CSI: Cyber: Luke Perry
Daredevil: Scott Glenn
Eye Candy: Casey Deidrick, John Garret Stoker, Kiersey Clemons
The Fosters: Annika Marks, Alberto De Diego
Hindsight: Nick Clifford
Justified: Sam Elliott, Garret Dillahunt
London Spy: Ben Whishaw
Point of Honor: Nathan Parsons, Luke Benward
Power: Rotimi Akinosho
Red Band Society: Daren Kagasoff
Show Me a Hero: Daniel Sauli
Stanistan: Zach Gilford, Jonathan Cake

(Image courtesy of FX.)