Caffeine – September 29th Edition

Happy Sunday! We’ve got a bunch of TV news this week, including several summer show renewals. Is one of your favorites among them?

Renewed: The Bridge, Boardwalk Empire, Unforgettable, Law & Order: UK, Mistresses

Cancelled: Army Wives

ABC is apparently considering a Modern Family spinoff. And CBS is working on a New Orleans-based NCIS spinoff.

Ordered to series:
CBS: Vince Gilligan/David Shore crime drama Battle Creek
Fox: Commissioner Gordon origin drama Gotham

Pilot orders:
NBC: Thriller Odyssey
TBS: A comedy about friends opening a brewery
TNT: A national security action/adventure drama

In development:
A&E: An adaptation of French drama The Returned
ABC: Paranormal drama Sisterland, two Mark Gordon dramas, comedy Works with Jerks, sitcom Girls Without Boys, a modern Houdini procedural, comedy How to Be an Adult, crime drama The Good Thief’s Guide, an adaptation of British comedy No Angels
Bravo: A family mystery drama
CBS: Crime drama Insecurity, mystery Oasis, family comedy Middlescence, Anne Rice adaptation Angel Time
The CW: A legal drama from Eva Longoria, Mars drama Red
Fox: Amanda Knox-inspired thriller Guilt, comedy Wife Nanny, a Damon Wayans Jr. single dad comedy, two autobiographical comedies, family drama Billy Ray
Gaumont: 1930s Paris drama Monsieur De Paris
NBC: Psychic procedural Six Months, Three Days, an adaptation of DC Comics’ Constantine, two autobiographical comedies, an adaptation of a Danish show called Park Road, a comedian comedy, comedy The Bass Player, His Neighbors, Their Landlord & Their Lovers
Starz: Organized crime drama Gringo

HBO has acquired American and Canadian rights to Emily Mortimer comedy Doll & Em.

Robert De Niro has replaced the late James Gandolfini in HBO miniseries Criminal Justice.

Guest stars!
Blue Bloods: Charisma Carpenter
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Patton Oswalt
Community: Katie Leclerc
The Crazy Ones: Barry Shabaka Henley
Criminal Minds: Mike Colter
Elementary: Laura Benanti
Hart of Dixie: The Head and the Heart
The Mindy Project: Kendra Wilkinson
The Neighbors: Reginald VelJohnson, Meredith Baxter
The Night Shift: Scott Wolf
Raising Hope: Michelle Hurd
Revenge: Ana Ortiz
Supernatural: Shannon Lucio
Us & Them: Jim Gaffigan
White Collar: Steven Pasquale

Returns:
Arrow: John Barrowman
The Big Bang Theory: Kate Micucci
How I Met Your Mother: Bryan Cranston

Casting:
Arrow: Dylan Neal
The Black Box: Vanessa Redgrave, Terry Kinney
Bosch: Titus Welliver
Chasing Life: Andy Mientus
Chicago PD: Archie Kao, America Olivo, Robin Weigert
Death Pact: Steve Talley
Dominion: Anthony Stewart Head, Roxanne McKee, Luke Allen-Gale, Shivani Ghai
Fargo: Martin Freeman
Game of Thrones: Joel Fry
Hostages: Joanne Kelly
House of Lies: Genevieve Angelson
HR: Maulik Pancholy
Intelligence: Zuleikha Robinson
Justified: Michael Rapaport
Line of Sight: Chinasa Ogbuagu
Love Is Dead: Richard Kind
The Money: Nathan Lane
Revenge: Annabelle Stephenson
Royals: Haley Lu Richardson, Alexandra Park
Scandal: Sally Pressman, Jack Coleman
Shameless: James Allen McCune, Danika Yarosh
Sirens: Loretta Devine
Songbyrd: Bethany Joy Lenz, Rumer Willis
The Tomorrow People: Nicholas Young
Trending Down: Robin Weigert
The Walking Dead: Alanna Masterson
Young & Hungry: Emily Osment

(Image courtesy of FX.)

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