Caffeine – September 8th Edition

Happy Sunday! Fall TV gets started with a few shows this week. Are you ready?

True Blood is ending with season seven.

Star Jeff Daniels tweeted that The Newsroom has been renewed, but HBO has not confirmed this yet.

HBO’s True Detective will premiere sometime in January.

ABC Family will air Melissa and Joey and Baby Daddy Christmas specials in December.

Ordered to series:
NBC: Telenovela adaptation The Black Widow
WGN: Drama Manhattan

Pilots ordered:
ABC: An adaptation of No Way Back
NBC: Comedy Former Fat Girl

In development:
ABC: Comedy First Timers, comedy Damaged Goods, a stalker drama, thriller Social Circle
CBS: Pre-apocalyptic drama Salvation, a federal judge drama
CW: Yet another Oz drama, Dorothy Must Die
Fox: A family comedy about tiger parents, a Judge Mathis comedy, comedy Here’s Your Damn Family, drama Royal
NBC: Comedy Half
Starz: A LeBron James sitcom
USA: Matt Nix medical drama Complications

Guest stars!
Baby Daddy: Lucy Hale
Beauty and the Beast: Annie Ilonzeh, Blair Redford
Community: Walton Goggins
CSI: Jason Priestley
Enlisted: Mircea Monroe
The Following: Carrie Preston
Girls: Kim Gordon
The Michael J. Fox Show: Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin
We Are Men: Jane Leeves
White Collar: Zeljko Ivanek, Rebecca Hazlewood

Casting:
American Horror Story: Coven: Alexander Dreymon
Arrow: Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Cle Bennett
Defiance: William Atherton, Anna Hopkins
Dominion: Christopher Egan, Alan Dale, Tom Wisdom
Game of Thrones: Hafthor Julius Bjornsson
The Good Wife: Jason O’Mara
Hannibal: Cynthia Nixon
Happyland: Bianca Santos, Zulay Henao, Shane Harper, Katherine McNamara, Cameron Moulene
High Moon: Constance Wu
Horizon: Kara Killmer
HR: Greg Germann
Line of Sight: Darren Pettie, Samantha Mathis
Motive: Warren Christie, Valerie Tian
Nashville: Christina Chang, Will Chase
Once Upon a Time: Gil McKinney
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Keith David
Outlander: Graham McTavish, Gary Lewis
The Royals: Elizabeth Hurley
The Strain: Natalie Brown
Super Fun Night: Ravi Patel
The Tomorrow People: Dan Stevens
Tyrant: Jennifer Finnigan
Undateable: Briga Heelan (again/after all)

(Image courtesy of HBO.)

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