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ABC has canceled freshman drama Emergence and sophomore comedies Bless This Mess, Single Parents and Schooled, as well as the new Kids Say The Darndest Things revival with Tiffany Haddish. This cancellations are part of a big round of renewal decisions at the Disney-owned network today, which included the pickup of 13…

Fans of the Pearson family made sure they didn’t miss the midseason finale of This Is Us on Tuesday. The NBC family drama topped the night with its emotional Thanksgiving episode and ticked up two tenths from last week, earning a 1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and netting 7.27 million viewers. In addition…

Live action-feature presentation hybrid The Little Mermaid Live! won Tuesday night in broadcast primetime, bringing its “Under the Sea” magic to ABC. The Disney musical event earned a 2.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 8.98 million viewers who tuned in to see Auliʻi Cravalho play the iconic Disney princess…

ABC, the last network to make pickup decisions on its new fall series, has given back orders to comedy Mixed-ish and drama Stumptown. Additionally, the network has ordered additional episodes of sophomore drama The Rookie, which had a 13-episode pickup. I hear the Black-ish prequel has received an order for nine…

For people involved in broadcast television, it was quite a rude awakening the morning of Premiere Tuesday when the fast nationals for the first night of the 2019-20 season came out. New series across the board were opening at Live+Same Day levels that even a year ago would have had networks sharpening the…

The CW’s Premiere Week continued Tuesday with the Season 6 premiere of flagship series The Flash, which drew a 0.6 adults 18-49 rating in Live+Same Day and 1.63 million total viewers. That was off by two tenths in the demo from the Season 5 opener last fall but on par with the season average and finale. The Flash‘s…

Snapshot: New series Week 2: Mixed-ish (ABC, 0.7 rating in 18-49 Live+Same Day, -22%; 3.5 million viewers), Emergence (ABC, 0.6, -25%; 3.6 million). Things are starting to settle in Week 2 of the broadcast season as most Tuesday series were on par or slightly off their premiere deliveries. Logging the biggest Week 2…

Snapshot: New series premieres: Mixed-ish (ABC, 0.9 rating in 18-49, 4.0 million viewers), Emergence (ABC, 0.8, 4.1 million). UPDATED with finals: Viewers are starting to get the memo that the broadcast season is underway, with more shows on Tuesday popping in the Live+Same Day ratings than on Premiere Monday. Kicking…

The new Fall TV season is officially underway with new series debuts last night on Fox, NBC and CBS. While it looks like the lowest rated Premiere Monday ever due to the changing habits and options of viewers, the expanse of new shows coming in the next two weeks on broadcast, cable and streaming seems greater than…

ABC has posted the first nine minutes of supernatural drama Emergence online. You can watch it below. Written and executive produced by Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters, Emergence follows Jo (Tolman), a police chief who takes in a young child (Alexa Swinton) she discovers near the site of a mysterious accident who has…

Terry O'Quinn (Patriot, Perpetual Grace, LTD) is set for a recurring role opposite Allison Tollman on ABC’s new genre thriller series Emergence, from Kevin (Probably) Saves the World creators/executive producers Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, director Paul McGuigan and ABC Studios, Written by Fazekas and Butters, Em…

Disney Television Studios has unveiled a robust lineup of 14 panels that are headed down to San Diego for Comic-Con. From ABC to 20th Century Fox Television, Disney TV will be taking over Hall H, the Indigo Ballroom and the San Diego Convention Center with programming that ranges from old favorites to new faces…