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It's official: Friday Night Lights scores two more seasons!

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Panther fans have something to celebrate: Friday Night Lights has scored a two-season pickup, securing the series for 26 more episodes.

NBC and DirecTV agreed to green light a fourth and fifth season, following this season's model in which DirecTV airs the episodes first, commercial-free, before they arrive on NBC, Variety says.

An NBC rep could not immediately be reached for comment.

The fate of the low-rated, critically acclaimed football drama has been in question since last year, wh...

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Jericho movie in development

Set your phasers to "head-exploding." Jericho's rabid fan base may have scored themselves another victory. According to a report from IF Magazine, executive producer Jon Turtletaub has confirmed that he is developing a Jericho movie.

"We're developing a feature for Jericho," Turteltaub told IF. "It would not require you to have seen the TV show, but it get into life after an event like this on a national scale. It would be the bigger, full on American version of what�...

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Accidentally on Purpose

NBC GIVES NEW SEASON PICKUPS TO POPULAR SERIES 'THE OFFICE,' '30 ROCK' AND "THE BIGGEST LOSER' FOR 2009-2010

UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF. - January 15, 2009 - NBC has renewed the popular series "The Office," "30 Rock" and "The Biggest Loser" each for an additional year through the 2009-2010 season, it was announced today by Angela Bromstad, President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios, and Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative ...

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Lipstick Jungle is alive?!

As Tracy-Jordan-as-white-girl once said on 30 Rock: "Lipstick!" -- or, in this case, Lipstick Jungle!

NBC announced today that Zombie Brooke Shields and Co. will live to multitask another day, as reports of the show's death may have been greatly exaggerated after all. "We officially have not canceled Lipstick Jungle," said Angela Bromstad, the president of NBC Universal's production studio. "I think there are alternatives we may look into. It's all a conversation for ...

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NBC: Heroes isn't going anywhere

Nip/Tuck

"Heroes" need not worry about cancellation this season, says NBC's president of primetime entertainment, Angela Bromstad.

The NBC drama has gone from one of the network's top-rated programs to approaching worrisome ratings territory during the past few months, especially given the show's price tag.

" 'Heroes' is very secure," she says. "We have a great relationship with Tim Kring ... whatâ€™s important is we never lose site of being responsible in production&q...

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NBC cuts Kath & Kim to 17 episodes

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- A month after rolling back its full season commitment to "Knight Rider," NBC will do the same to fellow freshman entry "Kath & Kim."

Like "Knight," "Kath" will produce just 17 installments this season, five shy of its previously announced 22-episode order.

Sources also confirm the show will wrap its run on Thursday, March 12. The Peacock announced earlier today that "The Untitled Daniels/Schur/Poehler Seri...

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Dying to know where the Piemaker and his beloved Charlotte Charles will end up when Pushing Daisies comes to a close?

Join the club! But apparently ABC is in no hurry to give the fans closure.

Sources close to the Alphabet network tell me exclusively that the remaining episodes for Daisies will not air untilâ€”wait for it, â€˜cause you're gonna have toâ€”this summer.

And that's not all. It's the same case for those two other much-loved but recently canceled ABC series: Eli...

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Josh Hopkins guest-starring on Private Practice

It isn't enough that Private Practice's Addison (Kate Walsh) can't go a week without a guy; now, it seems, she can't go a week without more than one. Though in tonight's episode, she and beau Kevin attempt to resolve their relationship issues, and she takes a closer look at Wyatt, the show has just cast yet another love interest for her!

I've learned exclusively Swingtown's Josh Hopkins has signed on for five episodes as the latest surgeon with whom our lead MD will play doctor.

So what do...

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Grant Show to join 90210?

Kelly Taylor definitely had her share of men during her original 90210 days. There was Dylan, Brandon, Colin, Matt â€” she even dated Steve in the early years. But one of her short-lived ex's, Jake Hanson (played by Grant Show), may be making a return to the 90210 reboot for a long-overdue reunion.

In a recent interview with E! Online, Show said he would be open to making a return to the CW's 90210 or in the upcoming Melrose Place 2.0. But should he choose to go down that path, he would ...

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Accidentally on Purpose

NBC UNVEILS SPRING PROGRAMMING ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT INCLUDE NEW JOHN WELLS POLICE DRAMA â€˜SOUTHLANDâ€™ AND PREMIERE DATES FOR NEW â€˜UNTITLED DANIELS/SCHUR/POEHLER SERIESâ€™ AND COOKING COMPETITION SERIES â€˜THE CHOPPING BLOCKâ€™

New Drama "Kings" Re-set for Two-hour Premiere on Sundays Beginning March 15

NBC Also Orders Three Additional Episodes for Final Season of "ER" â€“
Moving Two-hour Series Finale to April 2

UNIVERSAL CI...

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Amy Poehler's NBC show detailed

Desperate Romantics

Until today, we've know very little about the upcoming NBC sitcom starring Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler. Producers have finally let television critics take a look at the pilot script, and if anyone predicted Poehler would play a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks & Recreation department, well, you've won a prize.

The script was included in a press kit handed out at the Television Critics Association press tour, currently underway in Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh Post Gazette critic Rob ...

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Christine Baranski guest-starring on The Big Bang Theory

Leonard's mom has got it goin' on â€” in that she is Emmy and SAG Award winner Christine Baranski. The choice casting news was announced Thursday morning on the set of CBS' The Big Bang Theory, which was playing host to the TCA Winter Press Tour.

The onetime BFF of TV's Cybil and a costar of this summer's Mamma Mia!, Baranski will guest-star on the hot comedy about uncool geeks in at least one episode, this season's 15th. As previously hinted on the show, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter is more t...

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Idris Elba guest-starring on The Office

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SCREEN ACTORS GUILD NOMINEE IDRIS ELBA TO GUEST-STAR IN MULTI-EPISODE STORY ARC ON NBC'S EMMY-WINNING 'THE OFFICE'

UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF. - January 15, 2009 - Screen Actors Guild nominee Idris Elba ("American Gangster," "Rocknrolla," "Obsessed") is set star in a multi-episode story arc on NBC's Emmy Award-winning hit comedy "The Office."

Elba will play the new no-nonsense hire at Dunder Mifflin's corporate office that will throw Michael Scott (Steve ...

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American Idol ratings up for second episode

My Name Is Earl

For the first time in five seasons, "American Idol" ratings went up for its second episode.

Wednesday night's "Idol" was flat among total viewers (30.3 million viewers) compared with Tuesday's opener and grew 1% in adults 18 to 49 (an 11.8 rating, according to time-zone-adjusted fast nationals ordered by Fox).

That may not sound like much, but usually â€œIdolâ€ Night 2 drops notably.

During the past four seasons, the Wednesday premiere has dropped an averag...

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Mythbusters

What are the chances your CW faves will survive for another season?

The official verdict won't come down until the upfronts in May, when the networks unveil their new fall schedules, but CW president Dawn Ostroff and One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush are offering up a little early information.

Will the OTH cast sign on for another year? Will Clark Kent continue on for one more season in Smallville? And will Supernatural survive to hunt demons another day or could the Winchester boys go down b...

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Chevy Chase guest-starring on Chuck

Spies Like Us' Chevy Chase has been tapped to infiltrate Chuck.

Chevy Chase has signed on for a three-episode arc on NBC's Chuck, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

On the Warner Bros. TV-produced Chuck, Chase will play a mega-billionaire technology mogul who is accused by Chuck's father of stealing his ideas.

The funnyman's latest projects on TV included guest spots on Brothers & Sisters and Law & Order. He will also be appearing in features Not Another Not Another Movie and ...

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Durham County

Kings has been dethroned by cops.

NBC is expected plug in John Wells' new police drama Southland in the Thursday 10 pm /ET slot following the finale of the 15th season of the Wells-produced medical drama ER, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The heavily promoted (butterflies everywhere!) new drama Kings, starring Deadwood's Ian McShane, was originally scheduled to air in the coveted ER slot. Now, Kings is said to be moving to Sundays at 8 pm/ET â€” as a lead-in to The Apprentice....

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Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are going back in time for their upcoming "Gossip Girl" spinoff.

The new CW project will focus on a younger version of "Gossip Girl's" Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford). Spinoff centers on the character as a wild teenager in 1980s Los Angeles, when she was known by her maiden name, Lily Rhodes.

Spinoff will be produced as a backdoor pilot, as expected, and air May 11 as an episode of "Gossip Girl."

In the new project...

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The L Word spinoff takes place in prison

File this under "Is he serious?"

Robert Greenblatt, Showtime's entertainment president, finally lifted the lid on the much-talked-about The L Word spin-off. The big secret: It takes place in the slammer!

"One of the characters from The L Word goes to prison," he reports. Wait, who? It's Leisha Hailey's sweetie-pie Alice, who apparently finds herself on the wrong side of the law some time between now and the lesbian drama's series finale. Though the cast of the new show,...

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Nina Tassler (CBS) talks NCIS, The Mentalist, Swingtown

Criticized for its surplus of crime dramas, CBS nonetheless ended the fall as TVâ€™s most-watched network - and Eye entertainment prexy Nina Tassler told reporters Wednesday that sheâ€™s done making apologies.

â€œThe No. 1 new show of the season (â€˜The Mentalistâ€™) is a crime drama,â€ Tassler said at CBSâ€™ portion of the TV Critics Assn. press tour. â€œSeven of the top 15 shows are crime dramas. Six of our procedurals have increased their viewership. I�...

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