For Fox’s “America’s Game of the Week” in the late afternoon window on Sunday, Sep. 15, the New Orleans Saints visit the Los Angeles Rams. A preemptive cloud of controversy surrounds this tilt, as this is their first meeting since the NFC championship game back in Jan. 2019 where Los Angeles benefited from the lack […]
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CBS, not surprisingly, has issued a 22nd season renewal to summer staple “Big Brother.” Julie Chen Moonves will return as host. There will not, however, be a new addition of “Big Brother: Celebrity Edition” this winter. “Big Brother,” of course, follows a group of people living together in a house outfitted with 94 HD cameras and […]
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The league’s 100th season begins with the NFL’s annual primetime kickoff game, as two of the NFL’s oldest franchises renew one of the richest rivalries in sports when the Chicago Bears host the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field on Thursday, September 5 (8:20 PM ET, NBC). The New England Patriots begins defense of its […]
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CBS Cancels Drama ‘Instinct’
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CBS has opted against a third season of drama “Instinct.” Debuting on March 18, 2018, the series featured Alan Cumming as university professor, and former CIA paramilitary officer Dr. Dylan Reinhart who is lured back to his old life by New York Police detective Elizabeth Needham (Bojana Novalovic) when she needs his help to stop […]
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CBS Renews ‘Love Island’ for Season 2
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Despite the modest traditional Nielsen ratings, CBS has greenlit current summer dating/relationship strip “Love Island” for a second season in 2020. The pickup is a result of the younger audience skew, particularly females, who are now tuning into CBS. “Love Island,” based on the U.K. format, maroons a group of singles on an island and […]
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The NFL’s 65-game 2019 preseason schedule, which includes a slate of eight nationally televised games, kicks off on Thursday, August 1 (NBC, 8:00 PM ET) in Canton, Ohio, when the Atlanta Falcons face the Denver Broncos in the NFL/Hall of Fame Game at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. All preseason games will be shown […]
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CBS has greenlit recent drama entry “Blood & Treasure” for a second season, which concludes its inaugural season on July 16. The number of new episodes ordered has not been confirmed. The series stars Matt Barr (“Sleepy Hollow”) as a brilliant antiquities expert who teams with a cunning art thief (Sofia Pernas, “The Brave”) to […]
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CBS has given a series production commitment to an adaptation of Michael Connelly’s best-seller “The Lincoln Lawyer” from David E. Kelley (“Big Little Lies”). The drama, like Connelly’s series of novels and the 2011 film starring Matthew McConaughey, revolves around Mickey Haller, an iconoclastic idealist who runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln […]
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CBS as unveiled the premiere dates for its 2019-2020 fall season that begins Monday, Sept. 23. The eye net’s official premiere week will feature the launch of five new shows on two nights (Monday and Thursday), and 15 returning series. Three returning series will launch the following week. Here is the CBS premiere dates for […]