News Roundup: 5 Renewals, 2 Cancellations, & a Whole Lot More

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Renewals, Cancellations, & Scheduling:
MTV has renewed Jersey Shore for a sixth season.

Starz has gone ahead and renewed Magic City (the show that follows a hotel in Miami) for a second season before it even premieres. You may recall that they did this with Boss last fall.

IFC has renewed Portlandia for a third season and Whisker Wars for a second season. They also have a new premiere date: Comedy Bang Bang and game show Bunk on Friday, June 8th.

NBC has renewed Smash for a second season.

The upcoming fourth season of Teen Mom will be the end of the show.

IFC has cancelled Onion News Network after two seasons.

SeaWorld is behind the new ABC show Sea Rescue, which will debut on April 7th. The half-hour show will "give viewers a first-hand look at how SeaWorld works to rehabilitate wounded animals and return them to the wild."

With the upfronts coming fast now, ABCFamily has a bunch of premiere dates. Bunheads, the Vegas showgirl-turned-dance-teacher drama will premiere Monday, June 11th at 9pm ET/PT. Baby Daddy, a comedy about a teen father, begins Wednesday, June 20th at 8:30pm ET/PT. Beverly Hills Nannies, an hour-long docuseries, begins Wednesday, July 11th at 9pm ET/PT.

FOX has announced many of its season finale dates, including Glee on Tuesday, May 22nd, House on Monday, May 21st (preceded by a one-hour retrospective), Raising Hope on Tuesday, April 17th, New Girl on Tuesday, May 8th, Fringe on Friday, May 11th, Bones on Monday, May 14th, and The Simpsons on Sunday, May 20th.

CBS has also announced some season finale dates, such as The Good Wife on Sunday, April 29th, The Amazing Race on Sunday, May 6th, 2 Broke Girls on Monday, May 7th, CSI on Wednesday, May 9th, CSI: NY on Friday, May 11th, The Big Bang Theory on Thursday, May 10th, Undercover Boss on Friday, May 11th, Survivor on Sunday, May 13th, How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men on Monday, May 14th, NCIS and NCIS: LA on Tuesday, May 15th, and Rules of Engagement on Thursday, May 17th.

TBS' Men at Work will launch on Thursday, May 24th. The network's Sullivan & Son will begin Thursday, July 19th.

NBC's Best Friends Forever begins Wednesday, April 4th at 8:30pm ET/PT. This six-episode comedy showcases the friendship of two girls after one faces a sudden divorce.

If you're a WrestleMania fan, you're in luck. Before the April 1st event, a one-hour documentary, Once in a Lifetime: Rock vs. Cena, will air plenty of times. First on USA on Monday, March 26th at 8pm ET/PT, it'll also be seen on SyFy, Bravo, E!, Oxygen, G4, Style, NBC Sports, Cloo, mun2, and Universal HD before the match.

The Ricky Gervais Show returns to HBO on Friday, April 20th.


Cast & Plot Updates:
Jason O'Mara (most recently seen playing a cop father on Terra Nova) will co-star in CBS' "untitled period drama pilot based on the life of rodeo cowboy-turned-Vegas sheriff Ralph Lamb."

When Alan suffers from a cardiac event on Two and a Half Men, Charlie ghost appears... and will be played by Kathy Bates.

Although Cuddy won't be back for the series finale of House, Thirteen will be! Olivia Wilde has been confirmed to do one final episode.

Eddie Izzard will play Grandpa Munster on the new CBS comedy, Mockingbird Lane. 

Teen Mom 2 subject Jenelle Evans has had a few of the charges against her dropped. Not the drug ones, though, just "making threats and harassing phone calls."

Martha Stewart will make an appearance on the Law and Order: SVU episode "Learning Curve" in April.

Doris Roberts will guest on Desperate Housewives before the series' end.

Austin Stowell (best known for playing Jesse on The Secret Life of the American Teenager) is now part of the cast of Ned Fox is My Manny, the upcoming FOX show.

Shows in Development & Other Fun Stuff:
A sequel to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is in the works. More information should be available this summer, but, for now, know that an outline and several songs are written!

DirecTV, DISH, Verizon FiOS, and AT&T U-verse will offer a free preview of Starz and Encore March 29th - April 2nd.

Ripper Street is BBCAmerica's newest drama, an eight-part series that just began filming.

WEtv has two docuseries coming this summer: Kendra on Top and Cyndi. The first follows Kendrea Wilinson-Baskett, of course, and the second follows Cyndi Lauper.

GSN will have Jeff Foxworthy host a new game show, The American Bible Challenge, to begin shooting later this month.

MTV has four new shows in the making, including The Heights (hour-long docuseries about a group of friends living in Washington Heights), Epic Fail (half-hour panel show to re-enact "cringe-worthy moments"), Totally Clueless (a hidden camera game show), and This is How I Made It (lessons in how to succeed from two celebrities each half-hour).

With SOAPnet disappearing on Friday (March 23rd), be ready for Disney Junior to take its place! It'll be geared toward kids ages 2-7.

OWN isn't doing so hot. They've had to let go of 20% of their staff (though they had a larger staff than typical cable channels) and their numbers aren't as high as they had hoped.

If ABC doesn't renew The River, Netflix might pick it up.

News Roundup: Lots of Picked-Up Pilots

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Renewals, Cancellations, & Scheduling:
HBO's Treme won't air season three until the fall, even though the previous seasons began in April.

FOX's Touch will launch in more than 100 countries (including Canada, the UK, Germany, Israel, and Russia) on March 19th.

Tonight on TLC, Sorority Girls premieres at 9pm ET/PT. The show will be about five Sorority Sisters who attempt to establish a sorority in Britain, a country that doesn't have the 200+ year history of these fraternal groups.

Bravo's Shahs of Sunset begins on Sunday, March 11th. It's a documentary series that looks at the lives of six thirty-something Persian-Americans living in Los Angeles.

History has a new fishing show coming February 9th: Mudcats, where some folks in Oklahoma catch giant catfish with their hands.

CBS will continue hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards through 2021.

HBO's Eastbound & Down will be back on Sunday, February 19th at 10pm ET/PT.

If you don't want to watch the Super Bowl, ABCFamily is going to air the five Bring It On films, beginning at 9am. Amusingly, they're not showing them in order.

HBO's Luck has already been renewed... mere days after its premiere.

It's a good thing that America's Most Wanted got back on the air after all... four fugitives were put behind bars in one week!


Cast & Plot Updates:
Lea Michele will be a guest mentor on the first episode of the second season of The Glee Project, which airs this summer on Oxygen.

Kristin Chenoweth will appear in a May episode of Hot in Cleveland.

Amber from 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom has struck a plea deal in response to her latest drug arrest - she'll complete a court-mandated drug rehabilitation program instead of going to jail for five years. She plead guilty to one count of "possession of a controlled substance" and one count of "probation violation." The hearing will be February 6th.

Leah from 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom 2 had a miscarriage.

Steve Jones will not be hosting The X-Factor anymore.

Shows in Development & Other Fun Stuff:
If you want to be in Los Angeles for the Simpsons 500th Episode Party (Monday, February 13th), you can enter until 5:59pm PT on Monday, February 6th over here.

Ben Stiller and Alan Alda may star in a new HBO comedy called All Talk, which is planned to be "politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent." The show will focus on the life of a Jewish family in Washington, DC.

The CW picked up three pilots - a "time-travel musical" called Joey Dakota, a comedy set in a New England summer resort called Shelter, and a futuristic "Hunger Games meets The Bachelor" called The Selection.

NBC bought TEN pilots last week, eight of which were comedies.

ABC has ordered a pilot based on Beauty and the Beast, despite the fact that the CW has already done the same.

I'd be surprised if you hadn't heard this one yet, but here ya go - Pat Sajak admitted to hosting the show after having a few drinks ("two or three or six") years ago.

Netflix is no longer marketing the DVD-by-mail part of its service, was they "expect DVD subscribers to decline each quarter forever," which is sad, since most brick-and-mortar video rentals are gone now. They also won't be adding video games like they had once intended.

If you're a fan of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, which runs on The Hub, get excited - you will be able to vote for the episodes for a mare-a-thon which will run on Saturday, February 11th and Tuesday, February 14th. Go vote!

As one might expect, visitors to Alcatraz Island are already creeping off the main paths to look for secret rooms. The island has posted signs, reminding tourists that Alcatraz is a fictional television show.

Can't get enough of Dearborn, Michigan after watching All-American Muslim? Well, Lifetime is coming up with ANOTHER sequel to Dance Moms... Ice Moms, which will have six episodes to start.

President Obama is a big fan of Showtime's Homeland, as is Bill Clinton and Diane Sawyer

CBS picked up three drama pilots: a period show, a PI show (Applebaum), and a character-driven procedural (Quean). They also ordered a pilot for a sitcom, written by Louis C. K. and Spike Feresten, who wrote Boomtown together ten years ago.

USA is working on The Moment, which is a nine-episode original reality series where football star Kurt Warner gives people a "second chance at reclaiming the career dreams that they put on hold when their lives took an unexpected turn." Each week, someone will have the shot to pick-up an old career where they left off, thanks to great mentors and opportunities. The someones are secretly nominated by loved ones. [USA Network Press Release]

USA picked up Political Animals, a six-hour drama series, to air this summer. It looks like it'll focus on a fictional former first family. Yep, try saying that five times fast!

USA will also be calling this February "Characters Unite Month" for the second year in a row. The goal is to combat prejudice and discrimination, which are problems everywhere. For examples of what they're doing, read here.

TLC is developing Preacher Wives, to be a "candid look into the holy worlds of outspoken ladies who work to ensure that their churches run as smooth as Southern-churned butter."

ABC is turning Scruples, Judith Krantz's 1978 best-selling novel into a one-hour drama.

The city of Hoboken will not allow Jersey Shore to film a spin-off there.

News Roundup: Return Dates, Casting Updates, Movies News, etc.

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Renewals, Cancellations, & Scheduling:

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Revealed will air on CNBC November 24th at 10pm. [CNBC Press Release]

All new episodes of What Not to Wear start on TLC November 29th at 9pm, and new episodes of Toddlers & Tiaras start at 10pm on December 7th on TLC.

Pretty Little Liars returns January 2nd at 8pm, The Lying Game returns January 2nd at 9pm, and Switched at Birth returns January 3rd at 8pm, all on ABCFamily. New ABCFamily show Jane by Design premieres January 3rd at 9pm

State of Play is coming December 7th at 10pm to BBCAmerica.

Jersey Shore returns with a fifth season on January 5th.

Phineas & Ferb was renewed for a fourth season.

The X Factor has been renewed for a second season.

Once Upon a Time, Last Man Standing, and Happy Endings all got full-season pick-ups, and Pan Am got 5 more scripts.

Downton Abbey has gotten a third series!

The Real L Word has been renewed for a third season.

Spartacus was renewed for a third season... before the second season even begins. [what's up with that? There have been quite a few shows to do that sort of thing these days... why not just renew it for multiple seasons at a time, like How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory?]

Sons of Anarchy added a 14th episode to their season, which now puts the finale on December 6th. [wow. what's the precedence for this type of thing? I can think of several shows that could have used "one more episode" to tidy things up...]

TVLand is adding The King of Queens to its lineup, with a marathon kick-off on November 13th.

Cast & Plot Updates:

Megan Mullally has joined the cast of Breaking In, and will play a character running Contra Security.

Nick Jonas has been cast as Kristin's dead-beat babydaddy on Last Man Standing. Look for him around the Christmas episode!

Jennie Garth has been cast in the ABCFamily Village People, where she will play a single career woman who adopts a baby from a teen mother... and ends up caring for both of them. [Um, Kelly Taylor + Valerie Tyler, anyone?]

Shows in Development & Other Fun Stuff:
Want to have a real-time twitter conversation with a Pan Am star? Karine Vanasse, who plays Colette, will be available via @karinevanasse during the east coast viewing of Pan Am this Sunday, November 13th.

Nickelodeon is rolling out "NickMom Primetime," with the site to launch November 14th and the 4-hour block to come to NickJr soon.

Andy Rooney passed away on November 4th, age 92. 60 Minutes did a tribute to the great on Sunday.

SyFy announced three new scripted projects this week... one where a cop becomes a ghost, one where a female KGB agent and a male American weapons inspector form a partnership, and one where "after decades of war, the newly formed Unity Democracy orders a volatile mix of humans and trans-humans to lead the Starship Defender on an expedition in search of lost worlds requiring law and order.

TLC's got a new show coming out next month, calling D.U.I., which will be like COPS only with drunk drivers failing sobriety tests in Oklahoma. Twelve episodes have been ordered. Look for it December 1st at 9pm.

New things to look for in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Paul Frank's iconic monkey - Julius and Sonic the Hedgehog. Some of this year's stars include Mary J. Blige, Neil Diamond, Michael Feinstein, Daniel Radcliffe, Ceel Lo Green, Avril Lavigne, Mannheim Steamroller, Power Rangers, the Muppets of Sesame Street, and the casts of Broadway shows Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Sister Act, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. We're talking 15 giant character balloons, 44 novelty/ornament balloons/balloonicles/balloonheads, 27 floats, 1600 cheerleaders/dancers/performers, 800 clowns, and 11 marching bands. [NBC Entertainment Press Release]

Stephen King's Bag of Bones will have an interactive online prequel.

Kate Gosselin will be a coupon blogger for CouponCabin.com, starting November 22nd.

CBS is remaking The Rifleman.

Alcatraz, a FOX midseason replacement, is doing some re-shooting of the seven completed episodes.

The Hannibal Lecter television drama will be on NBC... they've ordered 13 episodes.

Looking forward to The Muppets? Kermit the Frog will be appearing on The Tonight Show on Friday the 11th. Amy Adams will be on The Tonight Show on Monday the 14th. Miss Piggy will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday the 14th. Kermit AND Miss Piggy will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday the 16th. Jason Segel will host Saturday Night Live! on Saturday the 19th.

On the film front, there's a 3D, CGI version of Popeye coming out. There's a live-action family film planned for Where's Waldo? as well. More importantly, you can BUY your way onto the new Joss Whedon project. There's a walk-on roll for the film In Your Eyes up on Ebay... for real.

News Roundup: HawthoRNe, Regis, Netflix...

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Renewals, Cancellations, & Scheduling:
TNT cancelled HawthoRNe, a medical drama starring Jada Pinkett-Smith. It had a nice three-season run.

There's another Penguins of Madagascar special coming up! On the 9th, "Blowhole Strikes Back" will premiere.

Cast & Plot Updates:
November 18th will be Regis Philbin's last Live! with Regis and Kelly.

Other Fun Stuff:
Abercrombie & Fitch offers to pay The Situation (from Jersey Shore) to stop wearing its clothes. (Entertainment Weekly)

Sometimes words do hurt. Dan Stevens lost around 20 pounds since Downton Abbey aired - people were making fun of his size on twitter.

Netflix has launched in Brazil. 43 more countries in Latin American and the Caribbean will also have Netflix available to them in the next week. Tomorrow, a Spanish version of Netflix streaming will premiere in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Oh, and Starz streaming on Netflix will end on February 28th, as they want to preserve the pricing and packaging of their content.

Fan of The Blues Brothers? A possible TV series is in the works.

Netflix Increases & More: This Week in TV News...

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Glee isn't planning to have guest stars during Season 3.

NBC finally released their fall schedule.

Looks like the role of Lily will be recast on Modern Family.

There's a new weight loss television docu-series in the works. If you are 75+ pounds overweight and work in a food-related industry, consider auditioning!

One-third of SpongeBob fans are adults. [I find this to be news!] But, more newsworthy, with a new episode coming Friday the 15th, they've decided to debut an original story created for Twitter. The Ice Race Cometh: A Twitter-Tale will be told through a series of tweets starting today.

A new version of Care Bears will be on television soon. A network has not yet been announced, but The Hub seems to be the leading contender.

Falling Skies got renewed. A second season will run 10 episodes next summer.

Looks like The Situation has left Jersey Shore.

Part of the pilot for the new ThunderCats series has been leaked. It has a much more youthful look than the original. Tygra and Lion-O are brothers, sons of the King. Wily Kit and Wily Cat are pickpockets. Cheetara is introduced. Lion-O is presented the Eye of Thundera sword. 


Melissa & Joey has been renewed for a second season.

More on the adoption stories of Catelynn and Ashley will be revealed on a special airing on MTV tonight: 16 and Pregnant: Adoption Special.

FOX's reality series Cops will have an animated spin-off, focusing on six officers.

TNT is rebooting Dallas, launching summer 2012.

The long-anticipated Terra Nova will only air 13 episodes in its first season. This will likely mean it'll air September-December, then be off again until September 2012. All because of the allegedly groundbreaking CGI.

BBC Worldwide is offering you the chance to rent their TV episodes via Facebook.

Sherwood Schwartz, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, passed away at age 94 of natural causes.

Netflix is upping their prices. Well, for DVDs. If you want streaming-only, it's $7.99/month. For DVDs only, it's also $7.99... but if you was both, it starts at $15.98 in September (no grandfathering), and increases for options like blu-ray and multiple DVDs at a time.

If you can make great cakes or do a good impression of Buddy, send in your video to appear on a future episode of Cake Boss.

What do you think the biggest television news of the week was? My bet: the Netflix increase!

Teen Dad; Camelot Canceled; Sheen Roast

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

- CBS announced its Fall premiere dates.

- MTV UK is starting a new show July 29th called Teen Dad, which will follow six young men dealing with being young parents.

- Jennifer Finnigan, whom I loved as Maddie in last season's Better With You, has landed a lead role in USA's Wild Card, where she will again play a lawyer, this time in Las Vegas.

- On the other end of the spectrum, Camelot got canceled.

- Disney will be doing a lot at Comic-Con. For instance, they're going to have the Phineas & Ferb Platy-bus there, and you can buy four Comic-Con exclusive figurines from the show. Their booth spans 25x60 feet and will be located immediately opposite the main entrance on the convention floor. There will also be panels for Phineas & Ferb, Fish Hooks, and Kick Buttowski - Suburban Daredevil.

- If you're into watching summer repeats of current shows (as opposed to long-off-the-air-shows), the CW has moved things around a bit.

- Vinny Guadagnino has left Jersey Shore.

- Charlie Sheen is going to be roasted on Comedy Central. It'll be taped on September 10th and will air on the 19th.

Charlie Harper to Die; Fall Premiere Dates; Graphic Novels

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

If you watch a lot of shows on Hulu, be warned: FOX shows in particular will have more ads. but, they are also looking at having the viewings seen through the website on the first three days after the initial airing counted in the ratings.

Speaking of FOX, they announced their Fall premiere dates. ABC did, too.

Charlie Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, is going to be written off of Two and a Half Men by dying. Perhaps Ashton Kutcher's new character on the show will buy Charlie's old house? Plus, Charlie Sheen has finalized a deal with Lionsgate for a new television series. It'll be even racier than Two and a Half Men. Ten episode start with an option for 90 more.

Discovery has ordered a documentary special on SEAL Team Six, the elite military unit credited with killing Osama bin Laden. It will air July 10th. [EW]

On How I Met Your Mother, the actor playing Marshall's boss has changed to Martin Short.

The Voice is going to be on tour this summer.

Sam Jones III will be going to prison for a year for dealing drugs. 10,000 oxycodone pills, to be exact.

Lisa Edelstein will appear on several episodes of The Good Wife.

After the fifth season, Jersey Shore is going to feature a new cast.

There's going to be an interactive graphic novel to bridge the storylines between seasons 4 and 5 of Burn Notice. Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush will be transformed into a graphic novel as well.

Raven-Symone will be live-tweeting during the premiere of State of Georgia tomorrow night. Join the conversation with @ABCFGeorgia, @MissRavenSymone, and the writer/creator @JenniferWeiner. Tweet questions with #GeorgiaChat.

ThunderCats will run on Friday nights on Cartoon Network, starting on July 29th. To get psyched, watch Boomerang on July 16th and 17th (and everyday at 5pm starting the 18th), and Cartoon Network on the weekend of July 23rd for classic episodes! They'll also have a ComicCon panel in room 6A at 3:30pm on Friday the 22nd, which will include a screening of the premiere.

And, in not-exactly-television-news, it seems that MGM will be doing a reboot of War Games. Plus, Will Smith's daughter may be doing a movie remake of Annie. And, looks like Toy Story 4 is underway.

No Resurrection for Firefly; Updates for Next Season; Comic Book Store Show?

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

There have been a few interesting occurrences on The Price is Right lately. The first of which being that the winners of the showcase showdowns both spun $1.00 (one did it twice!), but guessed horribly off on the actual showcases. Being off by more than $20,000 and still winning? Craziness. A few days later, a woman won two cars. I feel like this used to happen somewhat regularly, but it made some news this week!

Though Netflix realizes how much Firefly is streamed, it will not be helping to resurrect the show, since the cast has aged and the sets have been destroyed.

Josh Lucas is joining The Firm on NBC. This will be his first major tv gig.

Season 4 of Jersey Shore will premiere in early August, and season 5 has been confirmed.

Extreme Couponing has been renewed for a second season, premiering in September. 

The new 90210 has ditched Teddy's character, writing him off early next season.

Kevin Smith is working on a reality show about a comic book store for AMC.

In case you missed it, Sarah Palin gave some bad American history last week, about Paul Revere. People tried to change Wikipedia to match her story, and Stephen Colbert acted it out according to her version.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey was renewed for a fourth season.

Various critics are starting to put out some first thoughts on the new shows for next season. You can see some snap judgments for ABC and FOX. And, similarly, there's now a longer preview out for Terra Nova.

Although it's been off the air for about five years now, Fear Factor is returning to television.

Katie Couric will indeed have a syndicated talk show on ABC.

Michael Cera lends his voice for an episode of The Simpsons next season.

NBC will get to air the Olympics until at least 2020, despite the fact that they won't necessarily air the events live.

NBC's The Marriage Ref will return to the air on Sunday, June 26th.

More FOX Renewals; Charlie Sheen on Entourage?

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

There will be a Glee 3D movie.

Negotiations didn't work out, so Katie Couric won't have her own CBS talk show.

Ted Nugent will be running for President next year... on The Simpsons.

Teen Mom got renewed for a 4th season... and, bonus.... season 3 will begin July 5th.

House faced a lot of potential issues in getting renewed, like the licensing fees, but it ultimately was renewed. However, the actors who play Foreman and Cuddy likely took a pay cut.

Some people think that maybe Netflix will come in and pick-up Lie to Me, which still hasn't been cancelled or renewed.

As we reported earlier this week, Jerry Seinfeld can't stand to watch Seinfeld.

Charlie Sheen wants to do a show on another network, since things aren't working out well over at CBS. Entourage wants him for their final season.

Bristol Palin will get a reality show on BIO.

I've been enjoying the new show, Pregnant in Heels. Crazy things like this are fun for me. Parodies are even starting to develop.

Family Guy and The Cleveland Show both got renewed.

MTV UK is going to have Geordie Shore, a British adaptation of Jersey Shore. Read this in Entertainment Weekly, and I must share their commentary with you! "Finally, a version of Jersey Shore in which people speak English!" hahahaha.

Katie, Meredith, Jill all Quit; Some Renewals & Cancellations

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Katie Couric is going to stop hosting the CBS Evening News to host a daytime talk show.

Similarly, Meredith Vieira will be leaving Today to care for her ill husband.

My So-Called Life will be appearing on The Sundance Channel. It will start April 25th at 11pm.

Bob's Burgers got renewed, which surprises me. This means that FOX has five shows for "Animation Domination" next season... this should lead to a rotating schedule... not a great thing for anyone!

MTV has announced that they're going to have two spin-offs from Jersey Shore. One will focus on Snooki and JWoww. The other will focus on DJ Pauly D.

As is a hot topic right now, House has not yet been renewed. If an agreement isn't reached by the 15th, it may end up on NBC instead of FOX. And, Robert Sean Leonard, who plays James Wilson on the show, may not sign a new contract if it is renewed. He's preparing to open a new show on Broadway (he was a Great White Way Vet long before House) which would interfere with the start of next season, at least.

Burn Notice will be back on Thursday, June 23rd, at 9pm. 

The Discovery Channel started a twitter contest yesterday, requiring contestants to post specific types of photos.

CMT's Working Class has been canceled. It's not looking too good for Better With You, although there is still a chance for it to be renewed.

Hulk Hogan has a six-episode show coming to TruTv... about Micro Champion Wrestling... for little people.

Jill Wagner has decided to leave Wipeout after this summer... the show is already looking for a replacement.