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“Bates Motel” season finale preview clip: “Midnight”

May 17, 2013 StayTuned Staff

It’s been a wild, unexpected ride through the psyche of a young Norman Bates in A&E’s Psycho prequel Bates Motel. While Freddie Highmore has proved a good choice to communicate the awkwardness and potential lethality in the future killer, Vera Farmiga has emerged as the show’s undeniable star. She’s a force of nature in every scene, careening ever-so-closely to Mommie Dearest camp yet still managing to make Norma’s emotions seem the action of a loving, if tragically misguided mother as opposed to the monster from the Hitchcock film. In this clip from the debut season’s finale, an episode titled “Midnight,” […]

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The CW primetime schedule 2013-14

May 16, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

The CW today announced its 2013-14 schedule, which will kick off in October 2013, and will include five new dramas (three premiering in fall, two in midseason). According to CW president Mark Pedowitz, “We had a terrific season last year, growing our audience on-air, digitally and socially. Now we are building on that success by continuing to add more original programming all year long, and by adding high-concept, exciting shows to our schedule … Arrow was one of the breakout hits of this season, and we’re using that show and The Vampire Diaries, our two highest-rated series, to launch our […]

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CBS primetime schedule 2013-14

May 15, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Today, CBS announced its schedule for the upcoming 2013-14 season, which will include eight new series — five comedies and three dramas. Five new series will premiere in the fall, and three at midseason. In 2013-14, CBS will be expanding its comedy block on Thursdays from 8-10pm, and creating an encore hour for comedy broadcasts on Saturdays. CBS says it will finish this current season as the top-rated network in viewers for the 10th time in 11 seasons, No. 1 in the Adults 25-54 demo, and No. 1 in Adults 18-49 for the first time since the 1991-92 season. NEW […]

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NBC primetime schedule 2013-14

May 13, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

NBC has put out its lineup of primetime shows for the upcoming 2013-14 season, including returning series, and eight new dramas and six new comedies. NBC hopes its schedule this upcoming year will be bolstered by its coverage of the Winter Games in February 2014. NEW NBC 2013-14 SERIES About a Boy — Based on the Nick Hornby novel (which was also made into a Hugh Grant film), this midseason comedy stars David Walton as Will Freeman, the ultimate man-child whose life is changed by a needy single mom (Minnie Driver) and her oddly charming 11-year-old son (Benjamin Stockham). The […]

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FOX primetime schedule 2013-14

May 13, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Along with other cool announcements like next summer’s 24: Live Another Day, Kevin Reilly, chairman, entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company, this morning unveiled the FOX primetime slate for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Along with five live-action comedies, FOX will be debuting four dramas, as well as its first event series. Plenty of FOX favorites will also be returning to the schedule next year. NEW FOX SERIES 2013-14 Dads — A new live-action, multi-camera comedy from Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. Stars Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as two successful gaming entrepreneurs and childhood best friends whose lives get […]

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FOX is bringing back “24” as 12-episode event series “24: Live Another Day”

May 13, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

FOX announced today that its iconic series 24 will have its clock restarted in Summer 2014 with the airing of 24: Live Another Day, a 12-episode event series representing 24 hours. Kiefer Sutherland will return to reprise his role as Jack Bauer from the Emmy-winning 24 series in this upcoming miniseries that FOX says will resume Jack Bauer’s story several years following the events of the final season of 24, which ended in 2010. 24: Live Another Day will reunite Kiefer Sutherland with showrunner Howard Gordon, and, according to a FOX release, “retain the real-time, pulse-pounding, fast-paced format with split […]

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Disney releases preview of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”

May 12, 2013 StayTuned Staff

The Marvel Universe is attempting to bring its recent dominance of the big screen (e.g. The Avengers, Iron Man 3, the upcoming Thor: The Dark World) to TV with Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. from Joss Whedon. Bringing cheer to the hearts of fanboys everywhere is the front-and-center presence of Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), who appeared to have met his demise at the hands of Loki in last summer’s The Avengers. But really, why are you reading this intro anymore, just watch the clip.   video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

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“The Young and the Restless” to air special tribute episode to Jeanne Cooper

May 10, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer

Actress Jeanne Cooper passed away this week at the age of 84. The Emmy-winning actress was best-known and beloved for her role as Katherine Chancellor for more than 39 years on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless (the show’s longest-running cast member), which will honor her life with a special tribute episode on May 28. Cast members, friends and family of Jeanne Cooper will gather on-set next week to shoot a celebration of the life of their late friend. As part of the tribute, the cast of The Young and the Restless will share their favorite memories […]

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The Americans FX: Producers speak out about Season 1 finale, Season 2

May 2, 2013 StayTuned Staff

The Americans ended its Season 1 run Wednesday night with a suspenseful, action-packed finale, “The Colonel.” It was a lot easier to watch knowing that the engrossing Cold War drama, which follows KGB spies Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) living deep undercover near Washington, D.C., and posing as a married couple, has been renewed for Season 2. Executive producers and writers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, who were very happy to get out of the writers room for a while, spoke with reporters this week about the finale and where the show might go from here: WARNING: THE […]