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Desperate Housewives vai acabar no fim da próxima temporada.

ABC Will End 'Desperate Housewives' In May 2012 After 8th Season
It's a sad day for the smart and sassy suburban women on Wisteria Lane and the worldwide audience of approximately 120 million who watch them. We've just learned that ABC will announce on Sunday at the Television Critics Association's press tour that this 2011-2012 season will be the last for long-running Desperate Housewives. Key castmembers are starting to be told, and we hear that Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria are shocked and saddened since the ABC Studios series created by Marc Cherry was expected to continue until 2013 after the longtime showrunner had said that he wanted the show to go for 9 seasons. ABC also contracted with the show's four stars for the next season after lengthy salary negotiations with the quartet this past season. In addition to signing them for this coming season, ABC also got options on them for Season 9. But when this season's premiere episode is broadcast on Sunday, September 25th, it will be the first for the series without Cherry at the helm. He stepped down at the end of last season as executive producer/showrunner and is expected to be a consultant on Season 8 while focusing on development of other series. Cherry also was slapped by former castmate Nicolette Sheridan with an embarrassing lawsuit over a purported slap which is still winding its way through the Los Angeles courts. Her claims of battery, wrongful termination, and unlawful retaliation will be argued in front of a jury. Since the provocative and profitable dramedy's premiere on October 3, 2004, the show has been a hit with viewers and critics alike: a solid Nielsen performer as well as a multiple Emmy and Screen Actors Guild award winner. The series premiere drew 21.6 million viewers and the show's first season finale attracted over 30 million viewers. Since 2006 and continuing into 2010, it was the most-watched comedy series internationally, with an average viewership of 51.6 million viewers across 68 territories. Moreover, it was the third-highest revenue earning show for 2010, with $2.74 million per half hour.

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FX renova Louie, Wilfred e It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia para novas temporadas.

FX Orders Two More Seasons of It's Always Sunny, Renews Wilfred and Louie
Let's celebrate at Paddy's Pub! It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be around for two more seasons.

John Landgraf, FX's president and general manager, announced Saturday at the Television Critics Association fall TV previews that the network has renewed Sunny for two seasons, and also picked up Wilfred and Louie for another 13-episode season apiece.

It's Always Sunny's Glenn Howerton, wife expecting first child

"We actually have an option ... to pick up a 10th season [of Sunny]. We're just picking up two for now," Landgraf said. "I don't know what stories they're going to do in Seasons 8 and 9, but I have seen all the episodes that comprise Season 7 that will be airing this September. Legitimately I think it's their funniest season so far. ... It's just uproariously funny."

The two additional seasons brings Sunny to nine seasons total, making it the longest-running live-action comedy series in basic cable history.

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Wilfred, the oddball comedy starring Elijah Wood and Jason Gann as a guy in a dog suit, debuted this year and is watched by 5 million viewers a week. Louie, created by and starring comedian Louis C.K., has increased its ratings to 3 million viewers, up 56 percent over its freshman season.

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Leverage renovada para uma quinta temporada

'Leverage' Renewed by TNT for a Fifth Season

TNT has renewed its fast-paced, light-hearted caper drama Leverage for a fifth season, just as the fourth season is shaping up to score the show’s biggest ratings yet. TNT has ordered 15 episodes of Leverage, with the fifth season slated to launch in summer 2012. The series – which centers on a gang of grifters, hackers and thieves out to settle scores against the rich and powerful – currently airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m. (ET/PT). After the show’s Aug. 28 summer finale, Leverage will return to wrap up its fourth season with new episodes in November and December.

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Desperate até continuava a gostar, mas entendo o terminarem antes que pessoal se comece a cansar da coisa. Mas ainda vejo melhor do que House por exemplo, que me cansou mais depressa.

Elas quando engrenam mais pelo Dramedy do que pelo Drama só aguentam bem aquilo

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MTV Cancels 'Hard Times Of RJ Berger'

It was the first of MTV's new generation of scripted series. Now The Hard Times of RJ Berger has been canceled after 2 seasons, series co-creator Seth Grahame-Smith tweeted earlier today. The series, which Grahame-Smith co-created with David Katzenberg, launched with 2.8 million viewers last year when it aired after the MTV Movie Awards. Its second season premiere hit a series high of 3.1 million viewers airing behind Jersey Shore. But by the end of the second season run in May, the series' viewership had dropped below 1 million. RJ Berger, which stars Paul Iacono as a well-endowed high-school student, is the second MTV scripted series to be canceled following the axing of Skins after one season. Teen Wolf has been renewed for a second season, and new comedy Awkward appears a lock for a second-season renewal after hitting a series high in persons 12-34 this week. Coming up is the premiere of Death Valley on August 29 and a post-Video Music Awards sneak of I Just Want My Pants Back, and the October launch of animated comedies Beavis and Butt-head and Good Vibes. The Inbetweeners is in production for a 2012 debut.

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Bem, quanto a Eureka é algo que não me espanta... A SyFy tá claramente a cair na decadência e não me espantaria se o canal acabasse. (Mais mudar de nome porque de Sci Fi já tem muito pouco) Via tanta série SyFy, agora já só resta uma...

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HBO Pick Ups Boxing Drama ‘Da Brick’ To Pilot

It looks like Da Brick is a go at HBO. I hear the pay cable network has handed out a pilot order to the drama project about a young boxer from Entourage creator Doug Ellin, filmmaker Spike Lee, former boxing champion Mike Tyson and writer John Ridley. Ridley wrote the script for the pilot, which will be directed by Lee. Set in current-day Newark, NJ, nicknamed “brick city,” Da Brick is described as a contemporary exploration of what it means to be a young, black man in supposedly post-racial America and is loosely inspired by aspects of Tyson’s youth. Search is under way for an young black actor to play the lead.

Da Brick stems from Tyson’s 2010 guest appearance on Ellin’s HBO comedy Entourage, a series inspired by executive producer Mark Wahlberg’s early years in Hollywood. “That’s when Mike asked me, why don’t we do with my life what we did with Mark’s life,” Ellin told me back in June when Da Brick was still in development. “The initial idea was ‘Entourage meets The Wire,‘ an edgy story about an up-and-coming boxer and his crew that is much more dramatic than Entourage.” While it was not a series Ellin felt he would write, he and his producing partner Jim Lefkowitz decided to develop and produce it through their company. Lefkowitz brought in writer Ridley who, in turn, brought in Lee, with whom he had been developing a movie about the L.A. riots. Ellin, Lefkowitz, Ridley, Lee and Tyson are executive producing Da Brick, with Tyson’s wife Lakiha Tyson and Azim Spicer, CEO of Las Vegas’ SpiceReel Prods., co-executive producing.

This is Ellin’s second pilot order this year at HBO, where he is under a multi-year overall deal. In addition to Da Brick, Ellin, who recently signed with CAA, also wrote and will direct the ensemble comedy 40, which is now casting. Ed Burns and Michael Rapaport have already been tapped as two of the 4 leads. Lee and Ridley are also with CAA.

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'Blues Brothers' readies for primetime

Jake and Elwood Blues are on a new mission: to find a place in primetime.
A new incarnation of the Blues Brothers, the duo made famous by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the late 1970s, is about to be pitched to studios and networks in the form of a new TV series.Current TV rights have long been owned by Aykroyd and Judy Belushi -- John's ex-wife -- while Universal owns the film rights. Belushi and former "Saturday Night Live" writer Anne Beatts, along with Wayne Catania and Kieron Lafferty, have penned a pilot.

Script has the pair out of jail and Elwood, who was raised in an orphanage, looking for his real dad. Casting has yet to be determined.

Beatts, Belushi and Eric Gardner of Panacea Entertainment would exec produce. Aykroyd will participate in the project as the voice of Jake and Elwood's parole officer.

The Blues Brothers debuted in a 1978 "Saturday Night Live" episode hosted by Steve Martin. The popularity of Belushi's and Aykroyd's characters quickly took off, and soon the pair went on to form a band that toured the country. A bigscreen pic, 1980's "The Blues Brothers," directed by John Landis, grossed more than $100 million worldwide.

After Belushi died in 1982, Aykroyd kept the spirit of the Blues Brothers alive. He was an investor in the nationwide House of Blues venues and often toured and sang with John's brother, Jim Belushi, as the Blues Brothers. A movie sequel, "Blues Brothers 2000," was released in 1998.

"I think these are great American characters," Judy Belushi told Variety. "We want to keep them alive. We chose to introduce them as new characters but do it in an way that they have some history, have some life behind them."

Added Beatts: "We're not trying to replicate Dan and John but Jake and Elwood."

If the pilot goes to series, each episode would include a musical number, presumably featuring a new Blues Brothers band.

"It would be 'Route 66' meets 'Glee,' and it all goes to hell in a handbasket," Beatts said.

Gardner is hoping that, in addition to a TV series, there would also be branding opportunities for Blue Brothers merchandise, including the Bluesmobile.

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Showtime Teams With Steven Spielberg And Stephen King For ‘Under The Dome’ Series

In one of Showtime’s most ambitious undertakings, the pay cable network is partnering with Steven Spielberg and Stephen King for Under the Dome, a drama series based on King’s 2009 novel, which will be produced by DreamWorks Television. The supernatural thriller revolves around locals at a Maine vacation spot who battle one another when a force field suddenly surrounds their town and cuts them off from the rest of the world. DreamWorks’ Spielberg and Stacey Snider nabbed the rights to King’s novel shortly after it was published in November 2009 to strong reviews. Search is underway for a writer to write the project, whose executive producers will include King and DreamWorks TV’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank. Spielberg has a longstanding relationship with King. He previously teamed with the bestselling author to adapt his 1984 novel The Talisman, which was originally developed as feature and then as a miniseries that was once set up at TNT.

This marks a return to genre series for Showtime, which took a break following the 2003 dramedy Dead Like Me, and the network’s latest collaboration with DreamWorks TV. The production company’s dark comedy United States of Tara ran on the pay cable network for 3 seasons and its costume drama The Borgias is now in production on Season 2. Elsewhere, DreamWorks’ new TNT series Falling Skies was recently renewed for a second season. The WME-repped company has 3 new broadcast series launching this coming season: NBC’s Smash, which was originally developed at Showtime, Fox’s Terra Nova and ABC’s The River.

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ABC Buys Western From Ron Moore

The Western genre continues to be hot at the TV networks. In a competitive situation, ABC has bought drama pitch Hangtown, from Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer Ron Moore and Caprica writer Matt Roberts. Sony Pictures TV, where Moore is under an overall deal, is producing. Described as a Western with a procedural overlay, Hangtown is set in the early 1900s in a frontier town that’s begun rapidly expanding with the coming of the railroad. It centers on three characters: the Marshal, a Matt Dillon/Clint Eastwood type who prefers to solve crimes by his instinct; a young doctor from the East Coast who is interested in using the new field of forensics to solve crimes; and a young woman writer who is trying to sell dime novels to the publishing houses in New York about crime in the Wild West. Every week the instincts of the Marshal, the science of the doctor, and the young woman’s drive to tell a rousing good yarn to her editors combine to solve crimes in a wide-open, lawless town. This is the second drama Western project ABC has bought this development season, along with David Zabel’s Gunslinger, from ABC Studios. Additionally, TNT recently gave a cast-contingent pilot order to Bruce C. McKenna and Danny Cannon’s Gateway, set in the 1880s. Also interested in Hangtown was NBC, which ordered Western Reconstruction to pilot last season. Starting the current TV renaissance of the genre was AMC, which has the 1860s series Hell on Wheels coming up. Last season, CAA-repped Moore had fantasy/cop drama pilot 17th Precinct in contention on NBC.

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‘Romancing The Stone’ TV Adaptation Lands At NBC With Penalty, Shawn Levy May Direct

The classic 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy Romancing the Stone is headed to the small screen. NBC has bought a TV series adaptation of the Robert Zemeckis movie, which was produced by 20th Century Fox and starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. The TV project, from 20th Century Fox TV and Shawn Levy and Marty Adelstein’s studio-based 21 Laps/Adelstein Prods, has received a script commitment with penalty from NBC. The Forgotten creator Mark Friedman will write the series adaptation with Levy attached to direct subject to feature availability. The 1984 film starred Turner as a romance writer who sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure alongside a swashbuckling American bird exporter, played by Douglas.

NBC’s version will follow a successful but unfulfilled woman who teams with a risk-taking adventurer to take on weekly missions while on a larger quest to find her missing brother. Friedman, Levy, Adelstein and 21 Laps/Adelstein’s Becky Clements are executive producing. Friedman and Levy have known each other since their days at USC Film School, where Friedman wrote Levy’s thesis film Broken Record that launched Levy’s career. Friedman also is writing two features for the film division of Levy’s 21 Laps. 21 Laps/Adelstein, which was launched a little over year ago, has its first series, the Tim Allen starrer Last Man Standing, launching on ABC in October.

There has been chatter over the past few years about Fox mounting a feature remake of Romancing the Stone with The Ugly Truth director Robert Luketic and stars Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler rumored for it at one point.

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Kevin Smith Opens His ‘Secret Stash’ in New AMC Series

After many months of behind-the-scenes drama on its costly scripted drama series, AMC, the cable home of “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” and “The Walking Dead,” said on Thursday that it was moving forward on two new reality programs – shows that will presumably be easier on the channel’s pocketbook and won’t result in as many backstage headaches.

The first show, “Secret Stash,” comes from Kevin Smith (who earned his geek-culture bona fides with his films “Clerks” and “Chasing Amy”) and is set in his Red Bank, N.J., comics shop, Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. AMC said in a news release that the series would capture “the world of the neighborhood comic-book store and fanboy culture” and is planned for a first-quarter 2012 premiere. The ever-talkative Mr. Smith, who will be an executive producer of the show, said in a statement that he was “ecstatic, proud, and extremely lucky to be in bed with a network I watch religiously anyway,” adding: “If they’d pushed just a little harder in the negotiations, I’d have done this show for no payment beyond early access to every episode of ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Walking Dead.’ ”

The second show, “JJK Security,” chronicles a family-owned private security company in rural Georgia. AMC said the series was inspired “by what filmmakers like the Coen Brothers, Christopher Guest and Robert Altman have done capturing quirky, larger than life characters in the scripted realm,” and will make its debut in the third quarter of 2012.

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Big C renovada para uma terceira temporada

'The Big C' Renewed By Showtime For A Third Season

As the powerful second season of The Big C draws to a shocking conclusion on Monday, September 26th, SHOWTIME has picked up a third season of the critically-acclaimed comedy series starring Laura Linney as a reserved, suburban wife/mother/teacher whose terminal cancer diagnosis forces her to shake up her life and find the light side of a dark situation. Ten new episodes will go into production starting early next year for debut in the second quarter of 2012. The Big C is created and written by Darlene Hunt, who serves as executive producer, along with showrunner Jenny Bicks, Laura Linney, Neal H. Moritz and Vivian Cannon. It is produced by Sony Pictures Television.

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James Gandolfini To Produce & Possibly Star In HBO Antarctica Comedic Drama

HBO has teamed with James Gandolfini for Big Dead Place, a drama based on Nicholas Johnson’s memoir about his stint working for the U.S. Antarctic Program. Gandolfini is executive producing the project, which is being developed as a starring vehicle for him. Breaking Bad writer-producer Peter Gould has been tapped to write the series adaptation, a tragicomic eye view of the fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity of the people living and working the last untamed frontier on the planet — the research base at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Gandolfini and Gould are executive producing with Mosaic’s Jimmy Miller, Gandolfini’s managers Nancy Sanders & Mark Armstrong and actor-writer Brian Swibel, with Sam Hansen serving as co-executive producer. HBO, where Gandolfini has had a production deal for his Attaboy banner since 2006, has been looking to find a new series vehicle for Gandolfini, a followup to his iconic role on the network’s mob drama The Sopranos. He has flirted with a number of projects, including an U.S. version of the hit French Canadian single-camera comedy series Taxi-22, but none so far has gone past the development stage. On the producing side, Gandolfini is executive producing HBO’s upcoming biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman. Gould recently did another book adaptation for HBO, this time on the movie side. He wrote the network’s film Too Big To Fail, based on Andrew Sorkin’s book, which earned him an Emmy nomination. Gandolfini and Gould are with CAA.

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Hawthorne cancelada

TNT Cancels Drama Series ‘Hawthorne’

After weeks of rumors, TNT today made it official: the Jada Pinkett Smith-starring medical drama Hawthorne is being canceled after 3 seasons. Also on the bubble with a 50/50 chance of return is the network’s sophomore Memphis Beat. Of the 2, Memphis Beat has been the stronger performer, ending its second season a couple of weeks ago with 4.9 million viewers for the finale. Hawthorne‘s Season 3 closer posted 3.6 million viewers. Hawthorne is the second TNT series to get the axe this summer following the cancellation of Men of a Certain Age. Here is the network’s statement:


TNT has decided not to order a fourth season of HawthoRNe. TNT truly appreciates the tremendous dedication of everyone involved in HawthoRNe. The series gave TNT the opportunity to work with many outstanding people, including Jada Pinkett Smith and the rest of the show’s talented cast, crew, producers and writers. We wish everyone involved with HawthoRNe nothing but the best.

Pinkett Smith also addressed the cancellation online. “I want to say thank you to all the fans for being Hawthorne soldiers…All our facebook fans…twitter soldiers and viewers…you held us down,” she wrote. “Of course you know there is more to come…believe it!”