Last anniversary was a big anniversary for account from the apple of television, as the 2013 Upfronts unfolded. It's the head-spinning time of year if all the aloft networks (and some of the little guys) accord the final chat on what's been canceled, what's accepting renewed, which pilots are getting best up and accomplish any added big announcements they see fit about the abatement division and beyond. Here, a assembly of some of the better belief of the accomplished week.
Seth Meyers Moves to Late Night as SNL Bleeds Casting MembersIn the deathwatch of the account that Jimmy Fallon will yield over NBC's The Tonight Show from Jay Leno next year, Saturday Night Live arch biographer and "Weekend Update" ballast Seth Meyers was revealed to be the new Late Night host, replacing Fallon in the 12:35 a.m. slot. Both shows, which are beneath the assembly administration of SNL architect Lorne Michaels, are accepted to relaunch about the time of NBC's advantage of the Winter Olympics next February. Meyers is accepted to abide on SNL until January.
In added SNL news, Bill Hader bid farewell to the long-running account ball appearance on the May 18th division finale. There are aswell rumors that this may accept been Fred Armisen and Jason Sudeikis' endure season, admitting neither's abandonment has been confirmed.
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24 ReturnsYes, Fox appear it's bringing aback 24, the long-running Kiefer Sutherland hit that concluded in 2010 afterwards eight seasons. The arrangement will air 12 episodes of 24: Live Another Day next May, but it will be handled added like a miniseries than a acknowledgment to approved programming. Unlike the series, the new adaptation will jump about rather than affection 12 linear, minute-by-minute storylines. As for which characters will return, advance Jack Bauer is a given, and "everybody who's not asleep is still in play," according to ambassador Howard Gordon.
NBC Ball Shake-upNBC's Thursday night ball agenda is in shambles, as 30 Rock and The Office both concluded their runs this year. Come fall, the arrangement will await on abandoned adjudicator Parks & Recreation to conductor in three new shows. The a lot of able is apparently The Michael J. Fox Show, based on its name alone. In it, Fox, abiding to a arrangement TV alternation for the aboriginal time aback Spin City, riffs off his absolute life, arena a anchorperson abiding to plan afterwards getting diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Rounding out the night are Welcome to the Family, a culture-clash appearance about an interracial brace and their in-laws, and the Sean Hayes-starring Sean Saves the World, about a gay divorcé whose boyish babe moves in with him.
Community Gets a Last-Minute ReprieveSpeaking of NBC comedies, the fifth-season face-lifting of Community came as a shock to even its better fans. Afterwards getting pushed to the asleep area of Friday night this accomplished division and accident casting affiliate Chevy Chase and creator/executive ambassador Dan Harmon, anybody anticipation it was a goner – and yet it miraculously soldiers on adjoin all odds. The last-minute abatement is apparently due to the baby but articulate band afterward the appearance has, the actuality that NBC is actively defective tent-pole comedies (see above) and that it does adequately able-bodied in the cable video on-demand marketplace. Thirteen new episodes accept been ordered as a mid-season backup for 2014.
Southland and Happy Endings CanceledDespite pleas from both admirers and critics (including our own) for a sixth division renewal, Southland was canceled by TNT. The abrasive cop show, starring Ben McKenzie, Michael Cudlitz and Regina King, initially premiered on NBC afore getting canceled anon afore its additional division was set to air. TNT bought the rights to the unaired episodes and went on to blur three added seasons, which enjoyed a solid fan afterward and analytical acclaim. The more-questions-than-answers fifth division afterpiece now stands as the series' endure episode. However, there are rumors that a two-hour wrap-up, made-for-TV cine ability be a achievability in the abreast future.
Meanwhile, another fan admired and analytical darling, ABC's Happy Endings, was aswell canceled. Despite aerial beneath the radar, Endings – starring the brand of Elisha Cuthbert, Casey Wilson and Damon Wayans Jr. – lasted three seasons. But its fate became credible this accomplished season, if ABC began ambiguity the alternation about to the point area even diehards couldn't accumulate up, from Tuesday to Sunday to Friday. However, the appearance may chase in the footsteps of added network-jumpers like Southland and Cougar Town (ABC to TBS), as the USA arrangement is because acrimonious it up.
American Idol, The Voice Say Goodbye to Big NamesThe Division 12 American Idol afterpiece on May 16th apparent the end of an era for the Fox absoluteness competition, as last aboriginal adjudicator Randy Jackson said goodbye to the show. Reports accept aswell alike that first-time board Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey and Keith Urban will not be returning, forth with controlling ambassador Nigel Lythgoe. This leaves abounding befalling for the ancient ratings behemoth, which has been steadily slipping, to check its angel in an accomplishment to allurement admirers back. The abandoned holdover appears to be host Ryan Seacrest, who's accepted to acknowledgment next season.
Meanwhile, NBC's The Voice, Idol's capital antagonism in the absoluteness TV realm, is aswell rejiggering things. Newbie coaches Conductor and Shakira will footfall abreast in Division Five so that the aboriginal agenda can be reunited this fall. Yup, Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will acknowledgment to the spinning chairs, alongside mainstays Adam Levine and Blake Shelton. But accept no fear, for Conductor and Shakira will reportedly acknowledgment for Division Six next spring. The abstraction abaft affairs such a about-face is to accumulate things beginning even if the alternation cycles through two seasons in one agenda year.
Dancing With the Stars Cuts Back
In added absoluteness appearance news, ABC's Dancing With the Stars has absitively to annihilate its account after-effects appearance next season, acid aback to one two-hour adventure per week. The accommodation is allotment of a bigger-picture plan to accomplish allowance for the Joss Whedon-produced, superhero-centric Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., premiering this fall. The new Dancing architecture will amalgamate after-effects and performances, although there's no official chat on absolutely how that will agitate out.
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