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What Shows Were Renewed and Cancelled in 2016?

May 13, 2016 By Clarissa Leave a Comment

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The broadcast networks started announcing early renewals weeks ago, but the fate of some bubble shows are usually decided just before the networks make their Upfront presentations (which are happening the week of May 15). In the last few days, the news of last-minute renewals and cancellations has been coming fast and furious, so to help you keep track we break down what’s been renewed and cancelled across each network.

Read The TV Addict’s Full 2016 Upfronts Coverage

ABC

AMERICAN CRIME: Renewed
AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS: Renewed
THE BACHELOR: Renewed
BLACK-ISH: Renewed
BLOOD & OIL: Cancelled
CASTLE: Cancelled
THE CATCH: Renewed
DANCING WITH THE STARS: Renewed
DR. KEN: Renewed
THE FAMILY: Cancelled
FRESH OFF THE BOAT: Renewed
GALAVANT: Cancelled
THE GOLDBERGS: Renewed
GREY’S ANATOMY: Renewed
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER: Renewed
LAST MAN STANDING: Renewed
MARVEL’S AGENT CARTER: Cancelled
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.: Renewed
THE MIDDLE: Renewed
MISTRESSES: Renewed
MODERN FAMILY: Renewed
THE MUPPETS: Cancelled
NASHVILLE: Cancelled
OF KINGS AND PROPHETS: Cancelled
ONCE UPON A TIME: Renewed
QUANTICO: Renewed
THE REAL O’NEALS: Renewed
SCANDAL: Renewed
SHARK TANK: Renewed
UNCLE BUCK: Premieres at midseason
THE WHISPERS: Cancelled
WICKED CITY: Cancelled

CBS

2 BROKE GIRLS: Renewed
THE AMAZING RACE: Renewed
ANGEL FROM HELL: Cancelled
THE BIG BANG THEORY: Renewed
BIG BROTHER: Renewed
BLUE BLOODS: Renewed
CODE BLACK: Renewed
CRIMINAL MINDS: Renewed
CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS: Renewed
CSI: CYBER: Cancelled
ELEMENTARY: Renewed
EXTANT: Cancelled
THE GOOD WIFE: Series ended in May
HAWAII FIVE-0: Renewed
LIFE IN PIECES: Renewed
LIMITLESS: Cancelled
MADAM SECRETARY: Renewed
MIKE & MOLLY: Cancelled
MOM: Renewed
NCIS: Renewed for Seasons 14 and 15
NCIS: LOS ANGELES: Renewed
NCIS: NEW ORLEANS: Renewed
THE ODD COUPLE: Renewed
PERSON OF INTEREST: Cancelled
RUSH HOUR: Cancelled
SCORPION: Renewed
SUPERGIRL: Renewed for Season 2 (on The CW)
SURVIVOR: Renewed
UNDER THE DOME: Cancelled
UNDERCOVER BOSS: Renewed
ZOO: Renewed

Fox

AMERICAN IDOL: Final season concluded
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER?: Cancelled
BOB’S BURGERS: Renewed
BONES: Renewed for final 12th season
BOOM!: Cancelled
BORDERTOWN: Cancelled
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: Renewed
COOPER BARRETT’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE: Cancelled
EMPIRE: Renewed
FAMILY GUY: Renewed
GOTHAM: Renewed
GRANDFATHERED: Cancelled
THE GRINDER: Cancelled
HELL’S KITCHEN: Fate unknown
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH: Renewed
LUCIFER: Renewed
MASTERCHEF: Renewed
MASTERCHEF JUNIOR: Renewed
MINORITY REPORT: Cancelled
NEW GIRL: Renewed
ROSEWOOD: Renewed
SCREAM QUEENS: Renewed
SECOND CHANCE: Cancelled
THE SIMPSONS: Renewed
SLEEPY HOLLOW: Renewed
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE: Renewed
WAYWARD PINES: Renewed
WORLD’S FUNNIEST: Renewed
THE X-FILES: Fate unknown (but it will likely return in the future)

NBC

AMERICA’S GOT TALENT: Renewed
AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR: Renewed
AQUARIUS: Renewed
BEST TIME EVER WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: Cancelled
THE BIGGEST LOSER: Fate unknown
THE BLACKLIST: Renewed
BLINDSPOT: Renewed
THE CARMICHAEL SHOW: Renewed
CELEBRITY APPRENTICE: Renewed (to return in late 2016)
CHICAGO Fire: Renewed
CHICAGO Med: Renewed
CHICAGO P.D.: Renewed
CROWDED: Cancelled
EMERALD CITY: Premieres at midseason
GAME OF SILENCE: Cancelled
GRIMM: Renewed
HANNIBAL: Cancelled
HEARTBEAT: Cancelled
HEROES REBORN: Cancelled
HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT: Fate unknown
LAW & ORDER: SVU: Renewed
LITTLE BIG SHOWS: Renewed
MR. ROBINSON: Cancelled
THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA: Cancelled
THE NIGHT SHIFT: Season 3 premieres June 1
THE PLAYER: Basically Cancelled
SHADES OF BLUE: Renewed
SUPERSTORE: Renewed
TELENOVELA: Cancelled
TRUTH BE TOLD: Fate unknown
UNDATEABLE: Cancelled
THE VOICE: Renewed

The CW

THE 100: Renewed
AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL: Cancelled (moving to Vh1 with a new host)
ARROW: Renewed
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Final season airs in Summer 2016
CONTAINMENT: Cancelled
CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND: Renewed
DC’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW: Renewed
THE FLASH: Renewed
iZOMBIEe: Renewed
JANE THE VIRGIN: Renewed
THE MESSENGERS: Cancelled
THE ORIGINALS: Renewed
REIGN: Renewed
SIGNIFICANT MOTHER: Cancelled
SUPERGIRL: Season 2 to air on The CW
SUPERNATURAL: Renewed
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES: Renewed
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?: Season 4 premieres soon

Filed Under: Featured, Upfronts

The CW Orders RIVERDALE, FREQUENCY and NO TOMORROW to Series

May 12, 2016 By Clarissa Leave a Comment

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The CW has picked up three new series for the 2016-2017 season: RIVERDALE, FREQUENCY and NO TOMORROW. In addition, the network has taken over SUPERGIRL from CBS.

Here’s what you need to know about the new shows:

RIVERDALE: Set in present day and based on the Archie Comics characters, RIVERDALE is a surprising  take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, and their friends. The series explores the surrealism of small town life and focuses on the darkness and strangeness that is going on behind the scenes of Riverdale’s “wholesome façade”. (Cast: Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse, Ashleigh Murray, Luke Perry, KJ Apa, Madelaine Petsch, Camila Mendes, Marisol Nichols, Mädchen Amick).

NO TOMORROW: When a risk-averse, straight arrow, female procurement manager at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a freewheeling man who lives life to the fullest because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, to comedic and poignant results they embark on a quest together to fulfill their individual bucket lists. (Cast: Tori Anderson, Josh Sasse, Sarayu Blue, Amy Pietz, Jesse Rath, Jonathan Langdon).

FREQUENCY: In this reimagining of the New Line Cinema film, a female police detective in 2016 discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (also a detective) who died in 1996. They forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the ‘butterfly effect’ wreak havoc in the present day. (Cast: Riley Smith, Mekhi Phifer, Peyton List, Lenny Jacobson, Anthony Ruivivar, Devin Kelley, Daniel Bonjour).

These shows will join nearly the entire current CW line-up, as the network recently renewed 11 of its existing shows. CONTAINMENT has been cancelled and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is set to end this summer.

For more on which shows are getting picked-up, renewed and cancelled, click here.

Filed Under: Featured, The CW, Upfronts

On TV Tonight: Wednesday May 11, 2016

May 11, 2016 By theTVaddict Leave a Comment

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ABCThe MiddleThe GoldbergsModern FamilyBlackishNashville
CBSSurvivor: Kaoh RongCriminal MindsCriminal Minds: Beyond Borders
CWArrowSupernatural
FOXRosewoodEmpireThe Americans (FX)
NBCHeartbeatLaw & Order: SVUChicago PD
MISCChelsea (Netflix)Maron (IFC)
Underground (WGN America)
The Path (Hulu)
Rogue (DirecTV)
Lopez/Soul Man (TVLand)
The Last Panthers (Sundance)

Orange denotes what the TV Addict is watching and/or recording tonight!

Filed Under: Featured, on tv tonight

DEAD OF SUMMER Preview: There’s Something Lurking in the Woods in Freeform’s New Series

May 9, 2016 By Clarissa Leave a Comment

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Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, the creators of ONCE UPON A TIME, are moving away from fantasy and fairy tales and into the horror genre in the new Freeform series DEAD OF SUMMER.

The series is set in the late 1980s at Camp Stillwater. But this seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp isn’t just about first loves and summer fun. The camp has a dark and ancient mythology and suddenly blood is running through the clear river as scares and evil hide around every dark turn. Freeform describes the series as “part coming-of-age story, part supernatural horror story”.

DEAD OF SUMMER stars Elizabeth Mitchell (LOST), Elizabeth Lail (ONCE UPON A TIME), Zelda Williams (TEEN WOLF), Mark Indelicato (UGLY BETTY), Alberto Frezza (CHARLIE’S ANGELS), Eli Goree (THE 100), Ronen Rubinstein (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK), Amber Coney (CLASS) and Paulina Singer (GOTHAM).

DEAD OF SUMMER premieres on June 28 on Freeform.

Filed Under: Dead of Summer, Featured, Freeform

On TV Tonight: Wednesday May 4, 2016

May 4, 2016 By theTVaddict Leave a Comment

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NET8PM8:30PM9PM9:30PM10PM10:30PM
ABCThe MiddleThe GoldbergsModern FamilyBlackishNashville
CBSSurvivor: Kaoh RongCriminal MindsCriminal Minds: Beyond Borders
CWArrowSupernatural
FOXRosewoodEmpireThe Americans (FX)
NBCHeartbeatLaw & Order: SVUChicago PD
MISCDeadbeat (Hulu)Maron (IFC)
Underground (WGN America)
The Path (Hulu)
Rogue (DirecTV)
Lopez/Soul Man (TVLand)
The Last Panthers (Sundance)
Broad City/Time Traveling Bong (Comedy)

Orange denotes what the TV Addict is watching and/or recording tonight!

Filed Under: Featured, on tv tonight

BONES Redux: Our Top 5 Moments from “The Monster In The Closet”

May 3, 2016 By CJ Stevens Leave a Comment

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Hey, Bones fans! When last we left our lovely gang, Hodgins was alienating everyone around him. Let’s see what we have in store this week. Here are your Bones Top Five Moments!

Christine and the Monster in the Closet
So, Christine has reached that age when there’s a monster in the closet. While Booth tries to comfort his daughter about how he already scared away the monster, Brennan, ever helpful, reminds them that monsters aren’t real, and therefore whatever Booth did was ineffectual. Even Aubrey weighs in. He says the key is for Christine to go up to her closet and tell the monster to go bye-bye, or her dad is “going to put a cap in his ass.”

In the end, Booth does kind of take Aubrey’s advice, though probably not the cap in the ass part, and she figures out there are no monsters…or are there?

Hodgins is Worse
Well, okay then. Hodgins is still being rude to everyone. Brennan, who can be quite rude to the living herself, demands he have respect for the dead. Angela points out that respect is no longer a part of Hodgins’ vocabulary. But apparently work Hodgins is Happy Hodgins. Again, show, I don’t understand why you’re doing this.

Corpse of the Week
Allison Monroe, 42. Disappeared a week before their tenth anniversary. Yeesh.

Ew, gross. Yuck. Taxidermy was performed on her, and the killer stuck a wire through her skeleton in order to pose her. This is a killer with dedication and work ethic. And he lived with the body for at least six months. But then like all dead bodies do, she mouthed off in some way that made him angry, and he killed her again. Is it Hodgins? Because he’s so angry at everyone right now.

Anyway, she was wearing old-fashioned clothes, and in her purse was an old-fashioned cassette tape with old-fashioned music on it. There’s also a small Bible, with marked passages that have to do with punishment for the wicked. The whole thing is really creepy.

All of this means another visit from Karen the profiler. I think last time she didn’t really profile so well, so I’m hoping there’s an improvement.

Hubby is not at all the grieving widow. He said Allison never went missing, so two hours after she was gone, he knew. Whatever, dude. Sometimes knowing something in theory isn’t the same as receiving confirmation. You’re like the poster boy for stoicism. Anyway, Allison was a social worker who took on the most difficult cases.

Hubby suggests they talk to Neal, her supervisor, since Allison got all kinds of threats from people whose kids are taken away from them, as well as prospective foster parents Allison deemed unfit.

Arastoo is back, and awkwardness ensues. This one is Brennan’s fault. But he’s there, and Cam looks really happy about it. Not.

However, when she gets alone with Angela, who admits she’s plotting to kill her husband, Cam says it’s “really, really great” that he’s there. Ugh. And he turned down the job in Berlin, so this does not look good for Sebastian. Color me unhappy.

But he is useful, in that he realized this isn’t the first time he’s seen someone killed this way. And hilariously, the reason Brennan didn’t know about the other body, is because the bones were cataloged at a time when she and Booth quit their jobs. I won’t go into how the second Brennan returned she would have gone over each cataloging to make sure everything was done correctly. Let’s just go with it.

There’s a serial killer on the loose
So, the other victim is an unidentified dude. Scavengers ate his face, so even Angela’s magical toys couldn’t do a facial reconstruction. Arastoo also did all of the tests he could to figure out who the guy was, but to no avail. Brennan, in her efforts to always not respect the living, tells Arastoo he did all he could and therefore should not feel guilty the killer is still on the loose.

His conscience is clear, but it appears Brennan is feeling all of it for herself, since she wasn’t there.

Karen the profiler has profiled the killer, and no surprise, he’s super-intelligent, because they all are on these shows. He also may have schizophrenia and is “totally cray-cray.” Yeah, if you were the FBI, wouldn’t you have total confidence in this woman? It turns out she’s only using that term because she’s been reading over Sweets’ old notes, and it said Booth would get annoyed by overly complex and officious-sounding language. Look, smarty-pants, there’s a vast chasm between complex language and condescending language that makes it sound like you’re talking to a three year old. “He’s crazy” would have been more than efficient and not made you sound like, as Aubrey says, a thirteen year old.

And if she’s the profiler, why doesn’t she try and read Booth as opposed to looking at Sweets’ notes? Karen, you’re going to need to step up your game.

Allison served as a mother figure. The killer wanted to be punished, which is why he marked up the Bible that way. Allison, in life, fit the bill for what he needed. A strong, but kind, maternal figure. But then his urge grew stronger, so he double-killed her, in order to be free to go out and murder again.

As for the unidentified dude, they’re going to look through missing persons for a guy who was a pillar of the community. Got that? Me, neither.

Aubrey goes to see Allison’s boss, Neal, who gives up all of her files immediately. Then based on Karen’s recommendation that the killer gave Allison tons of positive attention, Aubrey concentrates on Neal and asks about their relationship. I guess we’re forgetting another guy was murdered the same way. Turns out Neal had strong stalker tendencies, but he’s no killer.

Booth and Brennan head to the home of George Gibbons. Since the picture in the file is Jim Beaver of Supernatural fame (RIP Bobby!), I’m going with him being Mr. Cray-Cray.

He was turned down for being a foster parent due to that pesky kidnapping charge, but though he knew he’d be rejected, he kept going back again for another try, because Allison’s siren song was too beautiful to ignore.

They pull up to a house Criminal Minds would be proud of. Remote location. Broken windows. The smell of possible fetid remains means Booth has probable cause to enter without permission. Cats are everywhere, and it looks like the horror movie version of Hoarders. Brennan finds a necklace belonging to Allison, so I think they’ve wrapped this one up.

There’s a noise that Booth goes upstairs to inspect, and if you didn’t expect a cat scare in a house full of cats, you’d be wrong. But then! A knife to the throat. “Don’t move,” George says. And I think he means it.

Booth takes out his gun and is about to shoot George in the gut, when Brennan comes upstairs. There’s a click, and she tells George it’s a Colt 45 aimed at his head. Only not so much. It’s just a gun noise phone app. WAH WAH.

In and amongst the cockroaches and dirt, Cam finds a high-end watch, which probably belonged to unidentified dude. Angela also finds a video camera.

Only George is not Mr. Cray-Cray, despite his confession. Karen, the worst profiler ever, notices in George’s rambling diary entries that he keeps mentioning blood. She’s confused and wants to know why he had the knife to Booth’s throat and didn’t do the deed. Then she looks at more of his ramblings and deems he has vasovagal syncope. Translation? He faints at the sight of blood. To prove it, Karen SLICES INTO HER PALM. Like, not just a little, tiny cut. But oozing, dripping blood. Seriously. This is a profiler. George promptly faints. So would I, and I don’t have VS. Booth is impressed?

The watch has the initials G.H.S., which stands for Gainesborough High School, where the victim worked as a principal. His name is Douglas Burkhart. His wife is also really calm. She thought he ran off with a student, which, really? Wouldn’t there be some evidence of that? A likely student he ran off with? Fine. He didn’t know George or Allison. But she tells Booth she wants to help.

Angela realizes that the video camera was still transmitting while they were all at the house, so as Angela points out, this “sick individual” knows who they are, and I’m already getting hives, because I smell another Pel*** on the horizon.

Aubrey and Karen put their heads together and figure George is the perfect patsy, and they should ask him who the killer is. Except the killer is holding Charlie hostage. Charlie is, of course, his favorite cat. It seems the real Mr. Cray-Cray has done this before. Like when George brought him the mother figure he asked for, only it wasn’t supposed to trace back to George. And, well, George didn’t follow instructions.

George is afraid to talk, because Cray-Cray, no surprise, is smarter than everybody and will know he talked. Looks like we have another genius, omniscient killer on our hands. More bad news, just as the best lil profiler figures out a way to get the info from him, Aubrey lets her know George hung himself.

Not Solving the Case
Brennan is obsessed. She tells Booth she has to get into the killer’s mind, because they’re very much alike. Booth freaks, but she points out that the dude lived with Allison for six months and didn’t see her as a skeleton. He saw her as a person he could interact with, just as she does. Also no surprise is Brennan’s guilt over Allison’s death and her insistence that, given their track record, she and Booth would have solved Douglas’ murder.

In a scene that’s both horrifying and beautiful, Booth realizes the holes drilled into the skeleton were so he could put screws in there and use string to haul her up and make her into a macabre marionette. He reenacts it, including the bone crunching sounds as they tighten the screws. In a show about dead bodies, this one is particularly weird and unsettling.

In the end, it’s bad news and more bad news. Cam is scared to go home, what with the killer having seen her, and she asks Arastoo to drive her home, right before she admits to breaking up with Sebastian.

And the killer? Once again is nameless and faceless. And Cam has nothing to worry about. He’s focused in on Brennan. Mommy? Is that you?

It’s all coming to a head. See you next episode!

Filed Under: Bones, Featured

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Sneak Peek: Saving Bonnie Bennett?

April 29, 2016 By Melissa Smith Leave a Comment

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William Shakespeare once wrote THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, which involved brothers, infidelity, the supernatural, demonic possession, madness, near-seduction, mistaken identities, jealousy and possible death.

Tonight, in “Kill’Em All,” and with Bonnie’s (Kat Graham) life at stake, some previously unholy alliances are formed, some make a return to the supernatural lifestyle, and there is a journey back from near-madness bring the Shakespearian-vibe to THE VAMPIRE DIAIRIES. Here is a list of disparate occurrences that somehow will knit themselves into a coherent tale of woe and warning. Feel free to pick out the funny and the ironic.

1) Caroline (Candice King) concocts a brew that could help Bonnie back to health…a witch’s brew for a witch.

2) Alaric (Matt Davis) and Caroline face the truth that they never will have a normal life. With children who are witch-siphons, a vampire mom and a vampire-hunter dad, they hardly will be the PTA presidents.

3) Ric finds an antiquity of Charlemagne’s in the Armory archives with many other ancient relics. (Kid in candy shop time…)

4) Alaric and Caroline are on a roadtrip outside of Lexington, Kentucky, (an area known for its supernatural ties), in search of a couple named Ashland and Wyatt whose physical form seem to be in flux (inside joke: Ashland and Wyatt share their names with apartment buildings near the University of Kentucky).

5) Caroline hid the crossbow bolts in the girls’ Halloween box.

6) Penny (guest star Ana Noguiera) tried to kill Stefan but Matt (Zach Roerig) ended up killing Penny by mistake. Penny died rather than drink Stefan’s life-saving blood. Stefan (Paul Wesley) wiped Matt’s memory rather than have the deputy suffer, yet Matt blamed Stefan all along. (No good deed goes unpunished.)

7) Damon appeals to Alex to help finish Rayna’s list so that the huntress will give her last life to save the Bennett witch.

8) Rayna (guest star Leslie-Anne Huff) continues to feed her blood to Bonnie to keep her cloaked from the Armory’s locator spell, and the witch begs Enzo (Michael Malarkey) to return home for her last days.

9) Bonnie’s magic returns and the Armory is able to find her. She forgives Damon (Ian Somerhalder) in a moment of doubt that the Rayna/switch plan will work.

10) The mysterious Yvette St. John (guest star Aisha Duran) is found in her Armory prison, having a possible effect on Bonnie. Unknown to Alex (guest star Mouzzam Makkar), Bonnie’s last spell before fainting is to lock Alex and her Armory crew inside the tomb.

11) Because money may be for nothing but the chicks are for free, has Damon’s act of contrition turned Bonnie into the vampire-hunting weapon that used to be Rayna?

12) Damon succeeds in having Rayna’s remaining life transferred into Bonnie, with one slight miscalculation…Bonnie will now carry the mantle of “vampire huntress” and turn on all of her friends. (No good deed goes unpunished…amplified.)

13) Is tonight a rescue mission or just a Comedy of Errors? For those suffering Triskaidekaphobia, eliminate one bulletpoint before deciding which to find funnier.

Tonight’s episode of THE VAMPIRE DIAIRIES, “Kill’Em All,” was written by Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux and directed by Kellie Cyrus.

Watch as nothing seems to go the way it should on THE VAMPIRE DIAIRIES, tonight at 8pm on The CW.

Filed Under: Featured, The CW, The Vampire Diaries

Afternoon Static: THE SIMPSONS, THE GOOD WIFE, THE WEST WING & More!

April 29, 2016 By theTVaddict Leave a Comment

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• The CW Teasers: SUPERNATURAL’s Rowena Makes Her Move, THE 100 Season Finale & More
• AMAZING: Allison Janney Briefs White House Reporters as The West Wing’s C.J. Cregg
• Mark Your Calendars: Killjoys, Dark Matter Get Season 2 Premiere Dates at Syfy
• ‘The Good Wife’ Finale: ‘There’s No Tied Up Bows,’ Julianna Margulies Says
• Why TV Isn’t Working At Festivals Yet: A Modest Proposal
• Trend Watch: TV’s Dwindling Middle Class
• Must Read TV: Hart Hanson On Showrunning In The Social Media Age
• The More You Know: Ten Ways to Figure Out Which TV Shows Will Be Renewed or Canceled
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• Ouch! Kelly Ripa ripping Michael Strahan with divorce dig is only the tip of the iceberg in cold war
• Simpsons Exclusive: Jay Leno to buy Homer’s car
• iWant: Phil Knight Made A Pair Of Nikes Just For Stephen
• Seconded: Anderson Cooper says it would be a ‘dream’ to work with Ripa
• Gleek Out! ‘Glee’s’ Harry Shum Jr. to Star in YouTube Red Rom-Com ‘Single by 30’
• Contest: Dinner is Coming: Feasting with GAME OF THRONES (for FREE!)
• Cool Beans: Netflix Orders THE PUNISHER Series

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DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW Sneak Peek: Vandal Savage’s Daughter

April 28, 2016 By Melissa Smith Leave a Comment

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    Scandal Savage – DC Comic

Fathers and daughters. A dynamic like none other.

If a rose by any other name smells as sweet, is she recognizable under another name? For instance, is “Cassandra Savage” (guest star Jessica Sipos) the same daughter of Vandal Savage in DC Comics named “Scandal Savage?”

In tonight’s timeline, will Quentin Lance (guest star ARROW’s Paul Blackthorne) be the grieving father trying to tell Sara (Caity Lotz) of Laurel’s death?

Will the similarities between Scandal Savage and the White Canary affect the outcome?

Tonight, when DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW decide to battle Vandal Savage (guest star Casper Crump) on his own terms, they travel to 2166, just three months before Savage conquers the world.

Knowing this is their last chance to defeat the immortal, the team explores all avenues to his destruction and finds two possibilities.

One is a bracelet that Kendra (Ciara Renée) wore during her original life in ancient Egypt. The second is the discovery of Vandal’s daughter, Cassandra, who also seems to be immortal and is wearing Kendra’s bracelet.

The Legends decide to kidnap Cassandra and the bracelet and use them to defeat Vandal.

Whether or not this tactic will work may hark back to DC Comics where Vandal’s daughter generally is referred to as “Scandal Savage,” a woman who seems more in line with Sara Lance than with her own father.

Immortal herself, Scandal Savage is agile, beautiful, has a collection of weapons, heals quickly, is extremely smart, a born leader who has high stamina and is accomplished with a sword, at unarmed combat and with a variety of weapons, including wrist-mounted blades.

Scandal refuses to live under her father’s shadow, preferring to work alone or with The Secret Six or the BIRDS OF PREY. She has been shot by a Thanagarian rifle, and is familiar with Thanagar, the home planet of Hawkman and Hawkgirl.

A fictional planet in the DC Comics Universe, Thanagar is the original home of the humanoid Thanagarian race, noted for the discovery of gravity-defying Nth metal. The planet is in orbit around the star Polaris (although is sometimes quoted as being in the Polaris Galaxy).

Assumedly, like her father, she is aware of the Nth metal on the Thanagarian spaceship that landed over ancient Egypt, which gave Hawkman and Hawkgirl their original powers. The bracelet that Hawkgirl has been dreaming of may be the same one that is made of the Thanagarian Nth metal.

When the Legends kidnap Cassandra (who may or may not be the same person as “Scandal Savage”), Vandal goes crazier than usual and dispatches his minions to destroy the Legends using any means necessary including unleashing the Leviathan.

Yes, there he is again…the Leviathan. Except this time, do not expect SUPERNATURAL’S Misha Collins in a raincoat. Since Vandal’s first known gig was as an Egyptian priest, chances are he knows of the “Book of Giants,” an apocryphal work related to the Bible’s Book of Enoch. The Book of Giants is filled with stories of the Nephilim (giants born of mortal men and fallen angels) and the Leviathan, giant sea creatures who could walk on and destroy the Earth.

Whatever Vandal unleashes to destroy the Legends and conquer the world in 2166, using his daughter and the bracelet against him may bring him closer to destruction and pull Carter (guest star Falk Hentschel) back into Kendra’s orbit.

DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW also stars Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Arthur Darvill, Franz Drameh, Amy Pemberton, Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller.

Guest starring tonight are Faye Kingslee (returning as The Pilgrim) Martin Donovan, Celia Imrie, Eli Goree, Sharon Taylor, Jason Bell and Celeste White.

Gregory Smith directed the episode titled, “Leviathan,” which as written by producer, Sarah Nicole Jones, and Ray Utarnachitt.

DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW airs tonight (April 28) at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW in the U.S. and at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on CTV in Canada.

Filed Under: CTV, Featured, Legends of Tomorrow, The CW

ARROW: Questions Surrounding The Death Of Laurel Lance

April 27, 2016 By Melissa Smith 2 Comments

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Open letter to ARROW fans… yes, I also am upset about Laurel’s death…BUT…

I am giving the producers time to explain why Laurel Lance had to die… an explanation to be revealed within the storyline, not on social media or in the press. But I know what she means to many of us.

Lest anyone think that I am not a huge Black Canary fan, you are wrong. She is my second-favorite DC character (after Catwoman). I have “Green Arrow” comics galore, and too many Black Canary action figures for someone over twelve-years-old. (I call them “maquettes” now that I am an adult.)

I was thrilled to work on the animated JUSTICE LEAGUE because I love Black Canary, and I even screamed out loud (much to the chagrin of my husband) when Katie Cassidy first donned the black jacket on ARROW.

Yes, I do plan on a good cry tonight at Laurel’s funeral. Black Canary showed a lot of young girls that you can be sexy, smart and sassy without shame, and that no man is better than you, simply based on gender.

And I will not bash the producers and writers for making a decision that forced them to kill off a beloved character. They had to know that there would be a major backlash, and I am sure the threats to them, personally and professionally, have been no picnic.

Most television viewers have no idea what a massive undertaking it is to create, develop, sell and run a TV series. I doubt if anyone wants to add to their 20-hour workday having to justify storylines to the fans by “making nice” with the media.

Before we skewer the producers and writers, and even The CW, over this traumatic loss of a fictional character, I, personally, am going to give the storyline a chance. There have to be reasons (both real-life and character-driven) for them to have made this painful choice. Why would anyone want their nights and weekends filled up with Internet chaos unless there were extenuating circumstances.

One of the complaints that I have seen repeatedly on various YouTube rants is that since Oliver has teamed up with Felicity, “Oliver has become soft,” and that “a common street thug can beat Green Arrow, now.” Some even liken the show to a soap opera, claiming that Ollie has lost his edge.

If that is true and GA can be smacked around by a local purse-snatcher, how is he supposed to destroy someone like Damien Dahrk? To me, the answer seems to be for him to revert to the killing machine who returned home from Lian Yu.

You want to harden someone’s heart? Mess with the people that they love. Personally, shooting Felicity should have been enough to “Dahrk-en” him, as should Dahrk’s kidnapping William.

But, Oliver Queen may have become too moralistic for his own good, and maybe he should hang out with Batman a bit more. Sometimes, lines must be crossed for the “greater good.” Perhaps killing off Dahrk and Ruvé should be considered more of a community service than a moral dilemma.

Yes, I will be tuning into ARROW tonight, and I probably will cry all the way through the episode aptly titled, “Canary Cry.” I may even bring my action figures into the living room to watch with me so they can see their inspiration has passed on for the greater good.

I will watch Cassidy as Earth-2’s Black Siren on THE FLASH, listen for her voiceover on VIXEN, and watch her tonight at what leaked photos suggest is a flashback to Tommy’s funeral. Through it all, I will mourn the passing of one version of my childhood role models.

Maybe the rumors will come true, and SUPERNATURAL’s Alona Tal will play BC in the JUSTICE LEAGUE feature film with possible springboards into BIRDS OF PREY and/or solo BLACK CANARY movie(s).

Like Black Canary, I will never give up hope. Perhaps, in the future, someone will take up the Canary mantle. While I wait, I will console myself with my new DC Comics Black Canary (Vol. 4) #11, published and released today.

I imagine that it took a lot of effort and convincing for the writers and producers helped produce “geek chic” when they brought the Arrow-verse to television. I suspect that they love Black Canary as much as I do. I am certain that they have satisfactory end for fans in the future.

ARROW stars Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Willa Holland, Emily Bett Rickards, Paul Blackthorne and John Barrowman. Guest starring in “Canary Cry,” are Neal McDonough, Katrina Law, Eugene Byrd and Alex Kingston.

“Canary Cry” was written by Executive Producer Wendy Mericle and Co-Producer Beth Schwartz and directed by Laura Belsey.

ARROW airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW in the U.S. and on CTV in Canada.

Filed Under: Arrow, Featured, The CW

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