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Food Network Star Recap: Downward Dip
22 minutes ago
“It’s time to go to a commercial break. Please come right back and hang out with us here at Food Network 4th of July Live.”
As far as throws to ad breaks go, that one doesn’t seem particularly noteworthy, does it? And yet it was enough to save Russell’s underperforming self — and result in the ouster of an early favorite — on the latest episode of Food Network Star.
This week’s big challenge found the final eight contestants manning various stations for a live, 45-minute telecast focused on a Fourth of July theme. You knew the moment »
- Michael Slezak
NBC Says Amen to Mark Burnett's Bible Sequel
45 minutes ago
NBC’s prayers have been answered, emerging from a bidding war to lay claim to uberproducer Mark Burnett and his wife Roma Downey‘s follow-up to this spring’s wildly successful The Bible miniseries.
“There was huge interest in this project within the television community,” NBC president Jennifer Salke said in a statement, “and NBC is gratified by Mark’s confidence in our ability to partner with him and position this miniseries as true event television.“
NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt added, “I followed the development process of The Bible »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Ratings: Big Brother Down But Tops Night, Whodunnit Drops, More Viewers Storm Dome
1 hour ago
Big Brother 15‘s Sunday premiere drew 5.8 million total viewers and a 1.7 rating, scoring broadcast TV’s best demo number for the night.
That said, the reality contest was down 23 percent from last Wednesday’s launch (which, yes, is Bau) and off 26 percent from last summer’s Sunday night opener.
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Leading out of Bb, an encore of the Under the Dome premiere added 5 mil and a 1.1 to the summer hit’s haul, which at last tally (with Live+3 DVR numbers) had reached 16.7 mil/4.3.
Over on ABC, Celebrity Wife »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Exclusive: Jenna Elfman Officially Replaces Parker Posey in NBC's Growing Up Fisher
2 hours ago
It’s official: Former 1600 Penn Flotus Jenna Elfman is returning to NBC next season as the female lead in Growing Up Fisher (fka The Family Guide).
TVLine has learned exclusively that the Peacock net has closed a deal with Elfman to replace the recently-exiled Parker Posey in the single-camera comedy, which is set to debut at midseason.
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The series centers on a son (Eli Baker) who idolizes his blind father (J.K. Simmons) and enjoys his mom’s (Elfman) newfound adolescence after his folks divorce and, ultimately, grow closer. »
- Michael Ausiello
What to Watch Monday: Ninja Warrior Returns, Goodwin Game Over, Unreal Siberia and More
6 hours ago
On TV this Monday: American Ninja Warrior faces new obstacles, the Goodwin Games reach the finish line, “reality” sets in on Siberia and things (literally) heat up Under the Dome. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm American Ninja Warrior (NBC) | Two-hour Season 5 premiere: Competitors tackle the world’s most difficult obstacle courses for a chance at $500,000. (Episodes will also air Sundays on G4.)
8 pm Switched at Birth (ABC Family) | Kathryn learns about the difficulties of being a politician’s wife, while Alicia Florrick and Mellie Grant are both, “Honey, please….”
8:30 pm The Goodwin Games (Fox) | Series »
- Rebecca Iannucci
Devious Maids Recap: Notes on a Scandal
13 hours ago
Until scientists come up with a cure for what Office Space so brilliantly dubbed as “A Case of the Mondays,” we may have to settle for a prophylactic dose of Susan Lucci dropping hilarious one-liners on Lifetime’s Devious Maids.
So what if her every line and action as Beverly Hills maven Genevieve Delatour has been done on at least a dozen prior TV shows or movies? Lucci somehow makes fresh — or at least so uproarious, you don’t notice a lack of freshness — moments like warning her sexy young maid that she’s called dibs on the gardener, topped »
- Michael Slezak
Ray Donovan: You Fixin' to Stick With It?
14 hours ago
Take Olivia Pope, relocate her to La-La Land, quadruple her intensity, cut her dialogue output in half and, oh yeah, make her look like Liev Schreiber — that, in a nutshell, is Showtime’s wildly entertaining, impeccably cast Ray Donovan.
The series, which bowed Sunday night and hails from Southland creator Ann Biderman, centers on Schreiber’s South Boston transplant Donovan, a “fixer” who miraculously makes the problems of Hollywood’s rich and famous disappear before they get leaked to TMZ. (On R.D.’s series-premiere plate: helping a basketball Mvp rid a dead woman from his bed and convincing the »
- Michael Ausiello
The Killing Recap: Written in the Stars
15 hours ago
“We’ve been going at it all Copernicus when we need to be Galileo on this bitch.” –Det. Stephen Holder, The Killing
Oh, Holder, sometimes your philosophizing makes Linden look like she’s about to “stroke out” (as you so hilariously put it), but there’s quite frequently a lot of insight in your rambling. And in this week’s installment of The Killing, “Eminent Domain,” you got the idea to view the case not through the eyes of the teenage girl victims of the “Pied Piper,” but rather to try to figure out what the murderer in question looks »
- Michael Slezak
Dexter Premiere Post Mortem: Ep Talks 'Extremely Vulnerable' Dex, Deb's Savior, Dr. Vogel's Agenda
15 hours ago
Warning: This story contains spoilers from Dexter’s Season 8 premiere. If you’ve yet to watch, avert your eyes now.
Dexter kicked off its eighth and final season on Sunday with an unrelenting installment that left viewers with a slew of burning questions: Will Dexter ever be able to salvage his relationship with his estranged sister? How far gone is Deb? And what is the deal with “psychopath whisperer” Dr. Evelyn Vogel?
Here, Dexter executive producer Sara Colleton chats with TVLine about the premiere (why is Miami Metro’s new doc so knowledgeable on The Code?) and beyond (spoiler alert: »
- Megan Masters
True Blood Recap: Sun Day, Bloody Sun Day
15 hours ago
In Sunday’s episode of True Blood — “You’re No Good” — Billith decides that he had his premonition of all his frenemies being deep-fried by the sun so that he could change the future and save them. (So, uh, perhaps the episode should’ve been titled “Okay, Maybe You’re Kinda Good”?) Moreover, he’s so convinced that he is now immortal that he greets the morning sun with arms outstretched — you know, Godric and/or boy band style. Unfortunately, like Godric before him (but sadly very few boy bands), Billith bursts into flames. So, if he isn’t the »
- Andy Patrick
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