After a two month-long forced hiatus from ABC, critically-acclaimed sitcom Happy Endings returned to the airwaves Friday night with two back-to-back episodes. The ratings on those episodes were just as low as you'd expect from a show that's been moved around and taken off the schedule for months now. The episodes drew a 0.9 and a 0.7 rating, respectively, with adults 18-49 and 3 million and 2.4 million total viewers. Those are low scores, but Friday night, dubbed the "Friday Night Death Slot," is typically an underwatched night in TV and it's probably hard for fans of Happy Endings to keep track of when the show's on at [...]
So, it appears more and more likely that this last springtime run will be the show’s curtain call. And though Happy Endings fans aren’t widespread, [...]
The ABC sitcom Happy Endings has been in ratings trouble for two seasons despite a ton a critical acclaim, and now ABC itself has started the "Save Happy Endings" movement, using the slogan in their latest ads for the show. This is a first – a network launching one of these "save our show" campaigns instead of the fans – and it's pretty strange considering that ABC is asking fans to save Happy Endings from the ABC executives who will decide whether it gets canceled or renewed in the next couple months.
After two months off the air, Happy Endings is returning with back-to-back episodes each Friday night beginning next week on [...]
Community's Ken Jeong has booked a new sitcom pilot that could wind up being a new fall show. Deadline reports that Jeong has been cast in the ABC pilot Spy, based on the British comedy of the same name. The show stars Rob Corddry as the father of a highly-intelligent child (Mason Cook), who takes a job at the Secret Service in order to prove himself to his son. Jeong will play Corddry's mischievous boss, The Examiner. Paget Brewster and comedian Moshe Kasher have also joined the cast.
If Community, which posted its lowest ratings ever on Thursday, does get renewed for a fifth season by NBC, [...]
June Diane Raphael, star of Adult Swim's NTSF:SD:SUV and Yahoo's Burning Love, has just been cast in a new ABC pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The single-camera show is Pulling, based on the British series of the same name about a trio of dysfunctional women in their 30s. Raphael will play Donna, who got a great job at a publishing company as the result of a computer error and who is bored with her fiance. Mandy Moore also stars as Donna's best friend Louise. The third lead has not been cast, but I'm assuming they'll do that before they start filming the pilot because otherwise that would [...]
After being left off the schedule for two months, ABC's critically-acclaimed but ratings-starved comedy Happy Endings returns tonight. The network will be airing back-to-back new episodes of the show from 8 to 9 for the next five weeks. Last week, ABC began promoting the show with a "Save Happy Endings" campaign, which isn't the best sign, but executive producer Jonathan Groff told THR he remains optimistic. "The obvious thing of it is … this is a corporate entity, which has the power to keep us on the air, making a promo asking itself to keep us on the air. But, they knew that. I think behind it, there's [...]
TBS announced yesterday that they've greenlit a fifth season of Cougar Town, which means the cable network's move to rescue the low-rated ABC show paid off. This is great news for all ratings-challenged network shows, but especially for Happy Endings, another critically-acclaimed ABC series that is on the verge of cancellation this season.
Cougar Town debuted its fourth season on TBS in January, and the show's been averaging 2.8 million viewers an episode (and 1.7 mil with adults 18-49), which isn't too far from the numbers it was earning on ABC. Cougar Town is currently TBS's top-rated original primetime show ever with both adults 18-49 and total viewers. The fact that the network [...]
Steve Coogan is busy filming the Alan Partridge movie in England, but he's just booked a role as the lead in a new show in the States. Deadline reports that Coogan has signed on to star in an ABC drama pilot called Doubt, which would see him playing "a former cop who’s now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while battling his own demons and wooing his ex-wife."
Doubt comes from David Shore, who also created House and introduced another British comedian, Hugh Laurie, to the US with that dramatic series. Coogan is no stranger [...]
Now that NBC's Up All Night seems to be dead in the wake of star Christina Applegate's departure, the other cast members are pursuing new TV jobs. Will Arnett signed onto a CBS pilot from Greg Garcia, but Maya Rudolph looks to be avoiding the sitcom route altogether. Deadline reports that Rudolph has turned down five sitcom pilot offers and instead wants to star in a network variety show. Fox, ABC, and NBC are all reportedly interested. Rudolph, the daughter of soul singer Minnie Ripperton, is also a singer herself. Before landing a gig as an SNL castmember in 2000, she worked as a backing singer [...]
ABC has been moving Happy Endings around the schedule a lot this season, and it looks like the show's troubles are far from over. First, the network put the critically-acclaimed comedy on in a very competitive Tuesday night slot before trying it out on Sunday and then pulling it from both slots. Now, the network has announced it will begin airing the show in back-to-back installments Friday nights at 8pm beginning March 29th. It's a bummer for Happy Endings and its fans, as this is typically referred to in TV as the "Friday night death slot" and is a sure sign of cancellation, but maybe what night a show [...]
"I don't have a particular preference. I think that my relationship with Jay Leno is well-known and I happen to like Jimmy Fallon a lot both personally and professionally so I would be very happy for him if and when he gets The Tonight Show … I'd rather [Leno] go to his garage and not compete with anybody. He remains very popular and as far as I'm concerned the less competition the better."
There must be a special type of indignity felt when you are canceled after one episode – only nineteen English language shows throughout the entire history of television have had that honor, after all. After being chosen among multitudes of other pilots, to be one of the select few to actually make it to air, to only be told that twenty two minutes was more than enough, thanks?
Emily's Reasons Why Not is the one show out of the lucky nineteen that is most likely remembered by the American public, mostly due to its decent proximity to the present, because that Heather Graham lady starred in it, [...]
ABC's adaptation of the British series Pulling is now vying with Andy Samberg's cop show for the title of "Most Anticipated Comedy Pilot of 2013." Deadline reports that Kristen Schaal has joined the cast to play one of the three female leads, along with two other super funny actresses/writers, June Diane Raphael and Jenny Slate, who were previouslyannounced. Schaal will be playing the role of Louise vacated by Mandy Moore, and yes, her character here has the same name as the Bob's Burgers character she voices.. Based on the UK sitcom of the same name starring and co-created by Sharon Horgan, ABC's Pulling pilot [...]
Last year, Jimmy Kimmel debuted an extended trailer for a fake film called Movie: The Movie during his post-Oscars special, featuring tons of big name actors like Hanks, Meryl Streep, and George Clooney. He's doing it again this year on his Oscar special Sunday night, and here's a short trailer for the Movie: The Movie 2V trailer, featuring Bradley Cooper, Jessica Chastain, Jude Law, Amanda Seyfried, Bruno Mars, and a bunch of sexy mummies.
Hit the jump to watch last year's extended Movie: The Movie trailer:
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