Posted on Friday, October 26th, 2012 by Angie Han
Today’s TV Bits is all great news if you like Garden State, or just mostly great news if you don’t. After the jump:
- Oz and Willow will reunite on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother
- Arrested Development adds Andy Richter and Conan O’Brien
- Zach Braff develops the Garden State-esque Garage Bar for ABC
- Steve Carell produces a sitcom for Daily Show‘s Jason Jones
- Greg Daniels and Kevin from The Office team for ABC comedy
- Ted Danson spills plot details on the Bored to Death movie
- Check out photos of Mad Men‘s Don and Megan chilling in Hawaii
- See a trailer for The Carrie Diaries, the CW’s Sex and the City prequel
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Posted on Thursday, October 25th, 2012 by Angie Han
Eddie Murphy tried for years to get a Beverly Hills Cop IV off the ground, but when that failed to come together he switched gears to focus instead on a TV series about Detroit cop Axel Foley’s son. It already seems like he’s having much better luck with the new approach. CBS gave a pilot production commitment to the series last month, beating out several other interested networks in order to do so.
Now development on Beverly Hills Cop the TV show continues to roll along smoothly as casting gets underway. The first role being filled is that of protagonist Aaron Foley, with Brandon T. Jackson reportedly close to landing the part. Read more after the jump.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 by Angie Han
Today’s TV Bits centers mostly around renewals, pickups, and projects in development, though there’s an interesting holiday-appropriate video in here for you as well. After the jump:
- Showtime renews Homeland for a third season
- CBS’ Elementary and Vegas get full-season orders
- CW wants more Arrow, Beauty & the Beast, and Emily Owens
- Jimmy Fallon’s Guys With Kids gets five more scripts
- Big Bang Theory writer is developing Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Fox’s New Girl and Raising Hope get two more episodes
- ABC commits to bar-set Mixology, from Hangover scribes
- Jane Fonda books a starring sitcom gig on ABC’s Now What?
- Boardwalk Empire writer sells Jane Austen and West Memphis Three dramas
- Fox is working on non-superpowered superhero comedy The B Team
- Jennifer Garner returns to TV as an executive producer
- Watch a new clip from NBC’s Mockingbird Lane
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Posted on Monday, September 17th, 2012 by Angie Han
Today’s TV Bits consists of a bit of casting info, some scheduling notes, and several interesting promos. After the jump:
- Bates Motel casts the Charlie & the Chocolate Factory kid as Norman
- Isla Fisher and Terry Crews have been added to Arrested Development
- Breaking Bad‘s Jonathan Banks will go gangster on CBS’ Vegas
- Shameless, House of Lies, and Californication return in January
- HBO and CBS lead the Creative Arts Emmys with 17 and 13 wins, respectively
- Revisit familiar faces in the first teaser for Season 2 of Girls
- See The Office‘s newest additions in a new promo for Season 9
- Still more American Horror Story: Asylum teasers hit the web
- Everyone is exhausted in new Walking Dead teaser and stills
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Posted on Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 by Angie Han
CBS has emerged victorious in the “very competitive” bidding war over Eddie Murphy and Shawn Ryan‘s small-screen Beverly Hills Cop reboot, giving a pilot production commitment to the Sony TV-produced project. Murphy and Ryan will executive produce, with Ryan also serving as showrunner. Murphy is set to reprise his role as wisecracking Detroit cop Axel Foley in the pilot, and may guest star on future episodes if the pilot goes to series.
As reported last week, the project will center around Axel Foley’s son Aaron. A blue-collar cop, he serves in ritzy Beverly Hills while trying to get out from under his dad’s reputation. More details after the jump.
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Posted on Friday, August 31st, 2012 by Angie Han
Fall doesn’t technically start for another three weeks, but we all know Labor Day is the unofficial turn of the season. In this very late summer edition of TV Bits:
- MTV announces Jersey Shore will end after Season 6
- Robin Williams could return to TV with David E. Kelley
- Jorge Garcia lands a guest spot on Once Upon a Time
- Yes, Judy Greer will return to Arrested Development
- And yes, Mike Schur‘s Mose will appear on The Farm
- NBC has a sneak peak tour planned for Revolution
- New details emerge on Psycho prequel Bates Motel
- See stars hanging out on the set of NBC’s Hannibal
- Alan Ball‘s Cinemax series Banshee gets a teaser
- American Horror Story teaser finally shows the cast
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Posted on Thursday, August 16th, 2012 by Angie Han
David O. Russell‘s experience working with his Silver Linings Playbook star Robert De Niro must’ve been a good one, because the pair are already looking to reunite. Nope, not for a sequel — Russell and De Niro are headed to CBS, for a new legal drama written by Game Change scribe Danny Strong.
The plot will center around a fictionalized version of real-life defense attorney duo Murray and Stacey Richman. The father-daughter pair are as well known for their outsized personalities as for their high-profile clients, which include Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and the Genovese and Lucchese crime families. More details after the jump.
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Posted on Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 by Angie Han
Two and a half months after being unceremoniously canned from his own show, Community creator / ex-showrunner Dan Harmon isn’t just bouncing back, he’s thriving. Even before he got the pink slip he had an animated series titled Rick & Morty brewing at Adult Swim, and since then he’s also kept busy working on a stop-motion movie Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman and a multi-camera comedy for Fox. Add to that crowded slate another possible sitcom, this one for CBS. Read on after the jump.
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