NBC announced today that freshman series The Blacklist has been renewed for a second season. The drama, which stars James Spader, is the network's top new show of the 2013-2014 season. It also currently ranks as broadcast television's #1 drama in the 18-49 demographic.
22 episodes have been ordered for Season 2 of The Blacklist for next fall. The current season is now on a mid-season break until January 2014.
(Source: TV by the Numbers)
Lifetime announced today that Witches of East End has been renewed for a second season. The freshman drama, which is based on the best-selling novel of the same name, will return with 13 new episodes in 2014.
The show's first season wraps up next month on Sunday, December 15 at 10:00pm ET/PT.
(Source: TV by the Numbers)
Showtime announced today that Californication will be ending its run after seven seasons. The long-running dramedy will air 12 final episodes beginning in April 2014.
(Source: TV by the Numbers)
Showtime announced last week that Episodes has been renewed for a fourth season. Nine new half-hour episodes of the comedy have been ordered.
Today's news comes ahead of the show's third season, which will premiere next month on Sunday, January 12, 2014.
(Source: TV by the Numbers)
USA Network has cancelled Necessary Roughness after three seasons. The drama, which premiered in 2011, aired its final episode on August 21, 2013.
(Source: Yahoo)
The Killing is being brought back from the dead - again. For the second time, the show is being "un-cancelled", but not by original network AMC. This latest resurrection come by way of Netflix, who worked out a deal for one final season of the crime drama that will consist of a shortened six episode run.
Stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman will return for The Killing's final bow, which is set to begin production early next year. Although no launch date has been set, Netflix plans to roll out the last season simultaneously across all its global territories.
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
AMC announced today that Hell on Wheels has been renewed for a fourth season. The western drama will return in summer 2014 and continue with showrunner John Wirth, who took over in the show's third season.
New for Season 4, Hell on Wheels will expand to 13 episodes, up from its typical 10.
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
NBC has picked up five more episodes of Sean Saves The World. The new comedy, which stars Sean Hayes, has struggled in the ratings over its first six episodes but did receive a bump to a series high this past week when it recently followed a live episode of The Voice.
This five-episode order shows that the network wants to give the show more time to develop an audience, but stopped short of ordering a full season at this point.
(Source: ew.com)
The CW has picked up a full season of new series Reign, ordering nine additional episodes of the freshman period drama.
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
The CW has picked up a full season of The Tomorrow People. The network has ordered nine additional episodes of the freshman sci-fi series, which has seen decent ratings over its first five episodes.
(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
