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TNT has renewed freshman drama Major Crimes for a second season. 15 new episodes have been ordered for summer 2013 after a successful start to its first season that saw the show rank as cable's #1 new series for the year-to-date. The first season of Major Crimes is scheduled to conclude on October 15, 2012. (Source:TV by the Numbers)

USA Network announced today that it has renewed White Collar for a fifth season. The network ordered 16 additional episodes of the dramedy. No return date has been set, but filming will begin in 2013. White Collar is currently in the middle of its fourth season. 10 episodes have aired so far, with the remaining six episodes scheduled to start airing in January 2013. (Source: TV by the Numbers)

USA Network announced today that it has renewed Covert Affairs for a fourth season. The Toronto-produced drama was picked up for 16 episodes, although no time frame has been set for its return. The network also announced renewals of White Collar and Royal Pains for additional seasons. (Source: TV by the Numbers)

Showtime announced that the sophomore sitcom Episodes has been renewed for a third season. The network has picked up nine more half-hour installments of the Matt LeBlanc comedy, in which he plays a fictionalized version of himself. No return date has been set for Season 3 of Episodes, but production is slated to begin in 2013. (Source: TV by the Numbers)

NBC has taken Saving Hope off its schedule effective immediately. The low-rated medical drama still has two episodes remaining in its first season, which will now only be shown online for US audiences at NBC.com. The Canadian-based series will still continue for viewers in its native land, as the show has already been picked up for a second season by CTV. (Source: TV Line)

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But, as with other AMC series The Walking Dead, sometimes the dead rise from the grave. According to TVLine, DirecTV and Netflix might just be interested in reviving the show. Both companies are famous for sustaining shows that were axed on other networks. DirecTV saved Friday Night Lights and Damages, while Netflix performed perhaps the most lauded television resurrection of all time by bringing back adored sitcom Arrested Development for a fourth season, which will premiere next year. DirecTV and Netflix are reportedly talking to Fox TV Studios about picking up The Killing for a third season, though both companies were characteristically coy about any negotiations. Both companies are regarded as the saviors of cancelled television shows, with fans mounting campaigns after the cancellation of pretty much every low-rated show with a fanbase (The River and Terra Nova being two recent shows that were rejected for revival). While I don't know how many viewers would be willing to tune into more episodes of The Killing (after the bad rap it got), but it'd certainly be nice for stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman to continue fleshing out their fantastic performances as Linden and Holder, respectively. One can't help but think, though, that this could have happened to a better AMC show. Rubicon, slow-burner that it was, became one of the most intriguing freshman shows in recent memory -- and the first original scripted programming to be axed by AMC. I'm still holding a candle for the show to receive a DVD release, and I certainly wish that DirecTV and Netflix had been benevolent enough toward that show as it's reportedly being toward The Killing. But I digress. What do you think? Should DirecTV or Netflix pick up The Killing for a third season, or have you had just about all of the rain-soaked murder mystery you can take?

Series 7 will contrinue the trend started by series 6, in that the episodes will air the same day in the UK and US. The UK will get the episodes a few hours earlier due to the time differences, but Americans won't have to wait for weeks at a time to be on the same footing as the Brits (even though, to be fair, the Brits paid for it). The first five episodes of series 7 will air this fall, with a Christmas special in December, and then the remaining eight episodes airing next spring. Here's a glimpse at the schedule of episodes: September 1: "Asylum of the Daleks" (Season Premiere) September 8: "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" September 15: "A Town Called Mercy" September 22: "The Power of Three" September 29: "The Angels Take Manhattan" So, there it is. Like a brief breeze during a hot day, Doctor Who's series 7 will be gone just as soon as you know it, not even making it to October. There's a reason the episodes are divided this way, though: these first five episodes will feature an arc that will eventually culminate in the Doctor having to say goodbye to Amy and Rory, who will depart from the series (under as-yet unknown circumstances) in "The Angles Take Manhattan." Undoubtedly it will be an episode that draws plenty of viewers to tears. Doctor Who Series 7 will premiere September 1 in the UK and the US. Glad we can fnally have that cleared up.

Perception stars McCormack as a brilliant but mentally damaged neuroscientist/professor named Dr. Daniel Pierce, who is brought in to help the FBI with some of its harder to solve cases. He was recommended for the job by his former student Kate Moretti (Rachel Leigh Cook), who now works as a special agent at the bureau. Other cast members include Arjay Smith (Nickelodeon's former "Allen Strange"), The O.C.'s Kelly Rowan, Battlestar Galactica's Jamie Bamber, and Star Trek: TNG's LeVar Burton as Dr. Pierce's boss at the university.

Palillo was apparently found by his partner, Joseph Gramm, around 4:00 a.m. Palillo was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 63 years old. Palillo was best known for playing Arnold Dingfelder Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter, but he did also appear on Ellen, Darkwing Duck, Laverne and Shirley in the Army and he appeared in Friday the 14th Part VI: Jason Lives. In recent years, Palillo taught at G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting in Palm Beach County, Florida. He also produced his first full-length play, the Lost Boy, in 2005 and, in 2007, he introduced a clothing line spcializing in limited-edition t-shirts created by Rotter and Friends. Earlier this year, "Kotter" co-star Robert Hegyes, who played Epstein, also passed away, also from a heart attack. Rest in piece, Ron Palillo.

Remar, who used to work as a emergency medical technician, went into the store and bought a bandage and antiseptic cream, then returned to clean and dress the man's wound. He also reportedly gave the man advice on how to treat the wound and prevent it from being infected. Besides the starring role on Dexter, Remar has appeared on Sex and the City, the Mortal Kombat movies, 48 Hours, Miami Vice (television show), the Unit, Battlestar Galactica and X-Files, among others. He is returning for the show's seventh season, which begins Sept. 30. It will be the pentultimate season of the series. It's good to read stories like these. It humanizes people and shows us that sometimes people do good things just to do them. Remar didn't seek out attention for doing the humane thing - it was captured by a fan's camera phone.

It was announced on Wednesday that John Barrowman would be joining the cast as a “well-dressed man” who is “as mysterious as he is wealthy … he is an acquaintance of the Queen family and a prominent figure in Starling City," according to Entertainment Weekly, who broke the news. The role will be a recurring one. The DC Universe is filled to the brim with mysterious wealthy men, and since my knowledge of those men is limited to Bruce Wayne, I'll leave speculation on the comic counterpart of Barrowman's new character to the more qualified comic book experts. EW speculates that Barrowman will be playing Stanley Dover Sr., who in the comics tries to use his son's pet monster, a benevolent demon, to open a gateway to Hell. I don't know if Arrow will be venturing into the arcane, but this seems to be too strange a role. Whoever Barrowman is playing, I'm certainly getting "big bad" vibes from his character description. A mysterious, prominent figure with ties to Queen's family? Seems like the perfect combination for a moonlighting supervillain who becomes Queen's biggest enemy. Barrowman's certainly got the acting chops to pull it off; his biggest role is of Jack Harkness in both Doctor Who and spinoff series Torchwood, for which Barrowman has received considerable acclaim. The 45-year-old actor has also appeared in a recurring role on ABC's Desperate Housewives, with other appearances in various British television shows. Arrow is slated to premiere on the CW Wednesday, October 10.

Referencing the network's hit zombie drama The Walking Dead in his comments, Ergen noted that most of their customers "live on farms and ranches" and apparently wouldn't want to watch AMC programming because of their rural location. The other metric the esteemed chairman used to determine viewer interest was his family, as Ergen couldn't recall anyone in his family ever watching "one second" of the other channels that were to be bundled with AMC, including IFC, WEtv, and Sundance. Regarding AMC's other critically-acclaimed series such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad, Ergen claimed that they weren't widely viewed by Dish's audience and that customers could go to iTunes and download the shows at the same time they air on television. In fact, he went so far as to suggest that it would be cheaper for Dish to foot the entire iTunes bill for their customers than to pay for the AMC Networks package. Content to let history decide his fate, the effusive satellite magnate acknowledged that the analysts would have their opinion next year. Although the "New York" part of his comment was apparently directed toward an AMC promotional event in NYC, the irony is that virtually the entire Walking Dead series has taken place in rural areas and on a farm. If you have Dish Network, will you be switching providers to keep up with your favorite AMC programs?

The character will be encountering an older version of himself the second episode of season 2, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, the elder version of the character won't be played by actor Jake Johnson in make-up. Instead, he'll be played by Justified actor Raymond J. Barry. Barry will play a character who claims to be an older version of inventor Nick. When he shows up at Nick's bar claiming to be from the future, Nick is fascinated to hear the drunken man's version of his future. New guest stars for New Girl's second season include Parker Posey, Anna Maria Horsford, and Nelson Franklin.

The shows official Twitter feed announced early last night it had a large casting announcement to be made at midnight today. Further news on the role he is set to play is yet to be announced, although Grant has already played the main role of the Doctor on two occasions. Once in a comedy sketch for Comic Relief and once in a animated webcast of the show.

True Blood alum Michael Raymond-James was announced to have been added to the series on Saturday. His role will be a recurring one, though ABC and Once Upon a Time executive producers have been extremely tight lipped about exactly which role he'll be playing. Raymond-James is perhaps most famous for playing True Blood's first big villain; he played Rene in the show's first season. Following that, he nabbed a starring role on FX's canceled-too-soon Terriers. He also showed up in The Walking Dead's second season for one episode ("Nebraska"), in which he played a potential threat of a character who was quickly dispatched by Rick Grimes when he attempted to kill our heroes. Once Upon a Time will return for its second season with the episode "Broken" September 30 on ABC.

It was a long-anticipated episode that proved to be one of the best of the season, and left many fans wondering about how long it would take for Gaiman to come back to the show with another episode. The answer is, apparently, sooner than you'd think. According to some new spoilers released from DoctorWhoTV, Gaiman will be penning an episode of the season's second half. And while "The Doctor's Wife" was a quirky one-off story featuring an all-new villain, it appears Gaiman's next entry will feature one of the show's most famous monsters: the Cybermen. According to DoctorWhoTV, Gaiman's installment will "totally reimagine" the Cybermen, the great metallic monsters who last appeared in series 6's "Closing Time." They certainly need reinvention -- they were defeated by love in that outing. If this is true (at this point, we're marking it as 'highly plausible'), we'll probably be watching the best Cybermen story since 2005 next year. Along with that tidbit about Gaiman, some more spoilers were released -- so don't read any further if you don't want some big hints about what's to come. Most notably, the fifth episode of the series, which will see the departure of regular companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams, has gained a title: "The Angels Wept." I was personally hoping for "Angels in America," but I'll take it. Here are a few more spoilers, in rapid succession. Season premiere "Asylum of the Daleks" will see disguised Daleks kidnap Amy, Rory, and the Doctor, and force them to complete a mission for them. In "The Angels Wept," the angels turn the TARDIS to stone. The Ice Warriors will return for the Mark Gatiss-penned story "The Cold War," which will air in the second half of the season. The TARDIS interior will be redesigned in the second half of the series, as will the show's opening credits and theme music (to celebrate the show's 50th Anniversary). Again, none of these are completely confirmed, but they're highly probably true. Check out the full, more specific details over at DoctorWhoTV. Doctor Who will return for its seventh series later this month.

Because it airs on Starz, a premium cable network, viewership for Boss was never going to be high. But the series managed to attract around half a million viewers (if that) throughout its first season. Compared to the 1.2 million viewers that Spartacus: Vengeance, another Starz series, averaged, Boss's viewership is paltry. Creator Farhad Safinia knows this fact, he informed reporters at the show's TCA panel on Thursday. "I am completely aware of what the numbers are and I'm heartbroken," he said. "There are so many great things about the show that I feel it deserves a larger audience." The series was renewed for a second season before the show even premiered, so fans of the series should be thankful to Starz's faith in the show for the next ten episodes. But will the network renew the series for a third season based on quality alone? Star Kelsey Grammer doesn't doubt it. "I'm fairly confident that whatever Starz's interest is in the show is because it's a great story to tell," he said. "I'm honestly not aware of what the show's numbers actually are." Plans are for the show to continue until protagonist Tom Kane's (Grammer) death by the degenerative neurological disorder he discovered he had in the show's opening minutes. "We're looking at a timeline that is going to be studied until his ultimate demise," Safinia said. "This man is changing and therefore the seasons are going to change." But that of course depends on whether the show gets renewed beyond its second season. It seems like any growth in the show's viewership would be a good sign for a third season, though Safinia remains cautious. "I hope we get to tell the entire story," he said. Boss season 2 will premiere August 17 on Starz. Seriously, watch it.

Boss, while one of the best on TV, is a low-rated show that will have to work hard to get a third season. And while freshman period piece Magic City was renewed before its first season aired, its ratings are just as bad (if not worse) than Boss's. It too will have to work for a third season. So what does Starz have coming down the pipeline of original programming? Some pretty intriguing stuff, as it turns out. Five new series in various stages of development have been announced, and some of them actually sound really, really promising. First is Black Sails, an eight-episode pirate series headed up by Transformers director Michael Bay. With Bay's name attached, you probably shouldn't expect too much character development, but work is being put into making the show look good. While Starz's Spartacus is shot entirely indoors against a green screen, actual sets have been constructed for filming in South Africa. "We have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside that will allow us to build a boat and another part of a boat," Starz president Chris Albrecht said. While that's all good, we bet Michael Bay's asking a different question: Can we blow the boats up? Black Sails is eying a 2014 debut. Then we've got Noir, a live-action version of the anime series of the same name. Like the CW's Nikita, it's a show about female assassins fighting a mysterious organization. The project has Robert Tapert and Josh Donen attached as writers, but the big name here is Sam Raimi, the director of Spider-Man and The Evil Dead. He'll also be serving as a writer and presumable executive producer of the show, which doesn't have a ballpark premiere date yet. There's a very promising-sounding series called Incursion, which is headed up by Spartacus creator Steven S. DeKnight. The concept is a little Falling Skies, but with a bigger focus on the military angle: "It's Band of Brothers meets Halo... with a lot of creature work," according to Albrecht. Two character-centric shows are also on their way. Da Vinci's Demons features Tom Riley as a young Leonardo da Vinci. It's a period piece that sounds like it has the potential to be great -- after all, da Vinci as a man was just as fascinating as any of his artwork or inventions. It's the show that's closest to premiering; Starz is planning on bringing us the show in spring 2013. Then there's Marco Polo, produced by the Weinstein Company, that examines the young life of the titular character in the court of Kublai Khan. "The scripts are absolutely fantastic," Albrecht promises, though problems have arisen from attempting to shoot in China. (Well, yeah.) It's a solid bunch of new programming, with a lot of it that could really go either way. Of these, Da Vinci's Demons sounds the most promising, though I'm quite interested to see what Incursion looks like, too. What do you think? Which of these shows are you most interested in seeing?

The trailer features clips from what looks like the first five episodes of the series. One taken from "Asylum of the Daleks," or example, features the Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy (Karen Gillan), and Rory (Arthur Darvill) surrounded by hundreds -- no, thousands -- of Daleks, arranged in what looks like an auditorium or colosseum. "You've got me," the Doctor says, angrily. "At long last, here I am!" The Daleks apparently decide to exile the Doctor and his companions to a snowy planet, where they meet a new friend. We get a glimpse of the second episode of the series, "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship," which features exactly what the title says. He's so excited that Amy has to drag him away. (There are apparently some "very cross" robots on this spaceship as well.) We get glimpses of the Doctor's western shoot-out with a cyborg from the third episode, as well as some very creepy baby Weeping Angels from the fifth episode (and the Ponds' exit). These baby angels blow out candles, and I'm already scared. "Scared? Who's scared?" Amy asks. "Geronimo!" And you know what? That's how we feel, too. And then there's this gem of dialogue that has us pleading for August to just hurry up and skip to the end already: Rory: "Who killed all the Daleks?" The Doctor: "Who do you think?!"