Roseanne without Roseanne: ABC orders The Conners to 10-episode season

After all this, ABC is still making more episodes of Roseanne. Just now, without Roseanne. The rumors quickly ramped up after ABC cancelled the once-revived hit thanks to Roseanne Barr’s racist Tweets, and it’s now official. The Conners, a spinoff of Roseanne, will come back this fall with 10 new episodes of the family, including John […]

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NBC Orders More ‘Will & Grace’

NBC wants more episodes of its Will & Grace revival. According to Deadline, the network has ordered an 18-episode third season of the revival and eleventh season of the show overall, which will debut in fall 2019, and it’s also expanded season 2 from 13 to 18 episodes. NBC originally ordered the revival back in […]

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Will & Grace’s second life on NBC will have at least three seasons, extend through 2020

A decade after an eight-season run on NBC, Will & Grace is proving even more popular for the network in its revival — already earning a two-season renewal into 2020. The cast and creators announced the news Saturday during a previously planned celebration of the sitcom at PaleyFest in Beverly Hills. After originally airing from […]

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CBS bringing back Murphy Brown for a new season in 2018

Thirty years after it debuted and 20 years after it went off the air, Murphy Brown is returning to CBS. The Eye Network announced the revival Wednesday with a straight-back-to-series 13-episode order. Named one of the “25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time” by TV Guide, and singled out by Vice President Dan Quayle in 1992 […]

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CBS Orders 13 Episodes of a ‘Murphy Brown’ Revival Starring Candice Bergen

Murphy Brown is returning to television. According to Deadline, CBS has given a 13-episode series order to a revival of the show, which originally ran on the network from 1988-1998. Candice Bergen and Diane English – the show’s original star and creator, respectively – are both attached to the multi-cam revival, with Bergen set to […]

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Why It Matters That Roseanne and Dan Voted for Trump

At this year’s TCA, Roseanne Barr announced that on the forthcoming revival of her sitcom Roseanne, her character Roseanne Conner will have, like Barr herself, voted for Trump. She decried political polarization, and she and Sara Gilbert discussed the ways families are divided over this election; Gilbert insisted, “People feel like they can’t disagree and […]

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A ‘Mad About You’ Revival Is Reportedly in the Works

Mad About You might be the next sitcom to return to television. According to TVLine, Sony has reportedly begun “informal talks” with Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt to return for a limited-run revival of the series, which originally ran on NBC for seven seasons from 1992-1999. Sony did not comment on the report, but a […]

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A Revival of ‘The Office’ Is Reportedly in Development at NBC

NBC wants more of The Office. Sources have confirmed to Variety and TVLine that the network is looking to revive the series for the 2018-2019 season. The revival would still be set at the Scranton branch of Dunder Mufflin but feature “a mix of new and old cast members” – Steve Carell, however, would not […]

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ABC’s ‘Roseanne’ Revival Premieres in March

ABC’s Roseanne revival has a premiere date. According to Deadline, the network announced today that the revival, which was given a straight-to-series order back in May, will air on its original ‘90s time slot Tuesday nights at 8:00pm. The hourlong premiere episode will air on March 27th from 8:00-9:00pm then pick back up with half-hour […]

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The Kids in the Hall looking to mount a limited TV series revival

Lorne Michaels brought The Kids in the Hall to television in the late 1980s via HBO and the CBC, and three decades later, he wants to bring them back to whatever you’re calling TV today. You already can still see the five members separately on TV and together in live touring productions. Mark McKinney co-stars […]

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