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Jun 9 2011 02:55 PM ET

Eva La Rue returns to 'All My Children'

by Lynette Rice

Categories: Daytime Soaps

Image Credit: Glenn Harris/PR Photos

More good news from the set of the soon-to-be shuttered All My Children: Eva La Rue, who played Dr. Maria Santos Grey on the sudser, will return to Pine Valley on July 19 for several episodes. She joins Josh Duhamel, who also closed a deal to reprise his AMC role in August.

La Rue’s character was best known for her romance with Edmund Grey (John Callahan). Maria was last seen in 2010, when she left to reunite her family in California.

La Rue was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for her AMC role. She co-stars on CBS’ CSI Miami.

Jun 9 2011 01:56 PM ET

William Shatner's next TV gig is on USA's 'Psych'

by James Hibberd

Categories:

Image Credit: Getty Images

CBS’ loss, USA’s gain: William Shatner is returning to TV in a guest role on Psych next season.

Shatner will appear on the sixth season playing the estranged father of Detective Juliet O’Hara (Maggie Lawson). He’s described as “a charming con man who wants to mend his broken relationship with his daughter. But when the opportunity to pull off a dream con is presented to him, his decision to stay on the right side of the law becomes more complicated.”

Shat’s $#*! My Dad Says was axed after one season despite fairly solid ratings. Psych returns in the fall.

Jun 9 2011 12:28 PM ET

'Got Talent' trumps 'Dance' in Wednesday ratings

by James Hibberd

Categories: TV Ratings

NBC’s America’s Got Talent ranked as the night’s highest-rated show Wednesday, though Fox was able to tie its rival overall for the night, thanks to airing wall-to-wall So You Think You Can Dance.

Both Got Talent (3.6 adult demo rating) and Dance (2.8) slipped from last week’s performance, with the NBC competition down 16 percent and SYTYCD dropping 10 percent.

Also, over on cable, Discovery’s Deadliest Catch continues to do well; the most recent episode on Tuesday night snagged 3.2 million viewers.

Jun 9 2011 12:03 PM ET

'Breaking Bad' intense season 4 poster -- EXCLUSIVE

by James Hibberd

Categories: Breaking Bad, Scoop

Walt’s back, he’s bad and — from the look of AMC’s official Breaking Bad poster — he’s not happy. The looong awaited fourth season of arguably the best drama on TV gets underway July 17. And if Mr. White was a chemical compound, it seems he’d be labeled “Extremely Volatile.” I feel like I’m in big trouble just looking at him! Check out your first-look exclusive key art below (and for those who missed it, here’s the latest Breaking Bad trailer):

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Jun 9 2011 06:27 AM ET

10 things we learned about 'X Factor' from last night's New Jersey auditions

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Fall TV, Music, On the Scene, Reality TV, Television, The X Factor, TV Scoop

The X Factor returned to New Jersey on Wednesday for the first of two days of judges round auditions. EW joined an audience of roughly 5,000 for the day’s second taping at Newark’s Prudential Center, which featured 22 contestants. Fox told journalists to refrain from IDing performers and revealing their song choices, backstories, and comments to the judges, as well as quoting the judges’ critiques, so we’ll have to speak generally. But we were able to cull together the following list of 10 things you can expect from The X Factor this fall. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 8 2011 09:30 PM ET

CBS gives Rob Schneider pilot another look

by Lynette Rice

Categories: 2011 CBS Upfronts, TV Pilots

Image Credit: Michael Schwartz/WireImage

CBS isn’t ready to throw in the towel on Rob Schneider, whose pilot about a confirmed bachelor who marries into a tight-knit Mexican-American family didn’t make the cut for fall. EW has learned that the network will re-shoot the pilot and has ordered a few more scripts for the comedy. If it’s good enough, it will join the net’s midseason lineup. (Yey?)

Schneider helped to write the pilot that’s executive produced by Eric and Kim Tannenbaum.

For more about the fall lineup:

Best and worst new shows, decisions, and scheduling moves of the 2011 upfronts
Fall 2011-12 primetime TV schedule chart

Jun 8 2011 07:09 PM ET

First look at USA drama 'Suits' -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

by Lynette Rice

Categories: Cable, First Look, Television

Who needs another legal drama, right? Well, Suits — a new drama bowing June 23 on USA — seems to have two fresh things going for it. It focuses on a smartypants who didn’t actually go to law school (Pretty Little Liar’s Patrick J. Adams) and a very hot high-powered attorney (Love and Other Drugs’ Gabriel Macht) who hires him, anyway.

Sound intriguing? See for yourself.

Jun 8 2011 06:53 PM ET

Done deal: Josh Lucas will do 'The Firm' for NBC

by Lynette Rice

Categories: 2011 NBC Upfronts, Casting

Image Credit: Chris Hatcher/PR Photos

NBC made it official today by announcing that Josh Lucas will star as Mitchell McDeere in its reboot of The Firm. Lucas (A Beautiful Mind) will take over the role originated by Tom Cruise in the film.

The series will pick up McDeere’s story about a decade after the events of the 1991 novel by John Grisham and film.

Grishman is on board as a non-writing executive producer, with former Law & Order producer Lukas Reiter as showrunner and eOne Television as the primary production company, which is also selling the show internationally.

The drama was picked up for NBC’s midseason lineup.

Jun 8 2011 03:39 PM ET

'The Walking Dead': First look from season two -- PHOTO

by Lynette Rice

Categories: First Look, The Walking Dead

Image Credit: AMC

We won’t get The Walking Dead back for another few months — all AMC is saying for now is that it’s premiering in the fall — but here’s a photo from the new season!

The second season includes 13 episodes and is currently in production in Atlanta. AMC released this statement from Executive Producer/Writer/Director Frank Darabont: “At this moment, I’m standing on a stretch of post-apocalypse interstate in Georgia, littered with abandoned cars and blessing my good luck to be reunited with our amazing cast, and our fantastic directors and crew. Across the board, there are none better. It’s great to be shooting again. I think we’ve embarked on a great season.”

Jun 8 2011 02:46 PM ET

Final: 16.4 million watched 'Oprah' goodbye episode

by Lynette Rice

Categories: Oprah Winfrey, TV Ratings

Image Credit: George Burns/Harpo Productions/AP Images

The final results are in: The goodbye episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 25 averaged 16.4 million viewers, making it the most-watched installment of the daytime yakker in more than 18 years (since “Why I Love Older Women,” which aired on Feb. 15, 1993, at 17.3 million).

For the week of May 23 (Winfrey’s final three days, plus two repeats), the talk show averaged 9.9 million viewers, making it the week’s No. 1 show in syndication. It was the highest-rated week in more than four years.

Oprah finished its run as the No. 1 talk show for the 630th week in a row.

Jun 8 2011 02:25 PM ET

'Torchwood' teaser: What does Miracle Day mean? -- VIDEO

by Lynette Rice

Categories: First Look, Remakes, Torchwood

Because we can barely contain ourselves about the upcoming Torchwood, here’s another teaser from Starz that serves as a walk-up to Miracle Day, which will premiere on July 8. It features the character of Oswald Danes (Bill Pullman) talking about what “miracle day” means to him.

Here is the official Starz description of Oswald: “Well-educated and a former school teacher, Oswald’s a convicted child killer, both guilty and unrepentant.But when Oswald survives his own execution, he’s given a whole new life. The most infamous man in the world, he becomes the most provocative figure in modern media. He’s a flare, reviled yet mesmerizing, whose very existence embodies how the world changed on Miracle Day.”

And here’s our description of Pullman: Freakin’ awesome. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 8 2011 01:50 PM ET

Who should replace Laurence Fishburne on 'CSI'?

by Lynette Rice

Categories: Casting, CSI, TV Biz

Image Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS

As every CSI fan will attest, there is no replacing William Petersen. Laurence Fishburne did an admirable job keeping the Las Vegas team intact for the last two years with his portrayal of Raymond Langston, but the CBS drama never recovered in the ratings once Gil Grissom rode into the sunset. As a result, the show finished the season with a 3.3 rating among adults 18-49 (each ratings point equals 1.3 million viewers). It was ranked No. 30.

Three weeks ago, before news broke that Fishburne will not be returning to CSI, CBS announced it was moving the 11-year-old series from Thursdays to a more protected slot on Wednesdays, where it will compete against the now-hobbled Law & Order: SVU (we miss you already, Chris Meloni!). But that hardly means the network has thrown in the towel on the mothership: Given that the fading CSI: New York could fall off the schedule after next year (it finished its seventh season with a 2.1 rating), followed by CSI: Miami (the nine-year-old drama is at a 2.9) in 2013, there’s a real chance that CSI could be counted on for another two, possibly three years — which is why there are plans to fill the void left by Fishburne. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 8 2011 09:25 AM ET

Michelle Obama to appear on 'iCarly'

by Jeff Labrecque

Categories: iCarly, Politics

Image Credit: Steve Parsons/AP Images

First Lady Michelle Obama will appear on an upcoming episode of Nickelodeon’s iCarly to promote Joining Forces, an initiative aimed at increasing awareness and support for military families, according to the Associated Press. In the episode, which will likely air in January, Obama gets involved after two of Carly’s friends break some rules so that she can have have a web chat with her dad, who’s in the military serving overseas. “The First Lady discovers it and comes to have a chat with them in the most positive way possible,” network president Cyma Zarghami said Wednesday.