One of the best crime dramas on TV just got renewed for a fifth season.
FX’s Justified will return next January for another year.
The network revealed the pickup at its upfront presentation to advertisers in New York City on Thursday morning, along with several other announcements.
The network renewed comedies It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Legit, and The League. Sunny and League get two more seasons each, while freshman comedy Legit earned a second season. READ FULL STORY »
The writing team behind It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia just earned a 13-episode order for a new animated series.
The team — Rob Rosell, Scott Marder and David Hornsby — will make Unsupervised, which follows two teenage best friends named Gary and Joel.
The show will bow in January as a companion to Archer.
Meanwhile, the seventh season of the half-hour comedy Always Sunny begins tonight on FX. A special three-week run of Archer will air afterwards.
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This week has been my favorite week of all time for at least the past 10 years. It’s the week EW’s Fall TV Preview hits stands! No joke, the issue is full of great scoop. (And no one even forced me to write that!) So combine that awesomeness with the goodies in today’s column, and you’ve got yourself a giant feast of spoiler-y goodness this wonderful Friday. I issue a hundred “You’re welcome”s in advance, you spoiled human beings. (Wow, did I accidentally make a pun? This is shaping up to be literally the best day ever.)
For the record, I don’t know who spiked my morning tea either. But remind me to thank them. Also, let me thank you, the wonderful people who are sending questions every week. You are appreciated it. Now, keep it up!
E-mail all queries to spoilerroom@ew.com or tweet me: @EWSandraG. Onward!
SARAH DREW ON APRIL’S BIG CHALLENGE AND HER ‘MOMENT’ WITH JESSE ON ‘GREY’S ANATOMY’ READ FULL STORY »
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are back!!! Only, not really. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans no doubt remember last season’s genius episode where the gang decided to make their own version of Lethal Weapon 5. Fans also no doubt remember wishing they could see more. Well, now they can! An extended cut of Lethal Weapon 5 will be available on the show’s Season 6 Blu-ray and DVD sets (out on Sept. 13). To whet your appetite, we’ve got an exclusive clip from the cinematic tour de force right here. In it, Mac and Dennis (playing Gibson’s Martin Riggs and Glover’s Roger Murtaugh, respectively — although they would switch roles halfway through the film because that’s how incredible Lethal Weapon 5 is) interrogate a prostitute (played by Artemis) as they struggle to solve the mystery of the tainted tap water. Check it out for yourself in the video player below, but be warned: This is a scene involving a hooker on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, so it’s a pretty good bet there is some slightly NSFW language to be had. For more TV news and views that don’t involve prostitutes or Mel Gibson wigs, follow me on Twitter @EWDaltonRoss. READ FULL STORY »
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The gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia are continuing to outdo themselves in the countdown to the upcoming season, aren’t they? First came those inspired Hallmark MOW-like promos. (I genuinely hope someone not familiar with the series learns the hard way that Sunny is in no way “television’s most uplifting series.”) Now they’ve gone and made an awkward family photo to trump all other Awkward Family Photos. Now, feast your eyes on the picture, in which Fat Mac, Sweet Dee, Dennis (who seems to be making the same stunned face as Dee), Frank, and Charlie (WITH AGENT JACK BAUER… WHO IS WEARING KITTEN MITTONS! Meeee-owwww!) all pose for a shot that will hopefully hang over every fireplace in America. It’s Always Sunny returns to FX on Sept. 15, which simply cannot get here soon enough. [Vulture]
Read more:
‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ promos go the Hallmark route to hilarious
FX renews ‘Sunny’, ‘Louie’, ‘Wilfred’
10 reasons you should be watching ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
Season 7 of FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres Sept. 15, and the gang has launched a series of promos that pretend the show is “America’s most inspiring series” and “television’s most uplifting series.” Watch them below. And get comfortable with Mac’s weight gain. READ FULL STORY »
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Mark your calendars: FX has announced its fall premiere schedule:
• Sons of Anarchy returns Sept. 6 at 10 p.m. ET with the first of 13 episodes. It’ll be a special 90-minute season 4 opener.
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns Sept. 15 at 10 p.m. ET for its 13-episode seventh season. Story lines: The Gang prepares for the apocalypse, hits the beach at the Jersey Shore, produces a child beauty pageant (!), and takes a walk down memory lane at their high school reunion.
• American Horror Story, the new drama from Nip/Tuck and Glee‘s Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, premieres Oct. 5, and will air Wednesdays at 10 p.m ET. Stars include Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Jessica Lange, and Denis O’Hare.
• The League kicks off its third season on Oct. 6 at 10:30 p.m. ET.
• In advance of its official season 3 launch in early 2012, Archer will get a special three-week run with new episodes Sept. 15, 22, and 29, at 10:30 ET behind It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to court new viewers.
As for FX’s summer shows: Rescue Me airs its series finale Sept. 7, while Wilfred and Louie wrap their seasons on Sept. 8.
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The best way to start the weekend is with a big serving of Spoiler Room, so grab your fork and dig in below.
Quick thanks to everyone sending in scoop requests, comments, and random (sometimes inappropriate-but-hilarious) TV comments to me at spoilerroom@ew.com. Keep them coming — especially as we head toward sweeps! You can also harass me on Twitter (@EWSandraG). See y’all Tuesday for more! READ FULL STORY »
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Happy Tuesday, all! I come with freshly picked intel, completely pesticide free.
If you see your favorite show missing, remember to put in a request at spoilerroom@ew.com or send me a Tweet (@EWSandraG). Also, as always, feel free to include heaps of praise, your general TV musings, and mythology theories so good I’d like to claim as my own! See you again Friday for more!
BIG CHANGES COMING TO ‘BEING HUMAN’
Holy cow, Humans! Last night’s penultimate episode of Being Human on Syfy not only included a few nail-biting cliffhangers (Please don’t die, Aidan!), but it also left us on a great note going into the season 1 finale. Lucky for you, Sam Witwer spilled many a secrets about next week’s wicked finale to help ease the pain of the wait.
“There are actually a few cliffhangers, and there are a few provocative questions, primarily with Josh and Aidan,” Witwer says. And some of those new questions are likely to be raised in the flashback scene to two years ago that “explains something that Josh did earlier this season,” Witwer teases. “There’s a vengeful move that Josh does at the urging of [Josh’s jerk were-buddy] Ray. We learn a little bit more about why he did that. And we’re also catching Aidan right as he’s about to pull away from the vampires; he’s already starting to feel quite alone and isolated. So that, more than anything, allows him to identify Josh as someone else who has the same problem.” READ FULL STORY »
The latest promo for Fox’s new comedy, Breaking In, which premieres in April and stars Christian Slater as the head of a high-tech security firm that gives clients a sense of security by first ripping it away, is exciting for two reasons: 1) it makes the show look good, and we’re hoping the third time’s a charm for Slater after NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy and ABC’s The Forgotten and 2) that alley looks exactly like the one they use for exteriors on FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That’s because it is the same one. But don’t get too excited, Sunny fans: We’re told the Breaking In cast begins production today on a different lot. At least Slater should get to keep that swiveling chair. Watch the promo below. READ FULL STORY »
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Question: Rumor around the Glee circuit is that Quinn and Rachel lock lips in episode 6. Any truth to that? —Joan
Ausiello: Sorry, no. If it’s any consolation, it looks like the frenemies get fairly close to first base in the new GQ. Speaking of Glee, I can now confirm that the show is planning a Christmas episode. I don’t have any other details at the moment. I do, however, have a suggestion for Ryan Murphy: Please give us (read: me) an It’s a Wonderful Life homage with Sue at the center. I, er, we don’t ask for much.
Question: Glee scoop, please! —Jeffrey
Ausiello: Someone’s about to get expelled!
Question: One Tree Hill. You’re a stingy Smurf when it comes to scoop on this gem of a show. —La-roo
Ausiello: Sources close to the National Weather Center confirm that Mother Nature is doing me a solid and sending a major hurricane Hill‘s way before season’s end. READ FULL STORY »
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