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Several years ago, Star Trek and Idw confirmed that their comics would start to be considered canon going forward. It was a bold move, as outside media rarely ever was considered canon. At times, the franchise has pulled elements from non-television or film sources, like Spock's full name but it never really recognized anything that wasn't a film or movie.

That's been changing and thanks to the series currently going on with Idw, those comics are now considered canon. It started with 2022's Star Trek: Day of Blood mini-series, which brought back Benjamin Sisko from the wormhole. It's continued on from there and it's introduced some ideas that are well received and others that are not.

Now, in Star Trek issue #26, the team behind the current book opted to erase the Kelvin Timeline from history. It's all about Star Trek doing their own Zero Hour event, where Lore, Data's android twin,...

Warning: contains spoilers for Zero Hour: Crisis in Time 30th Anniversary Special!

Green Lanterns one true nemesis has returned, and not only does it spell doom for Hal Jordan, but the DC Universe as a whole. Green Lantern has one of the best rogue galleries in comics, but one member, more than any, strikes literal fear into his heart, and this evil powerhouse makes their grand return to the DC Universe in the Zero Hour: Crisis in Time 30th Anniversary Special.

Zero Hour: Crisis in Time 30th Anniversary Special is written by Dan Jurgens and drawn by an all-star roster of artists. Throughout the one-shot, Kyle Rayner fights alongside the heroes of a lost Earth, created by Hal Jordan while he was under the influence of Parallax.

At the end, Kyle is victorious over Parallax, but as a result of the battle, the Fear Entity is once again unleashed on the universe.

Certain parody movies have managed to surpass their original inspirations in terms of popularity, cultural impact, and enduring appeal. Airplane! is now much more iconic than Zero Hour! Singin' in the Rain is so great that a lot of people don't realize most of its songs were taken from other (lesser-known) movies.

From Airplane! to Blazing Saddles to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, some parodies are so great and iconic that they outshine the movies they originally set out to spoof. Usually, a parody movie only gets made because the film its targeting is a cultural staple. As hilarious as Spaceballs is, it was never going to outdo the Star Wars saga. But some parodies go for more obscure targets; not a lot of people know that Airplane! is practically a shot-for-shot remake of a ridiculous disaster movie called Zero Hour!, or that The Naked Gun borrows its premise from Telefon.

Amanda Waller targets Earth's metahumans, stealing their powers in DC's Absolute Power event. Waller's contingency plan disables magic users like the Spectre and John Constantine. The DC Universe's magical side is diverse and powerful, but vulnerable to Waller's strategies.

Warning: contains spoilers for Absolute Power #1!

The magical corner of the DC Universe is full of god-level heroes, such as the Spectre, but even they are powerless before Amanda Wallers anti-magic contingency. In Absolute Power, DCs big 2024 event, Waller has set her sights on Earths metahumans, and in issue one, she unveils her endgame: stealing the heroes powers. Always one step ahead, Waller has prepared for individuals such as the Spectre or John Constantine.

Absolute Power #1 is written by Mark Waid and drawn by Dan Mora. After nearly a year of preparation, Waller makes the move she has waited her whole life for. As heroes the world over are framed...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery's finale, "Life, Itself"

The big twists in the Star Trek: Discovery finale may have been too obscure for casual viewers to fully appreciate. The reveal that Doctor Kovich is actually Temporal Agent Daniels from Star Trek: Enterprise may have been lost on some viewers. The epilogue setting up an episode of Star Trek: Short Treks in Discovery's finale left some fans underwhelmed and craving a more satisfying ending.

There's an argument to be made that the big twists from the Star Trek: Discovery finale were too "inside baseball" and obscure to make the desired impact on the casual viewer. Written by Kyle Jarrow and Michelle Paradise, Discovery's finale, "Life, Itself" was both a sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6, episode 20, "The Chase" and the culmination of five seasons worth of adventures for Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green). Discovery's series...

DC Comics' I Know What You Did Last Crisis is a new horror anthology set during past crises like Flashpoint, Blackest Night, and Infinite Crisis. The collection features chilling tales of horror, including Professor Pyg in Flashpoint and Scarecrow during Blackest Night, flipping the script on iconic events. The anthology continues DC's success with holiday collections and explores horror in an alternate universe, honoring the publisher's long history.

DC Comics' huge crossover events are already somewhat horrifying: entire dimensions being wiped out, zombie heroes raised from the dead the New 52. However, DC is upping the ante this Halloween with an anthology collection of new horror stories set during events like Infinite Crisis, Zero Hour, Flashpoint, and more. See a sneak preview of the covers and teases of the stories below.

In its September solicitations, DC Comics has revealed DC's I Know What You Did Last Crisis #1, a new horror anthology...

Batman hates working with Green Lantern due to his powers conflicting with Batman's stealth tactics. Hal Jordan's transformation to Parallax shattered any trust Batman had in Green Lantern. Batman and Green Lantern struggle to get along due to their conflicting styles and past history.

Batman has worked with many heroes over his long career fighting crime, but the one he hates working alongside most is Green Lantern. The Dark Knight has teamed up with almost every major hero the DC Universe has to offer. While he rarely has issues teaming up with Wonder Woman or Superman, he has made it clear that Green Lantern's powers pose a major problem to his tactics.

While thinking about their past relationship after the supposed death of Batman, Hal Jordan recalls a time when he and Batman had a major confrontation. Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis' Blackest Night #0 shows Batman and Green Lantern...

Warning: Contains spoilers for Stargirl: The Lost Children #4!DC has confirmed the full and mind-blowing power of the Flash’s time-traveling abilities. The Flash’s super speed has allowed him to travel through not only the multiverse but time as well, and in Stargirl: The Lost Children #4, it is revealed that, thanks to the Flash's time travel powers, he is one of very few who can truly change the course of history–and it may prove crucial to saving the time-lost sidekicks.

Stargirl: The Lost Children #4 is written by Geoff Johns, illustrated by Todd Nauck, colored by Matt Herms and lettered by Rob Leigh. The issue sees Corky Baxter, the sidekick to Rip Hunter the Time Master, telling Stargirl and the teen sidekicks his story. While cruising the time stream with Rip, the Time Masters watch the Flash race by them; Hunter detects a massive tachyon surge, unlike any since Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Los Angeles-based venture launched in December to make scripted formats, original IP for Us market.

BBC Studios and Lionsgate have picked former DreamWorks television president Dan McDermott to head the Us TV partnership they formed late last year.

The Los Angeles-based venture launched in December to identify, co-develop and co-fund scripted formats and original IP for the Us market.

BBC Studios’ production unit in Los Angeles is responsible for Us broadcast reality show Dancing With The Stars and National Geographic Channel documentary series Life Below Zero. BBC Studios also manages Us joint venture relationships with AMC Networks on the BBC America...

Dan McDermott has been tapped to head BBC Studios and Lionsgate’s TV partnership. The U.K. and U.S. partners announced late last year they were joining forces to work up scripted formats and IP for the U.S. market.

McDermott has been executive vice president of programming at Fox and president of television for DreamWorks. He also partnered with Lorenzo di Bonaventura to launch Di Bonaventura Pictures, and has executive produced series including “Zero Hour” and the upcoming “Jupiter’s Legacy” for Netflix.

BBC Studios is the commercial and production arm of U.K. pubcaster the BBC. In an earlier incarnation as BBC Worldwide, it joined forces with Starz on a drama slate that included “Torchwood” and “Da Vinci’s Demons.” Part of the BBC-Lionsgate pact involves scouring the huge BBC archive for IP that could be reworked for the U.S. market.

“BBC Studios is a treasure...

Former Fox and Dreamworks exec Dan McDermott is to lead BBC Studios and Lionsgate’s television partnership.

McDermott will run the venture, which was struck by the British public broadcaster’s La division and the Orange Is The New Black producer in October 2018. The venture will identify, co-develop and co-fund scripted formats and original IP for the U.S. market. He will oversee the operation and shepherd its content plans.

McDermott began his career at Fox, where he was Evp, programming overseeing hits including In Living Color, The Simpsons, Married with Children and Beverly Hills 90210, before becoming DreamWorks first president of television and working on its ABC co-venture, which spawned series including Spin City and Freaks and Geeks.

More recently, he partnered with Lorenzo di Bonaventura to launch a television company where he executive produced series like Zero Hour, The Real O’Neals and the upcoming Jupiter’s Legacy for Netflix.

BBC Studios and Lionsgate have appointed Dan McDermott, the first president of television for DreamWorks, as head of their television partnership, the two companies said Tuesday.

In his newly-created role, McDermott will be responsible for overseeing the operations of Lionsgate and BBC Studios’ new partnership, a venture created to identify, co-develop and co-fund scripted formats and original intellectual property for the U.S. market, while shepherding its content initiatives.

“Dan’s business acumen and deep roots in the creative community make him the perfect candidate to lead the charge on this collaboration with our great partners at BBC Studios,” Lionsgate Television chairman Kevin Beggs said. “He is not only an experienced media executive but an incredibly talented content creator responsible for some of television’s most iconic properties. We’re excited to be working with him and can’t wait to see all the amazing content he’ll bring to our programming slate.

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez was sitting in his living room in Boulder, Colorado, watching the environmental documentary The 11th Hour, when it hit him for the first time. “I kind of began to grasp the idea that human beings are responsible for creating a crisis that threatens not just nature but humanity — everything about our civilization.” He was six years old. Martinez became one of 21 child plaintiffs suing the U.S. government for failing to protect them from climate change. He was 15 when they brought the suit. He turns 19 in May. It still...

Comic Books 101: DC Comics-Reading Batman Pt 2

Previously I wrote an article helping new readers figure out the best places to pick up Batman from DC Comics . For those confused or still uncertain about major events in DC Comics (which connect to various “jumping on” points for Batman) I wrote an article detailing the big company altering stories in my history of the DC Universe article. This time around I am going to open up a bit more on the adventures of The Dark Knight, and take a look at some of the bigger, and in my opinion, best stories for potential Batman readers. This will include small and big story lines that exist in various continuities within the DC Comics publication history for the character. There won’t be any set “this is better than that” to the stories listed, simply moments in the characters publication where a...

A Fake Moon rises over Bristol at the Ibt festival, Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat! scurries into Birmingham, and James McAvoy tackles the Scottish play in London

North

The big opening this week is Roger McGough's new version of Molière's The Misanthrope at Liverpool Playhouse, which should be fun. Theatre meets music gigs in 154 Collective's Dancing With the Orange Dog, which is at Stockton Arts Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Hairspray is out on tour again and is at the Lowry in Salford. In Manchester, meanwhile, Queer Contact celebrates the best in Lgbt art and culture this weekend. The moving first-world-war drama, The Accrington Pals, continues at the Exchange. David Copperfield begins at the Oldham Coliseum tonight. This looks intriguing: at Haphazard at Z-arts on Saturday is Word of Warning's day of live art for all ages. The Edinburgh hit, Unmythable – all the Greek myths in 70 minutes...

The alphabet network has released details about some of their special programming for the February sweeps. Highlights include episodes of The Bachelor, Castle, Grey's Anatomy, Happy Endings, Last Man Standing, Malibu Country, The Middle, Modern Family, Nashville, The Neighbors, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Scandal, Shark Tank, and Suburgatory.

In addition, we'll see the series debut of Zero Hour, the return of Body of Proof, and the annual Academy Awards ceremony.

Here are the details:

ABC Announces February Sweeps Programming, Including The Premiere Of New Drama Series "Zero Hour," The Season Premiere Of Returning Drama "Body Of Proof" And The Oscars(R), Hosted By Seth MacFarlane

The ABC Television Network announces highlights of its upcoming February sweeps programming, including the premiere of the highly anticipated new drama series "Zero Hour," the season premiere of returning drama "Body of Proof," a...

It will be a while before the networks start making decisions about which shows to bring back for the 2013-14 season. But it's never too early to start speculating.

Zap2it's annual Bubble Watch will roll out as usual in March and April, and you'll have a chance to vote on which on-the-fence shows to keep and which ones to dump. With pilot season about to heat up, though, it's worth looking at last year's pilots -- this season's first-year shows -- and seeing how their chances of renewal for a second season stack up. Let's go:

Locks

"Arrow": It's The CW's most-watched series (averaging about 4 million viewers), and though it skews a little older than the network's target demographic, networks just don't cancel their most-watched shows.

"Elementary": CBS gave its Sherlock Holmes show a big vote of confidence by giving it a Super Bowl lead-in on Feb.

Now that the Winter 2013 Television Critic’s Association Press Tour is finally over, it seemed like a good time to recall some of the choice moments over the 14-day star-studded event. Since it would be nearly impossible to recount all the stand-out moments and all the cool shows upcoming this year, we have selected only a few to showcase.

The Kiss

Nothing was more buzzed about than the unexpected kiss between stars Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy at the Fox panel for The Following. It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but truly you had to have been there for the impact of that memorable moment to be felt. The ease with Kevin Back just casually leaned over and planted a kiss on his co-star was a testament to the strong bond between them. Viewers may be buzzing about the underlying sexual energy between their...

Yesterday we learned that Steven Spielberg's epic sci-fi film Robopocalypse was put on hold, but for some reason a lot of sites around the web reported that the project was dead. Not sure where that came from, but it's not dead, just delayed. Just to set things straight, Spielberg talked to EW explaining that the movie isn't dead, and why exactly he decided to put it on hold.

We found that the film was costing a lot of money, and I found a better way to tell the story more economically but also much more personally. I found the personal way into 'Robopocalypse', and so I just told everybody to go find other jobs, I’m starting on a new script and we’ll have this movie back on its feet soon.

Spielberg estimates that it will take six to eight months, and says that he's working...

Steven Spieberg's next film was supposed to the big budget sci-fi film Robopocalypse, but it's been put on hold. It was supposed to start shooting this spring, but apparently he just wants some more time to develop it. The movie isn't dead, it's just going to take a little more time to get to the big screen. Spielberg still plans on directing it, the film just isn't rush priority for him. Spielberg's spokesman, Marvin Levy, released a statement saying, the movie is "too important and the script is not ready, and it's too expensive to produce. It's back to the drawing board to see what is possible."

The film is an adaptation of a novel written by Daniel H. Wilson, and the screenplay was written by Drew Goddard (Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield). The story centers on a battle for survival after mankind generates its first mass intelligence computer brain only to see it escape,...

It's that time of year again -- the post-holiday period when networks trot out their mid-season offerings while some of their fall shows take a breather. This year's midseason schedule is poised to deliver a grab-bag of viewing options, ranging from the spooky (Fox's "The Following") to the surreal (ABC's "Zero Hour") to the breezily nostalgic (the CW's "Sex and the City" sequel "The Carrie Diaries"). Here's a rundown of which midseason series, plus a few returning efforts that are coming back to the air, to look out for in the coming...

TV’s queasy season has arrived! From now until late May, ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and The CW will determine which shows are good to return next fall… and which will join Mob Doctor, Partners and Emily Owens, M.D. over at the Mia Network.

To help you monitor what’s staying, what’s going and what’s anxiously riding the “bubble,” we present you with our annual easy-to-browse cheat sheet. We’ll be updating this list regularly with the latest industry intel, so we strongly suggest you bookmark this puppy and check back for updates. As a reminder, the...

Zero hour is upon us. Leatherface is once again stalking your local cinema in all three dimensions. Read on to find out if this Texas Chainsaw massacre is full of tasty grue or just another bloody mess.

Read our Texas Chainsaw 3D review here.

Texas Chainsaw 3D is directed by John Luessenhop from a screenplay by Adam Marcus, Debra Sullivan and Kirsten Elms. Dan Yeager, John Dugan, Bill Moseley, Alexandra Daddario, Sue Rock, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Gunnar Hansen, Tobe Hooper, Paul Rae, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Ritchie Montgomery, Trey Songz, Marilyn Burns, Shaun Sipos, Thom Barry and Richard Riehle star.

Related News: Texas Chainsaw News, Interviews, Set Visit, and More!

Synopsis

Texas Chainsaw 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family,...

Happy New Year, Mafiosi! If you are like we are here at SciFi Mafia headquarters, one of the first thoughts in your head as you emerge from the holiday haze is: When will my shows be back?! We wanted to know, too, so we’ve looked into it and have produced the following schedule. Like our Fall TV Schedule, we’ve listed each of Our Kind of Shows by premiere/return date first, then by day of the week.

I’ve made a few predictions about the premiere dates for Doctor Who and True Blood; those discussions can be found below the listings.

Update: Syfy has now announced the premiere date of Defiance as April 15 with a two-hour first episode. According to @TheFutonCritic, Syfy has not yet determined if Defiance‘s regular time, to be be paired with Warehouse 13, will be 9 or 10pm eastern, nor has it decided if...

Whether surviving the zombie apocalypse, saving the world from evil-doers or, ya know, crafting clever flying contraptions for cartoon pigs, this year’s best gaming apps provided plenty of compelling reasons to let our home consoles collect dust while we gamed on the go.

The Walking Dead: The Game (iOS)

Spread across five absorbing episodes, this throwback to point-and-click adventure games favors the emotional, character-driven depth of Robert Kirkman’s comic book series over the gore-soaked excess of the TV show. Sure, it still features ample opportunity to have your entrails eaten by flesh-craving creeps, but the real frights...

Updated 12/31: New year, new shows for the broadcast nets. The most promising new series looks to be the Kevin Bacon starrer from The Vampire Diaries’ Kevin Williamson called The Following, which features the sexy James Purefoy (Rome) in a very unsexy role. There’s also a new reality show rolling out on CBS Fridays called The Job (which will fill the bill until the Eye’s other job-based show, Undercover Boss, returns), and NBC’s got a Revenge-like drama called Deception bowing on Monday.

Here’s the full schedule for now:

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ABC today revealed that it is pulling the remaining completed episodes of 666 Park Avenue from its winter lineup entirely, in favor of a couple of comedies which will continue on in their regular Tuesday night slots on top of taking over the Sunday position. Because 10:00 on a Sunday night is a notoriously excellent slot for comedy.

Sorry for the snark, but seriously? We try to keep the coverage even-tempered and generally positive here at SciFiMafia.com, but this decision is just so frakking irritating. THR is reporting that the unaired 666 Park Avenue episodes will be shown this summer, the network version of wishing a show into the cornfield.

Sci-fi fans, we’re going to need to really pull together for Zero Hour, which premieres on February 14 at 8/7c. And hopefully the episodes that follow the excellent pilot will warrant our commitment. Best of luck to all.

666 Park Avenue, starring Rachael Taylor,...

ABC has announced the 2012-2013 Midseason premiere dates for its slate, which includes new series "Red Widow," "Zero Hour," "Family Tools," "How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)," "The Taste" and "Celebrity Diving," along with returning series "Dancing with the Stars" and "Body of Proof." Here's the full press release: ABC announced midseason premiere dates for new dramas "Red Widow" and "Zero Hour" today, along with new comedies "How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)" and "Family Tools," and new alternative series "The Taste" and "Celebrity Diving." Returning series "Dancing with the Stars"...

Premiere Dates

A bunch of series premiere dates have been announced lately, including a few key dramas:

ABC will launch "Zero Hour" on Thursday February 14th at 8pm. A few weeks later it will premiere "Red Widow" on Sunday March 3rd at 9pm before moving it to the 10pm slot the following week.

The CW will premiere its mid-season drama "Cult" on Tuesday February 19th at 8pm.

Finally, FX will premiere Cold War spy drama "The Americans" on Wednesday, January 30th. [Source: The Live Feed]

Ratings

For the first time "Homeland" overtook "Dexter" on Showtime with this past Sunday's episode pulling in a series high of 2.2 million viewers, with an additional 0.3M watching encores. The show averages 5.7 million viewers across all platforms each week.

"Dexter" isn't slouching off either, with 2.1 million viewers and 0.5M watching encores. It's the show's highest-rated season, up 12% on last year. The show averages 6.02 million viewers across all platforms each...

The alphabet network has announced the series premieres of a half doven new shows -- Red Widow, Zero Hour, Family Tools, How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life), The Taste, and Celebrity Diving.

In addition, they've given dates for the mid-season returns of Body of Proof and Dancing with the Stars.

Here's the ABC press release with all of the details:

ABC Announces 2012-2013 Midseason Premiere Dates

New Series "Red Widow," "Zero Hour," "Family Tools," "How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)," "The Taste" and "Celebrity Diving" Join the Schedule, Along with Returning Series "Dancing with the Stars" and "Body of Proof"

ABC announced midseason premiere dates for new dramas "Red Widow" and "Zero Hour" today, along with new comedies "How to Live...

ABC has announced its news new midseason schedule for the 2012-2013 season.

"Happy Endings" and "Don't Trust the B---- In Apt. 23" will end their seasons in March, replaced by the "Dancing With the Stars" results show. "Suburgatory" moves back to 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Sarah Chalke's new sitcom gets the post-"Modern Family" slot.

On the reality side, ABC's new cooking competition with Nigella Lawson and Anthony Bourdain premieres Tuesday, January 22 at 8 p.m., while "Celebrity Diving" will attempt to make a splash on Tuesdays at 8 p.m.

See all the key premiere dates below.

Tuesday, January 22

8:00-10:00 p.m. "The Taste" (moves to its regular, one-hour slot on Tuesday, January 29 at 8 p.m.)

Tuesday, February 5

10:00-11:00 p.m. "Body of Proof"

Thursday, February 14

8:00-9:00 p.m. "Zero Hour"

Sunday, March 3

9:00-11:00 p.m. "Red Widow" (regular time slot debut on Sunday,...

Now that the fall season is coming to an end, it's time to look forward to the winter and all of the mid-season premieres we can expect in 2013. ABC has just released the premiere dates for its new and returning mid-seasons shows -- we now know when "Body of Proof," "Zero Hour," "Red Widow," "Dancing with the Stars" and more will be on the air.

Check out all of the premiere dates and times below:

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 8-10pm

"The Taste"

Tuesday, Jan. 29, 8-9pm

"The Taste" (regular timeslot premiere)

Tuesday, Feb. 5, 10-11pm

"Body of Proof"

(replacing the canceled "Private Practice")

Thursday, Feb. 14, 8-9pm

"Zero Hour"

(replacing the canceled "Last Resort")

Sunday, March 3, 9-11pm

"Red Widow"

Sunday, March 10, 10-11pm

"Red Widow" (regular timeslot premiere)

(replacing the canceled "666 Park Avenue")

Monday, March 18, 8-10pm

"Dancing with the Stars" -- Season 16

Tuesday, March 19, 8-9pm

"Celebrity Diving"

Tuesday,...

It's going to be a busy, busy spring of programming moves on ABC. On Tuesday (December 4), ABC announced its midseason premiere dates, an impressively busy assortment of movies that includes premiere dates for "Body of Proof," "Zero Hour," "Red Widow," "How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)" and "Family Tools," plus another time slot swap for "Suburgatory." Oh and ABC also announced premiere dates for the 16th installment of "Dancing with the Stars," as well as the new reality shows "Celebrity Diving" and "The Taste." Up first is "The Taste," a cooking competition series featuring...

ABC is overhauling its schedule for midseason with changes on four nights. New comedies Family Tools and How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life) will join the network’s Wednesday comedy block, with ABC’s Tuesday comedy block going away. New drama Red Widow will succeed 666 Park Ave on Sunday. ABC is replacing now-defunct freshman Last Resort with another male-skewing new drama in the challenging Thursday 8 Pm slot, Zero Hour. And, following the end of Private Practice, the revamped Body of Proof will return to its Tuesday 10 Pm slot. For a second consecutive year, ABC is scrapping a plan announced at the upfronts to expand its Tuesday comedy block from one to two hours in midseason. Last fall, the network started with a 8-9 Pm block anchored by Last Man Standing, which was supposed to stretch to 10 Pm in midseason with the addition of Cougar Town...

Following the rest of the networks, ABC released its midseason schedule on Tuesday, making room several new series -- and shuffling a few existing ones, including Happy Endings and Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23, which will end their runs early in March. After a two-hour premiere on Sunday, March 3, Red Widow gets the post-Revenge time slot at 10 p.m. starting March 10. And in the place of the also-axed Last Resort, the 8 p.m. Thursday time slot goes to thriller Zero Hour starting Feb. 14. Dancing With the Stars returns for its 16th

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ABC has opted not to give full season orders for its new dramas "Last Resort" and "666 Park Avenue," effectively axing both shows.

Though the network picked up two additional scripts for each show, they've decided not to produce them or further episodes beyond the original thirteen episode order. Both series will be allowed to finish airing their already produced thirteen episodes.

ABC passed on both shows due to underwhelming ratings. 'Resort' was averaging over seven million viewers per episode in its 8pm Thursday timeslot, one of the hardest for the network to fill. Shows like "Missing" and the "Charlie's Angels" reboot have all died in the same timeslot over the past eighteen months.

'666' was pulling in around five million viewers per episode. ABC will likely fill those slots with some of its new mid-season dramas like "Zero Hour," "Mistresses" and "Red Widow."

'Resort' show runner Shawn Ryan is...

Back in September, we heard the excellent news that Anne Hathaway was circling the female lead for Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse, the upcoming sci-fi/action blockbuster adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s best-selling novel.

Hathaway has recently been speaking with Empire, and has now confirmed her involvement with the project:

“If Robopocalypse happens I will be in it… and I believe it’s quite real, though you never want to hang your hat on anything.”

Chris Hemsworth and Ben Whishaw have also been in talks to star in the film, and the three would certainly make for a very interesting trio.

The ever-brilliant Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, The Cabin in the Woods) has penned the script from which Spielberg will direct.

Courtesy of Waterstones, here’s the original synopsis for Wilson’s novel:

“Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful...

Exclusive: Lost alum Ken Leung and Jeananne Goossen (Alcatraz) are set to co-star opposite Eoin Macken and Freddy Rodriguez in the hourlong NBC pilot After Hours. The Sony TV project revolves around the graveyard shift in the ER at San Antonio Medical Center. Leung (Rush Hour) will play Topher, a flip-flops and shorts-wearing Emergency Room doctor who was previously a surgeon on the battlefield, where he became hardened and jaded. Goossen, repped by Greene & Associates and Magnolia Entertainment, will play a beautiful and stylish resident at the hospital. Leung also is filming arcs on NBC’s Deception, CBS’ Person Of Interest and ABC’s Zero Hour. Emily Rios (Breaking Bad) has been added to the cast of FX drama pilot The Bridge. An adaptation of a Scandinavian format, The Bridge centers on two detectives from the U.S. and Mexico — El Paso Police Homicide Detective Sonya North (Diane Kruger) and...

National Geographic Channel‘s broadcast of Seal Team Six: The Raid On Osama Bin Laden drew an average of 2.7 million viewers last night, making it the network’s top show of 2012 and its sixth-highest-rated broadcast in its six-year history. The two-hour special presentation directed by John Stockwell scored a 1.4 in the adults 25-54 demo, more than four times Nat Geo’s Sunday average (the average viewership in the demo last night was 1.27 million). It is the highest-rated telecast on the network in the demo since the premiere of George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview in August 2011. Nat Geo’s highest-rated show in the demo was Inside 9/11: Zero Hour, which garnered a 2.88 rating when it aired in August 2005. Related: ‘Raid On Osama Bin Laden’ TV Movie Cut Romney Scene, Bolstered Obama: Nyt The Weinstein Company movie is being made available as an unedited version on Netflix today featuring a news...

The gray rolling seas thundered through the forest of pilings under the piers, sometimes cresting enough to send a geyser of wind-whipped froth up onto the decking. Other places, it poured through the gaps the wind and tide had eaten through the dunes and poured into the beach town streets. It pulled boats large and small from their moorings in the lagoon marinas and piled them like a child’s toys up on the land. Some in apartment buildings would tell of the cars in the ground level garage floating against each other bathtub playthings. But there was nothing childlike in the way it took entire houses, made seaside villages look like an extension of the ocean and not the land.

For the day and a half I watched Hurricane Sandy pound my home state of New Jersey – which was all the time I had before I lost my cable...

While some New York-area television shows resumed filming today after Hurricane Sandy battered the east coast Monday, it could be a harder road to recovery for ABC’s 666 Park Avenue.

The show’s set, which is located at Cine Magic Riverfront Studios in Brooklyn, overlooking the New York City skyline, suffered severe damages after water flooded the building Monday night.

“I went to check them out on the night of the storm at 10 p.m. and they were under 6 feet of water — the entire complex,” says Peter Kapsalis, owner of Cine Magic Riverfront Studios. “It wasn’t in very good shape.

ABC is giving full-season pickups to freshman comedy The Neighbors and returning drama Scandal.

Nope, Scandal didn’t already have one. Second-season shows often get full season orders, but ABC has been cautious with the Shonda Rhimes political soap. But in the wake of its reasonably steady performance on Thursdays this fall, Scandal is now getting an extra nine episodes and its first full season. (Scandal is averaging 8.1 million viewers and a 2.5 in adults 18-49, plus a hearty 45 percent DVR boost).

As for Neighbors, it’s been the weakest link in ABC’s Wednesday night comedy block, but hasn’t...

Seven Network Unveils New And Returning Lineup Australian Seven Network has commissioned Eyeworks to produce a local version of Celebrity Splash, a Dutch format that U.S. network ABC also has embraced, and it will co-produce The Mole-Culture Clash with FremantleMedia Australia. These were among the new shows for 2013 unveiled by Seven, the top-rated prime-time network for the past six years, on Tuesday night. Debutantes include A Place to Call Home, an Australian drama series about a woman whose privileged family is rocked by scandal, set in a rural town in the 1950s, created by Bevan Lee (who created Seven’s hit Packed to the Rafters); and Mrs. Biggs, a British drama series starring Sheridan Smith as the woman who married notorious train robber Ronnie Biggs, a co-production between ITV Studios, Seven and December Films. Among the fresh U.S. series will be Last Resort, Red Widow and Zero Hour.

It’s no surprise that Halloween results in big sales for all types of business around the country, but it’s interesting when someone does the math and breaks down how much is spent and what is purchased. According to FEARnet, Halloween and the horror industry at this time of year is a $7 billion dollar business and they’ve put together an interesting infographic to show off some of the highlights:

(Santa Monica – October 23, 2012) – Halloween has been transformed—it is no longer merely a day for candy and superstition; it is a multi-billion-dollar business, according to figures compiled by FEARnet, the cable industry’s premier TV movie network, VOD channel and online portal featuring horror, suspense and thriller content. In 2011, Halloween-related spending neared 7 billion dollars; up from 3.29 billion dollars in 2005. This year, the average person will spend $72.31 on costumes, candy and decorations, and will have an estimated 15,000 pop-up Halloween stores to choose from.

The doctors are out.

Ending five months of speculation, ever since ABC renewed Private Practice for just a 13-episode Season 6, Shonda Rhimes on Friday evening announced online that the show will not continue beyond that point.

Traditionally, the 13th episode of any Private Practice season airs during the first week of February. This season’s Episode 13 was also to mark series lead Kate Walsh’s exit from the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off.

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Rhimes’ full statement is below:

I’m sad to say that...

I believe that all DC’s continuity still exists.

That may sound controversial (and it could just be the way my brain works), but I genuinely believe in that statement. I have followed the adventures of various comic book heroes for years and have gone back and read and researched stories from before, during and after the first Crisis on Infinite Earths and still believe that those stories also count. I believe that just as time is depicted as being a fluid changeable series of random events, so too is the continuity and stories of all the DC heroes. In fact, I see the characters following the time-line in their universe in much the same way as we do as readers.

I see it as a straight line in many respects. For example, all of the pre-crisis stories such as Superman fighting Lex Luthor on Lexor and the Flash traversing between parallel universes happened.

Ken Leung has added a third drama series to his busy workload.

The Lost alum has joined NBC’s midseason soap Infamous in a recurring role, TVLine has learned exclusively. Leung is also currently recurring on CBS’ Person of Interest as a thieving accountant, and recently booked an arc as a priest on ABC’s upcoming thriller Zero Hour.

Infamous is described as an opulent soap in which a female detective (played by Meaghan Good) returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in – as the maid’s daughter – to solve the murder of the notorious heiress who was once her closest friend.

Steven Spielberg is looking to cast Ben Whishaw in a major role for his upcoming sci-fi film Robopocalypse. For those of you not familiar with Whishaw he stars in the upcoming movie Cloud Atlas, and also plays Q in the new James Bond film Skyfall.

Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth are also both up for lead roles in Spielberg's new project. There's no confirmation on any of this casting right now, but if Whishaw is cast he will play a hacker named Lurker.

Robopocalypse is scheduled to start shooting next year and will be released on April 25th, 2014. I'm looking forward to this movie, and I really hope Spielberg does something special with it. He's a great director but his last two movies that had sci-fi elements didn't turn out very good. Those films were War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The first half...

She’s been a princess and actually had the guts to steal a car from Batman himself, but Anne Hathaway might be facing a brand new challenge if she enters the world of Robopocalypse.

DreamWorks has been developing the tale of a war against machines since 2009, and things have been taking shape pretty fast recently after it seemed like a whole lot of nothing was going on with the film adaptation of the Daniel H. Wilson novel.

Tom Rothman, who will be stepping down as chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment on January 1, 2013, will be producing the film, with Fox and Disney handling distribution. On the starring front, Chris Hemsworth (Thor, The Avengers, Snow White and the Huntsman) is in negotiations to star, and word has recently come out that Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, The Dark Knight Rises) is in talks for the female lead.

Robopocalypse,...

Dark Knight Rises star Anne Hathaway is reportedly in talks with DreamWorks to take on the lead female role in Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film project Robopocalypse. A couple of months ago we heard that Chris Hemsworth was also looking to possibly join the film, but as of right now nothing has been officially set in stone for either of the actors.

Robopocalypse will be an adaptation of a novel written by Daniel H. Wilson, the screenplay for which was written by Drew Goddard (Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield). This is sure to be a great project for Spielberg. It will be cool to see him have a little fun with a fanboy genre movie like this. The story definitely has the potential to be epic. It would also be nice to see Hathway involved with the project as well, she was great in The Dark Knight Rises. Do you...