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Renewed: Smallville
The CW has renewed Smallville for a 10th season.
10 seasons is quite a feat in television these days, and even better given many presumed it would die after the exit of Michael Rosenbaum.
Insiders confirm there will be a full 22-episode order but there is no word if it will be designed as a final season.
Despite starting out as a series set on the Kansas farm, the show has recently shifted the action to Metropolis as the young Clark graduates into becoming Superman.
Will this be the year he becomes Superman? And will …
Vampire Diaries, Nip / Tuck, Curb Your Enthusiasm update
With The Vampire Diaries being fastracked by GO! at the moment, Nine will face an episode shortfall after next Monday.
The show will disappear temporarily, in keeping with a break in episodes in the US.
It will also pause Nip / Tuck as a result, returning both shows in early April.
Nine will air movies in their place, with Movie: The Mothman Prophecies on March 8th at 8:30pm.
However as noted earlier, Curb Your Enthusiasm also returns on March 8 in place of Dante’s Cove.
Renewed: Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, 90210, ANTM
The CW Network has been busy giving renewals to four of its dramas and one reality series as Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, 90210, and America’s Next Top Model are given early pick-ups in the US.
But left hanging in the balance are Smallville, Melrose Place, One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected.
The Vampire Diaries is the youth network’s most-watched show, averaging 4.6 million viewers and the network’s number one show among adults 18-34.
The CW also calls Supernatural fans “one of the most loyal audiences of any show on television and does …
Returning: The Vampire Diaries
New episodes of The Vampire Diaries return to GO! from 8:30pm February 8th.
The show picks up at Episode 11, which has just played in the US after a 2 month break.
Damon goes to Georgia to surprise an old flame, Bree, and enlist her help. Meanwhile, Stefan uncovers a startling clue to the past.
Updated: Now repeating Ep 9 / 10 as a double episode on Monday 1st, which bumps Nip / Tuck and Dante’s Cove to 10:30 and 11:30pm respectively.
Airdate: Dante’s Cove
It’s one of the steamiest, homoerotic television series to be made since Queer as Folk.
Dante’s Cove is coming to GO!
The series, a gothic melodrama with sexual undertones, was produced for the gay & lesbian cable channel Here! in the US in 2005.
Set on a Caribbean island it revolves around the romance between Kevin and Toby who stay at a Hotel which has a spirit in the basement who lost her husband as a result of a gay affair in 1840.
Along there way there is jealousy, hot guys, murder, hot guys, betrayal, …
Pick-ups for Vampire Diaries, Melrose Place.
More greenlighting in the US for new dramas, this time from the CW Network.
The Vampire Diaries has won a full season, although Melrose Place have been given five additional episodes, instead of the usual nine.
Vampire Diaries gave the channel its biggest premiere and has remained a consistent performer for the youth-oriented network. In Australia it is currently airing on GO! on Monday nights, last week averaging 140,000.
Melrose Place, which TEN owns the rights to in Australia, has had a trickier debut in the US. On the back of disappointing reviews it …
NCIS: LA & The Good Wife win full series
Good news for TEN with CBS deciding to pick up NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife.
So far NCIS: Los Angeles is the most-watched new show of the Fall season, although it’s Australian debut faced off against stiff competition.
The Good Wife, which TEN has the rights to is the second most-watched new series. The legal series starring Julianna Margulies pulled 13.7 million viewers. David Mott recently told TV Tonight, “It’s brilliantly done. We have the two best one hour dramas in our view. It has political scandal and sexual scandal. …
Variety back on the box
Australian viewers sent a clear message to television executives this week: they want variety back on the box. Over two million viewers cheered for Hey Hey the Reunion on Nine, which demonstrated a remarkable ability to recapture its magic, with many declaring it a return to old-fashioned entertainment. So smooth was the return, it will go down in TV history as one of television’s great reunion specials. Week 40 was a particularly brutal fight in television with a string of new shows launching. By the time the bell rang, Nine had …
Odd Programming Moves Inc.
Nine’s upcoming schedule has some strange programming moves.
The new Two and a Half Men episode that premiered on Monday is not being followed up with further new eps yet. Instead The Big Bang Theory is back for the next two weeks. So far two eps have aired in the US.
And that new Vampire Diaries that aired on Tuesday? The rest are all on GO! Seems it was just a repeat. Meanwhile the plan to bizarrely return Moonlight is now shelved too.
Instead Nine will premiere Spiderman 3 -yes another movie on a …
Experiment sinking, NCIS to the rescue
In the third night of the week from hell there were triumphs one and all….which means failures one and all too.
The return of NCIS stormed to 1.42m viewers (and rave reports from TV Tonight viewers already) which certainly bodes well for its remaining episodes on TEN this year. Expect it to disappear from late November. It wasn’t enough to win the slot, but for TEN it was a lifeline.
That victory went to Packed to the Rafters on just under 1.7m -down slightly from its ‘racy’ episode last week. The …
Vampire Diaries, Apprentice repeats on Nine
If you missed The Vampire Diaries yesterday on GO! (and with all the content on offer most people did) Nine has suddenly announced it will air tonight on Nine.
It’s slated for 10:30pm in place of Little Britain.
Just 147,000 saw the premiere on its two screenings on GO!
Nine has also added a repeat of The Apprentice Australia on Wednesday night at 10pm, on top of repeats already planned this coming weekend.
The Vampire Diaries will also have a replay on GO! Thursday night at 10:30pm in place of Side Order of Life.
The Vampire Diaries
Kevin Williamson sure knows his stuff.
Having first hit the heights of success with Dawson’s Creek, and the schlocky but fun films Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer (amongst other hits), he is well attuned with the youth entertainment market.
He also knows vampire lore and the adolescent market go hand in hand.
In adapting L.J. Smith’s novels The Vampire Diaries into episodic television, he’s thrown everything at this teen horror series: pretty kids, hot romance, billowing fog, pretty kids, wild parties, high school bimbos, theatrical photography, cemeteries, peril, waterfalls, a …