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Newswire Upfronts update: CBS cancels four, Univision wants to remake Breaking Bad, and NBC smashes Smash

Also, Bill Lawrence somehow has four shows on TV now.

May 10, 2013 | 10:24pm -
Newswire ABC picks up new Marvel show S.H.I.E.L.D., latest from Awake creator, 10 other new shows

ABC has picked up 12 new shows, the bulk of which will be canceled by this time next year, but one of which is that new Marvel show from Joss Whedon all the kids have been buzzing about, so hope springs eternal and all that.

May 10, 2013 | 9:30pm -
Newswire UPDATED: ABC renews a bunch of stuff, (including The Neighbors), cancels Happy Endings, which is the only thing you cared about

ABC, which waited until the last possible moment to pick up or cancel any of its series, has been announcing its pickups all afternoon long, in irritating, haphazard fashion, via Twitter.

May 10, 2013 | 8:50pm -
Newswire UPDATED: Community renewed for 13-episode fifth season

Hey, you remember that thing where NBC was all, “Oh, we’re going to pick up shows with broader appeal, because we’re tired of being the network with niche comedies only watched by niches?” Yeah, about that… To go along with ...

May 10, 2013 | 7:30pm -
For Our Consideration 12 questions about the networks’ fall schedules

Will anybody capitalize on weak Tuesdays?

May 10, 2013 | 12:15pm -
AVQ&A The films you’ve loved longest

In the third AVQ&A in a themed trilogy, we look at the films we discovered earliest in life and still enjoy rewatching.

May 10, 2013 | 12:00am -
What's On Tonight? Maron offers Marc Maron the role of a lifetime: Marc Maron

We've added Maron because you seemed to like it pretty okay, and what else is airing on Fridays? Also: Kristen Wiig returns to Saturday Night Live, and Smash nears its end.

May 10, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Community “Advanced Introduction To Finality”

They saved the worst for last!

May 9, 2013 | 9:00pm -
Newswire Fox cancels Touch, dangles prospect of new 24 to keep Kiefer Sutherland occupied

No sooner had it gotten around to canceling the atrociously rated Touch—that Tim Kring-created, Kiefer Sutherland-starring show about how all of humanity is connected by mathematics or whatever—than the Fox television network immediatel...

May 9, 2013 | 6:50pm -
Newswire Upfronts update: The CW picks up four, Randy Jackson quits American Idol, and CBS decides women are almost as good as men

Here’s more upfront and general TV house-cleaning news from today. • The CW picked up four new series, a surprisingly large number, given that the network only programs 10 hours per week and had already picked up Vampire Diaries spinoff ...

May 9, 2013 | 5:30pm -
Newswire Upfronts update: Fox picks up nine new shows, most about cops

With network upfronts just next week, this would normally be the time when said networks started picking up new shows and canceling old ones willy-nilly.

May 9, 2013 | 8:00am -
TV Club : Nashville “Why Don’t You Love Me”

Drunk Juliette is a lot of fun, but she's not enough to save an episode trapped in limbo.

May 9, 2013 | 3:30am -
TV Club : Slings And Arrows “Every Inch A King”

The series aims for the transcendent as King Lear utterly falls apart.

May 8, 2013 | 12:00pm -
TV Roundtable A classic Simpsons episode explores the universality of being Frank Grimes

The beleaguered everyman meets his doom: the incompetent whirlwind that is Homer Simpson.

May 8, 2013 | 11:00am -
The Walkthrough The Americans’ producers walk us through their first-season storylines

The spy drama unexpectedly became one of the TV season’s highlights.

May 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
What's On Tonight? See who's doing Juliette Barnes wrong and how she shalt mete out her punishment on Nashville

If this season of Nashville somehow doesn't end with Juliette Barnes destroying all in her path, we will be highly disappointed. Also: Modern Family visits the roller rink!

May 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Bates Motel “A Boy And His Dog”

Norman gets some practical life lessons from a taxidermist, while Norma becomes a dark hummingbird.

May 7, 2013 | 2:15am -
TV Club : Mad Men “For Immediate Release”

Don Draper hatches a crazy scheme, but the show seems less impressed with his antics than ever before.

May 6, 2013 | 1:40am -
What's On Tonight? RuPaul's Drag Race wraps up another season in a fashion we find thoroughly confusing

RuPaul's Drag Race finally announces its winner, even though the finale aired two weeks ago, and we're confused. Also: How I Met Your Mother winds up for a big finish.

May 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration How Scandal became the perfect distillation of America’s political nightmares

Shonda Rhimes’ series is brazenly unrealistic—but it’s all in service of capturing how many Americans feel about their government.

May 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Game Of Thrones (experts) “The Climb” (for experts)

Everybody embarks on the titular climb, whether literally or metaphorically, but some people fall and break their necks. (This review is for those who have read the books.)

May 5, 2013 | 9:30pm -
TV Club : The Simpsons (Classic) “Lady Bouvier's Lover”

Grampa and Burns compete for the same woman, and everybody sings commercial jingles.

May 5, 2013 | 2:00pm -
TV Club : Smash “The Phenomenon”

The show reaches its nadir in an episode that treats a major plot turn with a total lack of subtlety or tact.

May 4, 2013 | 8:00pm -
What's On Tonight? Is this the end of Happy Endings? We sure hope not!

Happy Endings reaches what we sure hope won't be its end. Also: Saturday Night Live heads toward the end of the season, Doctor Who turns crimson, and the NHL playoffs heat up.

May 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Community “Heroic Origins”

A pretty good episode of a pretty okay season makes us wonder what the show wants to be.

May 2, 2013 | 7:30pm -
TV Club : Nashville “Take These Chains From My Heart”

The Juliette and Dante plot ends in the stupidest fashion possible, but everything else is pretty okay.

May 2, 2013 | 1:45am -
TV Club : The Americans “The Colonel”

The Americans evokes Mad Men in a top-notch finale that wraps up a standout debut season.

May 1, 2013 | 10:00pm -
TV Club : Slings And Arrows “That Way Madness Lies”

Everybody's a critic but Geoffrey, and that just might destroy his show.

May 1, 2013 | 12:00pm -
TV Roundtable TV Roundtable begins anew—if that’s what you’re into

Usher in a new TV Roundtable theme with Flight Of The Conchords—if that’s what you’re into.

May 1, 2013 | 11:00am -
Inventory “Spread your wings and let me come inside”: 13 songs about losing virginity

Another list from The A.V. Club.

May 1, 2013 | 12:00am -

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