ER will wrap this year with a 2 hour finale.  EP David Zabel says: “We have a really good storyline for every [major] character from the past to show [the actors] what we want to do,” he said.  Anthony Edwards character (Dr. Mark Greene) died of brain cancer in May 2002 but will return in [...]

BBC One’s “MERLIN”, which stars Richard Wilson, Anthony Head and John Hurt, pulled in 6.65 mil viewers for its opening episode.  The show will air on NBC from January.  The numbers are respectably good, especially considering its place against ITV’s The X Factor (9.26 mil).  Expect a second series to be announced shortly for next [...]

How I Met Your Mother – 9.7 mil – a very strong performance, outpacing it’s 8.2 mil average from last season.  A total of 20% over it’s previous season opener.  It’s good news for the series, which had been facing year on year decline in ratings. The Big Bang Theory – 9.2 mil – slightly [...]

The CW have picked up 22 episodes of remake 90210, giving it a full first season.  They’ve also opted to bring in former Gilmore Girls and Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Rebecca Rand Kirschner as an EP — she’ll be overseeing the writers’ room.  Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah will be overseeing the day-to-day showrunning.

Televisionary have an excellent review of the first three episodes of Little Britain USA. Using a mix of those familiar and new characters, Walliams and Lucas skewer not only the British wackos they are used to eviscerating but also turn their gimlet eyes onto larger targets as well: the American public, poking fun at the [...]

Despite relatively poor opening ratings and only having aired two episodes, HBO have ordered a second series of Vamp drama “True Blood”.  This shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anybody – creator Alan Ball worked on the hugely successful “Six Feet Under”, and genre shows don’t always find an immediate audience (example: the first low [...]

Kirsty Walker takes a look back at a children’s TV institution.   Grange Hill, a staple of children’s TV for over 30 years finally closes its doors this week. The drama, from the Phil Redmond ‘gritty realism’ pack, focused on a London comprehensive and was written from the point of view of the ragtag assortment [...]

The Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin details all complaints and the course of action for each on all UK Television services. Kirsty Walker reads it so you don’t have to.   Maybe it’s the summer heat but the September bulletin is always a bumper one. This edition is a massive 108 pages long and begins in good [...]

 . End Of Show – on the set of Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE. Over the last few days, there have been multiple stories across the Internet about Joss Whedon and FOX Broadcasting Corp’s upcoming TV series shutting down production.  This is true – it is closed for two weeks for script work. However, there has been [...]