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TCA: MTV Renews ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’, Touts ‘Beavis & Butt-Head’ Reboot

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 29, 2011 @ 3:58pm PDTTags: Beavis And Butt-Head, David Janollari, Friends, Mike Judge, MTV, Nick At Nite, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

UPDATED: During the MTV Networks session at TCA, MTV EVP and programming head David Janollari announced that the network has renewed for a seventh season its reality series America’s Best Dance Crew, executive produced by American Idol judge Randy Jackson. The network also said it will bring back Fantasy Factory for a fifth season. And NBC’s comedy classic Friends is being picked up by Nick at Nite for nightly run beginning Sept. 6. It kicks off with a 10-hour marathon that night and runs weeknights at 10 thereafter.

After being feted at Comic-Con in San Diego last weekend, it was a smaller and less enthusiastic but equally supportive audience that met Mike Judge this afternoon for a panel promoting the new incarnation of his iconic toon Beavis and Butt-head to MTV beginning Oct. 21. Flanked by MTV Networks and Logo Group president Van Toffler, Judge demonstrated why he may be the most unassuming creator-producer in show business history. Typical was his response to a critic’s query about why he was bringing the series about the perpetually maturity-challenged nerds back now. “Well,” Judge began, “I like doing it. We’d talked about doing another (Beavis and Butt-head) movie over the years. But, you know, ‘King of the Hill’ was done, I thought we had a couple of pretty good characters here, maybe we should do this while we still could. I don’t know, it just felt right.” READ MORE »

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Nickelodeon Announces ‘iCarly’/'Victorious’ TV Movie Date, Adds ‘Friends,’ Animated Fare And TeenNick Block

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 10, 2011 @ 1:47pm PSTTags: Friends, Nickelodeon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TeenNick

Nickelodeon is announcing today during its upfront in New York that it has set a date for the original TV movie fusing two of its biggest live-action hits, iCarly and Victorious. The movie, iParty with Victorious, is set to premiere June 10 and kick … Read More »

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2nd UPDATE: ABC Picks Up ‘Poe’, ‘Pan Am’ Drama Pilots, Two Multicamera Comedies

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 1:40pm PSTTags: ABC, ABC Pilots, ABC Work It, Andrew Reich, Friends, Ted Cohen, TV, TV Deals, Warner Bros. TV, Work It, Work It Pilot
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE 1:40 PM: After just picking up a period soap, Pan Am, ABC has also greenlighted a period PI show. In its second drama pilot order today and fourth overall, the network has picked up Poe, a crime procedural following … Read More »

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‘Big Bang’ Is Big North Of The Border, Too

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 24, 2010 @ 9:38pm PDTTags: Friends, The Big Bang Theory, The Big Bang Theory CBS, The Big Bang Theory Ratings, The Big Bang Theory Scheduling, TV, TV Scheduling
Nellie Andreeva

Yet another sign The Big Bang Theory is on track to become the next Friends (See my May column Is ‘The Big Bang’ The Next ‘Friends’?). The comedy series, which had a great debut on CBS last night in the former Friends slot, also scored huge ratings in Canada where it … Read More »

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