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Jimmy Smits Back For Season 6 Of ‘Sons Of Anarchy’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 10:00am PSTTags: FX, Jimmy Smits, Sons of Anarchy
Nellie Andreeva

Jimmy Smits is set to return to FX‘s flagship drama Sons Of Anarchy, reprising his role as Neron “Nero” Padilla, a former gangbanger whose exit strategy is trumped by his partnership with Jax (Charlie Hunnam). Smits appeared in 12 of the 13 episodes from Anarchy‘s fifth season. He has now signed on to do all episodes from Season 6, which is shaping to be even more intense and volatile. Production begins in late spring for a September premiere. Emmy winner Smits, repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment and Tom Hoberman, is coming off a successful run in Motherf**ker With The Hat at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. On Anarchy, produced by Fox 21 and FX Prods, he is joined by Donal Logue, who also is coming back after making his debut on the show last season. Sons of Anarchy is the highest-rated series ever on FX, and its recent fifth season ranks as the series’ highest-rated yet with first-run episodes averaging 6.37 million total viewers and 4.35 million adults 18-49, a +16% increase in both categories vs. Season 4.

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‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Introduces Jimmy Smits, Harold Perrineau To The Mix: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 28, 2012 @ 1:08pm PDTTags: FX, Jimmy Smits, Sons of Anarchy, TCA

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage.

Ahead of its fifth season launch in September, FX‘s biker drama Sons of Anarchy — the network’s highest-rated show ever — trotted out new … Read More »

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Jimmy Smits Joins FX’s ‘Sons Of Anarchy’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 5, 2012 @ 2:21pm PDTTags: FX, Jimmy Smits, Sons of Anarchy
Nellie Andreeva

Jimmy Smits Sons of AnarchyEXCLUSIVE: Bobby Simone is moving to the wrong side of the law. NYPD Blue alum Jimmy Smits is joining the upcoming fifth season of FX’s flagship drama Sons Of Anarchy for a major, season-long … Read More »

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Jimmy Smits To Star In NBC’s Stephen Gaghan Drama Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 3:41pm PDTTags: Jimmy Smits, NBC, Pilot, Stephen Gaghan
Nellie Andreeva

Jimmy Smits has been tapped as the last major lead in NBC’s untitled Stephen Gaghan drama pilot (formerly S.I.L.A.), a complex ensemble drama in the style of Traffic and Syriana set in the world of crime, law enforcement and politics … Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: No Bounce For ‘Outlaw’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 9, 2010 @ 10:06am PDTTags: 20/20 Ratings, Blue Bloods, CBS Ratings, Dateline Friday, Jimmy Smits, Jimmy Smits Outlaw, Medium, NBC Outlaw, NBC Ratings, Outlaw, Outlaw Low Ratings, Ratings, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

NBC’s Outlaw is a show in a desperate fight for its life, with its production put on a two-week hiatus that will become permanent unless its ratings improve. They didn’t last night as the legal drama starring Jimmy Smits matched its underwhelming 1.0 rating in adults 18-49 from last week and drew 4.2 million viewers, down 11% from last week. What’s worse, they didn’t despite Outlaw‘s lead-in, a two-hour Dateline (1.6/6) spiking 23% from last week and its drama competition in the 10 PM hour, CBS’ Blue Bloods (1.8/6) weakening by 10% in the demo. Hope is fading fast for Outlaw, which could’ve fared differently on another night as its preview behind America’s Got Talent indicated, but appears to have no future Fridays at 10 PM. Read More »

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NBC’s ‘Outlaw’ Goes On Production Hiatus

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 6, 2010 @ 6:30pm PDTTags: Jimmy Smits, NBC, NBC Outlaw, Outlaw, Outlaw Conaco, Outlaw Production Stopped, TV, TV Scheduling
Nellie Andreeva

NBC is stopping production on new legal drama Outlaw while keeping the show on the air. Starting tomorrow, the freshman series will go on production hiatus while the network monitors closely its ratings performance. Eight episodes of Outlaw have been produced; 3 of them have already aired, with 5 more in the can. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Tom Selleck’s ‘Blue Bloods’ Wins Slow Friday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 2, 2010 @ 9:16am PDTTags: ABC Ratings, Blue Bloods, CBS Ratings, CSI:NY, CW Ratings, Fox Ratings, Jimmy Smits, Medium, NBC Ratings, Outlaw, Ratings, Tom Selleck, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

The Week 2 declines continued on Friday, with every show sliding from its Premiere Week numbers. Tom Selleck’s new series Blue Bloods at 10 PM (2.0/7, 11.2 million) was once again the top program of the night by a mile in 18-49 and total viewers, down modest 9% from last week.

Also posting a respectable 9% decline was the other freshman series in the 10 PM slot, NBC’s Outlaw (1.0/4, 4.7 million). Unfortunately, the legal drama starring Jimmy Smits started off very low last week and still drew only half of the demo rating and less than half of the audience of Blue Blood last night. Outlaw finished tied for second place in the 10 PM hour with ABC’s 20/20 (1.0/4, 4.5 million, down 23% from last week) CBS’ other two Friday dramas, Medium (1.1/4, 5.6 million) and CSI:NY (1.7/6, 9.7 million) were down 14% and 15%, respectively. They still won their time slots in both measures, another sign how low the high water mark on Friday has fallen. Naturally, CBS won the night in both total viewers (8.9 million) and adults 18-49 (1.6/6).

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Fall Season Launch: The Big Four’s Standings Going Into Premiere Week

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday September 19, 2010 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: ABC, Broadcast Networks, Broadcast Networks Premiere Week, CBS, CW, Dana Delany, Detroit 1-8-7, Fox, Glee, Hawaii Five-0 Reboot Premiere, HBO Boardwalk Empire, Jimmy Smits, NBC, Network Broadcast Sports Ratings, Raising Hope, The Event, Tom Selleck, TV, TV Premiere Week, TV Premiere Week Wrap-up, TV Scheduling
Nellie Andreeva

Overnights aren’t supposed to matter, as any broadcast executive will tell you these days because a larger and larger chunk of the TV audience time-shift their primetime viewing. And yet, we know that every morning next week the TV brass … Read More »

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Melora Hardin Joins NBC’s New ‘Outlaw’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 4:47pm PDTTags: Jimmy Smits, Melora Hardin, NBC Outlaw, Outlaw, The Office, TV Casting
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I hear Melora Hardin is set to join NBC’s new drama series Outlaw in a key recurring role. She has also closed a deal to return to The Office for a multi-episode arc. Outlaw stars Jimmy Smits as … Read More »

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