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USA’s ‘Psych’ Gets Order For 5 More Scripts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 22, 2013 @ 12:17pm PDTTags: Psych
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EXCLUSIVE: USA is eyeing an expansion of the upcoming eighth (and possibly final) season of Psych. I’ve learned that the network has ordered five more scripts from the veteran sleuth dramedy as a step toward a potential back episodic order. USA picked up an eight-episode eighth season of Psych in December, ahead of the show’s seventh-season premiere in February. Despite a long hiatus, Psych returned strong, drawing 2.9 million for its bow, up double digits in viewers and all key demos versus its Season 6 debut. The additional script order comes on the heels of Psych posting more strong numbers last Wednesday, including 2.8 million viewers, up 23% from the previous week. The series about a faux psychic (James Roday) and his best friend (Dule Hill) who work for the Santa Barbara Police Department also continues to be a huge draw on social media. It is unclear how the new scripts will handle Psych‘s female lead character, played by Maggie Lawson, who stars in the Cullen Bros. ABC comedy pilot. If the pilot, which is pretty hot, goes to series, Lawson will be available to do up to five episodes of Psych in Season 8.

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‘Psych’s’ James Roday To Direct Dark Comedy ‘Gravy’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday April 5, 2013 @ 11:46am PDTTags: Gravy, James Roday, Psych, Sarah Silverman, Solution Entertainment Group

James Roday is set to helm Gravy. The dark comedy follows a group that descends on a Mexican cantina on Halloween with a taste for more than what is on the menu. The Psych actor and … Read More »

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‘Psych’ Season Premiere Ratings Up Over Last Year

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 2:33pm PSTTags: Psych, TV Ratings, USA Network

The seventh-season premiere of USA Network‘s Psych last night delivered 2.9 million viewers and was up in all key demos compared with its Season 6 bow. In the first episode of what is likely the dramedy’s second-to-last season … Read More »

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Maggie Lawson To Star In ABC’s Cullen Bros Comedy Pilot As ‘Psych’ Nears End

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 11, 2013 @ 1:16pm PSTTags: ABC, Psych
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Psych co-star Maggie Lawson has landed the lead opposite James Caan in the Cullen brothers’ single-camera comedy pilot for ABC. In December, USA Network announced an eighth-season renewal for veteran Psych with an eight-episode order. The network stopped short of saying the eighth season will be Psych‘s last, but I have learned that the plan is for the eight-episode Season 8 to be the show’s final installment. The ABC pilot has Lawson in first position, but since Psych‘s eighth season won’t air until 2014, it will film for eight weeks starting April 29, allowing Lawson to finish her role as Juliet O’Hara. (Of course, with fan favorite Psych anything is possible, including extra episodes and even another season, though Lawson’s future on the show beyond the eight-episode Season 8 is unclear.) Read More »

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UPDATE: USA’s ‘Psych’ Renewed For 8-Episode Eighth Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 20, 2012 @ 11:30am PSTTags: Psych, USA Network
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UPDATE THURSDAY AM: USA Network officially announced the eighth-season renewal of Psych. The network stopped short of calling it the show’s final season through it is widely considered to be the veteran’s final hurrah. … Read More »

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USA Sets ‘Psych’ Return For Feb. 27

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 9:20am PDTTags: Psych, USA Network

The seventh season of the USA Network dramedy will premiere Wednesday, February 27 at 10 PM. The 16-episode season will include the series’ 100th episode as well as a two-hour musical. Psych stars James Roday and Dule Hill … Read More »

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Nicholas Gonzalez Nabs Series Regular Role On Lifetime’s ‘Witches Of East End’ Pilot; Brooke Lyons To Do Arc On ‘Psych’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday September 25, 2012 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: Psych, Witches Of East End

Nicholas Gonzalez has booked a series regular role in the Lifetime pilot Witches Of East End, which stars Julia Ormond as a mom who has been concealing a shocking secret from her daughters Ingrid and Freya — namely that they are witches. Gonzales will play Matthew, a good-natured local cop who is dating a ditzy co-worker of Ingrid’s (Rachel Boston) but is very much interested in Ingrid. He soon becomes very busy at work when a series of murders and strange deaths bedevil his previously placid township. Gonzalez, repped by Pakula/King and KLWGN, next appears in the Lifetime/Sony movie Left To Die opposite Rachael Leigh Cook.

Related: Julia Ormond To Star In Lifetime Pilot ‘Witches Of East End’ Read More »

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‘Psych’ And ‘Royal Pains’ Creators Set Up New Projects At USA Network

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 27, 2012 @ 7:58am PDTTags: Psych, Royal Pains, USA Network
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Andrew Lenchewski Royal PainsSteve Franks PsychEXCLUSIVE: USA Network is expanding its relationship with the creators of two of its most successful series. The cable network has put in development a drama executive produced by Psych creator Steve Franks and a half-hour comedy executive produced by Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski. Both projects hail from Universal Cable Prods where Franks and Lenchewski are under overall deals. Read More »

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USA Renews ‘Psych’ For Seventh Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:15pm PSTTags: Psych, USA Network
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USA Network’s longest-running series on the air, dramedy Psych, is extending its run. It has been renewed for a 16-episode seventh season that will premiere later this year. In a first, the news was broken by the series’ stars James … Read More »

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ION Acquires ‘Psych’, ‘Monk’ & ‘House’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 8:31am PDTTags: House, ION Television, Monk, NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution, Off-Network Rights, Psych, Universal Cable Productions
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ION Television has inked a package deal with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution for off-network rights to Universal Cable Prods.’ USA series Psych and Monk and Universal Media Studios’ Fox medical drama House. ION has picked up all six produced as … Read More »

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Tagline Signs First-Look Deal With UCP

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 21, 2011 @ 12:39pm PSTTags: ABC Man Up, Christopher Moynihan, Psych, TV, TV Deals, Universal Cable Prods
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EXCLUSIVE: Tagline Television, the six-year-old production company behind Psych, has signed a first-look deal with Universal Cable Prods., the studio that produces the veteran USA Network dramedy.

Tagline already has 2 other hourlong projects set up at UCP, Faerborne and Under. … Read More »

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