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‘Smash’s Katharine McPhee To Star In Dennis Lehane-Scripted ‘Depravity’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 28, 2013 @ 4:11pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Dennis Lehane, Depravity, Katharine McPhee, Smash
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EXCLUSIVE: Now that her TV series Smash has finished after a two-season run, Katharine McPhee is ready to try features. She has become attached to star in Depravity, a thriller with a script by Dennis Lehane and Paul Tamasy set to direct. A group of roommates accidentally kill an innocent man they thought was a thrill killer. It sends the group into a world unhinged from any moral compass, one in which they may be forced to confront not only the evil around them but the evil within them as well. McPhee stars as a twentysomething the group tries to scapegoat. The film is being produced by Dorothy Aufiero and Todd Eckert. McPhee is repped by The Schiff Company and WME.

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NBC Cancels ‘Smash’ After Two Seasons

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 6:54pm PDTTags: Smash
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This was one of the most expected cancellations at NBC and yet it was probably one of the most difficult; that’s why it came down last. Smash was a passion project for NBC topper Bob … Read More »

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‘Smash’ Finale Gets Sunday Airdate

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 10:36am PDTTags: NBC, Smash
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NBC‘s Smash is getting a slot upgrade for its finale. The network has announced that the musical drama — which was banished to Saturdays after several very low-rated airings on Tuesday — will get a send-off on … Read More »

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‘Smash’, ‘Amazing Race’, Anderson Cooper, Brett Ratner Honored At GLAAD Awards

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday March 16, 2013 @ 10:45pm PDTTags: Amazing Race, Anderson Cooper, Brett Ratner, GLAAD Media Awards, Smash

NBC’s Smash and CBS’ The Amazing Race were honored tonight at the 24th GLAAD Media Awards in New York City.  Smash was named best drama series and Amazing Race took the nod for best reality series. How To Survive A Plague, a film chronicling the rise of activism in the early years of AIDS, was named best documentary.

Dressed as a Boy Scout, Madonna presented the previously announced Vito Russo Award to CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Russo, who died in 1990, was a film historian who voiced concerns about how gays and lesbians are portrayed in the media. Movie director Brett Ratner received GLAAD’s inaugural Ally Award. The award for Ratner represented a turnaround from a little over a year ago when he dropped out as producer of last year’s Academy Awards after joking at an early press conference that “rehearsing is for fags”. Ratner since worked with the group to produce a public service campaign, GLAAD Coming Out For Equality.

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NBC’s ‘Smash’ To Move To Saturday, ‘Go On’ To Thursday, ‘Ready For Love’ To Tuesday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 3:46pm PDTTags: Go On, NBC, Ready For Love, Smash
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NBC just made several scheduling changes, with low-rated Smash moving to Saturdays, and Go On getting a tryout on Thursday following the last episodes of the The Office. There is still some good news for loyal Smash fans — NBC is committed to airing all 17 episodes of the series’ second (and certain to be final) season. New reality series Ready For Love is getting a major upgrade. The two-hour show was originally slated to premiere on March 31 and air from 8-10 PM on Sundays, leading into The Apprentice. The dating series executive produced by Eva Longoria, which NBC brass have very high hopes for, is now getting the plum Tuesday 9-11 berth behind The Voice as of April 9. It will take over NBC’s Tuesday comedy block of Go On and The New Normal and drama Smash, which will all still get two airings on Tuesday with The Voice as 8 PM anchor. With Ready For Love relocating, NBC will air reruns of the Monday and Tuesday episodes of The Voice on Sunday, followed by Celebrity Apprentice, which will expand to two hours beginning April 14. We started the season with a three-way comedy face-off in the Tuesday 9 PM hour as Fox, ABC and NBC all scheduled single-camera half-hours in the slot. As of next month, only Fox will air comedies in the hour. Starting next week, Fox also is scaling back its comedy presence on the night from two to one hour (9-10 PM) but I hear the network brass remains committed to keeping comedies on Tuesday next season. Here are all the NBC changes:

READY FOR LOVE

  • Will now air Tuesdays, beginning April 9 (9-11 p.m. ET) following “The Voice.”

CELEBRITY APPRENTICE

  • Beginning April 14 (9-11 p.m ET) will be expanded to two hours through the end of May.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Premiere Slips, ‘The Taste’ Finale Hits Low, ‘Smash’ Up, ‘Body of Proof’ & ‘Off Their Rockers’ Hit Series Lows

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 10:01am PDTTags: Golden Boy, Hell's Kitchen, Smash, The Taste, TV Ratings

Like a reality TV bat out of Hell, Gordon Ramsey returned Tuesday for Season 11 of Hell’s Kitchen (2.2/6). Taking over Fox’s primetime last night, the two-hour cooking competition premiere saw 20 aspiring restaurateurs putting forth their signatures dishes to Ramsey and, in a new twist this season, a live Las Vegas audience. It also saw the show slip 8% from its Season 10 premiere on June 4. However, last night’s Hell’s Kitchen garnered pretty much the same number of viewers with 5.4 million compared to last year’s 5.5 million, and it was the highest-rated show of the night in the adults 18-49 demographic. Fox won the night overall in the key demo, while CBS topped in total viewers with 11.15 million.

As one reality gastronomy series started up, another ended. After eight episodes, the first season of ABC’s The Taste (1.1/3) crowned a winner with Charlie Sheen’s private chef Khristianne Uy taking the top spot. The one-hour finale of the freshman show, which will see a Dancing With The Stars special in its slot next week, dipped 8% from last week to hit a series low. ABC started off the night with Celebrity Wife Swap (1.6/5), which rose 7% from the big drop-off its March 5 show saw from the previous week’s premiere. Falling 8% from last week, the struggling Body Of Proof (1.2/3) ended primetime for the network as it tied a series low.
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‘Smash’ Season 2 Filming Ends: Tweets

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday March 9, 2013 @ 6:24pm PSTTags: NBC, Smash

NBC‘s Smash wrapped filming of Season 2 last night, with several cast members taking to Twitter to report the news and post a photo or two: Megan Hilty, Debra Messing, Katharine McPhee, Andy Mientus, Jeremy … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Golden Boy’ Debuts Soft, ‘Celebrity Wife Swap’ Returns With Series High, ‘Smash’, ‘Body Of Proof’ & ‘Go On’ Tie Lows

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 9:25am PSTTags: Celebrity Wife Swap, Golden Boy, Smash, TV Ratings

After having been previewed online for a week, CBS’ Golden Boy (1.8/5) premiered on TV last night. It won its 10 PM slot, but the news was not all good. The midseason cop drama was up 20% in the slot from last week’s Vegas, which had tied a season low, but it was also down 28% from the Vegas premiere in the same time slot September 25. Watched by 10.46 million last night, Golden Boy did debut stronger than the 1.3/4 garnered by ABC’s new conspiracy drama Zero Hour when it premiered on Valentine’s Day, but it fell short of the 2.0/5 NBC’s Deception received for its January 7 debut. Golden Boy’s 10 PM Tuesday slot is just temporary; after one more Tuesday airing next week, it moves to Fridays at 9 PM.

Of course, part of Golden Boy‘s scheduling arrangement is to give it a boost from Tuesday heavyweights NCIS (3.4/10) and NCIS: LA (2.9/8). Last night’s most-watched show with 20.48 million viewers, the former slipped 3% from last week, while the latter was up 7% and drew 16.81 million viewers. With 15.917 million watching and a 2.7/8, CBS won the night in total viewers and in the adults 18-49 demographic.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Body Of Proof’ Returns But Ties Series Low, ‘Cult’ Debuts Down; ‘Smash’, ‘Go On’ & ‘New Normal’ Hit Lows

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 9:10am PSTTags: Body of Proof, Cult, Smash, TV Ratings

Retooled and returning last night for its third season, ABC’s Body Of Proof (1.2/3) did not offer strong ratings evidence Tuesday. The drama was down a cratering 45% from its Season 2 premiere on September 20, 2011 and tied a series low. It was also down 37% from its Season 2 finale in April. Meanwhile, in another debut, The CW’s Cult (0.3/1) premiered at 9 PM. Opening weak, the new midseason suspense drama attracted about 940,000 viewers and was down from the 1.4/1 who watched the finale of Emily Owens M.D. in the same slot February 5. The second episode of the second season of NBC’s Smash (0.9/2) stumbled again last night, down 25% from its season premiere to a new series low. The Season 2 premiere of the musical drama February 5 was the show’s previous low.

Related: ABC’s ‘Body of Proof’ Looking To Break Retool Curse
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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Smash’ Crash In Season 2 Debut, ‘The Taste’ & ‘Mindy Project’ Up, CBS Wins Night

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 8:34am PSTTags: NCIS, Smash, The Mindy Project, The Taste, TV Ratings

There was a bit of Broadway in primetime last night with NBC’s Smash (1.1/3) returning for its second season. However, it was a hard landing for the musical drama: The two-hour premiere was down 71% from its Season 1 debut on February 6, 2012. That premiere got a 3.8/10 among adults 18-49. Granted, the show didn’t have the powerhouse lead-in of The Voice it had last year, nor the Super Bowl promotion, but it cratered to 4.47 million viewers from the 11.4 million who watched last year’s first episode. Hitting a series low, Smash was also down 39% from the 1.8 rating it got for its May 14 season finale.
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‘Smash’ Season 2 – “More Music And Maybe Younger”: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday January 6, 2013 @ 6:05pm PSTTags: NBC, Smash

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

SmashWith the stepping down of creator and original Smash showrunner Theresa Rebeck last April, the question ever since has been how season 2 of the NBC musical drama might differ — if … Read More »

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Hot TV Clip: ‘Smash’ Season 2

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 19, 2012 @ 10:48pm PSTTags: Jennifer Hudson, NBC, Smash

NBC’s Smash returns for its second season on Tuesday, February 5 with a slew of new recurring guest stars including Jennifer Hudson, Sean Hayes and Jesse L. Martin, and new showrunner Josh Safran. You can watch a first-look clip here. Please note — the video auto plays. Read More »

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Liza Minnelli To Guest Star On NBC’s ‘Smash’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 13, 2012 @ 10:56am PSTTags: NBC, Smash

Liza Minnelli will sing an original song with Christian Borle when she appears in an episode of NBC‘s Broadway musical drama Smash in the spring. The multiple Tony Award winner will play herself in … Read More »

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UPDATE: NBC Unveils Midseason Schedule — ‘Community’ Back On Thursday; ‘Smash’ To Tuesday; ’1600 Penn’, ‘Deception’ Slotted

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: 1600 Penn, Community, Deception, NBC, Smash
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Community February 7 Premiere DateUPDATED: NBC just released the bulk of its midseason schedule, its first lineup shepherded by new head of scheduling Jeff Bader. It features The Biggest Loser moving to Mondays (8-10 PM) to serve as a bridge between the two cycles of The Voice. Its companion will be midseason drama Deception Smash February 5 Premiere Date(formerly Infamous), which will air at 10 PM.

NBC is gambling with a long hiatus for breakout hit Revolution, which will wrap its 10-episode fall run with a big cliffhanger in November before coming back with 12 originals on March 25, following the cycle premiere of The Voice as the two shows will once again be paired together.

With Revolution staying put, Smash, which aired behind The Voice last spring, is moving to Tuesdays, premiering February 5 from 9-11 PM before settling into its regular 10 PM slot the following week. It will be a test for the musical drama, which will have a more modest lead–comedies Go On and The New Normal — the voice The Voice last season. Smash will replace Parenthood, which will have completed its 15-episode season by then. Another new Tuesday addition in midseason is Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, which will return on January 8 with back-to-back episodes from 8-9 PM and will continue in that hour. It will bridge the two cycles of The Voice, which returns March 26.

Order is restored on Thursday as cult comedy Community returns to its 8 PM slot. The much-delayed fourth season of Community will premiere February 7. It is one of two midseason comedy additions to NBC’s Thursday lineup, along with newbie 1600 Penn, which is getting the post-Office 9:30 slot beginning January 10. The following week, Parks And Recreation, which currently airs at 9:30 PM, will move back to its old 8:30 PM berth.

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Jesse L. Martin Joins ‘Smash’ As Recurring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 14, 2012 @ 10:40am PDTTags: Jesse L. Martin, Smash
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EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order alum Jesse L. Martin is returning to NBC with a recurring role on the network’s musical drama Smash. He will play Scott Welker, an Artistic Director of a theater company who has history with … Read More »

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Sean Hayes To Recur On NBC’s ‘Smash’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 13, 2012 @ 11:06am PDTTags: Sean Hayes, Smash
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Sean Hayes will be pulling a triple duty on NBC this fall. The Emmy winner, who executive produces the NBC drama Grimm, will do a multi-episode arc on another NBC sophomore drama, Smash. He will … Read More »

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Leslie Odom Jr., Krysta Rodriguez Added To ‘Smash’ Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 6, 2012 @ 3:02pm PDTTags: NBC, Smash

Leslie Odom Casting SmashLeslie Odom Jr has been upped to series regular on NBC‘s Broadway drama Smash. Last season he recurred as Sam, the new love … Read More »

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Jennifer Hudson To Recur On NBC ‘Smash’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 22, 2012 @ 3:58pm PDTTags: Jennifer Hudson, NBC, Smash
Nellie Andreeva

She already has an Oscar, a Golden Globe a Grammy. Now Jennifer Hudson is going for an Emmy. The Dreamgirls co-star is set to appear in a multi-episode arc on NBC’s musical drama Smash next season, beginning … Read More »

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NBC Brass On Amping Up Comedy, Axing ‘Harry’s Law’ & Keeping ‘Whitney’, ‘Center’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday May 13, 2012 @ 11:34am PDTTags: Harry's law, NBC, Smash, Whitney
Nellie Andreeva

NBC is bringing back 13 comedy series — seven new and six returning — vs. 9 dramas — five new and four returning, so it was clear its schedule was going to be comedy-heavy. But the network is making … Read More »

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