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‘Modern Family’ Gets Cable Makeover For Launch On USA Network: VIDEO

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 7:53pm PDTTags: Modern Family, Steven Levitan, Upfront, USA
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How would hit ABC comedy Modern Family look and sound like if it aired on cable? The show’s writers offer a peek in a promo for the Emmy-winning series’ upcoming off-network launch on USA Network in September. The video was a highlight at today’s USA upfront presentation, where Modern Family, its cast and co-creator Steve Levitan were the main attraction. Enjoy and keep in mind that the video is the result of what I hear were 17 cuts to tone the original down and make it suitable for public (but definitely not family) viewing.

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Related: USA Unveils Drama Development Slate, Plans For Daytime

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USA Network’s Reality Series ‘The Moment’ Moved To Fridays After Slow Start

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 26, 2013 @ 10:06pm PDTTags: The Moment, USA
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UPDATED: As it is navigating its way into reality series, USA Network didn’t have any particular expectations for its first unscripted series in a long time, the aspirational The Moment. It got off to a … Read More »

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USA Reality Series ‘The Moment’ Begins Casting For Season 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 28, 2013 @ 2:23pm PDTTags: The Moment, USA
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The MomentIn a vote of confidence for its upcoming aspirational reality series The Moment, USA Network is moving forward with casting for a potential second season ahead of the series premiere on April 11. Justin Hochberg … Read More »

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USA’s ‘Necessary Roughness’ Adds David Anders, Karen Gillan Joins ‘NTSF:SD:SUV::’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Necessary Roughness, USA
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David AndersDavid Anders (Once Upon a Time, Vampire Diaries) is joining the cast of USA’s Necessary Roughness as a recurring for Season 3. He joins John Stamos, who recently signed on to appear in … Read More »

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Jack Coleman & Stephen Martines Join USA’s ‘Burn Notice’ As Recurring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 15, 2013 @ 4:15pm PDTTags: Burn Notice, USA, USA Network
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EXCLUSIVE: USA’s Burn Notice is beefing up the cast for the upcoming seventh and potentially final season. Jack Coleman (Heroes) and Stephen Martines (The Closer) … Read More »

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Anders Holm To Recur On ‘Mindy Project’, Manolo Cardona On ‘Covert Affairs’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 6:39pm PSTTags: Anders Holm, Covert Affairs, Manolo Cardona, The Mindy Project, USA
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Workaholics‘ Anders Holm is joining Fox‘s comedy series The Mindy Project as a new love interest for Mindy (Mindy Kaling). In a four-episode arc, Holm will play Casey, a charismatic, altruistic, and popular Lutheran pastor in New … Read More »

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Hill Harper Leaves ‘CSI:NY’, Joins USA’s ‘Covert Affairs’ As New Series Regular

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 22, 2013 @ 9:00am PSTTags: Covert Affairs, Hill Harper, USA
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Hill HarperCSI: NY‘s Hill Harper is joining the upcoming fourth season of of USA’s drama series Covert Affairs as a new series regular alongside Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett and Peter Gallagher. CSI:NY’s ninth season finale airs tonight on CBS, and by most accounts it will be a series finale as the CSI spinoff appears unlikely to return. CBS has not made a final decision, but I hear Harper’s deal was up at the end of this season, and he is moving on. He looked at a number of options, including pilots, but I hear he wanted to join a cable series that is on the air. Harper is a fan of Covert Affairs, and shares a bond with its creators Matt Corman and Chris Ord as all three went to Brown University. Read More »

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USA Orders Jessica St. Clair/Lennon Parham Comedy Presentation

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 15, 2013 @ 5:12pm PSTTags: Jessica St. Clair, Lennon Parham, USA
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EXCLUSIVE: USA has given a pilot presentation order to a single-camera comedy written by and starring Upright Citizens Brigade alums Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, the duo behind NBC’s Best Friends Forever. The Office‘s Zach Woods is eyed for another role in the project, directed by Jeffrey Blitz whose credits include The Office and Parks & Recreation. Like BFF, which also started as a presentation, the untitled USA project will be produced by Scot Armstrong and Ravi Nandan’s American Work. Universal Cable Prods. is the studio.
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USA’s ‘Suits’ Strong In Winter Premiere

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 4:45pm PSTTags: Suits, USA
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USA’s Suits is solidifying its status as the network’s next flagship series as it continues to build in the ratings, especially in the young demographics. While cable series normally perform worse in the winter against increased in-season competition than in the summer, Suits returned last night higher than … Read More »

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‘Common Law’ Now Officially Cancelled

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 31, 2012 @ 6:04pm PDTTags: Common Law, USA
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USA Network has made its decision on Common Law official, pulling the plug on the freshman drama. “I can confirm to those who have asked that we are not renewing Common Law,” USA’s SVP Ted Linhart tweeted this afternoon. “Thanks to all the fans who watched and expressed their support.”

Related: USA’s ‘Common Law’ Unlikely To Return Read More »

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USA Network Picks Up Jeff Eastin Pilot ‘Graceland’ To Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 10:00am PDTTags: Graceland, Jeff Eastin, USA
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USA Network is doubling its bet on Jeff Eastin. The cable network has picked up to series Graceland, the new pilot from White Collar creator/executive producer Eastin. The one-hour drama, from Fox TV Studios, follows a group of diverse agents — from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and U.S. Customs — whose worlds collide while forced to live together in an undercover beach house in Southern California. Sean Daniel served as executive producer on the pilot, which was directed by Russell Fine. “Graceland is very much in our sweet spot — it has that fantastic and rich look associated with most of our shows, but we also want to go to very edgy and dark places with it,” USA co-president Jeff Wachtel said. “The characters’ day job takes them to places we haven’t gone with our original series.”

Eastin will run both Graceland and White Collar, whose fourth season premieres July 10, on the heels of what is shaping up to be a big opening for Magic Mike, which features White Collar star Matt Bomer. Because both series are with the same network, USA, and the same studio, FtvS, their schedules will be synched up so Eastin can give his full attention to both. That is the reason Graceland was picked up off-pattern. Eastin is already assembling a writing staff for the new series, with the goal to go into production shortly after filming on Season 4 of White Collar winds down. Graceland brings the number of FtvS-produced series on USA to three, along with White Collar and Burn Notice. Read More »

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WWE Monday Raw Expands To Three Hours, USA Puts Talent Upfront At Its Upfront Event

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 1:53pm PDTTags: USA
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In its first upfront event during the traditional broadcast upfront week, USA Network kept it casual, with a party vibe — cocktails on the way in, a music performance to start, a whole music set to close the presentation, which was followed by more drinks, and no executives taking the stage. Instead, the network kept its tradition of having the stars of its series present the new shows and talk up its ratings performance.

Related: USA Nears Deals For 2 Comedy Pilots, Picks Up Reality Pilot, Unveils Development Slate

The network also made some news, with WWE star John Cena announcing that, starting with WWE Monday Night Raw‘s 1000th episode on July 23, the show will permanently expand to three hours. Read More »

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USA Nears Deals For 2 Comedy Pilots, Picks Up Reality Pilot & Unveils Development Slate

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 10:00am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Paging Dr. Freed, Sirens, USA
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USA Network Series DevelopmentUSA Network, which is holding its first upfront presentation during the traditional broadcast upfront week this afternoon, has announced a couple of greenlights and a slew of drama, comedy and reality projects in development from the likes of Pierce Brosnan, Dick Wolf, Bryan Fuller, Doug Liman & David Bartis, Howie Mandel, Mark Gordon, Kelsey Grammer and Mark Burnett. The pickups include reality pilot Bride Or Best Man and comedy pilots Paging Dr. Freed and Sirens.

Related: WWE Monday Raw Expands To 3 Hours; USA Puts Talent Upfront At Its Upfronts

The most action is in the comedy arena, where USA prepares for the fall 2013 arrival of its first off-network comedy acquisition, the hit Modern Family. The network’s goal is to have an original series ready by then to be paired with the Emmy-winning ABC comedy. USA is now finalizing the pilot order deals for two half-hour hopefuls: Paging Dr. Freed and the Dennis Leary-produced Sirens. Meanwhile, the network has opted not to go forward with its first comedy pilot greenlighted as part of its current push in the genre, the single-camera Douglas McGrath project starring Nathan Lane. “We love Nathan, he was really good but we are not sure if this is the first comedy series we want to go out with,” USA co-president Jeff Wachtel said. The Nathan Lane project and medical comedy Paging Dr. Freed were greenlighted together last September. Read More »

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USA Series ‘Political Animals’ Sets July Premiere Date, Adds Adrian Pasdar To Cast

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 2, 2012 @ 11:00am PDTTags: Political Animals, USA
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Greg Berlanti and Laurence Mark’s USA series Political Animals has rounded out its cast with the addition of Adrian Pasdar as a recurring to appear in every episode. The six-episode series, from Warner Horizon, is slated to debut on July 15 and air in the Sunday 10 PM slot. Political Animals stars Sigourney Weaver as Elaine, a former First Lady and presidential candidate who tries to keep her family together while simultaneously dealing with crises of the State Department and a hungry DC journalist (Carla Gugino) who is bent on destroying her. Pasdar will play President Paul Garcetti, who defeated Elaine in the presidential primary and then appointed her as his Secretary of State. Read More »

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Prospect Park Sells Projects To Fox, USA Network & ABC Family With UCP Producing

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 13, 2011 @ 5:15pm PSTTags: ABC Family, Fox, Prospect park, Universal Cable Prods, USA
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Jeff Kwatinetz’s Prospect Park has sold 3 more series projects to USA, Fox and ABC Family. That brings the total number of shows the company has set up this year to 18. Prospect Parks’ latest projects, which have received scripted commitments, are all produced by Universal Cable Prods., extending the two companies’ existing relationship as co-producers of USA’s hit series Royal Pains. To complete the reunion, Prospect Park/UCP’ ABC Family project, a father-daughter drama set in the Governor’s office, is executive produced by Royal Pains co-creator/exec producer Andrew Lenchewski who has an overall deal with UCP. Prospect Park’s project for USA is an untitled action procedural  from John Scott Shepherd (Life Or Something Like It). At Fox, the company has Home Court, a half-hour comedy from Frasier alum Saladin Patterson, who serves as a co-executive producer on UCP’s dramedy for USA Psych. This is UCP’s fourth script sale to Fox this season, along with Jason Tracey/Hypnotic’s Metropolitan, Zaken & Baxter/Hypnotic’s One Great Life; and a blind script by Laurie Silverstein. Here are descriptions of Prospect Park’s projects with UCP: Read More »

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VIDEO: HBO Roast Is Medium Well

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 8, 2011 @ 2:17pm PSTTags: ABC, AMC, Cable TV, CBS, CNN, Fox, Fox News, HBO, NBC, Starz, Syfy, USA

AMC, USA and other competitors in TV’s world of letters take turns lobbing barbs at HBO and each other in this number from College Humor.

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TV TEASER: USA’s Big-Screen Campaign For ‘White Collar’ And ‘Covert Affairs’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 11:43am PDTTags: Covert Affairs, USA, White Collar
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USA Network is taking to movie theaters to promote its Tuesday night pair of White Collar and Covert Affairs, which return June 7. Here is an exclusive look at the trailer, which will be unspooled on 2,484 screens across the country this weekend, running before such tentpole movies as Pirates … Read More »

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‘Fairly Legal’ Creator Michael Sardo Steps Down, Peter Ocko Tapped As Showrunner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 1:37pm PDTTags: Fairly legal, Michael Sardo, USA
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EXCLUSIVE: Fairly Legal creator Michael Sardo has stepped down as executive producer and showrunner of the USA Network dramedy. Former Pushing Daisies executive producer Peter Ocko has been tapped as the new exec producer/showrunner on the series for its upcoming second season.

The changeover is part of USA’s plan for creative changes on Fairly Legal going into Season 2. When USA recently renewed the freshman series, the network’s co-president Jeff Wachtel indicated that the decision was based on the show’s appealing star, Sarah Shahi, and its potential but noted that there is room for improvement. “We think there is a creative and audience upside to the show,” Wachtel said back then. “Not every first season is the best, and we think it is a show that can do better.” While a solid performer — Fairly Legal launched as the top new cable drama of the year in adults 18-49 and has averaged a 4.6 million total viewers in Live+7 — the legal dramedy was not a breakout hit like most of USA’s recent series. Fairly Legal producer Universal Cable Prods is currently negotiating with Sardo about a potential future role on the show. Sardo is behind another high-profile UCP project — he is the creator/executive producer of the studio’s pilot Normal (formerly untitled Michael Sardo) for Lifetime. The drama pilot starring Carrie-Anne Moss is in contention for a series pickup at the cable network, with Sardo set to executive produce. (Additionally, Sardo serves as an exec producer on America’s Smartest Kids, a realty show in development at USA/UCP sibling Syfy). Read More »

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Sunny With A Chance Of… Same Tagline?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 9:20pm PDTTags: A&E, Burn Notice, Cable TV, Fox TV Studios, The Glades, USA, USA Burn Notice
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USA Network’s Burn Notice and A&E’s The Glades already have a lot in common – the same Florida locale and blue-sky feel, the same light tone and quirky characters led … Read More »

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