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Cancelled ‘Zero Hour’ & ‘Do No Harm’ Get Summer Air Dates For Unaired Episodes

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 26, 2013 @ 11:31pm PDTTags: Do No Harm, Zero Hour
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Anthony EdwardsTwo midseason dramas pulled quickly after their premieres have gotten their unaired episodes scheduled. ABC‘s Zero Hour and NBC‘s Do No Harm both have landed burnoff Saturday slots. Zero Hour, which only aired three episodes before getting the axe and has 10 more episodes in the can, will return on June 15 at 8 with two back-to-back episodes. It will then air in the 8 PM hour until a two-hour finale on Aug. 3. Do No Harm has 11 unaired episodes after being scrapped following two airings. The Jekyll & Hyde medical drama will be back on June 29 and will air at 10 PM, per The Futon Critic.

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ABC’s ‘Zero Hour’ Cancelled After 3 Airings

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 6:10pm PSTTags: ABC, Zero Hour
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Anthony EdwardsABC‘s Thursday 8 PM slot has taken another drama victim. The network is pulling new series Zero Hour after three low-rated airings. For the next two weeks, encores of Shark Tank will air in … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘American Idol’ Slips To Win Sleepy Post-Sweep Thursday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 9:22am PSTTags: 1600 Penn, American Idol, Community, TV Ratings, Zero Hour
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As much as they say sweeps don’t matter anymore, the broadcast networks still try to put their best foot forward in November, February and in May. And on the first night following the February sweep last night, most … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Zero Hour’ Falls, ‘Vampire Diaries’ Up, ‘Idol’ Rises, ‘Parks & Recreation’ And ‘Community’ Hit Lows

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday February 22, 2013 @ 9:22am PSTTags: American Idol, Scandal, The Big Bang Theory, The Vampire Diaries, Zero Hour

The second week of ABC’s Zero Hour (1.1/3) saw nightmares of Nazis, more secrets revealed and the Book of Revelation consulted. The new conspiracy drama also the ratings spiral downward. Coming off the lowest-rated in-season debut ever for a scripted show on ABC, the Anthony Edwards show fell 21% from last week. With a 1.3/4, the CW’s 8 PM The Vampire Diaries actually beat both Zero Hour and NBC’s Community (1.1/3) and the 8:30 PM Parks And Recreation (1.3/4) among the key 18-49 demographic for the hour. The CW show was up a strong 30% from last week while the NBC comedies were down 8% and 13% from last week respectively. Thursday also saw series’ lows for both NBC comedies. Beauty And The Beast (0.6/1) was also up on the CW. The show rose 20% from last week’s 0.5/1 fast nationals.

Related: NBC To Finish 5th In Sweeps For First Time
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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Zero Hour’ Debuts With Record Low, ‘Community’ & ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Hit Series Low, ‘American Idol’ Down

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday February 15, 2013 @ 8:59am PSTTags: American Idol, Community, TV Ratings, Zero Hour

The premiere of Zero Hour (1.3/4) on Valentine’s Day saw the full-time return of Anthony Edwards to primetime more than a decade after he left ER. Unfortunately for ABC, on a night that traditionally sees lower viewership, the conspiracy drama marked the lowest-rated in-season debut for a scripted show ever on the network. Facing off against American Idol in the 8 PM time slot, Zero Hour was down 41% from the September 27 premiere of Last Resort, a show that is now cancelled, and 38% from the March 15 premiere of Missing. That still pales compared to the January 31 premiere of the now cancelled Do No Harm on NBC which got a 0.9/3) and was the lowest rated in-season premiere ever of any scripted show on the any of the Big Four networks.

Zero Hour wasn’t the only show having a rough night. In its second week of its fourth season and also head-to-head with Idol on Fox, NBC’s Community (1.1/4) fell 42% from its season debut last week to hit a series low. ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy (2.7/7) didn’t have to face Idol, but it was down 13% from last week to also hit a series low. In its second show of the Girls Only Hollywood Week, Idol (3.6/11) itself was also down. The competition series slid 12% from last week’s Guys Only Hollywood Week Part 2 show. Following Idol, a new Glee (1.7/5) took a bigger hit, falling 23% its February 7 show.
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ABC’s ‘Zero Hour’ Explores The Human Beneath Naziism, Creator Says: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 10, 2013 @ 2:55pm PSTTags: ABC, Anthony Edwards, TCA, Zero Hour

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

The most intriguing material to emerge from a TCA panel promoting the new ABC action thriller Zero Hour starring Anthony Edwards came after the panel during an informal chat with creator/executive producer Paul Scheuring. He was asked about the presence of Nazis in the pilot and whether that was perhaps done to give the show something of a baseline for evil so there is no ambiguity. His surprising reply: “No. Actually, that’s a source of ambiguity. The idea that all Nazis are bad is something we are exploring, 100 percent.”

“The entire show is about the man or the woman beneath the identity,” Scheuring continued. “If you wear a Christian cross, are you automatically good? If you wear a Nazi armband, are you automatically bad? And that I think ultimately makes for more complex and interesting drama. All those different characters wear these different surface adornments, like Naziism, Christianity. But what’s the human beneath it?… I want to have a more sophisticated three-dimensional view of the characters as opposed to ‘Nazi! Bad!’ I mean, who cares?” Scheuring identified himself as Buddhist and went on to pose the hypothetical question whether the Christian God is real. “Scientifically, that’s the question we are starting to ask as the season goes along.” Read More »

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ABC’s Midseason Schedule: ‘Family Tools’ & ‘How To Live’ On Wednesday, ‘Red Widow’ On Sunday, ‘Zero Hour’ On Thursday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 4, 2012 @ 11:36am PSTTags: ABC, Family Tools, How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life), Zero Hour
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ABC is overhauling its schedule for midseason with changes on four nights. New comedies Family Tools and How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life) will join the network’s Wednesday comedy block, with ABC’s Tuesday comedy block going away. New drama Red Widow will succeed 666 Park Ave on Sunday. ABC is replacing now-defunct freshman Last Resort with another male-skewing new drama in the challenging Thursday 8 PM slot, Zero Hour. And, following the end of Private Practice, the revamped Body of Proof will return to its Tuesday 10 PM slot.  Read More »

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CW’s ’90210′ And ABC’s ‘Zero Hour’, ‘Last Resort’, ‘Mistresses’ Add Recurring Players

By NELLIE ANDREEVA AND DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday November 12, 2012 @ 6:00pm PSTTags: ABC, Zero Hour

Lyndon Smith has landed a major recurring role on the CW’s drama series 90210. In a six-to-nine episode arc, she will play Michaela, who is an exceptional singer –  a cute, free-spirited girl trying to make a fresh start. We come to find out that Michaela has an unexpected connection to the gang, and will end up playing a very big part in one of our characters’ lives. Smith, repped by Don Buchwald-Fortitude and Main Title, is a regular in the MTV pilot Cassandra French.

Amir Arison has signed on for a recurring role on ABC’s midseason conspiracy drama Zero Hour. The actor will play scientist Theo Molars. Arison has recently guest starred on Showtime’s Homeland and FX’s American Horror Story. Anthony Edwards leads Zero Hour as a conspiracy magazine editor who becomes involved in a grand conspiracy when his wife is kidnapped. Amir Arison is repped by Bauman Redantly & Shaul and Sweet180. Read More »

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Zack Estrin Signs Deal With ABC Studios, WIll Run ‘Zero Hour’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 1, 2012 @ 7:17am PDTTags: ABC Studios, Zero Hour
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Prison Break co-executive producer Zack Estrin is reuniting with the Fox drama’s creator Paul Scheuring. Estrin has extended his deal with ABC Studios, and nder the pact, he will join Scheuring’s new series, ABC’s Zero Hour, as an … Read More »

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ABC First Look Teasers: 2012-13 New Shows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 2:31pm PDTTags: 666 Park Avenue, ABC, How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life), Last Resort, Malibu Country, Mistresses, Nashville, Red Widow, The Family Tools, The Neighbors, Zero Hour
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ABC’s The Neighbors - Comedy
Produced by ABC Studios. From writer/executive producer Dan Fogelman and executive producers Aaron Kaplan, Jeff Morton and Chris Koch. Directed by Chris Koch (pilot):

ABC’s 666 Park Avenue – Drama
Produced by Bonanza Productions in association with Alloy Entertainment and Warner Bros Television. From writer/executive producer David Wilcox and executive producers Matthew Miller, Leslie Morgenstein, Gina Girolamo. Directed by Alex Graves (pilot):

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‘The Bounceback’ Adds Cast

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday May 1, 2012 @ 5:50pm PDTTags: Michael Stahl-David, Zero Hour

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Stahl-David, Sara Paxton, Zach Cregger and Addison Timlin have joined the cast of The Bounceback. Directed by Bryan Poyser, the indie romantic comedy chronicles two former couples that end up in Austin, Texas on the … Read More »

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‘ER’s Anthony Edwards To Topline ABC Drama Pilot ‘Zero Hour’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 7, 2012 @ 10:17am PSTTags: ABC, Anthony Edwards, Zero Hour
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Anthony Edwards Zero HourEXCLUSIVE: In his first series regular role since ER, Anthony Edwards has signed on as the lead in ABC’s drama pilot Zero Hour. The ABC Studios project, written and executive produced by Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring, … Read More »

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