Original creator Diane English to serve as writer and executive producer
CBS has given a 13-episode order to a revival of “Murphy Brown” with original star Candice Bergen.
Bergen will reprise her role as the titular broadcast journalist, bringing the character back to CBS 30 years after she first debuted it in 1988. The modern-day revival will see the show’s characters take on “a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.”
Original series creator Diane English will serve as writer and executive producer on the show from Warner Bros. Television. Bergen will also executive produce.
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The show’s original run lasted for 10 seasons, and earned a total of 62 Emmy nominations and 18 wins. Bergen herself took home the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series five times.
The show’s new outing comes as the broadcast networks look to past successes to fill out their programming schedules. Last fall, NBC brought back “Will & Grace” to much success, and ABC aims to do the same with the “Roseanne” reboot premiering in March.
This marks CBS’s first straight-to-series order of the 2018 pilot season. The network also has pilots in the works for comedies “History of Them” and “I Mom So Hard,” as well as dramas “Murder” and “God Friended Me.”
17 TV Winners and Losers of 2017, From ‚This is Us‘ to the Silence Breakers (Photos)
Boy, 2017 was something — wasn’t it? While plenty has been happening in the „real world“ over the past 12 months, the show continues to go on for TV. Well, not every show. When it comes to television, the winners and losers are pretty easy to define, though 2017 was such a screwy year sometimes they intertwined. Here is the breakdown for who conquered the airwaves and what crumbled in ratings.
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Winner: NBC — Once-again, NBC is the year’s broadcast TV ratings winner. This win makes it four years in a row atop the key 18-49 demographic, and the fifth No. 1 finish of six years. And before you argue that’s all due to „Sunday Night Football“ and The Olympics, 2017 marks the third year in a row NBC has finished first — or tied for No. 1 — in entertainment-only programming. So, there.
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Loser: ESPN — Wins have been tough to come by at the Worldwide Leader in Sports these days. From ESPN’s Bristol, Connecticut vantage point, cord-cutters are killing the once-mighty business: ESPN has laid off hundreds of employees in just the past six months to mitigate some of the damage. (Mis)Management there also fumbled a partnership with Barstool Sports, which was still somehow better than they handled Jemele Hill’s Twitter activity .
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Winner: Cable News — By never shutting up about „fake news,“ Donald Trump has contributed to very real TV ratings growth at CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. Though the POTUS loves himself some „Fox & Friends,“ perennial Twitter trend „Morning Joe“ has arguably made the most of the new platform given to its platform.
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Loser: Megyn Kelly — NBC News made quite a coup when it lured Megyn Kelly over from enemy Fox News Channel. Here’s the problem: Kelly hasn’t earned her reported $15 million-plus yearly salary for the new employer. „Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly“ mostly didn’t work, and her „Today“ show takeover has basically been a bust every time she’s without a sexual misconduct accuser .
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Loser(s): Sexual Harrassers (and the Shows/Networks/etc. That Employ Them) — Here are just some TV stars and executives accused of sexual misconduct in 2017: Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Tambor, Bill O’Reilly, Matt Lauer, Mario Batali, Roy Price, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Louis CK, Jeremy Piven, Chris Savino, Ken Baker, Matthew Weiner, Mark Schwahn, Nick Carter, Geoffrey Rush, Geraldo Rivera– OK, we’re running out of room. It was a lot of guys.
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Winner(s): The Silence Breakers — OK yeah, so we stole that term from Time. Good enough for their cover, good enough for our gallery. The point is, some of this year’s biggest winners are those who came forward to speak out against this year’s biggest losers. Props to Reese Witherspoon, America Ferrera, Hilarie Burton (pictured), Anna Faris and Terry Crews — to name just a few — for sharing their own personal stories about being victims of Hollywood’s sexual misconduct problem.
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Winner: HBO — You’re more than a little liar if you say HBO didn’t own premium cable this year. Boasting an impressive lineup of new and returning series („Big Little Lies,“ „Game of Thrones“) and a landslide victory at the Primetime Emmy Awards (10 wins, thank you very much), it’s clear the network was living its best life in 2017. Of course, HBO could be on track to crush the next couple of years as well, with the return of „Westworld“ and the final season of „Game of Thrones.“
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Winner: Stephen Colbert– Turns out the guy from „The Colbert Report“ really should love Donald Trump. Just as soon as the 45th POTUS was inaugurated in January, Colbert took late-night’s total-viewer crown right off of Jimmy Fallon’s head. He hasn’t looked back since, and is now coming for the „Tonight Show“ host’s stranglehold on the key 18-49 demographic.
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Loser: NFL — TV Ratings for NFL games are down year over year again. Considering 2016’s terrible declines, this year’s high single-digit drop-off is really bad news for the National Football League. And then there’s that whole kneeling for the national anthem thing — that sure got the country heated, didn’t it? Yeesh.
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Winner: „This Is Us“ — The story of the Pearsons‘ heartbreaking loss continues to be NBC’s gain. The success of the sophomore season of „This Is Us“ has forced a spike in tissue sales (possibly?) and viewership. The series is one of just six that are up in Nielsen ratings in 2017, compared to their prior season. Cool Emmy, Sterling K. Brown.
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Loser: „Still Star-Crossed“ — A win just wasn’t in the cards for this short-lived ABC series, which was 2017’s lowest-rated new show for the calendar year. Across its seven-episode first (and last) season, the medieval Shondaland drama, averaged 1.36 million viewers and a 0.3 rating in the key demo. Also, more than half the episodes aired on Saturdays during the summer. So, yeah.
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Winner: „The Good Doctor“ — ABC ruled the opposite end of the ratings spectrum too, dropping its new series „The Good Doctor“ this fall. The medical drama starring Freddie Highmore (who just grabbed a 2018 Golden Globes nomination for his performance as Dr.
