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Monday 23rd January



8:00PM

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House

8.18 Million

3.1/8

Pretty Little Liars

3.16 Million

1.4/3

Gossip Girl

1.57 Million

0.7/2



9:00PM

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Alcatraz

8.95 Million

3.0/7

Hart Of Dixie

1.63 Million

0.7/2

Being Human

1.65 Million

0.7/2

The Lying Game

N/A

N/A



10:00PM

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Castle

10.06 Million

2.1/5



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Beast' fairytale pilot picked up by ABC



ABC has picked up a pilot for fairytale drama Beast.

The project is described as a "fantastical reimagining" of the classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast, TV Line reports.

ABC revealed that the show is set "in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough Princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast".

Beast has been penned by Human Target and Jericho writer Jon Steinberg, who will executive produce the show with Life Unexpected's Gary Fleder and Mary Beth Basile.

Beast's pilot order comes after the success of ABC's freshman drama Once Upon A Time, which has performed well in the ratings since it premiered in October.

Beast should not be confused with The CW's recent pilot pickup Beauty and the Beast, which is a procedural "loosely based" on a 1980s series of the same name.

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Scrubs' creator's family pilot 'Like Father' ordered by Fox



Fox has ordered a pilot from Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence.

Like Father focuses on the relationship between a father and son.

Fox has now asked for an episode of the comedy, TV Line reports.

Like Father is said to be partly based on the experiences of Lawrence, who also works as the showrunner on Cougar Town.

He has written the script and is now expected to direct the pilot.

Lawrence is also currently developing a comedy about firefighters for ABC and an ensemble workplace comedy for CBS.

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First Cut' medical pilot ordered by The CW



The CW has ordered a pilot for a new medical comedy drama.

First Cut focuses on a young, socially awkward female doctor who is excited about finally joining the world of work, TV Line reports.

However, she soon discovers that life at her hospital is not any different from her time at high school.

The project has been created by Jennie Snyder, whose previous credits include Gilmore Girls, Men In Trees, Lipstick Jungle and 90210.

Dan Jinks, who has worked on Pushing Daisies and movies such as American Beauty and Milk, will also executive produce the show.

The CW has already ordered pilots for Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries, superhero drama Arrow, a reimagining of 1980s series Beauty and the Beast and Cult, a drama about a series of crimes apparently copied from a television show.

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Tuesday 24th January



8:00PM

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Total Viewers

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Switched At Birth

1.89 Million

0.8/2

90210

1.28 Million

0.7/2



10:00PM

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White Collar

3.47 Million

1.1/3

The Game

2.87 Million

1.5/3

Justified

2.70 Million

0.9/2

Southland

2.16 Million

0.6/2



10:30PM

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Let's Stay Together

2.04 Million

1.1/3



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Wednesday 25th January



8:00PM

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Whitney

4.50 Million

1.4/4

One Tree Hill

1.47 Million

0.7/2



8:30PM

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Are You There, Chelsea

3.90 Million

1.4/4



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Criminal Minds

13.70 Million

3.6/9

Touch

11.87 Million

3.9/10



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CSI

14.03 Million

3.3/9

Royal Pains

3.33 Million

1.0/3

Hot In Cleveland

1.40 Million

0.3/1



10:30PM

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The Exes

0.931 Million

0.2/1



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Thursday 26th January



8:00PM

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The Big Bang Theory

15.96 Million

5.4/15

30 Rock

3.84 Million

1.6/4



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Rob

11.58 Million

3.5/9

Parks & Recreation

3.48 Million

1.7/4



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The Finder

8.51 Million

2.9/7

30 Rock

4.00 Million

1.9/5



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The Firm

3.77 Million

1.0/3



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NBC Picks Up ‘New Normal’ Family Comedy Pilot From Ryan Murphy And Allison Adler



It’s officially a go for NBC’s comedy project from the Glee duo of Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler. The network has given a pilot order to The New Normal, a single-camera project, co-written by Glee co-creator Murphy and Adler and to be directed by Murphy. The Book Of Mormon star Andrew Rannells is set for one of 3 leads in the project, a heartwarming comedy about a blended family of a gay couple and the woman who becomes a surrogate to help them start a family. The comedy had been as close to a sure thing as it could be since NBC landed the pitch in a three-way bidding war with penalty said to be bigger than any other commitment for a half-hour project this season. Murphy and Adler were still writing the first draft when NBC moved on to hire a casting director to explore options for the 3 leads. Rannells was tapped as one of them last week. 20th Century Fox TV is producing, with Murphy, Adler and Ryan Murphy Prods.’ Dante Di Loreto executive producing. The New Normal was one of 2 comedy projects about a gay couple with kids that NBC put in development this season, along with a half-hour written by Peter Tolan starring Sean Hayes. I hear that one is not going forward.

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Alias' actor Kevin Weisman joins NBC's 'Awake'



Kevin Weisman has joined the cast of upcoming NBC drama Awake.

The series stars Jason Isaacs as Michael Britten, a cop who lives in two worlds - one in which his wife died in a car crash and another in which his son was killed.

Alias actor Weisman will play 'Mr. Blonde', a mysterious figure who appears in both worlds and holds vital information regarding the accident, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Since Alias concluded in 2006, Weisman has appeared in episodes of Chuck, Fringe and CSI.

Awake has not yet been given a premiere date by NBC. The series temporarily shut down production in late 2011, with executive producer Howard Gordon claiming that the show's writers needed additional time to work on the complex scripts.

Gordon recently insisted that Awake will not confuse viewers, suggesting that it has "a fairly gettable concept".

"[Britten] sees clues and details that cross over from one world to the next, and he uses that insight to solve crimes," he explained. "Whatever learning curve there might be, we hope it's a shallow one."

The Event's Laura Innes and former Law & Order: SVU star BD Wong are among the other actors who have signed up to appear on the show.

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Shawnee Smith joins Charlie Sheen sitcom 'Anger Management



Shawnee Smith has joined the cast of Charlie Sheen's new sitcom Anger Management.

Smith was first named as one of a number of actresses being considered for the FX series last week.

The Saw star will play the ex-wife of Sheen's Charlie, a former baseball player turned anger therapist, according to Deadline.

She is believed to have beaten out Dexter's Julie Benz, Work It's Kate Reinders and In Plain Sight's Nichole Hiltz for the role.

A second female lead, to play Charlie's own therapist, has yet to be cast. Hellboy's Selma Blair and 90210's Elaine Hendrix are both rumoured to be up for the part.

Showrunner Bruce Helford recently described Anger Management as a "smarter" comedy, calling Charlie Sheen "a strong actor".

"[Charlie] hasn't had an opportunity to tap into that in a while," he said in October. "But he is capable of playing much more complicated characters."

The series has been picked up for an initial ten-episode run and will premiere on FX in June.

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Graham Patrick Martin joins 'Closer' spinoff 'Major Crimes'



Graham Patrick Martin has joined the cast of TNT's forthcoming Closer spinoff Major Crimes.

The Two and a Half Men actor will play homeless teen Rusty on the show, according to Deadline.

The character will be introduced in the series finale of The Closer, due to air later this year.

Major Crimes will star Mary McDonnell as police captain Sharon Raydor and had been picked up for a 10-episode season.

Martin was previously a series regular on TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show and has also appeared in episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Love Bites.

It has been suggested that the supporting cast on The Closer - including Corey Reynolds (Detective Gabriel) Tony Denison (Flynn), G W Bailey (Provenza) and Michael Paul Chan (Tao) - could join McDonnell and Martin on Major Crimes.

"I think that all of us are interested in continuing the storytelling," said Reynolds. "We just have to figure out what way is best to launch the new show."

Major Crimes will debut on TNT in summer 2012. NBC is also developing an unrelated legal drama of the same name.

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True Blood' Alan Ball's crime drama 'Banshee' picked up by Cinemax



Cinemax has picked up True Blood creator Alan Ball's new project Banshee to series.

The show will focus on a criminal with martial arts expertise who poses as a murdered sheriff to dish out his own brand of justice.

House director Greg Yaitanes will helm the pilot episode and will also serve as executive producer, according to Deadline.

Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler have scripted the first episode and will also exec produce alongside Ball and Peter Macdissi.

Banshee will begin filming in and around Charlotte, North Carolina this spring. The show is expected to premiere on Cinemax in 2013.

Ball will also work on the fifth season of True Blood and is developing new medical drama Wichita for HBO.

Other projects in development at Cinemax include a new season of action-drama Strike Back, BBC co-production Nemesis starring Melissa George and an adaptation of the Transporter film franchise.

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Glee' Mike O'Malley's comedy pilot 'Prodigy Bully' picked up by Fox



Fox has picked up a new comedy pilot from Glee actor Mike O'Malley.

O'Malley, who plays Burt Hummel on the network's musical drama, will write and executive produce Prodigy Bully, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The project, based on a series of short films by Hank Perlman, focuses on a young boy genius who uses his brains and brawn to manipulate others.

Southland's John Wells will work on the pilot, having previously worked with O'Malley on Showtime's Shameless.

O'Malley and Wells will be joined as executive producers by Glee director Paris Barclay and Andrew Stearn.

Fox has recently commissioned a string of comedy pilots, including Living Loaded from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell, and sitcom Like Father from Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence.

Mike Royce's Little Brother and Ben Fox Is My Manny, from What Happens in Vegas writer Dana Fox, have also been picked up.

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Harry Potter' director, 'Goodfellas' writer pilots picked up by CBS



CBS has picked up three new drama pilots for the 2012-13 television season.

The L Word's Ilene Chaiken and Hollywood producer Joel Silver have teamed for Quean, according to TVLine.

The potential series, which has been compared to the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo franchise, will focus on an edgy female hacker who helps an Oakland detective to solve crimes.

Harry Potter director Christopher Columbus has also had his project Applebaum picked up to pilot.

Based on the Mommy Track Mysteries book series by Ayelet Waldman, Applebaum follows a retired public defender who begins a new career as a private investigator.

A third, untitled commission - from Goodfellas writer Nicholas Pileggi and Greg Walker - is set in the 1960s and is based on the Las Vegas exploits of rodeo cowboy-turned-sheriff Ralph Lamb.

CBS recently picked up comedy pilot Super Fun Night, starring Bridesmaids actress Rebel Wilson, and Black Widow, a cop drama from CSI's Carol Mendelsohn.

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Pilot Season: CBS Picks Up Comedies From Raising Hope, Brothers & Sisters Producers



CBS has picked up comedy pilots for Friend Me, Partners and an untitled project from Greg Malins and Greg Berlanti.

Friend Me, from Raising Hope's Alan Kirschenbaum and Ajay Sahgal, follows 20-something best friends who move to Los Angeles to begin their exciting new lives working at Groupon. Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum will also executive-produce.

Partners, from Emmy winners David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, is the personal story of two lifelong friends and business partners whose friendship has lasted longer than any of their romantic relationships. When one decides to propose to his girlfriend, the other's neurotic attempts to be supportive nearly result in a breakup.

The Malins and Berlanti project centers on a man who has a health scare, which leads him to realize that his best friend and business partner of 15 years is "the one." CBS previously ordered a pilot for Berlanti's drama Golden Boy.

CBS previously picked up the pilots Elementary, a modern take on Sherlock Holmes, a project from Jerry Bruckheimer, the legal drama Baby Big Shot, a half-hour comedy from Bridesmaids' Rebel Wilson, Widow Detective from CSI's Carol Mendelsohn, and an untitled Nick Stoller comedy. On Thursday, the network picked up drama pilots from The L Word's Ilene Chaiken, a Ralph Lamb bio and a project based on Ayelet Waldman's Mommy Track Mysteries book series.

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Pilot Season: ABC Picks Up Three More Comedy Pilots



ABC has picked up comedy pilots for How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, Only Fools & Horses and an untitled project from Due Date's Adam Sztykiel.

How to Live centers on a recently divorced, single mom who moves back in with her eccentric parents who have no boundaries. Accidentally on Purpose's Claudia Lonow created the project and will serve as executive producer alongside Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo.

Based on the iconic British series, Only Fools & Horses chronicles the misadventures of two streetwise brothers and their aging grandfather. The trio concoct outrageous and morally questionable get-rich-quick schemes in their quest to become millionaires. Happy Endings and Scrubs scribes Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley will write the pilot.

The Sztykiel project is a raw peek behind the curtain of modern 20-something relationships. Sztykiel will write and co-executive-produce. Sean Perrone and Aaron Kaplan will executive-produce.

ABC previously picked up comedy pilots The Manzanis, White Van Man, Counter Culture, the untitled Dan Fogelman project and a Kari Lizer comedy.

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Only Fools and Horses' for US remake?



Only Fools and Horses is to be remade in America, it has been reported.

Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, writers and producers of Happy Endings and Scrubs, are said to be adapting the classic sitcom for ABC

The US version will centre around two brothers and their grandfather as they attempt various get-rich-quick schemes to become millionaires, much like John Sullivan's original BBC show, the Radio Times reports.

David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst starred in Only Fools and Horses for the BBC.

Originally airing between 1981 and 1991 and later followed by a number of Christmas specials, it attracted audiences of over 24m at its peak.

Other shows which have been remade for US audiences include Steptoe and Son, which became Sanford and Son and ran for six seasons between 1972 and 1977, and The Office, which is currently in its eighth season on NBC.

Only Fools and Horses creator Sullivan died in April 2011 at the age of 64. He had been suffering from viral pneumonia.

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Friday 27th January



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Chuck

4.12 Million

1.2/4



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Chuck

4.32 Million

1.3/4

Fringe

3.37 Million

1.2/3



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Spartacus Vengence

1.39 Million

0.6/2



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Sunday 29th January



7:30PM

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The Cleveland Show

2.74 Million

1.3/3



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Once Upon A Time

10.78 Million

3.4/8

The Simpsons

5.12 Million

2.4/6



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Napoleon Dynamite

4.42 Million

2.1/6



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The Good Wife

10.97 Million

2.2/5

Family Guy

5.91 Million

3.0/7

Shameless

1.36 Million

0.7/2



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American Dad

4.78 Million

2.4/5



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CSI Miami

10.48 Million

2.2/6

House Of Lies

1.02 Million

0.6/2



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Californication

N/A

N/A



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Will & Grace' creators, 'Brothers & Sisters' exec for new CBS pilots



CBS has ordered three more comedy pilots for the 2012-13 television season.

Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick have sold new sitcom Partners to the network, according to TVLine.

The potential series will focus on two life-long male friends who begin to grow apart when one decides to propose to his girlfriend.

A version of the Partners pilot, starring Jay Mohr and Brian Austin Green, was filmed in 2007 for CBS. A second attempt, with Alan Tudyk and Ty Burrell, was also made for ABC in 2008.

Brothers & Sisters executive producer Greg Berlanti and How I Met Your Mother's Greg Malins are also developing an untitled romantic comedy.

The project will revolve around a man who suffers a health scare, leading him to realise that his best friend is the true love of his life.

The third pilot, from Ajay Sahgal and Raising Hope's Alan Kirschenbaum, is entitled Friend Me and will follow two men who relocate to Los Angeles to work for the deal-finding website Groupon.

CBS recently picked up a string of pilots, including Black Widow - a cop drama from CSI's Carol Mendelsohn - and comedy Super Fun Night, starring Bridesmaids actress Rebel Wilson.

Crime series Quean, an untitled drama from Goodfellas writer Nicholas Pileggi, and an adaptation of the the Mommy Track Mysteries book series are also in the works.

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