Programming

Bochco, who won 10 primetime Emmys, created several hit television shows including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue and Doogie Howser, M.D., died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. (AP photo/Chris Pizzello)

Following the massive ratings for the premiere of the Roseanne revival on ABC, the network has renewed the series for next season, which will be the classic sitcom’s 11th overall. The order is for 13 episodes, up from nine in the current first installment of the revival.

After Life Sentence hit another live-plus-same-day low this week, the CW has decided to move the dramedy to Fridays, a move the network also recently applied to Life Sentence‘s predecessor in the post-Riverdale Wednesday 9 p.m. slot, Dynasty.

Jinkies. The Scooby Doo episode of Supernatural provided the long-running CW series with its best ratings since the Season 13 premiere back in October. Airing at 8 p.m., Supernatural drew a 0.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 2 million viewers. That is an increase of over 30% in the demo and approximately 20% in total viewers over the last original episode of the show.

It can be difficult navigating the onslaught of streaming options that keep coming down the pike. Your eyes just glazed over? Get used to it, because the onslaught has only begun.

Following Donald Trump’s election, the network realized it was leaving some viewers behind — and put into effect a plan that brought back a working-class sitcom.

Suzanne Patmore Gibbs, the head of Sony Pictures TV’s TriStar Television, has died suddenly. She was 50. No details about the time and cause of death are available. She is believed to have died within the past 24 hours.

Hulu has added the live, linear version of the CW to its Hulu with Live TV platform. Hulu has had a deal with the CW to offer streaming on-demand content from the network, but this is the first time that the CW will be available live on Hulu.

Latenight programming remains a tussle between NBC and CBS — with the former maintaining a slight edge in young viewers and CBS dominating the overall viewing picture.

Suzie Hardy, Ryan Seacrest’s former E! News stylist is taking her allegations against her former boss to the police. Hardy has filed a report with Los Angeles police, and the LAPD is investigating her claims. Details aren’t known.

Just as there have been advances in the field of medicine over the past 55 years that have resulted in people living longer, so, too, have there been changes and improvements at General Hospital that have kept the long-running soap opera thriving in today’s crowded TV landscape.

The series debut of the Zach Braff-led comedy Alex Inc. enjoyed a respectable start on ABC in the Wednesday night Nielsen ratings. Airing at 8:30 p.m., Alex Inc. drew a 1.1 rating in adults 18-49 and 4.6 million viewers. That is in line with what Speechless had been drawing in the time slot during its second season, with the sophomore show averaging a 1.1 and 4.3 million viewers in Live+Same Day this season.

ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey, who marketed the show at NASCAR events, talks about season two (which is a foregone conclusion), if the comedy could return in the fall and if the network will revive other legacy shows (or Last Man Standing).

Top creatives and podcast creators discuss trend of hit podcasts becoming TV series at an NAB Show session.

During Tuesday evening’s broadcast of The Late Show on CBS, host Stephen Colbert filled time that ought to be devoted to commercials with more of his own antics. And the ad-free segment was sponsored by Google. Yes, that’s TV advertising in 2018: Google will advertise the fact that it is sponsoring a program segment during which commercials normally run, marking the first Late Show takeover of a regularly scheduled advertising break.

On Easter, John Legend leads a cast that includes Sara Bareilles and Alice Cooper in a live NBC version of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. (AP photo)