CBS Renews Under The Dome – Stephen King to Write 2nd Season Premiere

UNDER THE DOME, television’s #1 summer series in viewers and key demographics, will return in summer 2014 with 13 new episodes, it was announced today by Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment.

Stephen King, whose bestselling novel is the basis for the series, will write the premiere episode of the second season.

“We’re excited to tell more stories about the mystery of the dome and the secrets in Chester’s Mill, and are thrilled to have the master storyteller himself, Stephen King, tell the first one of next season,” said CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler.

UNDER THE DOME is a serialized drama from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel of the same name. It tells the story of a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. The town’s inhabitants must deal with surviving the post-apocalyptic conditions while searching for answers to what this barrier is, where it came from, and if and when it will go away.

CBS Announces One-Hour Premiere of Big Bang Theory

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Set your DVRs to stun(ning).

CBS announced it will launch its premiere Thursday with one hour of THE BIG BANG THEORY on Sept. 26 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT). The back-to-back original episodes will lead into the series premiere of THE CRAZY ONES.

Did you read that? It’s actually two episodes, not an hour long episode. Just pointing that out for you.

What shows are you most excited about premiering?

TwoCentsTV Awards COMEDY Winners!

The first annual TwoCentsTV Awards is HERE! Our debut year highlights some of our favorite performances, shows and other fun items from the past year in television. The staff of TwoCents has come up with a great slate of nominees readers voted over the last few weeks.

The votes have been counted. The WINNERS are here! Let’s hand out some “Golden Piggie Banks”!

First up – our COMEDY WINNERS!

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Dexter- Recap & Review – This Little Piggy

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Dexter
This Little Piggy

Original Air Date: Jul 28, 2013

Karen Belgrad – Senior Editor
karenbelgrad@thetwocentscorp.com

We’re nearly at the halfway point of Dexter’s final season. And I have to be honest, I am at a complete loss for what the final end game will be.

Are we looking to have resolution to Dexter and Deb’s fractured relationship? Are we looking to see one or more of the Morgan siblings dead or in jail? Or is there something completely out of left field coming our way?

Starz Gives Early Renewal to “Black Sails”

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Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced that the network has picked up a second season of the original series, “Black Sails” from executive producer Michael Bay in advance of its first season premiere. The announcement comes on the heels of the exclusive fan screening at San Diego Comic-Con several months in advance of its on-air premiere in January, 2014. The eight-episode first season of the authentic pirate adventure centers on the tales of Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men, and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.”

“Black Sails” is executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, producers on The Purge and currently in production on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The series was created by showrunner and executive producer Jonathan Steinberg (creator “Jericho,” “Human Target”) and Season Two executive producer Robert Levine (“Touch”).

Graceland – Recap & Review – Goodbye High

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Graceland
Goodbye High

Original Air Date: Jul 25, 2013

Jules – Senior News Editor
jules@thetwocentscorp.com

Sorry for the lateness, but if there was an episode not to miss, it was this one. I’m pretty sure this show has got us all in pins and needles since it seems to have at least one major reveal every week. But then again, we are still learning about the house and its occupants. And this week we learn a lot more and about how sometimes you have to keep your secrets to yourself.

We pick up with Mike listening to Briggs talk at his narcotics anonymous meeting saying that his whole life is a lie. Ain’t that the truth.

New Cinemax series The Knick stars Clive Owen

Owen goes from the big screen to the small screen to go back in time

Academy Award® winner and Emmy® nominee Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic,” “Side Effects,” HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra”) will direct Academy Award® and Emmy® nominee Clive Owen (“Children of Men,” HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn”) in the entire ten-episode season of the CINEMAX original series THE KNICK, which begins production in New York in September.

Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming, says, “We are thrilled that Steven and Clive have chosen to bring this unique and exciting series to CINEMAX.”

Set in downtown New York in 1900, THE KNICK centers on Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff, who push the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.

New HBO Comedy Series “Hello Ladies” debuts Sept. 29

ladies will say hello to Stephen Merchant

A recent transplant from England, Stuart is a gawky, 6’ 7” web designer searching for excitement and romance in Los Angeles. Half as charming – and twice as desperate – as he thinks he is, he’s obsessed with infiltrating the glamorous world of beautiful people, who won’t let him in.

In his first lead role in a comedy series, Stephen Merchant (Golden Globe winner as writer-executive producer of “The Office UK” and HBO’s “Extras”) stars as Stuart in HELLO LADIES, which begins its eight-episode season SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 (10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, immediately following the season premiere of “Eastbound & Down.”

Searching for the woman of his dreams amidst the dazzling nightlife of Los Angeles, Stuart’s romantic aspirations far outstretch his looks or appeal.

“The Walking Dead” at “Halloween Horror Nights”

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Fans with a voracious appetite for AMC’s “The Walking Dead” will have a chance to walk in the footsteps of human survivors when Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort debut all new terrifying mazes inspired by Season 3 of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning television series at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights events beginning September 20.

The eerily authentic and disturbingly real maze experiences will place “Halloween Horror Nights” guests at the heart of the show’s once impenetrable prison, the West Georgia Correctional Facility, now overrun by hordes of flesh-eating walkers. The mazes at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando will send guests cowering through the walker-infested wilderness that surrounds the prison and into the seemingly utopian town of Woodbury where gruesome secrets are concealed.

FXX to Launch Comedy Flagships on September 4

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia will take the 10 p.m. slot

FXX has set the premiere date of Wednesday, September 4 for its flagship comedy series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The League, and the late night comedy show Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.

FXX, the new entertainment basic cable channel from FX Networks, launches on Monday, September 2 at 7:00 AM ET/PT and will be carried in 72 million homes at launch.

The comedy smash hit It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns for its 9th season on September 4, at 10:00 PM ET/PT, and airing for 13 episodes on Wednesday nights.