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No more Unnecessary Roughness for USA Network

USA Network has cancelled its drama series Unnecessary Roughness after three seasons. The Sony Pictures Television-produced show, which starred Callie Thorne as a therapist to an American football team, ran for three seasons from 2011 but will not return for another. “We are proud of this show and its writers, which had a unique ability […]

USA orders action drama from Tim Kring, Gideon Raff

USA Network has commissioned a six-episode run of DIG, an action adventure event series from Heroes creator Tim Kring and Homeland’s Gideon Raff. The series has been in development at Keshet Media Group and US producer BermanBraun and will now go into production via that pair and Covert Affairs producer Universal Cable Productions and with […]

News brief: Bravo adds Farrell, Oliver to current team

NBCUniversal-owned Bravo Media has hired doc maker Leslie Farrell and former Food Network executive Jeffrey Oliver as VPs of current programming. The pair will report into senior VP, current programming and original production, Shari Levine and work out of New York. Emmy-winning doc maker Farrell, who has created shows for HBO and PBS among others, […]

USA Network launches new NBCU TV Everywhere push

NBCUniversal has debuted a TV Everywhere service for USA Network – the first time it has launched the multi-screen programming initiative for one of its cable channels. USA Now will give viewers access to USA Network programmes such as Graceland, Suits and Psych across a variety of connected devices a day after their linear broadcaster […]

Modern Family lined up as USA Network chances on laughs

NBCUniversal-owned US cable channel USA Network has commissioned its first ever comedy series, and will launch ABC’s Modern Family off-network for the first time. Among new programmes unveiled yesterday at the USA Upfront was Sirens from Apostle and Fox Television Studios and Playing House from Universal Cable Productions and American Work. Additionally, it has picked […]

Netflix: cable TV biz ‘out of whack’

The cable industry pay model is “out of whack” in the internet era, in which pricing should be proportionate to viewing, Netflix’s content chief Ted Sarandos has claimed. Speaking at the FT Digital Media conference in London yesterday, Netflix’s chief content officer Sarandos said that it was “not economically feasible” in the streaming subscription business […]

USA Network renews Burn Notice for season seven

USA Network has renewed spy drama Burn Notice, its longest running original drama, for a seventh season. The US cable network has given the show a 13-episode pick up and is only the third show on the channel to reach 100 episodes. This follows the renewal of Suits. Burn Notice, which was created by Matt […]

USA Networks cancels Signourney Weaver’s Political Animals

USA Network has decided against turning Greg Berlanti’s Sigourney Weaver-fronted miniseries Political Animals into a full series. The cable network has passed on renewing the series for a second season following its limited run earlier this summer. Political Animals, which starred Weaver as the secretary of State and former First Lady fighting for her political […]

Fox heads to Asia Television Forum with Graceland

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution is heading to this year’s Asia Television Forum and will offer series including cable police drama Graceland and spy drama The Americans. The international sales arm of the Hollywood studio will launch the series at the event in Singapore between December 4 and 7. Graceland was created by White Collar […]

USA Network ramps up reality slate

US cable network USA Network is ramping up its reality programming slate with three new shows. The NBC Universal-owned broadcaster has ordered crime docu-soap Partners In Crime to series, is to put gaming adventure series All In to pilot and is developing cattle ranch reality series The Cowboy Way (WT). This comes after the broadcaster […]