Your new Bachelor is Arie Luyendyk, Jr. — you know, that race car driver from The Bachelorette five years ago? So GET EXCITED! TWITTER IS VERY EXCITED!
Marvel’s Inhumans has a zero score on Rotten Tomatoes, so that’s … not good.
How do they know San Juan de Gaztelugatxe is being overwhelmed by Game of Thrones fans and not Bachelorette fans? (It’s not being overwhelmed with Bachelorette fans.)
Renewals
Cancellations
- Veep will end after the seventh season and I GUESS THAT’S FINE. I SUPPOSE. I MEAN, NOT REALLY, THOUGH.
- Blood Drive will not have a second season on Syfy.
In Development
- Ryan Murphy is producing a Nurse Ratched series for Netflix that will star Sarah Paulson (naturally).
- Gina Rodriguez has sold Have Mercy, an immigration medical drama, to CBS, and Illegal, an immigration dramedy to The CW. Timely!
- CBS is developing L.A. Confidential as a series.
- ABC is working on a comedy about an Irish Catholic family from the creator of Last Man Standing.
- Meet the Peetes, a reality series about Holly Robinson and Rodney Peete, will air on Hallmark.
- Mark Geragos’ life is being turned into a series.
Casting News
- Antonio Banderas is your new Picasso. Somehow.
- Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins are going to play Nice Pope and Pope Benedict in a new Netflix movie. Approve.
- Ricky Whittle has joined the cast of Netflix’s movie, Nappily Ever After.
- Keltie Knight will join Entertainment Tonight.
WATCH THIS
Battle of the Network Stars: Two-hour season finale. 7 p.m., ABC
The Gong Show: Season finale. 9 p.m., ABC
Late Night: Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Reese Witherspoon, U2 Late Night with Seth Meyers: Seth MacFarlane, Sheryl Crow The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Caitriona Balfe, the National The Late Late Show with James Corden: Dana Carvey, Lake Bell, All American Rejects Jimmy Kimmel Live: Christian Slater, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Khalid The Daily Show: Zac Posen Watch What Happens Live: Elisabeth Moss, Sarah Paulson
| THURS | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
| ABC | Battle of the Network Stars (new) |
Battle of the Network Stars (new) |
The Gong Show (new) |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory (repeat) |
Mom (repeat) |
Big Brother (new) |
Zoo (new) |
| CW | Penn & Teller: Fool Us (new) |
Whose Line is it Anyway? (new) |
Whose Line is it Anyway? (repeat) |
News/Local |
| FOX | Beat Shazam (new) |
Love Connection (new) |
News/Local |
| NBC | NFL: Chiefs at Patriots (live) |