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TV News: Gotham, Ash vs Evil Dead, Supergirl, Shades of Blue, Life In Pieces, Finding Carter, Grandfathered, Dr. Ken

“House of Cards” actor Nathan Darrow has nabbed a recurring role in Fox’s “Gotham”.

Darrow will play iconic Batman villain Victor Fries aka Mr. Freeze in the second season of the show

“Victor begins as one of Gotham’s preeminent cryogenics engineers. Though ferociously smart and eminently capable in his work, Victor struggles to make meaningful connections with others. The one exception is his wife, Nora, who has tragically fallen ill with a terminal disease. Victor’s love for Nora knows no bounds, and as her condition worsens, he goes to extreme measures to figure out a way to freeze her before she dies. This harrowing journey leads to his transformation into the legendary DC villain Mr. Freeze” (via Deadline.)

 

 

Ahead of its Halloween premiere, “Ash vs Evil Dead” has been given a second season order by Starz.

Bruce Campbell will return to reprise his role as Ash Williams, the aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter. Lucy Lawless is also returning as Ruby, a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks.

“Ash vs Evil Dead” will premiere in the U.S. on October 31.

 

 

Three new “Supergirl” episode 2 clips and a new spot have been released.

Check them out below before the second episode of the show airs on Monday at 8 P.M. ET on CBS.

 

 

NBC’s Jennifer Lopez police drama “Shades of Blue” is set to air on Thursdays in January.

The two-hour pilot will premiere on January 14 at 9pm before following episodes take the 10pm timeslot from then on.

“Shades of Blue” centers on a NYPD detective-turned-informant who must carefully straddle the line between work and family.

 

 

CBS has ordered a full 22-episode season of comedy “Life In Pieces”.

The show is TV’s #1 new comedy, starring Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, Zoe Lister-Jones, Colin Hanks, Angelique Cabral, Thomas Sadoski, Betsy Brandt, Dan Bakkedahl, Niall Cunningham, Holly J. Barrett and Giselle Eisenberg.

On Nov. 5, “Life In Pieces” moves to it new regular time period on Thursdays (8:31-9:01 PM, ET/PT) as part the network’s launch of entertainment programming on the night.

 

 

Jeff Melman (“Malcolm in the Middle”) has joined MTV’s “Finding Carter” as a producing director and supervising producer, reports Variety.

The show, created by Emily Silver, follows “Carter (Kathryn Prescott), a teenage girl who thinks she has the perfect life until the police tell her she was abducted as a toddler and the woman she believes is her biological mother is actually her kidnapper. The drama revolves around her new life, as she returns to her real family who thought they had lost her, and navigates brand-new parents, a twin sister, high school and boys” (via Variety).

“Finding Carter” airs on MTV on Tuesdays at 10:00pm.

 

 

Fox has given a full-season order to John Stamos’ sitcom “Grandfathered”.

Danny Chun created the half-hour show which centres on “Stamos’ character, a longtime bachelor who suddenly finds out that he’s a father — and a grandfather” (via Variety).

 

 

ABC’s has given a full season-order to comedy “Dr. Ken”, starring Ken Jeong.

Jeong created the show with Jared Stern and John Fox. Suzy Nakamura co-stars as the wife of Jeong’s character and Albert Tsai and Krista Marie Yu play his kids.

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