-Ryan Murphy announced the real people auditions for GLEE have surpassed 60,000 entries and will be extended through September.
-A 15-20 min montage will be presented during the GLEE panel at Comic Con, followed by a reality series on Oxygen.
-Season 2 will focus on the current group of kids, expanding the stories of the secondary GLEE club members like Brittany and Mike Chang.
-Kristin Chenoweth will return for at least one episode in Season 2, which will follow the kids all the way to nationals whether they compete or not. Ryan, Brad, and Ian are trying to figure out just what a national GLEE club champion looks and sounds like.
-Terri will be back full-time in Season 2, dating someone who will make Will green with envy.
-Finn and Rachel will explore a season-long relationship and may come out very different people on the other side

For those of you who need to catch up, or just want to relive the music and drama, the wait will end on September 14th with the release of GLEE: The Complete First Season .
Buy Glee: The Complete First Season
Buy Glee: Season One, Vol. 1 – Road to Sectionals
Buy Glee: Season One, Vol. 2 – Road to Regionals

‘Gleeks’ and ‘Cheerios’ worldwide will celebrate September 14 when the groundbreaking musical comedy – GLEE: The Complete First Season “The GLEEK Edition” – debuts on Blu-ray and DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment featuring all 22 one-hour episodes including the highly anticipated “The Power of Madonna” episode and other fan-favorites. From series creator Ryan Murphy (“Nip/Tuck”), GLEE: The Complete First Season “The GLEEK Edition” Blu-ray and DVD is pitch-perfect with more than two hours of never-before-seen extras sure to hit the right note.

GLEE: Season 1, Volume 2: Road To Regionals, featuring the last nine episodes of Season One and the complete bonus material available on GLEE: The Complete First Season “The GLEEK Edition,” will also be available on DVD for fans that previously purchased Volume One last year.

“The show started out as a comedy musical about the underdog in all of us and has blossomed, largely due to the incredible support and passion from the fans that have embraced the show,” says Murphy. “When we developed the Blu-ray and DVD, we wanted to give those fans something special because they’ve been so great to us. There’s everything from a sing-along karaoke, to a behind-the-scenes look at our Madonna episode, to a dance lesson from our amazing choreographers. It’s our ‘thank you’ to the Gleeks.”

Television’s most award-winning new series, GLEE was honored with a Golden Globe® for Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical; a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series; and a People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy.

GLEE follows an optimistic teacher who – against all odds and a malicious cheerleading coach – inspires McKinley High’s Glee Club to conquer the world one singing competition at a time. GLEE stars Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Mark Salling and Jenna Ushkowitz. The hit show has attracted celebrity guest appearances by Kristin Chenoweth, Eve, Josh Groban, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Olivia Newton-John, Idina Menzel, and Molly Shannon.

The music from GLEE continues to shine with inventive renditions of past and present hit songs including Ike & Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary,” Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” and Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.”
-Fox Press Release

Drop Dead Diva follows a beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe, Deb, who finds herself relegated to the body of a plus-size attorney, Jane (Brooke Elliott), following their deaths. While the placement was accidental, it just might be divine intervention if it can help self-centered Deb learn to use her brain, rather than her looks to get by in life – with a little help from her loyal assistant Teri Lee (Margaret Cho).

Check out a sneak peek at the new season!

Margaret Cho recently took some time for a Q&A call to talk about the new season, exciting guest stars, filming in Atlanta, and how she balances the life of a traveling comic with Drop Dead Diva!

Q: Sometimes the word diva can have a negative connotation. How would you define that word? How would you define diva?

M. Cho: Diva to me is always positive because I come from kind of a long line of divas and working with divas. I have worked with Cyndi Lauper who is of course without question a diva. I have worked with Rosie O’Donnell who is also a great diva. To me diva never has a negative connotation. It’s always positive. It always means somebody who is strong and grand and powerful and important. You know somebody that is the center and star of the show to the depth of their being. So I always look at diva as a good thing. It’s a good word.

Q: What drew you to taking the role on the show and how did you even hear about Drop Dead Diva in the first place?

M. Cho: Well, I was working on my album doing music stuff. I’ve been working on it for a couple of years now. One of the songwriters that I write with, his name is Jay Brannon, and I went to go see him after we had a long writing session. I went to go see him and he was performing. Josh Berman was in the audience. Josh Berman came up to me at the show and was telling me about his project Drop Dead Diva. I like Josh a lot and I wasn’t sure about the project. I hadn’t heard anything about it, and the next day my agent called me and sent me the script. Then I went in to meet with Josh the next day. I was immediately cast in the role of Teri. I was the first person cast in the show. He had envisioned the role for me in the first place, so it was kind of an amazing coincidence that we ran into at the show that night. So it was a really great thing. So I made the pilot. I was just really in love with the whole project. I thought it was such a great show. I really thought Brooke was an incredible actor. So it just all kind of came together. It all happened because I was working on my album.

Q: What are the main similarities and differences between you and the character, Teri?

M. Cho: I think the main similarities I think that she has, well she’s the oldest one, that I feel for sure. I’m the oldest one in the whole cast and the oldest character. I think, you know, we probably have the same sensibility here, the same sense of humor, and this season you get to meet my family. So you get to see my mother, who is also in my real life a very strong presence, so that’s really, really fun … into my character’s life. The differences are I don’t work in an office. I’ve never worked in an office. I don’t even know how to work in an office, although my character and myself we both type very, very quickly. So that I can say we both share that trait.

Q; What keeps challenging you about this role?

M. Cho: Well, I keep finding out new things about the character as things develop. So this year, I find out that my character is a singer, which I open the second season with a big music and dance number which is a lot of fun. I also have a soundtrack song. I made a record this year called Cho Dependent which will be out in August, and one of the songs that I wrote that didn’t make it on the album I put on the soundtrack record. So I made part of the soundtrack as well so that’s a lot of fun, too.

Q: How did Teri get so snarky?

M. Cho: I think that the character was written – sometimes I think a lot of the characters developed between my conversations just with Josh Berman and hanging out and things that I’ve said and done, they wind up in script. I don’t find her particularly snarky. She’s kind of like, you know, in a sense what she reminds me of is kind of like an old, like an office crone. It’s real like kind of a character out of a Nine to Five or something, you know. She is just a fun gal who has been around that place forever, and she knows everything, and so I’m kind of the source for information, but I guess it comes with a price.

Q: What can you tell us about Teri’s journey in season two? Are we going to see maybe any love interests for her?

M. Cho Well, we are about halfway through the season filming it. I haven’t seen a love interest so far, but there is still time. We never find out about our characters much like farther than another episode in, so I don’t know. Now we’re shooting I guess the ninth episode, so I can’t tell. We have about four more to go. I haven’t seen a love interest so far. There’s been a lot of talk about, but I’ve not seen it. So I can’t answer that.

Q: What’s been your favorite scene to shoot so far?

M. Cho: I think my favorite scene was doing the big song and dance number just because it opens up season two in a very spectacular way. I love singing and so that’s kind of my new thing. So it’s fun to be able to do that on a TV show, and then to be dancing and doing it at the same time is really fabulous. So that was my favorite so far.

Q: This is such a magnificent ensemble of characters, if there was something you feel like you have been able to contribute or bring to your character that was really unique that you thought made it more of a three-dimensional character, like a characteristic clothing choice, body posture, phrase, something like that.

M. Cho: I don’t know. I don’t really have – I probably have the luxury of having kind of the wildest clothes just because the character is kind of not as reined in by you know having to be professional looking or legal eagle looking, like I don’t necessarily have to be in court, so I can kind of dress the way that I please. So in a way my own style kind of comes in to play when we are talking about dressing the character. I don’t know. Like I don’t approach acting in any kind of a way of like developing my character or thinking about it. I just kind of go, where do I go? What do I say? Okay, let’s do it. Like I’m so matter of fact and practical about the whole job, I don’t have any of those sorts of things or acting things. I wish I had more of that. I need to learn that from the other people I work with who are such phenomenal actors.

Q: Hypothetically if you’re in a spot like Jane, how would you handle that? Or what kind of fun would you have with that situation?

M. Cho: Well, I think that if I was in that kind of an amazing situation or amazing circumstance, I would really enjoy having this whole new brain and have this whole new area of expertise. What’s wonderful about the character and about the show is that she really is much better off as Jane than she was as Deb, because as Deb her world view was pretty limited and it was very selfish. But with Jane she is such a magnanimous character, you know she has a very big heart and a very big mission to save the world. So I think that is a really wonderful thing. So I would be enjoying all of the great expanse of that that I am.

Q: What guest stars will we see this season?

M. Cho: Well, this season is really great. We open up the series with Paula Abdul in our fantastic dance sequence which is pretty phenomenal. What was really fun is that the whole rehearsal process, you know, we were dancing with the choreographer from …, I think it’s such a great thing. We have all these dancers, like real dancers, surrounding you and you’re really like going for it. We were all in rehearsal with Paula, and it just felt like that video, Cold Hearted Snake. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that. It’s an old Paula Abdul video. It was really cool. So just kind of going into that world was so fun. I don’t know. That was my favorite guest star. This week we have the fabulous Cybill Sheperd, who I absolutely adore. Ricki Lake came and joined us. We have just have had amazing, amazing people. Rosie O’Donnell is back as a regular, which is a lot of fun. So we’re very lucky.

Q: Does everyone on set expect you to be the funny one who keeps everyone entertained between takes?

M. Cho: Well everybody’s really funny. I mean the whole cast is really, really hilarious. My favorite is probably Ben Feldman. Ben Feldman is so hilarious and adorable, and I look at him and I think that is the son that I would have if I was old enough to have him and I was inclined to have children and also was Jewish. He is really, really a fantastic guy and somebody who I really just, I am so just in admiration and in love with him. He always makes me laugh like crazy. Everybody in the cast has really got a great sense of humor, and we have a lot of fun together.

Q: What has been your most memorable experience meeting a fan of Drop Dead Diva?

M. Cho: I think what’s so remarkable about the fans of the show they really, really identify with the character of Jane, and they really are in love with the story. I think my favorite experience so far with meeting fans and talking about the show was that we did a big screening of it and a Q&A for the Paley Center in Los Angeles, and it was a very prestigious event where they talked about the show and broke it down. The audience was all fans and it was so great to see people so excited to meet the cast and so excited about the show and hear Josh Berman, who is the show’s creator, talk about the genesis of the show, how he thought about it, and how he created it, and that. They were excited, you know, that was really, really cool. So I was really thrilled to be a part of that.

Q: Could you describe what an average day on the set of the show is like? It looks like it would just be so much fun.

M. Cho: An average day, well it’s a lot of work. When you make a one-hour show it’s a pretty intense thing because you’re pretty much making almost like a movie in a week. So it’s long hours. You kind of get there and you sort of get into your character’s hair and make-up and wardrobe and then you just go on set. For me, I always eat pizza like all day, that’s my thing, these pizzas that are made out of English muffins and Ragu. It’s kind of disgusting, but it’s kind of great. It’s like a real after-school kind of snack. That’s how I get through my day because I eat maybe about three or four seriously of these pizzas a day and that’s how I make it.

Q: Has it been hard for you to adjust to filming in Georgia when you’re an L.A. girl?

M. Cho: Well, it’s a little bit tough because I’m away from my family, and I’m away from my husband, and away from my dogs. The dog business is the hardest part. But, I get to visit a lot, and a lot of back and forth. It’s just a life that I’m used to because I’m always on the road anyway. I’ve been on the road as a standup comic for 20 years. So it’s not unusual to be away from home, but it’s just unusual to sort of be away from home and living in one place for a long time. So it’s a little tough. But I have acclimated, and I have a lot of really good connections here. The cast and I, we’re all very close. So that’s really fun, but it is hard.

Q: You mention the hard part about filming in Georgia. What’s the good part about filming in Georgia? What do you like about being down there?

M. Cho: Well, what I love is I really love hanging out with the cast and that’s really amazing. All of us go out a lot. We all live in, except for Brooke, who lives in Peachtree City, which is where the show is filmed, the rest of the cast and I, we all live in Atlanta which is about an hour away. So we’re up in the city, and we are out every night at all the different night spots and restaurants. We are all fruities, and Ben Feldman is actually a vintner. He makes wine. So we are all kind of the same mind. We all love to eat, we all love to drink, and we all have a very refined palate. Atlanta is a fabulous city if you like to eat. So that’s a big, big, big thing that we like to do. Also I go to the comedy club here called the Laughing Skull, which is in the Vortex which is a restaurant inside of midtown which is also where we all live. So I’m there probably doing a lot of shows getting ready for my new tour for the next phase of this year in the fall. So I’m there like maybe six or seven times a week, which is a lot. So there’s definitely, like we’ve created a home for ourselves. Then the cast come and see and my shows all the time. So we are always kind of out. In a way doing the show and living here away from my family and away from kind of familial responsibilities, I have kind of re-ignited my 20s. All of the cast are in their 20s, so I am acting like I used to act when I was a 20-year-old and hanging out at night and doing shows. So it’s given me a lot of youthfulness in a sense. In my L.A. life I live in the Valley and I’d never go out. Here all I do is go out, so it’s very different.

Q: Drop Dead Diva is great in its acceptance of like curvy women and helping to empower women. Why do you think it’s so important to say to society for a show like this to be on air?

M. Cho: Well, I think that it’s important because we just don’t have any images of beautiful, full-figured women, that we don’t have role models out there that really look like real people. I think that that is so important, you know. If we have more representations of real-looking women on TV, you would have fewer problems with anorexia and bulimia and all of this that exists within the world today. I think in a lot of ways because of television, because you have these unnaturally thin ideals of beauty, you are really neglecting a very big section of society that needs to feel like they are important and that they matter, and I think this show really does that. So I am proud of what we are and what we are to women. I am glad that this show is so successful because it’s a very important message to have out there.

Q: Do you think that the show would help decrease all the problems that are going on with young women who are having eating disorders?

M. Cho: I hope so. I think shows like this have a tremendous weight and power to effect people. Television is very powerful. If you can really just show like how beautiful somebody is who is larger, somebody who is plus size, but who is also gorgeous and also living a fabulous life and you see it’s not about the weight, like you don’t look at the weight as a problem. You look at it as an advantage or just another attribute of the beauty of a woman, and I think that’s really great.

Q: You always seem to push the limits with your standup. How do you try to do that with your character on the show?

M. Cho: Well, it’s a little different just because I’m not really writing my character on the show. The way the character is written, it’s pretty edgy for the show itself. For television itself, but for me it’s not. I think that it’s just the way that I push it, it sort of gets to try to play it in the edgiest way that I can possible I guess. You know, a lot of it is just the character is modifying my own personality to make it work for the show. So, I don’t know. It’s a different process when you’re writing for yourself as opposed to playing something that has to be part of a larger ensemble. So it’s a new thing for me and I really enjoy it.

Q: What are the differences between doing a TV show like this and doing your live shows?

M. Cho: It’s a very different lifestyle. I mean, I feel like it’s a chance to stay in one place, which is very different for me. I’m quite a traveling person. It’s a different lifestyle. You know, I’ve come to really love Atlanta, and I have a lot of friends here and the crew and cast of Drop Dead Diva, we’ve become very, very close because we’re all transplanted from L.A. So we just are our own family, and we hang out all the time, which is really just so fun and beautiful. It’s fun to be able to work on a show that I really believe in, that I really love, and you know to just be able to see how it progresses and how it grows from week to week and how it changes, you know, and it’s really a lot of fun.

Q: I love your Lil Wayne song. I was wondering how do you decide who you’re going to write songs about? Are they artists that you like? Are they artists that you kind of just want to make fun of? How does that work for you?

M. Cho: Well, I really love Lil Wayne. That song came about because I was recording and writing with one of my producers, who is just fabulous, Ben Lee, who is an incredible singer/songwriter. So he and I would get together for our writing sessions, and for several months every time we get together we would end up talking about Lil Wayne, who we are both big fans of. So when Lil Wayne was going to prison, I thought we should write a song about it. We should do something very romantic and beautiful and simple. So we put down the song, we recorded it very quickly, and then his wife, Ione Skye, and my husband, Al Ridenour, his wife shot the video, we made a video and she did all the camera work. Then my husband kind of, he did all the editing. So we kind of had this, you know, Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel kind of these couples working on this project. It was really, really fun. For my writing, I kind of, as a musician, I kind of approach it as I would as a comedian. If I want to write something about somebody or if something strikes me as funny, then I’ll write about and sometimes it’ll become a song or sometimes it’ll become a joke, but it’s a very similar writing process.

Q: Are you working on any new material for touring or anything?

M. Cho: I am. I am going on a big tour starting in August, toward the end of August and through September and all through the rest of the year. It’s weird because my touring now kind of happens in between shooting seasons of this TV show. So it makes for a pretty busy year. So I’m working on new material here in Atlanta while I’m shooting the show. I’m also working on songs, and it’s going to be a big kind of multi-media tour, you know, doing some music and doing a lot of like new comedy stuff. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

Q: Throughout your career you’ve done sort of a little bit of everything, the music, the standup, the film, the TV. Which have you enjoyed the most and why?

M. Cho: Well I enjoy standup comedy the most because it offers me the avenue to do everything that I want. In standup comedy there is quite a great freedom in that, you know basically you’re kind of given 90 minutes to sort of do everything. The important part of it is you have to get laughs, that is what I always want to do anyway. So even if I’m doing something like music, none of my music is ever serious. My heroes and inspirations when it comes to music are people like Weird Al Yankovic or even Bette Midler is somebody that I really look up to and somebody that I admire for combining humor and music in such a great way. So to me standup comedy is the most rewarding because it does offer me the avenue to do whatever I like.

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In one of the least aggressive schedules unveiled this week, The CW is telling us, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” No more repeats of America’s Next Top Model or 90210 to pad the schedule. Instead, the network moved many of their puzzle pieces around and filled in the few remaining gaps with two new series for the coming season.

Returning to the same time slot: America’s Next Top Model, Smallville (in its 10th and allegedly final season)

Returning to new time slot: 90210, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Life Unexpected, Vampire Diaries, Supernatural

New series include…

Nikita
Reworking the original Luc Besson film, La Femme Nikita, and Peta Wilson television series of the same name, The CW gets themselves an Alias of their own. As a deeply troubled teenager, Nikita was rescued from death row by a secret U.S. agency known only as Division, who faked her execution and told her she will be given a new life in service to her country. What they didn’t mention is that she would be trained as a spy/assassin. Nikita was eventually betrayed, her dreams shattered by people she thought she could trust. Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita (Maggie Q) is seeking retribution, making it clear she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy her former bosses covert operation. Until then, Division continues to recruit and train young people, erasing all evidence of their previous lives, and turning them into killers. One new recruit, Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca), is just beginning to understand what lies ahead and why the now legendary Nikita decided to run. Co-starring Shane West, Aaron Stanford, Ashton Holmes, Tiffany Hines, Melinda Clarke, and Xander Berkeley

Hellcats
Marti Perkins (Aly Michalka), a young pre-law student at Lancer University may be cool and hip and alt, but her world flips upside down when she loses her scholarship. The only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her old gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer’s legendary cheerleading squad, thereby hurtling herself into a world of camaraderie, backstabbing, backroom academia, and big money. Marti’s new roommate, Savannah Monroe (Ashley Tisdale), a petite peppy Texan, is among the diverse cast of athletes, undergrads, family and friends, all set on the sprawling campus of a powerhouse college football program in the deep South. Heather Hemmens, Robbie Jones, Matt Barr, Sharon Leal, and Gail O’Grady co-star.

Cancelled series: Melrose Place and Beautiful Life.

Cleaning house and taking names, CBS shows more cojones than their network brethren by shaking up high performing series and introducing new/old friends to the mix, to become the Comedy/Crime channel.

Series returning to same time slot: How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men (Charlie Sheen agreed to return with a paycheck of $1.5 Million per episode), NCIS, NCIS: LA, The Good Wife, Criminal Minds, CSI, The Mentalist

Series returning to new time slot: Rules of Engagement, Survivor, Big Bang Theory (moves to Thursday to take on NBC’s Community), Medium, CSI: NY, CSI: Miami (which gets buried on Sunday night)

New series include…

Mike & Molly
Uber-producer Chuck Lorre goes for a network tri-fecta with this comedy focusing on a working class Chicago couple who find love at Overeaters Anonymous. Officer Mike Biggs (Billy Gardell) is a kind-hearted cop who sincerely wants to lose weight. Mike’s partner, Officer Carl McMillan (Reno Wilson), is a thin, fast-talking wise-guy, who encourages Mike on his road to slimness and romance. While speaking at a meeting, Mike meets Molly Flynn (Melissa McCarthy), an instantly likeable fourth-grade teacher with a healthy sense of humor about her curves. For Molly, focusing on smart choices isn’t easy because she lives with her sexy older sister, Victoria (Katy Mixon), and their mother, Joyce (Swoosie Kurtz), both of whom flaunt their healthy appetites and slender figures. Thanks to their mutual love of pie and the desire to resist it, finding each other may have been worth the “weight.”

Hawaii Five-O
The classic Jack Lord series receives a 21st century update, as a new elite federalized task force whose mission is to wipe out the crime that washes up on the Islands’ sun-drenched beaches. Detective Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin), a decorated Naval officer turned cop, returns to Oahu to investigate his father’s murder and stays when Hawaii’s governor persuades him to head up the new team: his rules, no red tape, and full blanket immunity to hunt down the biggest “game” in town. Joining McGarrett is Detective Danny “Danno” Williams (Scott Caan), a newly relocated ex-New Jersey cop who prefers skyscrapers to the coastline, but is committed to keeping the Islands safe for his 8-year-old daughter; and Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim), an ex-Honolulu Police Detective wrongly accused of corruption and relegated to a federal security patrol, who is also a former protégé of McGarrett’s father. Chin’s cousin, Kono (Grace Park), is a beautiful and fearless native, fresh out of the academy and eager to establish herself among the department’s elite. Together, McGarrett’s team is determined to eliminate the seedy elements from the 50th state.

The Defenders
Leading the law firm of Morelli & Kaczmarek are the local go-to guys with an eclectic client list who are still looking to hit their own jackpot. Nick Morelli (Jim Belushi), an earnest, hard-charging attorney who represents his clients to the best of his ability, no matter how big or small the case, and his partner, Pete Kaczmarek (Jerry O’Connell), whose passion for the law is matched only by his love of fast cars, beautiful women and expensive clothes. Joining them in their growing law practice is new associate Lisa Tyler (Jurnee Smollett), an enthusiastic young attorney looking to put her exotic dancing days behind her; and their young assistant, Sophie (Tanya Fischer), a spunky and sweet ingénue who is eager to please her bosses. As Lady Luck shines on their legal careers, the partners have their hands full when it comes to their personal lives. Pete is busy cruising the Vegas Strip for his latest romantic conquest. Nick is focused on repairing his fractured marriage, while remaining present in the life of their young son. No matter the offense, the partners aim to prove that when the stakes are high they’re willing to bet the house on the clients they defend in Sin City.

$#!@ My Dad Says
The creators of Will & Grace adapt the wildly successful twitter feed for television. Ed Goodson (William Shatner), a forthright and opinionated dad, relishes expressing his unsolicited and often wildly un-PC observations to anyone within earshot. Nobody is immune from Ed’s rants, including his sons, Henry (a role being recast, after Ryan Devlin tested poorly), a struggling writer-turned-unpaid blogger; and Vince (Will Sasso), the meek half of a husband/wife real estate duo with domineering Kathleen (Nicole Sullivan). When Henry finds he can no longer afford to pay rent to his pretty roommate (Stephanie Lemelin), Ed reveals a soft spot and invites Henry to move back in. Henry agrees, knowing the verbal assault will not abate and there will be no escape.

Blue Bloods
Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) is the NYC Chief of Police and patriarch of the Reagan family, which he manages as diplomatically as he does his officers, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry (Len Cariou), during his stint as Chief. A source of pride and concern for Frank is his eldest son Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), a seasoned detective, family man, and Iraqi War veteran who uses dubious tactics to solve cases. The sole Reagan woman in the family, Erin (Bridget Moynahan), is an Assistant D.A. and newly single parent, who also serves as the legal compass for her siblings and father. Jamie (Will Estes) is the youngest Reagan, fresh out of Harvard Law and the family’s golden boy. However, unable to deny the family tradition, Jamie has given up a law career and joined the force, a decision supported by his beautiful girlfriend and first year lawyer, Sydney (Dylan Moore). However, Jamie’s life takes an abrupt turn, when asked to become part of a clandestine police investigation that could impact his family’s legacy.

Cancelled series include Accidentally on Purpose, The New Adventures of Old Christine (which may find a home on another network), Gary Unmarried, Numb3rs, Cold Case, and The Ghost Whisperer (which is close to signing a deal with ABC).

It’ll be interesting to see if CBS’ bold move to create a comedy block on Thursday nights will be able to stand up to NBC’s now established power house.