The summer television schedules revealed last week reflect the tension between the broadcast networks’ dual goals: attracting advertisers with quality fare and keeping costs low. In keeping with the trend of recent years, summer will not be light on original programming, with several networks using their...
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NBC is frontloading its summer schedule, packing June with a bevy of scripted and unscripted series as part of a bid to help boost Conan O’Brien’s premiere month as host of “The Tonight Show.” The network’s just-announced summer schedule includes the long-delayed bows of scripted series “The Philanthropist...
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John Hurt will voice the Great Dragon for FremantleMedia Enterprises’ and BBC1’s “Merlin.” Santiago Cabrera (“Heroes”) will play Lancelot, while Michelle Ryan (“Bionic Woman”) has been cast as wicked sorceress Nimueh. The actors join Richard Wilson as Gaius, Anthony Head as King Uther Pendragon, Colin...