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The biggest news in TV this week was the mass firings at Fox's X FACTOR that began on Monday with host Steve Jones tweeting to his followers that he won't be back for season two and rolled over to creator and head judge Simon Cowell confirming the firings of fellow judges Nicole Scherzinger and Paul ...Read news article.

FX rewarded its top-rated show SONS OF ANARCHY with a sixth season renewal after committing to a fifth season last October. Variety also confirmed a new three-year pact between Twentieth Century Fox TV and Sons of Anarchy creator and executive producer Kurt Sutter; a contract that extends one year b ...Read news article.

Release date set for the Kyle Killen-created Awake series, starring Jason Isaacs

Awake from NBC gets March 1st release date.

The Kyle Killen and Howard Gordon-executive-produced NBC offering now has an official release date of March 1st at 10-11 p.m. David Slade directs the ...Read news article.

J.J. Abrams remained busy with the start of production on Star Trek 2, the highly awaited sequel to his reboot of the Star Trek franchise, but he still managed to jump-start another TV series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC ordered a pilot to REVOLUTION, a thriller Abrams co-created with E ...Read news article.

The biggest shockwave in TV continued to be mass firings on Fox’s THE X FACTOR with host Steve Jones tweeting to his followers yesterday that he won't be back for season two. Soon afterwards, Fox confirmed that that Pussycat Dolls singer-turned judge Nicole Scherzinger also received the boot but the ...Read news article.

Superhero fans learned the identity of the actor who will play the long-running action character Oliver Queen, a liberal billionaire who secretly fights crime as the masked archer extraordinaire known as the Green Arrow, in a CW action drama based on the DC comic book. According to The Hollywood Rep ...Read news article.

Strong premiere night numbers of 1.1 million viewers during its first telecast and 2.2 million viewers after its second airing led HBO to quickly renew the horse racing drama LUCK for a second season. Michael Mann directed and David Milch created the HBO horse racing drama Luck starring Dustin Hoffm ...Read news article.

J.J. Abrams, Mark Harmon, Kim and Eric Tannenbaum dramas land at CW

CW has picked up three hour-long dramas, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

First up, Shelter from Abrams and Mark Schwahn (creator of One Tree Hill) takes place in a historic New England summer resort where ...Read news article.

Bad Girls pilot ordered by NBC

ER, Southland, Saving Grace and The West Wing executive producer John Wells' Bad Girls is being penned by Nancy Pimenthal of Shameless (also exec. produced by Wells).

Variety reports that the prison drama Bad Girls is based on a British series ...Read news article.

ABC's Judy has Greer as cosmopolitan woman who marries and becomes a fish out of water in suburbs.

Variety reports that the Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont scripted the pilot which is being executive-produced by Judy Greer and Dave Gardner.

Greer's character juggles the dem ...Read news article.