Heading into its fourth season, Grimm is the #1 series on broadcast Fridays, up 4% in the 18-49 demo and 17% in total viewers. The series stars David Giuntoli as Portland Detective Nick Burkhardt, who discovers he’s descended from a long line of supernatural criminal profilers known as the Grimms. In addition to Giuntoli, Grimm features the likes of Bitsie Tulloch, Russell Hornsby, Silas Weir Mitchell, Bree Turner, Reggie Lee, Sasha Roiz, and Claire Coffee.

Second season firefighter drama Chicago Fire has been the #1 broadcast series in its time slot, up 35% in the 18-49 demo and 33% in total viewers. Additionally, the series has improved its Tuesday time slot by 24% vs. a year ago. Created by Dick Wolf, Chicago Fire stars the likes of Jesse Spencer, Taylor Kinney, Monica Raymund, Lauren German, and David Eigenberg,

Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago P.D. receives a second season renewal as it retains 94% of its Law & Order: SVU lead-in’s 18-49 demo and 97% of its total viewer performance. The series, which follows Chicago beat cops and the Intelligence Unit responsible for the city’s major offenses, stars Jason Beghe, Sophia Bush, Patrick John Flueger, LaRoyce Hawkins, Archie Kao, amd Jon Seda.

Grimm airs Fridays at 9:00 on NBC, with Chicago Fire airing Tuesdays at 10:00 and Chicago P.D. Wednesdays at 10:00. You can check out NBC’s recently announced season finale dates here.

Do you think we’ll see any more early renewals from NBC before its upfront presentation? Should NBC move Chicago P.D. to another time slot next season? Where would you like to see Grimm air in syndication?

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Finale information for About a Boy, Growing Up Fisher, Believe, Crisis, and American Dream Builders will be released at a later date.

2014 May Sweeps extend from April 24th through May 21st, while NBC will unveil its 2014-2015 schedule Sunday, May 11th. The networks that have yet to reveal their season finale dates (ABC, FOX, and CBS) should be doing so in the coming weeks, likely around the same time summer schedules come out.

Which NBC finale are you most looking forward to? Are you surprised that nothing is getting a two-hour send-off? What do you think the network’s schedule will look like next season?

Thursday, April 17
8 pm Community 
10 pm Parenthood

Thursday, April 24
8 pm Parks and Recreation

Monday, May 12
10 pm The Blacklist

Tuesday, May 13
10 pm Chicago Fire

Wednesday, May 14
8 pm Revolution

Friday, May 16
9 pm Grimm

Tuesday, May 20
9 pm The Voice

Wednesday, May 21
9 pm Law & Order: SVU
10 pm Chicago P.D.

Friday, May 23
10 pm Hannibal

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You can check out a full list of winners here.

Best Primetime Television Program
Castle ***WINNER***
Chicago Fire
Dallas 
Grey’s Anatomy
Private Practice
Switched at Birth

Best Primetime Program: Special or Movie-of-the-Week
George Lopez: It’s Not Me, It’s You
Meddling Mom
We Love Jenni Special ***WINNER***

Best Actor/Television
Benjamin Bratt, Private Practice
Guillermo Diaz, Scandal
Jon Huertas, Castle ***WINNER***
Danny Pino, Law & Order: SVU

Best Actress/Television
Sonia Braga, Meddling Mom
Selena Gomez, The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex
Lana Parrilla, Once Upon a Time
Monica Raymund, Chicago Fire ***WINNER***

Best Supporting Actor/Television
Kevin Alejandro, Golden Boy
Nestor Carbonell, Bates Motel
Carlos Gómez, The Glades ***WINNER***
Joe Minoso, Chicago Fire
Oscar Nuñez, The Office
Jon Seda, Treme

Best Supporting Actress/Television
Jordana Brewster, Dallas
Wanda De Jesus, Sons of Anarchy
Julie Gonzalo, Dallas
Constance Marie, Switched at Birth ***WINNER***
Aubrey Plaza, Parks and Recreation
Gina Torres, Suits

Best Young Actress/Television
Victoria Justice, Victorious
Cierra Ramirez, The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Raini Rodriguez, Austin & Ally ***WINNER***
Brittany Underwood, Hollywood Heights
Bella Thorne, Shake It Up!

Best Children’s Programming
Dora The Explorer
Handy Manny ***WINNER***
The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex

Best National Informational Program
America Reframed: New Muslim Cool
American Latino TV
Oprah’s Next Chapter ***WINNER***
Pati’s Mexican Table Voces: Tales of Masked Men
We Decide: Latinos and the 2012 Election

Best Variety or Reality Show
24/7 Chavez-Martinez ***WINNER***
Latino 101
Project Runway
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Voice

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-Renowned statistician Nate Silver has moved from the New York Times to ESPN in a role said to be multi-faceted. Included in his list of duties is serving as editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight.com, which will add a team of journalists, editors, analysts, and contributors in the coming months, and television contribution to the likes of Keith Olbermann”s new show Olbermann and ABC News.

-International recording artist Labrinth will be performing “Beneath Your Beautiful,” his single with Emeli Sande, July 24th on America”s Got Talent. The song hit the top spot in the UK and Ireland, went Top 10 in twenty countries, and has almost 52 million VEVO views.

-Yet another cable net is throwing its hat into the increasingly difficult scripted arena, as WE tv ordered The Divide to series today. From Oscar nominee Richard LaGravanese (Behind the Candleabra, The Fisher King) and co-created by Tony Goldwyn (Scandal), the one-hour drama follows a woman with The Innocence Initiative who works on having an inmate released that she believes was wrongly convicted of murder. Along the way, she tangles with a morally gray district attorney and how her past has colored her present viewpoint. Once in contention for a pickup from AMC, the series will star Marin Ireland (Homeland), Damon Gupton (Prime Suspect), Clarke Peters (Treme), and Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation).

-In addition to the pickup of The Divide, WE announced three scripted series in development: All American Woman, which follows three generations of women whose lives unfold against the backdrop of a magazine; Dirty, where a financier is forced to live and work with her maid; and Headhunters, examining women”s attempts to confront the ambiguity and conflicting choices that surround their lives today.

-According to Deadline, ABC has The Assets for 2014. Based on the book Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed by Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille, the series will “look inside the true, personal stories of the conclusion of the Cold War as told by the keepers of the nation’s secrets: the CIA.”

-Casting news: True Blood alum Michelle Forbes has joined the second season of Chicago Fire as a consultant with the State Fire Marshal”s Office; Heather Graham and Ellen Burstyn are the first actors cast in Lifetime”s upcoming Flowers in the Attic telepic (yes, that Flowers in the Attic); due to the unavailability of Tom Ellis, Once Upon a Time has named Sean Maguire their new Robin Hood; Oscar nominee Terrence Howard has become the latest member of the Wayward Pines cast, joining Carla Gugino, Toby Jones, and Melissa Leo in the adaptation of the best-selling thriller.

-IFC has officially renewed Maron for an expanded second season. Moving from 10 to 13 episodes, the series, which follows writer/comedian/podcast host Marc Maron, returns in 2014.

-TVLand has given comedy The Exes 10 additional episodes, as it”s pacing 9% above its prior season average and up 130% versus TV Land”s  primetime average among its key demo of Adults 25-54. The show currently airs Wednesdays at 10:30.

–Jericho, Swingtown, and Wolf Lake are all available to stream on CBS.com as a part of the network”s Second Look feature this summer. The first follows residents of a small Kansas town dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, while the second is a period drama that follows swingers of the 1970s and the last takes place in a Pacific Northwest town populated by werewolves.

-The CW has released the first image of Lindsey Gort as a young Samantha Jones, who she”ll be playing on the upcoming season of The Carrie Diaries. There”s no word yet as to how she”s introduced or what type of role she”ll play in her future best friend”s life.

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The core of the Friday lineup won’t be returning until Friday, October 25th, when Grimm will debut its third season at 9:00 and Dracula begins NBC’s test of low cost international co-productions at 10:00. Until they debut, Fridays will likely be the land of repeats and Dateline, which has its season premiere on September 27th before shifting to 8:00 once Grimm and Dracula arrive.

Among the other later debuts of the season are The Biggest Loser (October 8th), returning to the fall with a one-hour edition; Blair Underwood cop drama Ironside (October 2nd); interracial marriage comedy Welcome to the Family (October 3rd); and Sean Hayes vehicle Sean Saves the World (October 3rd).

You can check out NBC’s 2013-2014 schedule here, as well as trailers for its new fall series here.

What do you think about NBC’s plans to unveil its fall programming? Do you think the way they’ve staggered their premieres will help their ratings woes? Which new NBC series are you most looking forward to?

Monday, September 23rd
8:00 The Voice
10:00 The Blacklist

Tuesday, September 24th
8:00 The Voice (Two-Hour Premiere)
10:00 Chicago Fire

Wednesday, September 25th
8:00 Revolution
9:00 Law & Order: SVU

Thursday, September 26th
8:00 Parks and Recreation (One-Hour Season Premiere)
9:00 The Michael J. Fox Show (Back-to-Back Episodes)
10:00 Parenthood

Friday, September 27th
9:00 Dateline (Two-Hour Season Premiere)

Wednesday, October 2nd
10:00 Ironside

Thursday, October 3rd
8:30 Welcome to the Family
9:00 Sean Saves the World

Tuesday, October 8th
8:00 The Biggest Loser

Friday, October 25th
9:00 Grimm
10:00 Dracula

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The 28th Imagen Awards will be handed out on Friday, August 16th, with a television broadcast set for PBS SoCal. You can check out the full list of nominees, including the films that are in contention, here.

Best Primetime Television Program
Castle
Chicago Fire
Dallas 
Grey’s Anatomy
Private Practice
Switched at Birth

Best Primetime Program: Special or Movie-of-the-Week
George Lopez: It’s Not Me, It’s You
Meddling Mom
We Love Jenni Special

Best Actor/Television
Benjamin Bratt, Private Practice
Guillermo Diaz, Scandal
Jon Huertas, Castle
Danny Pino, Law & Order: SVU

Best Actress/Television
Sonia Braga, Meddling Mom
Selena Gomez, The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex
Lana Parrilla, Once Upon a Time
Monica Raymund, Chicago Fire

Best Supporting Actor/Television
Kevin Alejandro, Golden Boy
Nestor Carbonell, Bates Motel
Carlos Gómez, The Glades
Joe Minoso, Chicago Fire
Oscar Nuñez, The Office
Jon Seda, Treme

Best Supporting Actress/Television •
Jordana Brewster, Dallas
Wanda De Jesus, Sons of Anarchy
Julie Gonzalo, Dallas
Constance Marie, Switched at Birth
Aubrey Plaza, Parks and Recreation
Gina Torres, Suits

Best Young Actress/Television
Victoria Justice, Victorious
Cierra Ramirez, The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Raini Rodriguez, Austin & Ally
Brittany Underwood, Hollywood Heights
Bella Thorne, Shake It Up!

Best Children’s Programming
Dora The Explorer
Handy Manny
The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex

Best National Informational Program
America Reframed: New Muslim Cool
American Latino TV
Oprah’s Next Chapter
Pati’s Mexican Table
Voces: Tales of Masked Men
We Decide: Latinos and the 2012 Election

Best Variety or Reality Show
24/7 Chavez-Martinez
Latino 101
Project Runway
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Voice

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“On the verge of our 2013 fall scheduling decisions, we’re pleased to renew five drama series that will be important to our new season line-up,” Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment, said. “We’re proud and very appreciative of all of the actors, producers, writers and directors who work so hard to deliver such high-quality work week in and week out. These complex shows represent a broad range of genres and tones, and all of them stand out for us in a television landscape now filled with one-hour series. We’re especially pleased to be renewing Revolution and Chicago Fire — two first-season successes — and there will be more returning series announcements made in the next couple of weeks.”

None of the renewals are surprises, as NBC has been much stronger this season with their dramas than their comedies, even scoring the two aforementioned freshman successes in Revolution and Chicago Fire. While Grimm continues to put up solid numbers on Fridays, solid enough to get a Tuesday tryout following the demise of Ready for Love, Parenthood has only continued to rise in its Tuesdays at 10:00 slot, the next season (its fifth) being an upgrade from the 18 episodes it had two seasons ago and 15 this season. Meanwhile, Law & Order: SVU has proved to be a solid performer for the network, launching Chicago Fire and giving NBC a strong utility player capable of handling a tough Wednesday time slot.

The only non-canceled/ending dramas that NBC didn’t extend a renewal to are mystery Deception, which is unlikely to return, and Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal, coming off another steep drop in the ratings last night.

NBC will be the first network to reveal its 2013-2014 schedule, having its upfront presentation the morning of Monday, May 13th.

Are you glad that Parenthood will have a full season for once? Do you think that Grimm should be used during the week rather than saved for Fridays? Is Chicago Fire strong enough to move away from SVU and be put to use elsewhere?

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The saying goes that you have to reach rock bottom before you have the power to drag yourself back to the top, and it seemed Kelly would need to scrape the very far reaches of the blackest part of his soul before he could walk the road to recovery. It ain”t gonna be pretty, but he reached to Dawson for help. It seemed a bit too easy, and I wouldn”t be surprised if he slipped again before really making the commitment. I really don”t want he and Shay to lose their incredible friendship, so I”m really pulling for him.

Casey”s talk with his sister didn”t give me any indication for the bombshell he dropped while visiting his mom – that she killed his father. How can he be such an incredible person after the absolute crap he must have suffered in his life? I must know more. There are so many layers to the characters on Chicago Fire and we”ve barely begun to scratch the surface of any of them.

How clever was it to pair Mills phpaide.com with Dawson while Shay is unable to work? It will add an entire new dynamic to Dawson”s feelings for Casey, because she genuinely doubts he has any for her. She”s wrong, of course, but the attraction between she and Mills is real, as well. I loved when he mentioned how nice it smelled, like vanilla candles or something, and she said it was her body lotion. Whew! Thank goodness they”re familiar with fire, because they almost started one right there.  With the last scene of the episode, they have created a genuine love triangle, and one that I am genuinely interested in watching.

If you”ve been following the news lately, you have probably noticed the overwhelming number of police killing dogs just for living in their own homes. They bark and protect as they are supposed to, and instead of attempting to subdue the animal and get on with their job, they end up in the national news because they have shot a loving family pet. Mills using a sedative to fill a tasty snack and knock the dog out when he and Dawson responded to a call was brilliant. It seems very simple, doesn”t it?

Why does every business venture Herrmann enters into have to contain some horrible catch? How on earth would such a great guy and family man unwittingly end up practically a partner in a call girl business? His wife was so incredible with it. She didn”t even have to ask why the guy wasn”t someone he didn”t want to work with, because she loves him enough to know with as hard as he has worked to find a way to get them back on their feet, it had to have merit.

The only story I”m having a hard time getting on board with it the Cruz debacle. He knew what he was doing was wrong from the very beginning. He was pissed at his brother for being involved with the gang in the first place and he fell in to the same damned trap he was in and came out worse in the end. How am I supposed to support a character with that motivation? Personally, I just can”t.

So great to have the show back. What did you think? Highest season ratings so far, so things are going well!

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It was pretty apparent just how often they spend holidays together when we learned about their Thanksgiving rituals; the chief carves the turkey, but only after they name it. The clincher was naming it after someone they want to carve up. That was a pretty good idea, and if I wasn’t so thankful for the turkey for giving its life for my dinner, I’d think about giving mine a name, too. Peter’s sister Elise was helping with the turkey and they had one hell of an impressive dinner. Of course, every time they got ready to eat, there was another call. Did you notice by the end of the episode the turkey was different? They had cooked it so many times it should have been near burnt, but it was less cooked than the second time they took it out of the oven. Oops!

We learned a bit about Boden through a potential teenage arsonist he took under his wing. He had a son, who doesn’t live with him and who he apparently can’t talk to any time he wants. Maybe a bad marriage and he lost his parental rights? We never did learn if the kid, Ernie, was a firebug, but I’m guessing it’s not the last we’ll see of him. Watching Hermann use his fatherly skills to try to draw information out of him was endearing, and made his scene of heading home to his own family holding Thanksgiving dinner down right tear inducing.

Thanks to a meth fire, the entire team needed to take a drug test and Kelly came ever closer to losing his battle to keep his addiction silent. Shay was feeling generous, because although she’s made it clear she was done helping him, she couldn’t let him tank right in front of her. But when he said he had no idea what his plan was if he would have had to give his sample, she’d had enough. Now that Clarice is back in her life, it will be interesting to see how close she keeps Kelly, because she’s going to need a someone to listen to her own fears as she reinvests. I don’t think Dawson will be there this time around.

Casey and Hallie seemed to be getting on really well until his jubilation at assisting a woman in an accident give birth melted over into his marriage and Hallie finally admitted she’s only ever said she wanted kids because he did. There’s no way he can continue a life with a woman whose life goals are so different than his own. He ended the episode doing shots with Dawson. It’s not like we didn’t see that coming mile away.

There isn’t another show that started this season where I feel as invested in the characters and their happiness as I do with Chicago Fire. That I do is a testament to the hard work the writers have done in proving what can be done with a show with low expectations. Sometimes the best surprises come in the smallest packages.

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Considering the number of time it’s necessary for either Dawson or Shay to do a trach to save someone’s life while in the field, wouldn’t it behoove the Chicago Fire Department to teach them how to do it rather than consistently write them up for doing it? Especially when, to date, they haven’t killed anyone, but have saved people by using the procedure? As a civilian, if I were in the street and someone wasn’t breathing and they were nearing death, I’d go all MAcGyver, beg for a pocket knife and a Bic pen (do people still carry them??) and perform one myself if I thought it would keep someone from dying right in front of me.

I’ve really enjoyed how the CFD has been portrayed in Chicago Fire so far, so I’m hoping they go the message loud and clear that what they are doing out there isn’t just lifting people onto a bed and rushing them to a hospital, but saving them in the process. The next story I expect to see if a class where every one of them learns how to perform that procedure should the need arise. Heed me NBC!

Hallelujah!  Casey saved the life of one of Voight’s future minions and his mom. Sure, Voight could keep him out of jail some day, but the kid can do that himself by steering clear of crime. Can he rescue himself and his mother from a burning building without dying? Not so sure about that. Who’s the hero now Voight? Sadly, now he and his son can share adjoining cells. Although, realistically, the judge may just go easy on his son for having such a crap father. If his son plays his cards right, cries and says he wanted to turn himself in for what he did, but his bully of a father wouldn’t allow him, Voight could take the entire wrap himself. It’s such a shame to think of the lengths people will go to to get themselves out of trouble when they could have avoided it in the first place.

We received a bit of  a break from this week from Kelly’s addiction. Thank you! Seeing him go off the rails can only be experienced for so long before you want to reach in and take him into your arms and smack the hell out of him. When you see what everyone was willing to do for Dawson to make sure she didn’t lose too much pay, imagine what they would do for him if he got his much-needed surgery.

A few other thoughts:

**I don’t think Hallie and Casey are long for this world. They have so little in common.
**Did anyone else notice a hint of something in Shay’s eyes as she asked on behalf of Cruz if Peter’s sister was in the restaurant? New love interest?
**Mouch really came through for Dawson. He had me worried for a while, but it was a proud moment when the family showed up as support.
**Chief Boden has to be the best Chief ever to grace a firehouse on television. Eamonn Walker just nails it.

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