Returning to familiar TV shows is about more than nostalgia.

Kevin Costner and Taylor Sheridan’s has been tainted. Deadline revealed a month after the drama’s season 5 midseason finale aired on Paramount Network that co-creator and showrunner Sheridan had opted to end Yellowstone when it returns later this summer. The decision was taken when Kevin sought to merely “spend a week shooting” the final six episodes.

Ryan Seacrest is exiting “Live With Kelly and Ryan” after six years acting as Kelly Ripa’s co-host on the ABC daytime talker. Upon Seacrest’s exit, Ripa will be joined by her husband, Mark Consuelos, as her new co-host and the show will be rebranded “Live With Kelly and Mark.”

Joel McHale stars in a solid Fox sitcom destined to improve.

Plus, Fubo TV's new Regional Sports Fee headache adds to the cord-cutting math

America’s favorite (fictional) Premier League team, AFC Richmond, is headed back to the pitch in a matter of weeks. Apple TV+ has set a March 15 premiere date for season three of Ted Lasso. The two-time Emmy winner for best comedy series will roll out its 12-episode season weekly starting then — which puts its finale at May 31, the last day of eligibility for Emmy consideration this year. The announcement also came with a teaser for the new season, riffing on Ted’s (Jason Sudeikis) “Believe” sign (watch it below).

It’s 2034 and Warner Bros. decides it needs to wring more cash out of Friends, the decade defining cultural juggernaut and sitcom behemoth. Imagine what that show would be like; A warm and cozy three-decades-later check-in on characters you know intimately well. After all, you probably spent your formative years watching them mature from young single New Yorkers to a series of families. Maybe it’ll tickle those nostalgia glands, reminding you of when you watched the show with your own family as a kid.

Streamers hoping to capture audiences with their latest television series have a limited window to do so, according to a new report from Samba TV. In fact, shows may only have a shelf life of about two weeks to attract viewers. Data from 20 of the most popular shows released in the second half of 2022 shows that 15 of them had driven more than 75% of their total 51-day viewership in just the first 15 days of release. The only exception? Netflix’s Wednesday.

Anheuser-Busch, General Motors, Molson-Coors, Uber and … Greg Gutfeld? The Fox News host will be getting the Super Bowl treatment this Sunday, with the cable news channel set to run a 15-second spot promoting his 11 p.m. late night show Gutfeld! during the big game.

The final three minutes of Blackadder is so exquisitely played, so at odds with the extreme silliness of the rest of the series – and so very sad. There they stand – Blackadder, Baldrick, George and poor Capt Darling, going over the top after all – on the frontline, in a cloud of gun smoke. For a moment, they thought “the Great War of 1914 to 1917” was over. But no.

Bryan Cranston loves watching TV. He truly can’t get enough. “It’s like eating a pint of ice cream,” he tells us via Zoom, licking his lips through the laptop screen. “You go ‘OK, just one more dish, just one more episode…’ And then you watch one more, and then another, and you’re like: ‘I gotta go to bed! It’s three o’clock in the morning!”

Dr. Phil’s decision to call it quits last week came months after producers tried and failed to revamp the long-running CBS daytime show in a desperate bid to lure back skittish advertisers, The Post has learned. After years of Dr. Phil McGraw staging dramatic “interventions” with wayward teens and squabbling families — and in some cases being accused of exploiting the troubles of celebrities like Britney Spears and Shelley Duvall — CBS insiders were concerned that viewers and advertisers alike were lumping in Dr. Phil with other “quack doctors” who have left TV in recent years, multiple sources told The Post.

Oprah protégé Phil McGraw combined “freak show” reality-style entertainment with the facade of authority. And made millions.

The cast offers their goodbyes as they wrap up filming on Showtime's Yellowjackets Season 2 (premiering March 24th); a new image was released.

Seth Rogen has a message to anyone thinking about trying to reboot or revive Freaks and Geeks: GET A JOB. STAY AWAY FROM HER. “I know enough now not to fuck with that, to just let it be good and not try to go revisit it,” he told People. “And just let it exist.” Created by Mr. Suits himself, Paul Feig, and EP’d by Judd Apatow, Freaks and Geeks was the cocoon from which 2000s comedy emerged.

National NHL TV viewership in the U.S. is reportedly down more than 20 percent compared to last season, but social media engagement has exploded.

Few episodes of a TV series are watched with greater scrutiny than its very final outing. Which shows have managed to best stick the landing, when under such incredible pressure? In the wake of AMC’s Better Call Saul expertly wrapping its six-season run, the TVLine staff set out to find the acclaimed Breaking Bad prequel a spot on our ranking of the Best Series Finales of All Time.

Hulu has canceled the comedy series “Reboot” after just one season, Variety has learned. The first and only season of the series consisted of eight episodes.

“I love all of these characters and want it to end well, but Jason has a very clear vision and always has,” Goldstein said of the Season 3 writing process. “No one is phoning it.&…

HBO has already officially announced that the adaptation of the video game will have a second season, on social networks they were already able to see a video in which it could be the official intro of the series and the phrase “Season 2” . Its showrunner, Craig Mazin , was apparently thinking about the continuation of the series long before its announcement, since he has revealed a bit about how he would adapt the second part.