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Apologies as we take an extended hiatus from tweeting scripted series news here #TooMuchTV is a blessing and a curse

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.@ParamountTV's 10ep half-hour comedy #FirstWivesClub, a re-developed adaptation of 1996 film about a sisterhood of former wives in NYC from @TracyYOliver, is moving from #ParamountNetwork to @BET for its premiere in 2019

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#ABC has canceled summer procedural drama #TakeTwo from @AndrewWMarlowe & @TerriEddaafter one season

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#YouTube developing drama #Gatz, an origin prequel to #TheGreatGatsby following a young mixed-race Jay during the Harlem Renaissance, from @ScSansiveri

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#Hulu ordered drama pilot #SweetTooth from @Mickle_Jim based on @JeffLemire's @vertigo_comics about boy/deer hybrid who joins a ragtag family of hybrids and humans searching for answers after a cataclysmic event

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#FX developing drama #Piety, a character-driven crime story set in and around a cult in the American West from Wes Brown & @noahhawley

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#SyFy ordered 12ep half-hour animated series #AlienNewsDesk from @BroadwayVideo & @BentoBoxEnt, a weekly topical talk show hosted by cartoon aliens voiced by @OrvilleIV & Heidi Gardner to debut in 2019 at 11pm alongside recent acquisition #Futurama

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#Netflix ordered 10ep drama series #TheOne from @HowardUMF based on @johnmarrs1's novel set in a near future where a new DNA test can match the perfect romantic partners genetically

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#Netflix ordered four-part animated mini-series #TheLiberator, which will use Trioscope technology to animate CGI over live-action, from A+E Studios based on WWII book

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#CBS has canceled summer drama series #Salvation after two seasons

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#TVLand will premiere the back-half of @thekatydids' comedy #Teachers' third season on January 15th, though the series has now been canceled leaving no more originals on the network

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#Hulu will premiere the second season of @Sethrogen & @evandgoldberg-produced time travel comedy series #FutureMan, starring @jhutch1992 as a janitor/gamer saving the world, on January 11th

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#HBO will premiere the third seasons of @peteholmes' comedy #Crashing and @ThisBenSinclair & @KBlichfeld's comedy #HighMaintenance on January 20th

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#ATT #AudienceNetwork has renewed @StephenKing-based drama series #MrMercedes, about a serial killer and a retired detective, for a third season

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#Netflix has renewed animated coming of age comedy series #BigMouth, from best friends @nickkroll & @BigMouthAndrew, for a third season

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#USANetwork drama series #Suits will return for the back six episodes of its eighth season on January 23rd

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#Showtime will premiere the second season of @frankieshawisag's comedy series #SMILF on January 20th

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#WarnerBros' @DCComics SVOD service #DCUniverse will premiere animated series #YoungJusticeOutsiders, the third season of the cult hit #YoungJustice, on January 4th

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#ABC has renewed #Marvel's #AgentsOfSHIELD for a seventh season, ahead of its sixth season premiere this summer, both consisting of 13 episodes